We've been to the Finals winning only 40 Games before.

Don't get me wrong I'm not predicting an upset. I actually expect a competitive series, and a similar result to last year. We will probably lose 2-3 really close games and that will be the difference.

However our franchise is a playoff performing franchise. We are like the opposite of the Spurs. The Spurs are the greatest regular season franchise, but they never really over perform in the playoffs. They have actually underperformed many times. We are slightly above average in the regular season, but have had some magical playoff runs including last year, 81,86, and 95.

Maybe we need history on our side. Our playoff runs in the past, the 95 Nuggets, the 99 Knicks, and the 2007 Warriors.

 

We beat the Spurs twice in the playoffs when they were the best record in the west and NBA. 81 and 95. Yes the Spurs won in 99 in a short season, but never were able to beat the Lakers in their 3 peat run, and 03 beat a lakers team that was done(didn't face the Kings with no Webber that year the most talented team. 05 and 2014 they may have over performed by beating the defending champs, but they had homecourt and were the better team. 07 was a joke, they played nobody good.

Before the Duncan era they always choked in the playoffs. Yes 5 championships are a lot, but no repeats and many disappointing playoff runs. They were always 2nd best to the Lakers teams. They blew 2-0 leads in 2004 to a ****ty Lakers team, and in 2012 to a young but inexperienced OKC team. They also had a chance to put the clippers away last year and the Heat in 2013.

We beat teams we were not suppose to beat in our runs, the Spurs have not. That's all I'm saying. 5 is better than 2 but I don't consider 1999-now the best years of NBA basketball. In the 80's and 90's, the Spurs might be the Utah Jazz of the NBA.

 

1981 Houston Rockets- staring Calvin Murphy, Rudy T, and Moses Malone. We beat the champion Lakers, top west team Spurs in the second round. Lost to the Celtics in the finals.

 

I'm not saying the Rockets are a better franchise, I'm saying we're opposites. The rockets have underperformed relative to their seeding and homecourt in the playoffs like twice. 2007 and 2014. The Spurs relative to their homecourt atleast 10 times. And when you reverse that, where the rockets didn't have homecourt they have performed well in series, and the Spurs historically have not.

 

That's great, go be a Spurs fan. And I'll just continue to be dumb since I'm sure you know so much about basketball.

Btw I never said that the Rockets were better than the Spurs because of it, I just said it was very much the opposite. Spurs have been to the finals 6 times and won 55 games in a season like 18 times probably. Rockets have been to the finals 4 times and won 55 games like 4 times. I'm just stating the difference. Based on history the Rockets and Spurs may have an equal chance to make it to the finals because of the Warriors.

 

That was barely an upset- 4-5 matchup. Which happened in 2007 too. But that's really it. We performered to our record last year with virtually the same team, management, and coaching. And in 2009 we played way past our potential losing Mutombo, Yao, and Tmac. That was with the same management too. You don't believe in clutch city and that's ok. I believe in franchise history a little bit. Until the Red Sox came back from 3 down to beat the Yankees, I would have bet on the Yankees still. Hell until the Ws beat the Spurs at their place after 33 loses in a row, I would have kept betting on the Spurs. I still do not believe in the Cubs either.

Don't get me wrong, what you are saying is much more logical than me. I did preface the thread by saying I accept the Warriors to win the series.