On May 17 2014 08:01 Jerubaal wrote: I wasn't super confident for the Spurs, but seeing the Clogged Toilet offense the last few series made me feel like the Spurs could take advantage of it better than Memphis or LAC.
You'd think, but somehow OKC has fucking owned SA a bunch of times in a row now. The athleticism/length advantage that OKC has, plus general goodness, seems to be enough of a matchup problem to offset the obvious coaching/strategy advantage the Spurs have. Without Ibaka, I don't know that Durant and WB can win 4 without some miracle bench games.
I don't put a lot of stock in those games. Besides 2 of them the Spurs were playing their 4th game in 5 nights and in a 3rd the 4th in 6. The Spurs looked plenty athletic for big chunks of those games.
Spurs were 8-2 in the last 10games against OKC before going into the 2012 WCF. And they were swept by Portland during this regular season.
On May 17 2014 08:01 Jerubaal wrote: I wasn't super confident for the Spurs, but seeing the Clogged Toilet offense the last few series made me feel like the Spurs could take advantage of it better than Memphis or LAC.
You'd think, but somehow OKC has fucking owned SA a bunch of times in a row now. The athleticism/length advantage that OKC has, plus general goodness, seems to be enough of a matchup problem to offset the obvious coaching/strategy advantage the Spurs have. Without Ibaka, I don't know that Durant and WB can win 4 without some miracle bench games.
I don't put a lot of stock in those games. Besides 2 of them the Spurs were playing their 4th game in 5 nights and in a 3rd the 4th in 6. The Spurs looked plenty athletic for big chunks of those games.
And they were swept by Portland during this regular season.
Go figure.
Pretty sure they split the series. SA won in Portland with their bench.
JVG is still my favorite coach. I grew up watching that 99 run and those knicks/heat first rounders. I die a little inside every time I think of the old days.
On May 18 2014 01:18 MassHysteria wrote: Mark Jackson back as ESPN analyst...ugh. Rather him be a coach than having to actually hear him.
I realllly disliked him as an analyst before and agree with you. If anything, I feel like his analyst persona was almost a caricature ("Mama, there goes that man!") and is going to erode his credibility as a coach.
On May 17 2014 08:01 Jerubaal wrote: I wasn't super confident for the Spurs, but seeing the Clogged Toilet offense the last few series made me feel like the Spurs could take advantage of it better than Memphis or LAC.
You'd think, but somehow OKC has fucking owned SA a bunch of times in a row now. The athleticism/length advantage that OKC has, plus general goodness, seems to be enough of a matchup problem to offset the obvious coaching/strategy advantage the Spurs have. Without Ibaka, I don't know that Durant and WB can win 4 without some miracle bench games.
I don't put a lot of stock in those games. Besides 2 of them the Spurs were playing their 4th game in 5 nights and in a 3rd the 4th in 6. The Spurs looked plenty athletic for big chunks of those games.
And they were swept by Portland during this regular season.
Go figure.
Pretty sure they split the series. SA won in Portland with their bench.