where were u 20 years ago spurstalk posters......
Easily one of the greatest carry jobs in NBA history by Timmy tbh. Prob my 3rd favorite le ever. Behind 2014 and 1999. Just because of Duncan’s dominance, it being D-Rob’s last season, and finally eliminating the Lakers after losing to them 3 straight years. And watching Kobe and Derrick Fisher cry. That was a fun one. 2005 is right there too though.
At the game, celebrating.
(In fact, I think I even saw Kori and LJ walking out.)
03 was maybe the most fun, but by far the most maddening. They had all the big comebacks because they gave up the big leads. So much young talent and not a lot of consistency compared to the other le teams. The 14 team was the pinnacle of maturity. The 03 team was on the other end of that. So much fun.
Nest year on June 15th we can celebrate our 10 year anniversary of 5th le.
Vintage Walton in the intro/opening: "Tonight's about closure, tonight's about Tim Duncan being the best, but it's also about David Robinson, riding the last wave of the day, we have come to the end of the line, blow it out big men, blow it out."
It was two, '01 and '02.Easily one of the greatest carry jobs in NBA history by Timmy tbh. Prob my 3rd favorite le ever. Behind 2014 and 1999. Just because of Duncan’s dominance, it being D-Rob’s last season, and finally eliminating the Lakers after losing to them 3 straight years. And watching Kobe and Derrick Fisher cry
It was two. 2001 was the worst. I remember meeting Baseline Bum and some others to go to Game 4 of that sweep.
I caught it and edited it before you got me!
Yea my b. 2 straight years. In 2000 we lost to PHX in the 1st Round without Timmy. 2001-02 was still super frustrating watching Kobe destroy our backcourt. Bruce couldn’t really slow him down. Shaq got his of course, but we defended him pretty well with the twin towers all thing considered. Not being able to slow down Kobe is why we lost imo.
I deleted my post btw, no point keeping it up there.
I did run across this article from 2012 I had forgotten about, talking about Pop's decision to shut Duncan down for the 2000 playoffs in the name of career longevity.
https://www.espn.com/nba/playoffs/20...njury-pays-off
The contrast to Grant Hill is especially chilling.
This could very well end up happening with Wemby at some point. Hopefully he is as forward-looking as Pop and Duncan if it does.We also don't know whether Duncan would have wrecked his knee and turned into another Grant Hill, who pushed his injured body to the limit and found his body pushed him back and down from superstar status.
Arguably the single most dominant post-season in NBA history by a single player. That team without Duncan doesn't win 30 games and definitely doesn't make the post-season.Easily one of the greatest carry jobs in NBA history by Timmy tbh. Prob my 3rd favorite le ever. Behind 2014 and 1999. Just because of Duncan’s dominance, it being D-Rob’s last season, and finally eliminating the Lakers after losing to them 3 straight years. And watching Kobe and Derrick Fisher cry
Thanks, man.
This is what bugs me about the whole Kawhi affair -- there were media persons with big megaphones (national) claiming that the Spurs were trying to play an injured player.
Completely unsupported by the evidence regarding Kawhi (or any other past Spurs behavior regarding injured players, including Duncan) but completely un-factchecked at the time the Spurs were being savaged.
It’s definitively Top 4 and can easily be argued #1. Right there with Ric Barry, 94 Hakeem, and 2011 Dirk. I personally think Dirk had the best team of the bunch but also the hardest road to win a chip. It’s easy to look back now and say how flawed the Lakers were but defeating the 3x champs was a HUGE accomplishment. I loved watching Fisher cry
I was at that game, too. That crying was actually on the Jumbotron in real time for all to see.
Brought my asterisk with me.
Quite possibly my favorite Spurs game outside of SA.
I was doing summer school in college and was stressed out. This le gave me some relief to get through it. The '03 team was my favorite championship out of the Spurs 5 les.
Those media clowns knew what they were doing was wrong but they just desperately wanted Kawhi to be a Laker and were going to do it by any means necessary.
I was studying abroad in Western Europe during grad school. We made a weekend trip to Venice, and I made sure the hotel we stayed at had Canal+ or whatever sports station it was that was showing the Finals.
I watched it live in my Venice hotel room in the late night/early morning. What a way for my childhood hero, David Robinson, to go out on top. And such validation for all of us that endured the asterisk talk for 4 years.
Yeah the 2015 le was something. No discussed enough imo.
Nowitzki didn't have near the playmaking (for others)/defensive burden Duncan did.
Most of his best teammates were also in their late prime, unlike Duncan's, who were clearly pre or post.
Said this in another thread but Duncan’s ‘03 playoff run is so under-appreciated and not talked about enough. People either didn’t watch at the time and/or just look at the names on that team without realizing no one was remotely close to their prime outside of Duncan. Parker in his 2nd season at 20 years old, Manu in his rookie year, D-Rob in the final season of his career at 36 or 37…there was no “big 3” in 2003 - just Duncan in his absolute peak completely dominating on both ends of the ball. Definitely the weakest of all the Spurs le teams IMO.
The 03 team wasn’t talented at all. It was much like the 94 Rockets. Just a buncha guys who work hard and know their role and play suffocating defense as a team. But besides the Lakers each team they faced was pretty meh.
Dirk had to go through b2b champ Lakers, OKC, and Heatles. It was unquestionably a harder road. Jason Terry was better than TP though during that run by a lot. And Kidd knew how to play with an elite rim protector in Tyson and a sharpshooter in Peja. And their own version of speedy Claxton in JJ Barea. A better team than the 03 Spurs for sure supporting cast wise but still not nearly good enough to knock out all those juggernauts come postseason. 11 Dirk was quite impressive.
not sure if 2005 or 2003 but there are pics here of kori & lj in the spurs locker room after the championship win........At the game, celebrating.
(In fact, I think I even saw Kori and LJ walking out.)
2003 le was won on june 15th to
It's all relative to your own team's caliber though. The Lakers (could have easily been shutout if not for Garnett's knee injury in '09 and Perkins' keen injury in game 6 in '10), the Thunder were too young and the Heat too thin plus James was trying to not step on Wade's toes.
'11 Nowitzki receives plenty of praise. In typical Duncan fashion, '03 is largely forgotten outside of Spurs fans and stat geeks. The masses only seem to remember the post prime version and think Olajuwon is the standalone standard of post moves/footwork.
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