Yeah, I meant 'i don't see' the Pistons coming out of East: no reliable second ballhandler or scorer after Cade, lack of shooting across the board, and physicality advantage diminishes in the playoffs as everybody turns it up..
Knicks kind of have the same problem as Detroit in that they only have one true creator in Brunson tbh. They have another player that can go out and get their own like KAT and a sort-of secondary creator in Bridges, but both have disappeared in the playoffs. They're also inconsistent as hell.
True, but they still have all the elements of a Championship team (Veteran roster full of players mostly in their primes, depth, lots of 3PT shooting, great defense, good rebounding team, etc.) and the field is weak this year in the EC. It's still the Knicks so I try to take it with a grain of salt, but this might actually be their year tbh. They're the one team I wouldn't want to see in the Finals if we were to indeed make it out of the West. They're a terrible matchup for us. Would much rather see Detroit or Boston or anyone else for that matter.
Generally agree, but I think Boston would be a worse matchup with a healthy Tatum imo. Don't think the Knicks are as bad a matchup as we think.
Stop it.
The Knicks are a joke and Eastern conference basketball is a joke. If we meet the Knicks in the Finals we're going to party like it's 1999.
bu-bu-but they have Sochan!Stop it.
I'm not saying we can't beat them Robert. I'm saying they're a bad matchup for us and I'd rather play any of the other EC teams. Knicks just smashed us by 25 last week (scheduled loss tho tbh) and it took Champagnie hitting a Spurs' franchise record 11 3's to barely beat them by 2 at home a few weeks ago after we trailed by 20+ that game. We don't match up well with them for a multitude of reasons. That's all I'm saying.Stop it.
Nah I think he helps them tbh. He definitely makes D-White better. His numbers jump across the board when he plays off Tatum instead of having to try to be their 2nd scorer.
I'd feel better about that matchup if we had a big, physical 4 beside Wemby to help on the boards. Mitchell always dominates the glass against us (although he dominates the boards against most teams tbh) and gives them second chance opportunities that kill us. We can't play the French Vanilla lineup against them because Korndog's too slow to defend OG and Diawara so we basically just have to take it.
Pisses me off. Darryl Morey sucks.
Exactly this. These were my thoughts after the last NY game.
Would come down to Mitch trusting CB to play 15-20 mins, which is the only way I think they even get to the Finals tbh.
100% agree. 100% what I believe is the best chance of the Spurs accomplishing that. Raises the ceiling in a deep playoff run. HB will get torched if he's in the rotation and Carter is out of it or can't handle what the playoffs will be like.
Ime Sniffers in need of oxygen should have gotten a good dose in todays 145-120 win by the Spurs.
