Bill Simmons on the Spurs

[Jason R]

It seems like that's the meme of the week: The end of the Spurs. Those writers aren't thinking. All this team needs is a few more youthful athletic players around the big 3 and we'll still be right there contending. Steve Nash is 37 for 's sake.

This isn't 'new talk'. Similar was said last year and this year, outside of a great hot streak at the end, we never seriously looked like championship material.

[Jason R]

I find these things funny mostly for the fact that we played our best basketball of the season towards the end, Ginobili was an all star until breaking his nose (related or unrelated), tony parker was injured all year, RJ couldn't have been worse.... and we STILL won 50 games and beat the #2 seeded mavs, before running into a re ed hot suns team

This season was an improvement over the last, front court reinforcement is coming, we have our highest draft pick to work with since tim duncan, and things are looking great. Yet people are jumping off the spurs ship like never before. It's hilarious. Next year is actually the best I've felt about our chances since 2006 (i feel better about next year then I felt about 07). Look back into our history and you'll see what one year with the same group/one year for a player does to the performance of the team/the player.

I hope that pie in the sky tastes good.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

As long as Splitter comes this summer, we will win one more in the TD era. Book it.

[jag]

I hate when people say "book it." Like anyone really feels it's a lock just because you decided to say book it. Splitter coming doesn't ensure a le...not in the slightest.