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I thought we had the Suns number in the 2000s? Thunder for me. It made up for the 2012 debacle...almost.
"it still hurts"
Which series win made you cream your pants more? We were underdogs in both, and we beat a team that had our number for a while in both.
I thought we had the Suns number in the 2000s? Thunder for me. It made up for the 2012 debacle...almost.
I was downtown when we beat the Thunder in 14. The bar I was at was packed, no AC in there and everyone was yelling their heads off when we won. Amazing feeling to get revenge on the Thunder who had owned us in the regular and postseason pretty much! Don't really remember much of that 07 series I guess because it was so long ago it seems and we owned Phoenix in the playoffs.
Thunder easily.
Clippers in 2016
This plus beating Miami in the Finals in dominating fashion.
Won't be the same without Barnes
Thunder, then Timmy topped it off with the "We'll do it this time"
thunder. Because they tried to cheat us again. Ibaka blatantly got away with a goal tend. They were really trying to screw us over. That was a hard fought game. Redemption for ginobli with the, big block by leonard, big play by duncan at the end. Top 5 one of my fav spurs games ever.
Thunder. we already owned the suns before 07
Thunder by far... We got over a hump that was in our way for a while and got over the Ibaka fear, most importantly...
that 2014 run was inpecable, it was god's way of saying "ok, i was an asshole to you for the last 2 years, i'll gift you this in return"
thunder by a mile..that team was in our collective heads..Not even the early 2000s Lakers scared our guys like that..
Thunder 14 by a landslide. Incredible series.
avenging the Clippers in 2016 won't be shabby, tbh..that team has ac ulated quite baggage of -madeness in recent years..
I have to say it was pretty fun watching Nash just quit with 10 seconds left in Game 6 in 07.
Thunder. Spurs owned Suns.
Even better to see Chuckbrook literally run to the locker room with time left on the clock and send that got Fisher into retirement tbh.
I'm going to be the bad guy here and say the Suns in 2007. It was a classic case of the bad guys (the Spurs) against the exciting team (Suns). They were playing run and gun and we were forced to play their game, even beat them on their own game. Nash, Marion, Barbosa, Stoudemire, Diaw... that was a heck of a team to beat, especially with the aging team that we had at that time. So many rivalries. I don't consider the Thunder to be a rival at all.. no rings yet, and the team is too young, too volatile and easy to implode and lose focus. The Suns team was on the verge of a championship; I don't think the Thunder would've won against Miami that year to be honest.
Thunder in '14 was probably the highest I'd gotten as a Spurs fan since Bowen hit that 3 in the corner against the Suns in '07.
14 Finals for me. The Spurs owed the Heat big and there was never a series I wanted the team to win more than that, not even the series against LA in 03.
Never liked the Suns, so it's always a happy feeling when the Spurs beat them. For the Thunder it felt more like redemption and more satisfaction to beat them. The Spurs already swept the Grizzlies the year before(for the 2011 loss). The Thunder and then Miami wins then felt like payback for 2012 and 2013. Once all that was done and the Spurs won the championship, it was like utter contentment.
Meh, the Suns team was pretty likable, IMO. Nash is a pretty good dude on the court. No one on the Suns stood out to me as someone I really dlsliked.
Meanwhile, apart from KD, the entire Thunder roster is somewhat loathsome, starting with Westbrook. I have a special corner of disgust in my head for players who show up against one team but then wilt the very next series. Ibaka was shooting like 99.99999% against us and then just laid a turd in the Finals. He's a poser, and not nearly the elite player he's made out to be. Very good defender but so limited on offense when his jumper isn't falling. They would have lost that series with a 100% healthy Ibaka, it was just nice the way it turned out with Kawhi making one of the most sensational defensive plays in playoff history.
As a neutral fan, I was glad to see the got Suns lose in '07. The media's sob stories over Nash flopping into the scorers' table and Amar'e and Diaw's well-deserved suspensions were ridiculous. ESPN had Jalen Rose on 24/7 crying about the suspensions. Nobody ever brought up how Horry got two games off while Baron Davis didn't get suspended at all for elbowing Fisher in the other series.
The Suns were never a serious contender.
They never beat the Spurs when it mattered (like the Thunder) and they never got to the NBA Finals (liker the Thunder).
The Thunder was a bigger win easily.
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