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Spurs haven't been in the finals for 5 years. More media hypocrisy...tired of seeing spurs, but la every year is so exciting.
Same as timvp about liking him a loooooooooong time ago. I now rate him the worst mainstream writer in sports. He very clearly mails his columns in, and the writing style is at a high-school level, overfilled with awful puns.
He's not trolling unforunately, he's just a bad writer. He wrote a total hatchet job on Jimmer Fredette while Jimmer was at BYU, and when someone asked him about it a few days later, he admitted he'd only seen Fredette play once.
Spurs haven't been in the finals for 5 years. More media hypocrisy...tired of seeing spurs, but la every year is so exciting.
just listened to him, his logic really made no sense. duncan looks sad, durant is exciting, we should want to see new people in the finals. highest scoring team used to be what folks rooted for with the suns, but saying it's not exciting just ignores ginobili's passes.
Honestly, my impression was that he'd been phoning it in for at least a decade.
Good job by the writers of trolling the smallest fanbase in sports.
How do you rate the Spurs ahead of Boston as an overall franchise? The Celts have a ridiculous number of les.
Or go back to talking about golf.
Call Dr Kervorkian...it is time Rick
I miss his Life of Reilly SI back cover columns. Shame what ESPN has done to the guy, he's a chameleon.
who cares?
"tweople"
what a grand got
People are not excited about the Spurs (except Spurs fans and those who pretend to be purists for the sake of argument).Spurs haven't been in the finals for 5 years. More media hypocrisy...tired of seeing spurs, but la every year is so exciting.
The Spurs do not have a flashy, stand out drama queen superstar player who's trials (literally) and tribulations are followed by the main stream media because that's what generates views.
Telling the world that the Spurs are a great franchise is like telling the world that wheat bread is good for you. No one cares. No one cares that a small market team can be successful (except other small market fans). No one cares that a guy named Tim Duncan who only has a small handful of commercials and no movie star wife or drug rehab or rape accusations is closing out one of the greatest careers ever in professional sports by possibly winning it all again, or that a group of "who?" type players are destroying other team's benches.
Of course, the "no one" I speak of never watches basketball between November and June anyhow.
Never heard of him
I wish these guys would say the real reason they don't like us. Because they cater to large markets and we are not a large market. We don't make $ for them so they hate us. I wish they would just admit it.
Last edited by PublicOption; 05-31-2012 at 03:08 PM.
.......it really has nothing to do with the spurs do or did, we just don't make them $
Last edited by PublicOption; 05-31-2012 at 03:11 PM.
@ReillyRick Yes. The Spurs are the most exciting below the rim team in the history of the NBA.
LOL what????
I think he's been drinking...
One less guy who will be watching the Finals then.
He won't be missed.
Sounds like he thinks only wide open, uncontested fast break dunks are the only thing exciting about basketball.
To me, that's the most overrated and annoying part of the game. Counts for the same as a layup, yet omg highlights~ pfft.
He must enjoy watching all star games then.. I'm 31 and have been watching the NBA faithfully for 20 years. I am running through my head the best teams of my era and i really have no idea what that tweet is supposed to mean? Jordan's Bulls were not high flying outside of Jordan and Jordan was only that way in his youth, 2nd half of his career he was shooting mostly jumpers. The best Knicks teams of the 90's were all about physical defense and grinding wins out. I would not call the Shaq/Kobe Lakers high flying outside of Kobe again in his youth. Nash's Suns were fun to watch with the run and gun and NO D style especially when Amare was at his peak but they were never good enough to get over the hump. Even if you are not a Duncan fan how can anyone watch the display Tony put on along with the beautiful passing and high scoring and call it boring? Some people are just haters without logic..One less guy who will be watching the Finals then.
He won't be missed.
Sounds like he thinks only wide open, uncontested fast break dunks are the only thing exciting about basketball.
To me, that's the most overrated and annoying part of the game. Counts for the same as a layup, yet omg highlights~ pfft.
What happened to that guy... I used to really like his articles.
O'reilly autoparts, so probably not
Oh I know and get what your saying. Thats my point about hypocrisy and the boring angle. If this same exact team was in LA, the media drool over their "team first" fundamental basketball would be out of this world dunks or no dunks.
Every ounce of respect and love the Spurs are getting now has been earned the hard way. They get no gimmies from the media. The coverage they are getting now is almost out of shamefulness for not giving them their just due during the Duncan era....somewhat of a lifetime achievement award.
You hit the nail on the head there. Those who only watch the BIG games or playoff games are not going to care about the spurs. Only about the team that is making major headlines. And Rick Reilly OBVIOUSLY does not watch any spurs games whatsoever. Theres no way.
But to try to relate to other real basketball fans, I try to imagine how I feel about other teams that most may consider boring in the NFL. I am a cowboys fan. A good team that may feel boring to me is a team like the Baltimore Ravens.
But then I begin thinking, how many baltimore games had I watched. ZERO. Maybe like a quarter or two. Only the Cowboys/Ravens games.
What made them boring for me? Low scoring and main focus on defense. And I don't even know if thats the kind of team they have now, nor do I care. But what I do know is I would not make an opinion about them to thousands of people before actually watching a lot of their most recent games.
Anyways, a team like the Patriots in the early 2000's were not flashy at all. They played as a team and had a teamfirst at ude that did not make people want to flock to their television sets.
Yet when I watched them, I was always in awe of their precision and how good they were. I would wish that my cowboys were that good.
Were they flashy? Not at all. But their high level of excellence made them very enjoyable to watch imo.
Under the rim 4, lob city 0.
Go yourself Reilly.
One of the sports show guys in Houston gave up the reason these guys get twitter and facebook accounts is to drum up traffic on them. They use the traffic responses to whatever controversy they can start to show their station manager how big their audience is. They get paid better if they have a demonstrated audience and if they get fired, they can use the records of their facebook and twitter accounts to show a program manager at another station.
In other words, all their BS is nothing but an attempt to pad their ratings.
Funny - Reilly is pretty much universally loved.
Not
If Reilly is dreading the prospect of watching the Spurs in the Finals, then by all means, I hope the Spurs make his Finals TV viewership miserable by being in it.
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