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what did tpark post?
Man, it's a while back. It was back when Malik Rose was still good
I started over at sarsreport, then made the migration here.
what did tpark post?
I don't remember when......but I remember how much fun I had! Then the jig was up....I couldn't post like a dude anymore. I couldn't tell off certain people anymore.... ahhhhh .... those were the days!
You can be anyone you want to be on the www
Anyone remember the old art bell website?
I used to post at the GrassyKnoll
November... har har
Oct/Nov 2000 the old WOAI Board. 1st disagreement was with Manny over Jewish Franks.
"Whatever happend to Tony Cleveanger?
at OLD Romper Room with Ducks and a few that got fed up with CD and
his antics.
posted at SR but not in about 6 months (discussed by PM Only)
Original member at Fullsport press and here.
I was on the old E-N board back in 99...which became MySA...then they shut that down and we had our own place...was on SR for a while until they started throwing at Kori and LJ...then I came here.
I remember those "shower" posts too...and the "Good morning, boys" from the
That was about 20 aliases ago for MB...and a few hundred for Mouse...
I remember some guy, I think he was from Florida, who was having marital problems. Kori described a certain act in one post and this guy melted.
Like I said, I lurked a lot and that post sticks in my mind for some reason.
ESPN 1999-2003
SR 2001-2003
FSP/ST 2003-Present
ESPN even had its own Political Forum... It was the Utah Jazz board.
I remember some guy, I think he was from Florida, who was having marital problems. Kori described a certain act in one post and this guy melted.
Like I said, I lurked a lot and that post sticks in my mind for some reason.
BigSleepyDragon (Scott). They are now divorced.
I remember when Pooh wanted me banned from Woai
I think he's even shown up in here...once or twice...BigSleepyDragon (Scott). They are now divorced.
I don't exactly know, but I think about 5 years including and starting out with SpursReport. I moved over to SpursTalk under the name of Gino Billy. timvp figured me out right away (after about 2 posts). I also occasionally post under the name of Pop O Fits, just when I feel like it.
Usenet, 1988, in the old rec.sport.basketball group (before it split into .pro and .college). I can still find a lot of the old posts in the Google archives.
There were literally about 4 Spurs fans on the net.
Posting was entirely text-based on a VT100 using a program called "rn" (for "read news").
If there were more than 30-40 posts in a day, everyone would complain about the huge volume.
*sigh*, the good old days . . .
I started posting on SR.com about 4 years ago, and my first post on ST.com was to announce that a DC radio station had scooped that Jason Kidd was re-signing with the Nets.
Shoogar -
Were you on a VAX? Just curious.
I used a VAX mostly for number crunching, but not too much for posting.
Most of the posting was on Project Athena at MIT, which was one of the first university networked systems. Initially we had a bunch of VT100s, then they upgraded to X Windows, but all of the newsreaders were still text-based until about 1990-1991. "Xrn" was the first GUI newsreader. Wheee!
I remember that. Yeah, I liked rivals too. Never was too crazy about SR...I did try to register, but I was banned (before I ever posted) because I was a writer at Hoffy's site.....tried again after the FSP/SR split and lasted 5 posts....should have found a way to post earlier...then I could have met a lot of good people a lot sooner...needless to say, you can't always believe stuff you hear about people.But that's where/when I really came out of the closet, so to speak. When Rivals went down I moved over to SpursReport.
I loved Rivals.
I whole heartedly agree!
I lurked while FSP was on EZBoard, but I didn't start posting till it turned into SpursTalk.
Rivals was fun....SW....do you remember the "Great Tim Duncan War of 2000" on Hoffy's site?
Since I can remember.
1988?
, in 1988 I was playing Mrs. Pc-Man on my old Commodore 64 (Sequ, I'm opening the door so you can trash me)
.Usenet, 1988, in the old rec.sport.basketball group (before it split into .pro and .college). I can still find a lot of the old posts in the Google archives.
There were literally about 4 Spurs fans on the net.
Posting was entirely text-based on a VT100 using a program called "rn" (for "read news").
If there were more than 30-40 posts in a day, everyone would complain about the huge volume.
*sigh*, the good old days . . .
1988? I think we have a winner here
Care to share any of those links mate?
Ha..
1988? I think we have a winner here
Care to share any of those links mate?
Okay. This one from 1991 was one of the oldest Spurs posts of mind I could find on Google.
It's a long-ass post and certainly not one you necessarily want to read word-by-word. There is one extremely funny part: look at the player-by-player evals. One name should really stick out. If I could find the Kluby I'd give it to myself for what I said about him.
I can't take too much credit, though, because if you look at my playoff prediction matchups for the Spurs, I ended up embarrassing the of myself.
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Long-Distance Spurs Report (NBA)
Apr 19 1991, 6:52 am
Enough of the mindless babbling about 13-game wonders. Let's go back to
talking about the *real* basketball teams.
The San Antonio Spurs haven't had a streak of really impressive play all
year. Willie Anderson's shooting has been subpar and Terry mings has,
at times, been simply awful. David Robinson can't function properly
without Rod Strickland, who has been their most consistent player, running
the offense, Rod has missed a lot of games. Paul Pressey has been okay,
but has definitely slipped a notch, and is slowed by injuries, too. Nobody
on the team can be counted on to hit a shot outside of 15 feet. They have
no offense off the bench, no backup center, and, for some unfathomable
reason they can neither force turnovers nor keep from giving the ball up.
Of the top teams in the league, they have the smallest differential in
points scored versus points given up.
Oh yeah, and they're probably about to win the Midwest Division again.
I hope you got to see their recent stretch of games against Detroit, New
York, the Lakers, Chicago, and Phoenix over the last two weeks (easily the
longest sustained television exposure in team history). Those games were
pretty representative of what they've been doing all year. None of the
wins were particularly impressive and the Detroit game was downright
ugly-ugly. (Fortunately, the Pistons appear to be the only quality team in
the league capable of playing more out of sync than the Spurs.)
But the only game out of those that they lost was the Laker game, where
they were done in by their nemesis, the outside shot. The Lakers hit them,
the Spurs didn't. Rod Strickland is the kind of quick guard who should
give Magic Johnson fits, but Magic completely neutralized Strickland's
pentetration by playing *way* off him, and Rod's no shooter. Magic tries
that against Kevin Johnson, and KJ gets 40. And Byron Scott always seems
to shoot well against the Spurs.
They still win for two reasons: one is that they are now arguably even
better than the Pistons in half-court defense. They are second to Detroit
in defensive FG percentage, which isn't bad considering their penchant for
giving up a certain number of easy baskets per game on turnovers. They
might even be better defensively when Wingate and Pressey come off the
bench.
The second is that they are at their best when trailing, or in a close
game. (Conversely, they *suck* at holding leads, c.f. the Bulls game; it
probably was no coincidence either that they began a good run of games just
when Utah and Houston were at the verge of overtaking them.) I think this
is a result of their still-young core makeup; they are fine when they're
focused and concentrating, but they tend to wander off mentally when
they're ahead by a comfortable margin. The recent 1-pt. loss at Seattle
was rather unsual for them.
At times, they've won games when Robinson, mings, and Anderson are all
playing offesively about as bad as they can possibly play--DR unable to
hit a shot that doesn't require both his hands grabbing the rim at the end,
mings and the World's Slowest Jump Shot sounding like he's trying out
for a Steel Drum Corps (clang! clang!), and Willie just looking generally
confused at the sight of a ball in his hands.
Anyway, here's my take on the individual performances this year, and their
chances against the rest of the West in the playoffs (Paul, this is also my
reply to your letter).
ROBINSON: Should be second to what's-his-face in the MVP voting and
Defensive Player Of The Year. And still everyone, including me, keeps
looking at what he could be doing better. Things really got tough for him
when Strickland went out: his stats didn't change all that much, but his
effectiveness did. Hoop Axiom #6b--A Good Center Needs A Good Point Guard.
I guess *keem could have told him that.
MINGS: Last year was probably his best ever, this year is probably his
worst. Fat Contract Syndrome? He came to camp overweight, has been
suffering back problems all year as a result, has been fighting with Larry
Brown, is shooting 65% from the line. Last year I though he really was
100% dedicated to winning a championship, this year I'm not so sure. Of
late, he seems to have gotten his spark back, and I can't see the Spurs
going very far unless he gets hot.
ANDERSON: Hasn't really been in sync offensively all year, his shooting
hovering around 44%, but he still averaging 14p, 4.5r, 4.5a, which ain't
shabby, is second on the team in blocked shots, and is the most versatile
of the Spurs. Larry keeps wanting to trade him, and I say, for what?
ELLIOTT: I thought the Knick game might have finally been the start of a
coming-out stretch for Sean Elliot. It was the first time I had really
seen him carry the team when they *had* to have him carry it. He's
improved a lot, no question, although I wouldn't give him the Most Improved
award (who the *&%$% was Kevin Gamble last year?). The only thing holding
him back from being a consistent 17-20 ppg scorer is his own tentativeness.
As it is, he's the Spurs best outside shooter, and he should get even
better, which will make his drives to the hoop that much more effective.
STRICKLAND: You can say what you want about Rod Strickland off the court,
but there isn't a guard who's done a better job of controlling his team's
offense this year (note I didn't say "pile up assists"). Amazing as it
seems, he's become a coach's dream and a model of consistency on the court.
uva tough rebounder, too. There won't be any blind over-the-head
passes in the playoffs *this* year.
PRESSEY: As far as I'm concerned, Pressey has been a disappointment. He's
given them solid NBA-veteran play, but not on the level everyone expected
and his game has slipped a notch. When Strickland went down, he really
didn't come close to filling the gap. has been shooting miserably lately
as well. Maybe he'll turn it up for the playoffs.
WINGATE: David Wingate has fit back in as if he never left, which means you
have no idea of all the things he does by looking at the box scores. He
hits a fair share of important baskets for someone who can't shoot. Nobody
communicates better with Robinson on the lob pass.
GREEN: I don't know what Larry's problem has been with Sidney Green. Yeah,
he has no shot selection, but in every game I've seen this years he's
played hard and made things happen. And he *can* rebound.
JOHNSON: Avery sort of disappears from the rotation when both Strickland
and Pressey are healthy, but fortunately for him, that doesn't happen much.
No great shakes, but he can get the job done for 10 minutes a night. And
he went to Southern, so he deserves every consideration.
GREENWOOD: I guess his ankle is still giving him problems, or maybe they
just want to keep him rested for the playoffs.
HIGGINS: An NBA-level shooter, which is something the Spurs are in dire
need of. Has to bring the rest of his game around.
MASSENBURG: A legitimate wide-body and big rebound/minute man. I don't
know how good he'll ever be, but I bet he stays in the league a long time.
SCHINTZIUS: Had some good games, then Brown inexplicably (or is that being
redundant) benched him. Is on the injured list. I think he can be a
decent player if he can just get consistent minutes.
BROWN: The *real* plus to the Spurs winning the NBA Championship is that
the Great Larry Brown will move on and then a normal-type good coach can be
brought in. Brown is an excellent coach and, more importantly, teacher (he
gets all the credit for making Elliott as good a defensive players as he
is), but I think he's going to wear on his players relatively soon. Has a
real Bill Fitch/Billy Martin effect on fans and management.
THE PLAYOFFS
Ranked in order, the teams I Least Want To Face:
1. LA Lakers--The Spurs just don't match up well with them at guard.
Strickland's a mediocre enough shooter that Magic can use his height
advantage to play well off him all game, and Byron Scott always shoots
well. Also, I think Magic just destroys them psychologically.
Fortunately, the Great Larry Brown coached them into a first-round matchup
with the Rockets.
2. Houston--they match up well, and, as Paul Goode said, they really love
beating the Spurs more than anyone else. This last win in the Summit was a
much-neede boost for San Antonio. But (snicker) is it true they got
out-rebounded by Golden State on the coast? Me and four kids from A Better
Chance could out-board the Warriors! Mr. Mean, indeed.
3. Portland--all of the games except the first have been close, and again
I concur with Paul: this is the team the Spurs probably love to beat more
than any other. And we all know when the going gets tough, Clyde will get
tossed.
4. Utah--Stockton gives the Spurs fits but this team just has way too many
holes. San Antonio is ugly-ugly in the Salt Palace. I mean the games
aren't even close. Fortunately, the reverse is true in the HemisFair.
5. Phoenix--the Spurs just match up too well with Phoenix, even with their
full squad. And they haven't lost in Phoenix the last two years. And bad
as Terry mings has been, he still won't be as bad as Tom Chambers will
be in the playoffs.
6. Golden State--The Warriors may steal a game, but their style just won't
cut it in the playoffs.
7. Seattle-well, guess we don't have to worry about this one, do we?
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Coming up soon, the end-of-regular-season Celtic Haters' Report. I think
We Who Spit On Green will have a good time this year.
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You also made a good call on the importance of point guards. Did you expect AJ would end up being the best PG David ever got?
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Well, I still think Strickland was far and away the best PG he ever had, but, well . . .
Anyway, reading over a few other threads from that time, one theory going around was that DRob went into a slump because of Gulf War I and the fact that he had friends over there.
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They didn't keep logs back then (that we knew of), so it wasn't until today that I realized that I had ever written this.
What a horrible series, and seeing this just makes it that much worse.
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