Let's Give Credit To The Spurs

whitehops · Post #1 » by **whitehops** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:07 am

This thread might be posted a little early with the second disappointing loss so fresh, but honestly as bad as the heat have played you have to give the utmost credit to the spurs.

i will write a little disclaimer before my statement in that i have not seen too many historical teams but of the ones i have witnessed, the spurs are playing the highest level of basketball I've ever seen.

defensively they are amazing, they are working as a team and just have smart players all around. it helps that they have a very good interior defender in Duncan (who is even playing some defense on the perimeter this series) and a sensational perimeter defender in kawhi leonard.

their offense, however, is beyond words. from a pure basketball 'X's and O's' standpoint they play almost flawless offensively. it seems like every single player on the team is a great passer and shooter. combine that with constant movement, willing passing and just a great offensive system and not even the best defenses in the league can stop them. you know you've got it made when your center and like eighth best passer on the team (splitter) is consistently making touch passes for easy layups lol.

sorry if i made it sound like i was just gushing about the spurs, my point was only that the spurs are winning this series more than the heat are losing this series. i'm as bummed about the heat's disappointing show as any of you, but i can definitely appreciate the fact that the heat are losing to the best team I'VE ever seen. i just hope the heat make it competitive going forward.

PS i personally thought last year was the highest level of basketball we'd see for a while in the back-and-forth finals but i was wrong, it just happens to be one-sided this year.

fast-break · Post #2 » by **fast-break** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:13 am

Credit them when they win.

whitehops · Post #3 » by **whitehops** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:24 am

fast-break wrote:Credit them when they win.

i'm crediting them for outplaying the heat so far in the series. when did i say differently?

brent_strong · Post #4 » by **brent_strong** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:31 am

They're basically playing perfect basketball on a very regular basis. For full quarters or halves of games, perfect. And their lapses are only a few minutes at a time and bring them down to the level of good or very good.

gom · Post #5 » by **gom** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:36 am

I am happy to give them credit for what they've done so far. We've been outcoached and outplayed.

We still have 3 games though. No team has ever turned a 3-1 deficit in the Finals. It will be so sweet to be the first.

This team loves drama too much.

dr3am · Post #6 » by **dr3am** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:03 am

Hard to give credit to a team that I feel like we should be beat

BaffLer · Post #7 » by **BaffLer** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:20 am

wm3 wrote:Hard to give credit to a team that I feel like we should be beat

But we're not beating them and they're slicing us up like swiss cheese. They are literally making it look too easy especially with these two blowouts.

Shame. But it is what it is. Spurs are the better team so hats off to them. Heat better be conjuring up some voodoo or sacrificing some animals to come back from 3-1. Spurs still got to win 4.

MartyCONLONNN · Post #8 » by **MartyCONLONNN** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:20 am

I feel we should beat them too... but we're pretty blatantly outmanned rn. Not only that, our defensive scheme is being shredded like never before and our coaching staff isn't doing a damn thing about it.

dr3am · Post #9 » by **dr3am** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:26 am

BaffLer wrote:
wm3 wrote:Hard to give credit to a team that I feel like we should be beat

But we're not beating them and they're slicing us up like swiss cheese. They are literally making it look too easy especially with these two blowouts.

Shame. But it is what it is. Spurs are the better team so hats off to them. Heat better be conjuring up some voodoo or sacrificing some animals to come back from 3-1. Spurs still got to win 4.

I will congratulate them when they win this series because a championship is a championship...With that being said I just think our team as a whole has not played up to expectations...Especially on defense. HEAT have a culture of being a defensive team...This Heat team that i'm watching right now, don't even recognize them to be honest

MartyCONLONNN · Post #10 » by **MartyCONLONNN** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:28 am

That being said, the Spurs effort and execution has been far and away FLAT OUT better than ours, thus far at least. credit to them, but I will keep pulling for our great team that I love dearly to the bitter end... or perhaps with a heavy dose of luck to a jubilant & triumphant end.

contract · Post #11 » by **contract** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:44 am

whitehops wrote:This thread might be posted a little early with the second disappointing loss so fresh, but honestly as bad as the heat have played you have to give the utmost credit to the spurs.

The Spurs are really good and have been for decades. That said, they aren't 20+ pts better than the Heat. Sure as hell not talentwise. And it's not even 20 points over 4 quarters ... they are jumping out to 20 point leads in the first half and then simply toying with us the rest of the way. There haven't been 20 minutes of competitive basketball over the past 2 games combined.

Pat Riley better be sharpening his knives, because there needs to be a bloodletting when this series is over. Our players are fat and happy, and our head coach is nothing more than a prop.

:curse:

2thehoopand1 · Post #12 » by **2thehoopand1** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 7:15 am

No, at least not here

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dmvp29 · Post #13 » by **dmvp29** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:29 am

wm3 wrote:Hard to give credit to a team that I feel like we should be beat

All of the analytics said that the Heat were grossly outmatched to start the series. Spurs in 4 was a more probable outcome than Heat in 6. Yeah...it's that bad. The Spurs and Heat have equally explosive offenses bit he Spurs are also elite defensively.

dmvp29 · Post #14 » by **dmvp29** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:31 am

Obviously I wanted the Heat to win but I knew we were outmatched and outclassed in this series so I was mentally prepared for this.

whitehops · Post #15 » by **whitehops** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:21 pm

fast-break wrote:Credit them when they win.

wm3 wrote:I will congratulate them when they win this series

2thehoopand1 wrote:No, at least not here

Ready to give them credit?

Altered_Beast · Post #16 » by **Altered_Beast** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:34 pm

stupid thread needs to be locked. rational heat fans have been giving the spurs credit for quite some time i dont see the point of this nor you coming back here quoting others

smh

dmvp29 · Post #17 » by **dmvp29** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:23 pm

Messi is King wrote:
wm3 wrote:Hard to give credit to a team that I feel like we should be beat

No way, this was one of the most lopsided Finals of the past 15 years. Miami maybe should have beaten them on paper, but Spurs were better in almost every facet of the game

Technically it's the most lopsided finals in NBA history in terms of point differential.

thinktellectual · Post #18 » by **thinktellectual** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:16 pm

fast-break wrote:Credit them when they win.

Is it ok if I give them credit now ?
Is it ?

fast-break · Post #19 » by **fast-break** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:34 pm

thinktellectual wrote:
fast-break wrote:Credit them when they win.

Is it ok if I give them credit now ?
Is it ?

Make a thread about it and scream from the top of your lungs for all I care.

whitehops · Post #20 » by **whitehops** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:08 am

Altered_Beast wrote:stupid thread needs to be locked. rational heat fans have been giving the spurs credit for quite some time i dont see the point of this nor you coming back here quoting others

smh

i didn't read every post in the game threads but what i did see was mostly focused on the heat's performance as opposed to spurs'. i simply wanted an arena to say some positive things about our opponents.

as for quoting those people, those 'credit them when win' comments just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason, i wasn't trying to be malicious about it.