The Series We've Been Waiting For: Official Warriors vs. Spurs WCF Thread

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Majority thinks that the Warriors will take this one pretty easy. I beg to differ (with my silver and black glasses on). Curry, Klay, and KD are going to get theirs. But this is the series where I think the offseason moves of not having any effective bigs and less depth on the bench, is going to come back and haunt the Warriors. The Spurs will go big with LMA/Pau/Lee. Which means that Zaza or McGee will have to play outside the paint and guard LMA in the midrange and Pau beyond the arc. Not to mention that in the past Harrison Barnes and random ass Barbosa would always be the ones to come up big vs the Spurs, who no longer are on the bench for the W's.

2 great defensive teams going at it. Hopefully we get a good semi finals series with close scores.

Spurs in 6. GoSpursGo

Lmao this nikka said spurs 6

Delusional fan base

Warriors sweeping these nikkas

@FaTaL u see this

 

[Dr. Hibbert's Revenge]

even if kawhi comes back healthy (a bigger if than most realise) i can't see this going more than five games

great defender but he can't guard three top 10 players at once

 

[Emoryal]

Spurs take homecourt, 1 and 7. Lebron sweeps the spurs in the finals or cavs in 5

 

[FAH1223]

Spurs take homecourt, 1 and 7. Lebron sweeps the spurs in the finals or cavs in 5

The Cavs would not sweep the Spurs or beat the Spurs in 5 in the NBA Finals

 

[JackRoss]

Dude I work with wanted Houston vs Golden State.. That would have been a slaughter

This will be a beat down with some "Go Spurs go" in between

Don't hear much "Go Spurs go" lately.. Fickle bytches

 

[VBM]

even if kawhi comes back healthy (a bigger if than most realise) i can't see this going more than five games

great defender but he can't guard three top 10 players at once

But if they run a lineup with Klaw, Green and Simmons, that's enough athleticism to make a difference.

 

[larryshogunz]

Lmao this nikka said spurs 6

Delusional fan base

Warriors sweeping these nikkas

@FaTaL u see this

Delusional ? Your basis is what ? GS sweeping off scrub teams in the playoffs ?

Smh at you thinking Mike Brown is gonna sweep Pop in a WCF series.

 

[malbaker86]

LMA and Draymond basically played to a draw on opening day.

And why can you go to the very first game a team plays together and think it means anything at all?


I think Kawhi can hold his own against Durant. And you can hope that Aldridge can come up against Draymond, though the way I hear every Spurs fan talk about Aldridge, I know how much you are really going to be thinking that possible.

So tell me how Patty Mills going to offset Curry.

Tell me how Danny Green going to offset Klay.

And then you have the bench on top of that.


The only way the Spurs win any games is if Warriors completely shyt the bed, or Pop goes all-in on some next-level GOAT coaching.

Yea you right, Spurs have no shot of even keeping this close. Dont even know why anybody would wanna watch this series.

 

[Emoryal]

The Cavs would not sweep the Spurs or beat the Spurs in 5 in the NBA Finals

You're half right. Cavs in 5/6 unless they choke. B

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

I feel like Pop is going to come up with a semi-optimal (that's as best as you can hope for) way of defending the Warriors and Cleveland is going to copy it and use it to beat the Warriors. I know they don't have the same personnel but there's something to be said about Pop exhausting his resources for an optimal strategy and you having a chance to implement that afterwards.


This happened last year. In their March 19th game they basically switched every PNR, every other team from Minnesota to Boston to Cleveland used it to defend them and the Warriors really weren't as good for the rest of the year.
Both Minnesota and Boston beat Golden State at Oracle and we all know Cleveland won the chip. Minnesota actually starting switching every PNR for the rest of last season and looked pretty good, picking up road wins at Portland, Sacramento and NOLA.

 

[Illuminatos]

My favorite part of this series is gonna be watching Green son Aldridge on both ends.

Can't wait to bump that Draymond vs Aldridge thread and laugh at nikkas.

 

[VegasCAC]

I feel like Pop is going to come up with a semi-optimal (that's as best as you can hope for) way of defending the Warriors and Cleveland is going to copy it and use it to beat the Warriors. I know they don't have the same personnel but there's something to be said about Pop exhausting his resources for an optimal strategy and you having a chance to implement that afterwards.


This happened last year. In their March 19th game they basically switched every PNR, every other team from Minnesota to Boston to Cleveland used it to defend them and the Warriors really weren't as good for the rest of the year.
Both Minnesota and Boston beat Golden State at Oracle and we all know Cleveland won the chip. Minnesota actually starting switching every PNR for the rest of last season and looked pretty good, picking up road wins at Portland, Sacramento and NOLA.

Underrated post: Cavs need to watch Pop's defensive schemes intently, for better or worse. Lue needs to throw that blitzing scheme to the garbage when he hits the Finals, no ones trying to see repeats of 2016 Games 1 and 2.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

My man said load up on 3 players

fukking hilarious imo

 

[Goat poster]

Underrated post: Cavs need to watch Pop's defensive schemes intently, for better or worse. Lue needs to throw that blitzing scheme to the garbage when he hits the Finals, no ones trying to see repeats of 2016 Games 1 and 2.

Agreed.

That Blitzing works great against teams with one or 2 scoring options.

But against great shooting teams that move the ball it's a recipe for disaster.

The biggest example is the Heat vs Spurs in 14.

All that aggressive trapping left too many good shooters open.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

The Cavs would not sweep the Spurs or beat the Spurs in 5 in the NBA Finals

only hope is for a more physical team. Spurs and I think Warriors are extremely physical