The Bottom Line - Time to make history.

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

Gary Coleman? Nightrider? and the Hoff?

That's not gay, that's awesome.

[GrandeDavid]

They got this. I'm telling you, its all a ploy to make this DVD the best of all time.

I was thinking the same thing.

[Nbadan]

It's not like the Lakers are miles ahead of this Spur team, but the Spurs need to make their outside shots to have a chance of winning in Lakerland....possible? Anything is possible when the Spurs O is clicking...

[Ginofan]

There is always a chance. Believe!

[Bruno]

We can make all the "time to make history", "1.", "Believe", ' NO LIMIT ARMY COMMANDER" or "heart of a champion" thread of the world but it won't change what Spurs have to do to win this series.

Spurs will have to win 3 times in a row including 2 times in LA.
Teams up 3-1 with HCA win the series 98.3% of the times.

Spurs' player will try for sure to win it and will give 100% of what they have but we shouldn't been blind about facts : baring a miracle Spurs will lose the WCF.

[GrandeDavid]

Nah, I know this team and I guarntee a game five win. Then, when they're back here playing at the AT&T in front of their home crowd? They win again.

And then in a game 7 where the Lakers feel all the pressure of a monumental choke job? The Spurs win again.

Spurs in 7.

Manny, your optimism is freakin' contagious! Suddenly I can see it happening.

[urunobili]

They got this. I'm telling you, its all a ploy to make this DVD the best of all time.

[1Parker1]

Maybe pure emotion can help them win Game 5. But your insane if you think the Spurs can win 3 straight against Kobe and Phil. Esp without HCA. In a 7 game series, the best team always wins, calls or no calls, conspiracy or no conspiracy. Spurs can't win with just 5 players contributing to the game (Parker, Duncan, Ginobili, Barry, and Bowen). At this point in the playoffs, it always comes down to the "x factor" or role player stepping up. Last season at this point, it was Oberto for us against the Jazz. This season, you're not going to win many games when you can't get anything out of your top 4-5 role players; Udoka, Finley, Horry, Vaughn, Oberto. Spurs have way too much pressure on Parker, Duncan, GInobili, and Bowen to produce every night. It takes a toll on them.

I have no doubt the Spurs are going to give it their all. But they missed a golden opportunity to tie up the series last night with several missed rebounds and missed 3 pointers.

In the end, all you can hope for is that your team plays it's heart out. In sports though, heart doesn't always carry you through. You also need the physical and mental toughness to break through and after 2 grueling rounds, I don't think the Spurs have much of either.

It was an exciting playoff run to say the least though. Hopefully the Spurs go down fighting tommorow night.

[DarrinS]

Give 'em on Thursday, Spurs.

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

How many teams have come back from 1-3 besides the aforementioned Suns?

[DarrinS]

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but there are perverbial s in the Lakers' armor.


From time to time, you'll see bickering between Kobe and his teammates. You'll see weird exchanges between Gasol and Odom. Kobe has no reservations about going off on one of his fellow Lakers and even calling them out in the media.

Anyone remember Kobe saying "I guess 'the Machine' needs new batteries?



Anyone remember seeing Kobe elbow Sasha on the bench?



Despite Kobe's obvious talent, he's not the greatest teammate.

[GrandeDavid]

I have to say you guys are a bunch of pussies and this isn't much of a rally thread...ya'll should have told me to get the out of hte thread after my first post. Where is the fire? And you expect the Spurs to have some left?


Disappointed in you guys for not running me the from this thread...now I really do give up

Whottt, get the outta here...kidding!

[GrandeDavid]

It really doesn't...it requires sitting on your ass and typing, just like quitting does. Real men would be willing to take the heat that comes with giving up...it's much more difficult than not quitting...if you don't quit you've got nothing to lose, even if you don't win you can proudly say you didn't give up...but if you quit, you are ed because even if your team wins you'll never hear the end of it. And if they lose you'll still be labeled a quitter.

No, it definitely takes much more balls to quit.

Whottt, you have jettisoned to near the top of the totem pole in most entertaining contributor here.

Btw, there's much truth in what you say, actually. , I have to laugh again:

[texbound]

How many teams have come back from 1-3 besides the aforementioned Suns?

The Houston Rockets were down 3-1 to the Suns in 1995 and came back to win that series (won gm 5 and gm 7 in Phoenix). That was infamous Mario Elie "Kiss of Death" 3-pt shot. The Rockets went on to defeat the Spurs in the WCF and then win the NBA Championhip that year. It has been done before.

[Spurminator]

This one hurts. Man, it hurts.

I remember in 2006 I felt pretty good about our chances of coming back from down 3-1 to the Mavs. We weren't playing our best ball and there were weaknesses that we were failing to exploit. The Spurs came out and won the next two and took Game 7 to overtime.

I don't feel quite as good about our chances this series (because of the Kobe factor) but it's still far from hopeless. We're a few shots from being up 3-1 in this series, and it's not unreasonable to hope for three straight wins if we can play above average basketball consistently.

Win Game 5 and you come back home. And I really like our chances then.

[GrandeDavid]

Let's stop creating new threads for every stupid, copycat, repe ive thought that enters our minds, begging for attention. Instead, let's focus on original threads leading up to tonight's tip. I had to go back like 8 pages to find this thread!

It is time to make history!

[GrandeDavid]

All these not so sharp Laker honks keep posting out of hand, waste of space threads. Let's keep the good ones up top.

[Spurminator]

Good call GD

[pooh]

Joey Crawford is a and we all know it. But truth be told, Fish's shot hit the rim and the Spurs got a bad call in their favor at that point and just weren't able to make it happen.

it, forget it. Lets hope the Spurs do. They've got bigger fish to fry.

They have to accomplish the greatest comeback in San Antonio Spurs history.

les aren't easy to win. But they've probably never been as hard as this one. Thats only going to serve to make this one the sweetest of them all.

“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” — Jacob Riis

*BUZZ* WRONG. Sorry - it was just too easy.

[ChumpDumper]

Go Pacers!


Sorry - it was just too easy.

[pooh]

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