Yes. We are potentially good enough.
We still have a little hope. Play with heart...
No way. Tank this season.
I love Small Ball. Pop I love you.
R.C Buford is not that good an executive last year and this year he could of made a trade but he didn't the spurs obviously needed a shot blocker and an athletic player to match up with odom but they didn't. This season is over.
Things look pretty grim. I'd put the Spurs chances at somewhere less than slim, and hopefully more than none.
That being said, I Believe from the opening tip, until the Spurs are either closed out of a series or are holding up the Larry O'Brien trophy. And I'll do the same thing next season.
I won't be putting any bets down in Vegas on them or anything, but this team has done enough to earn my faith, even in the dark days.
Too many teams better and a few teams just got better via trades while the Spurs (probably not for the lack of trying) will stand pat with a team that hasn't proven to be consistent this year.
There could always be hope. It's what the rest of us Spur fans have to rely on now. But it doesn't look good.
Question is...what good would tanking the season do compared to winning just a few more games to get in to the playoffs provide?
I say tank. Supposedly the draft is good next season. RJ just might intrigue some team with his expiring. And Duncan just might....MIGHT....have enough with a decent draft and perhaps player acquisition to have another chance to win just one more championship.
Otherwise....support...chear...be there.
I spent years of hoping and support prior to the first championship....I'll be there after the dynasty has apparently ended while waiting again.
I love this team. I may not always understand or agree with decisions made...but who am to question their reasons why?
And forgive me if it sounds as though I've lost faith. I haven't. I just don't think standing pat this year will get the team a trophy.
We'll See.
I love Small Ball. Pop I love you.
. . . and even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in heaven above points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man, woman and child joined hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money! It just doesn't matter if we win, or we lose! IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!
OP self ownage....
Let's sumup this wonderful season after the biggest spurs offseason of all time:
-TP sucked and has been injured
-manu is no more ginobili
- jeff sucks big time
- dice needs a wheelchair
- pop has a new lineup with bogans and bonner nuff said
- pop doesn't like mason anymore so mason wants out
- tp wants to play this summer with the FNT
- tim is not happy
- hill thinks he is paris hilton (I hope to see soon the hill sex tape)
- Spurs FO is shopping everybody and worst, everybody knows it (tp for cp3, dice for a peanut bag, theo for less tax...)
- manu explains to every media he met that he is ready to play for another franchise next year
- tp is worried by his next contract, he is tired, he is playing too much bb
- pop explains to the press that he doesn't know why but the team is not responding to him
- pop doesn't know what to expect when blair is playing
- Ian the savior has the best average stat of all time but pop doesn't give him some min meanwhile theo is sent to the cats for nothing, so you think great it means more min for Ian !!! Wait a minute, pop cannot give Ian min cauz may be Ian will play well and then spurs won't be able to offer enough money to Ian next season. Conclusion season is over but we cannot develop our young 7'0
...
the spurs aren't any better 60% through the season than they were at the beginning.
popovich can't settle on a rotation. thus, this team has no iden y. he won't let it have one. the spurs aren't going anywhere with popovich leading them, because he doesn't know how to. i'd be really surprised if they end up with a top four seed.
You are wrong. I am the iden y of the Spurs since the start of this season.
No.
Go Spurs Go.....
I won't stop believen.
If you would have just put "No" instead of "No way, tank the season" I would have voted No, but I don't support tanking ever. Not sure why you worded it that way.
It's always a repeat of '07 for the team that wins.
'09 Lakers avoid their nemesis, defending champ Boston, and face a two bit Orlando squad.
'04 Pistons avoid the defending champ Spurs and face a disintegrating (and critically injured) Laker team.
When's the last time two championship caliber teams met in the Finals? '05 Spurs-Pistons. (In '06 there wasn't even one championship caliber team in the Finals.)
Whose the last championship team that beat the defending champ? ('05 Spurs, before that, '03 Spurs).
So the key is just to stay in the game and give yourself a chance for something good to happen.
The Spurs have two things going for them this year: 1) a healthy Ginolbili (hopefully) and 2) no back-to-backs in the playoffs.
I wouldn't give up on them just yet. The Spurs' best teams have always been the ones that Pop stripped down to nothing during the season and then built back up.
He's already got half of that equation accomplished.
And now do you still believe ?
lucky spurs...
I'd say second round of the playoffs would be a good goal. Spurs could conceivably beat one of the top 4 teams in the West but not two.
Personally, I'd love to for the Mavs to get the Spurs in the first round.
I will have to disagree, it would be close though.
There is never anything like winning the first le.
Jefferson has to become the Big 3rd.
I BELIEVE!!!
i'm a contrarian at heart.... everyone doubting...i believe....
Sure why not. What do I care?
I thought we would have had a chance if we finished out the season well, but Parker got hurt again so we are pretty much back to square one championship wise. Even if the rest of the team finds a really good grove, I still think we need Tony to go deep in the playoffs. The problem is I don't think Tony will have enough time to find his swagger, nor will the team have enough time to find a rhythm with him back in the mix either.
Tony getting hurt just killed any momentum we had. winning a le? no. making a push in the playoffs? yes.
I will make this really easy. You have to make the playoffs to win the Championship.
We are in next to last place with our best back court player out for the rest of the year.
NO PARKER = NO PLAYOFFS
I have faith in the Spurs, but no faith in Popovich not to it up.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
