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Originally Posted by nol
If both teams play to their capabilities the Spurs win convincingly. In 2014 the Spurs were worse and LeBron was better, and it wasn't close then.
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As a Spurs homer, I'm not at all certain they are better this year. No question they are in terms of regular-season accomplishments, but in terms of playoff ceiling and likelihood of getting to that peak(which would seem the relevant question in this context), they won't be better offensively(an insanely high bar there given how well they scored in the '14 Finals) and much of their defensive excellence has consisted of them being better than everyone else at shutting down average and poor teams consistently. That's a great thing, but it won't help them in the playoffs. They've struggled a lot more to slow down top-quality offenses than they have against the league at large.