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Yeah and who are the other two teams LAL played?Originally Posted by airmaxpenny1
But they played the champions last year and gave them a tough as series as anybody did in the West...Why are you getting butt hurt about people realizing they are the second best in the west? They have two elite young players, two bigs who play great interior D, good coaching and a solid supporting cast.
I've seen the Mavs and the Spurs do nothing over the past 4 years, why would I think they are going to do anything all of a sudden? We know what SA and Dallas are, OKC we are just figuring out and the signs are all there.
Phoenix and Utah? Where are they now? So if the Mavericks make it to the second round and push the Lakers to the brink then they are suddenly worth talking about?
They have proven nothing. I just don't get the hype. Sure KD is great. Sure Russ is amazing, but until you put it together in the Playoffs, what does that say about your team? Tracy and Yao were great in Houston. But they never won a goddamn thing in the Playoffs.
4 years ago San Antonio was putting another ring on their fingers.
Spurs got to the Western Finals in 08. Year before that they won ANOTHER ring.
I'm just saying, these cats out in San Antonio got the second best record in the L, and the best in the West. This ain't even about the Mavericks. We can talk all day about how young and great the Thunder will probably be. But they have shown nothing in the Playoffs to show me that they are ready to contend. Tracy McGrady tried to show up for his whole career in the first round, never happened. Dude had MVP runs, carried his team in the regular season, but NEVER WON A SINGLE PLAYOFF SERIES.
San Antonio? They got rings, and how'd they win em? By defense. I'm not so foolish to think they suddenly forgot how to play defense. I'm sure if required to in a 7-game series, they would change their style if need-be, but they were about winning basketball games this year, and they did that with their unstoppable defense. Perimeter shooters, slashers, guys who can score in the paint 1-5.
Call me old and stupid, but I have more faith in San Antonio than I do in Oklahoma City.
One playoff series where they got ousted in the first round ain't enough for me, sorry. Doesn't matter who they played. If you wanna go ahead and throw Dallas under that same bus, that's fine, because I ain't said that we were going to contend since Caron went down. (Now go ahead and make your snide remarks about how we were going to contend even with Caron healthy, it's okay, I know you want to).
Thing is, I don't see OKC ready to contend yet. They don't have any post-season experience outside of Kendrick Perkins, who is himself pretty young. If they do? Hell, more power to them. I just don't see them as a serious threat to come out of the West. That's SAS and LAL as far as I'm concerned. Two properly run franchises for over a decade now, and still winning tons of basketball games.
The signs were all there that Portland would be the great young team on the rise, that just never panned out. We were always hearing, this is the year, this is the year, this is the year. They're still young too. They have plenty of time. So do these cats in OKC, that's why I'm in no rush to call them contenders.