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I'm not so sure.
The Spurs need to avoid Memphis/LA in my opinion.
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I'm not so sure.
The Spurs need to avoid Memphis/LA in my opinion.
I dunno about you guys, but I'd really want to meet the Grizzlies this season. I know it's gonna be tough but Tim, Manu, and TP are ing motivated to get a revenge win if this ever happens.
yeah man it's a must to me. No easy for me lets go get em'.
As a matter of fact I think we win game 1 last year if battier doesn't rattle in that 3 and it a whole different series. Not to mention manu was out that game. Not trying to make excuses because what happened happened. But manu 100 and Timmy 100 with the new bigs I don't think theyre seeing us.
Honestly? Zach Randolph made a pact with the Devil.
The people who think Zach Randolph played out of his mind need to think about it rationally. He had Matt Bonner, Dejaun Blair, and Dice defending him. Dice was the only guy who had a reasonable chance of defending him and he didn't have a good series. Then on defense he didn't have to expend any energy to guard these guys. You would have expected him to have a good series going against that type of defense. Once he got hot he was hard to stop.
You think he would have had as easy a time against TD or even Splitter? Bonner and Blair still can't defend him straight up. That's why it's important to have your best defenders prevent good players from developing rhythm. Otherwise you are in for a long game or long series.
They made some shots, we didn't. They defended, we didn't. They were the better team, hungrier for the win than we were.
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I'm talking about this in another forum right now actually, here's my take:
From 99-09, the Memphis Grizzlies had 7 top 10 first round draft picks. 6 of those 7 picks were top 5 draft picks. You're bound to put together a strong, talented, and young team with picks like that.
In my opinion, it's amazing that the Grizzlies aren't more of a heavyweight right now then they are with picks like that. I guess when you bungle picks on guys like Hasheem Thabeet (#2 overall, James Harden and Tyreke Evans both picked right after Thabeet) you miss the boat.
In that same time frame the San Antonio Spurs didn't have a single top 10 draft pick, a product of getting into the playoffs consistently in that era thus lowering the draft pick to the last few selections of the first round. They were forced to dig deep to find top 10 talent late in the draft (#57 overall, Manu Ginobili)
People also forget that Manu was playing that first round with a BROKEN ARM. This was a big problem because that season, the Spurs ran the bulk of the offense through him, relying heavily on him to produce points. It was also a problem because it happened the very last game of the season, in game 82/82, giving them basically a week to completely rewrite the offense before the first round of the playoffs.
Yes, Rudy Gay was out as well, but that happened barely mid-season, giving the Grizz more than enough time to spread Rudy's touches around and restructure the offense. I like to argue that this actually made the Memphis Grizz more versatile, and a better team.
Rudy Gay is very talented, but there is only so much ball to go around. getting more team mates involved made the Grizz evolve from a one dimensional offense, to a multi-pronged attack with more options.
Plus RJ is a pussy. I rest my case.
Even though Manu's arm was broken his stats were not that different from the playoffs the year before where he was the focal point on offense. I am wondering what Manu was expected to average without a broken arm?
Memphis tanked it so they would get 8th seed and play us. They beat us in the regular season and they thought the would have their best chance by playing the Spurs.
They were right!
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