This is going to be 2014 vs. the Heat all over again

[Spurs 4 The Win]

Actually it was game 1 but your right.

Same thing actually happened in 03 and 05

[Spurs 4 The Win]

This. How many teams would take a championship, two finals appearances, three conference finals appearances, as proof that we've been a paper tiger of late? Even our first round loss was hardly a flameout. We were injured and lost on the last play of Game 7 to a marginally better team. This year we're in the semi's, and despite the negativism on this board, are still favored 2-1 to go to the conference finals yet again. The Kawhi/Danny/Boris/Aging Big 3 Spurs have been pretty successful. Who since 2012 has been more? You could certainly argue the Heat, but they missed the playoffs last year. The Dubs are a recent phenomenon. No one else has won a le in that span.

Reality brought to you by BillMc. So many fans on this board are gonna ing meltdown whenever this magical run ends, whether its in a year, 3 years, or another decade. We have been spoiled and some of the people on here are the most delusional re s I have ever seen.

If you told me in 2007 we would still be competing with all time great teams for championships 10 years later (still with Tim and co.) I wouldve never believed it. This is amazing.

[NameLess Scrub]

Reality brought to you by BillMc. So many fans on this board are gonna ing meltdown whenever this magical run ends, whether its in a year, 3 years, or another decade. We have been spoiled and some of the people on here are the most delusional re s I have ever seen.

If you told me in 2007 we would still be competing with all time great teams for championships 10 years later (still with Tim and co.) I wouldve never believed it. This is amazing.

Actually you're right. It's amazing the longevity of this run.

However, I don't think people will melt down that much once it ends.
As I said before, if the team is rebuilding everybody stops caring so much and focus on development, potential and the future.

But the Spurs have been contenders of some sort for 20 years. Fans get hopes up, then the team gets 5 les and a bunch of disappointments due to stuff like ref crap, bad luck, injuries, or just not being good enough at the end of the day.

I'd be surprised if once this team gets into rebuilding the board continues to have so many melt downs.

On the OP, I hope that happens.

[cd021]

The Spurs didn't dominate Game 1 of the 2014 Finals, they kept turning the ball over and Miami was leading until midway through the fourth when Green got hot ( and so did LeBron )

That game was absolutely nuts. I was convinced that the Spurs were going to blow that game but Green hit like 3 3 pointers and Miami could not score without Lebron and could not stop us on offense.

The next game the Spurs did blow, we missed five straight free throws late in that game

[Horse]

The biggest difference, to me at least, is you could see Miami and particularly Lebron fatigued, 3 straight finals will do that. Thunder, especially Westbrook won't tire

They won't tire physically but you can bet if we put the pressure on them they will tire mentally and that will break them.

[Spurs 4 The Win]

The biggest difference, to me at least, is you could see Miami and particularly Lebron fatigued, 3 straight finals will do that. Thunder, especially Westbrook won't tire

Too tired to play for a world championship Get that out of here

[marinoman]

Too tired to play for a world championship Get that out of here

The will was there of course, but you can still get tired and slow down, gtfo of here if you don't think people can get tired even if they're pursuing something they really want

[Spurs 4 The Win]

The will was there of course, but you can still get tired and slow down, gtfo of here if you don't think people can get tired even if they're pursuing something they really want

2011: Spurs 1st Round, Miami Finals
2012: Spurs WCF, Miami Finals
2013: Spurs Finals, Miami Finals
2014: Spurs Finals, Miami Finals

Please explain to me how Miami was tired and we werent, considering we had an older core, and played in the West in much more physically demanding series and played a tougher regular season schedule... lmao, the tired argument for Miami falls apart as soon as you examine the facts.

[marinoman]

2011: Spurs 1st Round, Miami Finals
2012: Spurs WCF, Miami Finals
2013: Spurs Finals, Miami Finals
2014: Spurs Finals, Miami Finals

Please explain to me how Miami was tired and we werent, considering we had an older core, and played in the West in much more physically demanding series and played a tougher regular season schedule... lmao, the tired argument for Miami falls apart as soon as you examine the facts.

It's insane to me you don't think human beings get tired. We play more guys, more team ball/few isos, constantly rest guys, and yes spurs have shown fatigue at times especially the older guys

Please don't reply, I'm not interested in more of asinine thoughts

[Spurs 4 The Win]

It's insane to me you don't think human beings get tired. We play more guys, more team ball/few isos, constantly rest guys, and yes spurs have shown fatigue at times especially the older guys

Please don't reply, I'm not interested in more of asinine thoughts

Please dont reply Im tired of you debunking my ty arguments.

[marinoman]

Lol at arguing human beings don't tire and thinking you've proved your point. You've succeeded in showing you're not trolling, just really stupid
Congrats!

[Spurs 4 The Win]

Lol at arguing human beings don't tire and thinking you've proved your point. You've succeeded in showing you're not trolling, just really stupid
Congrats!

The argument is that it is not a valid excuse to say they were tired since we had nearly identical mileage and we had basically been to 3 straight Finals to their 4. And we play in a harder conference with more physical opponents and are an older team. Meanwhile you think that one extra Finals was so draining that it caused LeCramp to go down

[marinoman]

This is an annoying argument and I don't wanna continue it, but I wil say l you're right it isn't an excuse, if they get tired that's their problem, have better cardio, but imo they looked and played tired

[Sean Cagney]

This. How many teams would take a championship, two finals appearances, three conference finals appearances, as proof that we've been a paper tiger of late? Even our first round loss was hardly a flameout. We were injured and lost on the last play of Game 7 to a marginally better team. This year we're in the semi's, and despite the negativism on this board, are still favored 2-1 to go to the conference finals yet again. The Kawhi/Danny/Boris/Aging Big 3 Spurs have been pretty successful. Who since 2012 has been more? You could certainly argue the Heat, but they missed the playoffs last year. The Dubs are a recent phenomenon. No one else has won a le in that span.

Agreed, I have no idea really what he was trying to say with that post. The Spurs have been VERY successful since 012 with this team, more so than most the teams in the league sides maybe the Heat like you said but even then the Spurs you could argue are ahead being they are still near the top and won 67 games this year. His post made no sense at all saying they dominate the regular season but flame out in the playoffs.

[Neurosis]

We shot like absolute garbage from the FT line tonight. We're winning the next 2 by 10+ each. Book it.

[Kawhitstorm]

We shot like absolute garbage from the FT line tonight. We're winning the next 2 by 10+ each. Book it.

GM 2 it was missed layups, tonight it was missed FTs. The difference was the missed FTs didn't lead to transition points.

[Neurosis]

Looks like I was wrong. This is 2014 first-round vs. Dallas, not 2014 vs. Heat.

EDIT: inb4 someone tells me this is 2016 second-round vs. OKC.

[Darius Bieber]

This is 2012 Western Conference Finals vs OKC.

[TampaDude]

This is 2012 Western Conference Finals vs OKC.

Actually, I prefer it to be the 2014 WCF vs. OKC. Spurs in 6.

[Ice009]

Looks like I was wrong. This is 2014 first-round vs. Dallas, not 2014 vs. Heat.

EDIT: inb4 someone tells me this is 2016 second-round vs. OKC.

To answer the op, no, it's not anything like 2014. People around here just love jumping the gun for some reason.

This is 2012 Western Conference Finals vs OKC.

You've got to be a troll.

[Harry Callahan]

To answer the op, no, it's not anything like 2014. People around here just love jumping the gun for some reason.



You've got to be a troll.

A troll actually.