Best spurs team ever

[DAF86]

i'm sure this is a repetitive thread but i'm new here and i want to know your opinion.

for me is the 2003 team. parker, jackson, bowen, duncan and robinson with manu, speedy, kerr, malik coming of the bench

[Texas_Ranger]

2003.

[baseline bum]

99

[gmanrulz]

2003 but the hardest road was 2005

[Galileo]

1990-1991

According to Peterson's NBA Preview (1990), this was the perfect team and a future dynasty:

They had

Center - David Robinson

Power Forward - Terry Cummings

Small Forward - Sean Elliot

Shooting Guard - Willie Anderson

Point Guard - Rod Strickland

Each position had above average talent.

[sprrs]

i'm sure this is a repetitive thread but i'm new here and i want to know your opinion.

for me is the 2003 team. parker, jackson, bowen, duncan and robinson with manu, speedy, kerr, malik coming of the bench

The 2003 team would be the better team if all those players in their primes, but that was not the case. TP was just barely starting to come into his own, and had no jumpshot whatsoever. Manu was not the player he was in '05 or even now, and wasn't getting as many minutes either. SJax was still a streaky shooter and extremely turnover prone. Duncan was a beast however, and DRob was still better than any options we have now at center.

I would stick with the '05 team or the '99 team as the best Spurs team ever.

[Leetonidas]

I actually think the 2006 Spurs were a very good team and if not for a bad foul by Manu, they would be chasing their 4th straight right now.

[Allanon]

2003 romped their way through the NBA...best Spurs of all time in my opinion. '99 was also an excellent team.

Why didn't the Spurs keep Captain Jack?

[gmanrulz]

I actually think the 2006 Spurs were a very good team and if not for a bad foul by Manu, they would be chasing their 4th straight right now.

that was one play in one game. If they were that great they still shouldve won. They also had overtime to win that game.

[DAF86]

1990-1991

According to Peterson's NBA Preview (1990), this was the perfect team and a future dynasty:

They had

Center - David Robinson

Power Forward - Terry Cummings

Small Forward - Sean Elliot

Shooting Guard - Willie Anderson

Point Guard - Rod Strickland

Each position had above average talent.

talent sometimes isn't everything

[FromWayDowntown]

1990-1991

According to Peterson's NBA Preview (1990), this was the perfect team and a future dynasty:

They had

Center - David Robinson

Power Forward - Terry Cummings

Small Forward - Sean Elliot

Shooting Guard - Willie Anderson

Point Guard - Rod Strickland

Each position had above average talent.

A classic "great on paper" team -- they had everything set up to be a real contender back then. Of course, Don Nelson just riddled that team with the original incarnation of smallball through Run-TMC and that team pulled a Mavs-esque el foldo, a #2 seed losing 3 straight to a #7 seed (at a time when no #1 had ever lost).

And it's Elliott -- I'm starting to really sympathize with timvp's insistence that Spurs fans at least bother to spell the man's name correctly.

[urunobili]

2003

[DieMrBond]

99 - and i'm not sure its close. As good as Manu and Tony Parker have become, are they equal to one David Robinson? Throw in a great talent like Sean Elliott, Mario Elie and Malik Rose - two fiery guys, JJ, Steve Kerr and Antonio Daniels and Avery Johnson ...

Plus, it was the first championship... i don't know - that would be the best, in my opinion.

[whottt]

2003 They slayed the Laker Beast and their invincible coach.

[roycrikside]

I'd have to say, even as big of a Manu fan as I am, that the '99 team was the best. With the twin towers back there (plus Will Perdue) their defense was impenetrable. All they needed to do was score like 88 or so to win, and Duncan back then was a total badass, athletic, could jump a little, and Robinson still had a little something left in the tank too. They went what, like 15-2 in the playoffs?

As for the current, post-Admiral era, I'm sentimentally partial to the '05 team. I think they their struggles with Seattle and Detroit were a little overrated because Duncan won a championship with two balky ankles. If he was completely healthy, it'd have been probably a little easier. The Pistons were absolutely the worst possible match-up we could've faced, with all that height they could throw at Timmy, and we still beat 'em.

[JP le Requin]

2003 for the depth of the team and 1999 for his defense so crazy!!!

[Phil Hellmuth]

No love for the 2005 team? The defense was there as we spanked Nuggets, Suns, and then a hard-nosed sonics team that used all its physical force on us. and we beat an incredible machine of the Defending champ Detroit Pistons. Ginobili was a beast that playoffs.

[rascal]

The 99 team. That team was defensively superior with Robinson still healthy enough to be a major force.

[whottt]

No love for the 2005 team? The defense was there as we spanked Nuggets, Suns, and then a hard-nosed sonics team that used all its physical force on us. and we beat an incredible machine of the Defending champ Detroit Pistons. Ginobili was a beast that playoffs.

The 05 Gang scared the hell out of me too much to be ranked numero uno.

[Holt's Cat]

2003. That team was the deepest and most flexible Spurs team ever.

[sassystriker]

2005

[Capt Bringdown]

99 - and i'm not sure its close. As good as Manu and Tony Parker have become, are they equal to one David Robinson? Throw in a great talent like Sean Elliott, Mario Elie and Malik Rose - two fiery guys, JJ, Steve Kerr and Antonio Daniels and Avery Johnson ...

Copy that - '99 was a bad ass team like no other. Don't forget Jerome Kersey and Will Perdue. For the season we held opponents to 40.2 percent shooting from the field. That's f'n Spursball!

We stumbled out of the gate, but won 46 out of 53 after that! We left no doubt that year.

[Budkin]

1999 for sure.