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Duncan was on two badly sprained ankles. The 99 team would beat them in 5-6 games.
1999 team was dominant
Duncan was on two badly sprained ankles. The 99 team would beat them in 5-6 games.
2003 and 1999 Spurs teams kick the living out of 2005.
2003 was probably the most talented and deepest championship team out of all of them. The only knock on them is that the rotation players sans "D-Rob and Bruce" were relatively young and had not developed a killer instinct and crush a team's heart with a younger Parker, Ginobili, Jackson, Speedy, Malik Rose. The only time it really happened that playoffs was the 110-82 defeat of the Lakers in Game 6. They beat Shaq and Kobe in their primes and dethroned the 3-time champs. That IMO was tougher than beating the 1-time defending champ Detroit in the Finals. It was a mental hurdle they had to go through.
1999 was the most mentally tough Spurs team, where D-Rob was 33 yrs old and still spry and fresh and Duncan was 23 and had more athleticism and lateral quickness. The majority of the team was an older team, but with the addition of Mario Elie, Steve Kerr, and Jerome Kersey (guys who had been to the Finals, and 2 of the 3 experience winning a le), the Spurs were making "one last run" for guys like D-Rob, Sean, and Avery while they still had gas left in the tank.
I miss that team when MG was unstopable and TD was playing damn good!
'99 isn't even debatable..that team was one of the greatest teams of all-time..
They were the only Spurs champs to beat an elite team in the Finals........... the best championship Spurs team. I think they had the toughest road to the finals and then had to be a DAMN good defending championship Detroit Pistons team.
Discuss...............
yep duncan needs help done low
Yep...............exactly.
2007 was the worst championship Spurs team by far- the 2006 team that lost to Dallas was better than it and the 2004 team, as well
People forget just how good Sean was, especially on defense.
For me:
Top to Bottom:
2005 - Great team that toughed out a victory over the defending Champs. They were also the most exciting team we have floored in the finals.
1999 - This team was the best defensive team we ever floored. If we needed a stop, you just knew we would get it. Tough mentally and defensively, our Championship was NEVER in doubt. Closing out the Forum with a sweep was awesome. - Triple Tower line-up at times with Tim, David and Will Perdue. Remember that ?
2003 - This team gave me heartburn. We had a lot of talent but always seemed to have mental lapses and blow big leads. We lost HCA to Phoenix, Dallas and New Jersey along the way and almost lost to the Lakers. -- Robert Horry's unbelievable IN/OUT 3 pter.
2007 - I appreciate them all but this was the least exciting and it seemed we just did enough to win. The Cavs sucked and it was nice to sweep them.
Ginobili = '05 Finals MVP, and we all know it
Not for me.Ginobili = '05 Finals MVP, and we all know it
Manu was incredible, and it was almost Co-MVP's (the vote was 6-4 Duncan; 9 media votes and the NBA.com fan vote). But without Duncan we don't win that year. The whole playoffs, but especially the last 18 minutes of game 7. I think Duncan deserved it, and I mean no disrespect to Manu.
Looks like the Spurs' total points in each of their last 4 games of the Dallas series
No way. The 2006 team was banged up like , while everyone was healthy for the stretch run in 07. In particular, Duncan and Parker were in far better shape in 07. Horry was also contributing big in 07 while being mostly nonexistent in 06. The 07 Spurs would have mopped the floor with the 06 version. The only player who was better on the 06 team was Finley.
OIC, the 06 team was better because they had Rasho.
CO SIGN, that team just had it all. They could shoot, they could D you up and shut you DOWN in the end of any game. That 99 team was just flat out TOUGH.
Oh yeah D Rob was still an all star then, two all star twin towers! GOOD LORD.
I got the 03 next, they could play any game you threw at them, they were so damn deep and talented it was just rediculous.
Those two my fave championship teams by FAR! They were just so damn special. My fave finals win though was 05, what a damn war! That was just flat out thrilling to watch as a fan! That 05 team was not my fave team, but that was the best finals we had.
The 03 team was pretty versatile, but I thought the 05 Spurs were the best chameleons: they could run up and down the floor one night with Phoenix and the next beat the out of each other vs. Big Ben & Sheed. The 99 team was so good they'd only allow you to play one way though.
http://www.nba.com/playoffs2004/chal...spurs1999.html
Read this, they won 46 out of the last 53 games, held teams to 40.2% SHOOTING! THAT is unheard of, seriously they were just too damn dominant that year. I loved that team. D wins les, yes it did.
03 was the best team.
They beat a 3 time defending champion, a 60 win in-state rival, and a returning conference finalist. They were deep, experienced, versatile, and won every big game they played in. Tremndous chemistry on that team.
The 03 was the best Spurs team IMO.
99 was the second best, and they were also the one that charted the path to the finals so they were definitely the mold breaker. But their playoff opponents were not as tough as the 03 team. Not anywhere freaking close.
The 05 I put down as the grittiest Spurs team. They won back to back double OT games in the regular season...they overcame a ton of injuries. They just seemed to come up with a way to win, whether is was playing D, running, grinding it out. They just seemed to be the scrapper of the Spurs championship teams.
That is the one Spurs championship team that seemed to get better the more beat up it got.
The 07 team was the luckiest Spurs team. Despite being the one that swept their finals.
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07
Just to touch once more on 03...
There was one game against the Mavs, I don't know if Drob was hurt or what, can't really remember the details, but Malik freaking Rose went off for 25 and 10 against..
Now you guys imagine our 3rd or 4th best big from any of the recent teams doing something like that...we're lucky to get that out of Duncan a lot of times now, much less the 3rd or 4th best big.
Everything just went perfect for that team.
After get our asses kicked by LA the previous 2 years, all of a sudden in Drob's final year we take them out. Career journeyman like Jack comes out of nowhere to become starting 2 guard. Our Argie rookie turns out to be a huge playmaker, our 20 years old PG matched up against an ALL Pro level PG in just about every series holds his own against them. Kevin Willis comes up huge in LA...when our offense stagnates Kerr comes off the bench and shoots like %70 from 3 for the playoff run.
That team was just bad ass.
I know the 99 team is special for many, it is for me to. I don't know maybe it's because I really wasn't expecting 99 and was more in shock over it, but nothing in any of my years as a sports fan tops David Robinson going out a champion and going through Shaq Phil Kobe , even Robert Horry, and their 3 time defending champion squad along the way.
That was just storybook, as most things about that team and that season were. And they kicked every good teams ass that they played multiple times.
That season to me is what you call ing sweet. It just doesn't get any better than doing what that team did, the way they did it.
i think the 2003 squad was a better squad, but the 2005 series was a MUCH better finals series, and in general is one of the most underrated finals series of all time
pop v. brown at the nba finals, basketball at its finest.
umm... stephen jackson, steve kerr, manu ginobili, bruce bowen, and steve smith on the team in 2003. Are you sure you watched the 2003 Spurs playoffs run? Or did you jump on the bandwagon after that year?
I guess you wouldn't remember Steve Kerr's heroic 3 pointers to beat the Mavs in the 03 Western Conference Finals.
Or when Stephen Jackson started that run in Game 6 of the Finals (the final game) by hitting a bunch of consecutive three's which led to a huge offensive run..
2003 team had the best defense and shooting we have had. So shooting sure was not a problem for the 03 Spurs.
So next time you open up your mouth about the 03 Spurs, maybe you should buy/rent the 03 championship DVD and learn up on the history of the team before you jumped on the bandwagon.
That was game 2, an absolute must-win for this team after Bennett Salvatore handed Dallas 50FT to give them game 1. You knew the breaks were finally going to fall our way when Willis hit that halfcourt shot in game 1 vs LA.
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