CBS Detroit: With Stunning Story, Richard Hamilton Opens Up About Finals Loss To Spur

[Darius Bieber]

Big Shot Rob the GOAT tbh. Had the biggest balls of anyone during crunch time. He wanted the shot.

[gambit1990]

when the spurs were getting blown out again in game 4 pop went to go sit down next to tim on the bench and just chatted with him. td did look lost.

[objective]

If Manu didn't get that deep thigh bruise in game 3 it's a sweep. He wasn't the same after that it and took that week until game 7 to get close to normal

[coachmac87]

I'm confused on how the Spurs were "done" after Game 4? Lol

They obviously showed up and didn't fold during a very close and intense game. Nazr bum ass spoke for himself lmao

[boutons_deux]

Bull . Maybe you thought that, but I guarantee you Tim Duncan didn't think that way. Nor did Rob, nor did Manu, nor did Tony, nor did Pop.

They just responded and won the damn championship.

Now, the '13 Heat? THEY knew they were finished. That would be a better example of that.

games3,4 I remember Tim sitting on the bench next to Pop, wide eyed blank stare deer in headlights, pop with hand on tim's knee, probably trying to console.

[ViceCity86]

Horry was huge that series. Some of the shots he hit in game 5 were crazy. He also came up huge in game 7. Spurs started flat and Horry came up with some big buckets late in 1st quater.

Ginobili's 3 was the dagger at the 2:58 mark with shot clock winding down in the last quater. But I thought Horry's corner 3 at beginning of the 4th to push the lead to a whooping 5 points was the biggest shot. Right there I felt Spurs turn the tide and the momentum wasn't shifting back.

[ViceCity86]

games3,4 I remember Tim sitting on the bench next to Pop, wide eyed blank stare deer in headlights, pop with hand on tim's knee, probably trying to console.

2001 WCF stare.

[ViceCity86]

Rip Hamilton was envious of Ginobili. He took numerous cheap shots at him throughout the series. It was that jealous Black man , I can't believe that non Black player is so good. He gave Manu a vicious elbow to the rib in one of the first two games and Manu simply ignored it like it was nothing. Such a champ.

[SpursforSix]

That dunk by Horry got me out of my chair. I couldn't believe that he got all the way to the rim.
Manu used to do the same but more frequently. Looked like he was going in for a layup and somehow
throws it down. Maybe selective memory but it seemed like it was mostly in clutch situations.

[ViceCity86]

Pistons up 9 points midway through the 3rd. At that point, how many of you thought the Spurs were gonna win?

I wasn't feeling it. Duncan was cracking under the pressure. He was stinking it up to high heaven at that point in the game, and if it wasn't for Horry's heroics in game 5, Timmy would be wearing huge goat horns.

I also started believing in the Pistons toughest and "If ain't rough it ain't us" motto. They look so confident in pregame warmups and throughout the game.

But Duncan came alive and the rest is history. Pistons never recovered since.

[UZER]

One of the best games I've ever watched, tbh..it was a superhuman effort from Horry, I still don't know how he made some of those shots..

It's a forgotten series in NBA history, though, due to the era it was played in..a lot of people don't realize how close Duncan was to not having 5 and how much he struggled in that series(similar to Kobe in the 2010 Finals)..

Horry and Manu really saved the Spurs..

he was up against the best defensive frontcourt tandem he'd ever face and one of the best in league history, after the ankle injury before the postseason and during the Sonics series, some struggling was expected tbh

Also a team that has just dismantled Kobe and Shaq the year before.

[Spurs9]

Pretty crazy that we still have Parker and Ginobili on the team and that series was 11 years ago.

[CGD]

Narz trolling Rip

[Solid D]

That was one great Father's Day!

[Arcadian]

games3,4 I remember Tim sitting on the bench next to Pop, wide eyed blank stare deer in headlights, pop with hand on tim's knee, probably trying to console.

When you blow out a team in games 1-2 and have HCA, you don't feel defeated after games 3-4, no matter how badly they went. Even if the Spurs had lost game 5, they would've played better in game 6 and won the series.

Hamilton is just being a bitter .

[SPURt]

I was nervous going into the 5th game. Horry is one of the weirdest players ever, that dude could turn it on but really picked his moments.

[bklynspursfan]

Big Shot Rob the GOAT tbh. Had the biggest balls of anyone during crunch time. He wanted the shot.

Bet you were like Nazr thinking we were done after game 4 lol

[spursfan09]

I really doubt the Spurs thought they were done after game 4. If so they wouldn't have even competed in game five. That game five was close on the road against a team that blew them out 2 games in a row. That's more mental toughness I think

[apalisoc_9]

Man, that series cemented my Spurs fandom. I started following the spurs because I instantly fell in love with Manu's playstyle in 2002 but I really only cared about Manu. I watched more basketball in 2005 than a 15year old should but it was all worth it.


I remeber thinking it was all over and the spurs we're ed in the 4th quarter of the game. Duncan was really dissapointing in game 5 too..

[GSH]

That dunk was the one where Horry ripped up his left shoulder, too. He was never the same, IMO.

[tdominate21]

<3 Bowen. That dude ... best perimeter defender ever.

[GSH]

I was nervous going into the 5th game. Horry is one of the weirdest players ever, that dude could turn it on but really picked his moments.

Horry had a sense of the moment like no other player, ever. He'd knock a 3 and then steal the inbounds pass, or draw a charge, and swing the momentum of a game all on his own. He could just break the other team's spirit.

Speaking of which - Nazr may have felt beaten after Game 4, but I'm not believing that Tim, Manu, and Horry were ready to give up. Just not buying it. Hamilton can keep telling himself whatever makes him feel better.

[RD2191]

When you blow out a team in games 1-2 and have HCA, you don't feel defeated after games 3-4, no matter how badly they went. Even if the Spurs had lost game 5, they would've played better in game 6 and won the series.

Hamilton is just being a bitter .

I have to agree with this.

[Ice009]

One of the best games I've ever watched, tbh..it was a superhuman effort from Horry, I still don't know how he made some of those shots..

It's a forgotten series in NBA history, though, due to the era it was played in..a lot of people don't realize how close Duncan was to not having 5 and how much he struggled in that series(similar to Kobe in the 2010 Finals)..

Horry and Manu really saved the Spurs..

Tim was playing on two sprained ankles, though. It wasn't like he was fully healthy going up against one of the best defensive frontlines in NBA history at the time. I thought he did decent considering those cir stances. Was Kobe injured in 2010 at all? I don't believe him a lot of the time as he used to play up minor injuries.

I had no idea the Spurs were that shaken, though. I was a little bit as a fan (after game 4), but I was confident going into game 5 we'd put on a much better performance. I'm thinking this is coming for Nazr. Maybe he was shaken. I doubt some of the legends on the team were as shaken as he was. I'm assuming that he's mostly speaking for himself, but I wasn't there, so I won't discredit him completely.

[SPURt]

Horry had a sense of the moment like no other player, ever. He'd knock a 3 and then steal the inbounds pass, or draw a charge, and swing the momentum of a game all on his own. He could just break the other team's spirit.

Speaking of which - Nazr may have felt beaten after Game 4, but I'm not believing that Tim, Manu, and Horry were ready to give up. Just not buying it. Hamilton can keep telling himself whatever makes him feel better.

Totally agree, there's no way Pop is walking out of game 4 thinking "well this over"