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Thank you for the insight! It would’ve been cool to be around that! My first game was D Rob’s first game against Magic’s Lakers so I missed that group. Antoine Carr was the nicest Spur I got to hangout with when he was on the team. I was too young to ask any meaningful questions though. TC was a big deal, too bad he got hurt, but he could ball.
Ice man knows a pussy ass when he sees one.
He shot 20 times a game, and did little other than score.
LMAAAAOOOOThe league was so different in the 1980s. On game days my dad and I would go straight to Hemisfair Arena after I got out of school and we'd just shoot the with the players while they were out shooting around three to four hours before the game. We'd get there so early there wouldn't even be anyone checking tickets. Most players were pretty chill. I remember Mark Olberding was telling my dad how much he missed all the good Mexican pussy in San Antonio after getting traded. His teammate said hey come man, there's a kid here, to which Olberding looked right at me and said it's ok, he likes Mexican pussy too.
I remember bringing the players cakes into the locker room on their birthdays. One time my dad called the locker room at half time of a road game and got through to head coach Bob Weiss and told him about some opening in the other team's defense or something. I can't imagine how pissed Weiss must have been to have some fan trying to tell him how to coach at half time.
Chuckers are inefficient scorers, imo. Gervin was not. He wasn't all that great at anything else, but he's one of the greatest scorers of all-time.
He was the reason the Spurs ever even got to sniff the playoffs in the NBA.
He got us far enough to choke against the Bullets with a 3-1 playoff lead and a phantom illegal screen set by the Whopper that would have had us in our 1st championship.
The game Gervin played got BETTER in the playoffs. He was Magic Johnson's idol and led to the big guard. He also led the league for blocked shots for guards, I think he avg close to one a game but was in totality, a bad defender. So all the new Spur fans that reject the history that allowed San Antonio to even have a team in the NBA... they suck. He played a game that worked for the time and is hugely responsible for us even having a viable franchise.
Also his battles with Dr. J were epic. That was a huge show at that moment in the NBA. Gervin/ Erving played a big role in making/keeping the Fckn NBA popular (the interjection of the ABA style working). Then came Larry and Magic to kick the NBA way upstairs.
also understated is just how fluid a scorer ice was. he could get to the rim and he had a great in between game. he also had a great baseline jumper that he took almost from behind the basket. and then there was that finger roll. i mean sometimes he would let that go from just inside the free throw line. without ice, the hemisfair arena would not have been anywhere near as packed and the spurs may have been a franchise that was long gone before the admiral ever even made it here.
the worst part of needing to explain this, is to explain this about Gervin in a Spurs forum
Back in the day, in the 70s probably, a big company used to sponsor a prize for the best shooting guard. It had a complicated structure based on stats of several categories. Ice won three times in a row as I recall. They stopped the award after that.
Funny that the IBM award that used to be given out, essentially the statistical MVP, stopped after DRob won a truckload of them. It kinda went against the media narrative of who the MVP was.
Having a bad or unpopular take doesn't erase historical fact.
Gervin was a generational player. One of the greatest of all-time. And you'd know that just by listening to his peers speaking about him.
No one is debating that he wasnt a great scorer, so calm down. The other guy thinks that a term means something different. Fact is he was a high usage player that shot a buunch of times. Regardless of his efficiency he was one dimensional. Good for ratings. Worse ts% than kevin martin
When you no longer see sunlight, put down the shovel and stop digging. Comparing a HOF player to a journeyman SG just compounds your stupidity. They didn’t give out and1s for jumping sideways, and the league as a whole shot about 75% fewer 3 pointers than currently. Both of those weigh heavily into TS%.
If there were an all time fantasy league, Ice would be picked in the top 25. KMart would be lucky to be picked in
The top 1000.
Please elaborate on how great gervins all aound game was... ill sit here
If posting were scoring, you'd be one of a chucker.
Sit there.
OH MY GOSH!!!!! WOW WHAT A STORY!!!!!!!! HOW CRAZY IS THAT???!!! LOL @ MARK OLBERDING!!!!!!!!!!The league was so different in the 1980s. On game days my dad and I would go straight to Hemisfair Arena after I got out of school and we'd just shoot the with the players while they were out shooting around three to four hours before the game. We'd get there so early there wouldn't even be anyone checking tickets. Most players were pretty chill. I remember Mark Olberding was telling my dad how much he missed all the good Mexican pussy in San Antonio after getting traded. His teammate said hey come man, there's a kid here, to which Olberding looked right at me and said it's ok, he likes Mexican pussy too.
I remember bringing the players cakes into the locker room on their birthdays. One time my dad called the locker room at half time of a road game and got through to head coach Bob Weiss and told him about some opening in the other team's defense or something. I can't imagine how pissed Weiss must have been to have some fan trying to tell him how to coach at half time.
Exactly. Gervin was a me guy who shot 20 plus times a game and didnt do anything else. Glad you came around
I didn’t “come around “, just decided to stop wasting time with one clueless n00b that no one else agrees with. Enjoy your “Ice was nothing more than a chucker” island, and throw a bottle with a note into the ocean once in a while to let us know how you’re doing.
Awwwww.... boooo hooooo. You got caught up in the ppg hype, per everyone else.
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