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If the playoffs started today, I would agree. But, still a long way to go. Come June, I hope you are right and barring injury suspect you will be.
... the Spurs are winning the le, huh?
Detroit is not the same.
Indiana had the whole fight thing.
The Sonics have no one inside.
The Spurs crushed the runnin' Suns.
Dallas still has no D.
Minnesota isn't good now that Spree and Cassell are worried about themselves.
Sacramento's window already closed.
Houston should be better.
The only team that kinda scares me is Miami, because of the Shaq/Wade factor, but how can they win the Finals in their fiurst year with Shaq?
I hate to be optimistic, but I really can't see any team in the NBA beating the Spurs in a playoff series.
Right or wrong?
If the playoffs started today, I would agree. But, still a long way to go. Come June, I hope you are right and barring injury suspect you will be.
Right!
Or maybe Sonics are threat?
They beat Spurs two times this season!
still kind of early, but i imagine the heat, pacers, pistons, suns and seattle(we still haven't beat them yet) wouldn't exactly be pushovers.
i still think we are the favorites right now. this team is way more lethal offensively than in the last couple of years, and we're maintaining defensive dominance to boot.
if pop would seriously address the free throw shooting problem, i think we'd be unstoppable, barring injury of course.
You may be right, G-Dub, but the Sonics cannot be discounted easily. Fortson is a load in the middle and when he's in there, the Sonics are a different team. Ridenaur/Daniels is about as effective a PG duo as there is in the NBA (excepting the Spurs with TP/Beno).
Don't discount Detroit, either. They can play with the Spurs.
If the Spurs plays their max D and O their is no team who can handle them, even Miami isn't really a threat considering their record against western conference teams is 6-6
There is no one out there that can beat SA in a series.
Phoenix has the best chance of all.
RE: SAC, and 4 others SA loseses. (including the 4 to LA last May)
Spurs are by far the worst enemy the Spurs have. HTF do they sandwich a masochistic fiasco like SAC between magnificent adjacent victories over PHX, POR, MIN, and LA?
A very frustrating team.
Spurs are a like box of chocolates, you never know which Spur team you're gonna get, quarter to quarter, game to game.
I think the Spurs should help tsunami effort and let JO get 75, and all the Poohcers gets 5.
Spurs are a like box of chocolates, you never know which Spur team you're gonna get, quarter to quarter, game to game.
Not true, the Spurs are the most consistant team in the NBA year in year out.They have the Top 4 defensive team the last 7 years. They play great D 98% of the games and really only have bad games when they shoot horribly.
watch other teams if you disagree...the Spurs are so much more consistant than all of them.
health means everything. don't jinx us. knock on wood.
detroit will be tough.
It will come down to us vs. Miami, and it will go seven games.
I think lakers could be a more of a force the wolves
lakers are still learning each other and are not that far behind the wolves record
kobe needs to learn his teamates more
sure the spurs would beat the lakers in the postseason
but I think they could beat some of the teams in the first round IF THEY START PLAYING BETTER AFTER THE ALLSTAR BREAK
You guys actually think that the Sonics' jumpshooting will hold up in the pressurized playoffs?
Phoenix has tons of talent, but they still don't have any one player on Duncan's level.
And the Spurs are playing the best D in the NBA right now.
I still don't respect the East.
Spurs (through a tough series over revived Wolves in 2nd half), then over Pacers who will make a charge with O'Neil and Jackson.
MadDoc
"Phoenix has tons of talent, but they still don't have any one player on Duncan's level."
Forget about "talent" or MVP stuff.
Amare this season has been as fundamental to PHX's success as Nash has, and as fundamental as Tim is to the Spurs. When Amare was ejected last night, MIN was able to get within a basket or two of PHX. No Amare, no PHX. No Duncan, no Spurs.
And Spurs were unable to stop Amare, not that the they needed to stop him. But maybe in PHX in 2 weeks, if the Spurs need to stop Amare, will they be able to? We know Duncan is very stoppable.
We also can see how well PHX is tightening up their defense as the season progresses, allowing MIN only 115 pts.
Miami is a team you simply have to look out for. Shaq + Wade and guys who are willing to take and make a high percentage of 3pt shots. Plus a solid (but not great) defense?
They have a good chance as any to win the le.
For the first time in a while im kinda glad that i was at work and didnt have to watch that game last night. What the . Thanks for handing our asses to us on a Silver platter last night.
Too top everything else off i wanted Oklahoma to win in the Orange bowl and what do they do? Im glad i didnt have to watch any of that crap on tv last night.
Spurs are consistent in the big picture, but they are not consistent this season game-to-game, qtr-to-qtr and that inconsistency has led them to giveaway 5 games to inferior teams.
I agree in principle, but no team is that consistent. Rotations, change of momentum, and normal misses make it very difficult for a team to sustain their defense and offense at a high level over each quarter of each game.
Having said that, and to further contradict my own point, I think the lack of consistency you see in some games is mainly due to 2 factors:
1) Lack of defensive intensity, in particular fighting and rotating fast on pick and roll or screen and roll plays.
2) Lack of adaptation when using a stagnat static offense, in particular when the opponents adjust to Tim (by doubling him), Tim is not having a good night, and the exterior shooting is not falling.
Luckly, those two cases do not happen very often.
You know, there are those trifling opponents to deal with -- they might have something to say about causing the occasional inconsistency by attacking or defending the Spurs in new ways or with different types of players.
It's like you expect playoff intensity on a nightly basis during the regular season. For a group like the Spurs, the regular season is entirely about the learning and refining process. There will be some bumps and some inconsistency, particularly because this is still a relatively young group. It's not like they're the 1996 Bulls or anything.
Sorry to anyone who thinks anyone other than Miami is coming out of the East. Miami is what LA used to look like with Shaq and Kobe, sans Kobe's egomaniac ass sticking his nose in everything.
kobe>wade
phil jackson>Van Gundy
I agree with you up to a point Aggie,
the point of dissagreement, is that the surrounding cast around them is pretty mediocre.
IF they add a few solid pieces in the offseason, theyll be le contenders IMO.
Wade is playing better this season than Kobe, and is a better compliment to Shaq than Kobe ever was.kobe>wade
phil jackson>Van Gundy
As for the coaching side of things, sorry. Phil was a good coach, his "greatness" came from being a coattail rider.
Oh, and Tpark, as to the role players...
Damon Jones is the best three point shooter in the league. Eddie Jones is having his best year in a long time and playing solid defense on the perimeter. Haslem does the dirty work down low.
Miami's starting five is better than anything the Lakers had for any of their le runs.
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