Never Forget Four Short Years Ago

[UNT Eagles 2016]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ANov-Ogvg


Only things that made it a little unfortunate were... a) no Stan Kelly, and b) boring Mike Breen


but... Tim promised if we went back we'd take down the Heatles, and we did


we won it all in the final summer I spent in San Antonio between my 1st and 2nd years at UNT. Taking summer classes at NVC. Free Valero coffee for the last time, on a class morning the morning after winning the championship.

Will never forget

[Play Boban]

But 5 years ago :cry 6 :cry it still hurts :cry

[UNT Eagles 2016]

But 5 years ago :cry 6 :cry it still hurts :cry
I don't think we win B2B if we win in 2013. Don't think we get past OKC in '14 in that case.

Pop always coached best with the chip on his shoulder, and he never had one of those the year after winning a title. I think that chip is gone for good now, for the record.

[21209]

I don't think we win B2B if we win in 2013. Don't think we get past OKC in '14 in that case.

Pop always coached best with the chip on his shoulder, and he never had one of those the year after winning a title. I think that chip is gone for good now, for the record.

Yep. That loss in 2013 is what drove that team the next season. Their mission that whole year was to right a wrong.

Hard to believe that it's already been four years.

[sananspursfan21]

I don't think we win B2B if we win in 2013. Don't think we get past OKC in '14 in that case.

Pop always coached best with the chip on his shoulder, and he never had one of those the year after winning a title. I think that chip is gone for good now, for the record.

Kinda how I feel about it. I hate that Lebrick got a ring at our expense but at least our guys showed the world who REALLY was the better team. A ring in 13 and the Spurs wouldn’t have made it. Heck, they might not have gotten past the Mavs that year. They took it to game 7 and I wonder if there was enough fire to not get a first round upset again.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Kinda how I feel about it. I hate that Lebrick got a ring at our expense but at least our guys showed the world who REALLY was the better team. A ring in 13 and the Spurs wouldn’t have made it. Heck, they might not have gotten past the Mavs that year. They took it to game 7 and I wonder if there was enough fire to not get a first round upset again.
Unlikely we even get the #1 seed in 2014 if we win the trophy in 2013. So we probably don't get the Mavs. Probably draw Portland or GSW, win, and lose in the second round to whoever.

[SAtown]

a) no Stan Kelly,

Damn, that's going way back. Wasn't he only at the SBC Center for one year (2003)?

[CGD]

Time flys. Can't believe that what 4 years ago.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Damn, that's going way back. Wasn't he only at the SBC Center for one year (2003)?

Incorrect. He was there up until the end of the 2008 playoffs. His absence was extremely noticeable on opening day against Phoenix in 08-09. Perhaps not coincidentally, that was the first season opener we ever lost in the TD era, the only home opener loss in TD's 19 years, and one of only 2 total season opener losses in the TD era.

[tholdren]

Thanks to kl missing fts

[TheGreatYacht]

Thanks to Manure missing fts

[Capt Bringdown]

I don't think we win B2B if we win in 2013. Don't think we get past OKC in '14 in that case.


Rather lame, isn't it? As great as the Spurs run was, they still left something on the table: a repeat.
I still can't comprehend how they lost in '13.

[apalisoc_9]

Spursfans living in the past.

[SuperCam]

1 title in last 11 seasons spurfandom aint what it used to be :depressed

[Arcadian]

Fuck yeah. I was in attendance. One of the best title teams ever.

[Spurtacular]

Really thought that team would repeat too. Sucks that the Warriors got their first of many lucky seasons that year.

[Spurtacular]

Fuck yeah. I was in attendance. One of the best title teams ever.

Top ten all-time, imo. The fact that they're comparable to the 86 C's is high praise.

[boutons_deux]

Thanks to kl missing fts

And Tim missing a gimme, just like he did at the buzzer in game 5, '05, Auburn Hills

[YGWHI]

Yesterday watching game 2, I told my non-SAS-fans friends "Well, the Spurs made the Finals just four years ago"...I'm afraid of the moment when two hands won't be enough to count the years

[james evans]

Rather lame, isn't it? As great as the Spurs run was, they still left something on the table: a repeat.
I still can't comprehend how they lost in '13.
Popovich. Simple as that. Duncan had the best 1st half of his career and then in the 2nd half, he lets Manu run crazy turning the ball over and Parker out there playing to get finals mvp again. Nothing else to read into. And I'm not even gonna talk about his 4th quarter coaching

[rjv]

yeah but they won in spite of pop, buford, manu, parker, mills and green.

[NameLess Scrub]

Wish they had threepeated from 2012 to 2014.. they very well could have; and see how the LeBron narrative would have gone.

[FkLA]

Spurs have always had bad injury luck and shitty reffing against them that prevented them from repeating. If we got away with the shit the Lakers got away with against Sacramento or got all the calls the way Warriorefs do, or had incredible injury luck like the MVPau Lakers or current Warriors we'd have repeated or three-peated too, tbh.

[hater]

I still remeber Manures tank in game 6 of 2013

We cpuld have easily been rechamps smh

[Capt Bringdown]

Popovich. Simple as that. Duncan had the best 1st half of his career and then in the 2nd half, he lets Manu run crazy turning the ball over and Parker out there playing to get finals mvp again. Nothing else to read into. And I'm not even gonna talk about his 4th quarter coaching

You're right, the way Pop coached Manu meant that he couldn't pull him when he was playing shitty. Pop coached him like a Manu fanboi; he would not bench him when he was out of control.

[DeRozan m8]

Remember when we didn't know who was going to win the championship....when the league was interesting?

[Arcadian]

Fuck a "repeat" - the Spurs won 3 out of 5, with the other 2 ending in extremely narrow defeat. That's still better than a simple repeat.

Plus, 2013/2014 should basically count as a repeat anyway, since it took the luckiest series of events ever for Miami to pull off the first one (and then got crushed in the next one). :lol

[daslicer]

Spurs have always had bad injury luck and shitty reffing against them that prevented them from repeating. If we got away with the shit the Lakers got away with against Sacramento or got all the calls the way Warriorefs do, or had incredible injury luck like the MVPau Lakers or current Warriors we'd have repeated or three-peated too, tbh.

Agreed especially about the ref point. It's much easier to repeat when you are a media darling like the Lakers,Warriors knowing the refs are going to favor you in close game. Imagine if the Spurs got Warrioref or Lakeref treatment against the Mavs in '06. They definitely win game 3 and 4 instead of losing those two games by narrow margins due to bad reffing.

[InRareForm]

The beautiful game

[Play Boban]

I don't think we win B2B if we win in 2013. Don't think we get past OKC in '14 in that case.

Pop always coached best with the chip on his shoulder, and he never had one of those the year after winning a title. I think that chip is gone for good now, for the record.
Maybe not, but I’ll never forgive Kawhitter for missing that critical free throw tbh.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Maybe not, but I’ll never forgive Kawhitter for missing that critical free throw tbh.

In all fairness, I don't think there was a player on that team who we realistically could have counted on to go 2/2 in that situation.

Even Manu had just split the last time down.

Parker tends to go 0/2 in those situations.

I love Timmy but... he was Timmy.

Danny Green's shaky high archer free throws aren't good for that situation. Same with Bonner.

Boris would have gone 1/2. Not a great FT shooter by any means.

Shitter... lol.

Neal was probably our most consistent FT shooter on that team, but Neal in the clutch...? No, thanks.


Unfortunately, Ray Allen was on the other team. Mike Miller, too. The best FT shooters in the game at the time... and they killed us with threes, not free throws. Even with one shoe off. That's life, I guess.

[Prose]

i love mike breen...
"from WAY downtown town....BANG!!!!!"

[tholdren]

Maybe not, but I’ll never forgive Kawhitter for missing that critical free throw tbh.

Kawhit brickard

[Play Boban]

Kawhit brickard
:wow