I'm going to put this in as black and white terms as I possibly can. I live in Austin...I am surrounded by Spurs fans...as well as numerous transient fans from other NBA geographies... There's not a person in this town that gives a flying ***** about 22 regular season wins. I strongly suspect the rest of the nation feels that way as well.
Well yeah. But most people could give a flying f$$k about the Red Sox coming back from 3-0 to beat the Yankees in 2004 outside of Boston, besides the fairweather fans. No its not a championship. Its a historic record that may never be broken in your lifetime. Its also a salute to teamwork. We shouldn't have won more than one or two more after Yao went down. Yet a gimpy T-Mac and a "who?" group of bench players kept on winning. How could you be a Rockets fan and not be watching every game like it was Game 7 of the Finals? It was fun, exciting. I thought that was the main reason for sports? Why else would the 20 other teams with absolutely no shot at a championship even sell tickets? Besides, my main point was why we have so many assets now with no real direction. I thought some people might appreciate remembering the 22. It was a blast to witness.
Really??? You obviously didn't watch Game 7 of the '94 Finals if you compare any game of that streak to it. I'd equate those streak games to a preseason game before comparing them to a title-or-bust game.
http://twitter.com/#!/TheReal_TMAC/status/66286573041360896 T-MAC's favorite basketball moment was the win streak!
don't forget we were able to even make the playoffs and win 22 games in a row with t-mac carrying this team. people tend to forget about that.
Next you'll do us a favor and explain why what everyone else thinks should matter to US (the die-hard fans of our hometown team). The day I use Spurs fans as a measuring stick for anything is a bad, bad day.
I don't see where he said that. What I do see though is this guy simply making an observation, an observation which seems to be bit much for some of you to swallow.
Agreed for the most part, but even when the supporting cast sucked, our superstars were still often not healthy. Even the first three seasons for McGrady in Houston (which were the three seasons with a crap supporting cast... although the 05 team was decent), Yao and McGrady were getting injured constantly. That alone cost us at least one or two second round appearances. I remember we had a really good record during that stretch when those two played together.
absolutely love this thread, 5 stars!! its nice to reminisce on the good times we had and your points are all spot on.
See what RA could do with 2 superstars and his princeton offense the second longest winning streak in NBA history. And the team has even better assets now minus the two superstars
Though it was only 3 seasons ago, it does seem like eons. Truthfully, we have only taken 3 steps back (T-Mac, Yao, Adelman) from that type of team. Definitely not the time to rebuild. We can get back to that type of production much, much sooner than most people think.
