2011: the year Parker said Spurs are done as contenders (lol)

[Austin_Toros]

Remember Parker's comments in 2011?
"At the start of the season I said this was our last chance...we can no longer say that we're playing for a championship".

What was he thinking? It's poor form that Parker wrote off the Spurs and mentioned it publicly.

Many people believed the Spurs were done years ago. Boy were they wrong. So wrong.

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[Dex]

He was thinking about 2010, and 2009, and 2008, and the fact that Tim looked older then than he does now by some crazy miracle.

[DarrinS]

"I hope wee not peeeaking too soon."

[Kidd K]

It was just an annoyed emotional reaction after the loss they took that year. Tim had his worst year, Tony was a bit banged up, Manu got hurt at the end of the season AGAIN, and we got knocked out of the first round after having arguably the worst season in the Duncan era the year before.

Can you honestly blame him? He definitely overreacted, but that was a VERY disappointing postseason. Probably the most disappointing for the Spurs ever considering the seed they had and how dominant they seemed to be that season.

[hater]

He was thinking about 2010, and 2009, and 2008, and the fact that Tim looked older then than he does now by some crazy miracle.

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[Strange Love]

He was thinking about 2010, and 2009, and 2008, and the fact that Tim looked older then than he does now by some crazy miracle.

Thread/

Took just one post.

It wasn't hard to figure out what he was talking about. All anyone could do is look at how terrible Duncan had been. Guy looked done, cooked, finished.

[Salty]

frenchie just saying frenchie things tbh, nothing to see here

[timtonymanu]

Exactly other than Duncan looking done, the Spurs handed RJ/Bonner 4 year contract extensions in the offseason. I'm sure only homers thought the Spurs weren't done.

[EVAY]

Man is it ever clear that TP has been getting too much good press. Some folks around here will look until they can find something, anything to try to diss on him.

What a groaning bunch of non-fans.

[Spurs21Fan4Ever]

And then came Kawhi Leonard...

[DesignatedT]

He denied that or said it was misinterpretation or something iirc

[spursfan09]

Bring up more old shit

[Seventyniner]

He was thinking about 2010, and 2009, and 2008, and the fact that Tim looked older then than he does now by some crazy miracle.

Right. Parker couldn't predict that Duncan would turn into Benjamin Button.

[Horry Hipcheck]

Right. Parker couldn't predict that Duncan would turn into Benjamin Button.

Or that Pop was going to redesign the entire offense and enter the age of Limited Regular Season Minutes.

[100%duncan]

He was thinking about 2010, and 2009, and 2008, and the fact that Tim looked older then than he does now by some crazy miracle.

Yep.

[purist]

Tp was reading posts on this message board back then. That's what he was doing -- reading shit y'all write and getting depressed.

[HI-FI]

"oui, I can't believe they're leaving Danny so wide open."

[TheGreatYacht]

"oui, I can't believe they're leaving Danny so wide open."


@ PaulGarciaPS: “It’s Tony. They’re just trying to stop him, which frees up everything for the rest of us.” - Kawhi on what’s helping #Spurs offense.
... Yesterday.

... no Parker no 3pt Finals record.
... No Manu = 2013 champs

[rmt]

If there's one thing NBA players should know is that you never know what's gonna happen. In those dark days of RJ and Bonner/Blair, I thought they were done as contenders too. But Duncan's re-worked his body/game. Spurs thankfully got rid of RJ, Pop started playing Splitter and they got Leonard/Green. Getting Diaw was mainly because TP is on the Spurs. Everything just kinda fell in place. I'm gonna enjoy these last few years of Duncan. They need to re-sign Leonard, Mills, Diaw and develop/work Daye into the system.

[BillMc]

Back then (2009-2011) Tim looked one-legged, Manu had ongoing ankle problems, we had RJ instead of Leonard, Splitter seemed weak, Boris was a fat, useless guy on another team, Blair was a fat useless guy on our team, Bruce was fading and then out, Danny Green was dancing in Cleveland, nobody ever heard of Patty Mills outside of Oceania or the American Northwest, we were so desperate for a big that we took a flyer on Gooden and begged Dice to prolong retirement, good-guy Finley had turned into a cancerous malcontent, Bonner and Mason were getting big minutes, we lost to the Suns (Repeat! We lost to the freaken' Suns!), and sex-texting teammates' wives was apparently more interesting than game prep.

Amazing how things have turned around, really. And props to Pop and the Big 3 for never missing the playoffs while they rebuilt the team.

[dbreiden83080]

Well Duncan looked done back then.. But the big guy found the fountain of youth..

[NickiRasgo]

He was thinking about 2010, and 2009, and 2008, and the fact that Tim looked older then than he does now by some crazy miracle.

Exactly.

Parker just being realistic. Unless the OP already saw what Duncan can still resurge and Kawhi/Splitter will came big, unfortunately not.

:lol at OP

[RobbyH]

he didnt anticipate duncan would take the kobe PEDs