The Ultimate W-l Record........

[emveepee]

....IMHO, is not a 70-win regular season or even a near impossible feat of an 80-win season!!! The ultimate W-L record is going 16-0 in the play-offs :elephant

No NBA team has done it but I sure hope that our Spurs will. The team that achieves this will w/o a doubt be considered the most dominant team of all-time.

[BigVee]

Uh huh

[Rummpd]

Lakers went 15-1 one year (believe 2002) and Spurs 15-2 (99). Both damm great accomplishments.

The league has too many strong teams and wierd refs to have this happen again.

[rayray2k8]

riiiiiiiight

[Brutalis]

thats totally awesome duuuuuude

[Winnipeg_Spur]

Lakers went 15-1 one year (believe 2002) and Spurs 15-2 (99). Both damm great accomplishments.

Yup, and the Spurs still hold the record of 12 straight playoff wins from that year. Not bad at all.

[Trainwreck2100]

thats totally awesome duuuuuude

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[Darrin]

....IMHO, is not a 70-win regular season or even a near impossible feat of an 80-win season!!! The ultimate W-L record is going 16-0 in the play-offs :elephant

No NBA team has done it but I sure hope that our Spurs will. The team that achieves this will w/o a doubt be considered the most dominant team of all-time.

Yes, because when I think of the best teams in the NBA, the 2000-01 Los Angeles Lakers (15-1) and the 1988-89 Detroit Pistons (15-2) are the first teams I think about.

There's no golden-bullet statistic. Dominating consistently over a long period of time, swallowing defeat and being right back there the next season, and having great players that transcended their teams - those are the marks of greatness. All statistics do is support those arguments. I love the Bad Boys - they changed the game, got me involved in basketball, and had great success - but they weren't a dynasty, and I wouldn't say they were the best team of all-time.

[phyzik]

On a side note, I would just like to point out how just about every other team, ESPECIALLY the Lakers, like to bring up the asterisk......

On the one hand I agree it was a shortened season.... on the other, ALL F***ING TEAMS HAD THE SAME F***ING CHANCE TO WIN!! so shove a 6-pointed star up your ass.


sorry, Im drunk and felt like venting for a sec. I have no idea why, but this thread seemed like the logical choice to do it in.

[ShoogarBear]

Yes, because when I think of the best teams in the NBA, the 2000-01 Los Angeles Lakers (15-1) and the 1988-89 Detroit Pistons (15-2) are the first teams I think about. Actually, there was serious talk at the time about the 01 Lakers laying claim to being considered the "greatest of all time" if they had swept the playoffs. Thank God that didn't happen.

The 83 "Fo-Fo-Fo" Sixers were 12-1 and actually were one of the top 2-3 teams of all time, though.

[Darrin]

Yes, I remember they just did a "top 10" on ESPN Classic where they listed the 2001 Lakers as number 3 or something. But this was the same list that named the 1989-90 Pistons as the best of the Bad Boys era at 8 overall (despite losing 4 more games than the previous season, and losing 3 more playoff games) and subsequentally named Rick Mahorn as a member of the team, despite his twin brother with the same name being on the Philadelphia 76ers in 1989-90 (The expansion T-Wolves took him off the squad hours after winning the title in 1989). So take that for what it's worth.

[TDMVPDPOY]

i reckon spurs road to championship in 99 was teh hardest besides beatin the knicks but the west was damn stacked that year any team in the western playoffs couldve won if they made it.

[Rummpd]

I forgot that the "bad boy" Pistons also went 15-2 props to them, and the Spurs with the same record and the LAL for their record 15-1, and the Sixers 12-1 etc.

It would be awesome to see a team do it but I do not see it happen unless a team gets constructed of Duncan, Shaq, Garnett, Wade, and Kobe or something like that down the road (and I do not want to hear any Pistons fans saying that is what their team is = reality check it is not).


I am surprised that the Bulls with Jordan did not have at least one loss run but there were some darn fine teams facing them in his era.

[emveepee]

i reckon spurs road to championship in 99 was teh hardest besides beatin the knicks but the west was damn stacked that year any team in the western playoffs couldve won if they made it.

I agree. I never expected us to sweep Sheed and the Blazers. I expected a Spurs sweep against the Knicks in the finals.
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