Actually, that isn't true. SA respects The Dream...lots of nostalgia posted there when his retirement was anounced. Consistently ranks AHEAD of D. Rob on polls posted at the San Antonio board. Shaq is hated...Ewing is dissed, there are no other centers worth talking about; the hate in this case, from my point of view is pretty one sided.
The board you speak of may be different. My best friend's wife is from SA and if you ask her, she hates Hakeem because of Robinson. Ive attented about 8-10 Rocket/Spurs game in SA over the years and sitting amongst Spurs fans, there was no doubt, alot of hate for Hakeem. Im not saying ALL of SA hates Hakeem, but the level of Hakeem haters in SA and the level of Robinson haters here is not necessarily disproportianate.
NOW THAT'S something to hate...the number of Rockets fans able to get seats in the Dome. Thank god it's history!
You have to admit, the Alamodome sucked the big one. Ive seen games in about 14-16 different NBA arenas and with the exception of maybe the Jazz's old building, the Salt Palace, the Alamodome was by far the worst. That place was like watching a pickup game in an airplane hanger. Absolutely no ambiance whatsoever.
cool to see a different take 101, welcome to the board. I don't think a majority of this board HATES the spurs, just a very vocal minority. But not many here like them, because after all this is a Rockets site. Of course, if a true rivalry develops, with all the rabid fans here you will see plenty of disdain for SA.
i hate the spurs because their media and their fans are typically so arrogant about their team. derek anderson was a great player while he was on the team, but as soon as the season was over, they were talking about how he "doesn't show up in the playoffs". in fact, i heard a few people saying that when he came back to play the spurs they hoped someone would "do a juwan howard" on him! talk about class... this is a team that is coached by greg pockmarkovich. this is the same guy that cut avery johnson ON CHRISTMAS EVE! this is the same guy that fired bob hill and usurped his position the VERY MOMENT that the spurs injured players (d-rob, elliott) were coming back after being "injured" all season. this is the team that has the most homerific media hounds in the nba. "jesus" parker will have "jason kidd-like impact on the nba" according to one radio show i heard. "jesus" was "hands down the best rookie in the nba" according to sean elliott in one broadcast. antonio daniels was a "class guy" while he was playing for the spurs. but as soon as they shipped him out, there's articles in the paper about him being a "cancer" on the team. bruce bwen is "the kobe stopper" according to the san antonio express news last year. need i go on? the spurs disgust me.
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Ask Avery NOW what he thinks of Pop. NOBODY did more for his career, 'cept for Avery himself. Avery continues to collect 4 mil per for riding pine in Dallas BECAUSE of Pop! As for D. Andersen and Daniels, they have been portrayed in a bad light in some circles, but not from the Spurs organization. (and Andersen DID disappear in the playoffs, what's wrong with pointing it out). Antonio has detractors, but he also has defenders. As for the "kobe stopper" moniker; B. Bowen hated it when it was written, and hates anybody mentioning it. I'm suprised you didn't trash the Spurs for the whole "Euro-Kobe" spin from the Italian media toward Ginobilli.
i feel sorry for ginobili. he appears to be a decent player, but the organization, imo, has put him in a situation where he MUST succeed immediately. if he does not, the trading of charles smith and antonio daniels looks even more ridiculous than it already does. as for avery, sure, alls well that ends well. but it doesn't change the character (or lack of) that it take to cut a guy on XMAS eve. i'm sure avery looks at it like, hey, it all happens for a reason, blah blah blah, but the truth is that pop pulled a ho move. as for anderson, exactly how can you say a guy "disappears in the playoffs" when he only has played in one playoff series??!! did he have a great series? no. but i don't see that as a reason to label him as a guy who "disappears in the playoffs". the funny thing is that when the spurs acquired steve smith, they raved about how he was a "proven playoff performer". well, he proved to be useless this past playoffs. in fact, they would have been better off against the lakers had they kept DA. bwen? maybe he did hate it. i don't know. but i do know that the media kept pumping that bs out to the public, along with sean "homer" elliott (who, btw, was the absolute worst color commentator i've ever heard).
I agree, verse, Andersen WOULD have been better than Smith against LA - but Andersen didn't resign with the Spurs! Spurs offered more money than Portland - and he still bolted. As for the questionable trade, I'll admit, I was (am) dubious of the value the Spurs received in that deal. But, with hindsight now, C. Smith is looking at retirement because of now surfacing injuries, and AD was simply not going to see minutes in the rotation this year. Pressure or not, Ginobilli is Pop's guy, and he's getting minutes this season. Word has it (although I'll admit this is AFTER AD was not longer a Spur that this surfaced) that Antonio would not take a reduction in minutes sitting down, and would thus create that infamous "unrest in the locker-room".
if I had any way of knowing such things I wouldn't spend my time scouring BB's for info...AND if they did(nt)...is the Spurs fault for being shrewd, or Portland fault for not covering their asses? I mean, if I've got a nice car with a crappy engine & unload it on some unsuspecting old lady...shame on me, but if I pawn it off on a mechanic...shame on him.
true that. true that. but the more i look at that trade, the more i see that the spurs were trying to unload what they considered to be two potential problems...
Coach Pop-A-zit and the Spurs are a joke. I was in the house when Dream turned Robinson into a roll player and WE TOOK OVER THEIR STADIUM! By the end of the game it was a few thousand Rocket fans while the Spurs fans ran for cover. They just don't seem to be able to hold down any of their forts in San Antonio. Also, who remembers when those idiots stayed in a hotel during their home games beacuse they had been winning on the road? That has to go down as the most dumbass idea in NBA history.
Take the spurs, the players, organization, and keep it in SHI@#y San Antonio. Their championship year... a fluke. Won't happen, ever again. For the sake of Tim Duncan, I hope he decides to sign elsewhere, because that whole organization sucks. I respect Duncans game, that is why I'm still talking about the crappy spurs.
My thoughts on the whole * thing by our two championships without Jordan in the league...its BS. Technically he was in the league when we won our second one...he just failed to get his team to the Finals. I know I know he wasnt there for a full season blah blah blah...but if he was so good (the best ever by some peoples standards) and was so rested (which should have actually been to his advantage)...it shouldnt have mattered and he should have been able to get to the Finals. There shouldnt be one for 94 and there could be no asterisk at all for 1995...Jordan WAS in the league that year at playoff time. Maybe " * the year Jordan sucked and couldnt get to the Finals"? Then dont the Lakers get asterisks for their 3 as well? To me thats just ridiculous. I also dont think the Spurs deserve an asterisk either. They played just as many games as the rest of the league...a full schedule that year...and they won the games that counted in the end. No shame in that game. Congrats to them for that.
