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Just because you have the best record, doesn't make you the best. We all knew CLE wasn't the best team, even with their records.
I knew you'd claim that. Who gives a at the moment? The Spurs have been the best at the most moments this season, so wouldn't that make them the best overall? How could anyone claim the Celtics are "far and away the best" and expect to have credibility? It's another blatant example of disrespect. If the Lakers or Celtics had this record, no one would be claiming another team were the best.
Best record by far and all I hear is "the Hornets are the best at the moment" or "the Celtics are the best at the moment" or "the Heat are the best at the moment" or some other team that's on a hot streak. Never the Spurs, yet somehow they've managed to do what they've done.
Just because you have the best record, doesn't make you the best. We all knew CLE wasn't the best team, even with their records.
Boston are definitely better right now and there is no debate.
I don't know why you're bringing the Hornets into this. At no point this season so far did I think they're the best.
I thought Boston was better than us before the season started, I thought they are better after the season started, but that doesn't mean we can't improve and be better later in the season.
You also have to realize that Boston have had a lot more injuries than us to key pieces of their teams that has missed games. Looking at the record only and not taking things like that into account is stupid. Spurs have also played teams that are banged up so you can't really point to the record to say we're better.
Can't say I disagree with this although saying far and away is stretching it.
Boston has better defense and better execution. Spurs are very good, but still have alot of work to do defensively. Plus I prefer Big Baby over Blair any day.
Boston is better but not as much as this guy claims.
Did I say that? What I said was, if any other team had the record the Spurs have, none of these biased clowns would pretend any other team were better than them. It's more blatant disrespect.
If you want to reason the Celtics are better at the moment or a slightly better team, fine, there's a case to be made. But "far and away"?
If this team won 20 in a row by 20 a game, but they played a joke team or two in that stretch, maybe faced a team missing their best player or one of their best players, people wouldn't focus on what they'd done, but rather that. It's always something. There's always some reason why someone else is better.
Yeah, you are right. They are just a bit better, but still better. Hopefully the Spurs realize this and start actually improving instead of minimal to no improvement from game to game.
Right now the Spurs are only showing minimal improvement if any at all the last couple of weeks.
Boston are getting healthier and are actually looking better IMO.
This is the critical point. If anything, our D seems to moving backwards.
Celtics are the best team right now.
He was right.
No. I don't think anyone in here agreed with the writer that Boston was far and away better. But it's pretty clear they are better at the moment and that is all that matters.
So short of winning the championship (and even then, I'm not so sure with you), what does this team have to do to be considered the best at the moment? Go unbeaten the rest of the season and have a point differential of 50? What will it take? Because nothing seems to be good enough. There's always some reason to doubt them, or question the legitimacy of their record.
This.
If there is any team fan who has a right to boast about his team, it is Boston right now.
They seem to have enough savvy to be in a position to get it done and are winning with defense rather than offense as the Spurs are doing.
Having said that, they do go through periods of inconsistent play that makes them vulnerable. They are not so far away and ahead of the Spurs as is made out to be.
They have to play better. They have to be better defensively. They have to pass the eyeball test and not have so many moments, past & present, that make you question them.
Quit with the woe is me, spurs don't get enough credit act. That is a typical spurs fan.
The Celtics have lost to a lot more teams than the Spurs have. They've had a lot of moments where they looked old and slow. The difference is, you watch (presumably) every Spurs game, so you nitpick every down moment they have. The reality is, every single team in the league has a lot of moments throughout the season where it's easy to question them.
What act? It's completely true. You know full well that if the Lakers or Celtics had this record, no one would question who the best team in the league is. I'm sick of arrogant punks like you, who want to pretend you're different and not a homer, so you veer so far the other way that you're practically biased against the team. You can be complimentary of the team you go for and not be a homer.
in a seven game series, i doubt any team can beat a healthy celtics team. they are way too deep and their stars don't seemed to have aged much. i don't know if they can stay healthy all season though.
No. I watch plenty of Celtics games, enough to know what I am talking about. Even with their injuries (which the Spurs haven't had) they have maintained an elite defense and one of the most efficient offenses. They have been to the finals 2 out of the last 3 seasons.
They are better at the moment and have earned the benefit of the doubt. You are the typical Spurs fan constantly whining about how the Spurs are disrespected.
Saying Boston is better is not disrespecting the Spurs. It's making an honest assessment. Things can change, but at this moment, they are better.
So do I. But I don't watch every second of every game and I doubt you do, either. I don't want to hear about this injury bull . Their payroll is almost $15 million more than the Spurs'. That allows them to have more depth, which allows them to sustain injuries easier.
Who cares about at the moment? It's a long season and so far, the Spurs have been better at more moments than anyone. If that doesn't make a team the best, I don't know what does.
I'm not at all the typical Spurs fan, guys like you and SolidD are. With your deferential, the Spurs-have-500-problems-and-every-half-decent-team-is-better-than-them bull .
"Far and away the best" is complete and utter disrespect. How is it honest? What's it based on? There's nothing you can point to that indicates they're clearly better. It's just this typical someone's always got to be better than the Spurs nonsense. They're having one of the greatest seasons (record-wise) of all-time, yet very few times this season can I remember where the consensus was they were playing the best or the best team in the league. That would never happen if the Lakers, Celtics, or Heat, had this record and you know it.
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