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NBA Playoffs – Spurs vs Thunder Game 6 Predictions
The San Antonio Spurs find themselves facing elimination, in a series with the Oklahoma City Thunder that seems to be breaking a lot of conceptions about the two teams.
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NBA Playoffs – Spurs vs Thunder Game 4 Predictions
Whatever the Oklahoma City Thunder do in game 4 against the San Antonio Spurs, home court advantage is no longer on their side. But the difference between winning and losing is the difference between still having something to play for and heading into the next game knowing it’s the end.
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NBA Playoffs – Spurs vs Thunder Game 3 Predictions
With the drama and confusion of the previous game behind us, it’s to move on to the second stretch of the Western conference semifinal series between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Russell Westbrook Helps Out Billy Donovan, Shreds Tony Parker
Everyone talking about the return of Kevin Durant probably gave Russell Westbrook some extra motivation for the first game of the season, leading the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 112-106 win over the San Antonio Spurs, giving Billy Donovan a nice victory on his debut in the NBA while revealing the problems for the still meshing Spurs.
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NBA Playoffs – San Antonio Spurs Create a Crisis for the Oklahoma City Thunder
Losing for a fourth straight time, the Oklahoma City Thunder, following a crushing 113-88 home defeat against the San Antonio Spurs, are out of the final playoff spot and no longer hold their destiny in their own hands.
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NBA Playoffs – Oklahoma City Thunder Fall Short, San Antonio Spurs Finalists Again
For the first time in the Western Conference Finals, we got ourselves a close game, ending in another first – a road win. The San Antonio Spurs finished the job in six games with a 112-107 overtime win thanks to some great basketball from Tim Duncan in the clutch, Manu Ginobili hitting some big shots and Boris Diaw proving his value once more. Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook gave it their best shot, but without a decent head coach, system or depth, there’s always going to be a ceiling on this team.
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NBA Playoffs – Spurs vs Thunder Game 6 Predictions
It’s a whole new ball game as the saying goes. In a series that can be split into before and after the return of Serge Ibaka, we might be entering a new phase as the San Antonio Spurs take a one game lead to play on the road against the Oklahoma City Thunder, feeling they have that defense figured out, which means Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook need to hope home court gives them enough of a boost in game 6.
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NBA Playoffs – San Antonio Spurs Without Answers, Oklahoma City Thunder Oozing Confidence
It’s no longer just Serge Ibaka that’s scaring the San Antonio Spurs. The entire Oklahoma City Thunder team played like it knows it is the best of the two in the Western Conference Finals, winning game 4 at home 105-92, making it a 2-2 series, as Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant couldn’t be stopped, while no one on the Spurs, from Tony Parker to Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard, put in an even respectable game.
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NBA Playoffs – Spurs vs Thunder Game 4 Predictions
Game 4 of the Western Conference finals will tell us if the return of Serge Ibaka has completely changed the series, making the Oklahoma City Thunder suddenly favorites against the suddenly slightly stunned San Antonio Spurs, or was his recovery mostly about a one-game impact that isn’t going to last once Gregg Popovich makes the proper adjustments.
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NBA Playoffs – Oklahoma City Thunder a New Team, San Antonio Spurs Need to Adjust
Don’t believe what people tell you. Serge Ibaka out for the playoffs? He looked fine and more than that, providing offensive and defensive help to the Oklahoma City Thunder with their backs to the wall, winning their first game in the 2014 Western conference finals thanks to an overall improvement and a lot of officiating help, beating the San Antonio Spurs 106-97 who still hold a 2-1 lead in the series, but have a lot of adjusting to do.