Wojnarowski: Rocky season sharpens Spurs for playoff run

[carina_gino20]

SAN ANTONIO – The best owner in the NBA rolled back his head, roared with laughter and confessed to the truth: These San Antonio Spurs had never so tested his belief, never so tried his patience. The months and weeks of the season had come and gone, and Gregg Popovich would meet his eyes with such a confounded gaze. Who the knows, the looks told the owner. That’s the beauty of the Spurs. They never think they have the answers, but they almost always do.

“It just didn’t jell,” Peter Holt said. “There were a lot of frustrating moments for all of us. We could’ve just fallen apart.”

They’d never had a team so sluggish to come together, never extended so deep into a season when the front office and coaches felt like they were so without an iden y. All those doubts, all those second-guesses and yet Holt always held onto that voice in the reaches of his mind that always assured him there would be validation to the vision of Popovich and general manager R.C. Buford.

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[Blackjack]

Tie goes to the runner?

[mystargtr34]

In the moments of truth, there was such a calm over these Spurs. They lost a 22-point lead in the game, lost their touch at the free-throw line and Popovich finally blurted in the huddle: Next guy to miss a free throw owes me a car. On the way back to the court, Duncan, the worst of them all with six misses in seven tries, stared back blankly at his coach and asked, “What color do you want?”

Classic.

[ezau]

amazing article. It's time for the Spurs to take some rest and start playing against these Suns

[dolacheck]

I wanna know if Timmy actually said that, cause that is awesome!!!

[duncan228]

I wanna know if Timmy actually said that, cause that is awesome!!!

I'm sure he did, it's being reported everywhere.

[SpursTillTheEnd]

Nice read

[024]

popovich mentioned duncan's response during his postgame interview.

[blizz]

I'm so proud to live here and have the Spurs as my home-town/favorite team.

[kace]

I wanna know if Timmy actually said that, cause that is awesome!!!

http://www.nba.com/spurs/multimedia/100429_pop.html

it begins at 6:30 about Tim with two rather funny answers from Pop.

[MI21]

Man, Yahoo are really churning out some fantastic articles on the Spurs.

Big props.

[raspsa]

8000 shots made over the summer doesn't seem to be an unreasonable amount. I know of great shooters making 500 or more a day. I hope GHill continues to work hard at his game and staying hungry and listening to the coaching staff. He's got a great future ahead of him.

[EricB]

Peter Holt obviously didn't consult the experts here at spurstalk before commenting in that article.

[Dex]

I wanna know if Timmy actually said that, cause that is awesome!!!

On his comment during a timeout about the person who misses another free throw buying him a car - “This is what’s great about Tim Duncan … that in the heat of battle he’s been a really funny guy for the 13 years I’ve coached him. Nobody really knows it. He obviously was not having a great night at the free throw line when I said that. And just to stick it to me … to let me know he’s going to go miss another one he said, ‘What color do you want?’ Nobody would think that Timmy would do that, but that’s the kind of stuff he does. I just kind of shake my head.”

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152844

[bigzak25]

that was a good read...thanks!

[wildbill2u]

8000 shots made over the summer doesn't seem to be an unreasonable amount. I know of great shooters making 500 or more a day. I hope GHill continues to work hard at his game and staying hungry and listening to the coaching staff. He's got a great future ahead of him.

When George originally made the statement he was talking about making 8000 corner threes.

Looks like the summer work paid off big time.

[lefty]

Pop and Duncan


But Wojanorowvskwoskfdoigfikikikki, he picked the Mavs

[honestfool84]

“It just didn’t jell,” Peter Holt said. “There were a lot of frustrating moments for all of us. We could’ve just fallen apart.”

jell?

[TDMVPDPOY]

this is what i think about the current roster and last seasons...

a healthy spurs roster of last season wouldve competed

this season roster is just meshin at the right time in the playoffs, and pop has probably found out that winning rotation