There's no rivalry with the T'Pups yet so I doubt we see much trash talking unless this becomes a long series tbh. If anything, it seems like there's a lot of respect both ways imo.I'm pretty sure our players won't be responding this way to Jadon Mccdaniels running his mouth at them..
I wouldn't even play. It's not like they will beat OKC without a healthy version of Edwards and no Donte. But I guess I'm just use to the Spurs being overly cautious.
Gonna come down to how the early part of the series plays out imo. If the Spurs win the first two games they prolly hold him out for game 3 to see if the home crowd can carry the T'Pups to a win. If not they shut him down, if they do they prolly throw the dice and at least play him game 4. OTOH, if the T'Pups steal a game in SA he comes back for game 3 100%.
They actually met twice in the playoffs, 1999 and 2001. That 1999 series was when KG told TD Happy Mother's Day, knowing TD had lost his mom.
hmmm hard disagree i wont lie he weighs the same as fox, him on wemby would be free eats like he's getting bumped off everytime
yeah this I think there will be much less of the heat between the two sides, I think fox and ant are maybe friends or at least friendly have seen both talk about mutual admiration, and ant seems to have a lot of respect for what wemby is doing
Gobert is 100 times the defender Sengun is tbh, and he's gotten better at defending the perimeter. Not saying the Spurs won't be able to use it against him, but Gobert/Finch will absolutely adjust.
Gobert is a paint defender,but has most of the same flaws as Sengün in space.
That '99 series with Minnesota was the launching pad for the Spurs' first championship run.
Nuggets were missing their only two good defenders and Timberwolves just kept attacking the rim, their 3pt shooting is nothing special without Edwards and Dinvincenzo.
Randle is a problem for us. Exposes our greatest weakness, size at the PF position. They play much better defense than Portland and discovered 3 additional big-time scorers in McDaniels, Ayo and Shannon. They will be a problem.
No. If he can play he will play. That's how these players are. They're competitive.
As long as January Spurs don't show up, laying enough bricks to build a trump ballroom, this should be over in 4 or 5. Spurs team that shows up and shoots well wins.
Spurs in 4, maybe 5. If Ant returns, maybe they win one more game, but the Wolves don't have a chance in this series with all their injuries, unless the spurs beat themselves, imo. Denver lose that series because they are all bad defenders (like Mcdaniels say), and never adjust, their only decent defender is Aaron Gordon and he did'n play that much. And lets not underestimate us, the spurs would have beaten Denver too if we would have meet.
I just can’t imagine Ant coming back from the injury that quickly unless they shoot him up with all the pain killers (which they might). Playing through a bone bruise is nasty business. He would essentially be coming back to just be a decoy considering both knees are compromised right now.
If the NBA wants Wemby to be the face of the league stop putting his games to start at 9:30 eastern time and 8:30 central. Especially during the work week.
