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In His Own Words: Bruce Bowen
Michael K-B
With the NBA season in full swing the San Antonio Spurs are once again looking like a contender. However, there is one glaring difference between past Spurs championship teams and the squad the Spurs are suiting up this season: The presence of defensive rock and cluth-shot specialist, Bruce Bowen. Bruce harassed, terrorized, intimidated, and straight shut down the NBA's best scorers for the better part of the past decade en route to helping the Spurs to three les during his tenure in San Antonio, while also fitting a 500 game starting streak in there somewhere. Bruce retired from the League last summer after being shipped to the Milwaukee Bucks and is fresh off enjoying his first full season away from the arena.
Unlike with a lot of other players, my decision to retire wasn’t a spur of the moment thing, so it’s not some kind of sudden shock. It was actually something that I’ve been planning for four or five years. Part of it was being away from my family, which would have been the case for me to play another year [referring to the fact that he was traded to Milwaukee and would no longer be living and playing in San Antonio]. I’m the father of two young boys, so that meant there was going to be separation. Its different when you travel and you come back home, whereas if I’m on another team completely, I just didn’t want to deal with the process of being away from my kids and my family, so as I said, I had prepared for this, and I thought that it was the right time.
It is definitely different, but I’m so busy now and have other areas of my life that I get to focus on, like spending time with my family, so, so far I view retirement as a good thing. But, there are aspects of the game that I will miss, mainly the camaraderie you develop with your teammates; playing with the same guys for years, you know. During the season you spend more time with your teammates than with your actual family, so they kind of turn into a family. Trust me, I don’t miss training camp and I don’t miss practice. It’s funny because I’ve had a routine for so long, like during the day taking a nap and having your pregame meal. Now it’s just a bi-product of okay, let’s see, it’s four o’clock, what am I going to do right now? It’s interesting how you don’t necessarily understand how the real world operates because you’re so conditioned to a particular system.
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Michael Redd is pretty awkward.
Would be great to still have the old Bruce
Good stuff
Unreachable Standard.
Bruce would not be allowed to play in today's NBA. Radical defensive changes 2-3 years ago have neutered defensive players of today.
i'd love to have anyone that's not really close to what bruce did but at least try:
prince
bell
battier
Goat
I agree to a certain point, but there is still defense in the NBA. Every time I watch the Celtics play it reminds me of the old Spurs the way they challenge every play and try to disrupt plays. Maybe the Celtics get away with more contact than others, but so did Bowen.
Can't wait to see his jersey hanging from the rafters one day. Without Bruce, I'm not so sure the Spurs win any les in the 2000's.
Fantastic player, which reminds the often overlooked fact that bball is played on both offense and defense.
SA210 sighting verified. Bruce Bowen thread. The world is normal again.
Man if we had the young Bowen we had like in '03 and '05 that would make this team deadly.
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