Even in Defeat, the NBA has Learned Nothing From the Spurs

They were favored this season?

Rocket River

 

Getting credible NBA information from Yahoo! Finance is...well....questionable.

 

LOL...look I get it. The SPurs are remarkably consistent, great franchise. But let's not act like they run roughshod through the league. This was their first title in 7 years.

They almost always bring the same team back, but when have they won back to back titles?? Give them their due, but let's not act like this is Celtics from the 60's.

 

Good god, nothing of substance at all. Wow the Spurs resigned Diaw and Mills. Big deal. Those guys weren't likely going anywhere else, and there wasn't a whole lot out there that the Spurs could have gotten instead anyway at that price point.

Business Insider (yahoo is reposting this) has some good content, but half of their sh-t is just content mill click bait. Guess which one this is.

Because nobody gives a **** about Diaw and Mills.

Seriously, now we must adore the Spurs for treating run-of-the-mill contract re-ups like run-of-the-mill re-ups? Like every single ohter team in the NBA does? But now since the Spurs do it it's an exmaple of their professionalism and awesomeness.

Seriously GTFO of here with this , I am so sick of Spurs worshipping inanity.

The factor that nobody likes to point out - one of the reasons hwy they've been so successful, why ANYBODY is so successful, is actually this thing called luck, aka chance, aka random ass events. They got lucky and sucked the year Duncan was the top player, and not Kieth Van Horn. We wouldn't be having this conversation otherwise.

 

I guess you don't remember that Duncan was thisclose away from leaving San Antonio to play with Tracy McGrady and it took him a few days to think about it too?

 

Guys, all we have to do is sign a legendary coach, get three HOFers and somehow underpay them constantly, and we can win a lot of rings. It's easy.

 

Yeah cause it's so easy to acquire arguably the greatest coach ever, one of the top 10 players of all time and two other likely hall of famers. People need to realize how difficult it is to emulate the Spurs model.

 

This. He was heavily wooed and enjoyed his time in Orlando. He admitted as much that he nearly left.

That's what happens. Sometimes people take their time to make tough decisions, instead of rushing into them just to satisfy impatient fans.

BTW I'm tired of people saying the Spurs formula is suddenly the magic one to copy. There have been many championships won in many ways.

 

Five championships in 15 years not good enough? And been close several times in the years between those.

They never had a downtime like the Lakers had after the Shaq&Kobe era and have been the most consistend contender in that timespan.

What do you prefer, a threepeat and then being crap for 5 years, or 5 titles in 15 years while being a contender every season?

 

Haha this. Let's just clone Popovich and travel back in time to kidnap a prime Duncan.

That easy.

 

He didn't start off as legendary, and those three didn't come to the spurs as HOFers. Give credit where credit is due please.

 

What do you prefer, acquiring the greatest PF ever who has the longevity of Kareem Abdul Jabbar and nobody else in history? Or Hakeem Olajuwon or Shaquille O'Neal?

Apples and oranges and there's literally no way you can "model" yourself after that; it's like saying "play the lottery more like the people who pick the winning numbers!"

 

Um OK? Obv no one likes drama, you act teams purposely want to be strung out till the deadline.

I don't get this let's be the like the Spurs crap going on. Lol yes please let's have one of the best coaches and GMs ever and get Duncan Parker and Gino in the draft so we can have our own home grown team. So where are we getting those guys? You have no idea? Then STFU.

Seriously every team in the world would like to be the spurs. But just because they want to doesn't mean they can be the spurs.

 

I don't even think the Spurs could be like the Spurs if you swapped their roster for a middle of the road team.

Reunite Popovich, Presti, Buford. Give them a ticket to Orlando and move them east. It's got the same small market issues as San Antonio. Does he build them into a dynasty, guaranteed?

 

None of their players were courted nor had multiple offers like a Melo or Lebron

Obviously

 

LOL what?? The team you're trying to put down the Lakers.... have 5 titles in 15 years. The Spurs have 4 titles in 15 years.

Plus this "downtime" you're talking about is way overblown. How could the Lakers be crap for 5 years when after the 3 peat, they made the FInals in 2004,2008,2009,2010?

 

If it were so damn easy to emulate the Spurs, then they wouldn't be so special.

The thing isn't so much to try to be just like them as it is to accentuate the strengths of your own organization while working to improve on its weaknesses. That's what the Spurs did...they came up with their own formula for winning. But as others have said here, there's more than one way to become a title contender.