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2014 happened.... Wouldn't have happened if 2013 didn't go down the way it did. And for me, I'm glad I was able to witness 2014...
The beautiful game > everything else
If he wasn't on the bench
2014 happened.... Wouldn't have happened if 2013 didn't go down the way it did. And for me, I'm glad I was able to witness 2014...
The beautiful game > everything else
Lol I'm pretty sure Duncan was missing critical rebounds the very next season. I don't remember what the case was, exactly, but the folks who honestly believe Tim should have been in were all Stevie Wonder about that game. And that ignores how he can't really switch to save his life.
Now why Splitter wasn't in is a different matter entirely.
If he wasn't drawn away from the paint, perhaps. Who in this dimension knows what would have happened?
There are about 100 ways that game could have played out differently, and none of them matter. Can't rewrite history.
Splitter was really the giy that should have been up there. You try to contest the three first..thats what pop had in mind, but splitter being there would have solved both problems.
Duncan would have been too slow to catch up to the three pointers for a proper contest.
I think focusing on the missed FTs is better. It has less factors and variables.
In any case, '13 has been surprisingly hard for me to get over
Lol at people still crying over 6. Enjoy 2014...
Stop being a lil emo .
No offence OP.
What I remember the most from that game were Manu's horrible TO. I was a lot more casual about the Spurs back then and I felt he threw away that game.
Fathead. Worst draft pick ever. Haven't been the same since.
Still would have rather had 2013 than 2014...
If the Spurs win in '13 then they probably don't win '14. When it comes to final rematches in NBA history the majority of times the team that had lost the first time wins in the rematch. Only the Jazz in '98 failed to win it's rematch with the bulls. With that being said I think it's a high probability the Heat would have won in '14 had the Spurs won in '13.
I don't believe if they win one they don't win the other, that's a postmortem rationalization. They could have won both. By 2015, the other chance to repeat, age caught up with Tony and its been an uphill struggle since then. And now it's almost a completely different team around new stars.
It's pointless to ruminate about this too.
Almost as pointless as Tony vs Manu threads, but I think those are the worst. Might want to continue chatting about all those that got away ...
still hurts
Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?
Strategically, obviously it was a no brainer, but that ignores the cir stances, which go with saying. Factor them in and it was probably a more difficult decision than it might have seemed on the surface.
The Splitter fan boys seem to forget that he had literally become unplayable in those Finals, to the point that Duncan sat all of (I believe) 31 seconds to start the 4th, (with Diaw masquerading as a center) his only rest of the 2nd half and he inevitably ran out of gas.
I'd have trusted Duncan, on one leg, before I'd have trusted Splitter, given what was at stake.
Yeah, I've come around on this thinking. They might not win in as spectacular a fashion in '14, but so long as they get the breaks they needed to get past the Thunder, I still think they win.
The turnovers....
Pop definitely cost the Spurs a championship having Duncan on the bench, but the missed free throws was really the catalyst for the Spurs late in that game. Spurs still had game 7 to redeem themselves, Miami was just the better team that season, no excuses. Spurs were by far the better team the following season in 2014, they wanted it so badly, nothing was stopping them.
but then again 2014... so /shrug
2014 was a continuation of 2013. Spurs destroyed the heatles. Any time anyone brings up 2013, they have to finish with 2014.
unfortunately, you can also say that with 2008 vs 2010 nba finals... or even 2003 vs 2004 wcsf.2014 was a continuation of 2013. Spurs destroyed the heatles. Any time anyone brings up 2013, they have to finish with 2014.
Not really.
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