Tank 2008-09

[ManuTP9]

Just to add to facts that have no relation at all to what the topic is, I had a Hot n y chicken sandwich, yogurt, and rocky road ice cream for dinner.

+1, im hunrgy now

but on topic....

[Ghost Writer]

Just to add to facts that have no relation at all to what the topic is, I had a Hot n y chicken sandwich, yogurt, and rocky road ice cream for dinner.

Dude, the front office is catering to the white fans when they have the audacity to start Bonner and bring a stiff like Croshere in.

Ask T Park.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

I would have had Burger King, but it's been closed for remodeling.
This week was end of semester exams week at my school.
I hate physics.

[Ghost Writer]

Staying on topic:


How do you see the Spurs staying contenders this season through Duncan's retirement?



Question.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Dude, the front office is catering to the white fans when they have the audacity to start Bonner and bring a stiff like Croshere in.

Ask T Park.

So which baller was available?

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Staying on topic:


How do you see the Spurs staying contenders this season through Duncan's retirement?



Question.

That question had a low amount of sense in it.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

If you and timvp are down fondling each other, why don't you use your hands to type something that makes sense?

I don't have the will nor the desire to burden you people with how I really feel about the state of the Spurs every day like in the past.

My early 30s and a baby boy have shifted priorities and mellowed me a bit.

I don't want to make anyone's fan experience miserable.

Basically, I come on the board when either something really exciting happens or I get p1ssed off so bad that I need to vent.

This season has been like a slow, tortured attrition where you know the outcome months before it happens.

Our team simply is not as viable anymore... even at 100% healthy.

Our direct compe ors are younger, hungrier and more talented across their rotations.

That's why I lament all the missed opportunities to win additional les while the Big Three were all in their primes and relatively injury-free.

Why comment if you're not going to watch the game and understand what happened?

As for all the "missed opportunities", c'mon, we were one play away in 04, and in 06, and some of the things that have happened were simply unfortunate (eg. not having Scola, Mahinmi or Splitter this year)... oh, and we won 3 rings since '03!

Anyway, glad your kid has changed your perspective for the better - I think that's called growing up, something I am yet to do. However, don't expect to be taken quite as seriously around here any more since you openly admit you don't follow the team very closely because you have other priorities. That doesn't mean you don't have valid, interesting takes, but it does mean you are not the authority you once were.

[Shastafarian]

Dude, the front office is catering to the white fans when they have the audacity to start Bonner and bring a stiff like Croshere in.

Ask T Park.

The same Matt Bonner who was +12 with 12 points and 11 boards tonight?

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Dude, the front office is catering to the white fans when they have the audacity to start Bonner and bring a stiff like Croshere in.

Ask T Park.

Playing the race card because we happen to have a weak frontcourt and there's no-one out there to strengthen it? C'mon man, you're better than that.

Also, Bonner is doing his job. It's not his fault we don't have Mahinmi on the court.

[Ghost Writer]

Dude, I still follow the team and watch the game and will comment when I see fit. It's a full-time job bringing you homers back to planet Earth and that is something I have no interest in doing all the time anymore. I can't afford to.

And I don't need validation from you Ruff, to know that I speak more of the truth about the Spurs than you are willing to admit. With all due respect.

Those missed opportunities you so dutifully mentioned all could have been easy wins with even the slightest uptick in team talent.

[Shastafarian]

Dude, I still follow the team and watch the game and will comment when I see fit. It's a full-time job bringing you homers back to planet Earth and that is something I have no interest in doing all the time anymore. I can't afford to.

And I don't need validation from you Ruff, to know that I speak more of the truth about the Spurs than you are willing to admit. With all due respect.

Those missed opportunities you so dutifully mentioned all could have been easy wins with even the slightest uptick in team talent.

Opinions can be "truth" now? Can they also be "fact"?

[Ghost Writer]

That question had a low amount of sense in it.

It's actually quite direct.

You scoff at my admittedly outlandish musing of tanking to get a top pick to play with Duncan before he retires, so we might be able to really compete one more time for a le.




What's your strategy for getting to the mountaintop again?

[Ghost Writer]

Opinions can be "truth" now? Can they also be "fact"?

Um, who said anything about opinions being the truth.

Facts are the truth.

My opinions just so happen to typically result in fact.

Figure it out while you take the banana out of your mouth.










No .

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Dude, I still follow the team and watch the game and will comment when I see fit. It's a full-time job bringing you homers back to planet Earth and that is something I have no interest in doing all the time anymore. I can't afford to.

And I don't need validation from you Ruff, to know that I speak more of the truth about the Spurs than you are willing to admit. With all due respect.

Those missed opportunities you so dutifully mentioned all could have been easy wins with even the slightest uptick in team talent.

You don't need validation from anyone GW, that's why I like you.

All I was saying is the Phili loss was entirely predictable and nothing to get messed up about.

As for the uptick in talent, do you honestly believe the FO hasn't done everything possible to put the best teams they can on the floor (within the fiscal constraints placed on them by ownership)? Of course they have. And sometimes you don't get the breaks, like our current bigman situation - nothing can be done about that. We'd be clear le contenders with Splitter, and it's not the FO's fault he screwed us all, nor their fault that Mahinmi tore an ankle ligament.

BTW, I am no homer. I know we need another big to have a hope this year. However, I expected much less from this team than they've delivered... and it's January. You and I are Spurs fans of long enough standing to know that you never judge a Spurs team until March and beyond.

Nice to see you back around the traps.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

It's actually quite direct.

You scoff at my admittedly outlandish musing of tanking to get a top pick to play with Duncan before he retires, so we might be able to really compete one more time for a le.




What's your strategy for getting to the mountaintop again?

I guess I missed the announcement of the NBA getting rid of free agency and trade, thus making the draft the only way to acquire new players.

[Shastafarian]

Um, who said anything about opinions being the truth.

Facts are the truth.

My opinions just so happen to typically result in fact.

Figure it out while you take the banana out of your mouth.










No .

you're funny, I'll give you that

[tp2021]

I'm so thankful GW took time out of his very busy day to point out the errors in our thinking. I sure hope the FO has his phone number.

[Ghost Writer]

I guess I missed the announcement of the NBA getting rid of free agency and trade, thus making the draft the only way to acquire new players.

Um, you are a Spurs fan, right?

When have we ever gotten an above average player outside of the draft that didn't leave at the first opportunity?


Question.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Um, you are a Spurs fan, right?

When have we ever gotten an above average player outside of the draft that didn't leave at the first opportunity?


Question.

Bruce.

[Ghost Writer]

Bruce.

Really. Seriously?

Bowen?!?

This is why I can't waste time here.

Answers like that.





I said "above average."

Not a guy that got cut and no one else wanted.

And who owns Bowen's career numbers.










You go out and get yourself another Bruce Bowen and everything will fall into place.

Wait, we already did and his name is Udoka.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Really. Seriously?

Bowen?!?

This is why I can't waste time here.

Answers like that.

So then off.

I said "above average."

Not a guy that got cut and no one else wanted.

I would say All-Defensive team mentions are above average.

You go out and get yourself another Bruce Bowen and everything will fall into place.

Wait, we already did and his name is Udoka.

Yea, no.

[Ghost Writer]

You get yourself that Bowen then.

Guaranteed le if you do, right?



Wow. Time for bed.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Well he did help out a lot in the last championship run. And the one before that. And the one before that.

Are you this much of a whiny in person?

[tp2021]

That doesn't mean you don't have valid, interesting takes, but it does mean you are not the authority you once were.

Anyone who thinks GW is an authority needs to be, as Sean Elliott says, taken behind the woodshed.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Anyone who thinks GW is an authority needs to be, as Sean Elliott says, taken behind the woodshed.