Hopefully it's complications from AIDS. Also it was Jaylin Williams.
The shitty one? I didn’t even register he was on the floor
It was always agonizing the path the Spurs got when they were defending champs. The '06 Path really angered me when the league tried to experiment with a new bs division rankings system by having 3 divisions in the conference and whoever won their division got a top 3 seed regardless of how bad their record was. The Mavs obviously didn't win their division since the Spurs were in the same division and because of that they ended up as the 4th seed despite winning 60 games that year and having the second best record in the west. This forced a second round match up that shouldn't have happened which if the Division bs ranking system didn't exist would have resulted in the Spurs facing the Mavs in the WCF instead of the second round. Meeting the Mavs earlier was a much harder match up due to the Mavs being well rested after sweeping the Gasol Grizzlies while the Spurs were somewhat wounded and not rested after coming off of a difficult physical series with the Artest Kings. I think had the Spurs faced the Mavs later on in the playoffs things would have been different instead of having to face them while wounded and not rested.OKC’s easy bracket got me thinking that the Spurs never got a path this easy when they were the defending champions.Crazy. The one time they did everything right and got the 1-seed, their reward was a red hot Kings team in the first round and a 60 win Mavs team in round 2
As much as I hate the first round format of best of 7 there are moments that I'm thankful it was the best of 7 especially during the Spurs championship years primarily '03 against the Suns and in '14 when the Mavs pushed them to 7 and even took a 2-1 lead. Could you imagine if that series was best of 5 of how different it could have turned out.What's even the point of this shit? Go back to best 3 of 5 for the first two rounds and get this shit moving
we would have won 3-2 ?
Hard to say the pressure of going down 2-1 in the best of 5 is the equivalent of the pressure you feel when you are down 3-2 in the best of 7.
2011. 8 seed grizzlies beat 1 seed spurs.
That sucked, forgot that one. Remind me what happened there? Were we just old as hell, or (and) were we missing a key player?
Although manu got injured in the last game of the regular season and missed game 1 that wasnt ghe reason they loss. They loss because duncan getting older and was out of shape due to extreme load management, richard jefferson sucked, bonner was part of the rotation and played big minutes and it was a bad matchup. Zbo dominated our bigs.
Spurs ultimately got revenge on them by sweeping them in '13.
I was begging for Splitter minutes in that series. Ugh
