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I read Holt's comment differently than the author. I read it as the Spurs couldn't compete with other teams' offers for Bosh, not that couldn't be compe ive in the game, unless the author is being intentionally obtuse.
Piece is also out with a different headline.
Spurs look to regain royalty starting with Grizzlies
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-spurs-no1againSpurs begin playoffs in familiar spot—No. 1
By Paul J. Weber
Chris Bosh was never signing with San Antonio. At least, that’s what everyone figured.
“At one time we had certainly considered going after Bosh,” Spurs owner Peter Holt recently recalled. “We didn’t spent a lot of time on that. We didn’t feel like we could compete.”
At the time, who didn’t think that about the Spurs?
Yet one year after San Antonio appeared to be fading NBA royalty—barely making the playoffs, constant injuries to an aging core, a roster overhaul that never worked out—the Spurs open the playoffs back atop the Western Conference.
San Antonio hosts Memphis in Game 1 on Sunday as the No. 1 seed for the fifth time in the Tim Duncan era. It’s a 14-year span that includes four championships and the highest winning percentage in the NBA (.700), but the team appeared on the downside last spring after the worst season yet.
Six months later, Tony Parker arrived at training camp predicting this would be the last shot for the Spurs. It was a now-or-never declaration that sounded almost brutally honest at the time.
Now it looks like the Spurs could have more chances ahead of them.
“Every game, every playoff is special right now. I understand that,” Duncan said Friday. “This is the end of my career, the last couple of years. I’m not taking anything for granted. Every year we’re given our last chance (to win a le). We’ll take this as it is.
“Maybe we’ll get another one. Maybe we won’t.”
Keep reading...
Last edited by duncan228; 04-15-2011 at 05:54 PM.
I read Holt's comment differently than the author. I read it as the Spurs couldn't compete with other teams' offers for Bosh, not that couldn't be compe ive in the game, unless the author is being intentionally obtuse.
Good read. It is unfortunate at what is potentially looming to be the hardest possible pathway to a finals appearance (or win what have you). I don't care if the Spurs are on the map/radar, whatever. I just want them to compete and actually compete without having any injury or bad bounce.
For the past 4 years, an injury or bad bounce or a combination of both inhibited the Spurs championship hopes...This time, things look to be slightly clear (Manu injury withstanding), at the moment.
The 3rd sentence (voluntary?) misunderstanding about competing with cash vs competing on the court doesn't really entice me to read the rest of the "article".
we were never anywhere near the bosh sweepstakes anyway
the only reason we are compe ive this year? is the emergence of gary neal and george hill stepping up when the bench was needed....
Trig, waiting on utopia. What a hoot.
Start at #1 and end with Skunker....
Kool & Cully can't effectively troll anyone downstairs anymore, so they have to come up here to try and troll GNSFs. Kinda sad, tbh.
But, Bito, you told me to break my regimen to improve my autism.
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