Spot Number 50 - Top 50 Spurs

[timvp]

I don't agree that George Johnson should go here but he's not a horrible pick. I just don't think that being a league leading shotblocker negates the fact that he couldn't score at all ... even on some of the highest scoring teams in Spurs history. Plus, if he was really that good, he'd have played more minutes during his tenure with the Spurs. On my personal list, Johnson would be closer to 60 than 50.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I think Timvp is just too young to remember GJ.




Personally I liked Johnson. True, he wasn't a scorer, but he was a defender on a team full of scorers, which in some ways set him apart and increased his value to the team. I remember watching him keeping teams honest in the paint. He wasn't stat-sheet, but he was solid. When he was with Golden State's NBA championship team he played about 25 minutes a game, so it's not as if he merely got playing time by default...he was a good player. He was a valuable role player, as much so as a lot of these other role players at the end of the list.







I'm just sad for EJ's ommission....

Edgar Jones was highlight reel, and would have been in my top-50. If Edgar Jones had played in today's ESPN/Youtube promotional version of the game of basketball he'd of probably been the face of the franchise, albeit a toothless one. Every teenager I knew, myself included, marveled at his high flying ability.

Oh well.....Edgar, whereever you are, know that you'll always be my 47th favorite Spur of all-time.

[baseline bum]

Oh well.....Edgar, whereever you are, know that you'll always be my 47th favorite Spur of all-time.

[SenorSpur]

I think Timvp is just too young to remember GJ.




Personally I liked Johnson. True, he wasn't a scorer, but he was a defender on a team full of scorers, which in some ways set him apart and increased his value to the team. I remember watching him keeping teams honest in the paint. He wasn't stat-sheet, but he was solid. When he was with Golden State's NBA championship team he played about 25 minutes a game, so it's not as if he merely got playing time by default...he was a good player. He was a valuable role player, as much so as a lot of these other role players at the end of the list.







I'm just sad for EJ's ommission....

Edgar Jones was highlight reel, and would have been in my top-50. If Edgar Jones had played in today's ESPN/Youtube promotional version of the game of basketball he'd of probably been the face of the franchise, albeit a toothless one. Every teenager I knew, myself included, marveled at his high flying ability.

Oh well.....Edgar, whereever you are, know that you'll always be my 47th favorite Spur of all-time.

Also keep in mind, that Johnson was the offical "paint presence". The intimidator and the official "break starter". His role was exactly what was needed. Those teams, under Albeck, were highly successful because not only could they outscore opponents, but they got out in transition. Much, in part, due to Johnson's exploits in the paint. When he wasn't blocking shots, he was altering them. They were a much better defensive team because of his presence.

[J.T.]

I look back at this top 50 list, and even though I didn't participate in most of it and early on was simply trolling it, the fondest memory I take away from it is blocking Rasho and Oberto from making the list here in the final week.

[SenorSpur]

I look back at this top 50 list, and even though I didn't participate in most of it and early on was simply trolling it, the fondest memory I take away from it is blocking Rasho and Oberto from making the list here in the final week.

[The Truth #6]

Yeah Chuck Person probably should make the list. As should Walter Berry. I would have thought those would have already made it, thus paving the way for the legendary Ed Nealy. But it looks like it's going to the Flying Helicopter.

[manufor3]

wrong qu0te

[manufor3]

My first post!!!!!

Excellent thread and I dedicate my first post to
Alvin Robertson as a Top 15 Spur... watching him play is what got me started as a Spurs fan when i was was a little squirt

In 1986, Robertson became the inaugural winner of the NBA Most Improved Player Award. This also marked the first of four National Basketball Association All-Star Game appearances for the guard (the others coming in 1987, 1988, and 1991). He also won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in 1986[1], and led the league in steals in 1986, 1987 and 1991. Robertson still holds the top career steals-per-game average in the NBA, with 2.71 per contest over 779 career games.[2]
Robertson twice led the league in steals. In 1985-86 he averaged a league-leading 3.67 steals per game[3], a major factor in his earning the Defensive Player of the Year honor and being selected second-team All-NBA, one of only five players in Spurs' history to have been selected first, second or third-team All-NBA. He was a three-time All-Star. Only George Gervin, David Robinson and Tim Duncan have represented the Spurs in more All-Star Games, while Manu Ginobili still trails Robertson in appearances with one.[4]
Robertson led the Spurs in steals four of the five seasons he was with the club, three times averaging more than three per game.[3] Though he played only five seasons in San Antonio, he ranks second in club history in total steals, with 1,129.
A multi-dimensional player, Robertson is one of only four NBA players to record a quadruple-double (double digits in four statistical categories in a single game) when he registered 20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals whilst playing for the Spurs against the Phoenix Suns.[5] He is also the only player to do so with steals as the fourth category (the other three were with blocks).[6]

welcome

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Write in for the Coyote!!

Totally! Just what I was thinking.

And what about Big Dog Carr?

Also, Brett Brown - champion. Won championships in Oz, brought Gaze to the Spurs, got me into practice... true legend. he and Chip rock tha house!

[Obstructed_View]

I'd have loved to have spent more time campaigning for Dale Ellis, Antoine Carr and Chuck Person. If I made a Spurs top 50 list, they'd be on it.