Western Conference Semifinals: (1) San Antonio vs. (5) Portland

Blazers were 2 - 2 against the Spurs in the regular season.


Playoffs are different. Especially when playing the Heat or Spurs

 

I hoping for the Spurs to win it all this year. As others have said, their brand of b-ball is just beautiful to watch.

 

One bounce goes another way and we lose 4 - 1 because we don't get the Troy Daniels shot.

 

I get a strong sense of satisfaction watching the Blazers get pummeled.

I hope it continues. I don't want their fans to feel even one more moment of happiness/satisfaction for this year. Their lack of sportsmanship and trolling since the Lillard shot is appalling.

And maybe if the Spurs do win it all, Duncan and Pop will ride into the sunset. That wouldn't break my heart either.

 

Carlisle is also a good coach who knows how to exploit mismatches and limit another team's strengths.

 

The 6 ppl who voted blazers in 4 must feel like an idiot now...

 

I'm starting to feel like an idiot by taking the Spurs in 6.

 

Simple. We didn't play defense.

 

Dude its not Rocket science its just basketball...
McHales philosophy is give your best players the ball and let themdo everything. Put the ball in the basket more ties than the other team and you win. Defense? Defense is overrated.

 

I thought I didnt really care, but watching the results, I think I want
the Spurs to go 4-0.

They make it look so simple, and the thing is, I think our players are
on par or better than the Spurs (mostly).

 

Regular season means nothing. The mavs took the spurs to 7 games in the first round but before that they where 0-8 on their last 8 meetings. They would have destroyed us, the same way they are destroying the blazers.
This series would be over in 5 games.

 

We did not play selfless, passing the ball from one end to another offense either.

 

Regular season is between practice and playoff. Don't take it so serious.

 

In our series, most of the games were decided by only a few points.

There was only one game, G5, where we resoundingly beat them by 10 points. What was the difference in that game? How come we couldn't do that in the other games?

 

1. Lin stepped up
2. Blazers already had HC advantage so it didn't matter to them if they lose Game 5.

 

Why did we win Game 5? Aside from desperation from being in an elimination game? Because Dwight was huge in the 4th quarter. Lin played one of the best games of his career. Parsons was good(aside from a few missed layups). T-Jones played well. So did Asik. Daniels contributed. The Rockets took care of the basketball. Honestly, the only real problem in that game was that they let Matthews go off which wiped out their lead and Harden had one of the worst games of his life up until the final 4 minutes.

But even that game was close. The Rockets were only up a couple points when Harden finally put it away for them in the end. 6 games against Portland and never once did we have a comfortable win. Even past Rockets teams that were inferior to this one had a decisive victory in the postseason(Games 1 & 6 against Dallas in 2005, Game 5 against Utah in 2008, Games 1 & 6 against Portland in 2009).

 

I had Spurs in 5 which I'm sticking to. The Blazers must have one game where they hit their 3's and play a perfect game.

 

My friend after seeing the spurs with a 2-0 advantage thinks the series is going to 7 games. I have no clue why he thinks that maybe he know something I don't?

 

Why didn't you ask him?

 

because hes a blazers fan and is delusional???

the bench is just better and the spurs will continue to keep/extend leads because of it