Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Originally Posted by
duncan228
That should strike fear in West Conf playoff opponents. :rollin
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Originally Posted by
duncan228
Could deeper Spurs be best in the West?
* Finally, Popovich indicated he thinks the Lakers are still the West's best team, but he likes what the Spurs have done. "If we had come to training camp with the same group we had at the end of last year, everyone would have gone into major depression," he told May. "I would have been saying, ‘follow me,' and turned around to find nobody there. It was time to change the music and I think we've done that."
Summer 2007 was the time....
Popped trying to sound glib and wise again :rolleyes
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Originally Posted by
duncan228
* The Spurs' starting lineup will look something like this: C Tim Duncan; PF McDyess; SF Jefferson; SG Mason; PG Tony Parker.
* Off the bench will be Ginobili at shooting guard, Finley at small forward, Matt Bonner at power forward, George Hill at point guard and veteran Theo Ratliff at center.
That's a pretty sweet starting lineup. Mason being the only weak link. Not bad at all.
Ginobli and Hill are the only sure bets in the 2nd unit. If Blair is going to get the minutes that Pop and RC keep talking about then I think he's plugged in there instead of Bonner. Finley and Ratliff wouldn't surprise me until Hairston and Mahinmi/Haislip prove otherwise.
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Originally Posted by
Fabbs
Fabbs trying to sound glib and wise again :rolleyes
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
5 6 7 maybe 8 titles if Fabbs is at the helm in the Dunkan era. :toast
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Fabbs
5 6 7 maybe 8 titles if Fabbs is at the helm in the Dunkan era. :toast
Okay, let's try this again: Duncan is only playing 3 more years.
Re: Spurred Into Action: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (With Pop Quotes)
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Originally Posted by FromWayDowntown View Post
Assuming the Spurs brought Bowen back for next season, who would you propose sits during crunch time: Parker? Ginobili? Jefferson? Duncan?
If none of those guys, then if the Spurs bring back Bowen to be a meaningful part of this team, are you proposing that the Spurs go small in crunch time?
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Originally Posted by
EricB
crickets.
fify
Assuming the Spurs brought Finley back for next season, who would you propose sits during crunch time: Parker? Ginobili? Jefferson? Duncan?
If none of those guys, then if the Spurs bring back Finley to be a meaningful part of this team, are you proposing that the Spurs go small in crunch time?
crickets.
or rather you having a mouthful of Fins per usual.
Either way silence, and that's good. :lol
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Originally Posted by
Summers
Okay, let's try this again: Duncan is only playing 3 more years.
Real slowly:
Duncan has been on the Spurs 12 years.
This will be his 13th.
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Originally Posted by
Fabbs
Real slowly:
Duncan has been on the Spurs 12 years.
This will be his 13th.
Sorry, how do you figure he'll get 8 titles?
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Originally Posted by
Summers
Sorry, how do you figure he'll get 8 titles?
total up to date.
Not 4 more, altho we agree that would be sweet! :toast
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Originally Posted by
Fabbs
Summer 2007 was the time....
He says with benefit of 20/20 hindsight
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Originally Posted by
Fabbs
fify
Assuming the Spurs brought Finley back for next season, who would you propose sits during crunch time: Parker? Ginobili? Jefferson? Duncan?
If none of those guys, then if the Spurs bring back Finley to be a meaningful part of this team, are you proposing that the Spurs go small in crunch time?
Continues with the false dichotomy that the Spurs chose Finley over Bowen
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Originally Posted by
Fabbs
5 6 7 maybe 8 titles if Fabbs is at the helm in the Dunkan era. :toast
The delusions reach truly grandiose proportions.:lol
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Originally Posted by
FromWayDowntown
So, are you saying that Bowen would be on the floor in crunch time instead of
Parker?
Ginobili?
Jefferson?
Duncan?
That they'll just go small?
Or are you thinking that if the Spurs re-sign Bowen, they might be able to play 6 on 5?
I'm suggesting that when there is someone on the other team that is torching us, (like I'm already predicting there will be) and noone on our team can stop them, then we should have Bruce to call on to go in and calm them down.
Btw, Bruce has closed out games for us for years, I don't see how this is a new concept.
And FWD, don't insult my intelligence, do you honestly believe that I think we could go 6 on 5? Do you think that I think that? I figured you'd bring a better arguement than that. Nice attempt to make people laugh, but that's it.
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EricB
crickets.
There's only crickets because I have a life and have things to do other than checking in on here as much as you do. You still have no idea what the hell your talking about, it's amazing, cuz you never have.
Re: Spurred Into Action: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (With Pop Quotes)
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Originally Posted by
Fabbs
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Assuming the Spurs brought Finley back for next season, who would you propose sits during crunch time: Parker? Ginobili? Jefferson? Duncan?
If none of those guys, then if the Spurs bring back Finley to be a meaningful part of this team, are you proposing that the Spurs go small in crunch time?
actually, I'm saying that neither Finley nor Bowen would play. And that's my basic point. I think the Spurs are better with Jefferson and I think the carping about Bowen's fate is largely irrelevant because Jefferson will be playing late-game minutes with the Big 3, making either Finley or Bowen mostly a spare part. I would have had no problem with the Spurs trading Finley in the deal for Jefferson, but given the realities of contracts, that wasn't possible. Given that the Spurs absolutely had to improve their wing scoring and athleticism, it was worth what it took to make that deal. You can ignore all of those realities and pretend that the Spurs made a choice between Bowen and Finley in making the Jefferson deal, but I don't see that as having been remotely true.
And I was clamoring for Bowen to play more last season, so don't try to paint me as some Bowen hater.
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
still crying about bowen being gone? get over it already.
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
lol Fabbs. I don't know that I have ever seen anyone bring blind Pop hate like he brings it...and with the frequency he brings it.
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
If our only chances of winning a title rest on a 38 year Bowen then we're in trouble.
I wish he was coming back but it doesn't sound like it's happening. The Spurs are moving forward and Bowen is the first casualty.
Re: Time To Ante Up In San Antonio (Pop Says Bowen Probably Won't Return)
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Originally Posted by
loveforthegame
If our only chances of winning a title rest on a 38 year Bowen then we're in trouble.
I wish he was coming back but it doesn't sound like it's happening. The Spurs are moving forward and Bowen is the first casualty.
Not quite how you put it. Bruce would just be that missing piece to a larger puzzle.
