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I'm fine if they play tentative and sloppy. They won't lose 4 to this team. 16 straight perfectly executed wins is a lot to ask of any team. Spurs in 6, with some character-building losses.
Yeah, but it seems that that loss has helped them get over whatever jitters remain and helps them crystallize their focus and run through. At least, that's the way I saw those playoff runs. In 99, they dispatched the TWolves in two more hard fought games and went on to win 10 more in a row for a new record best 12 in a row. In 2003 six was simply the magic number each time, and in 2005, they went and retooled and came back with something that worked (and then did it again in the Seattle series).
Anyway, it's easier on fan nerves if they don't drop one of the first two, but I won't give up in despair if they do. Their reaction if they drop one will speak volumes about how the rest of the playoffs will go for them. They'll either pull it together and dispatch the Nuggets or wilt and falter through a way tougher series than it needs to be.
I'm fine if they play tentative and sloppy. They won't lose 4 to this team. 16 straight perfectly executed wins is a lot to ask of any team. Spurs in 6, with some character-building losses.
Hey folks, I'm a Nuggets fan who intended to lurk on this board, but I couldn't let this one slide. After the bolded statement, there is no reason not to read further. You know, like if you were reading a movie review which said "Rob Schneider, one of the most respected actors of his generation", you pretty much know every second you spend reading the rest of the review is wasting away precious seconds of your life. Sisters and brothers, if you read this entire Michael Erler column, gun it to the grocery store tomorrow to get your chips and dip because you need those minutes of your life back! Dude has absolutely no clue. Lincicome is the worst excuse of a writer in any profession, on any subject, in any format, on this freakin' planet. Anyone who respects him probably likes to poke themselves with hot needles.
That is all.
I thought it was a very good article.
Last edited by THE SIXTH MAN; 04-22-2007 at 02:37 AM.
though i don't agree with all his posts at ST before, I must admit I like this article. Funny and kind of reminded me - "Why I keep cheering for the San Antonio Spurs?"
Oh I remember now, it's because of that player the stoic, Tim Duncan.
He’s never thrown a punch on the floor and as far as I can remember, he hasn’t even picked up a flagrant foul. He doesn’t big time his teammates or coaches and has too much self-respect to trash talk
good luck for tomorrow Spurs!
Great, aaronstampler! I usually read your stuff on pounding the rock, because that is the only spurs-related site I can access at work.
Because you are the same, right? Please, don't make me feel stupid
i just saw this article on CNNSi.com Spurs team page.
nice work
I'm excited to see who's the next one to write another article...Ghostwriter...?
I thought Iverson had one, too.
Yeah, I thought that was kind of a reach.
I did stop reading after the out of left field supposition that Bernie freakin’ Lincicome is a respected writer. But you know, I decided to consider the possibility that one idiotic statement need not render an entire blog void of redeeming qualities.
So I read it. The whole damn thing. So he’s all butt hurt over Mark Kizsla too? Oh my, this is actually worse than I thought. Time to consider other possibilities.
I actually think this guy is being generous with his “Spurs in five” prediction. Given that he thinks the San Antonio Spurs are taking on the worst Denver media columnists and not the Denver Nuggets, professional basketball club, I’d expect a prediction of a sweep.
There is no one who finds Lincicome and Kizsla more obnoxious than the citizens of Denver, Colorado. They are sad excuses for writers. To find someone who not only has to resort to taking them seriously enough to assume their writing has some significance to this playoff series, but then goes on to write a blog that emulates their peculiar brand of valueless writing while criticizing them for it… Well I’m sad to say the English language has not created an adjective that can properly convey the void of positive qualities this particular blog has reaped in its wake.
But that’s not why I write this. I write for you, dear Spurs fan. See we in Denver, we read columns by Kiszla and Lincicome and we recognize it as crap, and we call it crap. But I read this thread and see comments like “Golly gee, good read!” and I think, has this ability been lost in San Antonio? I think not.
I don’t know what to do about teenage bloggers in one sport towns that get taken seriously and published on the websites of NBC affiliates, and people thinking sports figures like deities instead of simple human beings. All I know is first you’ve got to recognize crap. You’ve got to say, “I’m a Spurs fan, goddmanit! My time has value! I can look at crap and see crap, and I don’t need to read it!” I want you to get up right now, Spurs fan, I want you to get up, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your heads out and yell “This is crap and I’m not going to read it anymore!” You can read better columns, but first you’ve got to recognize crap! You’ve got to say “This is crap and I’m not going to read it anymore!” Then you can figure out what to do about bad bloggers who get published when they don’t have anything to write about. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out and yell, and say it:
“THIS IS CRAP AND I’M NOT GOING TO READ IT ANYMORE!”
That is all.
Preach much, Howard Beale?
uhmm...didn't you think, for a second, that maybe there probably was some...ah...yes, sarcasm, in his statement?
And kori's right, you do need to lighten up. We can form our own opinions just fine. I think aaronstampler's article was witty and precise. Of course, you don't have to agree.
Woo hoo! You've seen "Network"! But you still don't get the joke. Don't worry, I'll never give up on you folks.
Looks like a pretty good article, although I didn't dignify Linicome or Kizla by reading their work. A lot of sports journalists are paid to shock and cause controversy, so ignoring them hurts them more than anything anyone can say.
Oh and Ginobili had more dunks last season and Duncan flagrant fouled Tim Thomas in 2001, but good job nonetheless
There is no way Manu had more dunks last year. He had more dunks in the playoffs last year than he did the regular season.
Manu 2006-07
Manu 2005-06
Manu had his first dunk of the season this year with like 20 games to go. He had like five all season.
Last season, he was dunking a good amount until he got hurt versus Miami.
He could have saved a lot of time by just typing "I'm so brilliant but nobody will listen to me and I haven't done anything with my life!"
There's a website out there that keeps track of how many dunks each player has, but I can't remember it.
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