00:00with the san antonio spurs this is a big one for them they beat the detroit pistons last night 114
00:06to 103 and look a lot can happen between now and the end of the season but the spurs
00:13beaten oklahoma city now a couple of times they've now taken care of the pistons
00:18the young team on the way up carlin but don't tell them because right now they're one of four
00:23or five teams in the nba that you have to think have a shot at the title at the end
00:26of the season
00:27yeah especially if you're using the uh old phil jackson rule of if you win 40 games before you
00:33lose 20 then you have a legitimate shot of winning an nba championship and that's that's been his rule
00:38for for all the great teams and if you go back in history and look at it most championship teams
00:42win
00:4240 games before they lose 20 and san antonio spurs are actually in that mix and last night was a
00:48big
00:48one for them i think they needed that one more than detroit needed to win i think in the eastern
00:52conference it's clear that detroit's going to be one of the top two teams that they should be in the
00:56conference finals and the road to the finals should go through them they have they're going to have
01:00home field advantage throughout the eastern conference finals so i do believe that detroit
01:04feels like they can compete in the east out west is a different story you do have denver where if
01:09they're healthy like i said i i told you a couple weeks ago i think that they make the finals
01:13up as
01:13a healthy team this is the thunder obviously won the championship last year so they can do that
01:18the spurs are the unknown and and the spurs proved last night that hey they could play with the big
01:22dogs in the nba right now and that was a playoff type game last night there's no more physical team
01:28in the nba than detroit pistons in fact there's there's probably they're probably a little bit
01:32more physical than some nfl teams honestly like they lead the league in fouls they beat you up they play
01:38a style of basketball that we haven't seen in a very long time if you're one of those people out
01:43there that say hey the nba is only threes and you know dunks and layups and no one plays defense
01:48washington detroit pistons they're bringing basketball back to what it used to be and the
01:53san antonio spurs had to go into their house play that style and they actually won pretty comfortably
01:58so you know i have all the respect in the world for what the spurs done last night and then
02:03also you
02:03know they're on this win streak now that uh you know is going to put them in a position where
02:07they could even catch the oklahoma city thunder who are dealing with injuries
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