God damn, ESPN eviscerated the Spurs and constantly discussed how they are 25-26 (I think that's the correct stat not sure) after winning the le and how they have never made it to the NBA finals after winning a championship.
Honestly, I am surprised at how soft the Spurs fans are on their guys for always being complacent after winning. How the do these guys always win and then dissapear the following season?
Don't care. The Redemption le was far more impressive than any repeat. That was franchise killing stuff that happened and to come back and play historically great basketball enroute to a championship is an amazing feat, much more amazing than beating Dwert and an 75 year old Celtics team when the league was at its weakest.
lol winning culture my ass, more like loser mentality
u got duncan in ur hands, which puts you in a position to contend every year, yet you surround him with trash
happy with 5, but in reality should be more then 5
they just gave this one away at the expense of losing maybe half the team when everyone is up for contract renewal, are the spurs FO going to show those new players a loyalty contract for delivering a championship? or does that only apply to the big3, the big3 who coatrided kawhi to a championship
Really mid? Taking a salty shot at the Lakers? Why are Spurs fans so butt hurt over LA all the time? Besides, 2009 and 2010 were really big years for the NBA, particularly with the Cavs, Lakers, Celtics, and in a distant 4th place the Magic. They were all huge threats to one another. And that 2010 Celtics team dismantled Lebron in Cleveland as wel as Dwights Magic. They were a defensive mastermind team from top to bottom.
Who is honestly the front runner this year? This is by far the weakest I've ever seen the NBA, the eastern conference is worst than ive ever seen it (it looked solid in the regular season compared to this) and its a wild west shoot out with a bunch of B+ teams in the WC.
Lol weakest in the nba.
West: dubs spurs clips rox
West in 09-10 rockets led by aaron brooks, denver nuggets
Kind of like how they eviscerated the Lakers, then the Celtics, then the Lakers again, then the Heat when they ran their course?
ESPN jumps on s on a year to year basis.
And as far as them not winning a le after they just won one the year prior, I dont get hung up on that lame stat. Back to backs are cool and gives the fans something to trash talk about but in the end its just another le and when you count them up, they are still count as one.
This is the strongest the NBA has ever been from a good/great team standpoint. When the defending champions lodge 55 wins and it's only good enough for a 6th seed, you know you're in a super tough era. The East might be weak, but the stacked West offsets that. Lebron's Cavs were a one man team, the Magic were trash, and the West was featuring teams like Carmelo's Nuggets and the corpse of the SSOL Suns in the WCF.
I only take "shots" at the Lakers when Laker fans start with the repeat shtick. End of the day, rings, no matter what order in which they come, is all that matters. No sane fan on Earth would trade 6 les for a 3 peat. A "repeat" is a meaningless accomplishment invented by a butthurt Red Auerbach after the Lakers ended the Celtic reign.
Repeating is not a shtick. You're being salty AF right now, Spurs are a great team, but not repeating is a legit knock by even mainstream fans. How the do you lose in the first or second round year after year after year when you're the champions?
It's not like I'm saying they're not a legendary team, I'm saying they lack the heart and discipline to repeat. The funny thing is I wont be surprised if they come back in 2-3 years and win another one. They're that damn good, but they just don't have the heart to repeat.
Yep. And if Red and like-minded fans can invent false accomplishments, then we're free to do the same, like my axiom that no all-time great player should miss the playoffs in consecutive seasons. Look up any all-time great relatively close to his prime, and he doesn't miss the playoffs back-to-back. Kobe did such, putting up some of the worst numbers in league history for a "superstar" player, so per my invented criteria, Kobe's legacy takes a hit just like Tim's does because he couldn't "repeat."
It's a shtick and invented by Red Auerbach.
What's this "heart" bull ? You sound like a terrible ESPN forum poster in the vein of history2b or some such.
You want the uncomfortable truth here? Winning one le takes not just a little, but A LOT of luck. Yes, the best teams often have a greater earned/luck ratio, but you need a lot of breaks along the way, especially with regard to health.
The Lakers first "repeat" in '88 saw Isiah Thomas limited in game 7 by an ankle injury. And in the game before that, Bill Laimbeer was called for a bull foul on Kareem that led the Lakers to win a game they had no business winning. On the same note, good fortune struck the Pistons next season when Magic and Worthy went down for injuries.
The Lakers '00 le? They never had to play the defending champions, who swept them a year before and suffered their best player missing the playoffs. Then they needed an epic Portland chokejob to get out of the WCF. The '02 le? I won't even cite the game 6 screwjob, but Peja was injured the entire series and the normally sharp shooting Kings struggled massively at the line in game 7.
'09. Both Yao and McGrady miss the 2nd round matchup with the Lakers, and those Rockets pushed the Lakers to 7. We can't say for sure if those two players would've made a difference, but in any event, it was a huge break for the Lakers. On the Eastern Conference side of things, KG misses the playoffs with an injury, and the Cavs, who were a terrible matchup for the Lakers, get eliminated by a luckbox Magic team, who the Lakers matched up with perfectly, considering they had no wing players worth a and Jameer Nelson was at 20% (PG defense was the Lakers achilles heel in those days).
And I can pick apart the Spurs les in a similar fashion. This is why the "repeat" shtick is arbitrary bull . The stars need to align to just win one le, much less two or three-in-a-row, and it just so happens the stars never aligned in back-to-back seasons for the Spurs.
End of the day, though, rings are rings. You don't win any extra hardware for repeating.
Should be obvious by now the Spurs are not allowed to repeat '00 Timmy was hurt '04 late clock bs Fischer shot '06 Mysterious manu foul on dirk '08 stuck on a plane in New Orleans and lakerefs '15 pop Parker and maybe the worst call in playoff history and a strange whistle. The nba won't let them go back to back cause they're not a popular team and it won't change till Tony rapes someone or Kawhi gets arrested. Pop culture mtv bull in the WWENBA!
And while you post in your moms basement I'm upstairs "working"
Dude the Clips are an elite team. Griffin played out of his mind. You can't really even talk about this.
This is a team sport. Defending your team's le one year and dropping off the map is a lot less profitable than winning 5 over the course of 15+. This repeat bull is just that, bull . Not the losses dont piss me off immensely - they do. The West-East imbalance is ing ridiculous.
OP and ESPN make no mention of level of compe ion involved in Spurs repeat quests. Not surprising.
Mid wins this round for Spursfan pride.
You can't even take it with head held high. You have to portend it doesn't matter.
His 4th quarter numbers were abysmal till the end of the series, but, you did not take advantage. Pop was too ing busy trying to figure when & when it was not wise to hack. Simpleton bas .
Repeating is the only thing lakers have because let's face it, before parker became a cancer, kobe owned the cancer gimmick from an early age
Precisely. At default it was 6. They took the one back after selling like a key chain & 2 bumper stickers of your before the roof ing caved in.
You can scapegoat that SOB all you want, without him you're light 4 NBA les.
If Amy would've held up her end of that devilish deal you'd have 6, your 3 peat imminent.
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Good then, Dale can't about the media allowing the Spurs a free pass. That seems to bother him for some reason. Now get back to posting ty threads about TMZ stuff.
It takes greatness to repeat, just winning... Well that's not the sign of a true champion like Gasol, Pippin & Horry.
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