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2012 Spurs
1994 Rockets
1995 Rockets
1999 Spurs
2003 Spurs
2005 Spurs
2007 Spurs
2011 Mavs
Last edited by ViceCity86; 06-16-2012 at 01:44 PM.
2012 Spurs
spurs choking back to back years
2011 Mavs baby.. without a ing doubt
2005 Spurs would take down every other team in that list in 6 games or less.
dallas...yeah right.
2011 Mavs easily had the toughest road to a le and beat better compe ion. 05 Spurs are a close second. Bottom three are clearly the asterisk Spurs and both Rockets teams who won while Jordan was striking out in Birmingham.
11 Mavs for sure. Spurs have never faced an Eastern Conf Champion as good as Miami. They also didn't face the Mavs in '05, who would've beaten them like they did a year later.
I'd say 2005 Spurs. the the exception of the game 1 scare they got against Denver they had the upper hand in every series they played from beginning to end. 2005 playoff Ginobili was also the best 2nd option Duncan had his entire career.
2003 Spurs team was stacked
The '99 Spurs get a bad rap, but I wish there was some way we could see them up against the '98 Bulls and/or '00 Lakers just for comparison -- the Spurs lost both years with Duncan injuries, and didn't get to test themselves against the best teams.
Duncan was the offensive leader in '99, which meant that Robinson got to devote basically all his energies to defense, and he was an absolute beast before his back went further downhill in later years. The combination of the two of them was possibly the most devastating interior defense the NBA has ever seen, and they had some pretty solid perimeter defenders around them.
I'm not saying "oh the '99 Spurs could definitely take down either team," but I think they were good enough that they'd have a fair shot at either one. After all, they destroyed the (pre-Phil) '99 Lakers so badly that Phil had to make up that bull about the asterisk to keep people from thinking that their 2000 le run deserved an asterisk of it's own due to them getting a pass on playing the Spurs that year.
Mavs choking in the Finals in 2006. Getting swept in the 1st round after winning the ring the previous year.
2011 Mavs baby.. without a ing doubt
Spurs beat Western Conference teams in the WCF that would stomp the out of Miami.
Dream in 94-95 was unguardable. No one could handle his dominance.
2011 Mavs by far. the only team that even comes close is one of the mid 90's Rockets teams. the problem for the Spurs is the fact that they have never faced a legit Eastern Conference champion and 1999 doesn't count. Detroit was about the best team the Spurs ever had to face and Detroit made choking an art form back in those days.
the 2011 Mavs went thru to get to the finals and had to take down the media darling and NBA favorite Miami Heat. they deserve the le of the best NBA championship team in Texas history. period.
^ Let the hate pour in big fella.
son I agree, keep layin down those truth bombs
While the 2005 Spurs imo are the best team on that list, the 2007 Spurs are the tiest team. They looked vulnerable for most of the regular season, got hot at the end and had a very charmed playoff run where their biggest opponent was a Suns team that was built to run teams like the Bucks and Pacers off the court but lose in the playoffs. I think the 2005 Spurs were good enough where it wouldn't have mattered, but 2005-2007 was a weak time in the NBA where a lot of great players (KG and Kobe most notably) were stuck on bad teams which made certain teams look better than they really were.
Son, you've gotta be kidding
Detroit was the defending champ team that dismantled the threepeat lakers in '04. You can't tell me that team wasn't "legit." That team would have picked apart the 2011 Mavs with almost the same ease that the 2005 spurs would have.
2011 Mavs are a decent le team but compared to the compe ion listed above, they're middle-of-the-pack at best.
The 05' and 99' Spurs would bend the 11' Mavs over. Dont remember enough about the back2back Rockets other than Dream making DRob his .
It also helped that Dirk and the Chokericks had the biggest choke of all-time. I was scared as of that 07' Mavs team, despite their struggles against them in the reg season I never expected them to lose to the ing Warriors.
The '95 Rockets had a much harder run than any of the others. A 60 win Jazz team, a 59 win Suns team, a 62 win Spurs team, and finally a 57 win Magic team, with homecourt in no series. They went through Stockton, Malone, Barkley, KJ, Robinson, Rodman, Shaq, and Hardaway, every one them in his prime, in likely the most difficult playoff run in the history of the league.
Last edited by baseline bum; 06-16-2012 at 05:46 PM.
I would easily take the 99 Spurs over the 05 Spurs. The 05 Spurs had the best roster in franchise history, but Duncan was playing on two bad ankles after the Seattle series and had a lot of trouble in fourth quarters because of it (especially game 5 of the Finals). It wasn't TOSB kicking in, because he was strong again in fourth quarters the next two playoffs.
I forgot about Duncan's having the ankle issues in 2005. They were an issue for sure.
People seem to forget the fact that the 1999 team swept the Lakers and the Jail Blazers and lost just one game to Phoenix (on a despiration three pointer by Marbury) and one game in the finals for a 15-2 mark.
That asterick stuff is stupid. Will there be an asterick this year too? No.
The Spurs were clearly the best team in the league three of the four years they won it all. The 2007 team got hot at the right time just like the 2011 Mavies did.
Wasn't there a certain hispanic ref in the Spurs-Suns series?
Forgot his name tbh
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