Clippers or OKC

[Floyd Pacquiao]

both teams present the same problems for the spurs, they both hit that midrange jumper that the spurs give up at a high rate. Westbrook Durant and ibaka scare me more than Paul and Blake tho, so if I had to choose give me clippers.

[Kawhitstorm]

both teams present the same problems for the spurs, they both hit that midrange jumper that the spurs give up at a high rate. Westbrook Durant and ibaka scare me more than Paul and Blake tho, so if I had to choose give me clippers.

Kawhi/Danny's defense is marginalized against the Clippers b/c they run their guards through millions of screens. On the other hand, they get to play 1-on-1 defense against Durant/Westbrook without worrying about Tony chasing Re (Ibaka is a spot up shooter & can't take advantage of mismatches).

Roberson also isn't as good a defender as a Moute & if they choose to play Waiters instead Durant has to guard Kawhi. Patty also doesn't have to worry about getting bullied by Rivers.

People are forgetting how the Spurs thoroughly outplayed OKC at home during the 2014 series even w/ Ibaka in the lineup (Gm 5) meanwhile the Clippers are the last team to win in San Antonio both in the regular season & playoffs. As long as they have home-court advantage (ThunderRefs) & Harden doesn't get traded back to OKC, the Spurs should be good.

[Kawhitstorm]

The Clippers are the only visiting team that held a lead at any point of the fourth quarter at San Antonio this season

[spursistan]

I still think we beat both, but i believe that Clippers series will take a lot more out of us..There is reason Kawhi has no steals in his last 5 games with the Clippers and he is having some of his his worst shooting nights against them..their screen-heavy offense simply tucker him out and leave no legs to the point he is missing a lot of bunnies and near basket shots down the stretch....no brainer that i will pick the easier match-up for my best player in the playoffs..

[mystargtr34]

I never thought i'd say this 2 years ago but i'd rather play the Thunder.. as someone mentioned above, Kawhi and Danny's defense pretty much become redundant against the Clips, and CP3/Blake have turned into matchup nightmares.. our primary defenders aren't suited to guard them.. and then on switches they find mismatches.

[Kawhitstorm]

OKC at full strength struggling to beat the Nuggets (who are on a B2B) at home, gave up 112 pts (Spurs 86 w/o Tim)

[spursistan]

Durant could be out few games with sprained toe..Clippers with chance to narrow the gap for 3rd seed even with Blake out himself..

[Kawhitstorm]

OKC's defense

[DenialTwist]

Did anyone see Westbrook's interview with J.A. Adande after the Lakers game on ESPN?
He laughed when Adande said everyone is talking about how well Golden State and San Antonio are playing and not OKC. Westbrook said thats fine, let them talk we are just getting better and better and will play well when the playoffs start.

[Kawhitstorm]

Did anyone see Westbrook's interview with J.A. Adande after the Lakers game on ESPN?
He laughed when Adande said everyone is talking about how well Golden State and San Antonio are playing and not OKC. Westbrook said thats fine, let them talk we are just getting better and better and will play well when the playoffs start.

Nothing surprising, typical Westbrook response. He's the delusional guy w/ a chip on his shoulder on that us against the world steez.

[spursistan]

folks still wanting to play the Clippers instead of that horrific Thunder D ..Spurs in 5, i'm calling it..

Go through another Pop ting the bed with hack a DJ; another Kawhi/Green screened to death belowpar series at your own peril..Risk having CP3 making the conference Finals for first time at your expense..

[SouthernFried]

I don't want to play Clippers. For whatever reason, they are as tough a matchup for us as there is.

[spursistan]

det OKC defense..holy ...

The Clippers for all their mental midgetry are more fundamentally sound basketball team, tbh..

[Kawhitstorm]

det OKC defense..holy ...

The Clippers for all their mental midgetry are more fundamentally sound basketball team, tbh..

OKC's current defense reminds me of the two blowouts in Gm 1/2 of the 2014 series (w/o Ibaka) & Gm 5 w/ Ibaka. There offense hasn't improved & their defense has regressed under Billy Donovan.

Clippers are actually getting random contribution from their role players & Doc has put the two mental midgets Josh/Lance in the dog house (addition by subtraction). Hopefully, they stay 4th & face the Mavs (kill two birds w/ one rock) then give the Warriors a tough 6 game series. OKC meanwhile is primed for an ass whoopin' in the 2nd rd, no more "Ibaka was injured" excuses.

[apalisoc_9]

Man, would be nice if the sixth seed beat OKC. Houston/Dallas can beat OKC...just hope it isnt memphis.

Hope we get memphis tbh ...

Jazz or Houston against OKC or Warriors would be nice.

[Kawhitstorm]

Man, would be nice if the sixth seed beat OKC. Houston/Dallas can beat OKC...just hope it isnt memphis.

Hope we get memphis tbh ...

Jazz or Houston against OKC or Warriors would be nice.

Memphis seems like a seem that has no room for improvement so if the Rockets start playing up to their potential & the Jazz get healthy, they might get overtaken. Wouldn't mind the Jazz considering how the two blowout but Gobert/Favors have given LMA/Tim issues in previous season & Patty got destroyed by Burks.

If the Jazz are healthy, Jazz>Rockets>Grizz....best case scenario: GSW/Jazz, Grizz/Spurs, OKC/Rockets

[BatManu20]

[BatManu20]

Damn, Dame went off down the stretch

[ducks]

No

[Kawhitstorm]

Damn, Dame went off down the stretch

Westbrook apparently didn't read the scouting report & wasn't aware that Lillard will pull up from 30 ft

[SAGirl]

Lillard doing his thang...

[SAGirl]

Westbrook apparently didn't read the scouting report & wasn't aware that Lillard will pull up from 30 ft

[Mikeanaro]

Blazers deserved the win, there were some ty calls helping OK ty as usual.

[apalisoc_9]

Westbrook apparently didn't read the scouting report & wasn't aware that Lillard will pull up from 30 ft

To be fair, I read somewhere that Lillard three pointers are actually detrimental to his team..theres a stats somewhere there that says the blazers are 1-10 something when lillard takes a certain amount of threes..

Not that thats a good reason to leave a player than can get hot in stretches.

[spurs10]

An OKC loss is always good news to me!