Stern, David
Crawford, Danny
Crawford, Joey
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These aren't correct, because they each refer to ONE game where the player killed us, but this thread is about those who were a special bone in our throats over many years...
Terry burned us in December '02 with the lowly Hawks when he beat us with a buzzer beating fadeaway over Timmy, then proceeded to KILL us in '06, and stung us in a handful of games beyond that, for the Mavs and later Rockets.
Ray Allen was the centerpiece of the Bucks' 6 game regular-season win streak against the Spurs from 00-02, then after he was traded to the Sonics he was a bigger problem for us, was a huge pain in the ass in '04-05 (especially the first two meetings that year, and the playoffs), ed to the league about Bowen, and ultimately would directly steal a ring from us (twice at the end of the same game) in '13.
Derek Fisher was an all-around asshole, and everyone who isn't a Lakers (or possibly OKC) fan would agree with this. Mavs and Jazz fans had the right to murder him, but on the court he was always the biggest problem for the Spurs above all. From the huge barrage of threes in the '01 and '02 series to the horrifying moment of 0.4 ... to his second stint with the Lakers to him burning us hard in the '12 playoffs, this bag takes the cake as the top Spurs killer of all time.
Danny Crawford wasn't a problem at all. Spurs had a roughly .750 win percentage, both regular season and playoffs, with Danny in charge. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. (The Suns and Mavs were the ones who had the issue with him, and especially the Mavs with Bennett Salvatore.)
In terms of refs, you have to go with Joey, Jack Nies, and Lou Grillo... those 3 were always out to get us and hated Timmy as if he raped their wives. Honorable mention to Tony Brothers who the Spurs had the lowest win % with in charge.
Those guys don't count. Stars in general don't count. They killed a LOT of people, not "especially" the Spurs.
I don't remember the stat exactly, but there was a stat that DC was basically unbeatable late in a series. He was a Stern go-to man.
Kawhi Leonard.
Richard Jefferson.
Jackie Butler.
Kobe did a lot of damage over the years. Karl Malone/John Stockton did, too. I'd go with those three.
Sooo.. Ray Allen wasnt a star? Kobe wasnt? Thats what ppl are lol.
Malone counts bc he knocked the spurs out yr after yr. Like we did to the suns
A couple of nice posts in this thread.
Nowadays in general, any random chucker who looks like a character in the NBA Showtime arcade can potentially kill the Spurs any given game.
Mehmet Okur.
Vernon Maxwell was an original Spurs Killer, then Jason Terry and finish it with Monta Ellis. All three of those guys played above their game against the Spurs, IMO
Honorable mention would be Mike Miller and Shane Battier
Last edited by texbound; 03-10-2019 at 09:06 AM.
2 times on the exact same play in '05, walk-off buzzer beating layup off an offensive rebound. Both games in Utah. Utah was 26-56 that year.
Ray Allen, and prime Jet Terry, were second tier stars at best. Even '04-05 Ray Allen was a second tier star. He was Klay Thompson but with a *slightly* better dribble drive and somewhat worse on defense.
Stockton/Malone killed us.
Magic swept us every year except like 83
and I'm going to say Dirk as the 3rd person. We had no answer for him in 2006 (which that and bad reffing cost us a le)
Thas' the damn truth. "Shadrach normally averages 6 points per game. He's got 22 in the first half." Lots of people having career nights against the Spurs in the last few years.
Who was that little 5'9" nobody-PG that looked like a All Star against the Spurs for a while? [Nate Robinson.]
JJ Barea just went ape against the Spurs more times than I'd like to remember.
Nut-Puncher loved to take it to the Spurs. People here will say he wasn't a star, but he averaged 30 MPG for 1,400 games. You don't stay in the league that long without being pretty damn good.
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B-R: In multiple seasons, from 1946-47 to 2018-19, against the Spurs/Chaparrals, in the regular season, team lost game, sorted by descending Points
IOW, most points against the Spurs in Spurs losses.
869 Karl Malone
841 Alex English
826 Kobe Bryant
817 Dirk Nowitzki
794 Hakeem Olajuwon
617 Eddie Johnson
609 Mitch Richmond
584 Vince Carter
556 Pau Gasol
551 Zach Randolph
In multiple seasons, from 1946-47 to 2018-19, against the Spurs/Chaparrals, in the regular season, team lost game, sorted by descending Game Score
IOW, best average game against the Spurs in Spurs losses.
25.1 Michael Jordan
22.6 Bubba Wells
22.1 Luka Doncic
19.2 Ryan Arcidiacano
19.1 Charles Barkley
19.1 Kevin Durant
19.0 LeBron James
18.2 Kyle Kuzma
17.3 Hassan Whiteside
17.1 John Collins
Uncle Dennis tbh.
i'm surprised no one added buford and pop to uncle dennis.
My stats above are ass backward. Those were the best opponents in Spurs wins.
Now to Spurs losses:
Points
1206 Karl Malone
918 Alex English
877 Hakeem Olajuwon
733 Rolando Blackman and Clyde Drexler
730 Mark Aguirre
725 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
695 Moses Malone
611 Dirk Nowitzki
Game Score
33.9 Hassan Whiteside
29.6 Kyrie Irving
24.6 LeBron James
24.2 Damian Lillard
22.8 Allen Iverson
22.2 Ben Simmons
22.1 Dominique Wilkins
21.6 Stephen Curry
21.5 Dennis Smith
21.5 Michael Jordan
this true LA and derozan always goes off everytime the play the spurs before..lol
I second the threads that point to the "no name, nobodies" who own the Spurs on any given night. San Antonio probably ranks way up there on Scrubs career nights. Points, 3 pointers, Assists, Rebounds, Triple Doubles - It's all there.
any efficiency or normal ppg statistics which players have the biggest difference between their average and their value against the Spurs?
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