WC Finals - San Antonio Spurs vs. Oklahoma City Thunder
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I like the Thunder except for the fact that they make the Kings look horrible by comparison. Still, I'd like the Spurs to win because they play the right way. I have no idea who will win this series. OKC has the best talent in basketball, but the Spurs are very, very good this year and Duncan is playing like a younger man.
All I'm saying is....
Say the Kings move down to the OC, change their name to something stupid like the Oranges, make it to the WCF, and all of a sudden the fans start rocking "Thank you Sacramento" shirts...Yall wouldnt be just a teeeeeeensy weeeeeensy itty bit mad about it?
Seattle fans are just as diehard as Kings fans. People up here STILL rock Sonics gear. A LOT of people. You cant blame the Seattle fans on losing the team. That would be like us getting blamed if/when the Kings move.
edit: And I know those shirts arnt official, but I dont care. Like Slim says, its a common d-baggy mindset of the fanbase. I made this analogy to a buddy at work regarding the Thunder/Lakers series: That series was like a race between someone who stole my old beat up car and fixed it up vs someone I really hate. I want to see the person I hate lose the race, and I want to see the person that stole my car lose control and crash into a wall after the finish line. Spurs are gonna be that wall.
Say the Kings move down to the OC, change their name to something stupid like the Oranges, make it to the WCF, and all of a sudden the fans start rocking "Thank you Sacramento" shirts...Yall wouldnt be just a teeeeeeensy weeeeeensy itty bit mad about it?
Seattle fans are just as diehard as Kings fans. People up here STILL rock Sonics gear. A LOT of people. You cant blame the Seattle fans on losing the team. That would be like us getting blamed if/when the Kings move.
edit: And I know those shirts arnt official, but I dont care. Like Slim says, its a common d-baggy mindset of the fanbase. I made this analogy to a buddy at work regarding the Thunder/Lakers series: That series was like a race between someone who stole my old beat up car and fixed it up vs someone I really hate. I want to see the person I hate lose the race, and I want to see the person that stole my car lose control and crash into a wall after the finish line. Spurs are gonna be that wall.
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After watching the 1st round of the play-offs I could't wait for both LA teams to get knocked out because I've really been looking forward to this match-up.
At the moment I don't see any of the Eastern Conference teams having any hope of beating either team in the Finals, so whoever wins this series should win the championship. (I thought Miami had a chance, but with Bosh out, I'm not certain they can even make it to the Finals)
I love what the Thunder are doing and they have a great team. But right now the Spurs are playing brilliant basketball, and I don't think that the Thunder have what it takes to beat them.
If I were a fan, I'd take the Thunder team over the Spurs team when looking at the roster.
But when you then combine coach Pop plus the almost decade of chemistry between a healthy Duncan, Ginobli, & Parker, then add the brilliant basketball the Spurs have played over the last month, the edge has to be given to the Spurs to win this series this year.
So I'm giving the Spurs a 60% chance of pulling this series out. I am hoping for a 7 game series, but think the Spurs who have home advantage will take it in 6 games.
At the moment I don't see any of the Eastern Conference teams having any hope of beating either team in the Finals, so whoever wins this series should win the championship. (I thought Miami had a chance, but with Bosh out, I'm not certain they can even make it to the Finals)
I love what the Thunder are doing and they have a great team. But right now the Spurs are playing brilliant basketball, and I don't think that the Thunder have what it takes to beat them.
If I were a fan, I'd take the Thunder team over the Spurs team when looking at the roster.
But when you then combine coach Pop plus the almost decade of chemistry between a healthy Duncan, Ginobli, & Parker, then add the brilliant basketball the Spurs have played over the last month, the edge has to be given to the Spurs to win this series this year.
So I'm giving the Spurs a 60% chance of pulling this series out. I am hoping for a 7 game series, but think the Spurs who have home advantage will take it in 6 games.
If the nba nation don't know anything about Sacramento...one thing they do know is that Sacramento loves their Kings and will fight to keep them in Sacramento any mean possible. Anaheim understood that best from last year. I don't know if that can be said about Seattle. So for them to do it, would be illogical. However there will always be dumba$$ doing dumb things.
I'm not saying you can't hate them but just because of a shirt that wasn't even made by the franchise is unreasonable IMO. But hey whatever drive your motor.
Regarding Thunder veiw of Seattle and the "Thank you" letter. Most of them think the letter was stupid and beneath them.
http://www.okcthunderfans.com/vforu...Sonics-fans-from-an-OKC-Thunder-support/page2
I'm not saying you can't hate them but just because of a shirt that wasn't even made by the franchise is unreasonable IMO. But hey whatever drive your motor.
Regarding Thunder veiw of Seattle and the "Thank you" letter. Most of them think the letter was stupid and beneath them.
http://www.okcthunderfans.com/vforu...Sonics-fans-from-an-OKC-Thunder-support/page2
Really hope the Spurs win, out of the teams left i have the least resentment towards them thats for sure.
Love this collage of Tim Duncans face after a foul is called on him
Love this collage of Tim Duncans face after a foul is called on him
Can't beat this one. Best thread of the month.
I love the ridiculous hype this win streka has created for the Spurs. Actually...no I don't Its like the Dirk silliness last summer. Spurs are a hot team, nothing more. Not an all time great. And OKC gave this one away. They may give away the series. Too young, not enough composure. But its not like they looked overmatched out there. Just choked. What in the end may kill them is blowing the end of the regular season and losing homecourt.
Also could not help when watching this game thinking:
Westbrook in the 4th quarter, comes down, jukes, drives, throws up wild crap -- trade Reke!
Harden comes down on a 3-2 break with Fisher wide open on the wing and instead charges into the lane and gets the offensive foul -- trade Reke!
The great consistent blindness aorund here is that these kind of crap plays happen all the time wiht young players. ALL THE TIME. Even on young players good enouhg to get to the WCF.
Westbrook in the 4th quarter, comes down, jukes, drives, throws up wild crap -- trade Reke!
Harden comes down on a 3-2 break with Fisher wide open on the wing and instead charges into the lane and gets the offensive foul -- trade Reke!
The great consistent blindness aorund here is that these kind of crap plays happen all the time wiht young players. ALL THE TIME. Even on young players good enouhg to get to the WCF.
unusual to see the Thunder on the losing side of close games. also unusual to see Fisher hit his shot and the Spurs shooters to miss theirs. to me, it's hard to tell what to take away from this game. the Spurs were a lot better offensively in the 2nd half, but this could be just a result of the Thunder overplaying their core and running out of steam. this series should get exciting, once it hits Oklahoma.
The people around here who have twitter should tweet Tyreke to watch how much better the Spurs are with quick decisions and making the extra pass, versus a lot of Westbrook's overdribbling and all. Westbrook and Durant are talented enough to still score a ton of points making hard shots, but the game is so much easier when you move the ball crisply. Get it into his head that overdribbling is not a good habit, even if you can still score on the possession after doing so.
Another point brought up by the commentators was how Westbrook was getting worn out chasing Parker around and through lots of screens. In a playoff series that's going to help your defense because then the opposing player has less energy to put into offense. When you're just running up and down playing no defense like we do you're not making the other team work at all on the defensive end.
I believe that if Tyreke develops as we hope he'll be an even better player than Parker is when he reaches that stage in his career. When you involve the whole team in the offense like the Spurs do it's harder for the opponent to plan to clamp down on one or two guys. Then when they stop double teaming as hard in order to stay on the outside shooters, DMC and Tyreke can go to work 1 on 1 and beast at an even higher level than Parker and Duncan.
Now ... if only Popovich was our coach.
Another point brought up by the commentators was how Westbrook was getting worn out chasing Parker around and through lots of screens. In a playoff series that's going to help your defense because then the opposing player has less energy to put into offense. When you're just running up and down playing no defense like we do you're not making the other team work at all on the defensive end.
I believe that if Tyreke develops as we hope he'll be an even better player than Parker is when he reaches that stage in his career. When you involve the whole team in the offense like the Spurs do it's harder for the opponent to plan to clamp down on one or two guys. Then when they stop double teaming as hard in order to stay on the outside shooters, DMC and Tyreke can go to work 1 on 1 and beast at an even higher level than Parker and Duncan.
Now ... if only Popovich was our coach.
That's rather weird mam, i mean, with the way the Spurs playing basketball of late, plenty of ball movement, extra passes to find a wide open man, no matter who he is, playing in a high pace offensive game with high efficiency, yet still having a decent defensive scheme & rotation, no ego & no iso B$, don't you think its much closer to the early 2000's Kings team ?
It's just a generality, and it gives you a little something, but not a whole lot. There are young guys who are natural playmakers and IT is one and Tyreke isn't. Sometimes a guy like Magic Johnson can step in and be a braniac point guard and sometimes a guy is never going to be that guy regardless of whether he's 20 or 40.
Beautiful is the right word. Once in a great while you see a performance that isn't competitive, dominant, or exciting. You see an absolutely beautiful performance that is more of a work of art than a sports entertainment venue. The Spurs did that last night. Any basketball fan had to be filled with admiration after seeing that performance.
