Amen.

Because it’s the odd year after a championship. We are 3-0 in those years. :)

Yeah, something was just not right all year long. Still the Spurs could have had this one if Manu had been healthy. Oh well. Come on odd year!

As I posted in the game 4 thread. J Crawford realized he was under the microscope, therefore didn’t make blatant calls/non calls throughout the game, but when it really counted got his revenge (hopefully it’s settled). Go ahead and bitch “no conspiracy”, take the high road or what not, the fact remains he figured on having one or two bullets to shoot us with, without being obvious and blasted em when it counted most. Sure we didn’t deserve that game but his non call none the less helped determine the final outcome. Any hoot, I needed to vent that, here’s hoping to a productive offseason, our guys not actually being too over the hill and a good showing next season. GO SPURS!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed the year on PtR. This live game thread is the shit.

Thanks to Matthew and Michael for taking care of things and keeping us going all year.

As for me, I’ll be dark for a while with work and a short vacation. But rest assured, I’ll be here all summer. I’ve got a wealth of topics stored up. And there is not offseason in Spurs basketball.

i may not comment much, but i read this place every day, and its pretty much one of the few oasis’s in a sea of crap.

thanks to everyone for making it the place it is.

and thanks to the spurs…we did better than 26 other teams this year, lets not forget that.

I fucking love you guys!

great season yall. many ups and downs. i’m glad i finally found a great place to just talk basketball with some humor thrown in (it’s like our own spurs only tnt overtime).

i’ll check every day during the summer to see if there is any new material

Thank you all for the jokes, the angry comments, and the camaraderie . You made being a Spurs fan all the more enjoyable.

PTR has gone global. It’s great to talk to people from all over the world. This site has made following the Spurs that much more enjoyable. It’s been great talking basket ball with you guys. I know the traffic on here will die down over the summer but remember to check back and drop us a line. And don’t forget, we have a draft to discuss in a few weeks.

It’s been an immense pleasure. I got off a job interview today where I’ll be probably working 60 + hours a week (up from about 35…ish) so I will probably not be around that much, but I will always check it out when I can. It’s been loads of fun!! :)

And SiMA, you can take me off your “watch”...I’m not a Laker fan in disguise :p

I love you all. Matthew and Stampler, I love you. Austech, I love you. I love you all.

We’ll be back.

Thank you all for this season. You made it 200x as good.

best Site around!!!! Thank you for everything Matthew and Aaron (Michael)

Everyone else has been incredible here too! I’m going into hiatus mode now, and see everyone back around October!

I want to echo the comments above, at least the nice ones, and let you guys know that ptr has made this season one of the most enjoyable (except for the way it ended). It’s tough to keep up on all the Spurs gossip when you are half way around the world, but the contributors here have just the right mix of info, emotion, and craziness to make it worth spending way too much time on the computer to get my Spurs fix.

Even though I’m sure my wife is expecting that the obsession is going to take a break, since the season is over and everything, I’ll still be here in the offseason to discuss the draft, figure out what the hell our F.O. is thinking, and talk shit with Laker fans.

Thank you all guys, it’s been a lot of fun, and the Spurs will be back next year, healthier, younger, deeper, hungrier. And maybe a couple of Argentinian players on the roster will have another olympic gold behind them.

Not here to gloat, just wanted to say thanks. You guys have a great blog here and the people who comment and contribute are the most intelligent and classy fans I have encountered as a blog “crasher”. Kind of mirrors your team. I had a great time this series talking back and forth with some of you (SiMA, Nixiack, AusTechSpur, and a few more) and not so much fun with a few (Gino20, VWolf), but it is all good.

Good luck next year, hope to do this again next WCF. Beware of the beast. (Andrew Bynum).

:-) Nix, I will miss you the most, sniff, sniff….....

I just read the game thread and I have to agree that Sasha taking that last 3 was pretty stupid. Funny thing is the Vegas line on the game was Lakers -8. That last 3 changed the fortune of every better in Vegas. Sniff, sniff, do I smell Tim Donaghey. Like I said, pretty stupid.

Also I noticed a lot of “I am gonna root against the Lakers in the finals” comments. Fair enough, I understand you guys aren’t happy with the outcome of this series, but I hope you change your mind. Gotta keep it in the family in my opinion.

As for the “Celtics beat the Lakers twice” comments. I will just say what I said here before this series started which is: This is not the same Laker team that you guys know and hate. This team is very different from the one that got spanked by the Celtics earlier in the year. The addition of Pau was about more than Pau. It changed the whole team dynamic and I think the Finals will reflect that, but time will tell.

Like I said above, great time with you guys, see ya next year.

But I have to agree with all the comments in here. Pretty much everyone on this blog has had entertaining, interesting, witty comments, and they’ve all been above board. No gratuitous name calling or putdowns. I’d like to think we reflect well on our team, just like I think our team reflects well on us.

I’ll have to take a few days off, but pretty soon there will be drafting and free agency and Olympics. Oh man, if Manu looks like SuperManu for Argentina and leads them to the gold, I’ll be happy for him, but wonder what might have been.

Like everyone else, I would have to agree with this post. I didn’t comment in the live game thread because we were winning and I didn’t want to jinx it. And after the game I was too emotionally drained to even bother. However, as sad as last night was, I’m really proud of the Spurs and I love this blog. Reading it has made the wins sweeter and the losses easier. Thank you to everyone for a great season.
Go Spurs Go.

i just posted on another thread about how much this site has grown over the time i started coming around late last seaosn. it has exploded, really. a great outlet for spurs banter. +100 to all the comments about enjoying the time spent on this here blog. thanks to all.

It’s been fun guys, it’s been fun.

Awesome site. I love coming here. I hate the season didn’t end with another chip, but the Spurs have nothing to be ashamed of. Some tweaks here and there and next season will end better. I can’t wait until next season.

I joined the site/conversation late in the year but its a pleasure to be able to talk basketball with you guys. I’m looking forward to all the conversations about next year.

Hey look guys, it’s our first ever recommended post. See how it gets set off from the other FanPosts? We live, we learn. We should use this.

Sometime next season we should get like 20 seats together, paint ourselves or something, and be totally rowdy.

Baseline Bums are boring now.

SiMA, ATS, and some others (JRW?) getting about 15-16 or so people together, manage to get 16 seats in a line in the AT&T Center, and when the Spurs are coming back strong from being down a bit, the camera pans to the audience…Marv is like ” LOOK AT THAT!!” and they see :

P t R N O S H I R T R A L L Y !!

1 letter on each chest of every one of us as we are whooping it up hard-core and making as much noise as possible. How’s that for dedication (and free pub?)

Who would laugh first, Tony, Manu, or Tim?

Can’t say much that hasn’t already been said, but thanks to Matthew and Michael for the best site on the net. It’s literally become so bad that I don’t even check on anything for work first in the day without initially getting up to speed with everything PtR. The work that you both put into this blog and the quality and dedication that you show is amazing. I’ve been on here for several years but actively started posting this year, and am completely hooked. It’s awesome to read the quality of work by the both of you, and I’m extremely grateful that you allow me onboard. Keep up the great work! We’re all SO appreciative and grateful!

And all of you other contributors are great too. Each and every one of you have made this site a true joy for me. It’s great knowing that there are other like-minded fans out there, and even greater being able to converse with all of you. We’ve established quite the little family here, and it’s so cool! Only thing is, I’m not sure how I’ll ever again be able to watch a SPURS game without having a computer in front of me!

Thanks to all for the great year. We’ll bring it all back again next season, and have to add on another shelf to the Championship trophy rack.

Recommended post indeed.

This is a great site. I hate ST, I hate SR – I love PtR. That is all.

Thanks for all the laughs, for sharing the pain in the defeats and the joy in the victories. You’ve all turned this season the most fun I’ve had as a Spurs fan so far. I plan to be back next year, and hope to see you all come back too.

Matthew & Michael… great job.

ATS, SiMA, LatinD, dennard, pollackj, adam, krukow, kalone, htown, etc. you guys are all wicked awesome!

love you guys.