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As soon as the horn blew on the Mavs season after game six against the Spurs, the “San Antonio isn’t a normal 7^th seed” or “the Spurs are really better than a 7^th seed” statements started flying through the media and blogs. Well, those statements and excuses are no longer true.

Take away all the nonsense in those quotes and you are left with “7^th seed” and that’s exactly what the Spurs were. San Antonio exhibited every characteristic of a 7^th seed in their second round series against Phoenix. The Suns showed the NBA world why the Spurs finished the season in the second to last playoff spot and why the Suns finished the season in third.

As a Mavs fan, it feels like someone just twisted the knife in my back a little deeper. The Spurs team I saw in the Phoenix series was the Spurs team I thought the Mavs could beat in the first round when I said that would be the best matchup for Dallas. Obviously I was wrong, and now the four game sweep of San Antonio makes me question the Mavs even more.

We all know the Mavs weren’t as good as we thought they were since they are already on vacation, but are they worse than we thought? Dallas seemed to struggle against a Spurs team that was just swept by the Suns. Are the Suns really that much better than the Mavs? I’m not ready to say that, but it looked apparent in this series. Did the Spurs expend too much energy in the Dallas series which lead to them playing poorly against Phoenix? Possibly, but it’s only the second round.

I don’t have the answers, but what I saw in the Phoenix-San Antonio series doesn’t make me feel any better about the Mavericks.