Somewhat. That experience for their 3 best players is invaluable, but most of the team does not have that experience.
Now, do you honestly think the playoffs last season have any bearing on how this year's will play out? Or that the Spurs PERCEIVED system failures in the playoffs last year were actually legit?
What did you expect on a spurs forum. Have you paid any attention to the mavs forum around playoff time, its usually a ghost town.if only the NBA liked a small market team
The Spurs would be on their way to a six-peat if Manu never got injured.
Exactly tbh.tbh, the Spurs are currently winning and only shooting 38% from 3 point land... quite different from last season.
That said...
Spurfan thinking Bonner won't be playing major minutes in the playoffs
No different than Sunfan thinking D'antoni wouldn't allow Barbosa to chuck shots in the playoffs, go 4 of 27 from the field, then blame the abysmal performance on the fact his of a mother is dead because she was ing monkeys in Brazil.
Yeah, I'll admit, when the Mavs were rolling last year early they looked pretty legit. I still feel the Spurs could've pulled a win out in a series with them last year, if only because there wasn't a superior front court to contend with. All in the past now. As for the current season, this year's play > last year's tbh. It's far from perfect but the better balance between D and O will give them as much of a shot as anyone else. Let's face it, the East will more than likely win it all this year, but all you have to do is get there to have a shot.
Most Mav forums suck major ass tbh
DB is full of homers just like this one is full of Spur homers.
D-M was good but it is dead now pretty much.
I use emoticons to try to strengthen my non-existant arguments. I also use derogatory internet forum slang, because I have friends in real life and I am better than you thanks to being 'in' with the internet forum crowd.
Are you gonna give me credit too?I'll give HH credit, as he was one of the only spurfans not to buy into the fool's gold spurs last year. The majority of this board never saw it coming though, and that's what blind homerism will do to you
Are you being serious
The championships San Antonio won in 2007 and earlier are lot less relevant than last year's playoffs.
Pretty much, but I think the team's a bit better equipped to handle it this season.tbh, the Spurs are currently winning and only shooting 38% from 3 point land... quite different from last season.
That said...
We heard the "better equipped" crap last year, but keep pretending this year is gonna be a truly special brand of "better equipped!"
Cool. So did you not resort to "4 rings, got!" once you realized your argument was ?
Starting to sound like Cully and re ed lakerfan, who along with you, also have arguments.
Sure, we got a better bench... but it's also an inexperienced bench... we'll see...
I'm liking we're not living and dying by the 3... that's one of the positives so far...
So far, the Spurs are holding opponents to 93.3 ppg this year as opposed to 98 last year. They're also down to scoring only 98 ppg this year as opposed to 103 last year.
The defense has improved with this team and they play at a slower pace than last year. They are a big man away from having a legit shot at the WCF.
I don't know. A home loss to detroit might cause ainge to think irrationally and blow up the team. The seventh seed might be a long shot. Oh wait, you were talking about boston right?
It sounds like you have an inferiority complex. There are always going to be teams better than you. The Spurs are one of them.
crofl, I couldn't remember if you were a sheep or shepherd last year, tbhAre you gonna give me credit too?
If Bonner and RJ show up in the playoffs (not likely) Ill be the first one to admit that I was wrong.
I probably trolled Lakerfan too much...
But I'm a founding member of the Bonner/RJ fool's gold club.
crofl great argument
the spurs are better than the mavs!
There are players who can more than likely step up to fill in the holes in the starting lineup. Splitter showed last year he could ball, even coming in cold. Neal showed massive courage and should perform well again. Leonard and Green will be question marks, so we'll see.
Oh and there's no way we get to the WCF with Bonner/RJ getting major minutes. Leonard needs to start with Ginobili and Splitter needs to get the most big man minutes next to Duncan.
Spurs are 11th in the NBA at least points given up per game. They're an above average team in that stat, and an average team regarding defensive rating, while below average in opposing FG% (20th lowest opposing FG%). All signs indicate that they're an average defense and their opponent's drop in PPG is largely due to as you said a slower pace.
Isn't that what it's all about?
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