Best Spurs team of all time

[superbigtime]

choose between 03, 05, 06, 13 and 14. This Spurs team is more complete than any Spurs team before. We don't have chumps like Mengke Bateer rotting on the bench. Every Spur can play including our "C team" guys. This has to be the best passing team in NBA history.

[Cry Havoc]

Weird how people are saying the 2003 Spurs were great. That was a terrible team and just happened to have Duncan in his prime to carry them with the best ball of his career and perhaps the most dominating playoff performance from an NBA player EVER who isn't named Michael Jordan.

I think this team would handle the 99 team in 6, 03 in 5, 05 would go 7 either way, and 07 falls in 6 to this iteration.

Good defense doesn't matter when every single person on the court can burn you if they get a of space.

[dbreiden83080]

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[Skoobz]

Horry would. And that would be awesome.

Def this tbh......and I'd like to have DRob, ninja and Bowen on it too.

[Malik Hairston]

the 2003 Spurs are by far the worst Spurs le team, tbh..it's the favorite of many Spurs fans, and rightfully so, but from a basketball perspective, it was a 1-man team with minimal compe ion(a terrible Nets team and the Mavs without Dirk)..

[TheGreatYacht]

Give me the 2003 squad tbh.

But this squad is easily the best offensive team the Spurs have ever had

[Cry Havoc]

the 2003 Spurs are by far the worst Spurs le team, tbh..it's the favorite of many Spurs fans, and rightfully so, but from a basketball perspective, it was a 1-man team with minimal compe ion(a terrible Nets team and the Mavs without Dirk)..

This 14 Spurs team with 2003 Duncan on it would have won 70+ games and gone undefeated in the playoffs.

[baseline bum]

the 2003 Spurs are by far the worst Spurs le team, tbh..it's the favorite of many Spurs fans, and rightfully so, but from a basketball perspective, it was a 1-man team with minimal compe ion(a terrible Nets team and the Mavs without Dirk)..

Dude, they beat Shaq & Kobe coming off a three-peat. The second round was the Finals and everyone knew it in that matchup.

[Cry Havoc]

Give me the 2003 squad tbh.

But this squad is easily the best offensive team the Spurs have ever had

you serious? This team sweeps or wins in 5 against that group of baddies + Duncan. That was one of the worst championship teams of the decade.

[Malik Hairston]

Sure, but beating Mavs without Dirk and the Ason Kidd Nets, both in 6 games and not in blowout fashion, isn't really impressive..

[Cry Havoc]

Dude, they beat Shaq & Kobe coming off a three-peat. The second round was the Finals and everyone knew it in that matchup.

Eh, those Lakers teams were overrated. Beat a nobody 6ers team. Got lucky Duncan was hurt one year, and got beat by the Kings in another except for the fact that they had the Donaghys in their back pocket. The Spurs cracked them at full strength and the Lakers fell apart like weak-ass pansies they were.

[TheGreatYacht]

you serious? This team sweeps or wins in 5 against that group of baddies + Duncan. That was one of the worst championship teams of the decade.

Na lol. Prime Big 3, ROBINSON, Bowen, Jackson, Claxton, Rose, Kerr, Shaq stopper Willis

[smeagol]

This team plays the most beautiful basketball I have ever seen! Yes they are the greatest! Game two was a fluke! This should've been a sweep!

WTF are you talking about? Game 1 was Miami's to lose up until LBJ's cramps . . .

[tlongII]

I'd say the 99 Spurs and this team are the best Spurs teams ever. You had Robinson and Duncan in elite form in 99. That was hard for anybody to deal with.

[Cry Havoc]

Na lol. Prime Big 3, ROBINSON, Bowen, Jackson, Claxton, Rose, Kerr, Shaq stopper Willis

Um. Prime big 3 wasn't in 2003. Parker could pass to save his life and wilted under defensive pressure. What are you talking about? Manu was still a bit player and got like 8ppg that year. DRob in 2003 was ing done.

Claxton, Rose, and Kerr combined would not even get off the bench for the Spurs this season. Kerr might get a few minutes here and there. That's it.

Prime big 3 when Parker's a rook.

[Vito Corleone]

Don't forget there is a huge difference in the rules between 2003 and today. The rules today are designed to make offense score more points. This team wouldn't score nearly as much using 2003 rules as they do now. That defense would clamp down on this team. Not sure this defense could do the same to this team.

2003 Tim vs 2014 Tim - 03 Tim would dominate.
2003 Robinson vs 2014 Diaw - Robinson would own the paint and allow the perimeter D to stay at home. Diaw would be able to pull Robinson out of the paint but Robinson was still athletic enough to recover.
2003 Bruce Bowen vs Kawhi Leonard - Bruce was the premier defender in the NBA back in 03 he would shut Leonard down. Leonard would still do well on the boards but not in the score board.
2003 Manu vs Green - would be a pretty even match up but Manu was extremely athletic and no one had really scouted him yet and knew the crap he would pull out of his butt.
03 Parker vs 14 Parker - no doubt today's Parker is so much better than 03 Parker but 03 Parker would keep the pressure on 14 Parker with his speed and athletic ability.

Bench 03 Stephan Jackson, Milik Rose, Steve Kerr, Speedy Claxton, and Kevin Willis vs. Manu, Boris Diaw, Patty Mills, Tiago Splitter, Marco Belinelli.

I'd call the benches about even.

Pop today is a much better coach than Pop of 03.

The real difference is MVP Duncan who would dominate the paint. But I think the series would go 7 games.

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

WTF are you talking about? Game 1 was Miami's to lose up until LBJ's cramps . . .

I wouldn't say that. The Spurs game back in such fashion against the Mav and GS recently with both of their squads being fully healthy. Like commentators said, Spurs were just hitting everything at that point and Lebron more than likely wouldn't have made a difference.

Being that the Spurs have done it before, I wouldn't pin it solely on Lebron's cramps.

[Vito Corleone]

Prime big 3 when Parker's a rook.

Parker wasn't a rookie that year, Manu was a Rookie, Parker was a 2nd year guy. As a pure PG Speedy was actually better but Parker would still give 14 Parker fits. Robinson in 03 was still better than Splitter and Diaw.

[baseline bum]

Eh, those Lakers teams were overrated. Beat a nobody 6ers team. Got lucky Duncan was hurt one year, and got beat by the Kings in another except for the fact that they had the Donaghys in their back pocket. The Spurs cracked them at full strength and the Lakers fell apart like weak-ass pansies they were.

Nonsense revisionist history. They won 3 in a row and had 2 of the league's top 3 players. They had two of the great clutch players in league history in Horry and Fisher. Fox was an extremely underrated defender. They were coached by Phil Jackson. Those were ing amazing teams. I watched almost every Laker game in the three peat even though I ing hated them because they were so ridiculous to see.

[Cry Havoc]

Don't forget there is a huge difference in the rules between 2003 and today. The rules today are designed to make offense score more points. This team wouldn't score nearly as much using 2003 rules as they do now. That defense would clamp down on this team. Not sure this defense could do the same to this team.

2003 Tim vs 2014 Tim - 03 Tim would dominate.
2003 Robinson vs 2014 Diaw - Robinson would own the paint and allow the perimeter D to stay at home. Diaw would be able to pull Robinson out of the paint but Robinson was still athletic enough to recover.
2003 Bruce Bowen vs Kawhi Leonard - Bruce was the premier defender in the NBA back in 03 he would shut Leonard down. Leonard would still do well on the boards but not in the score board.
2003 Manu vs Green - would be a pretty even match up but Manu was extremely athletic and no one had really scouted him yet and knew the crap he would pull out of his butt.
03 Parker vs 14 Parker - no doubt today's Parker is so much better than 03 Parker but 03 Parker would keep the pressure on 14 Parker with his speed and athletic ability.

Bench 03 Stephan Jackson, Milik Rose, Steve Kerr, Speedy Claxton, and Kevin Willis vs. Manu, Boris Diaw, Patty Mills, Tiago Splitter, Marco Belinelli.

I'd call the benches about even.

Pop today is a much better coach than Pop of 03.

The real difference is MVP Duncan who would dominate the paint. But I think the series would go 7 games.

Gotta love the ability of basketball fans to disregard the knowledge that's in front of them for emotional ideations of how the game is played.

If on paper matchup had anything to do with how basketball is really played, we would be down 3 to 1 to the Heatles. Actually, we wouldn't, because Portland would have beat us, and the Thunder would have smashed us in 5.

You just took a team playing HISTORICALLY great and UNPRECEDENTED team basketball and broke them down into what they can do in iso situations.

Dude, that's just crazy. This team is about so much more than matchups.

[TheGreatYacht]

Um. Prime big 3 wasn't in 2003. Parker could pass to save his life and wilted under defensive pressure. What are you talking about? Manu was still a bit player and got like 8ppg that year. DRob in 2003 was ing done.

Claxton, Rose, and Kerr combined would not even get off the bench for the Spurs this season. Kerr might get a few minutes here and there. That's it.

Prime big 3 when Parker's a rook.

Parker wasn't a rookie wtf? Manu was a rookie, and he was 25...

Robinson was done, but he was still 2x the player Tiago Vagina is right now... You're a fool if you think THIS team could stop the Lakers 4peat

[Cry Havoc]

Nonsense revisionist history. They won 3 in a row and had 2 of the league's top 3 players.

Not saying that they weren't great. They were. Obviously. But they weren't historically great. Not in the pantheon of NBA Champs. I'd take this team to smash them every day all day. Kobe would be broken mentally by the 2nd game against Los Spurs.

[baseline bum]

Not saying that they weren't great. They were. Obviously. But they weren't historically great. Not in the pantheon of NBA Champs. I'd take this team to smash them every day all day. Kobe would be broken mentally by the 2nd game against Los Spurs.

That was one of the two or three best teams I have ever seen closing games in pressure situations, and I have seen them all since the 80s.

[Cry Havoc]

Parker wasn't a rookie wtf? Manu was a rookie, and he was 25...

Robinson was done, but he was still 2x the player Tiago Vagina is right now... You're a fool if you think THIS team could stop the Lakers 4peat

My mistake. He was a 21 year old 15ppg player who couldn't play and got subbed out for Speedy ing Claxton because he couldn't run an offense in the clutch.

[Cry Havoc]

That was one of the two or three best teams I have ever seen closing games in pressure situations, and I have seen them all since the 80s.

Nice when you have a ref that hands you a series on a silver platter. They were so good at closing that they needed to play 5 on 8 to beat the Kings.