I Hope I Am Wrong: But Spurs 13/14 = Utah Jazz 97/98

[benefactor]

Remember Jazz also had Karl Malone in his twilight years (I honestly believe the difference between Malone and Duncan is much smaller than the number of championships indicates), played way better than his age, they lost to the Bulls in the finals because they did not have home court advantage, they fought back and gained home court advantage the following year. They were taken to the final game against veteran rival Rockets (Mavericks of this year), beat young Spurs 4-1 (Blazers of this year, Duncan's game was much more mid-range then, similar to Aldridge), and swept superstar Lakers (Thunder of this year, the team NBA wanted to see in the finals), they carried home court advantage into the finals, won game 1 and lost 4 of next 5 games.

I hope I am wrong, but too many similarities between the current pick-and-roll happy Spurs team and Utah Jazz in 1997-1998. The resilient veteran team that relied on passing over athleticism everyone respected, the ultimate test for every young team trying to take it to the next level.

It is fate, it is the ending of the GDP book. The league needs the story of LeBron topping Jordan and the three-peat is inevitable. Refs will make balancing calls to slow momentum on either side and keep the games close until final minutes, GDP will tire out and LeBron will dominate with individual star power. Spurs has more consistency than anyone else, but against a more talented team with an actual system instead of "free style", individual ISO power will prevail.

Spurs in GDP's twilight years is exactly like Utah Jazz, the perfect opponent for heroes to overcome, but will never be able to beat the main character of the story book because the writer won't allow it.

[aal04]

OP is right.

Duncan has a young girl who he puts to sleep

and Karl Malone has a young girl who he sleeps with

[G-Dawgg]

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[G-Dawgg]

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[G-Dawgg]

lol Pop uses obradovic/duda style basketball not jerry sloan

basketball exists outside of US you know?

Read this and get educated dude..

[hitmantb]

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10...duncan-stories

As you can see Spurs DID have Jazz as an inspiration.

Unfortunately I still think Spurs will end up as LeBron's greatest challenge, but because LeBron is the hero of the book he is destined to three-peat.

Hope I am wrong and this is David Robinson story, nice guys don't always finish last, Pop/Duncan ride into the sunset as champions. But I still believe this is the Utah Jazz story.

[hitmantb]

Jordan vs Malone round 2 in the finals.

J/K, I hope it is the David Robinson ending!

[TheGreatYacht]

With the horrible officiating...

NBA wants a 3 peat...

BUMP

[Purch]

Thought that this thread was dumb at the time... And it's even worse now

[100%duncan]

[barakz21]

Reverse jinx?

[therealtruth]

The Jazz were probably good enough to win in '98. Jordan was just not going to allow it to happen. He basically carried the team to that win in Utah in game 6. We'll just never see a player as good as Jordan. As good as Lebron was he couldn't get 40-50 against us. That's probably what it would have taken to make the games more compe ive.

[kobyz]

Great Reverse jinx! Op without you we could not make it happened!