Still no Ginobili...Still winning?

[cheguevara]

Let's get it straight, we have absolutely ZERO chance of making another le run without Manu's active participation. Trading him for another big won't solve that problem. Also, people keep down playing how good Memphis was during that playoff run last year. You forget, that they took OKC to 7 games and they were one of the favorites in the west. I still believe that if Pop played Manu that 1st game, the series may have ended differently. Nevertheless, I feel much better about this team because of Leonard, Green and Splitter.

disagree. Memphis was 1 Gary Neal and 1 Ginobili miracle shots from winning this thing in 5. Their frontline completely wiped the floor with ours every single game. Conley/Vasquez looked like near allstars vs. playoff Parker.

It was a beatdown of a series.

[acoelho1]

You disagree with what? I acknowledged their bigs were too much for us especially with the turd towers defending. Also, who knows how the series would have went if we won game 1 with Manu playing. The psyhcological impact for the Grizz winning game 1 was huge and cannot be discounted.

[cheguevara]

You disagree with what?

you implied Spurs would have definitely beat them had Manu played game 1. I disagree. Manu was fairly healthy in the last 5 games and we still got throttled.

I acknowledged their bigs were too much for us especially with the turd towers defending. Also, who knows how the series would have went if we won game 1 with Manu playing. The psyhcological impact for the Grizz winning game 1 was huge and cannot be discounted.

Spurs have lost game 1s before and recovered.

Both teams were very evenly balanced. Grizz just played better and more to their potential. Spurs did the opposite.

Spurs were #1 seed. Grizz #8. Historic loss.

[SA210]

Manu is here to stay

[Sant1ago]

Hahaha...this hilarious. Every time something goes wrong with Parker or Ginobili, trade talks start among Spurs fans. Are you that forgetful? At the start of this season, Ginobili was considered the best player on the team and Parker was dispensable. Now all of a sudden it's the other way around.

The truth is that both ideas are equally dumb. They are both essential pieces to the Spurs franchise and untradeable.

[therealtruth]

Let's get it straight, we have absolutely ZERO chance of making another le run without Manu's active participation. Trading him for another big won't solve that problem. Also, people keep down playing how good Memphis was during that playoff run last year. You forget, that they took OKC to 7 games and they were one of the favorites in the west. I still believe that if Pop played Manu that 1st game, the series may have ended differently. Nevertheless, I feel much better about this team because of Leonard, Green and Splitter.

They took OKC to 7 games but if you watched the series you realized OKC was definitely the better team. Hollins had to insert OJ Mayo in the starting lineup to try to give them a chance. Which is why they missed Gay. The Thunder blew out game 5 and game 7. The Spurs don't even last to game 6 if they don't get lucky on Manu and Neal's shots. How many blowouts did the Spurs get? TD said it best: the Spurs were playing like the 8th seed and the Grizzlies the 1st seed.

[therealtruth]

Hahaha...this hilarious. Every time something goes wrong with Parker or Ginobili, trade talks start among Spurs fans. Are you that forgetful? At the start of this season, Ginobili was considered the best player on the team and Parker was dispensable. Now all of a sudden it's the other way around.

The truth is that both ideas are equally dumb. They are both essential pieces to the Spurs franchise and untradeable.

If Manu played in a big market like NY he would get the props he deserves. Look at Jeremy Lin and Manu plays like that all the time.

[pgardn]

go sit in the corner dumbass

So what do you think is wrong with my statement concerning the playoffs.


And...

Bite me.

[Leetonidas]

you implied Spurs would have definitely beat them had Manu played game 1. I disagree. Manu was fairly healthy in the last 5 games and we still got throttled.

Yeah, playing with a broken elbow is "fairly healthy"

[Capt Bringdown]

Manu went from a guy you couldn't depend on to a guy that you can count on to be injured.

An unpopular opinion, but several saw this coming years ago.

If our championship hopes depend on Manu, we have no chance at all.

[TMTTRIO]

lol at people thinking we can get someone of any kind of value for Manu now. At this point Manu may eventually be forced to retire. Face it teams won't want him. If you want to get something of any kind of value you might want to trade one of young bright spots.The only possible way I could see Manu traded for anything is next season during his last season for a bloated contract player that a team wants to get rid of.