OT: Grizzlies crossing fingers they'll face injured Warriors in WCF

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  1. bigbailes

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    The Grizzlies win this series in 6. You put Tony Allen on Parker and Gasol on Duncan and force all the role players to keep hitting shots, which I doubt will happen. Memphis is the playing the best out of any team outside of South Beach right now. Don't forget they were able to beat the Spurs two years ago in the playoffs, why can't they do it again?
     
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    Not only beat them, but handedly!

    Spurs strength is ugly ball with defense. Memphis plays the same way. Spurs won't have that advantage there. It will be a low scoring series; but a fun physical one!
     
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    The problem with making the spurs role players make shots is that they did it all year long. I think memphis wins but its going to be close because memphis can't put a team away and the spurs can score when they need to. I think its a 7 game series with each game being within 3 with a minute to go.

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    Seems like everyone forgets that Brandon Rush blew his knee in the 2nd game of the season too. Going into the season it was Rush that everyone was projecting to be GS's 6th man of the year candidate, not Jack or Landry. Barnes got the starting job but Rush was a top 5 player on the team. Jack, Rush, Landry, Festus is a hell of a bench unit.

    W's got some rough breaks. Curry was clearly lacking quicks and unable to plant hard, and it made him much easier to guard. Lee going down obviously hurt. Bogut apparently told MJ last night that he couldn't play anymore because of the bad ankle, he was laboring quite a bit at times. It sucks, but we're built largely around two very injury prone players, so what can you expect?
     
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    Sorry, Run
     
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    And this is why you don't bank on Bynum. You made reference that bogut turned things around, but his ankles gave way, again!

    Say no to Bynum.

    Ps, sorry run too!
     
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    They certainly can. The Spurs are not a great team. I didn't think they would make it this far, but I over estimated their competition.

    But lets not forget these teams are not exactly the same as they both were two years ago, close but not exact. I think SA is deeper this time. But it goes 7.
     
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    Thanks for the condolences guys! It was a good year though all in all. Dropping game 1 against SA still hurts like hell but they did pretty well and learned a lot of lessons.
     
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    Gotta take the risk. Getting Bynum and having him get hurt and thus relying on Leonard or JO is much better than giving the money to a 100% healthy McGee, Gortat, or Jordan.

    Marc Gasol is garbage. He's the best center on the Grizzlies. That's about it.
     
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    :lol: reminds me of an old quote:

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    Zach Randolph has been garbage the entire series, and he'll be 32 next year with a 7" vertical.
     
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    Z-Bo is shooting in the mid 30's against the Spurs.

    Contrast to that, Zach shot in the 60's in the Clipper series with Blake "defending" him.
     
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    So I guess this tells us that an injured GS >> Memphis
     
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    Griffin was hurt most of that series. ZBO is garbage.
     
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    Warriors the only team to win a game against the Spurs this post season.
     
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    Not at all. The Grizz were 3-0 against the Warriors this season.

    It tells us that the Grizz are an easier match-up for the Spurs than the Warriors. You can't apply the transitive property to sports.
     
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    Zach Randolph disappeared this series and looked overwhelmed. What happened to him?
     
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    Tim Duncan.
     
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