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Speedy Claxton played very well in game 6.
shoulda been Mavs.
Speedy Claxton played very well in game 6.
mavs would of chocked like game 6 and the 2006 FINALS
Yes Tim was fouled, Bron or someone else gets that call! Talk about they are not going to call that late in a game, well Bron trips and falls with .5 on the clock and gets the call and OT! Why not for Tim? He stays getting disrespected by the stupid Refs and he is a SUPERSTAR.LOL yeah right, they were not better than the Spurs that year. The only reason they beat the Kings (Who usually beat up on them) is because Webber was out, so they won in 7 DAMN GAMES! They barely beat a Webberless Kings since you want to use the injury as an exuse.
Whats funny is the Spurs should have been up basically 3-0 when Dirk went down, they blew that damn big lead in game one. They ran that series, they always had the lead basically and Dallas had no frontline at all to stop Tim or D Rob down low! They were not the better team, period.
The Spurs also blew a damn big lead in game 5 which made me living, they were basically in control though the whole time and just blew a game or two. Dallas could not see the Spurs that year, period.
the 2005 team was great to watch, but the finals, even though it ended well, were really boring the first four games. yeah it was great to blow it up the first two games, but it wasn't compe ive basketball, and it really sucked being on the flipside for games 3 and 4. game 5 was amazing! but damn those first four were lame.
2007 was great because we just so not included in the le talk. and there was such a fuss about denver game 1. watching it all come together the next four games, plus BIG SHOT ROB was just as exciting as watching dallas get ripped apart by golden state. whether you hate dallas or not, that series was INSANE. the stakes were high. the plays were amazing, and it was the greatest upset ever!
and round 2 with phoenix was SO TIGHT.
1999 was amazing cause we finally got there. so what it was a short season. those old veterans were busting their butts playing all those games per week. it was so promising. avery making stoudemire eat his foot, sean making career redemption, and timmy's coming out party. that was so great to finally say, "we're the champions"
2003 team has a special place in spurs history. how sweet was it to finally drop the lakers again? bowen outscored kobe! i think it was the most compe ion we faced in the playoffs. the suns were scary, the lakers were the lakers, and the mavs were tricky. there was a sense of urgency, almost to the point of magic watching them playing knowing that the day the 2003 playoff run was over was the day david robinson's career was over. and they made him a champion til the end. the aging sportsman, the role model gets it ON FATHER'S DAY! and what a sense of closure willis, kerr, and ferry got from finally winning a le!
i really thought the glory of 1999 was over after the 2002 playoffs. and even when we won, i thought it was gone with robinson(not that he was the main impact for winning) but i never thought we'd replace him and just fade away. ....we never did replace him, and i was certain we were done after the 2004 ending. so i'm really grateful for the next two les. i feel like the big 3 learned a lot from the 2003 championship experience and without that i'm not sure we'd have 2005 and 2007.
anyway, here's a tribute to the 2006 team that i lament every time i see a basketball:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...604220SAS.html
if only, we could have done THAT the rest of the series and especially in round 2........look at the minutes played vs the production EVERYONE put up!
Fixed.
You're certainly right: Spurs fans are spoiled. So much so that we can't seem to lay blame where it belongs, and we just expect our team to get a le just for showing up.
Rob's dunk where it looks like he almost dislocated his shoulder!
He gives the shot fake, drives the lane, hangs in the air 1 second longer than expected, stretches out his arm jams it left handed whilst making Hamilton taste some testicles.
He has a sick one too on Brian Cardinal, all helicopter style.
2005 Manu was magnificent.
Last edited by Yuixafun; 06-04-2009 at 09:05 AM.
Butt hurt much?
I damn near cried when SJax left the Spurs for a damn 1 yr/1 million dollar contract in Atlanta. Idiot. I even went so far as to order a SJax customized jersey from NBA.com after they won the le...my shipment was delayed, delayed, delayed to the point that he ended up going to ATL and then I canceled the order.
overrated
in game 6 or career?
he was HUGE in game 6. parker couldn't get it done. claxton came in averaging 10.4 min and 4.8 points. he played 23 min, 5/8fg, 3/4ft, 1rb, 4ast, 2tov, 1blk - 13 pts.
parker played 24 min, 2/6fg, 0ft, 2ast, 3tov, - 4 points
we won by 11. claxton averaged about 5. the game would have been a lot tighter and we don't make the tremendous 4th quarter comeback without him.
if mason put those number up vs dallas, we might have won game 4 and/or 5. mason's production was next to nothing rb, ast, and points were 13,12,7,0,1.
does anybody remember the '07 series with utah, it was game 4 or 5 when jacque vaughn put up a bunch of assists and points? i'm pretty sure it was game 5. there was like 2 or 3 plays in a row where pop had vaughn in the low post catching and passing across the lane to a baseline cutter(oberto-i always get really pumped when he makes a play), or something like that..... i vaguely remember van gundy getting a boner over the strategy. it was exciting and it kinda reminded me of claxton in game 6. sometimes i see jv from a distance and think it's claxton. 'little' bald dude at the point......
Last edited by draft87; 06-05-2009 at 01:17 AM. Reason: forgot to name oberto
Kerr won a few les before the one with us, you mean Steve Smith? That had to sweet to him, over LA the team that outted them in 00 nonetheless! They beat Portland again a year later or so, so him being on the team that deaded that le run had to be sweet to him!
Yeah we absolutely killed them in that game one, after that I thought we were the best team in the L! Game two we got 128 pts and even though that was in OT we still ate them ALIVE! That series was just nuts, from the one point loss till the end. Sac scared the outta me after game 4, but after that the Spurs righted it and won out.
Dallas that year was almost equal to us or the same, I feared them but thought we would win that one in 6! Turns out things changed and we lost in 7, but yes that was a great team of ours and they were our match spite the refs and beat us in 7! No way the Spurs should go down 20 in a game 7 at home, yeah I know they came back and almsot won it (Maybe should have) but seriously they had no excuse to go down 20 at home in a must win game 7.
If the Spurs had done their job that series is over in 6 like the Heat did to them, but some bad calls (No excuse) and that big lead for them in game 7 proved too much for us.
seancagney, my apologies. yah i totally meant steve smith. damn, sorry smitty!
couple things
1) i'm still amazed that from '94-'03 either horry or kerr were in the finals and won the le!
2) the '03 team is special cause it really was the end for a bunch of great people to be together. almost like the '98 bulls. the sum of all the parts was amazing. but it was time to move on.
look at the '03 team:
on top of the already mentioned, david robinson retirement, the league best record(tie), coach of the year, mvp-
mike brown-cleveland head coach
kerr-phoenix gm(tnt commentator)
ferry-cleveland gm
smith-nbatv analyst
sam presti-oklahoma gm
pj-well......
who am i missing?
p.s. i liked kerr better as commentator more than gm("idiot") of the dysfunctional opposing team in round 1 of the playoffs. he put a big smile on my face during the golden state/dallas series in '07 when he said something like, "i have fond memories of stephen jackson hitting some big shots for the spurs in '03"
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