Westbrook is back. Kobe will be back. DHoward is in Houston. Clippers got Doc. Golden State have gained experience. Brian Shaw may finally get Denver over the hump...something George Karl couldnt do. We re-signed a broken down SG that is more of a liabilty than an asset and a center that disappeared in the Finals. Anyone who thinks we are top 3 in the West is delusional. Tim Duncan would need to have an unbelievable year like this last one and just dont know if he has it in him after seeing the rejection on his face after the Finals ended and the way Pop treated him by benching him in the most important time in the Finals. Leonard should progress...hopefully. Parker is still an egomaniac that wants all the attention that is a wildcard...he'll have a monster game and then crush your hopes in the next with a pathetic performance. I expect Danny Green to stay d-leaguer Danny Green and barely average 10/gm like last year. So if we dont set our sights to high...we should be alright as fans. 2nd round of the playoffs and we will have a good year.
that. 2014 is all about reclaiming what is rightfully ours. Secure #5.
Remember, people were saying the same thing at the start of last year. Granted, if you keep saying it every year, eventually it will be true - everyone's window closes at some point - but why would you as a Spurs fan? As far as I'm concerned, we have a shot at the le (and should be favorites to make the Finals) every year until Timmy retires.
Standard. Cliff Jump. OP is a genius. Pull out pubic hair one by one.
Denver already has a mediocre defense, and then they lost the one guy who was actually good at defense on their team...are you seriously worried about the Nuggets?
Lakers? Seriously? Do I even need to point out why we shouldn't worry about the Lakers?
Clippers have improved, and also finally got a competent coach. They will be more threatening next year...I'll give you that.
Warriors will most likely improve, but all of their success rides on 3-pt shooting and Curry's extremely fragile ankles. I'll take the Spurs.
Thunder lost their 6th man and have a pretty ty bench now. I thought we would have beaten them last year even if we met in the playoffs and they had Westbrook. I just really don't think they're as dangerous as they were with Harden. Plus the Spurs are better than they were in 2012.
Rockets...I don't know, we'll have to see how Dwight plays in Houston. If he plays like he did in Orlando, they will be a threat. If he plays like he did in LA, then I'm not too worried. Duncan/Splitter showed they can defend him well, and I trust our perimeter players over theirs.
I'm hopeful that guys like Green/Leonard/Splitter/Joseph will all improve throughout the offseason and regular season. If Duncan/Parker can at least come close to matching their level of play last year, I think we're in great shape. Belinelli and Pendergraph will hopefully help out off the bench as well. Ginobili can't really get any worse either...only way he can go is up tbh. Let's hope last year was just an off-year.
Saying that it'll take a "miracle of God" to get back is just being a dramatic cliff jumper. Will it be easy? Of course not, when is it ever easy to make it to the NBA Finals? Can the Spurs do it? Yes they can. I still maintain that as long as Duncan and Popovich are here, we have a decent shot at the le.
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To me getting back to the Finals is all about Kawhi taking command and succeeding in a much bigger role in the offense. Also we have got to get a handle of the back-up PG situation so were not left with Tony Parker playing both injured and exhausted. He just flat-out flamed out mid-way through the series vs the Heat. And that's not his fault. Pop decided to abandon all the back-up PG's and Parker simply couldn't adjust to all the minutes along with his injury.
Tell us again how Holt having less than 50% of Spurs ownership makes him the majority owner, OP.
It all comes down to health. If the spurs avoid major injuries they will be the favorites to win the west
We'll be on a mission for home court this year.
you mad bro?
Ok, I've been wanting to get this stuff off my chest so here it comes. If I get banned for expressing my feelings on a forum then so be it. I'm only going to do this rant one time so let's get started.
2007… 2000 mother ing 7. We’ve been waiting for six ing years. Ok, six ing years to get another championship. This franchise owes it to us Spurs fans and Tim Duncan to put together a championship team NOW. But no, typical Spurs sports fashion – bringing back Manu Ginobili healthy is like signing a big time free agent. you. Oh, we would have won if Kawhi Leonard didn’t miss a free throw or if we grabbed a rebound. you. Agh, we’re not going to amnesty Matt Bonner because he spreads the floor very well for a big guy and he’s a good trade asset. you.
Jarrett Jack and Kirilenko – there were guys out there in this offseason. You are not going to tell me that a defense oriented team would not benefit from having AK47 or Trevor Ariza instead of Matt Bonner. You will not convince me to think that way. You amnesty Bonner, pay less $$$ to Manu, and then you sign Jarrett Jack or any of the other good FA’s that were available. Oh no, Jack goes to the Cavs and AK47 to the Nets for very cheap, yeah way to go.
So what’s the big free agent signing so far, what’s the big move, the big BOLD ing move? The answer is Marco ing Belinelli and Jeff Pendergraph. So Gary Neal’s future is uncertain. Neal came up big in the clutch for a few games during the playoffs. We’re about to lose Dejuan Blair for possibly nothing. TP is out in France representing his NT and risk getting injured. Boris Diaw is out there tweeting pics of himself gorgeously eating. RC Buford said “Manu took a tremendous sacrifice to resign with the Spurs.” Are you ing kidding me? Only Spurs homers will believe that line of BS.
So our bench so far includes a declining Manu Ginobili, Boris Diaw, Matt Bonner, Jeff Pendergraph (a guy with scrub career stats), Marco Belinelli (the successor to Gary Neal), and Corey Joseph (the Spurs’ biggest hope and X factor off the bench to relive Manu off his ball handling duties), and an unpromising (so far in the SL) Aaron Baynes. Yeah our bench looks very promising.
Fans will look at Matt Bonner’s stats and say “why do Spurs fans hate Matt Bonner so much?” Because he plays like he could give a defensively, that’s why. Seems like every year, the depth of this team becomes less and less.
Two years ago, three years ago, the bench was the strength, the depth. How is it that 6 years later after the FO tried to sell us on the notion that loyalty and staying pat every year is actually better because we’ll be able to improve based on corporate knowledge, six years later, playoff failure after playoff failure, six ing years later and we’re still here wearing our Duncan jerseys wondering when the is this going to happen? Sorry fellas, doesn’t look good and it’s all contingent on the team staying healthy and we still have Manu here. Manu is the ultimate poser when it pertains to his value to a team. One in every four games, he’ll have a good game to get his stats up, and that entire game he’ll have played no defense.
Ok, so let’s run down this check list again. The depth is gone so if someone gets hurt again, we’re screwed. Still haven’t brought in a true high level second option off the bench next to Manu Ginobili who can score with the ball in his own hand. Still no backup to Kawhi. I mean you can say Boris Diaw can score out of the low post but he flows around the elbow and put he passes up a lot of open shots. Deshaun Thomas, I’d love to see this kid continue his good work and take over as the backup to Kawhi Leonard.
Once again, it’s the ing Spurs standing pat, spending as little money as possible (or wasting cap space to resign Manu and Splitter), and wasting the MLE on Pendergraph (a dude with scrub stats) and Bellinelli. Ok, do you really think the Spurs franchise is going all out like the Rockets, Heat, GSW, and the Nets? No. I’ll give the team this, they draft pretty well. They’ve done a pretty good job through the draft. As far as free agency, it’s been garbage. As far as trades, it’s been garbage. The biggest news in the offseason so far is that the Spurs were working out a trade w/the Wolves for AK47… that didn’t get very far.
Now, do folks out there who aren’t Spurs fans, this is to the non-Spurs fans; do you look at my favorite team and do you ing say “that’s a team that is committed to building a champion!” Do you say that to yourselves? Or do you say “ah the Spurs, they play hard and they are overachievers.” Every ing year man, then the injuries hit and we’re ed. So much pressure is added to a 38 year old Tim Duncan, an inconsistent playoff performer in Tony Parker, and a 36 year old Manu way past his prime with the way that this team is constructed. I find it so unfair to put all this pressure on the resurgence of our franchise player Tim Duncan.
You’ll know what? Every time you look at this ing team, they’re taking shortcuts, they’re not going the full distance to build a champion. We want to win one more ing championship, WE WANT TO WIN ONE MORE ING CHAMPIONSHIP; it’s as simple as that. Is the FO doing everything they can to build that championship team? No. No they’re not.
Yep, lets hope we don't go all out and burn ourselves out like the 06 Pistons and 07 Mavs after they went all out for homecourt after losing the finals and flame out.
Last edited by Agloco; 07-15-2013 at 10:16 PM.
I would hope so...at least have homecourt advantage vs the Heat (who will in all likelihood be there unless Lebron tears an ACL or something).
With so much depth, hopefully Pop does what he's been doing best over the last couple of years in managing players minutes. Really we don't need homecourt against any other team but I think against the Heat it was the difference.
And to answer the OP, no it's not going to take a miracle of God to get back to the finals. If we are healthy I don't see why we won't get there. Barring an injury or downright playing bad, I see the Spurs in the finals again.
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