People said the same thing before the Memphis series
Kawhi playing out of his mind.
Duncan could be 1st-team all NBA.
Tony is just banged up. Nothing major, and the rest probably did him alot of good and he should be good to go.
Manu ain't out for the season. In the first round we get Houston, and though they will give us trouble, we can beat them without Manu or while he works himself back into shape.
Things are going to be fine. Stop ing panicking.
No they didn't. Memphis was largely seen as a huge-sleeper pick in 2011, they were on a huge roll and people around the league and in the media thought they would give us a ton of trouble, and many picked them to win. The problem in that series was Tony Parker getting outplayed by Mike Conley though, it had nothing to do with Manu.
If/when OKC beats GSW tonight, the more likely scenario is Houston gets the 6 seed (they own the h2h tiebreaker with GSW) and we get the Warriors in the first round, which should be even easier.
Not only does Manu usually take a long time to get back from injury but it also takes him a UVA LONG time to get into rhythm. He's not like TD or TP who ramp up quickly. What is very concerning is that he thought he was healed, started to jog and still has a tear. Sounds like he's got to start all over again now.
Weak example. Manu was the Spurs' best player that year and the 2011 Grizzlies were better than any first round opponent we will potentially get. I'm worried about the Spurs, but I don't think 2011 should be compared to this year.
If I read it correctly, first strain was in one leg, the current strain in the other leg.
shhh why bring common sense in here.
Manu was already playing at 70% or less before the injury. It's just common sense we'll have a 50% or less Manu when he comes back. he will be tentative and slow, which will make him easy pickings for the opponent.
expecting anything else but a 50% or less Manu for the 1st 2 rounds is dreaming, it's waiting for santa to come down the chimney
Yes they did, i remember very well "Memphis is playing without their best player, Manu can rest that series/we will sweep them anyway"
Nobody picked the Grizzlies to upset us/they were playing without R.Gay/their franchise had never won a single game in the playoffs
how can you read something like this and not love manu? he's a class act. how many players would pen something like this?
smart dude too.
wow
so having Manu with a broken arm and trotting out Bonner to defend Gasol and Randolph had nothing to do with it. got it
Tim can put the team on his back in round 1
Plus if he happens to come back with a bang, you can always flip flop and change your tune...
You know, like going from "Lebron is a chokerz!" to "San Antonio Heat will win it all!"
shhh why bring common sense in here.
Interesting. Guess ESPN is not "media": http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2011...rizzlies-spurs
The good news is that Manu is going to be nice and rested for the playoffs this year, tbh. He's not going to be worn out considering he really hasn't played much for the past couple months.
Not sure how much stock you want to put on that...
http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2012.../spurs-thunder
4/14 getting it right is much better than 0/14, especially when the poster claimed "people around the league and in the media thought they would give us a ton of trouble, and many picked them to win". Except that, nobody picked them to win.
I would venture to guess that no one on that panel knew that Manu had a broken elbow and/or that he would miss any time. Once people found out he was going to be out at least a game, many changed their picks.
Chuck barkley picked the Grizz over Spurs too.
Once manu was to miss game 1 due to injury, its was a 50-50 series. Only a blind homer would have disagreed
People forget Bonner hit some huge shots down the stretch of game 1 in that series to at least give us a chance. There is zero doubt in my mind though, the fact that Mike Conley outplayed Tony Parker, when we were supposed to have a massive advantage on the perimeter, was the reason we lost that series.
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