Originally Posted by
CP1708
Originally Posted by JapanAir21
So it's you don't put much of an emphasis on regular season games?
Or is it you think the West will just be a cake-walk, and your only concern are CLE and BOS?
IMO, the regular season is nothing. Might seem arrogant or whatever you want to call it, but how can people expect guys to go crazy for 9 damn months a season?
I'm sorry, but I don't see D Fish, Kobe, Phil, and the rest play for it all in June, and then come back in Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, and March and act like it matters.
So to me, the way I view the season, it's all just practice. Surely, surely there are bigger games, fun games, interesting matchup games. Den/Clev last week was NICE. Kobe and Bron. Durant vs Melo. Shaq vs Arenas if they would ever step on the court together. CP3 vs DWill. Etc etc on down the line. Yes, some games are more fun then others. But constantly roller coaster up and down over every game? Naw. That's not me. I'll sit in here and mix it up with everyone about games/matchups/numbers/expectations just like anyone else, but I never go sky is falling.
Spurs are an old team. Celtics are an old team. But I view the Celtics as a championship team, and not the Spurs. Why? Because of what I see, and how I see it. I look at the core of Pierce/Allen/KG, vs the core of Duncan/Manu/and Tony, then extend to the coaches, and then look to the rest. Rondo, Sheed, (now Nate also) Baby Davis, Perk, Daniels, I see as guys who can do things, and make things happen come playoff time. Spurs? R Jeff/
Dyess, Blair, Hill, Bonner? No way. I fully expect the Celtics to cause a problem way more then I do the Spurs. And I actually predicted the Spurs to be the 2 seed, but the more I watch, the more I see the old Spurs are gone. So since December I've been sayin, they aren't gonna make it.
Now everyone be honest. How the @#$% can you sit there and say that I wouldn't be more of a hater towards the Celtics, then I would the Spurs? Not a Laker fan alive that is down with the Celts. But I haven't written them off, nor will I.
So whatever, maybe I view things different then others, maybe I'm just an @#$%^&*, I dunno, but I have followed the game long enough to know, the team with the best player, and the best coach usually wins. 9 times outta 10. Yes, there are always exceptions. But i trust Phil and Kobe more then I trust Melo and Karl. Carlisle and Dirk. Or Sloan and DWill. So at this point, no, I don't really fear any of them. That make me a hater? Ok.
In fact, to me, the West shakes out a couple ways. Let's go 1-4 LA, Den, Utah, Dallas. I think most of us would agree with these 4. If Den and Dallas get 2-3, guess what? LA only plays one of them then. Benefit? LA, you God damn right it is. I like Utah. I respect Utah a lot. Sloan is a stud of a coach. But they do not match up with LA AT ALL. We've pounded them two years running, and they just gave away one of their decent young defenders. There's no way imo they could beat us. And since Denver and Dallas would beat each other up, we only deal with one of them. But if Dallas STAYS at 4. Now, LA has to go thru BOTH of them. Dallas and Denver. Very tough matchups don'tcha think? Most LA fans would love to get Utah, and then the winner of the 2-3. Not me. I WANT Dallas, and then Denver. Throw on top of them, either SA or Portland in the first round. Why? I want to beat the best, NO excuses. I don't want to slide into a title. I want it earned. Few years ago, everyone said Portland was a threat to us. We swept them. Sac was a threat to us, we swept them. SA was a threat to us, we swept them. That is the biggest @#$% you I have ever seen a team give to anybody. Threat my @#$ was what they said. Here's your threat right here. Well, that's what I want. Whoever people deem the toughest matchup for us, that's who i want. I don't care about duckin or dodgin nothin. And when Denver started pipin off after we beat their @#$ in their gym last year, i remembered it, and remember it well. So they can do whatever they want regular season. We'll give them their shot in the playoffs I hope, and when we win again, for the third year in a row, then what will they say? "we're still the better team, we crushed them in January?"
Yeah, amazingly, there will be people who say that, I'll laugh in their faces.
That's how I see things. *shrugs*
There's your wall of text JA.