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Good times.
Hate to say it but I thought all was lost when Westbrick was steaming for the hoop and our young hope #2 somehow miraculously swiped it from Westbrook.
Amazing
I had a hard time processing what had happened.
What a team. Good times
Good times.
Tells you lots about personalities
Makes you question their judgment in modern times, whether they're able to give credit when credit is due or will they just blabber off like old upset grandpas.
Murray has under performed
Get over it
Tim was awesome against the Clippers in 2015. People seem to forget that series (he wasn't great in every game, but TD battled hard in most of the games, especially game 7 on the road and again, at the end of the series, I thought he was the Spurs best player). I thought he was incredible going up against two super athletic big guys in their prime (with his diminished athleticism at that point of his career), and battling them to the last seconds of game 7 (that was also probably Griffin's best series ever. It pisses me off that he's hasn't really played that well after). TD played his ass off in game 7. I remember how zoned in he as I recall him hitting all his free throws (15/15? and on the road too), and did all he could to help us get into the next round. This is also the reason I loved TD so much. A lot of time, in the biggest games, he left it all out there. I hardly ever put any blame on Tim for a lot of the Spurs' toughest losses. He always showed up 95% of the time and you really couldn't fault him at the end of the game. It's usually other guys that didn't do enough to help him IMO.
It's too bad that TP and Tiago were both injured and the rest of the guys shrivelled up (Kawhi - I'm pointing at you. Kawhi vanished after starting off the series great). I think the Spurs had a real chance to win it again that year, especially with the way TD was playing and the determination he had to go further on and compete for the Championship (too bad other guys didn't go along on the ride in game 7 to help him out). Unfortunately, with the injuries to Tiago and TP, they probably couldn't have gone much further than the second round, but I truly believe if the whole team was healthy, the could have won it all again. It's also the last series Patty played where I thought he was pretty darn good in the minutes he was given, and I was wondering throughout the series why the Pop wasn't playing him more, choosing to play a hobbled Tony Parker instead. Man, Pop really has fallen off a ing cliff since 2014.
It'S the past
They are not coming back
They are gone
GONE!
Move on a wait until the team is compe ive again
People don’t realize what a ing miracle we witnessed. FIVE LES. FIVE LES. Utah is probably the best comp as far as well run small market teams, and they have ZERO LES. Dejounte was commenting on the current Utah management re-signing Gobert, and that they were likely a second round out for the next 5; years, and I thought, , I’d settle for that. Short of finding a generational player again, not a likely prospect, I think that’s the best you can do: build a team that will make the second round, and either benefit from an unfortunate injury to another team, or that your guys catch lighting in a bottle for a playoff run.
We were spoiled
Our franchise player was a generational supersttar who didn't go to a bigger market
Players have more power today though, if DUncan was drafted in 2020, I wouldn't be surprised if he would bold to a bigger city tbh
I’m not sure he would, and kind of doubt it. Those players who bolt tend to be betas, guys who can’t win as the centerpiece. That was never a problem for Tim.
Is that NBA Champion Austin Daye in that picture?
So many gems I had forgotten about:
1. Leonard snatch/steal on Birk
2. KD choking at the end of regulation by fumbling ball
3. Diaw being Diaw (in my view the guy who made that team go)
4. Duncan’s jump hook to seal it
5. Green with a reliable 3 ball
6. That Manu 3
It's funny how you think that's where the bar is currently at for "Exhalers" (Pretty lame but you're welcome for that btw, since I coined the Sniff Crew).
When in actuality, the bar the last couple of seasons has been "Play Dejounte and Derrick together" or "Play Derrick more than Bryn"....
And your Senile God couldn't even clear that.
Lebron has always been the centerpiece of his teams
That goddamn game gave me about 5 heart attacks.
Considering how much trouble the KD/Wesbtrook Thunder gave the Spurs, it was poetic to get through them to get back to the Finals.
He got to the Finals, but didn’t win until he formed the Heatles after bolting Cleveland. He moved first, THEN he won, after teaming up with two other All Stars. Still beta-ish tendencies.
LeBron seems to have a strategy. Make his team sell out to put talent around him (which can only last for 3-4 years now due to cap restrictions and luxury tax), then move on to another team who will sell out to put talent around him.
timmy was amazing in this series.
we should have won game 6. pops hack a jordan genius plan while we were winning the game was a momentum shifter. we were up like 8, he initiates the hack a plan and he makes jordan makes the ft's and shifts momentum.
Breakig news : superstsar player canT win les on his own
And let's not forget Duncan seriously considered Orlando whe he was a FA
He would have teamed up there
Yeah, but he didn’t go. Jordan never left. Kobe never left. , Dirk never left. DWade only left for money after his window shut. Those guys are alphas. They won where they landed from the draft.Breakig news : superstsar player canT win les on his own
And let's not forget Duncan seriously considered Orlando whe he was a FA
He would have teamed up there
i long advocated for TD 21 to be stripped of that username. nobody who was that big of a baby is worthy of that name. needed to be re-assisgned to RJ 24
kobe forced his way out of charlotte
he demanded to be traded from the lakers to the bulls (different than merely considering leaving)
His last 2 rings were also when the West was at its weakest in the last 20+ years tbh. Bunch of middle of the road teams that wouldn't even come close to being as good as the prime Spurs, prime Dubs, KD/Russ Thunder, etc....the best Western team his Lakers ever beat was probably the 2008 Spurs tbh.
Doubt it Duncan is a guy who is really secure with who he is. Duncan is an introvert that likes to live a very private life. He hates big cities. He almost left the Spurs for Orlando which was another small market but never had a desire to be in a big market like NYC,LA,etc.
Agreed I appreciated the 5 les and never took them for granted knowing how hard it is to win just 1 le. Those 5 les have made me pretty much content for the rest of my life when it comes to the spurs. I have low expectations. The only thing I want is to a see team that is exciting to watch.
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