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A scientist could explain why Amare and Boris couldn't follow a simple rule.
The Spurs aren't boring but the Spurs are guilty of letting themselves be labled as boring.
A scientist could explain why Amare and Boris couldn't follow a simple rule.
So spurfans are buying that myth now?
It's been discussed here ad nauseum.
But to sum it up, Amare is a dumb azz.
Sorry, but the organization has to bear some of the blame for this. It's horrible PR for them not to be able to sell out the games on the heels of the whining by the rest of the country. It seems like they would have been willing to do anything to prevent that from being the lead story on ESPN.
Since when is the WCF not reason enough to sell out?
You don't think the vast majority of Spurs fans are casual fans who take whatever the media says as gospel? I do. I think that Spurs fans have bought into that this team is boring.
But I'll come clean here. I anticipate that while ticketmaster probably had something to do with the first game not selling out (if the 2nd one doesn't sell out - someone should die in the front office) but I also think that this series doesn't have much appeal.
All you have heard was about how the 2nd round was the real NBA finals and in the least it was the real WCF. I think Utah is a good team, but I also feel this isn't truely a marquee matchup but rather a forality that is before the Spurs play the Finals. That may be a horrible assumption to make, but it is what it is and I think that most Spurs fans feel the same way.
The NBA needs to fix their brackets (again) and make sure the 2 highest seeded teams meet in the WCF. This year with Dallas losing in the first you were screwed out of seeing the matchup everyone wanted in the WCF but you got it (again) in the 2nd round. It is almost like the playoffs peaked too soon.
So yeah, I think that Spurs fans are bored with this series. But thats probably a big fault of the Spurs PR machine too. They should be stepping things up right now and as far as I can see they are fairly nonexisitant outside of some EN fan guilt triping.
The attendence has suffered all year. The Spurs really should take a look at what they are doing (or not doing) and fix it. In the end its their responsibility to make sure those seats are filled.
Wow, look at all the hysteria. It's jaw dropping.
"I don't know if the Spurs can survive here."
Blah blah.
All because 300 tickets weren't sold to see the Jazz in the WCF.
The demand isn't there simply because there is no story. This is a first round series not the WCF. You get a massive burn out playing Denver than Phoenix and then... the Jazz. Who's the star there? Boozer? Williams? That's not going to sell, esp. on a Sunday afternoon.
More than likely those 1,000 tickets will be bought between now and game time.
But you're asking people to pay WCF prices for a first round series. The Jazz are not a serious rivial, the WCF is for the best of the best, and the Jazz just got here because the Warriors matched up better than the Mavs. This series should be either SA and Suns or SA and Mavs not the Jazz. Atleast not the Jazz of now.
I'm pretty sure traffic wasn't as high here after the game as it was after a Spurs-Suns WCSF game.
Since the real WCF was played in the 2nd round and you're playing a fourth seed in the WCF and the team doesn't do a good job promoting it?
Now? After ten years of the same label? What pushed them over the edge?You don't think the vast majority of Spurs fans are casual fans who take whatever the media says as gospel? I do. I think that Spurs fans have bought into that this team is boring.Stepping up how?So yeah, I think that Spurs fans are bored with this series. But thats probably a big fault of the Spurs PR machine too. They should be stepping things up right now and as far as I can see they are fairly nonexisitant outside of some EN fan guilt triping.
It is for me, but that's easy for me to say from Dallas without enough money to afford a ticket anyway.
My point is, if I'm the Spurs, I buy up the last of the tickets and hand them out on the street before I let the game show up as a non-sellout. I don't care about the reason why as much as I care about making sure it doesn't happen.
Why does it have to be promoted more than usual? spurfans only want to go see a WCF if the matchup is right?
Has it really come to this?
hey San Antonio can we just e mail Stern and suggest game 5 will be played in Manila?
i am sure the tickets will be sold out in just 30 seconds
I will be sitting in front and make a big sign "SPURSTALK SPURS FAN IN THE HOUSE". what do you think?
Can we about not selling out if after tomorrows game is not a sell out. One Sunday game after the whirlwind of a series with Phoenix, 300 tickets don't get sold and people here want to hang the villagers.
I'm not in PR and advertising so I don't know what they need to do, but the bottom line is if your product isn't selling you better do something about it.
Why does McDonalds advertise? Why does Coke advertise? You think once you get big you stop promoting? You're out of your mind if you believe that.
Come down off your high horse. Is your ass going tomorrow? Did you buy a ticket?
Well it was a lot more than 300 empty seats. Tons of tickets were on the streets, with brokers, and didn't get sold on ticket exchange.
We'll see if it's better tomorrow.
You beat me to it.
Will you be there tomorrow Chump?
Do spurfans not know there is a game on?
I didn't plan tickets being available.
Chances are pretty good if I can get out of work, which shouldn't be difficult.
But that's what's in the paper, 300 tickets and the hits the fans.
I'm a die hard Spurs fan, and I don't think even if I was offered tickets to the game for free that I'd want to go. I watch every game, every game on tv, I'm simply not the type to go to a game. The last game I went to was the SBC opener in 2002 against Toronto. That was almost 5 years ago.
Didn't you know there was going to be a Game 2 last week after we beat the Suns?
I understand that there's people like you. But I still don't see what changed from 2 years ago when you couldn't find playoff tickets to now, when people can't give them away. The only thing I know that changed is some fans enthusiasm for the playoffs.
Well, if spurfans are concerned about what the media thinks, get ready to be beat about the head with this for a long time. You can blame the Spurs if you want -- the media won't.
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