Kawhi 5-0
11-07-2015, 11:48 PM
This is my first thread. I didn't know how to make them until recently. And I wanted to wait and make it about something special.
I think the discussion board could benefit from more positive thinking. I know we as fans take the game very seriously. I remember last year I was so worried with Parker's performance over the course of the season.
But a real team like the Spurs only gets built through a combination of hard-nose decisions and loyalty. Tony Parker has won four championships for us. Manu Ginobili has won us four championships. Shame on us fans for even thinking of putting these guys out to pasture.
Timmy proved everyone wrong by upping his game in the last few years. Timmy won us five championships. Gregg Popovich won us five championships.
Those two guys are the greatest continuity, but Parker and Ginobili aren't far behind. What an asset to have guys who know the feeling of competing at the highest level (NBA Finals) and winning.
Kawhi has won us one championship. Many had written off the Spurs as "done." Not so fast, as Lee Corso would say. Kawhi resurrected the franchise. It may not seem like it because we were winning 50 games a year (min.) for those seven years between titles, but Leonard was the dude we needed to push us over the top.
So I don't wanna hear that this guy is fat or that guy is fat. The fattest are no doubt us fans who have the time to debate all kinds of useless minutiae.
And I don't wanna see disrespectful posts concerning the players. These guys have spent their lives playing in our hometown. They could have been in Paris or Buenos Aires or the Virgin Islands.
We're not gonna win every game. We're not gonna win every championship. I am just proud when these guys go out and give it their all.
I spent some time today reading about John Havlicek. Apparently Pop has only one photo on the walls of his office and it's of this guy. Why?
Maybe because the guy won 8 (eight!) NBA titles. Maybe because the guy is the Celtics' all time leading scorer. But maybe also it's because the guy played the game the right way. He had guts. He kept moving. The players (as well as the ball) are meant to move.
And finally maybe it's because Havlicek was from the Midwest like Pop. Havlicek's mom was Croatian (like Pop's mom).
I wonder if Pop gets a special grin when Boban fires up the crowd? We must remember that Boban is Serbian (like Pop's dad).
But one last thing to bring it full-circle. When Red McCombs fired Pop along with R.C. Buford he was making a disastrous choice. When anyone said that Pop wasn't cut out for coaching because he had only one winning season in his seven years at Pomona-Pitzer, they were making a grave error in judgment.
It's not worthwhile to dig up what people on here have said. Let's just remember that this is our team. They need our support. Our childish reasoning does not help the situation.
So let's try to keep the criticism constructive.
Thank you,
Paul
I think the discussion board could benefit from more positive thinking. I know we as fans take the game very seriously. I remember last year I was so worried with Parker's performance over the course of the season.
But a real team like the Spurs only gets built through a combination of hard-nose decisions and loyalty. Tony Parker has won four championships for us. Manu Ginobili has won us four championships. Shame on us fans for even thinking of putting these guys out to pasture.
Timmy proved everyone wrong by upping his game in the last few years. Timmy won us five championships. Gregg Popovich won us five championships.
Those two guys are the greatest continuity, but Parker and Ginobili aren't far behind. What an asset to have guys who know the feeling of competing at the highest level (NBA Finals) and winning.
Kawhi has won us one championship. Many had written off the Spurs as "done." Not so fast, as Lee Corso would say. Kawhi resurrected the franchise. It may not seem like it because we were winning 50 games a year (min.) for those seven years between titles, but Leonard was the dude we needed to push us over the top.
So I don't wanna hear that this guy is fat or that guy is fat. The fattest are no doubt us fans who have the time to debate all kinds of useless minutiae.
And I don't wanna see disrespectful posts concerning the players. These guys have spent their lives playing in our hometown. They could have been in Paris or Buenos Aires or the Virgin Islands.
We're not gonna win every game. We're not gonna win every championship. I am just proud when these guys go out and give it their all.
I spent some time today reading about John Havlicek. Apparently Pop has only one photo on the walls of his office and it's of this guy. Why?
Maybe because the guy won 8 (eight!) NBA titles. Maybe because the guy is the Celtics' all time leading scorer. But maybe also it's because the guy played the game the right way. He had guts. He kept moving. The players (as well as the ball) are meant to move.
And finally maybe it's because Havlicek was from the Midwest like Pop. Havlicek's mom was Croatian (like Pop's mom).
I wonder if Pop gets a special grin when Boban fires up the crowd? We must remember that Boban is Serbian (like Pop's dad).
But one last thing to bring it full-circle. When Red McCombs fired Pop along with R.C. Buford he was making a disastrous choice. When anyone said that Pop wasn't cut out for coaching because he had only one winning season in his seven years at Pomona-Pitzer, they were making a grave error in judgment.
It's not worthwhile to dig up what people on here have said. Let's just remember that this is our team. They need our support. Our childish reasoning does not help the situation.
So let's try to keep the criticism constructive.
Thank you,
Paul