The first 4 matchups this season
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| Date | Teams | Score | Line | Result | Half | FGM-A | Pct | FGM-A | Pct | FTM-A | Pct | Tot. | OFF | TO |
| 04/01/2013 | SAN ANTONIO | 90 | 190 | ATS | 44 | 36-75 | 48.0% | 8-23 | 34.8% | 10-11 | 90.9% | 46 | 7 | 16 |
| MEMPHIS | 92 | -6.5 | SU Under | 37 | 36-79 | 45.6% | 2-7 | 28.6% | 18-24 | 75.0% | 43 | 10 | 10 | |
| 01/16/2013 | MEMPHIS | 82 | 187 | Under | 54 | 29-69 | 42.0% | 1-9 | 11.1% | 23-28 | 82.1% | 41 | 6 | 13 |
| SAN ANTONIO | 103 | -5.5 | SU ATS | 57 | 44-76 | 57.9% | 9-18 | 50.0% | 6-10 | 60.0% | 40 | 4 | 13 | |
| 01/11/2013 | SAN ANTONIO | 98 | 187 | Over | 43 | 35-76 | 46.1% | 10-25 | 40.0% | 18-22 | 81.8% | 44 | 7 | 18 |
| MEMPHIS | 101 | -2 | SU ATS | 51 | 40-85 | 47.1% | 3-12 | 25.0% | 18-21 | 85.7% | 49 | 9 | 14 | |
| 12/01/2012 | MEMPHIS | 95 | 196.5 | ATS | 46 | 36-99 | 36.4% | 4-15 | 26.7% | 19-22 | 86.4% | 66 | 18 | 19 |
| SAN ANTONIO | 99 | -6 | SU Under | 45 | 37-89 | 41.6% | 7-29 | 24.1% | 18-24 | 75.0% | 58 | 13 | 16 |
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I like Memphis here at + even though I've been critical of their offense this year. ZBO is playing way better than he did in the regular season and Conley has taken his game to another level as well. Gasol should be able to defend Duncan downlow and Allen can defend Manu when they're both on the court. I see Parker needing a fairly big series for SA to win this and/or SA just raising their level of D.
People have been overrating the Spurs for years now as far as the playoffs goes, this series seems to be par for the course on that.
X-factor to me is T Splitter. SA can go small vs a lot of other teams so he doesn't play key minutes all the time but in this series he has to play vs the 2 bigs. This is his first season getting significant minutes and their last 2 playoff opponents were not remotely the caliber of Memph so I'm not sure how he will react (honestly I haven't even seen him play much, especially important mins since he never has) but he is definitely an Xfactor to me. If he just sucks that is gonna make it hard on Duncan (like McDyess in '11)
We'll see what happens....If anyone wants a sweat bet for like $100 middle of Pinny price I'll do it.
People have been overrating the Spurs for years now as far as the playoffs goes, this series seems to be par for the course on that.
X-factor to me is T Splitter. SA can go small vs a lot of other teams so he doesn't play key minutes all the time but in this series he has to play vs the 2 bigs. This is his first season getting significant minutes and their last 2 playoff opponents were not remotely the caliber of Memph so I'm not sure how he will react (honestly I haven't even seen him play much, especially important mins since he never has) but he is definitely an Xfactor to me. If he just sucks that is gonna make it hard on Duncan (like McDyess in '11)
We'll see what happens....If anyone wants a sweat bet for like $100 middle of Pinny price I'll do it.
