BS Report: Finals and Spurs Offseason

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Originally Posted by kobyz

i also feel that i might personally caused that finals lost because i didn't complete some superstition routine i had and fucked it up.

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It probably is your fault.

Wow, this was a really saddening account. The way he described the trophy sitting on the sidelines and the ropes going up to set up the ceremony in game 6...just shoot me

Love how he talks up the Spurs character and recognizes that the team was old but really gritty.

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Originally Posted by Budkin

No way! I was a young Mets fan watching on TV and going nuts. So much better to be on the other side.

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I was young Mets fan going nuts.I was there with my father,uncle and my dads friend.
My mother rooted for Redsox and had a ticket for game 7 and didn''t go.I guess she saw the writing on the wall.
I was at game 7 too.:toast

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Originally Posted by ViceCity84

I was young Mets fan going nuts.I was there with my father,uncle and my dads friend.
My mother rooted for Redsox and had a ticket for game 7 and didn''t go.I guess she saw the writing on the wall.
I was at game 7 too.:toast

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Damn I'm so jealous! Must have been awesome!

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Originally Posted by Budkin

BS, there is no denying it was a choke of epic proportions. The game was pretty much in the bag. Missing two huge free throws is choking in the spotlight, and failing to box out or guard the 3 in just inexcusable when the title is on the line. We had every percentage in our favor, Winning game 1, 3, 5, and being up 5 with 28 seconds left. The trophy being wheeled out, fans leaving. Shit was over and we gave it away. Getting swept is not choking, it's the better team winning. The Heat were not the better team.

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Double bingo! :tu

There's simply no other explanation and no other way to describe it. If it were some other NBA team, we'd all be saying the same thing. Just because it was the Spurs doesn't mean they get a pass or that we should soften our description. The Spurs, in a fashion uncharacteristic of any previous Spurs teams, choked that title away and gift-wrapped it to Miami. It was truly the damnest thing I've see in my years of watching sports.

Now all of us Spurs fans can empathize with how Texas Ranger fans must have felt when their team choked away a title, in similar fashion, with one out away in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series.

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Originally Posted by Juggity

The "biggest choke" is being swept. Taking one of the greatest teams of all time to seven games is not a choke. It's an even matchup.

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A team getting swept isn't a choke. It simply means that one team was superiorly better than the team getting swept. That wasn't the case here. The Spurs proved they were the better team, they just didn't close the deal. They choked the victory away in the final 28 seconds by mistakes on both ends.

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Originally Posted by mosdef17

Ray Allen hit a miracle shot, one of the greatest the league has and will ever see. That invidual act should void the idea of the Spurs choking. The fact is, the NBA may never see a shot like that again. If that's a choke, then the Fisher .04 was us choking too...

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And Allen would never had had the opportunity if the Spurs would've secured the rebound and not given the Heat yet another second chance. Allen would've likely never gotten the chance if the pompous head coach wouldn't have outsmarted himself by sitting the team's leading rebounder and best player in the final 28 seconds. Missing FT, not securing rebounds. Take your pick - this team choked away a title.

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Originally Posted by T Park

Rangers 2011 WS. Gigantically similar.

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That's what I'm talking about.

It was the second thing I thought about after that loss. I won't talk about the first.

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Originally Posted by SenorSpur

And Allen would never had had the opportunity if the Spurs would've secured the rebound and not given the Heat yet another second chance. Allen would've likely never gotten the chance if the pompous head coach wouldn't have outsmarted himself by sitting the team's leading rebounder and best player in the final 28 seconds. Missing FT, not securing rebounds. Take your pick - this team choked away a title.

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It's the kind of moves a coach with no accountability can get away with. There's no way any other coach thinks of leaving TD off the floor. Players are the ones that win the games not coaches or strategies. Coaching is about putting your players in the best position to do that.

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Originally Posted by SenorSpur

A team getting swept isn't a choke. It simply means that one team was superiorly better than the team getting swept. That wasn't the case here. The Spurs proved they were the better team, they just didn't close the deal. They choked the victory away in the final 28 seconds by mistakes on both ends.

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I would say getting the finals and getting swept is "choking" on the biggest stage. Being unable to maintain momentum when it matters most.