True. Would be a statement to send the Nuggets to the four seed if they play everyone while the Spurs sit Wemby (and prolly Castle) tbh. Would also redeem Fox for his horrendous game last Saturday assuming he has a monster game.
Agreed. I don’t think they give a flying fuck who they play. These boys are confident.
For Denver, it will come down to how much they fear that Wolves match-up. Even though they've struggled lately, that team is built for the playoffs and has a scary ceiling when everything is clicking. I think Nuggets will beat them but it will take a lot out of them (6-7 games). That's risky especially when you have too many guys with history of soft tissues injuries (Murray, Gordon and now Watson)
This is what the Spurs will do imo.
I'd just play Wemby tomorrow and sit him in the corner for 20 mins tbh. If he feels good for Sunday and the game matters play him, but better to ensure he gets game 65 in a meaningless game.
May as well let him do that vs Denver with additional time off from the initial injury
More worried about Wemby getting competitive against Jokic and letting instinct cloud the bigger picture. You know he's gonna see him and wanna show him up
well hes gonna have to if we need to win it if we have a chance to avoid them in the second round.More worried about Wemby getting competitive against Jokic and letting instinct cloud the bigger picture. You know he's gonna see him and wanna show him up
Even if that game ends up mattering I'd still sit Wemby tbh. That said, I have a hard time seeing the Lakers win out which is what it would take unless Denver loses tomorrow and the Rockets win.
I think its the other way around. Wemby will not play tonight against the mavs and play sunday for the season finale on national tv.
they really look down on the Spurs. I'd pick them in a 7-game series since they were my early-season prediction to win the title (and still are fully healthy), but they act like the Spurs don't have the same advantages as the Thunder. I mean shit, they say the Spurs' weakness is their lack of depth; they have as great of a rotation 1-10 as anyone.
Spurs doesnt have the playoff experience though.
Not as a unit, but they have plenty of guys with big game experience; Wemby played in the gold medal game against team USA and Castle won a national title at UConn on top of what Barnes/Kornet/Fox/Okynyk/McLaughlin/Biyombo have done. I'm not as worried about the team in playoff games as I am about bad matchups like the Suns/T'Pups/Nuggets tbh.
Olympics and college championship is way way different from a playoff 7 game series.
Agreed, but I'm not worried about the moment being too big for them. Again, the matchup problems worry me the most. If the Spurs are able to get to the WCF and they're healthy I'll legit favor them to win it all.
Wemby scored 26 in the gold medal game which wasn't a blowout against a way better team than anything he'll face in the playoffs.
We'll see. I feel there's a big chance they lose in the 2nd round or even 1st round (if they play the suns) than reaching WCF.
They won't lose to the Suns imo, but it might take 7. If they get the Nuggets in the second round they might lose in 6, but it wouldn't be embarrassing.
OKC is literally sitting their entire rotation tbh.
