Will the Spurs win another ring in our lifetime?

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Real talk.

The NBA is increasingly becoming a league of haves and have-nots (it's always been that way really, but much moreso now), and a good system/good coaching can only take you so far as last year's WCF proved.

With that being said, the harsh reality is that no significant FA has ever signed with SA (from another team). They have drafted a very good bigman (D-Rob), and the greatest PF of all-time (Duncan) and ridden those two to 25 years of compe ive basketball--and 14 years of being contenders.

The window has closed on this bunch now, and no heir apparent looms on the horizon. San Antonio is doomed to become the Atlanta Hawks for quite some time after this.

Taking all that into account, have we seen the last of the Spurs ringing?

Two things:

1) we lost the WCF because OKC made a statistically aberrant number of long 2s (ie. shot the lights out), not because the system failed.

2) who the knows? Anything can happen in sports. , I thought the window closed two years ago, and I never thought last season's team would be as good as they were, nor that we'd add Diaw and Jax at the deadline and almost go all the way but for aforesaid freakish shooting.

Yes, it looks like our reign as the winningest franchise in pro sports is coming to an end, but you never know.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Yeah, even in the year the Admiral won MVP he got punked by the Dream...

It wasn't until they got Duncan that they went from excellent to dynasty.

Don't buy the hater koolaid. DRob got punked that year because of the team - he had to cover Hakeem straight-up (and yes, Hakeem straight-up was unstoppable, everyone knew that) because the Rockets had deadly 3pt shooters all over the floor, while Houston threw double-teams at DRob all series because our outside shooting was mostly garbage. Hakeem had a far superior supporting cast than DRob ever had.

[DontStopBelieving]

Greater chance than the Bills of ever winning a Super Bowl

[Poolboy5623]

The spurs are sadly on their way to becoming the Utah jazz. ..compe ive with good players, that nobody else is really after. .can they win one b4 this transformation? I sure hope so but I have my doubts...not enough assets or $$ to make the moves needed

[therealtruth]

Don't buy the hater koolaid. DRob got punked that year because of the team - he had to cover Hakeem straight-up (and yes, Hakeem straight-up was unstoppable, everyone knew that) because the Rockets had deadly 3pt shooters all over the floor, while Houston threw double-teams at DRob all series because our outside shooting was mostly garbage. Hakeem had a far superior supporting cast than DRob ever had.

Hakeem dominated Shaq in the Finals that year. That's was the last time Shaq ever lost his matchup.

[racm]

Don't buy the hater koolaid. DRob got punked that year because of the team - he had to cover Hakeem straight-up (and yes, Hakeem straight-up was unstoppable, everyone knew that) because the Rockets had deadly 3pt shooters all over the floor, while Houston threw double-teams at DRob all series because our outside shooting was mostly garbage. Hakeem had a far superior supporting cast than DRob ever had.

Imagine if DRob had the 2003 or 2012 supporting cast.

Greater chance than the Bills of ever winning a Super Bowl

Or OKC of winning the Finals

[LongtimeSpursFan]

Yes!