it doesn't really matter. We shut them out this season and now we have our heads up our rears.
I know surge makes a big difference but when the most of the team is playing terribly even surge can't push us to victory.
You can't look at pre playoff's Spurs vs regular season Spurs. That is why Pop is such a great coach. Regular season he limited all of his older's players minutes, weather they were losing or not. He saved them for the playoffs. The great teams play good through out the year, but they play great in the playoff's. All their starters now are playing their full minutes, and it really shows.
It's like the Miami Brooklyn series this year. The Nets swept the Heat in regular season, but when playoff's came around, the Heat showed them why they are the 2 time defending champs.
We don't have that next level to go to. We struggled to keep the number 2 seed, after coming off All Star break we were the number one (when RW came back).
Since the sports world loves to throw out KD and MJ comparisons, this is the best one:
It took 7 years for the Bulls to get a team built around MJ to win a championship. KD is in year 5. It's time we start making those changes.