Still a long way from finding out, but they wont have to hand it over. It'll probably just get taken away.. Doesn't matter if its from the Spurs or anyone else.
FA moratorium hasn't even been lifted yet
Still a long way from finding out, but they wont have to hand it over. It'll probably just get taken away.. Doesn't matter if its from the Spurs or anyone else.
can't belieave you used capital letters for the le..
Take there back court away and the rest of the team will follow
All true.
lol those ignorant s
I seem to recall us shutting them down last season
And the whistling past the graveyard starts in Oakland.
Enough of that 'they still have to play the games bull !' Cancel the season....book the river parade!
to be fair, the Warriors are going to have a hard time playing their small ball line-up that won them the championship against the Spurs. They are going to have to play Bogut which is already slowing down their offense. Spurs were match-up problem for them last year and its ever worse this year. A healthy OKC is still the biggest threat to the Spurs.
so durant and westbrooke alone are a threat to the spurs? Outside of those 2, who do they have? Ibaka can't do anything but hit the open jump shot and if you put a 4 in the game that can hit the open jumper, you can pull him out the paint so he's a non issue on defense.
Good post. Thankfully, I doubt we'll have the infighting or the rape case hanging over our heads. LaMarcus might shoot us out of the series, like Kobe did in the 2004 finals, but I'd bet against it.
They sound scared tbh. They don't have to hand it over, the Spurs can just take it.
The lakers could have won that le easily. EASILY. Shaq was shooting 60%. Every time they dumped the ball down to him, he scored. The biggest myth in nba hystory is that Ben Wallace shut shaq down. How do you shut down a man shooting 60% and averaging 18ppg? Kobe destroyed that series. He didn't want shaq getting another finals mvp. Series should have been the lakers easily. I aint mad Kobe shot them out though. We were robbed in game 5 anyway.
I'm guessing you are guessing right....they scared.
Actually, I thought these would be the 3 reasons:
1. Our dog ate it.
2. We didn't think you were actually going to come and get it.
3. We've retired from the NBA, so are under no obligation to return it.
I don't get this narrative, that the Spurs have supposedly vaulted themselves back into contention with the Warriors. In reality, they were already fully capable of beating them, though not in the worn down, beat up state we last saw them in.
As has been discussed ad nauseam, they match up well, but far less talked about yet equally apparent, is they're clearly in their heads. I don't know that the Warriors truly believed they could beat the Spurs last season, which is always half the battle.
Health and chemistry are key for any team to win the le. The spurs have to develop a chemistry by the time the playoffs roll around, and while I will concede the Warriors should be favored because they are the defending champs and deserve that, I still think that Green and Kawhi are two of the best on ball defenders in the league. I think that Harrison Barnes needs to improve if he does the Warriors will get better and barring injuries will have an excellent chance of repeating. But Barnes was a liability for the Warriors during the playoffs and especially in the finals.
ugh all i hear here(im in the bay area) are spurs too old, slow, dubs will outlast the, they cant keep up, nobody stops our small ball etc.
I wasn't scared of them this year, certainly won't be next year. I think their 'chip was one of the easiest in a long time, I'm willing to bet they don't even make WCF
The '04 Lakers severly lacked depth & had Devean George as part of the starting 5. Once Malone got injured they had to play Slava Medvedenko!
They're defending champs, above all else. They deserve some respect.
Yeah, they had an easier run at the le, but so did we in 2013 and we couldn't get it done.
That's just crap that certain people say cos they have to. Warriors would have lost to the Spurs in the playoffs last playoffs; and the same will likely hold true this upcoming playoffs.
GS most definitely deserve all the credit. My scorn was directed to them writers.
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