Don't blame the Spurs

[SenorSpur]

All of this talk about how boring the Finals are and how ratings are down has been a beating. I don't expect the rest of the country to enjoy watching the Spurs. However for those basketball fans that are ing and moaning and refuse to watch, perhaps they should consider this:

1. Blame the Pistons: With the talent level on the Detroit squad and the fact that that team supposedly emphasizes defense (even though they've slippped under Flip), they should have easily dispatched the Cavaliers. Instead, they became a victim of their own arrogance.

2. Blame the league: If the league owners had not adopted use of the zone defense, the Spurs would have been forced to devise yet another defensive game plan for King James. Who knows? Perhaps more offensive opportunities would have prevailed for King James.

In the immortal words of then N.Y. Jets coach Herman Edwards, "you play to win the game". It doesn't matter how you look doing it. What does it say that the Spurs are more appreciated outside of this country than they are most domestic basketball fans?

[ClingingMars]

YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME

classic quote, applies for all Spurs games

-Mars

[mardigan]

I blame the Cavs for being so bad and not being able to make this a series.

[DDS4]

Blame Stern.

If Amare/Diaw weren't suspended, we'd have a Suns/Cavs final which would have boosted ratings!!!!

[DarrinS]

Herm Edwards is good for a quote or two, but nothing else.

[SA210]

What does it say that the Spurs are more appreciated outside of this country than they are most domestic basketball fans?

True words.

[MrChug]

THE NBA DRAFT LOTTERY: When Tim Duncan slipped through the fingers of the Boston Celtics and ended up in San Antonio, the balance of power quickly shifted West for the next decade plus and the Eastern Conference. With the East in it's current state of jawdropping inferiority it has made half of the games played in a basketball season unwatchable.