Spurs and Detroit boring???

[ATXSPUR]

What makes basketball fun for fans is the mixture of team execution with individual flair. Without the latter, the game has no soul. It is like watching the inner workings of a watch.

The Spurs have a collection of soulless, unsympathetic characters. Great, so they play defense. They have perfected the "art" of hacking and grabbing so that officials become desensitized to it. They are experts at thugging it up. That's marvelous for them, and their handful of fans, but terrible for the game.

It's wonderful that Tim Duncan is so fundamentally sound, but he is terrible for the game. He has zero passion on the floor. He is robotic. There is nothing artistic about his game. He is just basic and functional. He is like the Chevy pickup to Steve Nash's Ferrari.

The Spurs, especially that clown Ginobili, are brilliant at creating contact, and flailing wildly to draw the foul without making any real basketball moves. Great, so they can exploit the loopholes of the game to win championships. They've exposed the soft underbelly of the game and ruined it.

Enjoy your championships. Real fans know that the Spurs win by taking the heart out of the game. That is why nobody watches them. We just wait for the nightmare to be over and for the game to be reborn. When all is said and done, people will remember this era as the low point in the history of basketball, and will never respect the Spurs for anything they've done, because they are merely the culmination of everything that started going wrong with the game in the '90s. Basketball fans will regard this era the way Germans regard the 1930's.

If David Stern really had the balls to act in the best interest of the game, he would just pony up the money to whoever owns the Spurs and break them up.

LMAO!! You must of put alot of time into that! You do realize that you are not making us mad right? You are merely entertaining us while making yourself look like a fool.

[degenerate_gambler]

It's wonderful that Tim Duncan is so fundamentally sound, but he is terrible for the game. He has zero passion on the floor. He is robotic. There is nothing artistic about his game. He is just basic and functional. He is like the Chevy pickup to Steve Nash's Ferrari.

Like a rock, mother er.


Now go blow the dust out of your trophy case while we make room in ours for #4 .

[Deede4525]

No, Miami isn't boring. Sure, they play grind-it-out, low-scoring games, but Shaq is in lots of commericals, and now D-Wade has that T-Mobile "in your 5" ad.

Same with Cleveland. Yeah, they play 83-72 games where both teams combine to score 19 points in the fourth quarter, but he has all those funny shoe commercials.

But Detroit and SA. Boooooooooooring. Detroit has no stars with either Nike or Vitamin Water ads, and the Spurs have a boring, monotone star, along with two guys who speak English with accents, and aren't adorable like Yao Ming.

..... Yao Ming is ADORABLE?

But I do agree with you about none of the Spurs being cast in NATIONAL TV ads. Timmy should have been promoted just as hard as Kevin Garnet, Shaq, Kobe and all the rest. The fact he wasn't is why the Spurs seem boring to some idiots.

I do think video games may have ruined some people, because I hate to watch a game that has NO defense and the score ends up 110 to 125. Geeze, now THAT is boring! Run run run that's all they do.

I thought the Utah/San Antonio game was great and not because the Spurs won. I like to see two teams go at it without all the historonics , run their plays and see if they work. That's basketball....

It was nice watching a team that didn't act like each member was a !

[BreezeHillBill]

Yes, it's just like the whole media going with what Amare said, and they all called us cheaters and dirty, so the rest of the fans accepted that, and so we were dirty.

The "boring" label, just the same.

If many years ago, when behind closed doors they knew SA was a force, they should have presented us to fans the way the did the Lakers. But they always put us down. It backfired on the NBA.

No need to worry. All the Dallas and Phoenix fans will be watching rooting for Detroit.

[ATRAIN]

LMAO!! You must of put alot of time into that! You do realize that you are not making us mad right? You are merely entertaining us while making yourself look like a fool.

hahah yeah what a tool.

[BreezeHillBill]

Screw the media. They are all about the "individualism" that is ruining the league. Give me great team work, solid defense, good passing, good shooting and good coaching and i am pleased as punch.

Maybe i am in the minority, but the last thing i want to see is a one on one series or a lopsided series 4-1 or something.

I think the Spurs vs. Piston will be great!

Okay, I like you now.

[DDS4]

OK....I'll play your game.

What makes basketball fun for fans is the mixture of team execution with individual flair. Without the latter, the game has no soul. It is like watching the inner workings of a watch.

Team execution? Spurs are the best in the business when they're on. They just outexecuted your Suns. Flair? What do you define flair? Chest bumping after a dunk when your team is down by 10? If you watch Spur games on a
regular basis, the team has more flair than you think.

The Spurs have a collection of soulless, unsympathetic characters. Great, so they play defense. They have perfected the "art" of hacking and grabbing so that officials become desensitized to it. They are experts at thugging it up. That's marvelous for them, and their handful of fans, but terrible for the game.

It's no secret that the playoffs tend to be more physical. It's been that way historically for years. You should be more ashamed that the Suns didn't adjust their game to match the Spurs physicality. Until they do, they'll be nothing more than regular season eye candy.

It's wonderful that Tim Duncan is so fundamentally sound, but he is terrible for the game. He has zero passion on the floor. He is robotic. There is nothing artistic about his game. He is just basic and functional. He is like the Chevy pickup to Steve Nash's Ferrari. .

Terrible for the game? Says who? If anything, it should teach young kids that being fundamentally sound trumps anything else. Zero passion on the floor? That's just being ignorant. Watch Tim's playoff performances in the past, and there's plenty of fist pumping and yelling. You just have to find it rather than making flippant remarks.

The Spurs, especially that clown Ginobili, are brilliant at creating contact, and flailing wildly to draw the foul without making any real basketball moves. Great, so they can exploit the loopholes of the game to win championships. They've exposed the soft underbelly of the game and ruined it.

Fact: If Manu was on your team, you'd embrace him like the second coming of Dan Majerle.

Oh, and you have a guy named Raja Bell who flops just as much, if not more. Or did you forget that? Flopping is an epidemic not just limited to the Spurs.

Enjoy your championships. Real fans know that the Spurs win by taking the heart out of the game. That is why nobody watches them. We just wait for the nightmare to be over and for the game to be reborn. When all is said and done, people will remember this era as the low point in the history of basketball, and will never respect the Spurs for anything they've done, because they are merely the culmination of everything that started going wrong with the game in the '90s. Basketball fans will regard this era the way Germans regard the 1930's.

Respect is earned. But for some reason, some Suns fans think they're en led to it. Real fans don't discredit other teams accomplishments. They recognize superiority and move on.

Oh the Spurs? They'll be recognized as the closest thing to a dynasty since the Laker/Bulls/Celtic days.

If David Stern really had the balls to act in the best interest of the game, he would just pony up the money to whoever owns the Spurs and break them up.

Why? Because you admit the Suns can't break up the Spurs on the court?


Maybe you should think twice before making asinine comments on a SPUR board.

[BreezeHillBill]

It's still boring. The Spurs play with no passion, no fire. It's like watching a carpenter build a house -- it doeesn't matter how skilled he is, it's utterly uninteresting, with no artistry whatsoever.

Every time you say something, your handicap becomes more evident, moron.

[NoMoneyDown]

Boring? I guess averaging 106.5 PPG (Utah series) and 100.0 PPG (Sun's series) is boring today.

[JamStone]

I'm a Pistons fan who respects the Spurs, but YEAH it's a boring match-up. Yes, it's boring basketball to watch for non-Pistons and non-Spurs fans. I understand that. I understand there's no mass commercial appeal. I realize there isn't "as much" one-on-one individually unbelievable performances. I acknowledge that it is more fundamentally sound TEAM basketball at both ends of the court. It's not the high excitement of run-and-gun, fastbreak 3-point shooting, slam dunk fest, chaos basketball.

But, oh ing well. I'll be enjoying the match-up if it happens. So, I don't give a .

[Jimcs50]

I'm a Pistons fan who respects the Spurs, but YEAH it's a boring match-up. Yes, it's boring basketball to watch for non-Pistons and non-Spurs fans. I understand that. I understand there's no mass commercial appeal. I realize there isn't "as much" one-on-one individually unbelievable performances. I acknowledge that it is more fundamentally sound TEAM basketball at both ends of the court. It's not the high excitement of run-and-gun, fastbreak 3-point shooting, slam dunk fest, chaos basketball.

But, oh ing well. I'll be enjoying the match-up if it happens. So, I don't give a .

I do give a , really.

It is not unlike having someone you love or care about and hearing someone talk unfavorably about them....it would piss you off, right? If these idiot scribs would just watch the teams play as a team and watch the passing and unselfishness, then they would truly see how great it is to watch.