Official San Antonio Spurs Thread Game 1 Sunday @1:00PM

[bangdak]

Get blair some more minutes and you'll turn things around.



You dont want duncan exhausted and huffing and puffing before the all star break now do we?

 

[do be doo]

Game day....VS @ SAC
1st game in the Rodeo Road trip....


GO SPURS GO!!!

 

[importking]

any news or rumors of the spurs doing anything this year with the trade deadline coming up ??

 

[do be doo]

^^^
Just talks about a Chris Paul for Parker trade rumor....

and talks about getting Amare Stoudemire.....

But other then that nothing.....

 

[importking]

injured player for another injured?


amare for who..??


i was hoping rj for mcgrady.. rj been my boy since arizona... but hes really really disappointing me.
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[do be doo]

Originally Posted by IMPORTKING

injured player for another injured?


amare for who..??


i was hoping rj for mcgrady.. rj been my boy since arizona... but hes really really disappointing me.
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1. It was before they both got hurt....Spurs were just asking like any other team would....

2. Manu (

) or RJ...

3.I agree with RJ being a let down....But it might be because we have a shoot 1st PG...

But this trip SHOULD help the Spurs like it has in the past....

 

[do be doo]

1-0 Rodeo Road trip...
@Portland today....
Blair And Manu are playing great together....

GO SPURS GO!!! 

 

[do be doo]

1-1 on the Rodeo Road trip.......

 

[CP1708]

5-3 coming up soon. 

 

[do be doo]

Read this at your own risk Spurs fans....

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2010/02/how-the-alamo-was-lost/

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[h1]How the Alamo Was Lost[/h1]
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It looks like the Spurs are on the brink of a bad breakup.

by Dan Ilika

Less than three years ago it wasn’t tough to argue that the San Antonio Spurs were the best team in basketball.

Coming off of a convincing sweep of an undermanned Cleveland team inthe Finals to give the team its fourth Larry O’Brien trophy in nineyears, the word dynasty was being floated around like Tony Parker’ssignature post shot. And why wouldn’t it be?

With the exception of the Lakers’ three championships during theKobe-Shaq era, no NBA team since Michael Jordan’s Bulls won like theSpurs.

The eclectic mix of savvy veterans and unheralded youth the Spurs’brass assembled and reassembled each year to fill the gaps around TimDuncan, Manu Ginobili and Parker seemed to compliment one another toperfection, with guys understanding their roles and playing off eachother on both ends of the floor.

In a sports world that’s full of far too many metaphors and clichés,there is no other way to put it: The Spurs were like the perfectrelationship. Of course there were the occasional hiccups, but therewas happiness, unity and compromise, with guys willing to give up theirown for the common good. Sure, they may have been boring to watch, butask any member of a winning team to describe what it’s like from theinside and the last word you’ll hear is boring.

The Spurs truly possessed the winning formula. One player may beable to will his team to victory during the regular season, but when itcomes to the postseason it takesa concerted effort, and the Spurs had just that. The team was asleeping giant; the ultimate wolf in sheep’s clothing, perenniallyquiet during the regular season but when the second season rolledaround they were ready to dominate.

With Duncan anchoring the middle, Ginobili bringing instant offenseand energy off the bench and Parker fresh off a Finals MVP performancethat finally established him as an elite point guard in the L, itwasn’t inconceivable to imagine the Spurs winning at least one moretitle before the decade was over, truly cementing the team’s legacy asa dynasty.

Heading into the ’07 offseason, expectations around the League were relatively unchanged.

With an improving-but-not-quite-there-yet Eastern Conference, allbets were on the ‘Chip landing with a team from the West, and if youwanted to win in the West you would have to make it through the Spurs.Period. That is, until Boston acquired two of the greatest players ofthis generation in just over a month, shifting the power back to theEast. Now it was the Celtics’ Big-Three 2.0 that the money was on, andpeople everywhere were reflecting on Boston’s glory days as a precursorto the Championship everyone expected them to win. It was a shot to theSpurs more than anyone else, proving that their lateral movement inrecent years was easily overshadowed by bigger moves elsewhere.

Look at it as the big fight that started the downhill spiral, onlyfor the Spurs it was like you and your girlfriend hanging out with anold buddy and he spends the whole night talking about all the goodtimes you had with your ex. Your girlfriend isn’t going to say anythingwhile the three of you are out, but you know the drive home is going tobe far too quiet, the calm before the storm until you get home and sheexplodes. It’s not an impossible situation to overcome and make amends,but it hurts. And more importantly, it acts as the beginning of theend. That was the summer of 2007 for the Spurs.

But it was the collateral damage that may have cast the Spurs aside for good.

While the world watched the Celtics storm through the first half ofthe ‘07-08 season with relative ease the Lakers were workingdesperately to keep Kobe onboard and, on February 1, acquired Pau Gasolfrom the Memphis Grizzlies and in turn transformed all of Spurs coachGregg Popovich’s dreams into nightmares for the rest of eternity.

Even as we hit the two-year this week anniversary of the trade forGasol, Popovich still isn’t over it. Sure, his recent revelation thatthe deal wasn’t as lopsided as it once looked is a step in the grievingprocess for Pop, but he hasn’t been the same since. And why? Because heunderstands what it takes to build a champion. He knows it takes morethan one guy, and when your other guy is as good as Gasol (not tomention the play of Andrew Bynum) there isn’t much an opposing coachcan do aside from trying his best to add more pieces and compete.

To stick with the relationship analogy, it’s like you and yourgirlfriend going on a break to try and save your relationship but yourbest friend simultaneously starts dating this great new girl. You’rejealous. You see how happy they are and it kills you. You see what youcould have and you want it. You don’t care about what you had with yourgirlfriend; you know the grass truly is greener. Only there’s a catch:you can’t leave.

Hopes were high in the Alamo heading into the ‘09-10 season. RichardJefferson was meant to be the answer to the big, athletic swingmen thatthe Spurs would have to face throughout the season in order to vaultthemselves back to the top of the pack in the West and contend with thelikes of the Lakers, Nuggets and Mavs, and Antonio McDyess was expectedto provide a veteran presence down low to take some of the pressure offthe Big Fundamental. And while the Spurs are on pace to win 50 gamesthis season, things just don’t seem to be working out. While 50 winswould be impressive for most teams, it’s just not the same Spurs teamthat won four Championships in a span of nine years.

Watching the Spurs this season is like getting back with yourgirlfriend after the break even when you know it’s hopeless. Sure,there are nights when you feel the sparks of what the two of you oncehad, but the flame just isn’t there anymore.

Duncan is as consistent as ever and young guys like George Hill andDeJuan Blair have shown plenty of promise, but things just aren’t thesame. Some nights Ginobili tears it up and shows the world why he isone of the best sixth men in the game today and other nights he looksdisinterested in Popovich’s system, like you growing a beard afterbeing with your girlfriend for so long because you feel like you don’thave to impress her anymore.

Jefferson has been a huge disappointment through the first half ofthe season, putting up his lowest point, rebound and assist numberssince his rookie year. He needs to have the ball in his hands in orderto be effective, and with three other quality scorers on the team he’sjust not getting the touches he needs. The proof is in his shootingnumbers, where his field goal and three-point percentages are up aroundhis career numbers, but his minutes are at their lowest in eight years. He has yet to break 30 points in a game this season and hasn’t been the player the team expected him to be.

To make matters worse, Parker’s perennial ankle troubles have robbedhim of a step or two and have him sidelined while the team struggles tocrack the top four in the Conference.

The thing is, it hurts. It’s hard to let go of the past sometimes,but you have to know when to cut your losses. You have been togetherfor 11 years and let’s face it: The glory days are behind you. You cantry to salvage what is left, but at the end of the day the relationshipis on its last legs. You had a good run, filled with plenty of goodtimes that you can reminisce upon forever, but it looks like it mightbe time to throw in the towel. Maybe you can hold on for another fewyears, maybe you can keep trying, but in the end you know it’s over.

No matter how you break it down the team is a shell of its formerself. Sure, they’ll make the Playoffs, maybe even carry through to thesecond round, but it just won’t be the same. After years of sittingatop the NBA’s caste it looks like it may be time say goodbye. It trulyis like that long-term relationship we’ve all been in at least once.When times were good they were good, but it’s falling apart and it’sabout time to move on.

The love is gone and the NBA is moving on; it’s safe to say theSpurs time on top is finished, too. It was fun while it lasted. Thanksfor the memories.

I'm not sweating it....this team is going to come around....

Right?...

 

[M. Fresh]

Originally Posted by Do Be Doo

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Watching the Spurs this season is like getting back with yourgirlfriend after the break even when you know it’s hopeless. Sure,there are nights when you feel the sparks of what the two of you oncehad, but the flame just isn’t there anymore.

Right?...

pretty much, unless a trade happens i see us getting bounced from the playoffs early like last year

a lot of our wins are tough, especially against sub .500 teams. other top teams beat those teams easily, not us

we dont look good against good teams

 

[M. Fresh]

lake show tonight

 

[Los Angeles]

sup.

 

[do be doo]

2-2

 

[CP1708]

5-3 about to be a reality. 

You heard what they were saying, even Pop admitted he's never had a team NOT come together.  So even he is struggling with answers. 


Irony of all this is I like George Hill's game, and everyone seems to love Blair, so they actually have some young guys coming in for the next phase, it's the bridge in between that is the issue right now. 

 

[do be doo]

@ Denver today...
Hope the Spurs come out strong and get this not so easy W...
RJ has been a REAL let down...

A trade would help....But who do the Spurs give up and what do we get?...

GO SPURS GO!!!

 

[M. Fresh]

lets see if we can get a win before the break

 

[do be doo]

 

[M. Fresh]

game day,
need better chemistry

 

[coolnificent]

So we really just gone sit here and not make any trades

 

[do be doo]

4-2....

@IND
Duncan - 8 points (4-23 shooting) 26 rebound....

and [color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]COOL[/color]...
The Spurs still have 18 hours so who knows...

 

[do be doo]

The Spurs traded Theo Ratliff to Charlotte for a second round pick.....


IN 2016!!!

Holt trying to save some money...

By Jeff McDonald - Express-News

PHILADELPHIA— With time running out on the NBA's trading season, the Spurscompleted a deal Thursday that won't help coach Gregg Popovich's teammuch on the court, but does stand to help chairman Peter Holt'spocketbook.

The Spurs sent little-used center Theo Ratliff to Charlotte, in adeal that narrowly beat the 3 p.m. trade deadline. In exchange, theSpurs received a conditional second-round pick in 2016 and, moreimportantly in the near term, financial relief.

Dealing Ratliff allows the Spurs to shave more than $800,000 off their pending luxury tax bill this summer.

Ratliff, 36 years old and a veteran of 15 seasons, signed afree-agent deal with the Spurs in July, but has essentially been theteam's 12th man. He played in 21 games, averaging 1.6 points and 1.9rebounds.

Thursday's trade will reunite Ratliff with Bobcats coach LarryBrown, who coached Ratliff for four seasons in Philadelphia from1997-2001.

@ Philly today....

GO SPURS GO!!!

 

[Los Angeles]

you guys better put a whoooopin on the 76ers.

 

[do be doo]

Originally Posted by bright nikes

you guys better put a whoooopin on the 76ers.

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[Los Angeles]

The Spurs OLD BUMS.

This isn't the team that starts rolling at the end of the season, ya'll just have horrible chemistry.

If its still a marathon, ya'll got problems with catching up.