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SAGirl
10-25-2016, 01:14 PM
784469501681160193

spursistan
10-25-2016, 01:33 PM
:lmao

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 02:14 PM
If they hung it from their actual arena, I'd have a problem.

But this is at a practice facility, and is a testament to what practice can accomplish. It is still an incredible feat. Worthy of what is effectively an "oh yeah" sort of treatment out of the public eye, but where they can see it, but also let the overall failure let it eat at them to not fail to win a Title when up 3-1 if given the chance again.

Budkin
10-25-2016, 02:15 PM
If they hung it from their actual arena, I'd have a problem.

But this is at a practice facility, and is a testament to what practice can accomplish. It is still an incredible feat. Worthy of what is effectively an "oh yeah" sort of treatment out of the public eye, but where they can see it, but also let the overall failure let it eat at them to not fail to win a Title when up 3-1 if given the chance again.

What he said. It'd be mock-worthy if it were hanging in the arena.

Chris
10-25-2016, 02:52 PM
:lol Today's NBA

DMC
10-25-2016, 03:18 PM
Participation awards...

I wouldn't hang it anywhere except in the coach's office next to the empty trophy case for that year to remind him that RS wins mean jack shit if you don't win the ring, that running your star into the ground cost you a ring, that letting Draymonkey Green act a damn fool cost you a ring, that you should have squelched that chimp when he bowed up on the lockerroom against his own team.

It's 100x more important that they won the 1st round of the playoffs than the 73 win record. When people talk about the most dominant team of all time, they'll still point to the Bulls.

Clipper Nation
10-25-2016, 03:27 PM
:lol Reminds me of this:

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

The Gemini Method
10-25-2016, 04:08 PM
Also, in line with the Celtics hosting a what-if banner (at the practice gym) for an 18th championship. As long as its in the practice facility and not like the Colts hanging their AFC Title game recipient, it's no big deal.

spursistan
10-25-2016, 04:18 PM
:lol Today's NBA

baseline bum
10-25-2016, 04:19 PM
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuHS4G-VUAAtLVs.jpg

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 04:21 PM
You all are retards. It's like a silver medal. It's a once in a lifetime accomplishment.

It's not like the Suns when they threw a goddamn losing in the Finals parade.

They honored the individuals that contributed to a once in a lifetime accomplishment at their goddamn practice facility. Hey didn't celebrate anything. They tributed the collective effort and dedication of a team... made possible by practice.... ya know, in that gym.

ECOV
10-25-2016, 04:25 PM
You all are retards. It's like a silver medal. It's a once in a lifetime accomplishment.

It's not like the Suns when they threw a goddamn losing in the Finals parade.

They honored the individuals that contributed to a once in a lifetime accomplishment at their goddamn practice facility. Hey didn't celebrate anything. They tributed the collective effort and dedication of a team... made possible by practice.... ya know, in that gym.
:sleep

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 04:27 PM
:lol Reminds me of this:

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

Is that at the actual stadium? If so, huge difference.

Now, if they unfurl some 73-win banner from the arena rafters first homegame to applause from fans while taking bows, mock the shit out of them.

But that "banner" is stapled to a goddamn Sheetrock wall. It's been given no ceremony. Before some asshat reporter snuck a pic, nobody even knew it was there.

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 04:27 PM
:sleep

Were you even alive the last time the Spurs won a title? 141 posts? Fuck off...

Bynumite
10-25-2016, 04:27 PM
That's a pratice facility. The cucks hung a Bruce Bowen jersey in their arena :lmao

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 04:30 PM
Shit, I bet I posted 141 times the night Horry mistook Nash for Danny Ainge! *Bodyslam*

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 04:32 PM
That's a pratice facility. :lmao

Exactly, they run, sweat, piss, and shit in that thing.

Chris
10-25-2016, 05:12 PM
You all are retards. It's like a silver medal. It's a once in a lifetime accomplishment.

It's not like the Suns when they threw a goddamn losing in the Finals parade.

They honored the individuals that contributed to a once in a lifetime accomplishment at their goddamn practice facility. Hey didn't celebrate anything. They tributed the collective effort and dedication of a team... made possible by practice.... ya know, in that gym.

That's 0 & Forever talkin'.

Silver&Black
10-25-2016, 05:20 PM
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuHS4G-VUAAtLVs.jpg

:tu

SupremeGuy
10-25-2016, 05:23 PM
:lol Reminds me of this:

http://i.imgur.com/FgfIwSy.jpg:rollin

ECOV
10-25-2016, 05:24 PM
Were you even alive the last time the Spurs won a title? 141 posts? Fuck off...:lma:claw:toast

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 05:25 PM
That's 0 & Forever talkin'.

That's perspective talking

ECOV
10-25-2016, 05:25 PM
Were you even alive the last time the Spurs won a title? 141 posts? Fuck off...
:lol:rollin

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 05:27 PM
This whole thread reeks of Ricky Bobby syndrome.

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 05:28 PM
:lol:rollin

Do you ever use words?

Clipper Nation
10-25-2016, 05:29 PM
Is that at the actual stadium? If so, huge difference.

Now, if they unfurl some 73-win banner from the arena rafters first homegame to applause from fans while taking bows, mock the shit out of them.

But that "banner" is stapled to a goddamn Sheetrock wall. It's been given no ceremony. Before some asshat reporter snuck a pic, nobody even knew it was there.
That's loser talk. You sound like da_suns_fan (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=10213) right now. I know you're better than that.

If it's not a championship or your own team's superstars' retired numbers, it's not worth a banner. There's a reason people make fun of the Clippers' selfies, the Spurs retiring Bowen and Avery's numbers, the Heat retiring Jordan and Marino's numbers, the WNBA "Attendance Champions" banners, etc.

The only difference here is that the Warriors' banner is in the practice facility. But now that the picture has spread like wildfire and everyone knows it's there, they might as well have hung it from the rafters at Oracle and had a big damn ceremony. The effect is the same.

ECOV
10-25-2016, 05:30 PM
Do you ever use words?
No i Dont

JamStone
10-25-2016, 05:30 PM
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuHS4G-VUAAtLVs.jpg

It reads: "Blew a 3-1 Finals Lead"

Appears to be self-mocking and/or motivation.

Edit: I didn't notice the Photoshop. Doh I'm dumb. I thought that was cool if it were real...

spurraider21
10-25-2016, 05:48 PM
That's loser talk.
:lmao "loser talk" coming from the poster who constantly cheers for his teams to lose

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 06:23 PM
No i Dont

Good to know.

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 06:24 PM
That's loser talk. You sound like da_suns_fan (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=10213) right now. I know you're better than that.

If it's not a championship or your own team's superstars' retired numbers, it's not worth a banner. There's a reason people make fun of the Clippers' selfies, the Spurs retiring Bowen and Avery's numbers, the Heat retiring Jordan and Marino's numbers, the WNBA "Attendance Champions" banners, etc.

The only difference here is that the Warriors' banner is in the practice facility. But now that the picture has spread like wildfire and everyone knows it's there, they might as well have hung it from the rafters at Oracle and had a big damn ceremony. The effect is the same.

Do you know what a false equivalency is?

HI-FI
10-25-2016, 06:41 PM
:lol Today's NBA

DMC
10-25-2016, 06:46 PM
You all are retards. It's like a silver medal. It's a once in a lifetime accomplishment.

It's not like the Suns when they threw a goddamn losing in the Finals parade.

They honored the individuals that contributed to a once in a lifetime accomplishment at their goddamn practice facility. Hey didn't celebrate anything. They tributed the collective effort and dedication of a team... made possible by practice.... ya know, in that gym.I sympathize with your meltiness pertaining to your team and how that has induced hatred in your heart of hearts about the game, but a RS record isn't like a silver medal. The WCF trophy would be the silver medal. RS record would be like destroying the existing tryout record but then taking huge Dan vs Dave level shit in the Olympics.

TDMVPDPOY
10-25-2016, 06:59 PM
why spermfans lol when they were the ones who handing them win 70 and 73 ...fck porker pos

JMarkJohns
10-25-2016, 07:35 PM
I sympathize with your meltiness pertaining to your team and how that has induced hatred in your heart of hearts about the game, but a RS record isn't like a silver medal. The WCF trophy would be the silver medal. RS record would be like destroying the existing tryout record but then taking huge Dan vs Dave level shit in the Olympics.

Fair enough. But the world record can come from any official race.

No team can win 73 postseason games. It's gotta be done in the regular season. If they set the record for most regular season wins, that's not just any old season. It's a record. And unlike track or swimming, it's one that won't be broken for a long time, because I doubt they even get to 70 wins this year, and after this year, who knows what that roster holds.

That's all this banner is; a denotation of an record-breaking accomplishment, because it is one. It's just not the big one. Hence the second class citizen/red-head stepchild treatment.

DMC
10-25-2016, 07:57 PM
Fair enough. But the world record can come from any official race.

No team can win 73 postseason games. It's gotta be done in the regular season. If they set the record for most regular season wins, that's not just any old season. It's a record. And unlike track or swimming, it's one that won't be broken for a long time, because I doubt they even get to 70 wins this year, and after this year, who knows what that roster holds.

That's all this banner is; a denotation of an record-breaking accomplishment, because it is one. It's just not the big one. Hence the second class citizen/red-head stepchild treatment.
It's a noteworthy accomplishment, but that's all. It was gained by abandoning contemporary coaching sense just to chase that record, and I believe it cost them the ring.

There might have been instances where teams in the past could have done it, but chose not to so they could rest players for the playoffs. When it's a side discussion, typically teams that aren't eyeballing the title will go for it. Like in the TdF where a sprinter might try for a jersey knowing he cannot win the yellow, but he might get the green, or a climber might get the polka dot. It's a milestone on the way to the top, but it's not the summit and shouldn't be treated as such.

spursreport
10-25-2016, 08:29 PM
Participation awards...

I wouldn't hang it anywhere except in the coach's office next to the empty trophy case for that year to remind him that RS wins mean jack shit if you don't win the ring, that running your star into the ground cost you a ring, that letting Draymonkey Green act a damn fool cost you a ring, that you should have squelched that chimp when he bowed up on the lockerroom against his own team.

It's 100x more important that they won the 1st round of the playoffs than the 73 win record. When people talk about the most dominant team of all time, they'll still point to the Bulls.

And that pg led teams don't win titles.

DMC
10-25-2016, 08:37 PM
And that pg led teams don't win titles.
Exactly, since they didn't.

ECOV
10-25-2016, 09:38 PM
Good to know.
Always :lol

spursreport
10-26-2016, 12:31 AM
Exactly, since they didn't.

Yep. Iggy led the way against a depleted Cavs team. Fluky bullshit like that pretty much never happens. Warriors are fucked in trying to ring. Lack of an alpha. One is a point guard and the other is the NBA's version of Peyton Manning.

Splits
10-26-2016, 05:15 AM
lol great post OP (now please stop PMing me for more dickpics)

Thread
10-26-2016, 11:04 AM
It was nice to see MJ have to take it like a trouper.

Spurtacular
10-26-2016, 04:51 PM
Wow, Warriors accentuating their choke job with that banner!

313
10-27-2016, 09:55 AM
Participation awards...

I wouldn't hang it anywhere except in the coach's office next to the empty trophy case for that year to remind him that RS wins mean jack shit if you don't win the ring, that running your star into the ground cost you a ring, that letting Draymonkey Green act a damn fool cost you a ring, that you should have squelched that chimp when he bowed up on the lockerroom against his own team.

It's 100x more important that they won the 1st round of the playoffs than the 73 win record. When people talk about the most dominant team of all time, they'll still point to the Bulls.They didn't burn out in the playoffs they just sustained random injuries. Literally could've happened to any team (see; 2015 playoffs). Random injuries happen, resting players in the regular season doesn't stop Curry from slipping on a wet spot or Bogut falling awkwardly.