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I love seeing David in his prime of youth, what an amazing spectacle that was!
Anyone notice how they mention in a brief tid bit how the players wanted Pop to coach the next year when Larry Brown leaves??? David might have a few more rings if that had happened.
Damn. Interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnkleBreaker21
Notice what they said during the coaching possibilities?
"The players really want Gregg Popovich to take over"
Shit, we coulda started winning alot sooner, had McCombs had a fucking brain.
Also you forget, before the blown knee, how friggen good Terry Cummings was.
Dude was an all star caliber stud.
Too bad we had morons like Bob Bass running things....
Dude....Even though D-Rob was a stud from Day 1, I always felt that Terry Cummings was our best player in 1990.Quote:
Originally Posted by T Park
yes, I have the whole game on 2 dvds. I collect great nba games and have almost all the spur finals from 99 to current.
TC was one of the best PFs in NBA history. That 92 spur team was very very talented, just don't understand how they lost so many games, even with Pops on the staff.
The Spurs would end the 1991-92 season quickly, losing DRob and Willie A to injury towards the end of the season and exiting the 1st round quickly and quietly. Rod Strickland would depart for Portland and Terry Cummings would blow out his knee in a pickup game that summer. The Spurs also passed on a proposed trade of Willie A and TC for Charles Barkley prior to the injury to TC. Spurs owner Red McCombs justified that decision based on Barkley's uncouthness and price tag. The Spurs could have had this starting lineup in the 1992-93 season:
Strickland
Ellis
Elliott
Barkley
Robinson
The Spurs of the early to mid 90s were beset by a foul mix of injuries, poor coaching, and outright stupid decisions by management and ownership. With a little better luck one of those teams could have come home with a title.
Damn the Spurs had the same PA announcer back then lol.
Red McCombs helped to keep the Spurs in San Antonio but other than that he may have been one of the worst podunk minded owners ever in the history of major American pro sports, save for Donald Sterling. He let things get personal between him and players. He was downright cheap in a way Peter Holt could never be when it came to some personnel decisions.
Things started messing up on that team being a future champ around the time we traded this guy:
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I personally always regretted trading Mo Cheeks in 89-90...I don't care if he wanted to be traded...he could have sucked it up till the offseason...could he have been the difference against Portland?
Hell yes. He was a defensive demon.
Baseline to baseline DRob was probably the fastest guy in the NBA...he was definitely the fastest on the Spurs...a team that had AJ at the point..and AJ was quick.
I've always been of the mind that the first 3peat Bulls teams were lucky they never ran into Drob or Hakeem in the finals...they couldn't stop either of them, and both the Rockets and Spurs flat out fucking owned the Bulls during their first 3 peat...the only big they had to beat was Ewing...and he wasn't in Drob and Hakeem's league.
The second threepeat Bulls teams were much better built to withstand a dominant C...and it showed.
As for TC...he wasn't better than DRob and he probably was one of the best PF's of all time...offensively. He was a lot like Moses Malone. TC of that era wasn't just an All Star...he was All NBA.
Those early 90's Spurs Teams were arguably the most talented in team history IMO...if they weren't the most talented, they were the second most talented. Particularly the 89-90 team that had tough physical role players like Wingate and the Brick.
TC's knee, Willie's shins, losing Cheeks, Brick and Wingate...a back court that couldn't consistently pull doubles off of Drob in Vinny and AJ...
It's just a damn shame...but better late than never we got healthy and talented.
It's funny because now the Spurs are always under the radar...
In 90-91 they were the consensus pick to slaughter the Pistons in the finals...
That team was more hyped up than this team is after 3 titles...
They were the Prince's of the NBA expected to be Kings, then the wheels came off one by one.
Still...it was a real treat getting to watch DRob play...he's the best athlete to ever play C in the NBA..maybe Wilt was a better athlete, but that's it.