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GOAT.
I will always remember the admiral leaving the court for the last time going out as an NBA champion.
GOAT.
Timmy was a ing monster that series!!!!!!!!
The 2003 Spurs were probably the best of all the le teams when they were rolling, but they were very inconsistent. The big comebacks were facilitated by allowing the other team to get big leads. Emotionally, they peaked after beating the Lakers in the second round, which they did in dominant fashion, and then promptly gave away game one to Dallas in the next round. After beating the Lakers, winning the le was a formality. They were certainly the most emotional team of the Spurs' le teams.
He had 21, 20, 10 and 8 in game 6.
What a ridiculous performance, thanks for posting.
This game has a special place in my heart as a Spurs fan. Back then was pretty much the pre-broadband, pre-Amazon, pre-YouTube era. It was tough, if not downright impossible, to watch games live on TV as they simply wouldn't be broadcast in Europe. Streams were unheard of. Back in the 90s we had to rely on magazines and extremely short TV programs to see a bit of NBA action, even though MJ was helping a lot in making the NBA international. Sometimes we could find a DVD and would watch it many times over, even though it was games dating 5 or 10 years back... I remember we all had our favorite teams and players back then, and of course a lot of people were riding the MJ/Bulls bandwagon. I knew of D-Rob and Duncan and Pop but didn't have a special preference for them except for the fact that were a small market, underdog franchise and I always like to root for that kind of teams instead of big, surefire franchises like the Lakers.
Everything changed when Parker was drafted as it suddenly put a big spotlight on the NBA in France, especially as he was the most promising of the French players after the Weis and Rigaudeau fisacos. I was trying to catch news of what was going on on the web, and as I was reading more and more about the Spurs and D-Rob/Duncan I started liking this franchise more and more.
Back in June 2003 I visited north America for the first time. I remember watching a couple of playoffs games in New York, and then moved to Toronto to visit some friends. The day after I arrived was Game 6 of the Finals. I was really excited and started negotiating with them to watch the game (they weren't even remotely interested in basketball). I remember my little speech: "Come on, they have a chance to win it all tonight, for the first time in history a French guy could win the NBA, we've GOT to watch this!"
The game was bad. Really bad. My friends were laughing at me "so this is the great team you're rooting for", as the Spurs were piling up turnovers after turnovers (in the video above you can see at one point: "Spurs - 7 field goals, 7 turnovers"). And then the miracle happened, big comeback in the 4th, dagger 3s by SJax, monster performance by Duncan, D-Rob going away in style, Parker and Manu winning their first ring, the Big 3 taking shape. I was jumping up and down and couldn't contain my excitement. It was just magickal and I've been 100% a Spurs fan since then.
I'll never forget Maliks dunk over Mutumbo either. And that was a young team with Jax, speedy, Parker, Ginobili... Spurs weren't supposed to be that goodt that yr yet. Didn't we have the best rodeo road trip that yr too?? It was the most difficult if I recall. After losing the first in minny, I think pop chewed their asses and they went on to win the rest, including a thriller against Orlando (still had tmac) and that down to the wire game at Sac. 03 has always been one of my favorite yrs cause it was the start of things to come and that championship was completely unexpected .
That is the le that made TD a legend. 1 is great but to lead the team to a second puts you in another class of legends..
And the fact that we were gonna have big cap space that summer to sign a Jason Kidd.Jerrmaine oneal....
I imagine they lost a little motivation after ending the lakers run.
I had heard one of the reasons Kidd, did not come was his wife didn't want to live in SA.. Of course they were divorced like 1 year later..
French fries.I had heard one of the reasons Kidd, did not come was his wife didn't want to live in SA.. Of course they were divorced like 1 year later..
I didn't want Kidd but I really wanted Jermaine. It was disappointing at the time that the spurs weren't able to get him. The reason Jermaine didn't sign with the spurs supposedly is that Larry Bird told him straight up that if he signs with the Pacers he would keep Isiah as a coach. The moment Jermaine signed with the pacers Larry fired Isiah. I have heard Jermaine say in a ton of interviews that if he could have done it over again he would have signed with the spurs.
It worked out for the best. He would have commanded a huge contract which would have limited our flexibility, and he began getting hurt in 2004..
I share some of the same opinions given in this thread. The Nets were alright defensively. They could hold their own imo... The 2003 team was very green...I like to think of the le run as similar to the Warriors this year (obviously the Warriors didn't play the Champs). Many injuries along the way helped make the final run possible.
Man I remember watching Game 1 of the Phoenix series at some restaurant on the river walk. Who knows...maybe some of you mofos were there getting drunk
all season, the Spurs had high TOs and missed FTs.
It was a defense-first team, Pop thought we had no scorers, so scores were low, games close.
I'll never forget unknown rookie Manu in the close-out play of Game7 stealing from a inattentive Richard Jefferson not far from mid-court and laying it in. Trophy time!
that 42-15 run though against dallas tho...
I had heard one of the reasons Kidd, did not come was his wife didn't want to live in SA.. Of course they were divorced like 1 year later..
Yeah I had heard they were introducing her to media in SA, when they were recruiting him. It's just hilarious the whole marriage was over soon after. Also this is the same wife he beat up at one point..
I hope it was at two points after she cost him playing on a dynasty.
Did clitoris nation was talking about parker by showing he had the second best WS of the Spurs ?
Such a random thread.
Great post and point. Game 2 was very much in doubt until like the final minute, actually. The DVD made it seem like the Spurs had any easy time after game 1 (like the Nuggets series in the later championship years), but that wasn't at all true. The game was close the whole game, and then the Suns actually began to pull away early in the 4th quarter. Spurs were down 8 points with about half of the 4th quarter left. I remember where I was at the time -- nervously pacing around the kitchen alone, 9 years old, moping about how sad it was that David's career was about to end in such humiliating fashion.
After a timeout, the Spurs and Suns exchanged empty trips. Then, Danny Ferry (who was inserted because of no Willis and hobbled David, as you said) made a corner three off a fluke broken play, with TD drawing a loose ball foul under the rim. TD converted the free throw for the 4-point play, cutting the lead to 4. We got a few more stops in a row, then TD made another basket and set of free throws to tie the game. Amare and Tim traded baskets for the next couple minutes of game time, and TP (IIRC) split a pair of free throws. We were clinging to a 1 point lead with about a minute and a half to play, with the Suns on the brink of a commanding lead which would have surely given them the greatest series upset ever (at the time). On the ensuing Spurs possession, I think it was TP who drove to the rim and dished it out to the right elbow to the rookie, Manu Ginobili (I still didn't really trust him much at the time) who stepped up with the shot clock about to expire and nailed the extremely clutch 3-pointer which extended the lead to four points -- this, to me, may have been the single most important shot in that championship run (along with Horry's miss) because it finally allowed to Spurs to believe they could beat the dreaded Suns. The Suns still had chances at the end of that game but came up short -- and the Spurs were able to split the series at home.
Even after Game 2, the Suns were far from done. After a well-played wire to wire victory in game 3, it seemed like the Spurs were about to cruise to a five-game series win after largely dominating in game 4. In fact, the Spurs led by 17 points early in the 4th quarter of that game, and the Suns' Cinderella goose seemed cooked. We even led by 14 about midway through the 4th. I was in the kitchen, this time watching with my grandmother. A couple timeouts happened, and for some reason the Spurs started missing shot after shot. TD was being doubled every possession and the shooters could not break the lid on the basket. The Suns capitalized seemingly every time down in the last few minutes of the game, alternating free throws (some questionable calls), Starbury/Amare tough shots at the rim, and jump shots from guys like Hardaway and young Joe Johnson. Somehow, the Suns tied the game with about half a minute to play, the Spurs turned it over near the rim but got back on defense, the Suns came back, Hardaway had the ball and penetrated to the rim with just a few seconds left, dished it out to the big stiff Jake Voskuhl (who?) for a mid-range jumper, and he made it (WTF?) -- to put the Suns up by 2 with almost no time left, and TD missed a desperation chance at the other end. I could not believe it! The Suns had tied the series 2-2, and I was once again genuinely worried that the Spurs' season and David's career would end it bitter disappointment as per par.
Fortunately, we played well in game 5 at home (though the Suns cut that lead from 25 to 7 in the 4th, they couldn't complete the rally) and won a hard-fought game 6. Still that was an extremely hard fought series and championship run. Many things had to fall in place for that undertalented lone-wolf led team (TD) to win it all. All season long that team was notorious for blowing enormous leads and this was magnified in the playoffs. Fortunately, we were able to send off the Admiral to the grey havens instead of drowning him.
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Because its called basketball and teams can have really good nights and teams can have very bad nights. But in the NBA its best of 7, so there is a good chance the better team wins, which is what occurred.
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