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Same here.
Love this team and all y'all s
Duncan/Ginobili leading the Spurs...just like the old days. Hopefully the big two still have one more series left in them.
Same here.
Love this team and all y'all s
ing love this team. As good as the 2013 squad was, this team is a bit better and a lot grittier and we've got HCA. We were a hair short last year; this year I think we do it. GSG!!!
CheersSame here.
Love this team and all y'all s
LOVE!
I actually cried for joy just because we made the finals.
You forgot about Diaw, Leonard, and Green tbh. Without any of them this would've been a blowout loss tbh. Even if Tony isn't able to go, that unit may be enough to beat the Heat imo...
A year later and here we are with a huge shot at redeeming 6. I want my Spurs to beat the Heat so bad this year.
...I'm still sittig here weeping for joy...the last time that happened to me was when I saw "Finding Nemo".
Might be the most impressive win I've ever seen, considering everything that had gone against them, including the two blatant, predictable calls that went against them with around a minute left and how spent Duncan, Ginobili and Diaw were early in the fourth. Duncan came as close as humanly possible to willing the ball into the basket in overtime.
The thing that stands out in these types of games is the amount of luck you need to pull them out. Everybody get's so caught up in assigning blame and throwing around the word choke, but it doesn't matter how good you are, you need a lot of random, out of your control stuff to just go your way.
Solid post
And absolutely, sometimes you need to catch a break or 3... not everything is under a team's control. That said, over a 6 game series, I thought the Spurs were clearly the better team.
The Duncan moving screen to free up Ginobili for a wide open 3 at the end of regulation; the wide open, 12-14 foot Durant pull up that would have given them a 4 point lead in overtime; the wide open 3 Westbrook missed; Durant tripping at the end of regulation; Durant missing a wide open 3 at the end of over time and the rebound bouncing right to Diaw, etc . . . of course, you could always play that game both ways.Solid post
And absolutely, sometimes you need to catch a break or 3... not everything is under a team's control. That said, over a 6 game series, I thought the Spurs were clearly the better team.
I always maintained that the Spurs were the better team, but they were clearly in the Spurs heads, it was/is a terrible match-up and they're close enough that that could have made the difference and very well might have, had Ibaka not missed the first two games.
This is why we go 4 out of 7
you want 5 out of 9?
I thought Game 5 was pivotal. Not only we beat them, we destroyed them WITH Ibaka in there. I thought that was the eureka moment. I also had a feeling that once that barrier came down, we could go hurt them in their place.
They're a of a team, but when these Spurs are playing at their highest level, they can beat anybody.
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Just reflecting back on it, one of the "gutsiest" wins in franchise history tbh. the only ones from recent memory that come close are Game 1 of the Finals last year and the comeback against the Warriors. But Frenchie was available for both of those and neither of those teams were getting the RefKC treatment.
The only game that's definitely above last night's clincher was Game 5 in the 2005 Finals tbh.
I mean CoJo and Matt F'n Bonner made some big plays last night, can't get any more gutsy than that IMO.....
No pg, they're a of a team. They're more than just a collection of talent, that's the Rockets....
Ibaka coming back wasn't the only adjustment Brooks made for Game 3... they were outscoring us even when Ibaka was out. You don't get to the WCF on talent alone.
I'm glad Pop run through numerous lineups during the regular season, even if it costs us games. It gave the team the flexibility to go out there with a different look, still play great basketball and solve the riddle.
Yeah. It's obviously always a pivotal game when the opponent is a fellow contender and you're at home, but I thought it was even more important for the Spurs psyche. They needed to know (as opposed to hope or think) they could beat them with Ibaka in the lineup and the fact that they destroyed them only made it all the better.
I thought the close out game against the Blazers was great too... we made the Blazers look amateur, but they're also a good team. It was another closeout game we won with depth...
I just didn't think they really cared that much about it in the regular season. After all, you don't even know at that point if you're even going to face them. But in the playoffs, they were forced to figure things out, and they did.
Anybody remember B2B double overtime wins with no TD and Tony carrying the team?
It was a nice win but not really close in comparison IMO. OKC held a mental advantage over the Spurs that I don't even think Phil's Lakers had. Just all the external factors that played a part in the series: Ibaka coming back, OKC dominating 3 & 4, memories of 2012, TP being hurt, refs rigging it for OKC in the 4th, etc. made Game 5 and especially Game 6 some of the best moments in Spurs history....
Hopefully they can translate all that into 5 tbh.
They are a two man wrecking crew with a big man that can hit a J and erase mistakes. With Harden they were more of a team.
For anyone who truly likes basketball they are talent flat out waisted. I want you to take a look at how much Durant just follows Westbrook around waiting for Westbrook to do something. There is so much more. Just watch the video with coach whomever, he points out about half of what is lacking.
I seriously hate seeing them win. Because they win despite horrible team basketball.
My 2 cents and I firmly stand by this. The game is actually a sham played like they do.
Get to the foul line... My God...
I agree that the OKC was a much more solid win, due to the cir stances you describe. That said, I get the feeling that closeout game against the Blazers will disappear into oblivion, and it shouldn't. That was the first closeout game where the Spurs really faced the fact that their best player wasn't going to be there for them, and they absolutely annihilated the Blazers.
Lots of credit should go to our bench this season. Patty and Cojo especially, even if they were not scoring much, just giving us solid minutes when we needed them.
Please. Barring a debilitating injury to one of their big three, they always knew they'd have to go through them to get to the Finals (and vice versa) and when you've already lost a series to that team and struggled mightily in the regular season against them ever since, if you have an ounce of compe iveness in you, you absolutely care.
I think they need to grow up, but they won a ton of games playing good basketball. Even in the first couple of series, which they were in trouble here or there, when they moved the ball and were disciplined, everybody came through, even cancers like Butler.
I think for Westbrook and Durant, it's just about growing pains. They're both extremely talented, and frankly, Durant gets a lot of blame for not going one-on-one every possession, which really is the sign of a player that understands the team game.
Lebron had the same problem, and eventually grew up as a player.
The freethrow thing is disgusting, and that's something I actually despise from Brooks. A coach that explain losses with "we're a freethrow shooting team" isn't a good coach. But he's not McHale bad either.
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