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Yeah I avoid this place after any type of signficant loss. Way too many over reactions to wins and losses. I wonder if the Heat fans are wanting to 'blow up team' after losses to Jazz and Laker?
The negativity, hating on our own players, type of at ude really gets old once in awhile. It definitely makes the board unbearable at times and that's probably one of the reasons you saw so many old regulars leave.
Yeah I avoid this place after any type of signficant loss. Way too many over reactions to wins and losses. I wonder if the Heat fans are wanting to 'blow up team' after losses to Jazz and Laker?
As a fan since the late 1970's, I think this team is a lot of fun to watch. Living in Louisiana, I am sick and tired of bandwagon Saints and LSU fans. The same can be said for some Spurs fans. If you have only been a fan for a decade or so, welcome to the real world. There are ups and downs in the history of any franchise. Go Spurs!
I don't agree with you. The big three are all stars. Maybe not superstars, but they are very good players. Teams like the Lakers are in much worse shape. Have you watched any of their games? They are far from the team they were last year. With a pathetic bench like theirs, I like our chances a lot better. You are an idiot if you think parker is like that. Have you honestly been living under a rock? Have you seen the okc game? The lack of intelligence displayed in your post is appalling.
Another thing to take into account: the big 3 is still playing, and everybody knows this the golden era of Spurs basketball. Even drafting one of the greatest players of all-time (D-Rob) doesn't necessarily equate with success, much less rings (talk to a Cavs fan about that). Having Duncan and D-Rob in 99, then the big 3 for 3 more rings... this is nothing short of incredible.
Why am I saying this? When Duncan, Manu and Parker have retired, it's likely that the Spurs are going to enter a no man's land of mediocrity. But right now they are still active, and many of us feel the Spurs are just that close to being a real contender again. Just one move/trade away. Seeing scrubs waste away the last few years of Duncan's era isn't going down so well with many Spurs fans. I think that explains a lot of the negativity and over-reaction, because of this nagging feeling that you've got something good going, or great even, and just one tiny thing could tip the scales in your favor once more. It's maddening.
Yes, exactly. Maybe the spurs aren't "true" contenders, but neither was dallas last year. Just be happy that you guys have a compe ive team. Screw the "oh we are not going anywhere without a big" at ude. Pure bs. If everything worked like that, then don't watch the games. If somebody here wants to bet that a team, say the heat, wins the championship, I would take the field anyday. You never know what is going to happen, and that is why the players play the game and people watch the game. As a cardinals fan, I did not think there was even a slight chance that they would win the world series. I always thought that there was no way they would even make the playoffs without the pitching. Guess what? I was wrong, and they won this year. If you guys are just gonna moan about every game, they go give head to all the stupid writers at espn.
spurs fans are hugely spoiled and also egotistical from all the winning. that simple.
The negativity is because the Spurs have turned into a regular season team over the years. In the playoffs what really matters is your stars, and only one of the Spurs' is still in his prime. The other two look like they have been beaten into the ground by long seasons once the playoffs roll around. Depth is nice, but no subs ute for having elite talent in its prime (otherwise you would have seen the 00 Blazers and the 02 Kings hoisting LOBs). The team is too good to tank and not good enough to win it all without a trade. As ty as the Lakers have looked, they have Bryant, Gasol, and Bynum, and could still be really dangerous when Fisher starts hitting his open shots again (which he always does in games that matter).
The Spurs made it to the finals last year and have two top 5 players on their team? They also have the best defense in the league?
I think the shift you see in the fans (fans on every forum act like this btw) is also in line with a shift in the team. Like it or not, this team is only around for people's entertainment. The Spurs fans grew up (in the recent era: the one that matters because it's what established the team as champions) believing in a team that played a certain way: defense first. There was something of substance to that and it has gone out the window and for the same reason Spurs fans mocked others who hated our franchise because they were boring winners, Spurs fans now have the same mentality towards their San Antonio Suns because they don't accept losing that way. People will support losing if it's their brand and you go down swinging, but to watch Richard Jefferson destroy what's left of the big 3's hopes is not what people want to see.
"Tank a little bit to get the 3rd seed or so" and "just a regular season game".
There's a clear line that's been drawn in the West. There's six high quality teams (Thunder, Spurs, Clippers, Lakers, Mavs, Grizzlies) and then there's four other quality, but clearly inferior teams (Rockets, Nuggets, Timberwolves, Trail Blazers). The difference between the Spurs drawing one of the former or one of the latter is significant. It's basically the difference from a roughly 50/50 chance of advancing or at least a 75% chance of advancing. Even if they survive one of the former, it promises to be a long, grueling series. Meanwhile, any of the latter would most likely be short and sweet.
Then there's the matter of the fact that they're in a soft spot in their schedule. They face some good compe ion, for sure, but they're at home and the games are spaced out. And on top of that, for the first time all season everyone is available. Not long after this stretch, they've got two back-to-back-to-backs (Pop will inevitably throw one of each; probably the middle ones). Them squandering a game where they were rested, at full strength, at home and facing a depleted second tier team, is a crucial loss and one that will only make securing the second seed more difficult.
I was asking myself the same question this afternoon. I don't what's the deal. The team for the first time in 10? years has found a way to survive without Manu and having presence for it self and some keep whining. I don't get it.
Maybe its' because last year we where teorically the best team in the west and...
With the Grizzlies last year and what the Nuggets did at home yesterday I think low seed teams are going to be trying to end up in the Spurs bracket. The psychological battle is already lost.
The regular season record doesn't matter. It's about whether this team is playing the right way and a way that can work in the playoffs. The past two years this team has lost playoff series that they were favored to win.
Will you guys agree that the aproach to the games are different than last years'?
I think the Spurs try harder on defense than last year. And have more depth overall. That's enought to me to believe.The San Antonio Suns of last years seem to be dead. Tiago makes me believe, Tony's season, Neal, and defensive Leonard.
Of course there's a lot to improve.
In 2010 we were favourites? Being the 7 seed? Dunno man..
I get your point though, last year was a big dissapointment but the defensive set this year makes more confident
Last year was a debacle too. Losing to an 8th seed last night make Spurs fan bring back old memories.
A lot of people on here are just angry, and it seems to have nothing to do with basketball. I'm guessing their lives suck -- bad job, bad marriage, bad kids, etc. -- all stemming from poor decisions they've made throughout their lives.
To distract themselves from their own self-loathing, they overcompensate by placing WAY TOO MUCH importance on Spurs basketball. So when a player or coach screws up, they unleash profanity-laced tirades for all to see, under the veil of online anonymity. Clearly, these people have issues.
The proof is found in posts after Spurs wins. Even then, at the first sign of disagreement, out come the F bombs and name calling. Basically, you end up with middle-school behavior from a bunch of adult men (I'm guessing).
They got the best of me once, and I stooped to their level, but not anymore. Now, I use the ignore list to sort through the riff-raft, and that has made this place not only tolerable, but also enjoyable.
I estimate that, besides me, maybe 1 out of every 100 people on here post anything worth reading. The rest are just immature foul-mouths who are one rude post away from being added to "the list." Go Spurs!
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Why y'all nigLuck_the_fakers so mother ing negative?
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Tunnel vision is a of a drug!
After we beat the Mavs we were favorites to beat a Suns team we had owned for the last decade. Everybody had us in 6. We couldn't even win one game against them.
Did Vegas have the Spurs as favorites in that series? If so, that would have been incredibly stupid based on how lousy a fit Jefferson was proving to be. They weren't a typical 7-seed, but it's pretty typical of the media to act like something is going to happen just because it did the previous year, or the year before.
I get what you are saying. Last year, TD got hurt after he got a game off. Still though, in 2007, pop rested starters, and we won the championship that year. I think it is easy to confuse correlation with causation. The rest is a moot argument.
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