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This Spurs lost to the better team. Props to the Mavericks for advancing. Good luck.
As far as the Spurs are concerned, they still have more gas in the tank. Tim Duncan will have the longest offseason of his career to get his knees right. Tony Parker proved he's taken his game to another level and will be able to carry a bigger portion of the load for the foreseeable future. Manu Ginobili will get healthy, he'll be rested and and he'll once again be once of the best players in the league next year.
Bruce Bowen has another year in him. George Hill should really blossom next season. The Spurs should be able to fill out the roster with younger and better pieces.
Even though any objective Spurs fan knew the Spurs were extreme longshots to do anything this postseason, losing still hurt. Especially to the Mavs. But in the long run, this early loss well help the team. More rest and the roster's deficiencies are now painfully obvious. Winning a few more games in the postseason would have been great but escaping without a major injury to Duncan or Parker is way more important. Duncan could have hurt himself playing on one leg, Parker could have hurt himself trying to carry the whole load.
After a decade on the grind, this rest will do the team good. Come back next year with the Big Three intact, get refueled with better role players and make a run at #5.
Thank you to the Spurs for the effort. Thank you to Spurs fans for supporting your team.
The Spurs will be back.
Believe.
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you are so right, timvp.
i look forward to watch the spurs for the next 4-5 seasons.
Great post timvp
And thank you very much for all your work this season.
Your analysis are the best thing we can read about the Spurs much better than EN.
Thanks a lot
As long as the big 3 stay healthy we will always be right in the mix. Hopefully the FO can rework some magic this offseason and we can add some new pieces.
nice post, the spurs will be ready next season for sure
Very true. The painful part is knowing we have to wait until late October for more Spurs basketball. Hopefully some magic happens this offseason.
So many ifs =/
get your mind right in the summer pop.
I'm ready for next season. Duncan went out like a warrior. Parker was great. Too bad the rest of the team didn't step up. Ginobili will be back. For the first time in eleven years, the Spurs will have some rest time. Realize that the Spurs have played more playoff games than any other team in the league for the past decade. The long break can't hurt too much.
GO NUGGETS GO !!!
It's a shame the long rest won't also include reinforcements through the draft...
along with the rest of the NBA, but the diff is they will come back with the same team and get the same results
Yes. Get Manu back. TD spends the next half year or so resting up. Hopefully Mahinmi will be ready to show what he can do. Out of the various young prospects stateside and in Europe I would think they can find at least one who is ready to contribute. Hill just made it clear that he should be a fixture in the rotation next year. I would hope that Bruce gets one more year in SA. Plus they should have their MLE and LLE to add someone of value to the rotation.
x1 This!
We Don't want Pop to go we just want the old Pop back.
Always a fan, always believe. Thanks for the post.
I still believe the Spurs have one more deep run left in the playoffs.
You rule as usual timvp and as all the SpursTalk veterans know, this place is just as great in the offseason, if not better. GO SPURS GO!
Spend the mle wisely. Resign Bowen. Say adiós to everyone else. Beg splitter to come over.
in a way i'm almost happy it's over... my heart cant take no more.
I'm also sick of Pop's somberness this season. PJ probably calmed him down in his 3-5 years with pop.
BTW i've had enough of Pop's mancrush on Finley. He should retire already. I know he's a pro, but it's painfully obvious that he's done...
Mason needs to regroup and Pop ed up his game late in the season. And George Hill should be our backup PG next season. BTW how did your Mason experiment (as our backup PG) turn out Pop?
Btw George hill IMO should get a legit shot at the starting two guard position next year.
The Spurs weren't going far without Manu so to get upset over a first round loss is silly.
Spurs exit earlier allows our returning players to rest.
Also, I'm pretty damn excited about the change the team will go through over the summer. We'll see a lot of new faces, mostly younger and athletic players.
timvp I agree with everything you said, especially about us now knowing exactly what our weaknesses are and all, But do you feel that Pop will make the right changes or will he continue to be stubborn, get rid of Bruce or not play him, keep Finley, etc, etc???
I have to say, I don't have confidence in Pop right now to do the right thing anymore.
I desperately hope that Pop gets over his overreaction to the loss to the Lakers in the WCF in 2008. That overreaction cost us this whole season. He started prioritizing offence too much, thinking we needed O to beat the lakers. We need D to get to play them in the 1st place Pop...
This team had an iden y, and we need to get back to it. Play D, let the offence build from getting the stop!
Please, Please, Please Pop! No more lineups with more than 1 ty defender. You can afford 1 defender, and 1 average one. But that means 3 players who are good defenders on the court all the time. We can do that! We can win that way! Spend games in the regular season to establish good habits if we lose a couple more, we lose a couple more...Tolerate losses for growth!
PS. For god's sake trade Finley! (and Bonner too while you are at it!)
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