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I think most of us thought that
Anyone know where we can see any of the 2003 playoff games? I remember links posted in the summer but I can't get the search to bring them up.
I think most of us thought that
I love Robert Horry to death, but he isn't in the HOF, nor will he be. They tend to exclude career 7 ppg scorers.
Horse . The MDM changed the entire history and perception of the franchise. If Sean misses that shot, the Spurs are likely a second round out, yet again. No LoB, and Duncan likely bolts to Orlando, and we NEVER win a LoB.
If Horry misses, SA still already has two LoBs, and are likely pissed enough to not the bed in 2006 like they did.
The MDM was EVERYTHING to this franchise.
Looove the MDM, but I respectfully disagree. The MDM was the difference between sweeping and not sweeping. The Horry three was most likely the difference between ringing and not ringing.fify
The Memorial Day Miracle is the best 3 pt shot in franchise history.
IIRC, Horry had 21pts in the 4th and OT to save our bacon in that game (and Timmy had a shocker but redeemed himself with a superb 3rd Q in game 7 when we badly needed it). One of the most incredible extended clutch performances I've ever seen.
Here's to you, Big Shot Rob.
God I miss Big Shot Rob and Bowen.... Horry would mail it in all season long and give no s, then annihilate teams in the playoffs.
Again unlike Bonner. Bonner plays well during the regular season and then disappears in the playoffs.
That series was the western conference finals
I was thrilled they didn't call a charge and also that Horry's subsequent sore shoulder wouldn't hinder that game winning three of his.
This is the second most nerve-wracking Spurs game I've ever seen next to Game 7 of that series. My anxiety was so bad it was hard for me to watch.
Sean misses, we maybe NEVER win a le. People forget that at that point we were the Suns, an entertaining team that could never close the deal. Rob's shot was big, but it only affected one le. Sean's shot set the table for all four.
I agree with Wild Cobra Kai. The Memorial Day Miracle is the biggest shot in franchise history. You gotta remember that at that point, the Spurs were known as always collapsing under pressure. They had teased before. So a loss there and loss in Game 3 and everything might have come crumbling down.
You'd think they would have won that series even if losing Game 2 but you'd also think the Spurs would have won the 1995 WCF after winning Game 3 and Game 4 on the road and you'd also think the Spurs would have made it to the 1979 Finals after going up 3-1 on the Bullets. The MDM was basically the moment when the Spurs stopped being the Suns and longtime fans stopped believing the Spurs would never win because of their ABA roots.
Tbh, it was the "OMG we're actually gonna do this" moment.
You can't expect GNSF to know about the MDM
I don't think there is any way they lose to Portland in that series even without the shot. I mean they just completely annihilated Portland in games 3 & 4. It's not like the Blazers came out dead either in game 3. They came out and dropped 26 points on that sick defense in the first quarter, but the Spurs wore them down and embarrassed them on their homefloor because they were the far superior team. Saying the Spurs losing game 2 kills them is almost as ridiculous as the national media calling the Finals a series again after Allan Houston hit that lucky three at the shot-clock buzzer to take game 3. Portland couldn't match up with Robinson period; he was pissed, I guess from 88 or something, and all over Sabonis. Then AJ was motivated to make Stoudamire eat his words. There was no way the Spurs were ever losing that series.
A lot different with Detroit. Maybe they fight back and take games 6 and 7, but those Pistons even without Mike James, Mehmet Okur, and Corliss Williamson still had a really strong 1-7 and closed games well. If the Spurs don't win that series they'd be remembered as the team who fattened up on a lot of crap, with the 03 Lakers and 07 Suns being the only contenders they beat. They'd be known for playing crap teams in the Finals instead of for beating a hungry and pissed defending champion in what was basically an even matchup.
On top of that, imagine the hit Rob's rep takes if he misses that shot. No one would remember the way he went in to Denver and bent them over the table in games 3 and 4, or that three he hit in Phoenix in game 2 right after Nash hit the dagger 3 to give Phoenix its first lead. They would remember how he missed the wide-open three in game 5 against the Spurs in 03, then the wide-open three in game 5 that would have iced the Lakers in '04, then the missed three that doomed the Spurs in 05. On top of that, everyone would remember Tim missing the two foot tip-in at the buzzer that would have stolen game 5, not to mention him going Shaq at the free throw line the whole fourth quarter. That Horry shot bounces off the rim and the national media are ting all over Duncan for blowing the series.
'Eh, I remember people freaking out when the Spurs blew game 2 to Minnesota at home; same old choking Spurs were going to blow the postseason again. So what happens? Robinson comes out pissed and started flushing dunks all over Garnett and Joe Smith.
If Sean misses that shot they beat Portland in 5.
It seems every champion has moments during the postseason where luck seems to go their way and it sort of catapults them forward. I think Phil Jackson has said that before. But part of it is that the team puts itself in a position where that can happen.
Don't get me wrong though; I was at the game and it was amazing to finally see the Spurs as the ones stealing games they had no business winning. That shot was the ultimate sigh of relief to a tortured fanbase; that's when all Spurs fans started really believing they were winning the le this year.
Last edited by baseline bum; 03-03-2012 at 01:03 AM.
Good points. I think Horry was angry about '04 and '03 and was making up for it. He also had a dismal showing in that game before that point. But going back to what that shot meant for the series, I think a big part of why the Pistons won game 6 was that they felt they had let game 5 get away.
Rasheed Wallace in particular redeemed himself in game 6 by hitting alot of big shots to help seal that game. If the Spurs lose game 5 they probably fight hard and win game 6 and the Pistons probably let up. Regardless I think it was going to be a seven game series.
Rodman + Bob Hill happened in 1995. How that series could have been different with a prime Popovich on the sidelines.
We'll have to agree to disagree, bb. There are key moments in every series. If Manu isn't injured last year or RJ has balls and hits the shot to win game one, we win the Grizz series going away in game 6. We were up double digits, but they knew they could end the series on their floor, so they fought back. In the same vein, after SA won the first two, they were uber confident going to Portland. Not the case with a split.
I think Avery's shot was pretty high up there seeing that we'd never won one before that, but Horry's 3 was crazy given what a defensive powerhouse Detroit was, and that they left him wide open at that moment.
I don't know man, the Spurs had always been great at finding ways to meltdown. After dominating the Rockets in 1995 in the regular season and bouncing back and winning those two road games, I thought there was no way in they lose that series. Outside of Elliott choking a few times against the Rockets, the Spurs were like 8-1 against them or something ridiculous.
It seemed like Spurs fans at the time were waiting for the other shoe to drop. If that shot doesn't go in, I could have imagined a ripple effect. Those Jailblazers were damn talented and if not for MDM and Robinson bailing out Duncan a few times, that's a 6 or 7 game series.
If that goes to Game 7, the entire lower level is probably packed with Blazers fans a la 1995 ...
And if the Spurs lose that series, the arena vote doesn't pass and the Spurs move. Even if the Spurs were still going to be big favorites to beat Portland, there was a lot more at stake than one championship.
Besides, in 2005, the Spurs owned the Pistons at home in Game 1 and Game 2. If they lose Game 5, there's a decent chance the Spurs can get the final two games. Part of the reason the Pistons won Game 6 was because the Spurs and their fans were basically already celebrating a championship after Game 5. Larry Brown getting a hold of the parade schedule comes to mind, tbh.
Great post.
I disagree because that 99 Spurs team won games like no other Spurs team before them. They were winning by consistently out-executing everyone in the fourth. Every one of the few times they lost a close game that season (after the Houston win) it was shocking because they were so good in the clutch. They had never been that kind of team in the previous regular seasons. I mean the 99 Spurs seemed like they never took first quarter leads, but they would just wear teams out over the course of the game with the physical defense of Robinson, Duncan, Elie, and with Sean's ability to keep in front of his man. I just can't ever see that team playing soft after they got pissed off by Mario's comments to NBC.
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