The '95 team had David Robinson playing out of this world while carrying a team mostly comprised of scrubs as far as humanly possible.
I agree with the other posters here, once the playoffs start, we've got to knock this stuff off. We all gotta pull for all the players from Tim on down to Beno. I think winning the championship this year, esecially as a three seed if it comes down to that, would be by far the most impressive of any le we've won.
I mean it. If we win it this year, then Spurs fans get asked, which le was your favorite of the four, 2007 should be like a unanimous answer.
pop is starting to use tp more in the fourth quarter
this year pop in the playoffs will have another option in the fourth
hopefully tp is ready for it
it also will make it easier for td and manu
I don't think they were scrubs. Elliott was at his peak and all star, Rodman was rebounding demon but a headcase, and Johnson and Del Negro were both in their primes. The bench was maybe the deepest we've ever had. Every guy had like a specialty and a role.
Elliott was a nice player, but not a championship caliber second star. He still wasn't anywhere as tough as he eventually got in '99.
AJ was all heart and invented Spurs Basketball, but he didn't have much talent. Vinny Del Negro was perhaps the worst starting shooting guard in the league. Rodman was all about rebounding, he didn't defend or do anything else. Person couldn't guard a statue and had a habit of disappearing in the playoffs. Doc Rivers makes Jacque Vaughn seem like Mark Price. JR Reid and Terry mings were no better than average bench bigmen.
You take David Robinson off that team they have a better chance of finishing the season with the worst record in the league than making the playoffs. That said, with the way Robinson was playing that year, they were probably a few bounces here or there from winning it all. That's how good he was.
Maybe I just have a special place in my heart for them. You never forget your first heartbreak and they were like the first Spurs team that I thought should have won it.
the first team i thought should've won it was 89 90's team.
In retrospect they didn't have a guy who could make a jumper outside 15 feet so its no wonder they didnt.
9495?
Don't even get me started on how overrated that team was....
they were just a lot of fun to watch. That year was by far the most fun I've ever had watching the Spurs before a certain Argentine came along.
You don't know heartbreak. The real heartbreak was our loss to the Washington team after coming out of the much-reviled 'lesser' ABA into the NBA. That team, led by Silas and Gervin had every promise of winning against the NBA snobs--and you won't find any oldtimer around that doesn't believe we were robbed of the win in that series by the refs.
Thousands (yes thousands) of fans came out to the airport to cheer a LOSING team. And when our Coach Moe got fined for saying "we wuz robbed" a city-wide effort raised the money for the fines--in pennies--in just a few days.
We've had heartbreaks since then, but man, that was one time I cried at the end of the game and also at the airport out of pride for our team and the most loyal fans I'd ever seen.
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