Sour grapes guys...

[florige]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/fp/flashPollResultsState?sportIndex=frontpage&pollId=46003

The only one in the Red is Arizona... I wonder why.....

:lol :toast :lol :lol

[mikeanthony21]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/fp/flashPollResultsState?sportIndex=frontpage&pollId=46003



:lol :toast :lol :lol

For some reason, I'm not surprised.

[ObiwanGinobili]

Hahahaahahhahahahahahahha!! :lmao

I hope the Arizona residents see that and realize they really are all alone on the "but, but , :cry but we are the better team!" boat.

[SpursWoman]

http://www.boomspeed.com/sweetc/sourgrapes.bmp

[florige]

Don't worry guys, you will get a championship one day..... :lol :lol

[RobinsontoDuncan]

Don't worry guys, you will get a championship one day..... :lol :lol


Not likely

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Someone should really post a link to that on the Suns forum... just so they understand they're the only ones who don't get it

[Extra Stout]

:lmao That is awesome.

[florige]

Someone should really post a link to that on the Suns forum... just so they understand they're the only ones who don't get it


I was thinking about it, but their moderator is a prude. I'm smelling a lifetime ban for anyone doing that number... :lol :lol :lol :lol Like any of us would give a crap about that anyway huh.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

:lmao check this thread out!

http://www.arizonasportsfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=92129

hilarious!

[wildbill2u]

California was the closest blue state I saw in a quick once over. I guess they are still hung up on the Lakers.

[Spurminator]

I saw that last night and I couldn't wait to post it this morning. Glad someone else caught it.

:lmao

So perfect.

[Spurminator]

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7384/sunsmaptb6.jpg

[MaNuMaNiAc]

^^^^^ :lmao :lmao :lmao

[ObiwanGinobili]

:lmao check this thread out!

http://www.arizonasportsfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=92129

hilarious!

:lol WEAK!

[ATRAIN]

LMAO damn THEY would!!

[cherylsteele]

They even consider the Spurs a dynasty in:
California
Illinois
Massachusetts

All three of those states had NBA dynasties at one time or another and they even think the Spurs are.

[cheguevara]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/fp/flashPollResultsState?sportIndex=frontpage&pollId=46003

The only one in the Red is Arizona... I wonder why.....

:lol :toast :lol :lol

LMFAO

[L.I.T]

Silly Suns fans. Championships are for grownups.

[flipcritic]

The Salt Lake Tribune is sour graping as well. Warning, the following article is retarded.

http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_6147665

Commentary: San Antonio 'dynasty' lacks stars
Duncan, Parker and Ginobili can't live up to fan favorites Jordan, Bird and Barkley
By Jason Whitlock
Kansas City Star
Article Last Updated: 06/15/2007 03:02:37 AM MDT

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Fine, call these Spurs a dynasty. They've earned it, winning four NBA titles in nine years, mastering the art of team defense, sacrificing individual ego for team glory.

Call the Spurs the Patriots of basketball, a model of consistency, decorum, chemistry and economic sanity.

The Spurs, with Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Eva Longoria, are the envy of the sports world. Thursday night they finished their sweep of the Cavaliers, brushing LeBron James and friends aside 83-82 in game four of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena, and putting themselves in rare company.

Only the Celtics, Lakers and Bulls have more NBA titles than San Antonio. Maybe the small-market Spurs are the Green Bay Packers of hoops and San Antonio will be given the nickname ''Title Town II.''

But there's something different about these Spurs, something that stops them from impressing and captivating people the way the Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, Patriots, Packers and Yankees did.

Tim Duncan is an awesome player, Gregg Popovich's coaching resume is as good as it gets, Tony Parker won the Finals MVP award with an Isiah Thomaslike performance, and Robert Horry has more rings than any player who didn't ride Bill Russell's coattails.

So why don't the Spurs connect? Why were these Finals a TV ratings disaster and a challenge to watch?

Because sports fans aren't stupid. They can sniff an impostor even when we in the media try to convince them otherwise.

Duncan is a cut below Bird, Magic and Jordan. As good as Duncan is, he's a cut below Karl Malone, Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley and a few of the other big men who once elevated the league.

And Popovich is no Red Auerbach, Pat Riley or Phil Jackson. Pop lacks their personality, aura and offensive system. Basketball is a game that is defined by a team's ability to score the ball. Pop's Spurs win with suffocating defense. His teams don't excite.

This will sound terrible, and it will sound as if I'm trying to diminish the Spurs' tremendous accomplishment, but it's the truth: Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant built San Antonio's dynasty and accelerated the NBA's fall from grace post-Michael Jordan.

The Kobe-Shaq spat tore apart the Lakers' dynasty and opened the door for the Spurs to win titles in 2005 and 2007.

Had Shaq not grown content and lazy, and had Kobe kept his ego under control, the Lakers would still be the dominant team in basketball. They would be the team beating up horrible Eastern Conference pretenders and keeping the NBA relevant.

Instead we're treated to the very boring San Antonio Spurs, a team that struggled to finish the poor-shooting Cavaliers in games three and four.

The Spurs were terrible Thursday night. Duncan didn't score a basket in the first half. He missed all five of his shots. He finished the game shooting four of 15 from the field. He shot 10 of 32 in two games in Cleveland.

San Antonio shot 42 percent on Thursday and let the Cavaliers climb back into the game in the fourth quarter despite LeBron James missing 20 of 30 shots and turning the ball over six times.

This series might be more remembered for James' struggles and what those struggles say about his future than the Spurs' legacy. Throughout the series ''The Next Michael Jordan'' demonstrated just how much work must be done before he's the next Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Julius Erving, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley or Isiah Thomas.

Yes, LeBron needs a better supporting cast. He also needs a jump shot.

[Spurs>All]

It's Jason Fucking Whitlock, who has been a Spurs hater for years.

[209Goodfella]

"The Spurs, with Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Eva Longoria, are the envy of the sports world."

Eva was great off the bench this year. lol :p:

[Marcus Bryant]

Duncan is a cut below Bird, Magic and Jordan. As good as Duncan is, he's a cut below Karl Malone, Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley and a few of the other big men who once elevated the league.

That's just stupid.



And Popovich is no Red Auerbach, Pat Riley or Phil Jackson. Pop lacks their personality, aura and offensive system. Basketball is a game that is defined by a team's ability to score the ball. Pop's Spurs win with suffocating defense. His teams don't excite.

Actually the Spurs win with a suffocating defense and one of the best executing offenses in the NBA. They are also one of the best transition scoring teams in the league.




Instead we're treated to the very boring San Antonio Spurs, a team that struggled to finish the poor-shooting Cavaliers in games three and four.

rofl. The Spurs "struggled" sweeping the Cavs. America doesn't love the Spurs because they have no drama and nobody on the team has managed to rape someone and get away with it. There isn't a problem with the Spurs, there's a problem with this country.

[Spurminator]

Pfft. Pay no attention to that crap. It's not going to be the only article written from that perspective in the next few days.

In 20 years, all anyone is going to know is that the San Antonio Spurs were the best team of this decade.

[Flea]

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7384/sunsmaptb6.jpg






:lmao

[Marcus Bryant]

Before I forget, America is fucking stupid when it comes to basketball. High scoring offenses attract the yahoos because that is easy to appreciate. It's like that in any sport in this country. When you have a team that excels in other facets of the game the general public is at a loss to understand their strengths. That's part of the reason a sport like soccer will never be a major hit in the US. It requires too much mental effort for the average Joe Bob and most games don't have enough points scored between beers to satisfy them.

[ShoogarBear]

Red states suck. :)

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

:lmao This thread is rich...

[florige]

They are in the red, but it's actually closer than I expected to be honest with you. I thought it was going to be a landslide no dynasty in Arizona.

[Extra Stout]

Jason Whitlock doesn't write for the Salt Lake Tribune. He writes for the Kansas City Star.

And he really tends to be bipolar in his opinions. Just a few days ago, he was extolling the virtues of Tim Duncan. That was because the Spurs played two games of attractive, though not compelling on account of the weak-sister opponent, basketball.

But this guy HATES the grind-it-out defensive games.

[jag]

This is great haha

[ca®lo]

The Salt Lake Tribune is sour graping as well. Warning, the following article is retarded.

http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_6147665


Duncan is a cut below Bird, Magic and Jordan. As good as Duncan is, he's a cut below Karl Malone, Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley and a few of the other big men who once elevated the league.


a cut below those guys who retired WITHOUT RINGS?

give me a fucking break.

[ShoogarBear]

Jason Whitlock also blew his chode when the Spurs beat the Pistons in 05.

[spursfan09]

Don't worry guys, you will get a championship one day..... :lol :lol

Nah because 15 years from now the Suns will eventually run into someone just a little bit better than them. MJ denied them and now TD.

[Spurminator]

What's Sean Deveney's take on this?

[Extra Stout]

To a certain part of basketball fandom, offensive artistry and creativity, as well as personality and charisma, are integral parts of the game as much as rebounding and footwork, and a superstar who succeeds without those things has done so cheaply.

There are other fans, much less numerous in the U.S., for whom the consistent display of excellent fundamentals on defense as much as offense, is appealing, especially when said display comes sans any unnecessary showmanship.

It's a style thing, but I think Whitlock takes the aesthetics personally.

[ATXSPUR]

The fact that new york was blue I take pride in. That is the mecca of basketball!

DAMN REDSTATERS!!

[Avitus1]

As good as Duncan is, he’s a cut below Karl Malone, Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley and a few of the other big men who once elevated the league.
Especially in the sense of when you compare his collection of Championship Rings to theirs.


"The Spurs, with Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Eva Longoria, are the envy of the sports world."

Eva was great off the bench this year. lol

Thats what I'm saying! She can hit the 3 from any where on court!

Go figure its all the losers saying this. :lol

[Vito Corleone]

Well he writes for Salt Lake...so I guess nobody will be reading it then! Boy this guy is pathetic!

When did Kansas City move to Utah?

The SL trib might have printed it but witlock writes for the KC rag and is a complete hater of all things Texas

[Fo'ring]

There's a reason this guy does basketball commentary in a town without an NBA team ...