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Damn you got us there, checkmate.
Here come the I'm a better fan than you brigade. I started watching this team the same year Hakeem took Robinson's soul. I think I've seen enough basketball in my life; you certainly can't tell me who to follow or not
Damn you got us there, checkmate.
You've seen your team win a Super Bowl in your lifetime, cry me a river.
Damn I forgot about that team, the Fins last won in 73! They went back two more times after that in the 80's but damn I was a kid then and not watching them. Since then tease after tease in the early to mid 90's of a Super Bowl pick (They were picked to go a few times then) and after that COMPLETE ! 00's and beyond have just been a joke as a fan, playoffs rarely and just overall a joke and their uniform change (Helmets are horrible) make it even worse for a fan. Damn it sucks.
When you're right...you're right. I remember that SB win 12 years ago like it was yesterday.....
LOL you live in the Tampa Bay area, too? The Bucs were absolutely craptacular this season, weren't they? At least we get the first pick in the draft, so we can get Mariota and have a real QB for a change.
Heh...at least we have a Super Bowl Championship and a Stanley Cup, plus the Rays reached the World Series in 2008 and have had a good run since then.
Imagine being a Cubs fan.
Life goes on
For the record, I'm not trying to act like us Spurs fans have it rough. Just pointing out that we seem to have a tendency to choke away games in some of the most hilariously awful ways you could imagine.
Choking has been a Spurs thing since Pop took over.... remember McGrady's 13 points in 35 seconds and Game 6 2013 Finals ? Its just that losing to the crappy Pistons is so embarrassing. ...
I'm a Fins fan too. The Spurs are smooth sailing by comparison.MAN I am a Fins fan, beat thatNow that is a bunch of chokers right there.
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Close games give weird results. I remind everyone that we just WON a game against New Orleans on pretty much a fluke. The problem is we're allowing ourselves to be in situations where it is just a coin flip. A lot of these coin flip games have gone against us, but that doesn't tell us anything really. Point differential over the course of the season is one of the best indicators of strength. And right now we're about as good as the Rockets.
Still, plenty of time to get better. That lousy inbounds play didn't mean much. That stuff happens.
What is cause for alarm was blowing an eighteen point lead.
Evita handling the ball in clutch does that to you.
We aren't winning another championship without a healthy TP and Kawhi. Pop knows this and the team knows it. Our margin for error is thin, so we've gotta tread water and hope they get fully healthy after the all-star break to make a run. There isn't a team out there we can't compete with, we have lost a ton of close games where we're starting Kyle Anderson and Marco Belinelli and giving heavy minutes to Bonner, Ayers, and Baynes.
Again the margin is thin, but the infrastructure is in place to execute the rope-a-dope strategy come playoff time. When you have stars that are older than dirt, and your young star is injured, this is what happens.
That championship mettle, tbh.
"Actually I'm not even mad. I'm impressed."Everything that could go wrong went wrong, I'm not even mad, that was amazing tbh
Nope....never even been to Tampa. I live in Mississippi actually. But when I lived in Louisiana....my middle school was the Buccaneers. So I became a Bucs fan somehow. And this was the ugly ass orange creamsicle years. We sucked extremely bad back then.....and still do. All in all....I can remember about 3 good years in our history.
I can name two franchises that are more adept at choking, one being a former franchise: The Houston Oilers and Houston Texans. Well, the Oilers were historic chokers, the Texans just poorly managed until this season.
This loss was disgusting. Add it to the list.
I've probably been labeled as a hopeless optimist at this point, but the way our guys are playing is definitely concerning. I really don't care about blowing games in the last minute, because I doubt we'll do that in the playoffs, but I AM concerned about our health situation as a team, and the fact that the team just doesn't want to bring it every night.
Hopefully it's just dead legs from a long finals run and then our guys being dragged over the coals for minutes because of Splitter/Parker/Mills/Kawhi injuries. We definitely need to get healthy before we panic though, this team can still turn it on.
^this
The game shouldn't have even been close at the end. The Spurs should have cruised to a 15+ point win. Blowing big leads at home is a sign of a tired team. They shouldn't be tired in early January after 3 days off. That is rather disconcerting.
This. Spurs fans are way too spoiled, if they think this is bad, just wait until next year when Duncan/Ginobili retire.
Any team without 2 of its best 3 players is going to struggle, no game is a free win. If Parker/Leonard are not healthy at playoff time, it doesn't matter what our seed is.
Pistons has been on a winning streak if you haven't noticed. The Lakers beat the Warriors without Kobe, momentum is a powerful thing sometimes.
Also, Spurs lacks a super individual scorer to close out games. Even last year we either win in a blow out or lost in a blow out. We didn't look good in the close games at all. This is what happens when your best player is at the end of his career (and yes, I still rank Duncan ahead of Leonard on overall impact).
Good bump
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