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STFU Ducks.
instead of bashing the piston fans
lets be men or ladies and list reasons why you think the spurs can beat the pistons in the finals if they meet.
STFU Ducks.
this is spur related
I forgot short people have short brains
Timothy Theodore Duncan.
TP+MANU+DUNCAN= 20 plus point people
in the playoffs you need three big guns and spurs have them
rasho setting nice picks and getting out of the lane for tp
SequSpur predicating pistons would win
i should say finley and horry are a major part in my scenario to beat the pistons
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Last edited by san antonio spurs; 09-17-2011 at 10:34 AM.
Pop >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>flip
Manu Ginobili. That's the reason.
Pop would be a major reason if the Spurs beat the Pistons.
I also think the Spurs have better depth at point guard, which may end up being a nice advantage. Even if NVE hasn't performed to expectations so far, Nick is great in big games. The Pistons have a very inconsistent and perhaps not-very-confident Carlos Arroyo and Lindsey Hunter, who is older, coming off an injury, and not a very pure point guard. I think NVE and maybe even Udrih could become huge advantages for the Spurs if they meet the Pistons in the finals.
The Spurs depth and experience are unmatched by any team in the league. Now if they can just get healthy and stay that way, they can get on the annual roll.
In thinking about a Spurs/Pistons rematch, I think the one thing Spurs fans can hang their hats on is that the Spurs can (presumably) only play better against Detroit than they did in the two meetings past. One would think that by the time the Finals arrive, the Spurs will be a more motivated and focused group and will have cured some of the problems that Detroit exploited while developing ways to make the Pistons pay for playing so much man defense. Of course, Utah did to the Spurs last night what Detroit did in both games, only with less success because of the Jazz's lesser talent.
Mostly, I think that if the Spurs can come up with some way to even out the play on the glass, they'll have a great chance to compete with the Pistons and win a series.
Then again, the Spurs better worry about taking care of business in the West first.
I thought the Brits were proper with grammar, Simon Cowell.
X-factors: Horry and TP
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Tim Duncan.
A healthy Duncan would be the only historic type player on the court, a true NBA Legend. Detroit hasn't seen a healthy Tim Duncan since early in last year (when he banged on Ben Wallace).
He is head and shoulders the best player on the court when healthy, and that is a large reason why I still think that in a Spurs vs Pistons finals series, the Spurs would still have a very good chance.
They won't beat the Pistons, as much as I hate to say it but it's true. They'll prolly sweep Dallas and beat the Suns but they won't beat the Pistons. Bank on it!
Why the Pistons can beat the Spurs:
- The Pistons were a nose-hair from doing it last season. Last season's team is still intact, the team that took the Spurs to seven games in the NBA Finals. They are hungry to re-claim something that they feel was rightfully theirs to begin with. Rip Hamilton came into that series with a calf contusion that was so bad, it was bleeding into his ankle.
They feel, as the Kings should have in 2002-03, they were a Robert Horry 3-point shot from an NBA Championship. Even giving the Spurs that shot, the Pistons had a late game seven lead, but were decimated by foul trouble on the frontline. Suddenly, the 3-16 shooting touch of Tim Duncan heats up because Tayshaun Prince can't guard him. Duncan dominates the end of the game because if Ben Wallace is playing Timmy Man-to-man, there is no help-side defense and if Wallace gets another foul, there goes his agressiveness. Larry Brown was a frontline man short because Darko isn't ready and Elden Campbell's out of shape. That's why Dale Davis is here - to guard Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan.
- 3-point shooting: Look at the stats - the one area the Pistons were out-matched was 3-point shooting in last season's Finals. It's a shot they have gotten back to defending and back to defending and using as a weapon, the one area that Rick Carlisle did a better job than Larry Brown. It's why games one and two were blowouts, and it's how the Spurs came back in both clinching games of the 2003 and 2005 NBA Championships.
- Fatigue - If the Pistons hold on in the 2005 Finals and win, they would've set an NBA record for the Champion with the most amount of minutes their starters played in a season, and played together. The Pistons played 25 of a possible 28 playoff games in 2005, including back-to-back seven-game series on the road, and all the starter minutes went up from the regular season.
This problem has been a rallying cry for management and players alike. It's why Maurice Evans was added to the roster. It's why the Pistons brought in an offensive coach to make winning regular game seasons easier. It's why the Pistons have expanded their rotation to include 9 players (McDyess, Arroyo, Evans, and Delfino). It's why the Pistons are attempting to have home-court advantage for all playoff series, no matter the opponent (9-3 at the Palace in the 2005 playoffs, 6-7 on the road). This is what focuses them in the middle of February on a back-to-back against the Atlanta Hawks - because come June, they want home-court advantage.
-Depth and experience - although some of this was covered in fatigue, remember this: Dale Davis, the starting center for last season's Indiana Pacers, with the Pistons number one backup guard from last season and their best on-ball defender, have played a total of 46 minutes over the first 42 games. That's not a function of the measure of how much game they have left (they share a combined 72 years between them), it's a function of design. The young guys get the minutes now, and the Pistons become more experienced as the postseason begins. It's the shot in the arm that Elden Campbell and Lindsey Hunter provided in the last half of the 2003-04 season.
- What home-court means: The Pistons have not lost a game seven at the Palace...ever. The game-sevens haven't even been close:
6/3/90: Bulls 74, Pistons 93.
5/4/03: Magic 93, Pistons 108.
5/20/04: Nets 69, Pistons 90.
In fact, Detroit hasn't lost a potential Pistons series-winning game at the Palace since 1997 (7-0), and are 11-1 all-time. In fact, the Pistons are 54-20 all-time at the Palace in the playoffs, 8-2 all-time in the Finals, both San Antonio and Portland needing overtime for those two wins.
Feel free to eat away at my answers.
And why won't they be fatigued this season? Rip is playing a minute and a half less, but everyone else is virtually the same - with three of the others playing more minutes this season.
2004-05
Rip 38.5
Prince 37.1
BWallace 36.1
Billups 35.8
RWallace 34.0
2005-06
Rip 36.9
Prince 36.3
BWallace 36.5
Billups 36.4
RWallace 35.4
Manu Ginobili.
Because the Pistons are not playing 82 ground-out games. For every 2-OT game against the Memphis Grizzlies and Washington Wizards, there have been blowout wins over New York, Atlanta, Toronto, Minnesota, etc. That wasn't the case last season. The Pistons' starters weren't getting off the floor for about 90% of last season's game. Also, the amount of minutes they play together is down. They also won't play 25 of a possible 28 playoff games with home-court advantage, and their rotation will change (already has) as the season progresses. For instance, Hunter will gradually eat up a lot of Arroyo's minutes.
Big Shot Rob was definitely one of the reasons last year.
I might as well make this part of my sig I've had to repeat it so much:
If the Spurs are healthy and playing well, nobody can touch them. If they aren't playing well, they probably won't make it to the conference finals. Unless Darko becomes Kareem between now the playoffs that's the way it's going to be.
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