Do yall realize how close to 7 titles Tim Duncan is????

[Dizzle]

#5 - last year epic choke job by Pop by taking out Duncan in the last 10 seconds.. also Ray travelled on the big 3 pt shot

#6 - 2 years ago.. epic ref takeover against the Thunder... even Timmy who has never spoken out against reffing said "They got every single call and then some"

#7 - Manu Ginobili epic choke job against the Mavs in game 7 a few years ago... Spurs wouldve easily whooped the Heat



If Tim Duncan was MJ/Kobe , the league/stern/mafia wouldve found a way for him to win.. ah well *shrug*

[Galileo]

.4

[tesseractive]

No. No one else has ever noticed that.

[SA210]

#5 - last year epic choke job by Pop by taking out Duncan in the last 10 seconds.. also Ray travelled on the big 3 pt shot

#6 - 2 years ago.. epic ref takeover against the Thunder... even Timmy who has never spoken out against reffing said "They got every single call and then some"

#7 - Manu Ginobili epic choke job against the Mavs in game 7 a few years ago... Spurs wouldve easily whooped the Heat



If Tim Duncan was MJ/Kobe , the league/stern/mafia wouldve found a way for him to win.. ah well *shrug*

2006, Pop playing small ball put Spurs in position to lose and refs fucked us badly (fucking Javie), so I don't blame Manu for that one.

And you forgot .4..so that's at least 8

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

He's also one Horry 3 and one Horry hipcheck from 2 titles.

[anakha]

And this was worth a thread?

[Diego20]

This thread is f$cking stupid.

[Russo21]

also 2000 Duncan goes down with an injury- Spurs have no chance to defend title.

[InRareForm]

Duncan easily has 10 titles in alternate universe tbh..

[Russ]

Just to take the other side ---

If Horry's shot goes in (for the Lakers) in '03 or if Horry's shot doesn't go in (for the Spurs) in '05, it could be only two titles.

That said, I agree the Spurs should have at least seven titles, dammit.

[Prime Time]

99 - Patrick Ewing wasn't injured (Spurs actually never beated the Knicks by more than 13, Ewing could have easily made this a series)
03 - Horry's shot go in
05 - Spurs choke Game 5
07 - Spurs don't go chollo on the Suns
Bam, we're down from 1 to 0 titles.

Honestly, a bit of bullshit has to happen for any team to win the championship. Sometimes it's in our favor, other times not so much.

[xmas1997]

Well, I think the Spurs should have ten titles going all the way back to Ice and Capt. Late, and then later to the Admiral, Elliott, and Strickland.
How about those apples?
But we have to start with number five first.

[Prime Time]

:lmao spoiled-ass Spurs fans complaining about not having 7-10 titles
:lobt2::lobt2::lobt2::lobt2:

[spurs1990]

My version:

1998 - Duncan injury
2000 - same as above
2001 - Derek Anderson injury
2002 - David Robinson injury
2004 - fisher
2006 - foul
2008 - Brent Barry no call
2011 - Manu injury
2012 - um...shoulda won
2013 - we all know

What's that 14 titles.

[Johnny RIngo]

Realistically, the only years that matter are 2006 and 2013.

2004 - TD wasn't going to beat the Pistons by himself. Detroit wins that year no matter what happens.
2012 - SA weren't a top ranked defense that year. Miami would have beaten us in five games.

Imo, SA was the best team in the league in '06 though. SA had homecourt thoughout the playoffs, they had the big three relatively healthy too..unfortunately nobody could have imagined Pop being outcoached this badly by Avery Johnson. 2013 speaks for itself.

[CGD]

2005 could have easily gone the other way, but for the Horry heroics. These type of counter factuals are useless.

[Skull-1]

No. No one else has ever noticed that.

[Horse]

The big thing you're missing from '99 is with ewing no way the knicks make the finals.

[Horse]

That's horseshit dallas choked their ass off against miami, no way a one man team beats the Spurs. It would've been like '07 was against lebron.

[spurs10]

Thanks for this thread! It saves me from starting my "If my aunt had a penis she'd be my uncle" thread.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

#1 We wouldn't have won in 2004 - Pistons were better than us that year.

#2 In 2006, yes, we would've slaughtered the Heat.

#3 We didn't choke last year. We got some bad bounces and, believe it or not, were beaten by a team that was a fraction better than we were when it mattered. Tough to swallow, but it's the truth.

[Sean Cagney]

No. No one else has ever noticed that.

:lol

[spurraider21]

i dont think the Spurs would have beaten the Heat in '12. We would have smashed them in 06 though. At that point Duncan was clearly better than Shaq and the TP/Manu tandem would have been too much for Miami.

The Fisher-barry bump was so annoying too. After the game they were like "oh he should have sold it better." assholes encouraging flopping. they say the refs don't want to decide the game with their whistles, but damn, you have to let the guy get his shot off, or else you ARE deciding the game by allowing them to hack. we win that game its 2-2 and different series

[spurraider21]

We didn't choke last year. We got some bad bounces and, believe it or not, were beaten by a team that was a fraction better than we were when it mattered. Tough to swallow, but it's the truth.
29 seconds left, up by 4, have 2 free throws. in that situation, its game over unless you choke.

[HI-FI]

i dont think the Spurs would have beaten the Heat in '12. We would have smashed them in 06 though. At that point Duncan was clearly better than Shaq and the TP/Manu tandem would have been too much for Miami.

The Fisher-barry bump was so annoying too. After the game they were like "oh he should have sold it better." assholes encouraging flopping. they say the refs don't want to decide the game with their whistles, but damn, you have to let the guy get his shot off, or else you ARE deciding the game by allowing them to hack. we win that game its 2-2 and different series
True, but does that Spurs team beat the Celtics that year? I don't know. I don't think we would've beat the Pistons if .4 didn't happen. I guess it's all theoretical, but the only ones I feel pissed about are 06 and this year because of how it finished. I also think we could've beaten the Heat if not for the Thunderefs, but who knows.

[Sean Cagney]

29 seconds left, up by 4, have 2 free throws. in that situation, its game over unless you choke.

POP YANKED OUT TIM, if we get one more rebound it's ours but he yanked a GUY with 17 rebound to so called GUARD the fucking three, but they failed to guard shit.. So what was the purpose on taking him out again? I agree that shit was on POP.

[spurraider21]

POP YANKED OUT TIM, if we get one more rebound it's ours but he yanked a GUY with 17 rebound to so called GUARD the fucking three, but they failed to guard shit.. So what was the purpose on taking him out again? I agree that shit was on POP.
thats fine. the team choked, including pop, manu, and yes even kawhi missed the last free throw, even though he played a tremendous game to that point

[dg7md]

.4

We weren't that close to a title. It was the semis and I don't think we would have won that series anyway. We weren't that good that year.

But yeah, OP is close to right. We would have at least 5 guaranteed last year if not for the failed rebound and missed FTs. Can't say that much for sure about the rest though.

[Skull-1]

Sadly, Tim will be stuck at four unless he goes to Miami.

[mute]

Do you know how close we are to just 0 titles?

There's no lock-out season and Jordan doesn't retire -- 1999
Horry's shot goes in -- 2003
Horry doesn't go Jordan in Game 5 -- 2005
Horry doesn't hipcheck Nash into the stands (Amare and Diaw are available) -- 2007

[ElNono]

nothing says butthurt more than fan of has-been, lottery team dickriding other team's accomplishments, tbh...

[Skull-1]

Do you know how close we are to just 0 titles?

There's no lock-out season and Jordan doesn't retire -- 1999
Horry's shot goes in -- 2003
Horry doesn't go Jordan in Game 5 -- 2005
Horry doesn't hipcheck Nash into the stands (Amare and Diaw are available) -- 2007 And with Manu's help we are like -2 in titles.....

[TMTTRIO]

And with Manu's help we are like -2 in titles.....
If your going to use that how about all the titles Duncan should've won before Manu even arrived.

[Skull-1]

If your going to use that how about all the titles Duncan should've won before Manu even arrived.

Got one without the Heat star. Second one the Heatie was a footnote. Lost two because of your Argentine gawd. I would say four without Manu, minimum.

[Sean Cagney]

thats fine. the team choked, including pop, manu, and yes even kawhi missed the last free throw, even though he played a tremendous game to that point

Only one who did not mess up was Tim but he was taken out before he had a shot lol. I would have loved to have had him in there for one rebound, just know he would hit atleast one FT to ice it at that point off his will alone for a title.