by David Zizmor

OAKLAND–The Golden State Warriors are very familar with the San Antonio Spurs and they played them in their last series in the playoffs last post season. It was a rough six game series and in retrospect it could have gone either way if the Warriors made a few plays here and there in a couple of those games.

The Warriors know that the Spurs are going to be a tough team to beat and even without some of their top players it’s never easy to beat that team and they have a lot of experience and a great coach with Greg Poppovich.

It doesn’t matter if it’s Tim Duncan or Manu Ginobili, San Antonio is tough to beat one way or the other and to be honest their the hottest team in the league right now. That definitely doesn’t help. The Spurs are playuing great basketball their on the road to locking up the number one seed and their just playing fantastic whether at home or on the road.

These games are always difficult especially for the Warriors they have various match up issues with them and some of the Warriors weaknesses play right into the strength of the Spurs so that certainly is going to be a problem. The Warriors have to look at the Spurs and say “hey we hope we don’t have to play them in the first round and someone else can knock them off so that we don’t have to play them at any point.”

That’s the best scenario the Warriors can hope for, San Antonio is going to be a tough opponent for anybody not just the Warriors you have to remember it took the Miami Heat seven games even then it was down to the last minute in game seven. San Antonio was just so close to being the defending champion. They were a fantastic team it really doesn’t seem to matter despite some of the older players on the team.

The Spurs are playing fantastic ball club and you have to tip your hat to them their a rough team and the Warriors had a rough go against them. So the Warriors aren’t a in different category because of that their just doing what everyone else does and that’s struggle against the Spurs.

David Zizmor covers the NBA for Sportstalk radio