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For a repeat...yeah, probably.
For more championships, no - with the core intact there are more runs ahead, of course time and injury are the worst enemies.
Duncan may win one more le but it will not be in the near future. The spurs have locked in a core team that will not be good enough to win it all for the next few years and the role players they will get won't be any better than what you saw this year. They will be an annual playoff team not good enough to reach the finals for the next few years. It will be what we saw in the early Robinson years before Duncan.
There will be a team or two that will make bold moves and jump pass the spurs in player talent. Maybe the Lakers will land Garnett and a couple other good players. The nba is not static but ever changing although the spurs will be locked in with their core players with little manuverability to get any more impact players. Adding the annual role player carousal will not work with the core they currently have because another team or two will pass them with better talent.
For a repeat...yeah, probably.
For more championships, no - with the core intact there are more runs ahead, of course time and injury are the worst enemies.
Not true. You don't realize how important and influential Duncan is. When Duncan leaves the spurs will fall and likely not even be a playoff team anymore. He is a franchise player and the spurs will need to replace him with another franchise type player to remain a top team.
No way. TD 30, MG 28, TP 24. Outside of those 3, the only other player locked into a contract past 2 years is Rasho with his having 3 more on it. Spurs have their international prospects, their cap exceptions, potential trades this summer (Barry, Mohammed), etc. Scola could come in and provide 12 and 6 next season if they wanted.
It's not that hard to find athletes to run the floor if the league's back to the old is new model.
Every year we establish more respect and attention...Screw ratings. Duncan will get at least a 5th ring before he retires.
We have been contenders for the le for 8 odd years or so. Next year will be no different, we always have a chance. So the window may be closing , but bring this thread back up in 3 years...IF THAT. SHaq's 34,35, with Wade he still has one or two years to be a contender, with proper management.
with Duncan running around the Spurs are always a chance to win it all so yeah there is still opportunity to repeat. Especially with Parker coming into his prime over the next few years and Manu, Bruce, Finley etc there over the next 3 to 4 years they will still be a top tier team .
I agree with the main feeling, I don't see any sign of decadence...the team will come back with more hunger to try to win the le next year
I BELIEVE
I'm sorry, what have the Mavs won? Ever?
Spurs will become Champions again. Repeat? Who cares. Winning every other year is good enough for me.
Spurs got two more in 'em.
Crack kills.
Was this the Spurs' last chance to repeat?
We just like winning every other year...
1999-2003-2005 and 2007
Not necessarily.
But, if the Spurs are going to make more championship runs, their window of opportunity is closing.
Q: What do all three Spurs championship teams have in common?
A: Tim Duncan
Tim is getting older, but I still think he has a few awesome seasons left in him. I hate to say it, but, after Tim leaves, the Spurs are going to have some hard times.
I said this in another post....
I will liken this to the year the Lakers lost to a last second tip-in by Ralph Samson of the Rockets... in '86.
They came back and took the trophy in '87, '88 and were a Magic Johnson hamstring injury from taking it again in '89....
All is not lost... and we still have a bright future... (brighter than Sac town's anyway... sorry dude).
It was probably the last chance of repeating in TD's era.
Tony can grow but manu is too old and I do not see anybody who can be a great Bowen follower. Bowen is not getting younger and we don't have a center. It looks more like a rebuilding process in near future unfotunately.
Dude... let the pessimism go. We still have an amazing team.
You are so negative...
You're comparing this team to the late 80's Lakers!!!!! Wow! There is another way to spell HOMER and it is hegamboa!
That Laker team is the best team ever to play in the NBA! This Spurs team doesn't even belong in the same conversation, let alone in same sentence or breath. If Duncan is the Magic of that team, then who is Kareem? Who is Worthy? Who is Cooper? Scott? Thompson? Green? You're 2 second best players would have been their 4th and 5th! Get in' real!
That Laker team puts the Mavs down in 5 games or less, sorry but that is the most homeristic thing I've read in a long time.
Last edited by BAkriD; 05-25-2006 at 10:11 AM.
This coming from a guy who is on a forum for a team not his own...
I don't have to justify my comparison simply because the analogy went beyond your comprehension.
I'm talking about the motivation, heart and battle left in our guys... not whether our team could beat the 80's Lakers.... different rules and different styles... different premise altogether...
BTW teams like the 80's Lakers and Celtics were fully supported by the league... The Spurs have won their championships inspite of the league... or the media for that matter....
They don't understand or champion the greatness of Duncan... instead they promote dim-witted thugs like Iverson... or big market heroes like Wade (which I happen to admire... ehh... they get one right every now and then).
And you, like so many others will also never fully appreciate the greatness of Manu... in Pop's words, "he is the Stud of the world" for very few have his compe ive fire. Consider this; for all of America's stars... Wade, Lebron, Carmelo, Iverson, Marbury, Marion, and yes even Duncan... Manu outplayed them all en route to an Olympic Gold...
Homer... no.
Informed Basketball fan... yes.
That Sacfan has got the homer goggles on, Tim Duncan is already up there with the greats like Kareem, Magic and Bird. After his 3rd Ring, 3 Finals MVP's , 2 MVP's, 9 consecutive All NBA...He's been on that level, a player who defines their era--where the were you? Only he and Shaq are considered in this exclusive group. MJ ruled the nineties. It's been Duncan/Shaq 2000's... That and we've already won 3 frickin' CHAMPIONSHIPS.. IF we were talking back in 2003, then we'd be homerish...There's an elite club, and Sacramento only dreams of joining, so don't laugh cuz if you learn a little bout the league's history the comparison between Spurs, (not just a single Championship team) and the 80's Lakers/80's celtics ain't too farfetched.
Because of Duncan we've been a serious contender every ing year! This you can't deny. And since Manu and Parker have joined it's only augmented our potential to gain les. We're not some pussy team looking to build up. We're the ing present.
On a side note besides Duncan: Manu's game is already getting compared to Larry Bird. Manu's another very unique player, not as sound as Duncan. But he adds to the Spurs dynamic. Parker is only gonna get better. Bowen's already recognized for his specialist status and gets compared to what Cooper did for the Lakers on the defensive end. Though Cooper had a better offensive game.
This coming from a guy who is on a forum for a team not his own...
I don't have to justify my comparison simply because the analogy went beyond your comprehension.
I'm talking about the motivation, heart and battle left in our guys... not whether our team could beat the 80's Lakers.... different rules and different styles... different premise altogether...
BTW teams like the 80's Lakers and Celtics were fully supported by the league... The Spurs have won their championships inspite of the league... or the media for that matter....
They don't understand or champion the greatness of Duncan... instead they promote dim-witted thugs like Iverson... or big market heroes like Wade (which I happen to admire... ehh... they get one right every now and then).
And you, like so many others will also never fully appreciate the greatness of Manu... in Pop's words, "he is the Stud of the world" for very few have his compe ive fire. Consider this; for all of America's stars... Wade, Lebron, Carmelo, Iverson, Marbury, Marion, and yes even Duncan... Manu outplayed them all en route to an Olympic Gold...
Homer... no.
Informed Basketball fan... yes.
Kings fan on a Spurs board, then that automatically discounts my opinion to squa , huh? Nice logic, that must be the same logic that lead you to parallel your Spurs team to the 80's Lakers! Yeah, it was such a deep comparison, it went right over my head! LOL
Obviously you are such and informed basketball fan if you are comparing this team to Magic's Lakers! I mean really, maybe the best basketball player of all-time (at least the second best), for sure the best point guard ever feeding the best scorer of all-time with the most unstoppable shot. Not to mention one of the most underrated players ever in Worthy, who was maybe the best fastbreak player ever. In addition to a variety of great role players in Cooper, Scott, Green, and Thompson.
I could give a about what Manu did on his way to Olympic gold, how about how he played this year in the playoffs? He flopped his way to a number of Spurs losses. He was a hit and a miss this year in the playoffs, great one game and terrible the next. He would maybe be the 4th best player on that Laker team, and not even that high the way he played this year.
The Spurs have won their championships inspite of the league and media? What the does that have to do with you throwing ridiculous statemants out there comparing the Spurs to the Lakers? Nothing, you're trying to change the subject because you made and asinine comparison. BTW since you brought it up why do you think the Lakers and Celtics seemed to have more media support? Because they have stars that were actually marketable, unlike Duncan who has no real marketable qualities. Is this a knock on Duncan in anyway? No, but it is the way that things are. How do you market a guy or a team that has zero personality? Impossible. I guess you hope that the point guard continues to screw a Desperate Houswife and she keeps showing up to the games. Not that this has anything to do with your original jackass statement, but you took it there.
You had a nice little post going there until you decided to compare Manu to Larry the Legend! Wow! We have a new King of the HOMERS! Holy in' , that is hilarious! Manu is being compared to Larry Bird! Where did you here that? Manu's mom and dad?
BTW, by no means will I sit here and argue that Duncan isn't in elite company.
All I'm gonna say is that the Spurs of this decade can be considered the team of this decade. We've been the only team to constantly be in the mix for a championship every year of this decade (The Pistons had their struggles at first, and the three-peat Lakers fell off the map extremly quickly) and we have a few les under our belts to boot. I'm not gonna sit here and compare us with the Lakers and the Celtics of the 80s, but you cannot deny what the Spurs have done thus far, and what they still have the potential of doing for the next few years.
No doubt about that. Although I would add this, as much as I hate the Lakers they have to also be considered the team of the decade, even though they have fell off. They have as many championships, and falling off can be expected when you trade a player like Shaq, it would be like trading Duncan.
Again you missed the point.... though it's quite funny that you pompously promoted your claim to understanding my first post when you really don't get the premise for the comparison.... If your simpleton mind cannot comprehend what I am saying then perhaps there is no point in trying to explain the analogy.
But here it goes again.
I was not comparing the Spurs to the 80's Lakers nor trying to rank their place in all-time lore.... I was comparing the fact that both lost their series on an unfortunate bounce and that like the Lakers I know that the Spurs will be able to come back and win some more les.... Coach Pop posed the question this way, "How much more athletic does one need to get to get one more point"... the point being that yeah, the Spurs were eliminated, but there is no reason to think that they are done.
If your Kings want to count out the Spurs as a contender then they will do so at their own peril.
What's the le of the thread?
I answered it with a no. The Spurs' haven't lost their chance to repeat.
No one counted on the Spurs winning the Championship in '03... why would they? They had been humiliated by the Shaq-Kobe Lakers in back-to-back years... (as were the Kings)... But we won.
We were a Derek Fisher time/physics defying shot from advancing and repeating but that didn't happen.
And yet we win the whole thing again in 2005.
We are not out of the hunt just yet. This will give them even more motivation to stake their legacy as the team of the Decade... King fans be damned....
Peace BAkriD!!!
Was this the Spurs' last chance to repeat?
No. They didn't die. They just got eliminated from THIS post-season.
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