bionic77 said:
I challenge any and all Jordophiles to crawl out from under their rocks and put their money where their ugly Jordan XXIV's are!
SKluck said:
I'd argue they played in relatively soft arenas.
WTS...Denver and Phoenix were tied for the fifth best home record in the league. :lol Hell, I don't think Denver had lost a game at home since the all star break. Plus there's that whole thin air aspect.
http://www.nba.com/standings/team_record_comparison/conferenceNew_Std_Div.html
Incognito said:
It seems no one pays attention to the Spurs until the playoffs start, and then everyone down here busts out the car flags, yard signs, and stupid ass t-shirts(OBI WAN GINOBILI). Give me a break, assholes. You couldn't tell me what a 3-second violation entails to, so I know for a fact you're nothing but a bandwagon fan looking for the latest party because when the Spurs enter they playoffs, it's party time for 6 weeks.
:lol That happens in every town...though I'm convinced Toronto has the biggest bandwagon hoppers in North America. The amount of frontrunning that took place during the Jays run in the early 90's was sickening in retrospect. And don't get me started on Leafs fans...damn fools honking horns and waving flags up and down Yonge Street because they won the opening round. :lol
I honestly don't see what's so exciting about the Heat. It's the same with the Lakers the last few years...you take the talented swingman out (Wade/Kobe), and it's a pedistran team that rarely fast breaks, hits outside shots, and sees a 300 pound center dunk the ball ten times a game. How that's more exciting then watching the Spurs is beyond me. The Spurs can play any style in the league, have one of the most dynamic backcourts in the league in Ginobili and Parker, and frankly beat the Suns at their own run n' gun style of game in the last series. And the team has players on the bench that could drop 20 at anytime Yet they're still regarded as boring...doesn't make any sense to me. I guess people are far more interested in the personalities (Shaq has far more personality then Duncan) and the sizzle (Hollywood stars in LA, the beach and the night life in Miami) then the game itself, which is fine I suppose.
I had the Spurs over the Pistons in 6 going into the season, and didn't see much over the course of the year to change that opinion. Of course I had the same result picked last year as well, so it isn't like I'm a total genius. The key for the Spurs is going to be their outside shooting...if it drops off the way it did against the Lakers last year, I think they're gonna lose. Cause there's no way Detroit is gonna let TP just dance into the lane whenever he wants like he did against the Suns, and he's at his best when he does that. And generally as TP goes, so go the Spurs, even more then TD. Duncan could average ten points a game and the team can still win cause he'll always attract a double or triple team, and is terrific at passing out of those (plus he'll always get his boards, blocks and shot contests). So it's gonna be up to Gino, TP, Bowen, Horry and Barry to come through. Also, Nazr will need to play his best ball of the year against that strong Detroit frontcourt, or Duncan might be in for a rough time.
I believe the Spurs will drop one of the first two games...probably the first one. Pistons will come into that game still riding their high from Monday night, while the Spurs haven't had this much time off since the summer. It'll take 'em a while to get back into rhythm. That said Detroit very rarely outscores anybody, so as long as their defense can keep things close they could still take game 1.
BTW, the simple science being odds setting is this: the house sets it up so that the money is bet more or less evenly on both teams, so they're guaranteed to keep 50% of the money. Knowing that the vast majority of people will bet on the Spurs (or so it would seem), they've given odds so low it's barely worth betting on. The odds themselves really don't mean anything...it's all about getting action on both teams.
