I agree about the OKC loss. I think the Clippers loss hurt more last year, but I felt the team was both mentally and physically fatigued with players like Splitter and Parker not being close to 100% during that series. All those 3 losses you mentioned - .4, Manu's foul, game 6, all stung, with game 6 being the worst, and I, like you, thought the same thing and felt the Spurs were the best team in all those seasons. I felt we left at least 3 Championships on the table. I really wanted Tim to get 6 or 7 Championships to make up for them. Six Championships was my personal goal for Tim, but that is only because I thought that is what it would take for him to get universal respect from everyone by matching Jordan's 6 Championships. I always thought Tim was that kind of player, that good, that he should always have been in the conversation as a top 5 player of all-time. I still put him in my top 5 of all time. I felt he got there is 2013 (should have won finals MVP had his teammates not lost it for him) and in my opinion he solidified himself there in 2014.
I guess I can't/shouldn't complain as 5 championships really is quite a lot, and more than some fans will ever see with their NBA teams. I didn't really care about getting them for myself as a fan, I wanted them more for Tim than anyone else.
No problem here for a couple of reasons. I thought going in there was a very strong possibility they didn't get past OKC, who was banged up much of the year. Two, it made no difference because they weren't getting past GS without home court and even THEN and to cap it all off, Cleveland who was banged up last year in the finals so that's not a true reflection on that team, would have been tough.
Bottom line, it's hard to win championships AND, the Spurs are missing a piece.
And I'll add that you could see the Spurs weaknesses when they played the good teams. People always blow those games off as not meaning anything in the regular season but sorry to say, they do. What pisses me off is sometimes or often, pop doesn't use those games as he should, as a benchmark to see where he's at.
Exactly, that last le was what we all needed as fans after 13 Finals and after that huge playoff run all was geavy. Fans get too greedy and spoiled, few will witness 5 les by their team. Spurs have made us very happy as fans unless you are emo Kobyz who acts like if they dont win yearly his life is over.
I didnt sleep that night or well for a week after that loss tbh, it was the worst one out of the losses you mentioned. Game 6 was a le and then boom got ya no le...
I think it all turned in the past 6 weeks or so of the season. Before those last few weeks of the regular season, I thought the Spurs could beat either OKC or the Clippers and then have a real chance against Goldenstate. Cleveland was also playing kind of average at the time, and I thought the team that wins the Western Conference will likely win it all, but now Cleveland have really turned it up and it won't be a forgone conclusion like I thought it would be. They have a real chance to win it all if they keep playing like they have been.
Having said all that, the past few weeks, I didn't like the way the Spurs were playing and before the OKC series started I gave them a 50/50 chance, and that is only because they had home court. After game one I raised that to 70% as I thought, wow, the Spurs have either finally put it all together, or it's just a one off game/performance. Turns out it was just a one off game, but in all honesty, that is they way I envisioned them playing if they put it all together. OKC seemed to adjust though after that game and started exposing the Spurs' weaknesses. Despite all that, they Spurs still could have/should have won the series, IMO. The Spurs had bad luck and then they compounded that by playing poorly and not up to their usual standards for the rest of the series, save for game 3, Spurs just didn't play up to par IMO.
By the way, when you said OKC was banged up most of the year, what kind of injuries did they have?
I don't know why all the talk of "it's over", the referees altered this series more than any other series in playoff history other than Kings/Lakers 2002.
You're still around, eh?
Pop has too much pride sometimes. Game 2's offensive foul and the Game 5 non-call on Kawhi's foul to stop the clock were protestable and replayable. At some point they need to quit acting like those calls didn't cost them the game. "That call didn't cost us the game, we had our chances.."
Both games were a one point game in OKC's favor at the time of missed calls.
We recovered from 0.4 the next year. (2005 le)
We recovered from the no-call on Dirk's foul on Duncan. (2007 le)
We recovered from having the le in our hands in 2013 only to see it slip away. (2014 le)
The two non-calls this series fall in the same category. We'll be back with Aldridge/Leonard leading the way next year.
The first time I actually felt sick to my stomach after the Spurs lost in the playoffs was in 1990. The Spurs lost to a smaller Golden State team that managed to push DRob and Terry mings around. Awful, awful loss.
The second worst was losing to the Rockets when Hakeem went off and Horry hit the FT line jumper to seal one of the games. Lost the first two at home, then won 2 on the road and then lost game 5 at home. Suck.
By the time they lost to Miami, I was almost numb to 'unbelievable' losses. NOTHING is impossible with the Spurs. They can break your heart in many different ways. Of course, they've given us 5 les and been a source of immense pride - so it all balances out.
it won't. Durant and WEstbrook are Hall of Fame talents. No one will care that they had a rookie coach. Their continuity with the rookie coach is far greater than our continuity. Their post harden big 3 is in their prime and they have had time to integrate kanter and develop Adams. They peaked at the right time. Spurs didn't. There is nothing inconsistent with saying the spurs were better throughout the season but not when they hit the second round.
This one barely hurt at all knowing that we had almost zero chance of beating the Dubs.
After 6, I have grown numb/immune to Spurs losses..Nothing, I mean NOTHING, will top the gut-wrenching scenes that followed in the last 28 clock ticks of that game..Probably the only time IRL that I have allowed sport fandom to mess up my emotional fabric .. I could only sleep for a couple hours that night..
Yeah whilst this sucks, there's been far greater pain not too long ago.
And we are still contending, Duncan/Gino or not.
If this was our last shot and we were suddenly going to become the Lakers, then I'm sure it'd hurt a lot more.
You telling yourself stuff in order to make you feel better, but you need to stop fooling yourself like it wasn't a bigtime surprise, like Spurs not lay a egg once again and had one of the biggest failure, like they didn't lose a series they should have won! Spurs ed up in this series, fall under the pressure, there was no reason to play so worse after game 1, because of game 1, they came to play game 2 with impassiveness like okc are not a threat, it's make them horrible start and that what cost them the game and might cost the all series cause that unnecessary loss what changed the dynamic of the series, gave thunder confident and put spurs in extra pressure, spurs were just so stupid and naive and let okc comeback to this series... Also Spurs being very bad and pathetic in close games also somthing that make this hurt...
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What also in the same category is losing last year game 7 with last shot by Chris Paul!Pop has too much pride sometimes. Game 2's offensive foul and the Game 5 non-call on Kawhi's foul to stop the clock were protestable and replayable. At some point they need to quit acting like those calls didn't cost them the game. "That call didn't cost us the game, we had our chances.."
Both games were a one point game in OKC's favor at the time of missed calls.
We recovered from 0.4 the next year. (2005 le)
We recovered from the no-call on Dirk's foul on Duncan. (2007 le)
We recovered from having the le in our hands in 2013 only to see it slip away. (2014 le)
The two non-calls this series fall in the same category. We'll be back with Aldridge/Leonard leading the way next year.
Wow that's two more hours than I slept. What an absolute nightmare. But it was just the beginning of winning the sweetest le of all time.After 6, I have grown numb/immune to Spurs losses
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