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Without calling anyone on here a bad fan, I must say that you are a true fan. Thanks for supporting the Spursto you, and to all my fellow spurs fans, whatever your outlook may be.
The Spurs are good, but would have been better with someone other than Matt Bonner in the rotation.
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Without calling anyone on here a bad fan, I must say that you are a true fan. Thanks for supporting the Spurs
How's that working for you right now?
How about you, are you ready to come to the dark side?
2.76 more seasons....
DMC, I respect you like , but one loss will not bring on the darkness for me. Plus I think Pop threw in the towel early with the Rockets. Most teams are going to face that this year due to fatigue and will have to make the call whether to run their starters into the ground or live to fight another day.
My allegiance to the Spurs is undying. As long as there's even a slight chance I'm good. And when that chance is gone, I'll still be cheering, and from way better seats, too
Of course, if you are well grounded in this, you know that we don't know much just yet. However, if you want to go spastic on a couple wins, you have to be consistent and overreact to a loss.
Don't confuse grip on reality with pessimism. We all want the Spurs to win a le, but when the dog won't hunt, you should probably have backup plans for dinner.
LOL, I like! You're right, there is an upside if we ever become the new Clippers of the league. Cheap seats become good seats.My allegiance to the Spurs is undying. As long as there's even a slight chance I'm good. And when that chance is gone, I'll still be cheering, and from way better seats, too
I'm not saying you're a simply pessimistic dude. I wouldn't respect you if you were JUST that. That would mean you have no grip on reality. You do have a grip on the facts, but you're slightly skewed toward the darkness. I'm just saying.
No. I have not predicted failure. I just haven't seen a reason to make a prediction. We are not currently a championship caliber squad. That doesn't mean we won't be, but I haven't seen anything to make me think we are.
Faith isn't required in professional sports. I can be a fan without being irrational or zealous. In fact, irrational zealotry is annoying and hard to converse with. You end up jousting windmills constructed of confirmation bias and cherry picking.
This thread is relentless! I guess none of us would be here if we weren't rather over the top fans. Some are just dreamers and others more practical. From the sampling so far this year, I think we might be a bit better, but with very many less wins relatively. That being said, my level of fandom is probably mentally unhealthy. But then again, I just saw a large redheaded pig fly past my window wearing a Bonner jersey...so ya never know...
I know what is important though, we need to murder the Jazz tomorrow night and step into 2012 on a good note. Happy New Year everyone!
The Pistons' third leading scorer was James Edwards - a 7-footer. Laimbeer was 6'11" and John Salley was 6'11". Rodman was an epic freak of nature at pulling down boards (and a much better defender than most people remember). And, yeah, if you told me that we could have a 29-30 year old Rick Mahorn as our fourth big, I'd be thrilled. The fact that you had to go back 20 years to even try and prove it isn't a big man's game says it all.
You're counting Kawhi Leonard as one of our bigs? I guess the totally delusional don't realize that they are totally delusional. Just as soon as Leonard averages 10+ boards per game (a bad year for Rodman), you might talk about including him on that list. But it won't be this year. This year we have three bigs - one aging, one soft, and one short. And the FO didn't accomplish anything to address it in the offseason. You're debating whether the sun came up in the East. Some things are just facts. Tim won't get younger, Blair won't get taller, we'll see about Splitter getting tougher - and Kawhi Leonard isn't a big.
BTW - on top of being a bruiser down low, Laimbeer jacked up about 150 3-pointers in the 1980 season, and made almost 40% of them. And in those championship seasons, Laimbeer played about 2700 minutes per season. The last time Duncan played 2700 minutes was in 06-07... the last time the Spurs won a championship.
Good post. Also, if you care about a team you want them to be as good as possible. Why do I have to like the defence of Bonner and Blair?
Astounding use of Google. This must have taken you over an hour to put together. You seem to get your rocks off more by using Internet research to try to support that fellow fans "delusional". Bro, you are an angry dude with too much time on his hands. If you used more of that time for fandom rather than splooging over trying to make others look bad, your google research might be more palatable.
Learn the difference between exuberance and stupidity.
DMc I respect your position and opinion in general. So your post saddens me a little. At least you did not resort to cutting and pasting from google while attempting this effective smackdown. But any dude who has to spend over an hour trying to orchestrate a smackdown through google on a board of allegedly fellow fans is plain ridiculous. If that makes him and others feel superior, then so be it. I think it's the wrong approach regardless of who is right on the facts.
I don't disagree with that, I guess, but when you make your case, just stand by it and be prepared to provide backup for it other than fan excitement.
It's not a family environment here. People will call you an idiot if you post goofy takes (not saying you did). I also wasn't calling you stupid. I was saying know the difference between being a zealous, blind faith team worshiper and a basketball fan.
That was a helpful post. I think I understand where you are coming from. Hence the respect. I am not always sunshine and rainbows but I think this years team is better than last year based upon a number of factors. We would immediately become mediocre if Manu gets injured, as shown in the first round last year. I don't have all the facts in front of me, but I do have what I believe to be a good basis for thinkng we have a chance. I am excited about that.
You made a stupid ing statement, and I corrected you. (I actually watched the Bad Boy Pistons play - unlike you.) Yep, I looked up the stats to back up what I believed, rather than just giving an unfounded opinion. I can understand why that would annoy someone like you. Facts just up everything you stand for.
My mistake was forgetting that some delusional people enjoy their delusions, and don't like the medications that force them to deal with reality. Enjoy whatever planet you've created for yourself.
This is great! Thanks for this post. It is clear that I have gotten under your skin. You've also proved my point that you are an angry dude. In addition, we now know that not only are you old (since you admit to watching the Bad Boys back in the day) but that you are a technologically advanced old fart who googles , not because he cares about civil and informatiive discussions about basketball, but because he is afraid that someone will call him out for lack of precise references when he is calling someone a stupid idiot (which obviously gets him off).
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