ESPN: "If you say the Spurs are boring, you don't watch basketball/you're a dope"

[roycrikside]

To anyone thinking Manu is better than Wade is such a dumbass homer.

Never has Manu been better than Wade, even in both of their primes.

It has always been irrefutably ranked as 1. Kobe, 2. D-Wade , and 3. Arguably Manu, after T-Mac's demise

While in the big picture sense Manu is not anywhere near Wade's equal, historically he's always done well against him in general and the Heat in particular. He's fared pretty well against LeBron over the years too.

The match-ups with Kobe haven't gone as well for Manu, mainly because the Lakers have always had a lot of size to throw at him.

[Spurs and Mavs fan]

The Spurs don't even know who they're playing in the 2nd round, and you're already talking and disagreeing about match-ups in the Finals? What a bunch of morons. Seriously, this goes to each of you:

We're fans, not players or coaches. Why does it matter what team matchups we discuss on this message board? We're not going to have an effect on the actual outcome of the Spurs' games, so there's no reason not to discuss such things - we could discuss who would win the 2025 NBA Finals, for that matter.

[Spurs and Mavs fan]

Let's go Knicks!

[Solid D]

We're fans, not players or coaches. Why does it matter what team matchups we discuss on this message board? We're not going to have an effect on the actual outcome of the Spurs' games, so there's no reason not to discuss such things - we could discuss who would win the 2025 NBA Finals, for that matter.

[Spurs and Mavs fan]

I'll bet there are 3 LOB trophies to D-Wade's SOLO that will HAPPILY disagree with you...

Manu's LOBS =

Wades LOB =

Jus' sayin.

To be fair, this is akin to cherry-picking. Fabricio Oberto has a championship ring while LeBron James does not, but does that mean that Oberto was a better player than LeBron?

[pgardn]

Its a victory for team basketball and the NBA if the Spurs win. I get so tired of the iso, watching Lebron or Kobe making about one hundred jab steps and ball fakes, and then taking a very tough shot or finally making a pass.

But the kiddos do like it so what do I know... you can get an incredible dunk or an impossible fade away jumper. a wide open player making a layup because of great ball movement cant be that interesting. Watching every guy touch the ball on a possession is blasphemy apparently.

[SenorSpur]

Couple of media gems from ESPN today.

To start, I suggest everyone watch Tim Legler break down a couple of Spurs' plays in Game 4: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7904144

(Legler's video is referenced in the following podcast).

Next, check out Russillo's latest NBA Today podcast (5/8/12) and scroll over to around the 18:30-18:45 mark where Russillo starts talking about the Spurs -

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/...ive?id=3634017

Great stuff!

Thanks for posting!