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My friends and I debated this topic...
hypothetically, if you had to chose a SF. who would you pick for the spurs small foward position? both in thier prime.
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SEAN Hands down
This is easy. Bowen by far has been more important to the history of the Spur's success than any other SF. Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_ may have been better basketball skilled and the better athlete but no where near the lock down defender Bowen is. Besides, Sean Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_ is overrated as a Spur in my opinion. He was partly responsible for the Spurs playoff failures back in the 90s.
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Elliott for sure
Depends on who else is on the court. Bowen is the best perimeter defender we've probably ever had and is a better 3 pt shooter than Elliott ever was...and Elliott was good.
Bowen is great if you have players who can take the ball to the rim. If you don't, than Sean may be a better fit.
Bruce, mainly because Sean was always hurt.
Bowen is a better defender than Sean ever was (We have Tim Tony and Manu for O already). Sean was very athletic and could slash and shoot the rock, plus he was a good defender in his prime. all around was a better player, but his prime did not last very long because of injuries and he never lived up to the great potential he displayed in 94-95. Bowen the the best wing defender in our time IMO, he literally during our runs has shut down or atleast slowed down great players enough for the Spurs to get past them, people don't know how much that really means! In 05 he got switched to Billups and that won the series IMO, he made HUGE stops or made him miss at the ends of game 5 and 7, without those stops we lose IMO. Bowen is what we need on this team, Sean was fine and a great player but I gotta go Bruce on this one.
Sean's last name ends with two ts!!! (still@ timvp's crackdown)
Elliott
Sean.....no wait.....Bruce....but, hold on......Elliott.......what? who.......Bruce.......no.....uhhhhh..............
and so on..............
its not that easy of a decision. Elliott is no pushover when defense is concerned. he also has a greater offensive arsenal than Bowen.
i just remember yelling at sean in the 99 Finals for not being aggressive enough. took me awhile to get over that
Elliott = All Star
They both bring/brought different things to the table...
Bowen has more rings than Eliott so... i'll stick with Bruce
Elliott. Bowens game is ugly.
Oh yeah on a team not named the Spurs I might take him, but Tim is an all star, Ginobili has been one and Parker, so a fourth on the team is not really needed. SA needed him to play D on the other teams best player and hit corner threes, and he did just that and that alone. Elliott could not guard the Kobes, Lebrons and so on and have the success Bowen had during his prime (I bet on that), he could play better O but during the Spurs le runs Bowen was key on key players and did the role we needed.
Elliott, no question.
If Elliott's D could be faulted it would be easy to choose Bowen as a better all around player for his championship game experience and lock down defense. But the fact of the matter was that Elliott was a very capable defender and had an all star level offensive game. So you have to give Elliott the nod on your team, as a player Elliott just brings enough on defense to give him the nod over Bruce.
I'm just glad we found both and that they both will retire members of the Spur family.
Yeah and later we learned that there was a very good reason for that...
yea when i found out why i forgave him pretty fast and actually admired that he could even play through that kind of pain
Elliott was a better player but Bruce did more things to help us win championships
Elliott healthy and in his prime was a better player. However, Bowen has now had the better career.
depends on where you look at it from. if you look for better o you go to elliott. better d is bowen. i would choose elliott though.
That's a good way to put it.
Bruce is a winner, plain and simple. He loves winning and does what it takes to win. Probably the most underrated part of the Spurs championship puzzle.
I love Sean, though, and I think if you put a 'in his prime' Sean Elliott with Manu, Parker and Duncan that that team would be sick.
Too hard to choose.
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