This team sucks . . .

[baseline bum]

The team looks like it's panicking in the second halves of games in NO. They start playing too fast, losing their dribble and throwing bad passes and so on, which New Orleans then uses for easy fast break points... all of a sudden, game over. This is the kind of stuff I expect to see from teams like Denver and Atlanta; not teams with 3 rings together. Pop has got to calm these guys down when adversity strikes.

[all_heart]

The problem is the Spurs don't have enough firepower coming off the bench and they are too predictable on offense. You put these two together against a younger, energized team that is playing good D, you end up with nasty 3rd quarter let downs. A lot of teams got better this year including NO, the spurs just got older. I believe they can win game 6. You always here that anything can happen in a game 7? Well I'm not sure that game 7 will be much different at all from games 1,2, &5. Spurs better figure something out or it's over. I believe they still got heart, but they are running out of juice.

[Agloco]

. . . when they don't play with desperation. Unless this year's version of the Spurs comes out and the Big Three are playing like their life rides on each possession, this team is horrible. I've never seen a Tim Duncan Era team quite like it. In past years, the Spurs could at least stay in the ballgame before trying to turn it on in the fourth. This year, it's balls to the wall for 48 minutes or they don't have a chance.After Game 4, I think the Spurs took their foot of the gas. The Spurs (and about 95% of their fans ) thought the series was over. I've never seen a 2-2 series without homecourt advantage be declared over for the road team like this series was. It was mind-boggling and instead of realizing the series had just begun at Game 4, we got this:

We'll see if the Spurs can now dodge two bullets. At least we know they'll play desperate ... but like 2006, you can't always escape the hole you dig for yourself.

It's called age and a lack of contribution from role players.

[Extra Stout]

I don't think the Spurs really have any control over whether they win games in this series. If New Orleans plays well, they crush the Spurs. If New Orleans plays flat, the Spurs can win. So far, New Orleans plays well at home and plays flat on the road. They are a young team that doesn't have it all together yet mentally. However, each game they play means they get a little more experience and confidence.

The Spurs cannot win this series of their own will. Their only chance would be for the Hornets to blow it. That is not very likely. Far likelier is that the Hornets come out confident in Game 6 and do what they've been doing to the Spurs in New Orleans.

[MoSpur]

Tim Duncan needs to step it up. Period. He needs to quit complaining and start playing. Seriously, I know its been said enough, but he complains way too much. He needs to quit settling.

[MadDog73]

Or, the other way to read this, the Spurs win when they need to.

Spurs in 7.

[DarrinS]

One time, Duncan thought he had mono for an entire playoff series.

It turned out he was just really bored

[SpursFanFirst]

This pic on the front page of mysa.com perfectly sums up Timmy's game tonight:

what the...?
Even though I'm really annoyed with this team right now, that's still funny!

Oh, and I'm blaming those from the chat room who messed with Karma... I kid.

Now, let's buckle down for the next two games and take this...

[George Gervin's Afro]

You gotta give NO some credit too. They came out with a ton of energy on the defensive end of the floor and found a way to limit the penetration from the backcourt.

Manny is right..

[SpursFanFirst]

Of all the posters and Spur fans i have ever incountered you of all people was the last i would everrrrr suspect as a bitter uneducated fan.

You really think the Spurs are that bad? Did it ever occur to your iTunes Rap music downloading ass that Pop and the team already have the Hornets figured out? After they smoke them in game 6 they will lay down the hammer in game seven they will shut down the Hornets and give the WCF fans a taste of what is ahead.

And when the 2008 San Antonio Spurs hold up that NBA Championship trophy I do not want to know that your your Debbie downer,fire Pop!, fair weather, bandwagon, kool-aid drinking,topic locking ass is in the same city as I am, you don't deserve to live in San Antonio. And your the reason I became a member of this site what does that say about me?

[easjer]

what the...?
Even though I'm really annoyed with this team right now, that's still funny!

Oh, and I'm blaming those from the chat room who messed with Karma... I kid.

Now, let's buckle down for the next two games and take this...

Hey, off.

No fears, I will not be watching game 6 or a potential game 7. They are pissing me off too much. I turned it off in the third, because I was so stressed out by it, and still didn't go to bed before midnight, I was so pissed off.

It is so disappointing to know they can win and watch them revert to the piss poor play they demonstrated. It's not fun anymore. It's one thing if they are just beat, but to watch them self-destruct for lack of intensity - I'm not interested in watching that.

I love the Spurs, and will always be a Spurs fan - even if they are a lottery team next year, but that does not extend to me watching the train wreck. I hope they win, I believe they have it in them to win, I'm rooting for them to win with all my heart. But I won't be watching.

[SpursFanFirst]

Hey, off.

<hugs>

[easjer]

<hugs>

Kisses!

[degenerate_gambler]

Hey, off.

No fears, I will not be watching game 6 or a potential game 7. They are pissing me off too much. I turned it off in the third, because I was so stressed out by it, and still didn't go to bed before midnight, I was so pissed off.

I'll be watching game 6 but not with the same since of anticipation of the first 5.

Thing is..they'll probably come out tomorrow nite and play lights out, setting up a game 7.

And if a game 7 happens, well, I'll watch that one too, but with a mindset I'm not used to having for a Spurs game...hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.

[urunobili]

Kisses!

told ya not to watch it

[easjer]

told ya not to watch it

Yeah.

But I still blame their utter inability to penetrate far more than us watching. We can test that theory on game 6 and possibly game 7.

[degenerate_gambler]

Yeah.

But I still blame their utter inability to penetrate far more than us watching. We can test that theory on game 6 and possibly game 7.

A little penetration would make us all feel better..

[polandprzem]

A little penetration would make us all feel better..

Spurs lost and you think about sex?

[I am Tom]

I'm really annoyed with this team right now

So they win and you like them they lose and you get annoyed. I think you sum up what a spur fan really is.

[jman3000]

So they win and you like them they lose and you get annoyed. I think you sum up what a spur fan really is.

that should be the definition of any fan. period.

[degenerate_gambler]

Spurs lost and you think about sex?

sex and basketball have a common goal...


the ultimate objective in either one is to put it in the hole.

[urunobili]

Yeah.

But I still blame their utter inability to penetrate far more than us watching. We can test that theory on game 6 and possibly game 7.

if we win this series after you not watching it i'll make a thread about it...

[SpursFanFirst]

So they win and you like them they lose and you get annoyed. I think you sum up what a spur fan really is.

what?
Go away.

[TampaDude]

A little penetration would make us all feel better..

We should call up Kobe, then...he's really good at penetrating and forcing his way to the hole...

[easjer]

So they win and you like them they lose and you get annoyed. I think you sum up what a spur fan really is.

Uh, that's any fan that cares about their team. You have to give a damn to be affected by it. . . It's bandwagon fans that don't care when their team loses. I expect that being from Dallas (second only to Houston in bandwagon fandom capitals of the world) you might not understand the difference.