but it's been a clear rule violation for the first 10376 ft's of shaq's career. why are the spurs the first that gets to actually benefit from it being called correctly? or why didn't they punish shaq more back in the day? i'm just pointing out how far the mighty have fallen.
i dont have an aswer for you. but the league cant tell the spurs its okay becoz they missed them in the past when its a clear rule violation.
i know you're not the one controlling it or anything, but i'm guessing lots of teams have pointed out shaq's violation, and no one's ever gotten it before. just like i'm sure everyone pointed out shaq committed 7 or 8 offensive fouls a game and got called for maybe 2. shaq used to be able to do whatever he wanted to, now the tide has turned. it's cool to see, just that i don't like the spurs getting the benefit of it.
If the Suns could not beat the spurs with joe johnson , q-rich, and a younger nash in the 05 playoffs.....THEY ARENT GONNA BEAT THEM NOW!
how the hell did the suns shut the spurs down so well in the regular season after the shaq trade? i didn't see the second and only remember the end of the first game when shaq kept shutting down duncan. did the spurs not realize they needed to just run the pick and roll to death?
I dont think the Suns shut down the Spurs in regular season. The Spurs simply didnt play good until the last regular game. These are playoffs Spurs.
When you played in medias wonderland like LA, you have the free pass for almost everything in sports. Look at Kobe now, he can bark and shout at the referees like they are his b****es without getting a T!
I know this sounds cliched as hell, but y'know there's big difference between the playoffs and regular season...just because you beat a team in regular season doesn't mean anything the playoffs. The Spurs are a 4x time champion with one greatest defenses in league history and very good offense with great coach....they are alot like the Patriots (before last year)....very quiet during the regular season and then go into total domination and big upset mode in the playoffs and knock off teams who are win alot games or very talented, but are very flawed in some areas. I wouldn't be surpised, if the Spurs only lose one or two times via to the NBA Finals.....The only team right now that I see the closest to beating them in 7 game series are the Lakers and that is not definite and I believe they will probably go out in 5 or 6 games. Phoenix is just not championship type team....
It must suck to be Steve kerr right now. I bet he wishes he was still doing the games with TNT instead of this haha.
like i said, i didn't see the second game where they shut them down, but in the first the spurs were clearly trying and still couldn't do anything. i think they just didn't realize how much better a relentless pnr offense would be than having duncan take it at shaq over and over, something duncan has never been good at. now they are just toying with the suns. granted the suns aren't playing good D, but the spurs have never shot this well in a playoff game during their 10 year run. parker has never hit jumpers like this and no one else is missing either. just amazing. it'll probably take the celtics to beat them, and then i have to choose between letting boston having another title in sports, or the spurs getting #5 actually repeating. ugh.
spurs this good or suns this bad? I hope its the latter because if its the former then I don't see how anybody can even give them a sweat.
Definitely disagree. Right now, they're playing a dysfunctional team---this much should be obvious. Last year, the Spurs got matched up with three relatively-weak teams (the Nuggets---self-explanatory; the Jazz, who were too young and overachieved last year; and the Cavaliers, who'd have been a lottery team in the West). This year the NBA is much more competitive and a finals victory will be much tougher, it is just that the Suns are worse than their record. The Suns lost their most active and best defensive player, and in his place have a liability (Shaq) at both ends of the floor. The offensive spacing---Shaq is clogging the lanes, and Nash lost his best passing target---has messed up Nash's game. The Suns are easier to defend; Boris Diaw and Leandro Barboso are reminding everyone why they were no-names before arriving at Phoenix; and that arrogant D'Antoni guy is getting what he deserves.
