Spurs ain't gonna do shyt in the playoffs - bookmark this shyt :nailcoffinyadeadmowmylawns:

[ThugLife]

@Malta now you will know the pain of seeing your kingdom burn. You will never forget this stench of death and tears. I remember it like it was yesterday, seeing my heros walk off the court for the last time as I tightened my grip on the increasingly evanscent memories of being at the top. And trust me, it only gets worse from here.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

We've come to that road again, when somehow the current Champions take this fairy tale-like form as if the rest of the league can only reach this unattainable faraway land with pastel crayons and a unicorn. The same regurgitated proverbial ball-phrases are thrown up, almost verging on excuses, trying to rationalize the irrational of how teams won't be able to beat them the following/upcoming season. It's as if true acknowledgement only occurs once they see said team fall in front of their very own eyes, despite reality giving them all the signals beforehand (tell all dem Heat fans I said wassup). This thread's just to let y'know that you don't have to wait, chewing on your ashy ass fingers in anticipation. I'm giving you this shyt ahead of time. Feel privileged. The Spurs' run is over.

How many years in a row have we heard this same old story? Weren't the Heat supposed to win in 6 last year?

What happened to the MVP in the WCF? nikka choked like usual

Can't wait for Westbrook to fukk his knee up again right before the playoffs to throw off the chemistry.

Can't wait to see fat ass Boris Diaw expose Scott Brooks for the garbage ass coach he is.


Can't wait to see us break Dirk's heart for the millionth time
Ain't no one coming out the west except the Spurs, fukk the Clips, Thunder, and that retard James Harden.

Now watch these select highlights from the finals including the NBA record for points scored in the first half

nikkas are funny. It's too early to be making shytty threads. Hating aint trill

every year

It's just different when it comes to the Spurs breh the laws of mere mortals do not apply

Spurs repeat be mad

Spurs got the these insecure fans shook :spurs:

Damn. OP used to be a good poster.

Move along nothing to see here :spurstroll:

:myribs: haters gonna hate

Are you really going to bump this dumb thread all season after every Spurs loss?

I read that post, it's still a pathetic attempt at discrediting the champs

Holla at us in June

Cant wait to up this in June.

We'll see if you fukk nikkas still talking this shyt come March

It's nikkas out here rooting for teams or squads that ain't got a snowball chance in hell at beating us in a 7 game series worrying about the Spurs

Still got wins over Dallas, Memphis, LAC, Golden State, and Cleveland. We gonna get healthy, win 7/8 of 9 games on the Rodeo Trip, pull off a long winning streak in March/April like they always do, and be in the Conference Finals like ain't shyt changed

Long story short we ain't worried bout these nikkas like Rich Homie say

Last time @Gil Scott-Heroin said someone would become ...they did...see his stance on Rondo...

Problem is...it took what...2 years for the to set in...

Spurs back to back....to back champs :spurstroll:

Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is

 

[Da King]

Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is

Easy to talk shyt when your squad ain't shyt


Everyone wants to see the king fall


3 decade dynasty :spurs:

 

[G-Zeus]

Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is

Lol one man ownage... Life of the coli

 

[G-Zeus]

Easy to talk shyt when your squad ain't shyt


Everyone wants to see the king fall.


3 decade dynasty :spurs:

Its just a letter bro... Take it and deal with it




















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[Boolean]

quality quality thread brogod

nikkas talking about June in December

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Those wounds from 'everybody told us we're too old' and their 12/13 Finals loss were cauterized and have now healed. They've conquered those demons. There's nothing left to fight for. And I mean it's disingenuous to suggest that they aren't going to be driven to repeat, but I just can't see that same hunger being there. You add all those young, hungry, star-studded teams in the wild West into the mix and well..... you get the picture.

Here's the thing though. That placement isn't built to withstand another run. Now granted, if they had a superstar player in his prime, there would be room for an overlap that would negate teams working them out (no team has ever won back-to-back championships without a superstar player). I don't doubt they could beat any team in the West in a standalone series, but beating a combination of the Thunder, Clippers, Rockets, Grizzlies, Trail Blazers, Mavericks, Warriors over three rounds isn't happening.

What stands in my favor is reality. This squad isn't built to repeat.

Their engine = role players playing at their absolute best. An occurrence that likely won't come around again. Because let's face it, not only will all of them have to play to that level again, but they'll have to exceed it as well. And as good as Kawhi is, he isn't ready to carry a #1 scoring role over an entire playoff period.

Yes I think we all know that.

The innate nature of doing something like that against the backdrop of the Western conference - with these young nikkas looking to push them right out the door and the inevitable hit of father time - doesn't bode well for them. We don't have to romanticize, and stick to a pattern because we're waiting to see it disproved. That crystal ball on deck, and I can see that their time is up.


Yes it is. Teams can always be worked out, Spurs are not an exception. There we go, there's that impervious depiction we desperately paint reigning champs as I was talking about.

Not enough has changed? So what? Same shyt could be applied to last season with the Heat. In fact everybody thought the Spurs were done after the 2013 playoffs and look what happened. Father time's right around the corner, there's a high probability that one of Ginobili/Parker/Duncan will be out their paper cups at the Larry Holmes estate.

Those role players played at their peaks, saying any different is parochialism. It's not about numbers, there's not enough usage to go around for role players to put up standout numbers. They all stood up above and beyond during last season's run, and only a minute number of games did they not come to the party. While it's all good in theory, giving them more of a role throughout the season to prep for the playoffs, it's certainly not a clear cut vehicle to drop them off at B again. Re: Superstar. Kawhi will need to step into that role this season, I don't think Parker will manage to carry them through an entire postseason again. We certainly can't say with a measure of confidence if he'll be better this year, certainly not when teams will be ready to gameplan for him now. His playoffs/finals performance was that of a thief in the night..... we'll see what his game is really like this season.

Crystal ball = looking at the threat each team brings out West to an aging bucket list-done team. Bookmakers are near irrelevant, because they hardly ever lay lines against a team whose reign is yet to be disproved.

In that belief, we get caught up in a deluded state, that we don't recognize when the rest of the pack closes the gap on a leader, to the point where they're snapping at their heels.

You missed the point, it's not about counting out the teams that don't have a star (because through all the random power shifts during postseason - those teams will always remain a threat), it's just the teams that don't have one, never go into the following season and repeat. Reaching that apogee again is reliant upon far too many particulars for the same team to have the same numbers in the breaks-lottery for the second time in a row.

Yes it is, regardless of what moves any team made in the offseason (within reason), the majority were always going to side with the Spurs. It happens every single season. You ain't seen shyt, because it's a simple case of the 'seeing is believing' dilemma, and the inattention towards the indicators in basketball.

All you have to do is read between the lines, and not just go on a cursory first take. That rested schedule won't be successful again, as the innate nature of a band-aid approach is temporary; most of the teams in the Western conf playoff picture are stronger this year (while the Spurs are weaker), ready and waiting to reopen those wounds.

You'll actually find that all the role players played more minutes, and played more of a part last season than they did in the 12/13 postseason, especially on defense. To add on to that, they faced far better opposition in 13/14 than they did the season before.

It's not necessarily they can't go toe-to-toe with other teams' role players again, it's the fact they'll all have to take on more responsibility to bridge the gap that Ginobili/Duncan/Parker as a unit will concede to other teams' stars. Because that's what this 'repeat' feat will be based on, roleplayers having to step up to pick up the slack, which I simply can't see them doing. Not for an entire postseason run. IMO, it's not plausible.

I don't doubt their drive to repeat, but I do doubt the feat of replicating the mental state they reached last season; fighting figuratively for their lives after being anorexic for seven years.

You mean just like the lieu commun placement I'm talking about in the OP?

The fact a team without a superstar hasn't repeated is only one string of the bow - where the arrow lands won't be because this conventional wisdom you speak of is a cause as to why they'll fail - it's just to add to the fact that the same probability of luck isn't likely to strike two seasons in a row. This is only scratching the surface as to what they'll need to go their way this season:

Secure #1 seed
Largely remain injury-free
All three of Parker, Duncan and Ginobili to maintain their games (relative to what their bodies can cope with)
Role players step up another level and at the right times
Kawhi to develop his game and grow into a star
Maintain the gap on the competition or at least keep them out of team difference
Injuries (e.g. Ibaka last season) to other other squads
Have 50/50 calls go their way in every series and at certain turning/momentum points in games
Ability to stay fresh enough to counter balance the youth of other teams throughout the playoffs
The reliance on other teams' stars not having career performances
The reliance on other teams' role players not outplaying theirs

I could go on and on but you get the point - if any one of these fails to reoccur, it'll break the foundation and cracks will emerge, and when cracks emerge, their % of repeating drops according to the relevancy of each one to where a team can take an advantage of power.

How good this Spurs team is has no bearing whatsoever on any past team that's tried to repeat. Same goes for coaching and same goes for championship winning experience. None of those variables come close to connecting, let alone overlap to suggest that this team might have more of a chance. There's no plausible way you can even measure where they stand against teams that have been in the similar situation, and vice versa.

There's no existing evidence, because the season hasn't resulted yet. What else do we have go on besides judging by a forecast? I see that you and many others are interpreting the evidence differently to what I am, which I personally don't see as being ambiguous, just failure to see when a team's time has expired. And let's be honest a lot of dudes don't even bother to watch other teams besides their own, so we can't work on this idea that they all reached this position through the same reasoning.

I mean it didn't take long for dudes in this thread to spout empty tautologies about the Spurs now did it?

We're are seeing right now why this resting system isn't carrying over to this season. The Spurs are weaker and teams are stronger. They won't be able to take the same approach they did last season and expect to get the #1 seed, another advantage they won't have in the postseason. The size of the snowball they were able to create in the playoffs last season won't be as large this time around.

Like I said the role players played more minutes, and played more of a role in the Championship run last season. It only makes sense that they'll need to step it up another level this postseason, given the above curve. Plus they encountered better teams (Mavs, T'Blazers and Thunder) playing 17 games in 13/14, than they did in 12/13 (Lakers, Warriors, Grizzlies) playing 14 games.

You're basing that off last season, it's not going to be the same again, their responsibility and load will be larger again n the playoffs. Not only because history indicates that, and not only because of the the core's age but just about every team in the playoff picture is considerably stronger this season. We can already see that their dependence on role players through this rest system, won't land them the #1 seed again.

Their 'core' are far too old to go on another run for three consecutive seasons. It just isn't practical in a ball sense. I won't be proven wrong.

@Greenstrings @Mephistopheles @DonkeyPuncher718

 

[DrexlersFade]

Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is

Five rings chump and the don ain't retiring see you next talking the same shyt...way to go out on a limb too if they win oh well if they lose I'm smart

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Five rings chump and the don ain't retiring see you next talking the same shyt...way to go out on a limb too if they win oh well if they lose I'm smart

at this plea coppin.

You upped this thread when the Spurs went on that lil run at the end of the regular season....

Take your L and KIM.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Easy to talk shyt when your squad ain't shyt

He doesnt have a squad. He just goes around making declarations on both sides of the fence so he can fish for props like an insecure lame no matter the outcome.

If Spurs won last night he'd be quoting himself about how Chris Paul is CP0 and will never lead a team and blah blah all that other stupid shyt he's said over the years. Tired act.

 

[FAH1223]

Looking back, the Spurs were on a mission last year. 2013 Game 6 in the Finals and then losing Game 7 while shooting like crap and Battier of all people going off w/ LeBron's 35 pts lit the fire. Pop showed tape of Game 6 in training camp and from there they were just a well oiled machine.

This year they started great in November. Parker looked like he was back to form, then December hit and he got hurt, Leonard got hurt, and they had their first losing month since the lockout season in 1999.

Duncan was their best player at 38-39, anchoring them to just stay at the #7 seed all year. Splitter and Mills also were out for good parts of the year.

They looked back to form in March/April, Parker had another good stretch, Leonard was amazing, yet they still lost a couple games like to the Knicks and Pelicans and cost themselves home court. All year they lost to inferior teams at various points... which didn't happen in 2013-14.

Even still, they won 55 games.

Their biggest issue moving forward is that Parker has to reinvent himself at age 33. He has lost a step and has rated as a horrible defender this season and last. They're going to have to find a PG who can play both ends as a starter soon. Mills is a good bench player, Joseph is a restricted free agent along with Leonard. They probably got some nikkas stashed away in Europe or Africa or some shyt.

Oh and they have to find a PF/C. All the talk of Aldridge is interesting but he isn't a great defender and doesn't play with his back to the basket enough. He's improved as a rebounder and can shoot threes now though.

It'll be interesting to see how they retool... the Spurs in their history have missed the playoffs only a few times. They're ALWAYS a playoff team.

The championship window is closed unless something crazy happens

If Pop starts a tank campaign in a couple years, then something fishy will be going on in the draft.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

He doesnt have a squad. He just goes around making declarations on both sides of the fence so he can fish for props like an insecure lame no matter the outcome.

If Spurs won last night he'd be quoting himself about how Chris Paul is CP0 and will never lead a team and blah blah all that other stupid shyt he's said over the years. Tired act.

You stay on my dikk. And you need to stop lying too.

 

[KingTut]

Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is

Yo squad ain't shyt tho. You won the battle, but the Spurs won the war. 5 time champions and parlayed GH into a new franchise player. I ain't even mad.

 

[Da King]

He doesnt have a squad. He just goes around making declarations on both sides of the fence so he can fish for props like an insecure lame no matter the outcome.

If Spurs won last night he'd be quoting himself about how Chris Paul is CP0 and will never lead a team and blah blah all that other stupid shyt he's said over the years. Tired act.

Sums that bytch up perfectly

 

[DrexlersFade]

at this plea coppin.

You upped this thread when the Spurs went on that lil run at the end of the regular season....

Take your L and KIM.

I will take my L but I had plenty of success much more than your squad nikka so deal with it..let's stack resumes...oh I didn't think so