2013 Heat vs 2017 Spurs w/healthy Kawhi

rand · Post #1 » by **rand** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 9:53 am

Who wins a 7 game series? 2013 Heat or the 2017 Spurs with a healthy Kawhi all series?

2013 Heat
Mario Chalmers / Norris Cole
Dwyane Wade / Ray Allen
LeBron James / Mike Miller
Udonis Haslem / Shane Battier
Chris Bosh / Chris Anderson

2017 Spurs
Tony Parker / Patty Mills
Danny Green / Manu Ginobili
Kawhi Leonard / Jonathan Simmons
LaMarcus Aldridge / Kyle Anderson
Pau Gasol / Dewayne Dedmon

Freighttrain · Post #2 » by **Freighttrain** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 11:48 am

No Duncan, Tony & Ginobili are older versus the best Heat team out of that period with a prime Lebron. Yeah, I'm going with the Heatles.

No-more-rings · Post #3 » by **No-more-rings** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 4:29 pm

The Heat beat a better version of the Spurs that year.

falcolombardi · Post #4 » by **falcolombardi** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 4:38 pm

i thinl 2017 spurs were not as good as 2013 version, thet have a better offensive star but the rest of the team is worse imo ans they lack duncan which was key against miami

i pick heat by a slight margin

No-more-rings · Post #5 » by **No-more-rings** » Sat Apr 2, 2022 5:01 pm

falcolombardi wrote:i thinl 2017 spurs were not as good as 2013 version, thet have a better offensive star but the rest of the team is worse imo ans they lack duncan which was key against miami

i pick heat by a slight margin

Yeah I think that version of the Spurs would do a worse job of defending Lebron. Kawhi wouldn’t be putting as much energy into d, and having Aldridge and/or Pau under the basket isn’t the same as Duncan.

feyki · Post #6 » by **feyki** » Mon Apr 4, 2022 6:30 am

Tough series, I'd think. Depends on forms of the rest rotation after Kawhi/LMA and Lebron/Wade/Bosh, both team had great rotation to used it.