Past couple weeks have sure seemed that way.
I know a lot of people bricks when it comes to them but i wouldn't mind them this year. i think we are peaking at the right time playing great basketball and they have been overrated since that trade. Utah and maybe Phoenix might be better teams then they are...
no way.
I would rather play Phoenix or Denver over the Mavs.
The problem with the Mavs is that they have 110% complete confidence that they can beat the out of us. With a sport as mental as basketball, that is a huge edge.
Every advanced stat says that Dallas is actually not very good. They have a SRS of 1.88, the lowest of all West teams by a long shot, lower than the Heat and almost equal to the Bobcats. Their offensive and defensive rating are mediocre too (11th and 14th), with their eFG% given up being 16th in the league. One of the worst offensive rebounding teams in the league and an average defensive rebounding one.
Take a split of post trade and they are similarly bad. They are slumping hard right now, and their rotations are still being fiddled with.
...with how hard the West is, you gotta take your chances against a team like that instead of facing someone like the Jazz or Thunder.
Ur outta your fukkin mind too.. Thats all.Things change man, we had their number too and they were our little brother! After 06 they have done better though (We got them 3-1 and were better in 08 though, heads forget that!). Things change, one game or two and it all could change.
We have a debt to settle with the Mavs, bring them on
If the basketball gods want us to take revenge, revenge is shall be
I want the Mavs. I want the dish that is usually best served cold.
the Mavs.
Couldn't have said it more eloquently myself.
I don't care what the stats say, give me the Lakers before the Mavs. Mavs turn into the '92 Dream Team every freaking time they play San Antonio.
haha yeah, and they disappear when they don't play SAS
If Im the spurs Id rather play the Nuggets/Suns before the Mavs, and the Mavs are more desirable than the Jazz/Lakers.
The Mavs are a tough matchup against the Spurs
Yeah they are a tough matchup no doubt, they are rivals and Terry and Dirk shoot the lights out late vs SA! But what if that changes this year? I mean something has to give right?
So true... seems like they can't miss a shot when they play us.
Terry played/shot like v the Spurs in the playoffs last year and in the 3 games this year.
Because of how poorly the Spurs had been playing up until about 2 weeks ago, a possible first-round matchup with the Mavs was one I dreaded. The possibility of having the Mavs eliminate the Spurs two years in a row is just unthinkable for me. We all know the Mavs somehow morph into the 80's Fakers against the Spurs.
Now, with the Spurs team rounding into, what looks like, a playoff-ready team, I'm starting to think such a playoff matchup wouldn't be so bad, after all.
the spurs playing the mavs is like playing against a team of derek fishers. they always seem to turn it on against the spurs.
Exactly. I'm less scared of the Fakers than the Mavs for that reason. Although I'm scared of the Fakers for another reason - 4 games at Staples and a lot of phantom foul calls going to Bryant.
Once again, we're simply going to have to be a much better team than our opposition to triumph this year, because the matchups are unlikely to be our way against a number of teams, and we won't have home court at all. Who knows whether this team is battled tested enough to do it? I don't have a clue, but I'm up for the wild ride it is sure to be!
People need to understand that even though whottt was a dork during the 2008 Presidential election for polishing Palin's vibrator every night, he's 100% on the money about the Michael Finley jinx. The Mavs only started beating us when they unloaded Finley to us. Look how good the Spurs have been since that bandwagoning stick packed his bags to play for a "contender."
Yeah I know Ginobili's been beasting but clearly you fools forgot how good Manu was because he was hurt the past two years. This is just Manu being Manu. The real reason the Spurs are kicking ass is because they kicked Finley off the team. I'd take the Mavs over Lakers in the first round too. We'd kick the out of those chodes imho.
tl/dr; finley sucks and was stealing minutes from better players
Agreed.
I pray please Basketball Gods, bless us(the Spurs) with a chance to bounce the Mavs ass outta the playoffs! Bless Manu with the chance to redem himself from that and1 he gave Dirk! But if you see fit that we play the Mavs & have another 1rd exist, I also pray Pop loses his job. Do that for Ratt, do it for Ian, do it cuz he don't know a sf is not a pf. Please Basketball gods, whichever you'll see fit. AMENIf the basketball gods want us to take revenge, revenge is shall be
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