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PistonsNation
06-10-2005, 09:41 PM
After VJ was realeased by the Pistons in 1991 he signed on with your Spurs. I was wondering if any of the Spurs fans here have any game tapes with The Microwave in them. Let me know please.
ShoogarBear
06-10-2005, 10:52 PM
I can't help with your request, but it's kind of cool to recap prominent players who played for both team.

Vinnie didn't have the greatest of times as a Spur. When he left, he allegedly went back to Detroit and complained about how soft the Spurs were (probably correctly).

Then of course we have Dennis Rodman.

And Sean Elliott and Billy Curley. Less said about them, the better from your standpoint I suppose. :)

George Gervin never played for Detroit, but the link is undeniable.

Anybody else?
Guru of Nothing
06-10-2005, 10:55 PM
Bill Curley = Greatest Piston Ever!
Guru of Nothing
06-10-2005, 10:56 PM
Anybody else?

Derrick Dial played college ball in Michigan, I think.
ShoogarBear
06-10-2005, 10:57 PM
Derrick Dial played college ball in Michigan, I think.

Yup. Eastern Michigan I think.

How could I have forgotten Alvin Robertson?
FromWayDowntown
06-10-2005, 10:57 PM
Vinnie did play in 3 playoff games for the Spurs in 1992 (Spurs, sans David Robinson, were swept 3-0 by the pre-Barkley Suns). He averaged 8.3 ppg (25 points) in 23.0 minutes per game, on .458 shooting (11-24; 2-4 from 3).
SpursFanInAustin
06-10-2005, 10:58 PM
After VJ was realeased by the Pistons in 1991 he signed on with your Spurs. I was wondering if any of the Spurs fans here have any game tapes with The Microwave in them. Let me know please.

I have two games from the 1992 season with VJ on the Spurs, one game was vs. the Bulls in January and Vinnie scored 4 pts. The other game I had was vs. the Phoenix Suns in Game 2 in the 92 playoffs, and I don't even think Vinnie scored. He had a terrible game, as did most of the Spurs players that night, not named Terry Cummings, Sean Elliott, and Rod Strickland.
PistonsNation
06-10-2005, 11:01 PM
"Cadillac" Greg Anderson, Alvin Robertson, and David Wood are a few that come to mind
PistonsNation
06-10-2005, 11:03 PM
I have two games from the 1992 season with VJ on the Spurs, one game was vs. the Bulls in January and Vinnie scored 4 pts. The other game I had was vs. the Phoenix Suns in Game 2 in the 92 playoffs, and I don't even think Vinnie scored. He had a terrible game, as did most of the Spurs players that night, not named Terry Cummings, Sean Elliott, and Rod Strickland.

Can we work something out to where I can get copies? I would greatly appreciate it bro.
Guru of Nothing
06-10-2005, 11:05 PM
Negele Knight?

Born: Mar 6, 1967 - Detroit, MI
ShoogarBear
06-10-2005, 11:06 PM
Negele Knight?

For very small values of "prominent", I suppose.

:lol
FromWayDowntown
06-10-2005, 11:07 PM
SFIA, I'd also be interested in talking to you about the 1992 playoff game, if you're amenable to that.
SpursFanInAustin
06-10-2005, 11:11 PM
Sure thing guys, just shoot me with a PM.
Guru of Nothing
06-10-2005, 11:11 PM
HITA
SpursFanInAustin
06-10-2005, 11:13 PM
HITA played with the Pistons? I know he's from Detroit....K-Dub is also from there, and went to the same high school.
ShoogarBear
06-10-2005, 11:17 PM
Smith never played with the Pistons, but he's from Michigan and went to State.

I went to the NCAA regional finals at the Alamodome a couple of years ago when Mich. State was there. Steve Smith and a few other Spurs (Bowen, Ferry, SJax) sat a few rows in front of us.

For the State fans, Smith was a god. About 40 people came up to him to ask for pictures or autographs. They wouldn't leave him alone.
Guru of Nothing
06-10-2005, 11:18 PM
HITA played with the Pistons? I know he's from Detroit....K-Dub is also from there, and went to the same high school.

Strictly a Michigan reference. I don't believe Steve Smith ever played for Detroit.
PistonsNation
06-10-2005, 11:21 PM
Oh and lest we forget LB, although many teams can make that claim LOL
SpursFanInAustin
06-10-2005, 11:25 PM
Johnny Dawkins
Guru of Nothing
06-10-2005, 11:26 PM
Oh and lest we forget LB, although many teams can make that claim LOL

Larry Brown is kind of the Kevin Bacon of basketball, except I'd probably pare it down to the Two Degrees of Larry Brown.
SpursFanInAustin
06-10-2005, 11:29 PM
How about Lance Blanks? Former texas Longhorn, then started his career with the Detroit Pistons and now works in the Spurs scouting dept, as well as color commentator.
SequSpur
06-10-2005, 11:31 PM
Vinnie Johnson sucked as a Spur.
timvp
06-10-2005, 11:40 PM
How can you guys forget about William Bedford?

:drunk
PistonsNation
06-10-2005, 11:43 PM
Bedford played for the Spurs?
PistonsNation
06-10-2005, 11:47 PM
I guess he did in 1992-93. 16 games, 25 total points in 66 minutes
ShoogarBear
06-10-2005, 11:57 PM
How can you guys forget about William Bedford?


:oops

On the short list of any discussion of the Worst Big Man Ever.
SpursFanInAustin
06-10-2005, 11:58 PM
Speaking of Spurs and Pistons; does the quadruple double game by Robinson vs. the Pistons in 1994 exist amongst the general public?
Solid D
06-11-2005, 12:07 AM
I can't help with your request, but it's kind of cool to recap prominent players who played for both team.

Vinnie didn't have the greatest of times as a Spur. When he left, he allegedly went back to Detroit and complained about how soft the Spurs were (probably correctly).

Then of course we have Dennis Rodman.

And Sean Elliott and Billy Curley. Less said about them, the better from your standpoint I suppose. :)

George Gervin never played for Detroit, but the link is undeniable.

Anybody else?

Yes, here is as complete a list as I can remember, taken from a Detroit listing of players and then just remembering them as Spurs:

Cadillac Anderson, William Bedford, Jud Buechler, Johnny Dawkins, Sean Elliott, Sidney Green, David Greenwood, Vinnie Johnson, Edgar Helicopter Jones, Negele Knight, Mikki Moore (training camp), Isaiah Morris (cut post trade), Chuck Nevitt (training camp), Kurt Nimphius, Alvin Robertson, Dennis Rodman, David Wood, Larry Wright.

Lance Blanks played for the Pistons and now is a Spurs Scouting Dir.
Fennis Dembo played for the Pistons and was a San Antonio schoolboy phenom.


Here's the list I used to recall from:
http://www.nba.com/pistons/history/AllTime_Alphabetical_Roster-70258-50.html
Solid D
06-11-2005, 12:13 AM
I think Larry Wright did not play for the Spurs after all.
T Park
06-11-2005, 01:47 AM
Benoit Benjamin as well.


If you count games in the preseason.
CyberSnake
06-11-2005, 07:01 AM
The Iceman is from Michigan.
Willinsa
06-11-2005, 08:52 AM
Vinnie Johnson sucked as a Spur.

I remember his 1st game as a Spur was a TNT game I think aganist the suns, on the jumbotron they ran a cartoon that said "microwave in use". He was cheered when he first came in, but in the late moments with the Spurs down by 2 he was fouled and went to the line. I think he missed either one or both of the ft's and after the second shot he was booed very loudly. I thought that was funny and wanted to see if anybody remembered that game.