^ Our team has been a pretender for the last 4 years or so, the contending days have been long gone, time to start rebuilding...or stick with this consistent mediocrity in the playoffs?
This lack of young athletic talent (Leonard excluded) has finally caught up with the Spurs & it's damn time for them to address it.
I don't agree with that. We've been injured for most of the postseasons since 2007. I don't think we were even pretenders in 2009 and 2010. We were just injured all the time and sucked. 2011, I thought we could've done much better if Ginobili didn't break his elbow the LAST game of the season. . .and this year I thought it was clear the refs screwed us with extremely inconsistent officiating (well, consistently for the Thunder, but inconsistent in terms of calling it both ways) for suspiciously specific stretches of time during key moments late in a few games.
We could've won either of the last two seasons. I'm not sure how much better you expect a team to be. The best team in the NBA doesn't always win (not saying we have been that, but just saying). We've been a top 4 team each of the last 2 seasons. That's as good as you can hope for. We will never get better than that because that's the spot every team in the league aspires to get to.
We've been a top tier team for 2 seasons now and you're a fool if you think we haven't contended these last two seasons. That is not mediocrity. You're exaggerating since you're angry we didn't win again. I get the frustration, but saying incorrect stuff like that doesn't really help you make your argument. It just detracts from it since you're wrong.
As for needing youth and athleticism, I don't agree. This "shitty, old, and mediocre team" got the top and 2nd best records in the last 2 seasons. Meanwhile, 26 of the 26 athletic teams didn't win last year, and 25 of the 26 athletic teams didn't win this year. Meanwhile, an old ass team that wasn't young and athletic has won every time since 1999 until this season.
Spurs 4x. Lakers 5x. Pistons once. Celtics once. Heat twice (once with a ton of old vets), and Mavs once. 13 of the last 14 champs were old teams. Young and athletic is overrated since it is proven to not equate into titles.
06-26-2012
Spurs da champs
Re: Parker had eye surgery..
^ lol The Refs didn't give the Thunder 18pt free throws now did they?...The Thunder were the better team & they played both ways, the Spurs lack of defense is what cost them the damn series as well as Parker's choking.
And enough with these damn excuses of injuries, I swear it's always something with dumb ass Spurs fans, oh "Ginobili was hurt" or "the refs screwed us". The only thing that has screwed the Spurs is Popovich & Buford failing to bring in young talent (particularly an athletic 4 to compliment Duncan).
These 2 straight seasons have been fools gold BTW because everybody knows defense wins championships & Pop has abandoned that successful way to play his wannabe D'Antoni offense.
Unless Spurs get a Serge Ibaka type to help Timmy (which it's likely too late to make a real difference) & go back to playing D, this coming season will be another year of mediocrity in the Playoffs.
And BTW athleticism wasn't needed as much back in those days because everybody was usually a half court oriented team but now things have changed the game has shifted to a faster & more athletic pace.
06-26-2012
Budkin
Re: Parker had eye surgery..
Beating a dead horse but if you want to see why the Spurs lost just watch this:
06-26-2012
therealtruth
Re: Parker had eye surgery..
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Originally Posted by Spurs da champs
^ lol The Refs didn't give the Thunder 18pt free throws now did they?...The Thunder were the better team & they played both ways, the Spurs lack of defense is what cost them the damn series as well as Parker's choking.
And enough with these damn excuses of injuries, I swear it's always something with dumb ass Spurs fans, oh "Ginobili was hurt" or "the refs screwed us". The only thing that has screwed the Spurs is Popovich & Buford failing to bring in young talent (particularly an athletic 4 to compliment Duncan).
These 2 straight seasons have been fools gold BTW because everybody knows defense wins championships & Pop has abandoned that successful way to play his wannabe D'Antoni offense.
Unless Spurs get a Serge Ibaka type to help Timmy (which it's likely too late to make a real difference) & go back to playing D, this coming season will be another year of mediocrity in the Playoffs.
And BTW athleticism wasn't needed as much back in those days because everybody was usually a half court oriented team but now things have changed the game has shifted to a faster & more athletic pace.
It's not like the Spurs need to play lock down defense because of their scoring. They just need to play enough defense to win the game. The Spurs won games 1 and 2 by playing defense. They continued scoring for every other game except 3 but just couldn't defend anymore.
