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Ok, I've been wanting to get this stuff off my chest so here it comes. If I get banned for expressing my feelings on a forum then so be it. I'm only going to do this rant one time so let's get started.
2007… 2000 mother ing 7. We’ve been waiting for six ing years. Ok, six ing years to get another championship. This franchise owes it to us Spurs fans and Tim Duncan to put together a championship team NOW. But no, typical Spurs sports fashion – bringing back Manu Ginobili healthy is like signing a big time free agent. you. Oh, we would have won if Kawhi Leonard didn’t miss a free throw or if we grabbed a rebound. you. Agh, we’re not going to amnesty Matt Bonner because he spreads the floor very well for a big guy and he’s a good trade asset. you.
Jarrett Jack and Kirilenko – there were guys out there in this offseason. You are not going to tell me that a defense oriented team would not benefit from having AK47 or Trevor Ariza instead of Matt Bonner. You will not convince me to think that way. You amnesty Bonner, pay less $$$ to Manu, and then you sign Jarrett Jack or any of the other good FA’s that were available. Oh no, Jack goes to the Cavs and AK47 to the Nets for very cheap, yeah way to go.
So what’s the big free agent signing so far, what’s the big move, the big BOLD ing move? The answer is Marco ing Belinelli and Jeff Pendergraph. So Gary Neal’s future is uncertain. Neal came up big in the clutch for a few games during the playoffs. We’re about to lose Dejuan Blair for possibly nothing. TP is out in France representing his NT and risk getting injured. Boris Diaw is out there tweeting pics of himself gorgeously eating. RC Buford said “Manu took a tremendous sacrifice to resign with the Spurs.” Are you ing kidding me? Only Spurs homers will believe that line of BS.
So our bench so far includes a declining Manu Ginobili, Boris Diaw, Matt Bonner, Jeff Pendergraph (a guy with scrub career stats), Marco Belinelli (the successor to Gary Neal), and Corey Joseph (the Spurs’ biggest hope and X factor off the bench to relive Manu off his ball handling duties), and an unpromising (so far in the SL) Aaron Baynes. Yeah our bench looks very promising.
Fans will look at Matt Bonner’s stats and say “why do Spurs fans hate Matt Bonner so much?” Because he plays like he could give a defensively, that’s why. Seems like every year, the depth of this team becomes less and less.
Two years ago, three years ago, the bench was the strength, the depth. How is it that 6 years later after the FO tried to sell us on the notion that loyalty and staying pat every year is actually better because we’ll be able to improve based on corporate knowledge, six years later, playoff failure after playoff failure, six ing years later and we’re still here wearing our Duncan jerseys wondering when the is this going to happen? Sorry fellas, doesn’t look good and it’s all contingent on the team staying healthy and we still have Manu here. Manu is the ultimate poser when it pertains to his value to a team. One in every four games, he’ll have a good game to get his stats up, and that entire game he’ll have played no defense.
Ok, so let’s run down this check list again. The depth is gone so if someone gets hurt again, we’re screwed. Still haven’t brought in a true high level second option off the bench next to Manu Ginobili who can score with the ball in his own hand. Still no backup to Kawhi. I mean you can say Boris Diaw can score out of the low post but he flows around the elbow and put he passes up a lot of open shots. Deshaun Thomas, I’d love to see this kid continue his good work and take over as the backup to Kawhi Leonard.
Once again, it’s the ing Spurs standing pat, spending as little money as possible (or wasting cap space to resign Manu and Splitter), and wasting the MLE on Pendergraph (a dude with scrub stats) and Bellinelli. Ok, do you really think the Spurs franchise is going all out like the Rockets, Heat, GSW, and the Nets? No. I’ll give the team this, they draft pretty well. They’ve done a pretty good job through the draft. As far as free agency, it’s been garbage. As far as trades, it’s been garbage. The biggest news in the offseason so far is that the Spurs were working out a trade w/the Wolves for AK47… that didn’t get very far.
Now, do folks out there who aren’t Spurs fans, this is to the non-Spurs fans; do you look at my favorite team and do you ing say “that’s a team that is committed to building a champion!” Do you say that to yourselves? Or do you say “ah the Spurs, they play hard and they are overachievers.” Every ing year man, then the injuries hit and we’re ed. So much pressure is added to a 38 year old Tim Duncan, an inconsistent playoff performer in Tony Parker, and a 36 year old Manu way past his prime with the way that this team is constructed. I find it so unfair to put all this pressure on the resurgence of our franchise player Tim Duncan.
You’ll know what? Every time you look at this ing team, they’re taking shortcuts, they’re not going the full distance to build a champion. We want to win one more ing championship, WE WANT TO WIN ONE MORE ING CHAMPIONSHIP; it’s as simple as that. Is the FO doing everything they can to build that championship team? No. No they’re not.
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