Never Forget Four Short Years Ago

[DeRozan m8]

Remember when we didn't know who was going to win the championship....when the league was interesting?

[Arcadian]

a "repeat" - the Spurs won 3 out of 5, with the other 2 ending in extremely narrow defeat. That's still better than a simple repeat.

Plus, 2013/2014 should basically count as a repeat anyway, since it took the luckiest series of events ever for Miami to pull off the first one (and then got crushed in the next one).

[daslicer]

Spurs have always had bad injury luck and ty reffing against them that prevented them from repeating. If we got away with the the Lakers got away with against Sacramento or got all the calls the way Warriorefs do, or had incredible injury luck like the MVPau Lakers or current Warriors we'd have repeated or three-peated too, tbh.

Agreed especially about the ref point. It's much easier to repeat when you are a media darling like the Lakers,Warriors knowing the refs are going to favor you in close game. Imagine if the Spurs got Warrioref or Lakeref treatment against the Mavs in '06. They definitely win game 3 and 4 instead of losing those two games by narrow margins due to bad reffing.

[InRareForm]

The beautiful game

[Play Boban]

I don't think we win B2B if we win in 2013. Don't think we get past OKC in '14 in that case.

Pop always coached best with the chip on his shoulder, and he never had one of those the year after winning a le. I think that chip is gone for good now, for the record.

Maybe not, but I’ll never forgive Kawhitter for missing that critical free throw tbh.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Maybe not, but I’ll never forgive Kawhitter for missing that critical free throw tbh.

In all fairness, I don't think there was a player on that team who we realistically could have counted on to go 2/2 in that situation.

Even Manu had just split the last time down.

Parker tends to go 0/2 in those situations.

I love Timmy but... he was Timmy.

Danny Green's shaky high archer free throws aren't good for that situation. Same with Bonner.

Boris would have gone 1/2. Not a great FT shooter by any means.

ter... lol.

Neal was probably our most consistent FT shooter on that team, but Neal in the clutch...? No, thanks.


Unfortunately, Ray Allen was on the other team. Mike Miller, too. The best FT shooters in the game at the time... and they killed us with threes, not free throws. Even with one shoe off. That's life, I guess.

[Prose]

i love mike breen...
"from WAY downtown town....BANG!!!!!"

[tholdren]

Maybe not, but I’ll never forgive Kawhitter for missing that critical free throw tbh.

Kawhit brickard

[Play Boban]

Kawhit brickard