It seems so easy for every great team to repeat at least 1 time. These Spurs never have, and if they don't repeat this year its a huge knock on them as a team.
You know I'm not a Spur critic, but its a very valid knock on them when comparing them to the great teams of all time
Bad luck, tbh.
I dont know why repeating means at all... look at the SF Giants.. they've won 3 in 5 years..
To me thats not true, its not bad luck its not having the desire to win after getting 1 chip.
Winning a 'ship is as much about luck as drive and skill.
Yeah, Fisher sinking 0.4 or Manu fouling Dirk had everything to with 'desire'. Come on brah get out of here with that cliche bs.
Think its, because they are a small market team, so they need to develop scrubs to make do, which takes longer, than just getting a top free agent, like LA USED to do.
Every year starts 0-0. The only people who play the "repeat" card are those who think they're special because they "repeated". Longevity over 16 years >>>>> repeat and it's not even close.
A healthy Spurs team really has no excuse to not repeat this season tbh.
but how about missing the playoffs in back-to-back years tbh? How much does it hurt your team's greatness?
Bump worthy.
Cosigned.
It's easier to repeat if your market can attract the best free agents or your market can get the Stern treatment. Spurs were box office poison until recently, despite Spurs-Pistons in particular being one of the greatest Finals.
not enough underbite
Unlucky tbh...
Just like the Lakers repeated without playing against 5 of the last 6 Conference Champions at the time in Spurs/Mavs/Heat/Pistons/Cavs and only beat the Celtics that weren't healthy...
tough breaks, IMO... doesn't get any closer than '13 & '14... I also think the Spurs have been different than other "great" teams, being small market and what not... they lucked out in the draft because their "star" (TD) wasn't the kind of flashy talent that made FAs want to go play there (few exceptions, Horry, Kerr, Finley)...
tbh, I agree that repeat is nice, but in the big picture, meaningless... when you're already in the pantheon of "great teams", how you got there is really a footnote.
Duncan injured in '00: Missed the playoffs.
'04: .4
'06: The Manu foul.
'08: The core roleplayers (Bowen, Horry, etc) were near retirement.
While it might take a "great team" to repeat, it even takes an greater team to redeem. The choke job that happened in '13 can be franchise killing stuff. The fact the Spurs bounced back and won the le, while going through the toughest Western Conference in years (perhaps the toughest Western Conference ever) and then beating the same opponent in the Finals by the largest points differential in Finals history, pretty much cements the 2014 Spurs as one of the greatest teams of all-time.
And the West is even tougher this year. If this was the '10 Western Conference, the Spurs would steamroll through it. The corpse of the SSOL Suns made the Western Conference Finals that year
i'll tell you what won't stop them from repeating this year.
the lakers
I agree, lol at not trying hard. They had some bad luck but I doubt they win it in 04 over Detroit anyways so thats irrelevant. I think in 06 they do win it all though, easily. That would have been a threepeat, it was that close.
crazy that the oldest team we've had was 6 years ago
They were veeeery unlucky to not repeat.
But that's not really relevant, honestly.
And there is no systematic reason. Shut just happens.
Tough breaks, tbh.
Poor bait son
Ironically, Shaq's Lakers don't repeat if not for the infamous "Royal Screwjob" in game 6 of the 2002 WCF. (even Bill Plashcke, a big Laker homer, said it was the worst screwjob he's ever seen on sports).
Never forget
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