It Still Hurts

[elmanutres]

:cry it still hurts :cry
:cry timvp MIA :cry
:cry we lost against pacers :cry
:cry back from deployment :cry
:cry thank for your service :cry
:cry danny green sucks :cry
:cry our fifth big sucks we are doomed :cry
:cry let's tank :cry
:cry duncan is done :cry
:cry parker hero ball :cry
:cry manu :cry
:cry kawi is not the next LBJ :cry

:lol who's the first guy to use the crying emoticon schtick?

[TXstbobcat]

On the bright side the spurs are 15-4 and they did get out of Mexico without anybody getting kidnapped by the cartels.

[Budkin]

Seriously... where the hell is timvp? Anyone here that's friends with him IRL heard from him lately? I heard they were having marriage problems but I hope that's not true. Drop us a line LJ!

[hater]

solid bump IMO

I called weeks ago that Spurs were running on post Finals run high. Now they have hit a wall as I predicted. The only one was Duncan who was way ahead of his teamates in terms of dealing with the loss. Well, he's a Psyc major, he will get over the loss eventually before his teamates.

Currently as I predicted, spurs have hit the wall and realized that they have just played a starring role in the most EPIC COLLAPSE in US history. Now? well they need some soulsearching and it will take months if not years for them to ever come back to pre-historic collapse form.

[T Park]

Seriously... where the hell is timvp? Anyone here that's friends with him IRL heard from him lately? I heard they were having marriage problems but I hope that's not true. Drop us a line LJ!

They have four kids. They have a business. They often times don't have time to read the crap that now infests here.

[hater]

btw Green is still a one trick Pony who we should had traded right after the Finals.

oh and as I predicted also, I see Turnobili is going back to the norm. that was quick :lmao

[EVAY]

:cry it still hurts :cry
:cry timvp MIA :cry
:cry we lost against pacers :cry
:cry back from deployment :cry
:cry thank for your service :cry
:cry danny green sucks :cry
:cry our fifth big sucks we are doomed :cry
:cry let's tank :cry
:cry duncan is done :cry
:cry parker hero ball :cry
:cry manu :cry
:cry kawi is not the next LBJ :cry

Concise but eloquent!!

[Budkin]

They have four kids. They have a business. They often times don't have time to read the crap that now infests here.

I still miss hearing from them. Not only did they build this place, they were two of the best things about coming here. And yes... this place sucks compared to the days of yore, but I'll still keep coming back for more.

[spurraider21]

oh and as I predicted also, I see Turnobili is going back to the norm. that was quick :lmao
your predictions suck apparently. ginobili didn't turn it over a single time against the pacers D and only had 1 the previous game. he is averaging 1.7 per game which is his lowest since his rookie season

[hater]

your predictions suck apparently. ginobili didn't turn it over a single time against the pacers D and only had 1 the previous game. he is averaging 1.7 per game which is his lowest since his rookie season

we'll see. The Pacers game was an aberration and lost by old man Popovich in the 2nd quarter.

a lineup of Green, Mills, AND Ayres :lmao :lmao

why not just put De Colo and Baynes in there and call it a day :lol

[spurraider21]

we'll see. The Pacers game was an aberration and lost by old man Popovich in the 2nd quarter.

a lineup of Green, Mills, AND Ayres :lmao :lmao

why not just put De Colo and Baynes in there and call it a day :lol
awesome deflection, has nothing to do with ginobili and his turnovers. in those 2 games he averaged about 21 minutes per game, which is only 2 minutes below his season average. in 10 of his 19 games he has had 0 or 1 turnovers, and his minutes are identical to the last 2 seasons

[hater]

awesome deflection, has nothing to do with ginobili and his turnovers. in those 2 games he averaged about 21 minutes per game, which is only 2 minutes below his season average. in 10 of his 19 games he has had 0 or 1 turnovers, and his minutes are identical to the last 2 seasons

:rolleyes Turnobili is a pet name that does not necessarily mean Turnovers only. Manu is shooting like an old man last few games and dissapeared in the 2nd half of the Pacers game. I don't blame him for that, he must have been pissed Pop threw the game tbh

[spurraider21]

:rolleyes Turnobili is a pet name that does not necessarily mean Turnovers only. Manu is shooting like an old man last few games and dissapeared in the 2nd half of the Pacers game. I don't blame him for that, he must have been pissed Pop threw the game tbh
6-9 shooting, 4-6 from deep in our most recent game against the pacers.

and :lol and trying to spin how turnobili isn't necessarily about turnovers

[hater]

6-9 shooting, 4-6 from deep in our most recent game against the pacers.

and :lol and trying to spin how turnobili isn't necessarily about turnovers

Manu is now shooting 46% and averaging 2.3 TO per game in the last 4 games

that's down from 60% and 1.8TO per game in the previous 4

= the return of Turnobili

keep spinning that shit fool :rolleyes

[spurraider21]

46% shooting isn't even that bad :lol

and his season average in TO's is at 1.7 which is a very acceptable number
averaging 2.3 for a few games isn't exactly terrible considering his career average is 2.1

i mean sure, i dont want him averaging 2.3 but if thats his "bad stretch" then i'll take it

[hater]

46% shooting isn't even that bad :lol

and his season average in TO's is at 1.7 which is a very acceptable number
averaging 2.3 for a few games isn't exactly terrible considering his career average is 2.1

i mean sure, i dont want him averaging 2.3 but if thats his "bad stretch" then i'll take it

agree :tu

my point is I knew he was not going to sustain his great start, at the same time, I hope he can at least avoid turning into full-on Turnobili. My hopes hang on Super Marco to save Manu's last couple of years :cry

[elmanutres]

That's how I am sold that he is in fact a troll.

believe it or not he's not a troll. hes had an account since 06 and if you look at his thread history, has made many legit threads that disprove he's a troll. he really is a spursfan




however, he is still an idiot

[HI-FI]

:rollinat the bump.

I imagine the site will be sold soon. the owners will probably sell it to a Laker fan just to see Spursfan squirm.

also good to see my nigga hater still the master of moving goal posts. The Bolivians mastered the art of portable goalposts to play in mountainous conditions.

[Brazil]

Haternostradamus :lol

[Brazil]

Hater is Bolivian ? The fuck ?

[DesignatedT]

:lol

[urunobili]

also good to see my nigga hater still the master of moving goal posts. The Bolivians mastered the art of portable goalposts to play in mountainous conditions.
:lmao

[hater]

:rollinat the bump.

I imagine the site will be sold soon. the owners will probably sell it to a Laker fan just to see Spursfan squirm.

also good to see my nigga hater still the master of moving goal posts. The Bolivians mastered the art of portable goalposts to play in mountainous conditions.

:lol

not only our niggas in Bolivia can move goalposts, they can also move bundles of prime quality coca for our american friends like nobody's business :tu

here in Medellin we applaud the Bolivian wing of the Cartel for their hard work :tu

[Splits]

:lol who's the first guy to use the crying emoticon schtick?

May have been timvp, tbh. It's relatively new, kinda like tbh, tbh

[NASpurs]

May have been timvp, tbh. It's relatively new, kinda like tbh, tbh

Nope, it was Mavs fans. They've been doing it for years on this board. mono, stretch, bump, all of them dudes started that shit as well as starting the shtick that starts sentences with :lol or lol.

example:

:lol Spurs
:lol chokers
:lol missed layup

etc

[rascal]

It's been approximately 162,000 minutes since it happened . . . and, honestly, it hurts. It's a pain deep in the soul that I probably won't ever shake. To be that close to such a great moment -- only to see it slip through the fingers -- is still devastating. Somehow, it seems to have hurt more and more as the summer progressed as the realization set in regarding what exactly was at stake.

Sure, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't mean much. It's not something real. It's not a death or some other sort of real life tragedy. But given that following the Spurs is my only hobby in life, it's painful. I'm not going to even try to lie. It hurts.

I've tried getting away from it all to try to forget about it. But there I was, in the middle of the Pacific on a cruise ship in a pitch black room trying to fall asleep, and all that I can see are those 28 seconds replaying again and again.

Logically, I know the pain doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's just a basketball game. And the Spurs already have four championships. And going into last season, a trip to the Finals would have been seen as a great success. Hell, going into the playoffs, I thought getting to the Western Conference Finals was a success.

Logically, what the Spurs did last year was a great accomplishment. A year ago, if you told me the Spurs would be 28 seconds from a championship, I would have been thrilled.

But damn.

This pain doesn't compare to anything else I've experienced in my Spurs fandom. Yeah, .4 sucked. The foul was tough to swallow. The no-look pass was unpleasant. The backdoor sweeps weren't fun. The frontdoor sweeps weren't enjoyable. But all of those don't even register compared to this.

I've had an extremely busy summer. Life is great -- never better. But it continues to haunt me.



Hopefully going to the game tonight will provide some sort of relief. The great thing about sports is there is always tomorrow. For now, at least, the pain of yesterday outweighs the excitement of tomorrow. I'm hoping that changes. Starting tonight.

You need to find another hobby.

[Brazil]

Thread of the year IMO

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

:lol

[Darius Bieber]

Kids in Africa probably enjoying them now

[kobe4life]

There is nothing you can do spurfans we are going to keep reminding you about this over and over and for the rest of eternity :lol

[ElNono]

:lol Lakerfan repping Lebron and former-celtic Allen... how the mighty have fallen, tbh...

[kobe4life]

:lol Lakerfan repping Lebron and former-celtic Allen... how the mighty have fallen, tbh...

We will force you to worship Kobe because its the truth he is better than Duncan.

[elbamba]

Duncan has never allowed his team to fail to make the playoffs. Kobe can't say the same thing. He just doesn't have the drive to make others around him better like Tim. His teammates just don't respect him.

[ElNono]

We will force you

:lol no you won't do shit other than put on a Heat jersey and pretend cancer Kobe had anything to do with it.

:lol Jim Buss
:lol $48m shit sandwich

http://dy.snimg.com/story-image/0/0/208659/208659-310-253.jpg

[Budkin]

:lol Lakerfan repping Lebron and former-celtic Allen... how the mighty have fallen, tbh...

tbqhimo

[james evans]

We will force you to worship Kobe because its the truth he is better than Duncan.
how is a role player for 3 of his titles better than the MAN for all of his? hahaha. tell us how james worthy is better than hakeem olojuwon..

[Clipper Nation]

We will force you to worship Kobe because its the truth he is better than Duncan.
timvp with the obvious bads :lol

[benefactor]

We will force you to worship Kobe because its the truth he is better than Duncan.
:lol gay worship

[TJastal]

:lol no you won't do shit other than put on a Heat jersey and pretend cancer Kobe had anything to do with it.

:lol Jim Buss
:lol $48m shit sandwich

http://dy.snimg.com/story-image/0/0/208659/208659-310-253.jpg

:lmao :rollin :lol :lmao :rollin :lmao

[superjames1992]

:cry

[spurraider21]

It's been approximately 162,000 minutes since it happened . . . and, honestly, it hurts. It's a pain deep in the soul that I probably won't ever shake. To be that close to such a great moment -- only to see it slip through the fingers -- is still devastating. Somehow, it seems to have hurt more and more as the summer progressed as the realization set in regarding what exactly was at stake.

Sure, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't mean much. It's not something real. It's not a death or some other sort of real life tragedy. But given that following the Spurs is my only hobby in life, it's painful. I'm not going to even try to lie. It hurts.

I've tried getting away from it all to try to forget about it. But there I was, in the middle of the Pacific on a cruise ship in a pitch black room trying to fall asleep, and all that I can see are those 28 seconds replaying again and again.

Logically, I know the pain doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's just a basketball game. And the Spurs already have four championships. And going into last season, a trip to the Finals would have been seen as a great success. Hell, going into the playoffs, I thought getting to the Western Conference Finals was a success.

Logically, what the Spurs did last year was a great accomplishment. A year ago, if you told me the Spurs would be 28 seconds from a championship, I would have been thrilled.

But damn.

This pain doesn't compare to anything else I've experienced in my Spurs fandom. Yeah, .4 sucked. The foul was tough to swallow. The no-look pass was unpleasant. The backdoor sweeps weren't fun. The frontdoor sweeps weren't enjoyable. But all of those don't even register compared to this.

I've had an extremely busy summer. Life is great -- never better. But it continues to haunt me.



Hopefully going to the game tonight will provide some sort of relief. The great thing about sports is there is always tomorrow. For now, at least, the pain of yesterday outweighs the excitement of tomorrow. I'm hoping that changes. Starting tonight.
hey timvp can we get an update on how many minutes it's been now?

[Sean Cagney]

hey timvp can we get an update on how many minutes it's been now?

YES I am very interested! If someone know that they need a life and then some.

[sook]

Nope, it was Mavs fans. They've been doing it for years on this board. mono, stretch, bump, all of them dudes started that shit as well as starting the shtick that starts sentences with :lol or lol.

example:

:lol Spurs
:lol chokers
:lol missed layup

etc
The :lol thread thing was actually LakaLuva I think. It was incredibly stupid at the time, which is why I never expected it to catch on like it did.

[MeloHype]

6


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqfg4dPEueI

:flag:
Is that Paul George @ :07 ?

[superjames1992]

:cry :cry :cry

Come back, timvp. It's been almost a year now and it still hurts!!!.......... :cry :cry :cry

6.

[mclinejr]

I just knew we'd see this thread again before the playoffs started.

[soxxx]

Ive come to the conclusion the ONLY way to heal the 2013 finals is to win the 2014 finals. Lets be serious, had we won last year, I doubt we would repeat. (Its entirely possible Duncan and Manu might have retired. So if we win it this year it will heal it, if we dont then its an open wound forever. Even if we win it in 2015, it wont heal it because its an entire season removed

[Prime Time]

Ive come to the conclusion the ONLY way to heal the 2013 finals is to win the 2014 finals. Lets be serious, had we won last year, I doubt we would repeat. (Its entirely possible Duncan and Manu might have retired. So if we win it this year it will heal it, if we dont then its an open wound forever. Even if we win it in 2015, it wont heal it because its an entire season removed
Speak for yourself brah, I'm completely over any 'pain' from the 2013 finals.

[Jimcs50]

When Spurs beat Miami to win their 5th championship this Summer, it will probably be the greatest comeback in NBA history. For a team that nobody gave a chance to overcome 2013's horrible, gut shot meltdown of epic proportions is just this side of a sports miracle. I am a big homer, with the most rose colored glasses one can ever possess, and even I did not think that SA would come back and secure the best record in the NBA in less than one year. Mad props to this team and coaching staff for their perseverance. I think if they do get in Finals against Miami, they will have most of the NBA fans rooting for them.

[Manu20]

When Spurs beat Miami to win their 5th championship this Summer, it will probably be the greatest comeback in NBA history. For a team that nobody gave a chance to overcome 2013's horrible, gut shot meltdown of epic proportions is just this side of a sports miracle. I am a big homer, with the most rose colored glasses one can ever possess, and even I did not think that SA would come back and secure the best record in the NBA in less than one year. Mad props to this team and coaching staff for their perseverance. I think if they do get in Finals against Miami, they will have most of the NBA fans rooting for them.

It's quite amazing what the Spurs players & coaches have done this season, they came in focus and grabbed the best record in the league. Honestly I did not re-watched game 6 until late October and even then I stopped the game with 28 seconds left!!!! lol

[Budkin]

When Spurs beat Miami to win their 5th championship this Summer, it will probably be the greatest comeback in NBA history. For a team that nobody gave a chance to overcome 2013's horrible, gut shot meltdown of epic proportions is just this side of a sports miracle. I am a big homer, with the most rose colored glasses one can ever possess, and even I did not think that SA would come back and secure the best record in the NBA in less than one year. Mad props to this team and coaching staff for their perseverance. I think if they do get in Finals against Miami, they will have most of the NBA fans rooting for them.

:tu

[Phenomanul]

When Spurs beat Miami to win their 5th championship this Summer, it will probably be the greatest comeback in NBA history. For a team that nobody gave a chance to overcome 2013's horrible, gut shot meltdown of epic proportions is just this side of a sports miracle. I am a big homer, with the most rose colored glasses one can ever possess, and even I did not think that SA would come back and secure the best record in the NBA in less than one year. Mad props to this team and coaching staff for their perseverance. I think if they do get in Finals against Miami, they will have most of the NBA fans rooting for them.

Here's to hoping... :toast

[james evans]

It's quite amazing what the Spurs players & coaches have done this season, they came in focus and grabbed the best record in the league. Honestly I did not re-watched game 6 until late October and even then I stopped the game with 28 seconds left!!!! lol
i still haven't re-watched it. haven't seen it or game 7. no need to. don't ever want to see them again.

[Solid D]

:tu :tu

[Budkin]

i still haven't re-watched it. haven't seen it or game 7. no need to. don't ever want to see them again.

Good, don't. You lived it. It's like being punched in the stomach all over again.

[superjames1992]

Why would a Spurs fan rewatch any NBA Finals action? That's the equivalent of slitting your own wrists...

[dg7md]

6. and 7 proved how important HCA is in the playoffs and that is why I'm glad that if we make it that far, we've got it.

I don't think those miracle shots would have fallen if they weren't in Miami tbh. Either way, we've got to forget about it and move on to these playoffs.

[Malik Hairston]

6. and 7 proved how important HCA is in the playoffs and that is why I'm glad that if we make it that far, we've got it.

I don't think those miracle shots would have fallen if they weren't in Miami tbh. Either way, we've got to forget about it and move on to these playoffs.

:lol I don't think HCA was the difference in the series..when there's 28 seconds left and you have the game all but wrapped up, it should be over, no excuses..

The Spurs choked, it was historic..Pop, Tony and Manu will make up for their mistakes, hopefully..

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

:lol I don't think HCA was the difference in the series..when there's 28 seconds left and you have the game all but wrapped up, it should be over, no excuses..

The Spurs choked, it was historic..Pop, Tony and Manu will make up for their mistakes, hopefully..

Game 7.

Good you didn't include Timmy up here..

[capek]

Good, don't. You lived it. It's like being punched in the stomach all over again.

I never watched any of the post game interviews etc for games 6 and 7 last year. If the incredible happens and we win the title this year, I think I'll find and watch them, for closure or something, just to bring things full circle. But those last two games...no chance I'll ever watch them again.

[spurraider21]

i've watched game 6 and 7 several times in the past year tbh :lol

[TampaDude]

Shit, guys...it's just basketball...

Of course, the Spurs are winning it all this time.

[LoneStarState'sPride]

I never watched any of the post game interviews etc for games 6 and 7 last year. If the incredible happens and we win the title this year, I think I'll find and watch them, for closure or something, just to bring things full circle. But those last two games...no chance I'll ever watch them again.

I ain't watching that shit, either, tbh :lol

Yeah, it's a game--I want it to be fucking fun for me to watch, dammit!

[TampaDude]

I ain't watching that shit, either, tbh :lol

Yeah, it's a game--I want it to be fucking fun for me to watch, dammit!

Go watch Game 7 of the 2005 Finals, then.

[LoneStarState'sPride]

Go watch Game 7 of the 2005 Finals, then.

Maybe after this playoff run--however it turns out :lol

[Sean Cagney]

Game 7.

Good you didn't include Timmy up here..

Never should have been a game 7 and he was one of the few to actually show up. Kawhi showed too, those two are safe imo.

[timtonymanu]

i've watched game 6 and 7 several times in the past year tbh :lol

Same here. Those last two games were entertaining, great basketball. Sure, it came at the expense of the Spurs but those games were memorable.

[superjames1992]

:cry

[spurraider21]

:lol we're in a game 7 and ItStillHurtsVP is still awol...

[Sybok]

I was reading that Tim was involved in a major single car accident tonight, and I feared the worst till I read that Pop pulled him out just before the whole thing went up in flames.

[superjames1992]

:lol we're in a game 7 and ItStillHurtsVP is still awol...
TIME is never coming back. Neither is Bruno. :cry

[Kool Bob Love]

I was reading that Tim was involved in a major single car accident tonight, and I feared the worst till I read that Pop pulled him out just before the whole thing went up in flames.

Bad comparison. Bad troll. This one ain't working for you. Next.

[IrisHockey]

Go watch Game 7 of the 2005 Finals, then.

That'll knock you right out.

[superjames1992]

Still no TIME as we enter the second round. :cry

[mclinejr]

Bad comparison. Bad troll. This one ain't working for you. Next.

[superjames1992]

It still hurts. :cry

[look_at_g_shred]

OP :lmao

[dg7md]

:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:c ry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry

[sook]

how the fuck is he still not back yet? Or is he posting under a troll...

[Prose]

It's been approximately 162,000 minutes since it happened . . . and, honestly, it hurts. It's a pain deep in the soul that I probably won't ever shake. To be that close to such a great moment -- only to see it slip through the fingers -- is still devastating. Somehow, it seems to have hurt more and more as the summer progressed as the realization set in regarding what exactly was at stake.

Sure, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't mean much. It's not something real. It's not a death or some other sort of real life tragedy. But given that following the Spurs is my only hobby in life, it's painful. I'm not going to even try to lie. It hurts.

I've tried getting away from it all to try to forget about it. But there I was, in the middle of the Pacific on a cruise ship in a pitch black room trying to fall asleep, and all that I can see are those 28 seconds replaying again and again.

Logically, I know the pain doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's just a basketball game. And the Spurs already have four championships. And going into last season, a trip to the Finals would have been seen as a great success. Hell, going into the playoffs, I thought getting to the Western Conference Finals was a success.

Logically, what the Spurs did last year was a great accomplishment. A year ago, if you told me the Spurs would be 28 seconds from a championship, I would have been thrilled.

But damn.

This pain doesn't compare to anything else I've experienced in my Spurs fandom. Yeah, .4 sucked. The foul was tough to swallow. The no-look pass was unpleasant. The backdoor sweeps weren't fun. The frontdoor sweeps weren't enjoyable. But all of those don't even register compared to this.

I've had an extremely busy summer. Life is great -- never better. But it continues to haunt me.



Hopefully going to the game tonight will provide some sort of relief. The great thing about sports is there is always tomorrow. For now, at least, the pain of yesterday outweighs the excitement of tomorrow. I'm hoping that changes. Starting tonight.





it feels like I went through a brake up...scars don't go away.

[SpursFan86]

how the fuck is he still not back yet? Or is he posting under a troll...

Plot twist: jkid is timvp's troll :lol

[superjames1992]

Back to the WCF for the 3rd straight year, but it still hurts!!! :cry :cry :cry

[soxxx]

Back to the WCF for the 3rd straight year, but it still hurts!!! :cry :cry :cry
Just rewatched it....its so bad honestly. Missed free throws, could get the rebounds off of Lebrons misses. Ugh

[superjames1992]

:cry

[Budkin]

Come on timvp. We're getting close to winning the West again. Is it going to hurt until we actually win it? Maybe he doesn't want to jinx us by chiming in before we do it.

[bobby4germany]

Here we are again!

[Uriel]

Don't think timvp will come back until the season ends, tbh. Probably doesn't wanna risk jinxing the good mojo the Spurs have had when he hasn't shown up.

[noles1983]

is dude still alive?

[mando6599]

I don't believe in jinxes, yet I do believe in this team to win it all this year, no matter what it takes! GO SPURS GO!

[KoolAid Mans Brother]

quitter

[webshad]

:lobt2:Hurt this! We are the champion babayyyyyyy

[Rummpd]

Better this way..............

[313]

:cry:

[jeebus]

quitter

[Thebesteva]

Congrats Spur fan

[siraulo23]

it doesnt hurt anymore...

tbh

tbh

5th 'ship!

[Budkin]

Not anymore!

[100%duncan]

Not anymore!

Feels good. :flag:

[illusioNtEk]

wtf, tim vp really said this?

[21209]

Amazing how this title puts last years pain in the rear view mirror.

[007nites]

I don't believe in jinxes, yet I do believe in this team to win it all this year, no matter what it takes! GO SPURS GO!

We will comeback next year and do it again

[mkurts]

Hopefully the carcasses of the cliff jumpers and doomsayers are all lying in the field being picked clean by vultures as we speak. This champion Spurs team deserve better fans than that rotten garbage.

[dg7md]

The curse has been lifted.

[mudyez]

No, it doesn't!

[December Romo]

quitter

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

7 Times a man falls, 7 times he gets up. It took 7 years but the Spurs finally did it again.

[will_spurs]

It used to hurt. It doesn't any more. A title cures all wounds.

[Beaverfuzz]

Fuck him.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfoxsfhi-kk

[rjv]

timvp makes jean paul sartre seem like pharell williams

[Venti Quattro]

http://i.imgur.com/alAnxr5.gif

[manufan10]

http://i.imgur.com/alAnxr5.gif
:depressed

[spurraider21]

Gonna make this year's title run that much sweeter. :lobt2::lobt2::lobt2::lobt2::lobt2:
:worthy:

[Spur|n|Austin]

B2B 2015 and I won't ever think about 6 again, tbh.

[spurs10]

:worthy: We witnessed the greatest comeback and redemption stories we are bound to see in our lifetimes. It doesn't get any better than this....just amazing.

[Vic Petro]

I put my money where my mouth was and made some decent coin off our Spurs win this season. Will probably be doubling down for next season :ihit

[Arcadian]

It still feels good.

[Spur|n|Austin]

It still feels good.

Yeah I just fired up some more Finals/Celebration highlights - still feels real good man.

http://www.wordans.co.uk/wordansfiles/images/2011/3/28/73411/73411_340.jpg?1301340514

[Maddog]

I feel Better than James Brown

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[HI-FI]

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impressive

[xmas1997]

It still feels good.

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It sure does!

Last year?
I don't need no stinkin' last year!

This year!
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[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Bill Simmons has been writing about the topic of painful losses for about 15 years now. He wrote one of his best articles on the topic shortly before the Finals this year: http://grantland.com/features/nba-finals-game-6-heat-spurs/

When I read that article, I felt gut-punched. Bill described the events of game 6 in such wrenchingly accurate detail - exactly as I remember it - that I felt devastation and dread for hours afterwards that it might happen again.

Now when I think of that awful sequence in 2013, I feel nothing. I am mentally annoyed that the Spurs lost the seemingly unloseable, but there is no negative emotional reaction any more, 2014's incredible redemption has wiped that all away. Thank you Spurs for (arguably) the greatest redemption story in the history of NBA basketball. :toast

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[Dre_7]

Bill Simmons has been writing about the topic of painful losses for about 15 years now. He wrote one of his best articles on the topic shortly before the Finals this year: http://grantland.com/features/nba-finals-game-6-heat-spurs/

When I read that article, I felt gut-punched. Bill described the events of game 6 in such wrenchingly accurate detail - exactly as I remember it - that I felt devastation and dread for hours afterwards that it might happen again.

Now when I think of that awful sequence in 2013, I feel nothing. I am mentally annoyed that the Spurs lost the seemingly unloseable, but there is no negative emotional reaction any more, 2014's incredible redemption has wiped that all away. Thank you Spurs for (arguably) the greatest redemption story in the history of NBA basketball. :toast

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:tu

It is the greatest redemption story in NBA history, as well as the sweetest Spurs Championship victory ever.

It feels great to be a Spurs fan!

[024]

Simmons' prophetic conclusion to that article:

"And here’s how fast things can flip. Back in October 2003, the Red Sox choked away Game 7 in Yankee Stadium, one of the most demoralizing defeats in franchise history. It felt like something of a final straw for Boston fans. We’d be thinking about Grady Little’s mistake and Aaron Boone’s homer forever. The Baseball Gods hated us. It was official. We would live our entire lives, then croak, without ever seeing them win the whole thing. Twelve months later, we won the whole thing. Ten years later, the Boone Game doesn’t matter anymore. I never think about it.

If the Spurs beat Miami, Allen’s 3 stops haunting them — and if that’s not enough, we’ll remember San Antonio as the greatest franchise of the post-Jordan era."

:cry

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Simmons' prophetic conclusion to that article:

"And here’s how fast things can flip. Back in October 2003, the Red Sox choked away Game 7 in Yankee Stadium, one of the most demoralizing defeats in franchise history. It felt like something of a final straw for Boston fans. We’d be thinking about Grady Little’s mistake and Aaron Boone’s homer forever. The Baseball Gods hated us. It was official. We would live our entire lives, then croak, without ever seeing them win the whole thing. Twelve months later, we won the whole thing. Ten years later, the Boone Game doesn’t matter anymore. I never think about it.

If the Spurs beat Miami, Allen’s 3 stops haunting them — and if that’s not enough, we’ll remember San Antonio as the greatest franchise of the post-Jordan era."

:cry

Yup. Simmons makes a lot of predictions and gets a lot wrong, but when he gets it right he hits it out of the park. :)

I hope everyone reads Simmons' article because it is gold.

[Budkin]

Bill Simmons has been writing about the topic of painful losses for about 15 years now. He wrote one of his best articles on the topic shortly before the Finals this year: http://grantland.com/features/nba-finals-game-6-heat-spurs/

When I read that article, I felt gut-punched. Bill described the events of game 6 in such wrenchingly accurate detail - exactly as I remember it - that I felt devastation and dread for hours afterwards that it might happen again.

Now when I think of that awful sequence in 2013, I feel nothing. I am mentally annoyed that the Spurs lost the seemingly unloseable, but there is no negative emotional reaction any more, 2014's incredible redemption has wiped that all away. Thank you Spurs for (arguably) the greatest redemption story in the history of NBA basketball. :toast

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Perfect take. :toast

[senorglory]

And now Simmons says lebron has the "greatest mind in basketball," the sellout shill motherfucker.

[Juggity]

I'm sure I'll get shit on for this take, but I don't really think 2013 was that bad. Frankly, it was a little shocking to me that the spurs made the finals. I was even more surprised that they were able to compete with peak Lebron for 7 games and defend him about as well as possible. It was a great series that definitely bucked the narrative of the 6 previous years that the spurs couldn't compete on the highest level under pressure. Had they won, it might have been Duncan's finest hour — he would have won FMVP after game 6, no doubt. But in all honesty, losing game 6 only sucked because it looked like the spurs were on the verge of upsetting all expectations and actually beating the Heat, which I certainly thought was a remote possibility at best at the beginning of the season, and even up to the beginning of the finals. Given that my expectations were tempered to begin with (and I expected the spurs to do about as well as OKC had done in 2012), the fact that they took Lebron's Heat to 7 games was really a pleasant surprise, and it was easy to accept that they didn't win.

Of course, this year's drubbing of the Heat erases any idea that last year's near-draw in the finals was a fluke. The spurs were a really good team last year. But the Heat were better from the outset and it was their series to lose or win. Lebron reached out and grabbed what was his (with a little help from Ray Allen). In the intervening year, the spurs got a lot better, the heat got a lot worse, and the Heat came into this year's finals with seeming much more vulnerable. Had the spurs lost in the finals this year, it would have been truly devastating; much more than last year, because this year's spurs were better from top to bottom as a complete team than the crippled shell of the Heat. I expected the spurs to win this year. Last year, I was just happy to see them competing at the highest level.

[FkLA]

Am I the only one that refuses to watch 6 still? Even in that Reborn from the Ashes youtube vid I just skip through that shit. I didn't let 6 affect my everyday life (f'ing drama queens tbh) or anything like that but anytime it is being shown or talked about on tv I gtfo tbh.

[FkLA]

I'm sure I'll get shit on for this take, but I don't really think 2013 was that bad. Frankly, it was a little shocking to me that the spurs made the finals. I was even more surprised that they were able to compete with peak Lebron for 7 games and defend him about as well as possible. It was a great series that definitely bucked the narrative of the 6 previous years that the spurs couldn't compete on the highest level under pressure. Had they won, it might have been Duncan's finest hour — he would have won FMVP after game 6, no doubt. But in all honesty, losing game 6 only sucked because it looked like the spurs were on the verge of upsetting all expectations and actually beating the Heat, which I certainly thought was a remote possibility at best at the beginning of the season, and even up to the beginning of the finals. Given that my expectations were tempered to begin with (and I expected the spurs to do about as well as OKC had done in 2012), the fact that they took Lebron's Heat to 7 games was really a pleasant surprise, and it was easy to accept that they didn't win.

Of course, this year's drubbing of the Heat erases any idea that last year's near-draw in the finals was a fluke. The spurs were a really good team last year. But the Heat were better from the outset and it was their series to lose or win. Lebron reached out and grabbed what was his (with a little help from Ray Allen). In the intervening year, the spurs got a lot better, the heat got a lot worse, and the Heat came into this year's finals with seeming much more vulnerable. Had the spurs lost in the finals this year, it would have been truly devastating; much more than last year, because this year's spurs were better from top to bottom as a complete team than the crippled shell of the Heat. I expected the spurs to win this year. Last year, I was just happy to see them competing at the highest level.

It stopped being a 'just happy to be here' series when we all realized our Spurs were good enough to take down the Heatles. When you are up 3-2 and 28 seconds away whatever doubts you had coming into the series are thrown out the window imo.

[dg7md]

I'm sure I'll get shit on for this take, but I don't really think 2013 was that bad. Frankly, it was a little shocking to me that the spurs made the finals. I was even more surprised that they were able to compete with peak Lebron for 7 games and defend him about as well as possible. It was a great series that definitely bucked the narrative of the 6 previous years that the spurs couldn't compete on the highest level under pressure. Had they won, it might have been Duncan's finest hour — he would have won FMVP after game 6, no doubt. But in all honesty, losing game 6 only sucked because it looked like the spurs were on the verge of upsetting all expectations and actually beating the Heat, which I certainly thought was a remote possibility at best at the beginning of the season, and even up to the beginning of the finals. Given that my expectations were tempered to begin with (and I expected the spurs to do about as well as OKC had done in 2012), the fact that they took Lebron's Heat to 7 games was really a pleasant surprise, and it was easy to accept that they didn't win.

Of course, this year's drubbing of the Heat erases any idea that last year's near-draw in the finals was a fluke. The spurs were a really good team last year. But the Heat were better from the outset and it was their series to lose or win. Lebron reached out and grabbed what was his (with a little help from Ray Allen). In the intervening year, the spurs got a lot better, the heat got a lot worse, and the Heat came into this year's finals with seeming much more vulnerable. Had the spurs lost in the finals this year, it would have been truly devastating; much more than last year, because this year's spurs were better from top to bottom as a complete team than the crippled shell of the Heat. I expected the spurs to win this year. Last year, I was just happy to see them competing at the highest level.

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Easy to say now that we won this year. If we didn't win this year... well, I don't want to think about that: Let's just say it would be a franchise killing moment.

[therealtruth]

We were good enough to win last year even before we got to the Finals.

[Juggity]

It stopped being a 'just happy to be here' series when we all realized our Spurs were good enough to take down the Heatles. When you are up 3-2 and 28 seconds away whatever doubts you had coming into the series are thrown out the window imo.

I agree the spurs were just about good enough to beat the Heat, but I still never really felt convinced that it would happen. Right up to the end for me it was a feeling of "wow, I'm surprised the spurs have played the heat to a draw, but surely it will end soon."

At no point in that series did I really feel like the spurs were definitely the better team...when they were winning, it always felt kind of fluky. All of the dice rolling exactly perfect at the right moment. DG was on the hot side of a streak and was bound to go cold like clockwork as is his streaky tradition. Other players just plain failed to show up (Ginobili, Splitter). Sure, the spurs executed pretty well for the most part, but ultimately the gameplan was to needle Lebron and challenge him to take outside jumpers. They were relying on Lebron to pass up those jumpers they were conceding to him, and it all worked right up until the point when Lebron realized he was Lebron and he was perfectly capable of making those shots. It was a bold plan to make Lebron doubt himself as a shooter, but ultimately the fate of the series always rested in his hands. He took control of his own fate.

I definitely wasn't celebrating at 28 seconds given how close the game was and also given the fact that I felt like Lebron at any moment was going to explode — which he did in game 7 (and, I guess with that clutch 3 right before Ray Allen's in game 6). I guess my point in saying all this is, I'm surprised any spurs fan ever really felt that championship was "in hand" so to speak. A 5 point lead is nothing in the final minute of the game; spurfans should know that better than anyone after 13 in 33, and all the other last minute blows over the years.

Now, don't get me wrong, 2013 did hurt. But in its proper context, I don't think it's the worst thing ever to happen to an NBA basketball team as some people on spurstalk and elsewhere have discussed it. For me it falls into the category of "disappointing but pretty much expected loss." Give me 6 over the travesty in the 2012 WCF any day of the week.

[Spur|n|Austin]

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Simmons' prophetic conclusion to that article:

"And here’s how fast things can flip. Back in October 2003, the Red Sox choked away Game 7 in Yankee Stadium, one of the most demoralizing defeats in franchise history. It felt like something of a final straw for Boston fans. We’d be thinking about Grady Little’s mistake and Aaron Boone’s homer forever. The Baseball Gods hated us. It was official. We would live our entire lives, then croak, without ever seeing them win the whole thing. Twelve months later, we won the whole thing. Ten years later, the Boone Game doesn’t matter anymore. I never think about it.

If the Spurs beat Miami, Allen’s 3 stops haunting them — and if that’s not enough, we’ll remember San Antonio as the greatest franchise of the post-Jordan era."

:cry

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[tmtcsc]

I was at the .4 game against the Lakers and the Game 7 -Manu fouls Dirk for 3 pt play in Game 7. I watched on TV as McGrady scored 13 pts or whatever it was in about 1 minute, to defeat the Spurs. I also remember Portland coming back from a huge deficit to beat the Spurs in 2011 on the last play of the game. They finished on an 8-0 run, fueled by 3 Spurs turnovers in the final 1:21 secs of the game.

So.....did I feel the Spurs had the title wrapped up with a 5 pt lead and 28 secs to go? Absolutely not. I NEVER gave in to any early celebration and NEVER considered the game won. I guess thats why it didnt hurt as much.

[xmas1997]

I was at the .4 game against the Lakers and the Game 7 -Manu fouls Dirk for 3 pt play in Game 7. I watched on TV as McGrady scored 13 pts or whatever it was in about 1 minute, to defeat the Spurs. I also remember Portland coming back from a huge deficit to beat the Spurs in 2011 on the last play of the game. They finished on an 8-0 run, fueled by 3 Spurs turnovers in the final 1:21 secs of the game.

So.....did I feel the Spurs had the title wrapped up with a 5 pt lead and 28 secs to go? Absolutely not. I NEVER gave in to any early celebration and NEVER considered the game won. I guess thats why it didnt hurt as much.

I agree with you.
I have watched the Spurs enough to KNOW that you NEVER count on a win, especially when they leading by anything less than 10 points. And even 10 points is not enough IMHO.
People make way too big a thing over it, or they have not watched enough Spurs games IMHO.

[Maddog]

Tony's not hurting and neither am I

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[AFBlue]

I was at the .4 game against the Lakers and the Game 7 -Manu fouls Dirk for 3 pt play in Game 7. I watched on TV as McGrady scored 13 pts or whatever it was in about 1 minute, to defeat the Spurs. I also remember Portland coming back from a huge deficit to beat the Spurs in 2011 on the last play of the game. They finished on an 8-0 run, fueled by 3 Spurs turnovers in the final 1:21 secs of the game.

So.....did I feel the Spurs had the title wrapped up with a 5 pt lead and 28 secs to go? Absolutely not. I NEVER gave in to any early celebration and NEVER considered the game won. I guess thats why it didnt hurt as much.

You're terrible fucking luck tbqh. I'm going to ask you not to attend any key games in the future if that's ok.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

I'm sure I'll get shit on for this take, but I don't really think 2013 was that bad. Frankly, it was a little shocking to me that the spurs made the finals. I was even more surprised that they were able to compete with peak Lebron for 7 games and defend him about as well as possible. It was a great series that definitely bucked the narrative of the 6 previous years that the spurs couldn't compete on the highest level under pressure. Had they won, it might have been Duncan's finest hour — he would have won FMVP after game 6, no doubt. But in all honesty, losing game 6 only sucked because it looked like the spurs were on the verge of upsetting all expectations and actually beating the Heat, which I certainly thought was a remote possibility at best at the beginning of the season, and even up to the beginning of the finals. Given that my expectations were tempered to begin with (and I expected the spurs to do about as well as OKC had done in 2012), the fact that they took Lebron's Heat to 7 games was really a pleasant surprise, and it was easy to accept that they didn't win.

Of course, this year's drubbing of the Heat erases any idea that last year's near-draw in the finals was a fluke. The spurs were a really good team last year. But the Heat were better from the outset and it was their series to lose or win. Lebron reached out and grabbed what was his (with a little help from Ray Allen). In the intervening year, the spurs got a lot better, the heat got a lot worse, and the Heat came into this year's finals with seeming much more vulnerable. Had the spurs lost in the finals this year, it would have been truly devastating; much more than last year, because this year's spurs were better from top to bottom as a complete team than the crippled shell of the Heat. I expected the spurs to win this year. Last year, I was just happy to see them competing at the highest level.

No-one expected us to make the 2013 Finals to start the year, or even during the season, but as we rolled through the playoffs flattening teams you could feel the chemistry meshing and the anticipation of a strong Finals series.

Once we got to the Finals I firmly believed it would be tough, 6 or 7 games, but that we were the better team, and that's how it proceeded to play out. But for LBJ going mental in the 4th Q, followed by TP going mental to put us up 5, then 4 consecutive pieces of bad luck in game 6, the series was ours... it was the most heartbreaking way to lose. Worse than 0.4sec because that was the semi-finals (and that year's Pistons were better than us), and worse than Manu's foul on Dirk because we were always behind in that series. 2013 sucked in the most heinous way possible, and game 6 was a true gut-punch for mine because everything was building towards the perfect ending, then it all went sour in 28 improbable seconds. And then even in game 7 it took a ridiculous throwback performance from Batier (6 3s) and a missed bunny from Timmy to finally knock us out. And Mike Miller hit that ridiculus 3 with one shoe on... and so on. We were the better team!!! They just got INCREDIBLY LUCKY. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! But yeah, doesn't matter any more, 2014 wiped all that angst away.

I'm glad it didn't hurt you so badly though! ;) :lmao

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

I agree with you.
I have watched the Spurs enough to KNOW that you NEVER count on a win, especially when they leading by anything less than 10 points. And even 10 points is not enough IMHO.
People make way too big a thing over it, or they have not watched enough Spurs games IMHO.

Um, not just the Spurs. That's basketball and sports in general. I'd say we lose a lot less often than the average team when we have a lead late in the game.

[Sean Cagney]

Um, not just the Spurs. That's basketball and sports in general. I'd say we lose a lot less often than the average team when we have a lead late in the game.
I used to say the same and it was just the Spurs who blew big leads but paid attention more this playoffs to other teams with big leads and you are right it is not just the SPURS! I saw some 10 pt leads with a few minutes or less dissapear a few times on END FROM OKC, Houston, GSW and on and on, it is not just the Spurs. We notice it more as fans and think the Spurs are prone to blowing big leads but honestly it is not just them as you said and thats the truth. Memphis blew some nice leads late too against OKC, they should have won that series in 5 but Conley choked away game 4 I believe and they lost that one in OT and then lost in 7.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

I used to say the same and it was just the Spurs who blew big leads but paid attention more this playoffs to other teams with big leads and you are right it is not just the SPURS! I saw some 10 pt leads with a few minutes or less dissapear a few times on END FROM OKC, Houston, GSW and on and on, it is not just the Spurs. We notice it more as fans and think the Spurs are prone to blowing big leads but honestly it is not just them as you said and thats the truth. Memphis blew some nice leads late too against OKC, they should have won that series in 5 but Conley choked away game 4 I believe and they lost that one in OT and then lost in 7.

:tu

There was a mad statistic near the end of last season that we were something like 32-0 taking a lead into the fourth quarter. Of all the teams in the NBA at the moment, I will take the Spurs to win a close game at the end.

Those of you out there who doubt the Spurs' finishing capabilities, which team would you take ahead of them to finish a game if your life is on the line?

[Sean Cagney]

:tu

There was a mad statistic near the end of last season that we were something like 32-0 taking a lead into the fourth quarter. Of all the teams in the NBA at the moment, I will take the Spurs to win a close game at the end.

Those of you out there who doubt the Spurs' finishing capabilities, which team would you take ahead of them to finish a game if your life is on the line?

Don't forget the Nets either in game 7 nearly blowing a HUGE lead at the end with a minute or so left, they were up 10 or so and nearly lost that game too. All teams blow leads at the end it is just your team that gets highlighted in your mind because thats what you see and care about mostly. I would take the Spurs usually late in a game over most teams out there no doubt, they have won more games than anyone since 98 or so and it is not even close IMO.

[tmtcsc]

You're terrible fucking luck tbqh. I'm going to ask you not to attend any key games in the future if that's ok.

Yeah, not exactly. I was also at Game 6 during 2003 Finals against Nets and Game 7 during 2005 Finals against Pistons. I've seen a lot of big games in-person.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Yeah, not exactly. I was also at Game 6 during 2003 Finals against Nets and Game 7 during 2005 Finals against Pistons. I've seen a lot of big games in-person.

Dayum, boy, you've been at all the big ones! I'm very envious. :wow

(also, you have great taste in butts... so to speak :lol )

[scanry]

I'm sure I'll get shit on for this take, but I don't really think 2013 was that bad. Frankly, it was a little shocking to me that the spurs made the finals. I was even more surprised that they were able to compete with peak Lebron for 7 games and defend him about as well as possible. It was a great series that definitely bucked the narrative of the 6 previous years that the spurs couldn't compete on the highest level under pressure. Had they won, it might have been Duncan's finest hour — he would have won FMVP after game 6, no doubt. But in all honesty, losing game 6 only sucked because it looked like the spurs were on the verge of upsetting all expectations and actually beating the Heat, which I certainly thought was a remote possibility at best at the beginning of the season, and even up to the beginning of the finals. Given that my expectations were tempered to begin with (and I expected the spurs to do about as well as OKC had done in 2012), the fact that they took Lebron's Heat to 7 games was really a pleasant surprise, and it was easy to accept that they didn't win.

Of course, this year's drubbing of the Heat erases any idea that last year's near-draw in the finals was a fluke. The spurs were a really good team last year. But the Heat were better from the outset and it was their series to lose or win. Lebron reached out and grabbed what was his (with a little help from Ray Allen). In the intervening year, the spurs got a lot better, the heat got a lot worse, and the Heat came into this year's finals with seeming much more vulnerable. Had the spurs lost in the finals this year, it would have been truly devastating; much more than last year, because this year's spurs were better from top to bottom as a complete team than the crippled shell of the Heat. I expected the spurs to win this year. Last year, I was just happy to see them competing at the highest level.

Hell Nah. We were the better team last year son. If Pop wasn't such a smart ass, there wouldn't be 6 tbh.

[therealtruth]

Hell Nah. We were the better team last year son. If Pop wasn't such a smart ass, there wouldn't be 6 tbh.

[spurraider21]

I would have been better had the Spurs just got outplayed the whole game in Game 6 like they were in Game 7. I don't think I'd sweat losing to Miami at all had it gone down like that. But to be 28.2 seconds away from at worst the second greatest upset in Finals history... FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
which was worse?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NjNL4Nsa4Q

or


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFQy-qmyotc

[Sean Cagney]

We got #5 and some need to get over it already :lol MY GOD move on in life, if it still hurts after this years finals your life will be sure misery over a game.

[baseline bum]

which was worse?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NjNL4Nsa4Q

or


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFQy-qmyotc

Probably the second tbh, but Reagan being ever the chickenshit when our Red Army won them the Great Patriotic War.

LtU3vUOa2sw

[Rustyman]

The pain of 2013 was such that I never returned to the board after G7 until after the G5 win this year. To be honest, I didn't think that the Spurs had another run in them after 2012 and 2013 and when they came close this year, I didn't want to jinx them.

[tmtcsc]

Dayum, boy, you've been at all the big ones! I'm very envious. :wow

(also, you have great taste in butts... so to speak :lol )

Let me tell ya man, I'm in Europe (Rome, Florence) on vacation right now and the scenery is breathtaking. I'm not talking about the landscape either. If I wasn't married already, I'd be getting rejected by some of the hottest women on the planet.

[tmtcsc]

The pain of 2013 was such that I never returned to the board after G7 until after the G5 win this year. To be honest, I didn't think that the Spurs had another run in them after 2012 and 2013 and when they came close this year, I didn't want to jinx them.

I know how you feel, I felt the same way years ago. However, the latest incarnation of the Spurs starting with 2012 has won me over. I know the Thunder took us out in the WCF in 2012 but I saw the roots of what could be a Championship team. 2013 against the Heat was tough but I came away from that series thinking the Spurs were the best team in the NBA despite losing the Championship. I felt like the 2014 title run was a no-brainer if they stayed healthy. If you don't believe me and you have some time, take a look at all my previous posts. It wasn't dumb bravado or homer boasting, I really felt the Spurs were built to get through OKC and the Heat. -- Maybe I got lucky, but I still have scoreboard and its time-stamped in black & white.

Let's face it, the Spurs have the best coaching (regardless of the constant bitching on this board) and scouting in the league. After losing to Memphis in 2011, Tim went to work and so did Pop and RC. They assembled a team and a plan that would eventually dismantle Memphis and eventually the Thunder in 2013. Trust me, OKC isn't going to have much luck going forward either. If the Spurs are healthy, they are going to be a nightmare for the competition.

The Spurs are tested, experienced, smart and confident. I see at least a repeat and perhaps more for the future. And if not, hell - we have 5 Rings. Its been a great ride.

[TampaDude]

Fuck...will y'all shut the fuck up about 2013 already...that's ancient history...WE'RE THE FUCKING CHAMPIONS NOW!!!!! :lol

[jeebus]

:lol choking a lead by bricking free throws, not rebounding, and letting some old fuck make a corner 3

[TampaDude]

:lol choking a lead by bricking free throws, not rebounding, and letting some old fuck make a corner 3

Fire Pop, tbh... :lol

[ViceCity84]

The euphoria has waned off,but this summer I can go anywhere on the planet and say:Spurs are best in the world now.

[xmas1997]

The Spurs will be and are the 2014 NBA Champions, until and if they are dethroned.
:lobt2:
:flag:

[AFBlue]

Note to self...become friends with tmtcsc. Start with apologizing for calling him out.

[AFBlue]

Yeah, not exactly. I was also at Game 6 during 2003 Finals against Nets and Game 7 during 2005 Finals against Pistons. I've seen a lot of big games in-person.

Sorry dude, my bad.

[Rustyman]

I know how you feel, I felt the same way years ago. However, the latest incarnation of the Spurs starting with 2012 has won me over. I know the Thunder took us out in the WCF in 2012 but I saw the roots of what could be a Championship team. 2013 against the Heat was tough but I came away from that series thinking the Spurs were the best team in the NBA despite losing the Championship. I felt like the 2014 title run was a no-brainer if they stayed healthy. If you don't believe me and you have some time, take a look at all my previous posts. It wasn't dumb bravado or homer boasting, I really felt the Spurs were built to get through OKC and the Heat. -- Maybe I got lucky, but I still have scoreboard and its time-stamped in black & white.

Let's face it, the Spurs have the best coaching (regardless of the constant bitching on this board) and scouting in the league. After losing to Memphis in 2011, Tim went to work and so did Pop and RC. They assembled a team and a plan that would eventually dismantle Memphis and eventually the Thunder in 2013. Trust me, OKC isn't going to have much luck going forward either. If the Spurs are healthy, they are going to be a nightmare for the competition.

The Spurs are tested, experienced, smart and confident. I see at least a repeat and perhaps more for the future. And if not, hell - we have 5 Rings. Its been a great ride.

To be honest, you have more faith than me and your faith has been vindicated. After loosing to OKC in 2012 and then MIA in 2013, I was started to believe that the end of the dynasty was at hand. I always knew that good coaching and teamwork will have the Spurs winning 50+ games a year with their eyes closed. I doubted whether that was enough to beat superior athletic talent.

That is why the win this year is probably the best of all for me other than 1999. It showed once more that good teams with good coaching can overcome so called "talent" deficiency. Sometimes people forget that the ability to play smartly as a team is also a great talent.

[tmtcsc]

Sorry dude, my bad.

:lol No worries man. I've been extremely fortunate in most cases. It's the heartbreaking losses that seem to stand out. Seeing DRob's first game as a rookie, his last game as a Champion in 2003 and Game 7 against the Pistons was the ultimate.

[baseline bum]

:lol No worries man. I've been extremely fortunate in most cases. It's the heartbreaking losses that seem to stand out. Seeing DRob's first game as a rookie, his last game as a Champion in 2003 and Game 7 against the Pistons was the ultimate.

Nice. I was there for that one too. I became a fan in the Aldrederick Hughes year when Ice was playing in Chicago, so all I knew were really rough seasons. And then all of a sudden you could see the team was an instant title contender that night, that Robinson was every bit as good as the hype, that the 2 year layoff hadn't made him rusty. And they have been a title contender ever since. How ridiculous is it to follow a team that had a chance at a title every single year since 1989-90 except for 96-97 when David was lost for the season?

[xmas1997]

If we never lost, we would not appreciate when we won. :hat

[tmtcsc]

Nice. I was there for that one too. I became a fan in the Aldrederick Hughes year when Ice was playing in Chicago, so all I knew were really rough seasons. And then all of a sudden you could see the team was an instant title contender that night, that Robinson was every bit as good as the hype, that the 2 year layoff hadn't made him rusty. And they have been a title contender ever since. How ridiculous is it to follow a team that had a chance at a title every single year since 1989-90 except for 96-97 when David was lost for the season?

Ouch. I came in just before you at the tail end of the successful early 80's. I had to watch A-Train put up a miserable shot attempt against the Lakers to end the 1982 0r 1983 playoffs. I was heartbroken. The Spurs had beaten the Lakers in Los Angeles the game before and there was hope that we could even the series and bring it back to LA. That was the beginning of the end.

ICE fell in to trouble with drugs, the Spurs drafted Alvin Robertson, Johnny Moore got desert fever and that was that. Seeing Drob, Maurice Cheeks, Sean Elliott, Willie Anderson, Terry Cummings, Frank Brickowski, David Wingate and Zarko :lol beat the Lakers gave the franchise new hope.

[Agloco]

The euphoria has waned off,but this summer I can go anywhere on the planet and say:Spurs are best in the world now.

tbh you could have done this last summer.

[Agloco]

Nice. I was there for that one too. I became a fan in the Aldrederick Hughes year when Ice was playing in Chicago, so all I knew were really rough seasons. And then all of a sudden you could see the team was an instant title contender that night, that Robinson was every bit as good as the hype, that the 2 year layoff hadn't made him rusty. And they have been a title contender ever since. How ridiculous is it to follow a team that had a chance at a title every single year since 1989-90 except for 96-97 when David was lost for the season?

I played some one on one a few times with this guy. If I could hang with him, you know he's not NBA material :lol

[xmas1997]

Ouch. I came in just before you at the tail end of the successful early 80's. I had to watch A-Train put up a miserable shot attempt against the Lakers to end the 1982 0r 1983 playoffs. I was heartbroken. The Spurs had beaten the Lakers in Los Angeles the game before and there was hope that we could even the series and bring it back to LA. That was the beginning of the end.

ICE fell in to trouble with drugs, the Spurs drafted Alvin Robertson, Johnny Moore got desert fever and that was that. Seeing Drob, Maurice Cheeks, Sean Elliott, Willie Anderson, Terry Cummings, Frank Brickowski, David Wingate and Zarko :lol beat the Lakers gave the franchise new hope.


Don't forget Rod Strictland.

[baseline bum]

Don't forget Rod Strictland.

They traded Cheeks for Strickland in the middle of the year because Cheeks hated San Antonio so much. The fucker just stayed in a hotel until they could find a trade for him to New York. LOL Knicks giving two young all-star point guards in Strickland and Mark Jackson up for nothing, and costing Ewing his legacy. :lol

[baseline bum]

I played some one on one a few times with this guy. If I could hang with him, you know he's not NBA material :lol

When have you ever seen a team cut a mid first round pick in the middle of the season? :lmao

[Stabula]

lol

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

Solid bump.

LOL

[TampaDude]

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1E74j_CEAAkMki.jpg

'nuff said... :hat

[rjv]

^^^ indeed.

[Stabula]

But we should be three-peating...


It still hurts.

[xmas1997]

Some will find a reason to complain about being hung with a New rope.

[Stabula]

the pain of yesterday outweighs the excitement of tomorrow.

:lol

[ElNono]

:depressed

[BatManu20]

:lol this thread will be bumped after every bad loss as long as ST exists

[spurraider21]

tonight's loss reminded me...

[Stabula]

:lol this thread will be bumped after every bad loss as long as ST exists

[Jabba]

:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:c ry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry :cry:cry





:lmao

[timvp]

When LMA signs with PHX, I'm prepared for It Still Hurts, Vol. 2 ©

[Mikeanaro]

When LMA signs with PHX, I'm prepared for It Still Hurts, Vol. 2 ©
:lolChronic pain syndrome tbh.

[baseline bum]

When LMA signs with PHX, I'm prepared for It Still Hurts, Vol. 2 ©

Tim Duncan spotted after Spurs second meeting with Aldridge

http://i.imgur.com/U92r3IV.jpg

[daslicer]

When LMA signs with PHX, I'm prepared for It Still Hurts, Vol. 2 ©

Nothing can hurt more than 6 ever did.

[wildchild]

When LMA signs with PHX, I'm prepared for It Still Hurts, Vol. 2 ©

Your return means we could read some timvp's grades again? Or it's temporary? just for the summer?

1-The site missed grades' threads.
2-But the Spurs won 5 with you MIA.

Hard decision, I'd choose 2 and hope you too.

[2centsworth]

Not sure how this thread is funny. I was sick for a month after that loss

[Stabula]

the pain of yesterday outweighs the excitement of tomorrow.

:lol

[lefty20]

Not sure how this thread is funny. I was sick for a month after that loss


For a good while I had to stop watching everything sports related after that. Some real sad times, tbh.

[Sean Cagney]

They traded Cheeks for Strickland in the middle of the year because Cheeks hated San Antonio so much. The fucker just stayed in a hotel until they could find a trade for him to New York. LOL Knicks giving two young all-star point guards in Strickland and Mark Jackson up for nothing, and costing Ewing his legacy. :lol

They might have won a title if they had a PG in NY, damn giving those two up....

[Sean Cagney]

Nothing can hurt more than 6 ever did.

NOTHING and I REPEAT nothing, this would not be close after they won #5 last year... The rest is gravy but 6 was a nightmare.
:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:c ry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry :cry:cry





:lmao
Im pretty sure they rung after that beating the Thunder on the way to their title over the Heat.... It's all good.

[timvp]

Nothing can hurt more than 6 ever did.

True. If LMA signs elsewhere, I'll laugh and start researching Plan B, tbh.

[Sean Cagney]

True. If LMA signs elsewhere, I'll laugh and start researching Plan B, tbh.

6 > Dirk Foul > .4???? In that order?

[Emperor]

Strickland's stupid pass "hurt" for awhile aswell.

[timvp]

6 > Dirk Foul > .4???? In that order?

I can't even compare anything to 6. That hurt 100 times worse than anything else. Dirk Foul and .4 were small potatoes compared to 6.

Thankfully, 5 negated 6. In fact, 5 was made even better by 6. So 6 doesn't hurt at all anymore.

[Sean Cagney]

I can't even compare anything to 6. That hurt 100 times worse than anything else. Dirk Foul and .4 were small potatoes compared to 6.

Thankfully, 5 negated 6. In fact, 5 was made even better by 6. So 6 doesn't hurt at all anymore.
Damn right on that last part.

Dirk foul hurt me for a little bit though, not as bad as 6 but the night of and the day after (Few days) it stung and I was down pretty much but 6 lasted the whole month and then throughout the summer TBH. That shit sucked. I am glad they avenged it because it would still sting badly today if that was their last shot at a title and they gave it away in that fashion.
Strickland's stupid pass "hurt" for awhile aswell.I doubt they beat the Bulls that year though anyways, probably lose in the finals 4-1.. I did not see it though so I can't comment on the game.

[apalisoc_9]

How many times do I have to tell you losers that Aldridge already verbally agreed with the Spurs?

Tomorrow he will announce everything, if not the 5th.

[spurraider21]

How many times do I have to tell you losers that Aldridge already verbally agreed with the Spurs?

Tomorrow he will announce everything, if not the 5th.
ugh... shut up

[Ice009]

Now he's going to announce it on the 5th, not the 3rd? Fuck off with that shit.

[baseline bum]

I can't even compare anything to 6. That hurt 100 times worse than anything else. Dirk Foul and .4 were small potatoes compared to 6.

Thankfully, 5 negated 6. In fact, 5 was made even better by 6. So 6 doesn't hurt at all anymore.

1995 WCF was worse than 6 to me tbh

[pgardn]

And no one mentions game 7


We were too crushed to win game 7...
Then we don't deserve anything because we did not react like a championship team.
2014 we became perhaps the best team the NBA has ever seen. So I'm good.

[baseline bum]

And no one mentions game 7


We were too crushed to win game 7...
Then we don't deserve anything because we did not react like a championship team.
2014 we became perhaps the best team the NBA has ever seen. So I'm good.


??? The Spurs were right there to take that game. Battier going 6-7 or whatever it was from the three point line saved their season.

[pgardn]

??? The Spurs were right there to take that game. Battier going 6-7 or whatever it was from the three point line saved their season.

So what.

We missed the easy tap in. On to the 18 th hole.
We did not react like champions. It's very simple, win game 7, forget game 6, it's over.
We would have been hailed as one of the most resilient teams off all time, but we wilted.

And the players and coach basically admit we were done.
We don't deserve anything, life in the NBA is cruel, tough truffles.

[pgardn]

I also believe 2013 led to 2014.


2014 is very understated because we crushed the will of opponents.
2014 was as sweet as anything I have experienced as a fan of this team.
I think it is taken as a given after 2013, it's more than that.

[Marcus Bryant]

1995 WCF was worse than 6 to me tbh

Indeed.

[SpursFan86]

It's very simple, win game 7, forget game 6, it's over.
We would have been hailed as one of the most resilient teams off all time, but we wilted.

No, winning a Game 7 on the road against a 67-win team that had the best player in the world at his peak is not "simple"...not even remotely. It was a one point game going into the 4th, and a one possession game within the last minute. That's what you call "wilting"?

[UZER]

1995 WCF was worse than 6 to me tbh

The city of San Antonio was in morning the next day.

[Knoxxx]

No, winning a Game 7 on the road against a 67-win team that had the best player in the world at his peak is not "simple"...not even remotely. It was a one point game going into the 4th, and a one possession game within the last minute. That's what you call "wilting"?

Not sure why we are dredgng this up, ah I get it killing time to "LaDecision."

Your claim that Miami won 67 regular season games that year is outrageous. A quick Google/Wikipedia check will show it was a mere 66 games. Great season no doubt though, and tough opponent.

That the Spurs may not have won 5 like they did if 6 didn't happen is a valid point. After all, the Heat dropped to 54 wins the next season with the same team. They got fat and happy instead of the Spurs, similar to the 2014-2015 Spurs.

[baseline bum]

The city of San Antonio was in morning the next day.

The city of San Antonio is in morning right now too tbh.

[daledondale]

Thank god for 5, that shit was hard to swallow

[pgardn]

No, winning a Game 7 on the road against a 67-win team that had the best player in the world at his peak is not "simple"...not even remotely. It was a one point game going into the 4th, and a one possession game within the last minute. That's what you call "wilting"?

Tough tacos.

You go in there and win. We got beat in the 4th, it was not good enough, we wore down mentally. The players and Popovich have basically indicated as much. Being close at the beginning of the 4th does not give a team a participation award. We were not good enough in game 7, it's quite simple.

[SpursFan86]

Not sure why we are dredgng this up, ah I get it killing time to "LaDecision."

Your claim that Miami won 67 regular season games that year is outrageous. A quick Google/Wikipedia check will show it was a mere 66 games. Great season no doubt though, and tough opponent.

That the Spurs may not have won 5 like they did if 6 didn't happen is a valid point. After all, the Heat dropped to 54 wins the next season with the same team. They got fat and happy instead of the Spurs, similar to the 2014-2015 Spurs.

...are you trolling me right now? :lol

Do you know what outrageous means? Overstating a team's win total by 1 win while reciting it off the top of my head is not "outrageous" :lmao

I never said a single word about 2014. I completely agree that things might not have went down the same way in 2014 if we hadn't suffered the loss in 2013. I'm arguing with his stance that we "wilted" in Game 7 and didn't show fight. That's bullshit. They went out there and played a hell of a game. Just because you lost doesn't mean you didn't play well or show fight or whatever else.

[SpursFan86]

Tough tacos.

You go in there and win. We got beat in the 4th, it was not good enough, we wore down mentally. The players and Popovich have basically indicated as much. Being close at the beginning of the 4th does not give a team a participation award. We were not good enough in game 7, it's quite simple.

"We weren't good enough" isn't the same as "We wilted and didn't react like champions". I agree with the former; I couldn't disagree more with the latter.

The team suffered one of the most heartbreaking losses in sports history in Game 6. They came back only a couple of days later and played a hell of a game on the road in Game 7. They didn't "wilt". They didn't shrink under pressure. They just got beat. Shit happens. A loss is a loss - I'm not disputing that.

[Sean Cagney]

Indeed.

EHHH Hakeem killed them and that series was over first 2 games basically, it hurt but losing the title when you had it right there is far worse. 95 hurt me as a young fsn a lot at the time but I still could sleep the nights after spite being down.

[BillMc]

When LMA signs with PHX, I'm prepared for It Still Hurts, Vol. 2 ©

Like the copyright symbol. :lol

[daslicer]

True. If LMA signs elsewhere, I'll laugh and start researching Plan B, tbh.

6 was the lowest of lows you could ever face in sports. It was the equivalent of losing everything to bankruptcy in a quick swoop. Winning 5 was like winning the lottery after you had suffered with no hopes of ever getting your money back. '13 and '14 was super irregular it was like out of a movie.

[spurs10]

I can't even compare anything to 6. That hurt 100 times worse than anything else. Dirk Foul and .4 were small potatoes compared to 6.

Thankfully, 5 negated 6. In fact, 5 was made even better by 6. So 6 doesn't hurt at all anymore. Indeed! 5 will go down as the greatest redemption story in sports! I'm still in shock!

[pgardn]

"We weren't good enough" isn't the same as "We wilted and didn't react like champions". I agree with the former; I couldn't disagree more with the latter.

The team suffered one of the most heartbreaking losses in sports history in Game 6. They came back only a couple of days later and played a hell of a game on the road in Game 7. They didn't "wilt". They didn't shrink under pressure. They just got beat. Shit happens. A loss is a loss - I'm not disputing that.

Have any of the Spurs indicated that game 6 was too much to overcome?
Rhetorical question... Yes they did.

And wilted is a fine term as they slowly but surely got beat in the 4 th quarter. They did not fall off a ledge, they wilted. I am far from an English major yet I find the term agreeable.
Get over it. They were better in the last and final game that was to suppose to determine the series. But no, it's 6... ?
Sorry, it went 7 games. We lost the 7th game which was my point.

[pgardn]

How about ground down?

Ya like that? I agree they kept it close and I was proud of the effort but we did not overcome game 6 apparently.
We did not deserve the championship. That's it, that's all. Sport can be cruel.

[Jabba]

Nothing guys I mean nothing will be as bad for Spurfan as 6. Even when LMA signs with LA, 6 will still cause more pain. 6 was so bad, it trumps the glory of 5 for most Spurs fans I talk to. Way to go Popsuckers and Manutards!

[Obstructed_View]

1995 WCF was worse than 6 to me tbh

2006 was the worst for me. The Spurs were good enough to win it, had healthy bigs on the bench ... God damn that still bothers me :lol 6 wasn't so bad just because I was so surprised to find the window still open. That playoff run was far deeper than I ever expected.

[Obstructed_View]

The city of San Antonio was in morning the next day.

The city of San Antonio is in morning every day.

[UZER]

The city of San Antonio is in morning every day.

:lol phone auto-correct

[Obstructed_View]

:lol phone auto-correct

Ugh. I just got an LG G4 and it does that. Drives me nuts.

[Splits]

I can't even compare anything to 6. That hurt 100 times worse than anything else. Dirk Foul and .4 were small potatoes compared to 6.

Thankfully, 5 negated 6. In fact, 5 was made even better by 6. So 6 doesn't hurt at all anymore.

This site, and being a Spurs fan, is 1 billion times better when you're around. Hope this isn't just a fly-by appearance tbh

[south side spur]

1995 WCF was worse than 6 to me tbh
Game 1 was an Elliott nightmare. Olajuwon did not come out and dominate Robinson Game 1. It was there for the taking. Elliott pulled a Ginobili '13 or Parker '15 and set the tone for the series.

[tesseractive]

1995 WCF was worse than 6 to me tbh
This. In 2013, we had 4 titles to look back on. In 1995, we had zero, and we had no sign that the franchise would recover after getting completely flattened in their best chance at a title. Without the freak luck in the '97 lottery it would have all been downhill from there. Just another team with a memorable star who could never put enough of a team together to have a serious shot at the title. Like the Garnett Timberwolves, maybe.

Nearly 2 decades of Timmy and Pop make it hard to remember what that was like for a lot of folks, but no one had the slightest inkling we'd be hoisting a trophy in 4 years at that point.

[pgardn]

:lol phone auto-correct

I thought you did that on purpose and it was quite brilliant.

Mourning the next day...
Pretend you did.

[baseline bum]

Game 1 was an Elliott nightmare. Olajuwon did not come out and dominate Robinson Game 1. It was there for the taking. Elliott pulled a Ginobili '13 or Parker '15 and set the tone for the series.

Then Rodman statpadding for the rebound and leaving Horry open for the gamewinner to seal it. Then Rodman coming out in a must win Game 2 and jacking up three 3 pointers in the first quarter. In the age of social media Bynum got crucified for doing it once in a meaningless regular season game but dickhead Rodman does it three times in the WCF down 0-1 and get his sorry ass benched for it.

[south side spur]

Yeah, whoever said the series was over going down 0-2 headed to Houston was wrong. The series came back to San Antonio tied up 2-2 and Rodman got into it with Hill I guess and showed up late for shoot around or something like that. That idiot would have his political stands during timeouts and made sure the cameras caught him not giving a fuck. Game 5 was doomed from the start. I'm not saying '13 Finals were easier to stomach but the city was crushed just the same in '95. I would say '95 and '06 were more difficult for me because of losing the in state rivalries. In '13 we could say at least we have 4 titles. What could we say in '95? We were still the soft, never was franchise.

[horsielove]

:cry

[TheGreatYacht]

Lol :lol

[jeebus]

It's been approximately 162,000 minutes since it happened . . . and, honestly, it hurts. It's a pain deep in the soul that I probably won't ever shake. To be that close to such a great moment -- only to see it slip through the fingers -- is still devastating. Somehow, it seems to have hurt more and more as the summer progressed as the realization set in regarding what exactly was at stake.

Sure, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't mean much. It's not something real. It's not a death or some other sort of real life tragedy. But given that following the Spurs is my only hobby in life, it's painful. I'm not going to even try to lie. It hurts.

I've tried getting away from it all to try to forget about it. But there I was, in the middle of the Pacific on a cruise ship in a pitch black room trying to fall asleep, and all that I can see are those 28 seconds replaying again and again.

Logically, I know the pain doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's just a basketball game. And the Spurs already have four championships. And going into last season, a trip to the Finals would have been seen as a great success. Hell, going into the playoffs, I thought getting to the Western Conference Finals was a success.

Logically, what the Spurs did last year was a great accomplishment. A year ago, if you told me the Spurs would be 28 seconds from a championship, I would have been thrilled.

But damn.

This pain doesn't compare to anything else I've experienced in my Spurs fandom. Yeah, .4 sucked. The foul was tough to swallow. The no-look pass was unpleasant. The backdoor sweeps weren't fun. The frontdoor sweeps weren't enjoyable. But all of those don't even register compared to this.

I've had an extremely busy summer. Life is great -- never better. But it continues to haunt me.



Hopefully going to the game tonight will provide some sort of relief. The great thing about sports is there is always tomorrow. For now, at least, the pain of yesterday outweighs the excitement of tomorrow. I'm hoping that changes. Starting tonight.

truth bomb

[HI-FI]

It's been approximately 162,000 minutes since it happened . . . and, honestly, it hurts. It's a pain deep in the soul that I probably won't ever shake. To be that close to such a great moment -- only to see it slip through the fingers -- is still devastating. Somehow, it seems to have hurt more and more as the summer progressed as the realization set in regarding what exactly was at stake.

Sure, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't mean much. It's not something real. It's not a death or some other sort of real life tragedy. But given that following the Spurs is my only hobby in life, it's painful. I'm not going to even try to lie. It hurts.

I've tried getting away from it all to try to forget about it. But there I was, in the middle of the Pacific on a cruise ship in a pitch black room trying to fall asleep, and all that I can see are those 28 seconds replaying again and again.

Logically, I know the pain doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's just a basketball game. And the Spurs already have four championships. And going into last season, a trip to the Finals would have been seen as a great success. Hell, going into the playoffs, I thought getting to the Western Conference Finals was a success.

Logically, what the Spurs did last year was a great accomplishment. A year ago, if you told me the Spurs would be 28 seconds from a championship, I would have been thrilled.

But damn.

This pain doesn't compare to anything else I've experienced in my Spurs fandom. Yeah, .4 sucked. The foul was tough to swallow. The no-look pass was unpleasant. The backdoor sweeps weren't fun. The frontdoor sweeps weren't enjoyable. But all of those don't even register compared to this.

I've had an extremely busy summer. Life is great -- never better. But it continues to haunt me.



Hopefully going to the game tonight will provide some sort of relief. The great thing about sports is there is always tomorrow. For now, at least, the pain of yesterday outweighs the excitement of tomorrow. I'm hoping that changes. Starting tonight.
damn...
http://31.media.tumblr.com/447cf2930a3b8409e6b1b1f4c9fefd29/tumblr_moduvkym3z1rojduwo1_400.gif

[Robz4000]

:cry CRAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWLING INNNNN MYYYY SKIIIIIIIIIIIN, THEEEESE WOUUUUUUUNDS THEEY WIIIIILLLLLL NOOOOOT HEEEAAAAALLLLLL :cry

[NameLess Scrub]

It sucks.. I think the unusual pain came/comes from things like:
1. The absolute certainty that the title was in the bag. Spurs had almost complete control of that outcome.
2. The unexpected run. Spurs were supposed to have their title window closed.
3. The opponent. The Lebrons and their hype were going to be beaten.

At least for me.

[ajh18]

It doesn't hurt anymore. Sunday, June 15, 2014 made it all better. That title made what happened the year before the start of the story (and one of the best comeback stories in sports history, at that), not the end of it.

Tim Duncan said it best: "It makes last year ok."

Let it go. At the end of the story, we beat the Heat down so badly that we broke the Superfriends up and sent Lebron back to Cleveland.

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

This seems like an eternity ago… dark times for this forum

[jimbo]

:cry

[Keepin' it real]

Does it sting?

[gambit1990]

It's a pain deep in the soul that I probably won't ever shake.
:lol

[kobyz]

Why people make fun of it? life is not the same since that trauma, the suffer still exist big time, those terrified moments still hunting and hurt the soul, forever flashbacks in so many ways will come to sting you and make you think what if and how much heaven we missed and instead got biggest mourning, being on the verge of the most exciting and sweet title and losing it in the most cruel way...

[dg7md]

Legendary thread tbh :lol

[SquawkinHawkBigCock]

Tbh...

[Stabula]

All a part of Satan's great plan

[Darth_Pelican]

:cry

[Play Boban]

:cry

[Keepin' it real]

Dolores...

[jeebus]

:lmao

[Walter Donovan]

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