Spur's biggest threat

[duncan228]

It's like shooting fish in a barrel sometimes.

- Findog

Stop. It's getting hard to beathe.

[bresilhac]

Medvedenko has actually been saying how the Spurs are the team to beat, etc. He also said the Lakers could beat us, which is a fair statement I think.

Can the Lakers beat San Antonio in a series? Sure. The potential is there certainly. But the Spurs have tons of very valuable playoff experience. And it is that experience that would push the Spurs over the top imo. Especially in a protracted series where the pressure to win gets amplified with every game leading up to a possible seventh game. The real threat to a fifth le this year as I've said are the Pistons. They are solid top to bottom and play the kind of intense defense the Spurs are known for. A Detroit-San Antonio Final would be a colossal matchup. One for the ages.

[LakerMagic]

Can the Lakers beat San Antonio in a series? Sure.

Thank you.

[Purple & Gold]

Funny how a bad 2nd option + a rookie center who has some good games but also was inconsistent on defense + a soft PF who doesn't show up in the playoffs + a superstar who has been known for gunning suddenly have everyone quaking in fear.

This Lakers team is NOT Shaq and Kobe in their prime with a young Horry, Fox and other savy veterans. Nor is it a formidable quadruplet that the Spurs got "0.4" out of in the semifinals.

The Lakers have all kinds of defensive holes and have been playing a cupcake schedule since Gasol came on board and gave up well over a 100 points to the Suns with Shaq (only top team to do so).

Bynum also coming off a knee injury and his effectiveness will be questionable.

Until Yao went down the Rockets were still a greater threat in matchups to Spurs and now the Jazz for sure, and potentially the Mavs are.

The LAL have gotten a media storm out of picking up Gasol and he is a very good offensive player but did they really need scoring anyway? In the playoffs they may rue the day they let Brown go or did not pick up another good big defender as Duncan blows by Gasol, Thomas hits jumpers and Bynum is out of positon often. The SAS will pick and roll the Lakers to death and hit high and low shots all night long while Parker and Manu drive with impunity. Bowen and Ime Udoka cannot stop Kobe but they will make him work and give me the Spurs big four vs. anything else the Spurs throw at them.

Remember the confusion on the floor when the Spurs surged vs the Lakers in their last game sans Parker, and it is highly doubtful that Gasol (who never won a darn playoff game) or Bynum can change that.

Bring on the Lakers - as they do down in media driven misery in no more than 5.

If the Lakers are truly the SAS's biggest threat the playoffs will be a lot easier than expected this year!

My dream is too see KB crying again after a Spurs sweep!

Keep living in denial.

[Findog]

All of this talk of playoff matchups is premature. Last year the Suns and the Mavs were both running off 17 game winning streaks and running roughshod over the League. Pretty much all of the pundits and observers concluded that they were destined to meet in the Conference Finals. Nobody was talking about San Antonio, and of course things turned out a lot differently from what was expected.

[Findog]

Keep living in denial.

Rummpd: Worst poster on here? Possibly. Spurs fans have every right to be confident in their team, but then there's bag homerism.

[Purple & Gold]

Question "dude" have you ever been paid for your basketball opinions? I would bet you have not (I have).

[Purple & Gold]

Rummpd: Worst poster on here? Possibly. Spurs fans have every right to be confident in their team, but then there's bag homerism.

But he gets paid for his takes

[Purple & Gold]

And our big 3 > lakers big 3.

Lakers have a big 4 plus a real nice bench.

[DazedAndConfused]

All of this talk of playoff matchups is premature. Last year the Suns and the Mavs were both running off 17 game winning streaks and running roughshod over the League. Pretty much all of the pundits and observers concluded that they were destined to meet in the Conference Finals. Nobody was talking about San Antonio, and of course things turned out a lot differently from what was expected.

Had Amare and co. never been suspended the Suns could very well have won that series. It's not like they got blown out in the 1st round like the Mavs.

[T Park]

Had Amare and co. never been suspended the Suns could very well have won that series. It's not like they got blown out in the 1st round like the Mavs.

Yeah cause Stoudamire and Co are so clutch in the playoffs.

[DazedAndConfused]

Um Stoudamire was pretty good in that series. Is your memory that hazy?

[LakerMagic]

Lakers have a big 4 plus a real nice bench.

Word

[T Park]

Um Stoudamire was pretty good in that series. Is your memory that hazy?

Not at all.

I remember him choking like a dog at home in game 1 though.

Is your memory hazy?

Do you remember his dumb play in game 3 and 6?

Of course not.

Wouldn't fit the troll agenda.

[itzsoweezee]

the lakers have a big 4?!?!?!

lmao. wow, i knew you guys were delusional, but this is too much. big 4! haha

[DazedAndConfused]

OK he had a couple bonehead plays, but he was still a beast in that series. You guys couldn't contain him at all. To say he wouldn't be a factor along with Diaw, their two best bigmen, is bull .

[Findog]

Had Amare and co. never been suspended the Suns could very well have won that series. It's not like they got blown out in the 1st round like the Mavs.

Jeff, you know your beloved Spurs were never in danger of losing to the Suns.

[T Park]

OK he had a couple bonehead plays, but he was still a beast in that series. You guys couldn't contain him at all. To say he wouldn't be a factor along with Diaw, their two best bigmen, is bull .

He would've.

But you can say that about a million things in a million other series.

To continue to hang onto that bull theory "Well if the Suns had Stoudamire in game 5"

Maybe the Spurs come out pissed off in game 5 and run the Suns out of the building by 10.

Maybe they don't take em lightly and play the best game of the series.

Ginobili and Horry combine for 28 and they win by 8 pulling away in the 4th.

So once again, move on, give up the bs arguements of so and so being out.

[DazedAndConfused]

I'm not saying the Suns would have won if they had Amare. All I'm saying is they had a great chance to take the series as the momentum was shifting their way. They blew their chance and it's 100% their fault.

[NRHector]

Pinche Pendejo!

tu eres el pinche pendejo CULERO if you don't like the opinion then don't make any you dumbass. Gasol is not Shaq and Koby has not done anything since Shaq left oh I'm sorry yes he did something, whine and complain like a little demanded to be traded so what makes you think this year is going to be any different. Only a Faker fan believes all the media hype because that's the only way they can keep their inflated ego by the help of the media

[Purple & Gold]

the lakers have a big 4?!?!?!

lmao. wow, i knew you guys were delusional, but this is too much. big 4! haha

You　don't consider　Kobe，Gasol，Bynum，and　Odom　a　Big 4??　

[21_Blessings]

But he gets paid for his takes

Thats kinda sad considering he obviously doesn't watch much basketball if he thinks Gasol will be guarding Duncan and not Andrew Bynum.

Bynum has done well against Duncan even going back to the first month of his rookie (even though it was limited minutes back then) season.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/...711130SAS.html

Nice 2-13 there by Duncan. If you think Bynum's 7'6 wingspan had nothing to do with that than you're delusional. Scary thing, Bynum is only going to get better.

So you think that was all Kwame Brown do you? Well

http://www.basketball-reference.com/...701280LAL.html

Duncan shoots 10-23 against a 19 year old Bynum playing 40+ min. That is no fluke.
If you want to get extremely statistical, lets go to 82games.com a look at what opposing centers shoot against Andrew Bynum:

.423 efg% you say? Well thats elite defense. In a couple years, Bynum will be adding All-NBA defensive teams to his resume.

[Purple & Gold]

Duncan will get his, but Bynum plays him very well. Players with long wingspan give Timmy problems (well as much as somebody can give him). And I agree, Bynum will only get better and better. Good for the Lakeshow, scary for the rest of the NBA.


But to think the Lakers will waste Bynum on defending Thomas or Oberto is laughable.

[DazedAndConfused]

Thats kinda sad considering he obviously doesn't watch much basketball if he thinks Gasol will be guarding Duncan and not Andrew Bynum.

Bynum has done well against Duncan even going back to the first month of his rookie (even though it was limited minutes back then) season.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/...711130SAS.html

Nice 2-13 there by Duncan. If you think Bynum's 7'6 wingspan had nothing to do with that than you're delusional. Scary thing, Bynum is only going to get better.

So you think that was all Kwame Brown do you? Well

http://www.basketball-reference.com/...701280LAL.html

Duncan shoots 10-23 against a 19 year old Bynum playing 40+ min. That is no fluke.
If you want to get extremely statistical, lets go to 82games.com a look at what opposing centers shoot against Andrew Bynum:

.423 efg% you say? Well thats elite defense. In a couple years, Bynum will be adding All-NBA defensive teams to his resume.

blasphemy! you should know you can't use logic and reason to prove your point here on ST.

[Holt's Cat]

...and Duncan went for 10 of 18 eleven days earlier. All hail the second coming.