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Does it piss you off that ESPN.com and Foxsports.com lead with a Suns loss headline, rather than a Spurs win headline? I have to admit... It rubs me the wrong way.
This reminds me of what happened when the Spurs ended the Lakers' championship run. There was 10 times as much talk about the Lakers losing than there was about the Spurs winning.
When your team pulls off a dominant performance against a good team in the playoffs... it'd be nice to see a little recognition of their greatness.
No because everyone at ESPN had Suns winning in 6
I'm okay with it. I think people can put two and two together when they see the Suns are losing ("oh the Spurs must have beat them again")
I'm used to it. The Spurs always fly under the radar and nobody ever picks them. But the Spurs always use that to their advantage.
Nah it doesnt bother me cuz i watch the games
Anyone who saw last nights game knows that the Suns didnt just lose they got beaten
Headlines, shmeadlines
rubs me the wrong way 2...i'm very optimistic....why bog us down with what you coulda woulda done right .......tell us everything u DID right.......
All they see are self serving interests like ratings (ie ad dollars). They want Boston LA in the Finals. Phoenix Boston would work.
I hope they get Spurs - Magic. ABC ESPN would like nothing better than to have the Spurs lose as soon as possible. F'em.
When you are rooting for a team, the discussion is either what your team did to win or what they didn't do in a loss. ESPN roots for the Suns. ESPN roots for the Lakers. ESPN roots for the Celtics. Get used to it.
I'm fine with it because i get the bigger story is that the Suns are getting beat down here. Everyone said this was going to be an awesome series and beyond game 1 it has not been that competitive.
They were cheerleading for the Suns so bad on the pre-game for game 1 i turned it off, it was disgusting the bias they showed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Obstructed_View
Poor ESPN. You know in the back room they're just beside themselves.
They have to hope that Phoenix was just much, much worse than expected.
the so call critics bother me the most...
even my little brother said spurs play better basketball
and yet the "experts" say Suns in 6
oops
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"they're just beside themselves."
nah, they don't fucking care one way or the other. They read the tele-prompter, follow the scripts handed to them by the corporate managers.
Do you really think these male bimbos are allowed to run with their own story lines and opinions?
male bimbos... :lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by boutons_
Yes. If the business people made the decisions they'd promote who they thought was going to win rather than who they wanted to win so they wouldn't have bad ratings by the time those teams made the finals. When you stop seeing anyone writing about how terrible the prospect of a Pistons/Spurs finals would be, THAT is when you'll know the corporate people are running the show. Until then, it's just a bunch of journalists that can't hide their bias, so it's no different from CNN or CNBC.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_
I'm with you, buddy. It's just more of the same lack of respect for the greatness of the Spurs. Fuck ESPN and Foxsports. I'm sticking to SI.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent_in_Atlanta
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...playoffs/2008/
It would be one thing if it had been like the Patriots losing to the Giants. I can understand in that situation that you might initially focus on the losing team. The Patriots were the clearly dominant team, with a string of Super Bowl victories, losing to the unlikely Giants. I can see it in that situation. Or like when Tyson lost to Buster Douglas.
But this was NOT that situation. The Suns haven't won shit, the Spurs are the clearly dominant team, so why are you going to focus on the losing team (unless you're either writing for an Arizona publication)?
Gotten used to it over the years. At first it annoyed me :bang and I wanted so badly to change that. Eventually I came to the conclusion that there's nothing we can do about it. The revenge comes in the post season when we knock off their favorites and win championships.
As Spur fans we should emulate our team - care only about the LB trophy. :lobt: All the other stuff is nice but pales in comparison to being the champs.:king
The irony of it is that many have over the years pointed out the following:
If this team was in NY, LA or another big city the Spurs would be GODS. Absolutely worshipped and the media would have bowed down before them.
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it doesn't change my mood... it has always been like that... Dirk named best player of the day instead of TP shows u how used we are to be like that... and it's all good... all the signals that we will be right there this year too :)
It really doesn't make a shit.
The only recognition we need is people getting tired of us winning. That's a dynasty, folks.
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Originally Posted by nfg3
yea it does kinda get me upset that EVRYONE of the sports analysts are sad and depressed that the Suns lost. I was watching NBATV after the game and Peter Vescey had this sad look as if somebody had told him he was gonna die tommorow. Ridiculous. If it had been the Suns sweeping the Spurs they would ride that till the Confernce Finals and no mention of the Spurs anywhere.
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Originally Posted by Dingle Barry
Ditto
Sports coverage accross the board tends to favor the loser in elimination events. The thinking is that this is one of the last times to write the Suns angle, whereas there will be other opportunities later on to write about the Spurs.
Look at it this way, we could be Utah or EDIT Philly, in which case ALL the coverage would be skewed towards the losing team and not just most.
We should be very, very glad that ESPN and other don't have to write giant in-depth articles about what is wrong with our team.
It does not bother the players, so why should it bother you? Seriously? Hell just enjoy the wins and chill
Funny thing is thajust yesterday the same CNNSI writer said that not only could the Suns win the series, but that Pop wasn't outcoaching D'Antoni.Quote:
Originally Posted by peskypesky
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...25/suns.spurs/
As the First Round Series That Could Be The Conference Final moves to Phoenix on Friday night, two obvious questions present themselves:
• Can the Suns come back?
• Is the Spurs' Gregg Popovich outcoaching his Suns counterpart, Mike D'Antoni?
Both are easily answerable. Yes and no, respectively.
Of course the Suns, as bad as they've looked at times, can come back. What, they've never won two in a row at home?
And as much as the one-coach-is-beating-the-other-coach theory has been advanced, it is far too simplistic to see the first two games of this series, both San Antonio wins, as a victory for Popovich's brain over D'Antoni's.
This storyline of so-and-so outcoached somebody else has been overblown, as it usually is. Sure, it happens. It's a good bet that, say, Jim Valvano would've outcoached Guy Lewis into perpetuity, as he did in the memorable 1983 NCAA championship game. But great coaching reveals itself over a long period of time, not in one or two games. If you want to have a discussion about whether Popovich is a better coach than D'Antoni -- or a better coach than anyone, in fact -- well, that's a legit discussion. But the Spurs are not ahead 2-0 because one coach is on his game and another is off.
There's more but the gist of the article is that McCallum comes across as yet another Suns apologist. He even echoes the D'Antoni party line that "Challenge No. 1 for the Suns is to be more efficient on offense."
I see nothing wrong with these statements at all. They are true. yes, the Suns could have won 2 games at home, they have indeed done that before, and SA has lost 2 games on the road before. Yes, Pop made some good decisions, but the rerason Phoenix is losing is not because of poor coaching in this series, it is because \great defense always wins over good offense in post season play over a 7 game series.Quote:
Originally Posted by CubanMustGo
I've gotten used to it over the years
The fun part is when the Talking Sock Puppets choke on having to report that the Spurs won again in spite of their wishes
I couldn't care less. As the years go by I listen to less sports radio and watch less ESPN. I don't care about what the media says about the Spurs. What matters to me is what I think, and what fellow fans think.
not really.
its not surprising to me that the spurs winning against the suns.
what is surprising, therefore newsworthy, is how the suns are losing.
The Spurs players and coaches do not give a rat's ass about publicity or attention and accolades.They hate doing interviews, they shy away fro the media,so since they do not care about it, why should you??? I mean, is your ego so brittle, that you need your team to get praised for you to feel good? Let history speak for itself. When all is said and done, the Spurs will godown is history as one of the greatest sports franchises ever...that is good enough for me.
Yeah, it pisses me off because if Kobe or Lebron would've dropped 40, they would've been on the front page of yahoo, espn, msn, cnn, nba...
Parker does it and it doesn't even get mentioned.
fuk em.
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Originally Posted by SequSpur
WTF have you been watching today???? TP's 41 was all over ESPN today.....Even I am sick of hearing about it.
It's a story because the Suns seem to be going down without a fight. It's like Ali-Liston. All the hype and for what?
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For the record, best picture ever!
I'd rather have my team win then give a shit about what ESPN has to say about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent_in_Atlanta
Be a fucking man about it :toast
It doesn't sell to talk about the Spurs, but it surely does about the losing Suns: