Does It Piss You Off...

It does not bother the players, so why should it bother you? Seriously? Hell just enjoy the wins and chill

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Originally Posted by peskypesky

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.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...playoffs/2008/

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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.

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."

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Originally Posted by CubanMustGo

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.

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."

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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.

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

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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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?

http://www.area51-online.com/images/11772.jpg

For the record, best picture ever!

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Originally Posted by Kent_in_Atlanta

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.

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I'd rather have my team win then give a shit about what ESPN has to say about it.

Be a fucking man about it :toast

It doesn't sell to talk about the Spurs, but it surely does about the losing Suns: