1st year Spurs who contributed to Champioship

[Fabbs]

am i missing anyone?
Can Elson, Vaughn, Butler, Ely, White contribute to a Spurs 2007 title?

Spurs Championships with players 1st year on Spurs:
1999
Stevie Kerr
Mario Ellie
Antonio Daniels
Jerome Kersey
Gerard King

2003
Manu Gnob rookie
Speedy Claxton 2nd overall NBA yr 1st as Spur who only played 30 reg season games yet played 13 min per game thruout playoffs.
Kevin T-Rex Willis

2005
Nazr
Brent Barry
Beno Undies rookie 11 min per in playoffs
Glen Big Dog Robinson
Tony Massenburg

Losing repeat attempt efforts
20.04 Rash Nest and Turkolu at 27 min per game.
2006 Findawg 37 min per game

Something we already know: Kerr and Ellie were on Champs with Bulls and Rockets.

[baseline bum]

Kerr was worthless in '99. I was so pissed Pop was going with him in the second half of game 3 vs New York, when AD was killing the Knicks in the second quarter.

[Duncanoypi]

You forgot Glen "the big dog" Robinson...2005

[Fabbs]

You forgot Glen "the big dog" Robinson...2005
:blah thanks
and Tony Massenburg.
27 minutes total in 2005 Champ run. :toast
Thats 27 more then zero for you boo birds.

[mardigan]

And Kevin Willis in 03, or was he on the team the year before that, I cant remember

[Fabbs]

And Kevin Willis in 03, or was he on the team the year before that, I cant remember
Thank you, Kevin Willis 1st year as a Spur 71 games reg season 11 minutes per. :toast

[ShoogarBear]

WTF? You ungrateful bastards left off Mengke Bateer and Jimmy Chang?

:flipoff

[ShoogarBear]

And Andrew Gaze.

Unless you're saying they had to actually play in the playoffs.

[lebomb]

Ummmm.........Devin Brown in 2005

[ShoogarBear]

Devin wasn't a first-year Spur in 2005.

[Fabbs]

And Andrew Gaze.
Unless you're saying they had to actually play in the playoffs.
Yes, play in playoffs. Like Elson, White, Butler, Bonner, Vaughn and Ely will, right? :spin


WTF? You ungrateful bastards left off Mengke Bateer and Jimmy Chang? links? Or is Chang the translator? :lol

[SpursFanInAustin]

Antonio Daniels in 1999? Jerome Kersey?

[YODA]

Im not sure about these but, have we forgotton Zarko Paspi, chuck Person, and Carl herrera,

Yoda

[SpursFanInAustin]

Im not sure about these but, have we forgotton Zarko Paspi, chuck Person, and Carl herrera,

Yoda

None of these guys won a championship with Spurs....(Herrera won with Houston I know)

[Fabbs]

Antonio Daniels in 1999? Jerome Kersey?
yep. Thank you.
And rookie Gerard King. :toast

[ALVAREZ6]

2005
Glen Big Dog Robinson
Tony Massenburg
True, they did contribute to the team by passing out the gatorade cups during time outs

[Fabbs]

True, they did contribute to the team by passing out the gatorade cups during time outs
Blasphemy. :madrun
Release the hounds.

Anyone dissing courtime in a Spurs Championship playoff run needs to take it to another thread.
Big Dog at 10 min per game ave.

[exstatic]

Blasphemy. :madrun
Release the hounds.

Anyone dissing courtime in a Spurs Championship playoff run needs to take it to another thread.
Big Dog at 10 min per game ave.
No shit. Big Dog kept Game 1 from being a Piston blowout, or a loss at all, for that matter.

[ploto]

Losing repeat attempt efforts

2004 Robert Horry 21 MPG

[bdictjames]

You forgot

James White
Matt Bonner
Francisco Elson

[SpursFanInAustin]

Does 2000 not count as a repeat attempt since Duncan was injured?

[Fabbs]

Does 2000 not count as a repeat attempt since Duncan was injured?
If you know who the 1st yearers were, go for it.
But yeah without Duncan it's pretty much an asterik year for the Lakers. :elephant

[SpursFanInAustin]

If you know who the 1st yearers were, go for it.
But yeah without Duncan it's pretty much an asterik year for the Lakers. :elephant

I remember Terry Porter, Samaki Walker, Chucky Brown, Felton Spencer, Derrick Dial were the newcomers that year. I can't remember the mpg in the playoffs. I do know that Chucky was released after 30 games and Felton Spencer was IRed in the playoffs.

[whottt]

Tony Massenburg wasn't a first time Spur in 05.

His first time with the Spurs was about 15 years earlier....in his rookie season.


Massenburg is on a short list of players who played over 10 years and won a a championship in their last game with the team who originally drafted them.

I think the list is Drob, Bill Russell(and several other Celtics) and Massenburg.

[ShoogarBear]

Tony Massenburg wasn't a first time Spur in 05.

His first time with the Spurs was about 15 years earlier.Game, set, match, Mr. whottt. :lol

[whottt]

Game, set, match, Mr. whottt. :lol


Thanks, :tu

[Fabbs]

Premature exhiliriation for whott and Sugar.

I made this thread in response to a seperate boardie who was honking Pops being soooo smart for sitting everyone "like he always does till their second year so they can learn the D system." Sure it's helped some like SJack and Bowen, but don't even make it a requirement.

So Tony Mass was in his 1st year of Pops system. :toast
And he, like the others, contributed to a Championship without fully knowing the system. :toast

[Fabbs]

Aron Baynes?

Or will we be seeing more Matty Bonner in playoff fail? :pop:

[007nites]

Francisco Elson was a beast.

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And who could forget "Party like a rockstar?"

[therealtruth]

I miss the Pop who used to play guys in their first year.

[superjames1992]

Aron Baynes?

Or will we be seeing more Matty Bonner in playoff fail? :pop:

Lay off the liquor, bro.

[lefty]

You forgot Stephen Jackson

2003

[hater]

wake up. we had prime TD then big 3 in their primes back then. You could plug in pretty much any scrub and end up with the same result. (Ginobili the exception to this)

nowadays we have no prime TD and no more big 3. So there is no more luxury of plugging guys in.

ahh the good ol days, the good ol days :(

I do agree Pop is way too rigid. I mean how many fucking times is he going to keep trotting out Bonner out there and expect different results?

[TampaDude]

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[timaios]

You forgot Stephen Jackson

2003

Stephen Jackson was already a Spurs player in 2001-2002.

[Fabbs]

wake up. we had prime TD then big 3 in their primes back then. You could plug in pretty much any scrub and end up with the same result. (Ginobili the exception to this)
Was GNob a big 3 or an "exceptional scrub" to you?

Popped not only had the Prime Big 3 he had some of the best rolies ever. Bob Horry hands down. Bruce Bowen.

nowadays we have no prime TD and no more big 3. So there is no more luxury of plugging guys in.


I do agree Pop is way too rigid. I mean how many fucking times is he going to keep trotting out Bonner out there and expect different results?
Could you get Chump, schtikkk and TPark to whisper that in Pops ears while they are oiling up Pop-n-Bonbon?

[Fabbs]

Francisco Elson was a beast.
YouTubes of Frankie providing interior TallBalls D, swatting a shot away.

Nicely done.
Oh the days when this coach valued interior D.