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Adam: welllllllllllll
spurs
JSG: surprise surprise
should bea good matchup
Adam: yea, i mean, like i wrote in my email, i don't like the spurs - but, they do have my respect
JSG: yeah
they're alright to watch, i just don't like how they win
they could've ran through NO,
Adam: actually, i know it's contradictary, but i do like the way the play often....I just get so annoyed with their whining
JSG: I just feel like the only part of their potential that they live up to is winning
they could do so much more as a team
Adam: yea - they're just weird sometimes. it's like they have to get inside their opponents heads' in order to win in a decisive fashion
JSG: like the suns win even though they lose
and the spurs lose even though they win
Adam: yea
agreed
it's like they should be in the east
JSG: yeah, but I mean the spurs would roll against the celts
Adam: How anticlimactic are Eastern conf games btw?
JSG: I don't know who I would go for in that match up
Adam: yea, they both annoy me
JSG: I think that there is some potential in the east matchup
i actually like the pistons
Adam: well...if you like halfcourt basketbal
JSG: im a huge rasheed and tayshaun fan
Adam: but i mean, i'd go watch a big ten game if i wanted to see that kind of bball
but of course i'll be watching
ha
JSG: well, its certainly not atl washington
hopefully in a few years it will be
but its become expected for good teams to lose early
Adam: are they truly good then?
JSG: right
Adam: i mean, i understand the concept of the spurs as this 'complete' team, etc etc....but, i just wish that certain teams that make you FEEL (like the suns, the lakers w/kobe) they inspire and make me at least not want to turn away....i just wish those types of teams could transcend what i feel is the almost boring nature of the 'team' concept the media harps on with teams like boston and the spurs
but, it really has yet to happen. gotta get past the spurs apparently
but do you know what i'm trying to convey?
JSG: yeah, i think itll happen soon
i mean back in the day the lakers were awesome (showtime)
and the bulls were good to watch also
Adam: yes, and the bulls w/ mj exemplified that to a degree
JSG: Maybe the lack of talent from 97-02 coming into the league made this happen

Adam: hmm. interesting
JSG: there seems to be so many good young players that things will pick up soon
I mean when its kobe in mid 30s, cp3 and derron lbj arenas in late 20s
and beasley durant rose oden in mid 20s
this league should be fire
Adam: yea
speakign of young stars - derron or cp3, who is it for you ?
JSG: hard to say
cp3 is better
but he can get a little testy in a bad way
i like Derrons style, but he doesn't step up enough
Adam: i dont konw....williams i just don't think is expected or asked to do as much as paul
i mean, there is no boozer on NO
JSG: well ask 10 people if they'd rather have west or boozer
i would probably say west for next season
Adam: ehh, that's a tough one too...different systems. Boozer fits in what Sloan wants to do. Utah could be for serious good next season
Brewer and Price off the bench...
JSG: yeah, millsap too, that guy can hop
Adam: another season of playing together, Williams and Boozer
yeaaaaa
JSG: yeah but ak and boozer have been getting worse over the past 15 mos, if u ask me
where was boozer against LA
Adam: just a bad stretch?
AK i agree with, i have no idea why he is such a weird player....i don't know, maybe he needs a defined role
JSG: Im not sure if AK really likes basketball, thats what it seems like sometimes