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I'm a basketball fan, not a spurs fan. Spurs just happen to play basketball in a way I like.
So no.
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Silver's league?! The NBA is the house that Stern built. He sacrificed the sport of basketball on the altar of entertainment long ago.
Probably watch much less regular season games and just the Finals
It's always funny how it works out that the rigged games align with Spurs soul crushing losses.
I will hang with you for awhile, for the same reasons you cite. Huge off-season this. I am curious to see if the Spurs are willing to make the relatively radical moves I think are necessary to revitalize our compe iveness on the court as well as our leadership in the locker room.
Of course. Maybe not as much but still supporting the spurs now and in future.
It is turnover time regardless of what happens tomorrow. Pop will start to ease his way out, and hand control to I believe Udoka. Tim and Manu will be gone. I would not be surprised to see West and Diaw go soon also. Honestly there is no point to keep Boban, he would be too slow in series like these. Mills will stay, DG same, Anderson is here for awhile, and even TP, but he is no where near good enough to keep this team relevant beyond a five-six seed unless the Spurs get some crazy players in. GSW, OKC, LAC top 3. After that who knows. It has been one heck of a ride...
In Vegas, the house ALWAYS wins. Cardinal rule. Does that mean that I can't put a coin in the slot machine, even if I know it's rigged? I don't, but because I'm aware that it's rigged against me, I'm not allowed to put in a coin? I may or may not watch, but your defensiveness seems more a need to convince me I'm just "butthurt" so that your belief system remains in tact. With a name like Baseline Bum, I guess you've been around a long time. I remember seeing "OBERDING" in flashing lights on the "Jumbotron" of the day at my first game. My father wasn't a sports fan. Only I was, so I was older when I went to my first game. But, I've been around a while. This is not a gut-reaction. This has been an elephant in the room for decades.
I'm not telling you that you're re ed for believing. You go ahead.
It's difficult to quit cold turkey. It's habit, culture, and a way of life. Technology makes it easy to consume. But, a viewing, despite your attempt to connect the two, is not some sort of admission that it's NOT rigged.
No, but I'll probably stop spending a boatload of money on courtside tix to the games...
It will be hard for me if Pop is still coach, and if Parker is still on the team with him, even harder.
I am fine with losing. Even lottery losing. , I watched every game the lottery year with every expectation that they would draft Foyle with the 5th pick or so. Just to watch young guys play, even though they were scrubs. Losing with talent deficits is fine.
But losing due to insane choices I don't think I could tolerate without Duncan and Manu.
It's funny, a lot of fans of other teams talked about Aldridge making a mistake here because after Duncan and Manu or the big 3 were gone it would be a stripped down roster that couldn't compete with just him and Kawhi and maybe Green. And that would be a playoff team and nothing more.
But that's how it turned out already. The reality is that right now it's Kawhi, Aldridge, and sometimes Green and that's it. Some juice from Manu, but it's barren everywhere else by Pop's choice. And it's almost enough with just them to get to conference finals.
Duncan, Diaw, West, Mills, Porker, Anderson ... Giving very little but the team is still almost winning.
But Pop can't accept that. I can't envision him leading a new look spurs team to a finals. And I can't imagine him moving on from Parker either. I don't need to watch him sit the future Bobans, Splitters, and Hills of the world and waste what he can of Kawhi and Aldridge. I don't need to see Parker act like the number one. I don't need to hope that maybe this clinching playoff game or that clinching playoff game will be the Parker food poisoning or injury game that he sits out giving the spurs a chance to win without him.
This!!!!
all you half hearted pussies. Will you continue to watch! yes real fans will, the organization doesn't die with Tommy and Manu. This isn't 04 Timmy retiring, it's 2016 Timmy. This team has a great young core with Kawhi, LMA and DG. Soft pussy ass fans here.
Nope, I became a Spurs fan in '94, a kid listening to the radio for Spurs games and checking the newspaper/news to know the results of the games because a lot of the games were shown on Pay Per View here in San Antonio at the time. I'm a Spurs fan but not much of a basketball fan though so I'm out after the Spurs get bounced, until next year.
It just seems I was fortunate enough to have watched the Tim Duncan era and I basically grew up in it. TD and Manu are my favorite players ever and they should have their own statues.
The future is still bright here though, the baton was passed this year and the game goes on, life goes on.
I'll watch till 2022 when Parker retires.
If this continues to be the Lebron vs Curry star match up league, I will probably stop watching deep in the playoffs. I can really appreciate that kind of basketball. I liked the Warriors before, but this year they have changed for me.
But RS I'll probably watch to follow the Spurs and Magic. Right now I still hope they both can make the steps needed in the off-season to either become a playoff team or continue being a contender, respectively.
I think the Spurs should remain contenders if they get to replace the big 3's contribution somehow, and Pop/Kawhi/LaMarcus/Green keep their focus. I know you can't replace Timmy, or Manu. But at this point in their careers, finding big men help and a playmaker from the bench that are durable might be enough. I don't know.. youth, durability and some consistence might replace leadership/clutchness/experience.
But you don't understand. The Spurs won five les DESPITE the cheating. It was all the other champions that the jew commissioners had their finger on the scale for.
"These Days".
Lol
Yeah it was much easier in '79.
I'm sure fans of other teams are really torn up about the Spurs full hand of rings (and a real live NBA official claiming to have rigged a game in the Spur's favor).
I do think the officiating is questionable/bad, but as a fan base, relatively, we have little to complain about, and a whole damn lot to be proud of.
Not a chance. Spur's fan for life, since 75. Don't know if some of you younger Spur fans realize that, since this teams inception into the NBA, that the Spurs have only missed the playoffs 4 times. Think about that. That's pretty damn impressive imo. I'm confident that PATFO will find a way to keep this team in contention
No. I'm not a fan for them. If the team becomes like the Kings, that'll affect how much I watch them (though I'd probably go see them live a lot more often). But a compe ive Spurs are fine.
Now, if we're talking about in the post-Green era...
It's always funny that having some Spurs success is overlooked as a potential international and Latin American marketing opportunity. It's always funny that people can't see that if a team is so good for so long, that the NBA can make lemonade out of lemons. And, in Vegas, they have to have some winners to hoist up for all to see.
It won't be the same without them but I'll always be rooting for this team. Nothing is given in this league but I feel the Spurs have a bright future with Leonard and LMA. It'll be a different era but I find the possibilities promising. Especially if they have a productive off season.
If the Spurs continue to rely on one on one isolation offense i might watch less of them, because the way the Spurs play since manu became an important cog in the machine is just different, he started the passing game all by himself and then became a team effort.
Tim also was a part of this, until diaw came, Tim and Manu were the best passers on the team, and i donīt see Kawhi and LMA able to replicate that. It was a way to see the game that flown from the two leaders to the whole team, i it is ju not there anymore.
Plus those were two guys that in the clutch you knew they would demand the ball and make a play, but now we are left with players that hide in the back of Tony Parker to let the blame come to him.
So yes, i will watch, but with less enthusiasm.
I was a Spurs fan before Tim and Manu and will still be a fan after they retire. Nothing will ever be the same for Spurs fans when they are retired.
When you see me stop talking about the Spurs here you'll know I'm dead.
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