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It's true imo (not the Manu part). But with the records so close, the Mavs being better defensively and the head to head loss, you have to put the Mavs ahead imo.
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Alex (San Antonio)
Are the Spurs still the best Texas team?
Chris Sheridan
(2:40 PM)
Not after losing to the Mavs the way they did. Dallas should pass them in the standings during this upcoming six-game home stretch.
Sean (Boston)
Why are you so down on the Spurs?
Chris Sheridan (2:54 PM)
The loss to the Clips, the loss to the Mavs, and my belief that every time I watch Manu, I'm thinking he might go down any second with another ankle injury. I've watched the guy battle ankle injuries since he had to sit out the gold medal game against Yugoslavia at the 2002 Worlds in Indianapolis.
It's true imo (not the Manu part). But with the records so close, the Mavs being better defensively and the head to head loss, you have to put the Mavs ahead imo.
I have no problem with Sheridan picking the Mavs right now as the best Texas team. But his comments about worrying about Manu's ankle injuries are ignorant, because the other contenders like Boston with KG's knees, and LAL, with Kobe's and Bynum's knees, are injury risks as well, yet Sheridan didn't bother to mention that, which,IMO, should be mentioned if your gonna be concerned about Manu being a injury risk.
Spurs December schedule is really difficult from here on out. Finishing a few games above .500 would be pretty spectacular.
Fail. Sheridan has been worried about Manu's ankle since before he entered the league? I don't think so. He probably didn't even know who Manu was, pre-NBA, like 95% of the media.
Those are some ing arrogant comments by that dude. He should go lick a greasy homeless mans scrotum.
"Losing to the Mavs the way they did?" You mean losing a single game after reeling off 12 straight and after having played 5 games in 8 nights? Yeah. Just terrible. What a ing moron.
The Manu comment isn't even worth addressing it's so stupid.
Are we looking at the same schedule? I see Dallas and the LAL, and no one else.
ATL? Josh Smith bickering with and ignoring yet another coach.
POR? Coming apart at the seams.
I love how the Spurs aren't allowed to lose. They lose to a bad team, it's cause for concern. They lose to a good team, it's cause for concern. As if they're supposed to never lose a game. Anytime they do, it get's read into.
They could go 81-1 and instead of focusing on the 81, biased clowns like Stein and Sheridan and Broussard and damn near every one of the jackasses at ESPN would focus on the 1 more than they would the 81.
And I'm sick of them all acting like Ginobili is Hill and has injured the same ankle 500 times. I don't hear them pulling this with the Lakers constantly, yet Bynum has a significant injury every single season.
Also, why is the Mavs defense (which isn't that much better than the Spurs') the talk of the league all of a sudden? The Spurs once played historically great defense and when they did, the knock was (before it was age, at least) "they lack firepower". Now the Mavs lack firepower, yet it's overlooked.
I can't wait for the playoffs, so I can see this overrated joke Mavs team eliminated no later than the 2nd round . . . for the umpteenth time. Yet come this time next season, it'll all be forgotten and people will be slobbering over them again. When will people ever learn? How many times do they have to fail with the same guy leading the way for people to grasp the fact that they're not winning a championship with him as their go-to player?
Crap, Chris Sheridan is down on the Spurs. Season ovah.
DAL, LA, ORL, MIL (tough defensive team), DEN x 2, PHO. Plus even the bad teams are all still capable of being really damn good on any given night (ATL, MEM, GST)
What about the fact that the franchise he works for (ESPN) is investing a lot of money in hyping another team, which is the only team in the NBA that has a single coverage site on the network site. "Miami Heat Check"
I don't care what this assclown says. He can keep ranting all he wants.
Game over. Pack it in, time to think about next season.
Good stuff my friend.
Setting the bar kind of low if your figuring the spurs can tackle the Lakers. The majority of games are played at home.
Told you any love we get from national media is done begrudgingly. If this team was based in Boston, LA, Chicago, or New York....they'd be treated like royalty.
We're 17-3 with a moderately tough schedule so far, and the VAST majority of those games are here in SA. I'll give you ORL as a toughie, even though we beat them already, but for a team like the 2010-2011 Spurs, that isn't a tough schedule. The Spurs shouldn't be worrying about other teams, other teams should be worried about us. Honestly, I'll be pissed if we lose more than 3 games this month.
I think you are setting expectations way to high. The Spurs could quite easily have 3 more losses, if not more. They are obviously playing great, but this is a tough schedule coming up.
The Mavs will be good during the regular season but in the playoffs they will suffer if they don't make a trade (no, I'm not making the generic "Mavs choke in the playoffs" comment), they're too limited ofensively, once the playoffs arrive and teams make special adjustments to stop their opponents Dallas lack of firepower will cost them, if you take the ball out of Dirk and to a lesser extent Terry, Mavs offense consists of a bunch of unreliable shooters taking jumpshots.
The fail is deep in that quote. First of all, Manu played in that game. Secondly, Sheridan acts like Ginobili's career has been marred by ankle injuries. That's a ridiculous take. Ginobili hasn't "battled ankle injuries". He hurt his ankle in that 2002 tourney but hasn't suffered a severe ankle sprain since then. IIRC, he's had two routine ankle sprains since then that have forced him to miss time. His ankle injury in 2008 was a totally different type of injury and wasn't even exactly an ankle injury.my belief that every time I watch Manu, I'm thinking he might go down any second with another ankle injury. I've watched the guy battle ankle injuries since he had to sit out the gold medal game against Yugoslavia at the 2002 Worlds in Indianapolis.
Yeah, the way Manu plays he's going to susceptible to injury just because he always goes all out, but to act like he's been dealing with glass ankles his whole NBA career isn't based in reality.
Exactly. That's what the vast majority of this defeatist/deferential fan base doesn't get. This is one of the three best teams in the league.
You would never see the other elite teams fan bases worrying about their team playing relatively good teams. Granted, as the schedule get's more hectic, we'll inevitably see more dead legged efforts like the Clippers game, so I could understand being concerned about the hectic schedule, but not specific teams.
I'm not saying you should be championing this team as some unbeatable juggernaut. But at the same time, have some confidence in and respect for your team and stop acting like every time they play an opponent who's even half decent, they should be the ones worried.
I think you're selling your team short. What's ahead of us in DEC is not nearly as tough as what's behind us, season to date.
lol @ that horrible Manu take
And this gets money from BSPN. The world is cruel.
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