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Spurs are looking good, he said no way would the Spurs hold onto the first spot either.anthony saying he actually thought a lower seed would beat s.a.
Ignore em.
legler, greg anthony and the loud guy all chose pistons to win it all, with only the first guy saying it would go 7 games and anthony saying he actually thought a lower seed would beat s.a.
Spurs are looking good, he said no way would the Spurs hold onto the first spot either.anthony saying he actually thought a lower seed would beat s.a.
Ignore em.
legler is a . I remember him talking about miami still being the best in the East in the middle of the season when the pistons were 37-5. I'm surprised that so many "experts" are picking dallas to represent the West. I'll be dissappointed if that happens because it would feel great to get revenge on the spurs and break their hearts. Just wait I can see Dirk messing up against gasol and the mavs losing in the first round.
ESPN analysts, to a man, are ringless.
I can't fault anyone for picking the Pistons .... not that I agree with them.
and my compliments to whoever made all these emotiocons.
Why the surprise?
The Pistons have had more consistency, more impressive wins, and played much better basketball all season than the Spurs.
In comparison, the Spurs have looked so mediocre even n March and April that they have to find the switch, perhaps mythical, that lifts them to where they were a year ago.
Picking the Pistons over the Spurs in the Finals is not exactly a stretch. Not sure why people would get upset over that.
Picking the Spurs to get beat by a lower seed is just stupid though--no shock that Greg Anthony said that.
Considering that virtually everybody at ESPN picked the Spurs at the beginning of the season, it can be safely assumed that they lead the industry in gutless picks. Nobody has watched the Spurs in the last month, and they are going to be shocked tomorrow night when the Kings get completely dismantled.
As soon as Detroit drops a game all those talking heads will jump ship just watch. Legler is an ASSFLAKE!!!
Anyone read this article yet? My pick n' roll finals prediction came out just like this, BEFORE I read the article. It's long so I won't cut and paste but here's the link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...simmons/060421
To the Spurs, who have to be mildly terrified of the Kings in Round 1, right? Bibby has been a much better playoff performer over the years than Parker. Artest could single-handedly take Ginobili out of the series. There isn't anyone on the Kings for Bruce Bowen to shut down. Brad Miller is twice as good as any Spurs center. They have three power forwards to throw at Duncan, who's playing on one leg to begin with. And given that they've only been playing with Artest for three months and would have been a 55-win team with him, it's safe to say the Kings are the first truly dangerous 8-seed since the '99 Knicks. Yes, the '99 Knicks who made the Finals.
If San Antonio needs seven games to beat Suckramento, they will lose to Dallas in five. Denver was better last year than the Kings are this year.
You and the author of that dream are doing just that: Dreaming. The Mavericks are two-three years from contending. And that is if TD slows down. I don't think he will. You better hope you can get by the Grizzlies. I doubt it very much.
Greg Anthony thought the Nuggets would beat the Spurs last year in the 1st Round. He also thought Pheonix would beat the Spurs in the WCF and the Pistons would beat the Spurs in the Finals. We all know how that turned out.
Personally, I only take what...well...nobody on ESPN says serioulsy. The real analysists are on TNT.
So you thought I was posting this to make fun of the Spurs? Haha, some of you guys are so touchy. It was just another one of the many prediction but written in a more entertaining fashion by Bill Simmons, not just some *author*. I guarantee the Spurs will have at least as much if not more trouble with the Kings than we will have with the Grizzlies...no need arguing now, I'll get back to you when round one is over. In the mean time, try not to act as if everyone is trying to make fun of your precious Spurs.
Me, neither.
Detroit is probably a safe conservative pick before the playoffs start. They have been playing at a high level most of the season. What these so called ESPN analysts are conveniently overlooking is that the Spurs can kick it up to a higher notch than Detroit can in the playoffs. Nobody has as many battle-tested weapons as the Spurs have.
I watched that show and all that was said. Stephen A. was well....Stephen A. and Greg Anthony did his usual "I think that whoever the Spurs play will beat them but I'll go ahead and pick them to make it to the Finals and eventually lose to Detroit." All that was said was basically a repeat from last year. One thing that I did notice was that whenever they talked about the other series going on in the West they all ended up discussing how the winner would fair against SA.
The brillant ESPN guys have bet against the Spurs before to only be proven wrong, so none of this is new.
At least two of them picked the Timberwolves last year.
I believe Greg Anthony was also the guy that said that when all is said and done...Kobe Bryant will go down in history as an even greater player than....**gasp Michael Jordan.
Rich Bucher was was pretty good with this picks.
Who writes like this?To the Spurs, who have to be mildly terrified of the Kings in Round 1, right? Bibby has been a much better playoff performer over the years than Parker. Artest could single-handedly take Ginobili out of the series. There isn't anyone on the Kings for Bruce Bowen to shut down. Brad Miller is twice as good as any Spurs center. They have three power forwards to throw at Duncan, who's playing on one leg to begin with. And given that they've only been playing with Artest for three months and would have been a 55-win team with him, it's safe to say the Kings are the first truly dangerous 8-seed since the '99 Knicks. Yes, the '99 Knicks who made the Finals.
- A 55-win team <<< a 63-win team
- A '99 Knicks team that got -slapped by a Spurs team that couldn't shoot straight
- "no one for Bowen to shut down" ... so what, they have 20 players averaging 5 ppg?
- Bibby - if he's such a PTPer, tell me again how many Finals he's won? Or how many conference finals, at least?
- Someone ELSE worrying about putting Sacto's best defender on SA's #3 scorer to the exclusion of all else?
, I need to get a new job. If people are getting paid to write this crap ...
Kenny Smith will pick Detroit to win it all and I will respect his opinion.
Charles may switch it up and pick them.
I still respect those two guys a of a lot more than any of the ESPN guys outside of Stein, because most of the time, they have been RIGHT!
That was Mark Jackson former point guard of the Clippers and Pacers.I believe Greg Anthony was also the guy that said that when all is said and done...Kobe Bryant will go down in history as an even greater player than....**gasp Michael Jordan
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