Something for Spurs fans to think about

[BeerIsGood!]

I'm as die-hard of a Longhorns fan as there are, and I'm telling you that if you're picking a team counting on DANIEL GIBSON to come up big to win in a series against the Spurs, you're crazy. Dude will go back to bricking and blowing within another game or two.

[timvp]

I'd say they are, at worst, the 4th or 5th best team in the playoffs...

Spurs
Mavs
Pistons
Suns
Cavs...

Eh, I don't think the Cavs are that good overall. I think they matchup with the Spurs well. But I think the Jazz, Suns and maybe even the Nuggets could beat them.

But the playoffs is all about matchups. While the Spurs would have destroyed the Warriors, the Mavs would have been a damn tough test for the Spurs. And as we saw, the Warriors beat the Mavs so it's hard to do a straight line power ranking.

I'd say the Cavs are a top five bad matchup for the Spurs, but overall they are probably closer to the tenth best team in the league. The overall ranking doesn't matter much as the Heat won it all last year and teams, such as the Spurs, could have beaten them. But that means nothing.

[milkyway21]

Cleveland was 2-0 against San Antonio this season.

SPURS: 3-0 IN THE NBA FINALS

Lebron if he can make it better light some candles...& PRAY

[timvp]

Disclaimer: Spurs still need another win before the Finals matchups even matter. I've seen bigger choke jobs from the Spurs than what it'd take to drop three straight to this Jazz team.

The Jazz are damn good and the Spurs have still yet to beat a Jerry Sloan coached team in the playoffs.

[dg7md]

Cavs aren't good, they're in a terrible conference with a slumping Detroit team led up a coach known for choking. Cavs are at best within the top 8 of best teams.

Spurs
Mavs
Suns
Pistons
healthy Miami Heat

are the top 5 in my opinion. Nuggets are better than the Cavs, so are the Jazz. Don't freak out, playoffs, not regular season.

LeBron is a huge star, great talent. Z is good. Hughes is alright (and he's out for a while due to injury), who else they got worth noting? Nobody who can change a games landscape over 7 games. Heat had MORE than Wade last year when they beat Dallas... they had enforcers with a chip on his shoulder and a two headed monster of Zo and Shaq. So nobody claim LeBron's "superstar treatment" will mean a Spur loss.

Gibson is just on a streak right now, no way he keeps up this play, especially against the Spurs defense.

Pistons are slumping, Cavs aren't winning.

[timvp]

If Deron Williams is playing like LeBron James against the Spurs, how would LeBron James play against the Spurs?







Disclaimer: Spurs still need another win before the Finals matchups even matter. I've seen bigger choke jobs from the Spurs than what it'd take to drop three straight to this Jazz team.

The Jazz are damn good and the Spurs have still yet to beat a Jerry Sloan coached team in the playoffs.

[BeerIsGood!]

If Deron Williams is playing like LeBron James against the Spurs, how would LeBron James play against the Spurs?







Disclaimer: Spurs still need another win before the Finals matchups even matter. I've seen bigger choke jobs from the Spurs than what it'd take to drop three straight to this Jazz team.

The Jazz are damn good and the Spurs have still yet to beat a Jerry Sloan coached team in the playoffs.

You disclaimer is great, but luckily fans can look ahead without influencing anything. If the players did it that would be a different story.

Lebron would play like Lebron, and the rest of the team would play like the rest of the team. , even Kirilenko, Okur, and Fish torched the Warriors and to an extent the Rockets. The Cavs role players are choke city and wouldn't be much of a factor unless the Spurs play out of character.

On the flip side, who do the Cavs have to stop TD, Manu, Parker, or the likes of Finley and Oberto who thrive off of doubles and overplays? It's one thing to know the Spurs system inside and out, it's another to have the personnel to stop it. You think Sloan, Karl, and even D'Antoni don't know enough about basketball to figure out what the Spurs are doing? Every coach in the league knows the Spurs system but few have the personnel to top it.

[Strike]

Hughes is alright (and he's out for a while due to injury)

Should the Cavs make the finals, there's Cav fan's excuse if the Spurs beat them for the Championship.

[KidCongo]

You put the Cavs in the western conference and they don't get out of the 1st round. They likely get bounced by the Jazz or Nuggets. The eastern conference is so bad that the Cavs are actually in the finals of that conference. That says a lot about the conference, not the team.

To be bounced by nuggets or jazz we must have made it in top 4 seeds?

[KidCongo]

I disagree. I think the Jazz and Nuggets could definitely beat them in a series and that the Mavs, Suns, and Spurs would deal with them in less than 7 with no issue. I've watched the team play many times over the season and here in the playoffs, but I'm not impressed with their ability to get it done against a quality opponent when it counts. I think this game tonight speaks more to how much the Pistons have fallen off than to where the Cavs are. We'll see over the next two - I fully expect the Pistons to protect HC and find a way to take a game 6 when the Cavs once again rely on James jacking up fade away threes in crunch time.

Suns give us the most trouble by far, just can't keep up with their style. We match up well with Spurs and go decent with Mavs. We dont rely on LBJ jacking up fadeaway 3's in crunch.

[BeerIsGood!]

Suns give us the most trouble by far, just can't keep up with their style. We match up well with Spurs and go decent with Mavs. We dont rely on LBJ jacking up fadeaway 3's in crunch.

That's what I've seen in key possessions in the 4th so far - fade away jump shots. Not only 3s although I've seen a few of those.

[SouthernFried]

Cleveland knows our system? Doesn't that mean...that POP prolly knows Clevelands system as well, since he taught those guys?

Do they have an answer for DUNCAN? Does anyone?

Do they have an answer for Manu? Does anyone?

With the above 2 a given...I'll take my chances on a "playoff mentality" Bowen guarding LeBron, right to the championship ring.

[Cry Havoc]

I have the perfect solution to stop LeBron.

Double him. Put one guy in front of him, and one guy (Manu) behind him. When he goes to shoot the patented fadeaway, have Manu stand straight and take a charge.

[GrandeDavid]

I think Whottt's argument is very compelling and convincing. I also agree that the Cavs would be problematic for the Spurs and certainly would be leery of Mike Brown's "corporate knowledge" of the Spurs. I would hope that intangibles like a richer playoff experience, championship experience, and veteran experience, would help the Spurs. However, on the court matchups would be tough. I would probably subscribe to Mikey's theory of let Lebron get his but shut down the others.

But what I'd rather do is flip the coin and look at what San Antonio can do to Cleveland on the offensive end. Cleveland would still have to deal with a Hall of Famer still in his prime in Tim Duncan, and Parker's improved judgement and jumper would nicely compliment Ginobili's attacks to the basket. I think that Cleveland would have just as hard of a time dealing with the Spurs' Big Three as the Spurs would in dealing with Lebron plus any two players you name to support him.

I'm just saying that it would be a tough series, but I believe the Spurs would come out on top due to the San Antonio Big Three on the offensive end. I think they'd be able to provide just enough to crack that Cleveland defense over the course of a seven game series.

[Sec24Row7]

SPURS: 3-0 IN THE NBA FINALS

Lebron if he can make it better light some candles...& PRAY

Yeah that Unbeaten streak only lasts until you lose one...

[101A]

I like the Spur's chances against a young playoff team in close games. Sphincters get awfully tight; palms get sweaty - Spurs have been there before.

[ATRAIN]

Im scared of the CAVS.......LABRON is clutch!!!! PFFFFTTTTTTTTTTHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[ATRAIN]

Why are we even talking about this anyway, They just tied thier series and we aren't done with ours. We will cross that road if and when we do.

[DarrinS]

I think the real question is, why does Gooden have a hairy vagina on the back of his neck? That is one weird lookin dude.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Something for TlongII to think about: the early offseason.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

I think the real question is, why does Gooden have a hairy vagina on the back of his neck? That is one weird lookin dude.

[ATRAIN]

I think the real question is, why does Gooden have a hairy vagina on the back of his neck? That is one weird lookin dude.

Yeah what the is that?

[tlongII]

Since you guaranteed this, how about making this a bet?

Are you on?

What do you want to bet?

[GrandeDavid]

What do you want to bet?

A virtual hug.

[Hoop]

SPURS-CAVS JOKE

spurs in 4!