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haha cool interview
Even if they don't win another championship, it's been an honor to cheer for guys like this. They make it easy to be a fan and the disappointments negligible.
haha cool interview
What a beautiful interview. IMO, they will always be the best big 3 in the NBA today.
This needs to change.MG: We kind of have more fun together after losses than wins.
Great interview. You can feel the chemistry between them even in print.
My favorite part
Do you ever look back at some of the near misses particularly with Dallas in 2006 and the Lakers in 2004 and think it could have been four or five championships?
TP: The one I'm still mad about was '06 (the Spurs lost to Dallas in Game 7 of the conference semifinals in overtime). We had 63 wins, the most we've had together, and I really thought we had the best team. Especially seeing what Dallas did (vs. Miami in the NBA Finals) up 2-0 and they lose.
Strange memory from Tim...
About TP : "with his lack of knowledge of the language ..."
Tony was already fluent! (ok, maybe an accent...)
About 05' Finals MVP trophy : " I remember in '05 (against Detroit), any one of us could have won the MVP that year."
What? Tony? really?
Anyway, great interview, weird that we haven't read/seen another one for... 9 years!!!
and surprisingly fair play about the Suns and Mavs having better teams that year...
Props to Mac, that was a great read...
The Spurs were actually the best team in the league in 06-07, it just wasn't so clear cut that they were assured of winning had they played the Mavs or had the Stoudemire-Diaw suspensions not occurred.
Whereas in 05-06, I think they feel that if they had gotten by the Mavs, they'd have, not coasted, but won the le with relative ease.
I feel strongly that they would have won in '06 (not so much in '04). '06 really was their time to go back to back. Despite battling plantar fasciitis and coming off his then worst regular season, Duncan was playing at a historic level in the Mavs series. I can only imagine what he'd have done against the undersized, Stoudemire-less Suns in the Conference Finals.
I wish Bruce Bowen had of walked into the room and said his piece.In the time you've been together, what's the most bizarre thing you've experienced?
MG: “Getting stuck on the plane in New Orleans (after the 2008 Western Conference) semifinals was tough. It was 48 hours before Game 1 of the conference finals (in Los Angeles). No hotels in New Orleans. We had to sleep on the plane. I'll always remember Pop walking through the aisles, covering us with blankets, concerned about getting us to sleep. Nobody could sleep.”
TP: “We were up 20 in Game 1, too.” (The Lakers eventually won Game 1 89-85, and the series in five games).
TD: “Ran out of gas.”
BB: "Despite all that we were owning them, then I picked up my 4th foul in the 3rd quarter up 20. , I had Kobe locked up and LA had no chance but Pop decided to sub me out when he should of just let me play it out. Kobe went nuts, we lost and there went the season. FML."
Cool to see how they get along with each other. We've been blessed to get to experience watching them play and bring home trophys the last several years. I do think that one of the reasons that we aren't on the top of having the best Big 3 on a team is that Manu hasn't had multiple All Stars unlike Tim and Tony. Most teams that have a Big Three have had all three players have been part of multiple All Stars. It shouldn't matter but I think it counts.
it really saddens me to see Manu Tim and Tony get old, it really does.
.. great interview .. almost mad me cry to think about the few yrs we have to watch these LEGENDS play together .. our BIG THREE are THE BEST ..
It's hard to tell in print, but remember Duncan's sense of humor when you read it.
Just Duncan being the nice teammate he is.About 05' Finals MVP trophy : " I remember in '05 (against Detroit), any one of us could have won the MVP that year."
What? Tony? really?
It really saddens me to see the ing here while they are still a top team.
You people want something to about? Wait 3 or 4 years....
Good read.
Yes, we are extremely fortunate. It's going to be a great year! I'll have to remind myself, "you don't miss your water til your well runs dry".
This interview makes me really feel that the spurs need to make a trade during the season in order to pick up the pieces need for a championship. We need defenders. The Varejao rumor got me thinking about how many defensive bigs this team really needs to compete with the likes of LA. And, as everyone knows, there must be a perimeter stopper.
Trade Bonner, trade George, trade Blair, trade Anderson, trade whoever needs to be shipped off in order to get a championship level, championship hungry squad around these 3 greats. *and so there is no ing, I don't mean I don't want any of the above on the team, just that I'm willing to give up on the post TD era if it means having a real chance for another ring. No matter how many "steals" we pick up in the draft we will won't be close to ringing again for a very long time after the next couple of seasons.*
Loved it !!
everything is there, great team mates, duncan sense of humor, manu craziness, tp straight to the point as usual, the smiles.... The only regret we can have is 2006.
I cannot wait the season to start
I think TP suffered a lot his first year
TP: “For me, he (Tim) didn't talk to me for the whole first year (laughing). It was kind of tough at first, because you want to earn his respect. He was our franchise. It was hard at the beginning, because he doesn't talk. I would have Pop scream at me and tell me to go talk to TD, and I didn't want to. I was scared of TD. He always looked like he was mad. As the years went by, it got better.”
this
this one is pretty good too:
As the interview ends, the three players gather their things and prepare to go their separate ways for the night.
MG: I'm going out to dinner tonight but TD isn't invited.
TD: See? Everything's back to normal
I thought the story about paintball was hilarious.
- It was USA vs. France and I won! but no one cared because it's France.
I am not one of those people who is overly down on the French, but this was still pretty funny.
though your still one of the morons who have the same peculiar fetish in a crippled piece of giant .
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