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Agreed. No one would have guessed the Spurs will still be putting together 50 win seasons and WCF appearances this late in Duncan's career. Good to be a fan.
I know there are a lot of championship-or-bust fans but I want to take a timeout to congratulate the Spurs for at least hitting par on this season. I said before the season and again before the playoffs that the Spurs making it to the WCF in reasonable health would be a reasonable expectation. Less than that would be a failure. More than that would be success. So right now, even if things go south, the Spurs put together another fine season.
The aging legs and the accompanying injuries made it a difficult road to travel at times -- but they're here and they have a chance.
Congrats and thanks for another fun ride
Agreed. No one would have guessed the Spurs will still be putting together 50 win seasons and WCF appearances this late in Duncan's career. Good to be a fan.
Win or lose, Champions or not, I am and will always be proud of the Spurs.
Truth. I've said all season that I thought that this team's ceiling was the WCF. Anything else from here on out is just gravy. Love my Spurs, they've been gutsy thus far.
Amen.
Just enjoy it, who knows how often/if this core will be back here again.
Should be a great series with the Grizzlies.
Think about how brutal this forum felt after Game 2 against Golden State. Look where the Spurs are at now.
Good stuff
Duncan and Splitter playing well tonight bodes well for the Spurs. Despite what ESPN thinks, Duncan and Splitter match up well with Randolph and Gasol. The Grizzlies' perimeter players will have to step up; their defense will not have the same success against a balanced system as it did against Durant's one-man show.
Spurs got through a tough young team and are going to beat the Grizz - expectations should now be of the Spurs going onto the finals, they have the experience and the better team just have to play Spurs basketball.
There's a sad truth to this. To expect MORE than this from a team with Duncan and Manu at their age, is unrealistic. We need to be younger to REALLY compete and dominate in the league today. It's only the Spurs' championship pedigree that has them with a chance to compete for further.
yep just enjoy the ride, what ever happens, happen..GSG Believe etc.
True. But now with home court advantage and against the 5th seed in the conference, though memphis clearly could be the 3rd best team in the west, I'm very optimistic of our chances. Not going to the Finals would be a bummer tougher than last year's.
After these playoffs are over, we'll look back on this series and say the best thing that could have happened to the Spurs was being challenged by the Golden State Warriors.
37 year old Duncan
TOSB Ginobili
Parker getting hurt midway through the season
the whole Captain Jack drama
Injuries to everyone
and yet we're back in the WCF.
Expectations changed when Westbrook went down, tbh.
this , they should and have to beat Memphis. If they don't I'm gonna be ing pissed.
Congrats on a good season, but....Miami looks like they could be vulnerable. This is seriously the last chance the Spurs will have for the next ten to fifteen years to ring. They need to play desperate from here on out.
Agree and disagree. With all the injuries and flaws to the teams in the West and with how wide open it was, in addition to the regular season the Spurs had, anything other than a strong WCF showing would be sub par to me. Given, before the playoffs I agreed with you, but after with the Westbrook injury and the path to the Finals being a 1st round bye (7th seed injured Lakers), 2nd round 6th seed and WCF 5th seed, anything less than a strong showing in the WCF would be a disappointment. They have such a great shot at the finals with how things have gone that to me it's at least finals or bust.
But it has been fun. It's been nice to have some adversity and pull through. Like I said before, I found joy in the struggle. Seeing the sweep or lose Spurs of the past few years has been rough. This is more like a championship run of the past.
If spurs don't get a ring this year, no one gives a about expectations.
But they don't give out banners for reaching the conference finals. Spurs tank looks alarmingly empty though so I guess we should be happy they didn't get chased out the building tonight
Well, this was the minimal expectation.
The full expectation is to make the Finals.
Well done so far. I'm glad this series went 6, mostly for the young guys to get experience. If they can weather the first two Grizzlies games there's a nice 3-day break before the series heads to Memphis. Spurs are going to the finals!
After the way the Spurs were embarrassed in 2011, b2b WCF appearances did not seem likely.
Yeah, thanks Spurs for giving my friends who root for the Suns another year of living .
I'm happy with the run so far, lets get to the Finals.
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