NBA Playoffs

Originally Posted by dalakhani

I dont think with Duncan it has so much to do with geography as much as style. I love him but he is BORING. His nickname is "the big fundamental". How boring is that? There is nothing exciting about his game. He is simply great and for my money will go down as the best power forward of all time.

As for ABC/ESPN, i think they meant centers. All the guys named were centers.

Give Duncan Turkeyglue and Lewis and he Magically becomes a center.
Give Duncan Scola and Battier and he Rockets to the center position.
I think its a fairly silly designation as I have stated before.

Although the Spurs used it to get him starting in the Allstar game
because Yao got the most votes. (I personally dont give a flying flip
about the NBA allstar game, its an act of masturbation for the players)

And here we go again.
From ESPN; that is E as in EASTERN...

They had the second-best player in the league (Kobe), the second-best center (Pau Gasol), a talented forward with a unique set of skills (Lamar Odom), a breakout swingman (Trevor Ariza), a terrific leader and character guy at point (Derek Fisher), and that's about it. They caught three breaks from February on -- Kevin Garnett's knee injury killing Boston's season, Cleveland stupidly opting not to move Wally Szczerbiak's expiring contract for one more piece, and Yao Ming breaking his foot in Round 2 -- and cruised from there. You would not call them great, just very good. I would compare them to the 2003 Spurs, 2005 Spurs -- the cream of a flawed crop of contenders.


Dala you have the 2007 Spurs.
Phil has the 1999 Spurs.

No respect for one of the best team franchises in the history
of modern sports.

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by pgardn

And here we go again.
From ESPN; that is E as in EASTERN...

They had the second-best player in the league (Kobe), the second-best center (Pau Gasol), a talented forward with a unique set of skills (Lamar Odom), a breakout swingman (Trevor Ariza), a terrific leader and character guy at point (Derek Fisher), and that's about it. They caught three breaks from February on -- Kevin Garnett's knee injury killing Boston's season, Cleveland stupidly opting not to move Wally Szczerbiak's expiring contract for one more piece, and Yao Ming breaking his foot in Round 2 -- and cruised from there. You would not call them great, just very good. I would compare them to the 2003 Spurs, 2005 Spurs -- the cream of a flawed crop of contenders.


Dala you have the 2007 Spurs.
Phil has the 1999 Spurs.

No respect for one of the best team franchises in the history
of modern sports.

I have to say you win here. To say the 2005 Spurs were flawed is simply a bad opinion. To me, they were the basketball version of the patriots.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by pgardn

And here we go again.
From ESPN; that is E as in EASTERN...

Simmons has lived in LA for the past several years.