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It's amazing how close we were to pissing away ANOTHER championship.
Those games are so ugly to watch, if you look back at them now, tbh
Game 5 is still one of my favorites, though..Spurs have had so many well-do ented heartbreaks, but sometimes we forget about all the clutch shots..the Warriors' game 1 was one of my favorites, as well..
It's amazing how close we were to pissing away ANOTHER championship.
Spurs pissed away at least 2 championships (The Foul & The Human turnover machine), so it's not outside the realm of possibility that they would have choked in 05 if not for Horry's heroics.
Robert Horry's shot in Game 5 is the #1 shot in Spurs history. That game may be my all time favorite Spurs game. I thought we were dead in the water after Game 4, and the Spurs were no strangers to blowing 2-0 leads (they did the year to the Lakers).
Amazing game, will always love Horry for that no matter what.
Of course losing Game 6 sucked, and we looked bad being down 9 at home in Game 7.
Thank god Brown benched Sheed for way too long and Spurs started firing from outside in the fourth to have a comeback. Reminded me of that big comeback we had in Game 6 in 2003 vs. the Nets.
2005 Spurs were amazing, they could go fast with the Suns or slow it down with Detroit.
I've said this many times here but I've never been as nervous watching a Spurs game as I was for Game 7 that year. It was more of a relief when we won than anything.
After winning the le in '04 the Pistons became a super arrogant team. From '05-'08 they always made excuses about how they should have won it all during those seasons. What Rip says is nothing insightful. Teams go through ups and downs emotionally during a tough 7 game series and 1 or 2 plays can determine the winner of the series.
This. Not giving Manu the MVP was crazy - he owned those games and Detroit had no answer for him other than hitting him
TD didn't struggle that much in the series; he just sucked at FTs in the first place at that time in his career. Though, TD definitely tried to choke away Game 5.
The right man won the FMVP. Could've gone to Horry too....
Well at least Rip Hamilton gave some credit to Horry's shot. This little cupcake blamed his los on Lady Gaga:
Wide receiver Mohamed Sanu told the NFL Network’s Good Morning Football on Friday that Lady Gaga’s 40-minute halftime performance “definitely did” impact the team’s play in the second half.
“Usually, halftime is only like 15 minutes, and when you’re not on the field for like an hour, it’s just like going to work out, like a great workout, and you go sit on the couch for an hour and then try to start working out again,” Sanu said on the NFL Network, via by CBS Sports.
Since the game was tied at the end of regulation, even a tiny difference would have changed the outcome. This guy is going to be telling his grandkids about how he had a Superbowl won, but got screwed by a long halftime show.
Duncan got Rasheed's fourth foul midway through the third if I remember right. There was no way Brown was going to left Rasheed pick up his fifth in the third quarter and then not be able to play any defense the rest of the game.
Ah maybe that's what it was. Wasn't Sheed getting called for some awfully soft fouls as well? Oh well, that was the most nervous I have ever been heading into a Spurs game in my life!
If not for That Human turnover machine, the Spurs never would have come back from 20 down to the Mavs, nor would they have beaten the Pistons. Some folks have very selective memories. Manu tookketh but Manu gaveth much more.
They were mentally broken because David Robinson gave them a pep talk after game 4
Yeah, they ed up. They should have made it back to the finals in 2006 and 2007, but they choked against Miami and Cleveland. They had better records than both those teams. It's their own fault. The Spurs took them down in 2005 and they never seemed to recover. I think they also left Boston tied 1-1 after the first two games and were the first team to win a game in Boston up to that point in the entire playoffs (Boston was very shaky on the road and hadn't won a playoff road game up until they won game 3 in Detroit going 4-3, 4-3 in their previous two series), but they pissed that away aswell, so that is possibly 5 straight years they could have made it back to the finals (they should have made it back 4 times in a row as they were favoured in the 2006 and 2007 East series they lost - the 5th time against Boston they were not the favourites). They had their chances and completely blew them all after the Spurs defeat in 2005.
I gave my son an autographed picture of that shot. It's hanging in his den.
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