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The DVD That Will Never Be

(Warning: this post is fairly pointless and is mainly ranting without anger or purpose, which to me is the point of Pounding the Rock - a depository of Spurs emotion that falls outside the boundaries of the other two Spur sites.)

 

No title, and with that means no Championship DVD to watch for amusement.  It's odd to think how over time the DVDs of past championships will possibly replace some of the actual, in the moment memories of the Finals themselves.  (And on a sidenote, can any of the Championship DVDs compare with the 2003 edition?  The fourth quarters, the Stephen Jackson and Speedy Claxon youth movement that slipped away...)

I'm not sure why I'm ruminating on DVDs but for some reason I'd like to see a DVD on this season.  Of course that will never happen. And for what purpose? Even with last year's DVD, very little new was discovered.  It's like the DVD documentary crew had grown too old and past their prime as well.

For reasons I admit are basically retarded I would like to see a DVD of this year.  The team's mortality has never been more on the line, hence the outpouring of eulogies we see on almost every basketball site.  

To me this season had the most drama of all of them.  It also had the most frustration.  Perhaps I watched too many slow-paced, bleak movies of the 70s growing up.  Perhaps that's why I'm drawn to the team.  Who knows? But a DVD of this season that truly got behind the scenes and captured all the subtle humor, pathos, private drunken rants would be a Sundance winner in my mind.

Perhaps I don't want the season to end just yet.  As much as I privately hated a third to half of the team this year, I also appreciate what they did over the years.  The fact they even made it past New Orleans was an accomplishment in my mind.

For me it's been about a 23 year journey of watching the team - from the low point of the Ed Nealy/Walter Berry years to the end of the high point last night.

So much time.  Last night felt like the last stage of grief.  It's a sad acceptance.

 

 

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no sense in having a defeatist attitude, my friend...

they’ll make us play the games next year… I don’t think I’m being overly optimistic in saying that I believe we’ll be right back in it in one, maybe two years. Glass half empty guys will look at the lakers series and say that Duncan had the worst shooting % of his playoff career, but the bottom line is that he showed me, and others that he will be able to get it done for at least a couple more years. Parker isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and Gino will find ways to make the necessary improvements to his game.

Perhaps the only tangible detriment to the team this year was simply the age factor. Experience and age can only walk hand in hand for so long before the legs just give out. I think we saw that this year, and even though we all cursed Horry and Finley at points, we all had the not so secret hope that they would find a way to get it done like they had in the past. The only difference between this year and last year, was that they finally just couldn’t. There is nothing you can say other than that they literally gave everything they had.

The next couple of years will be telling for the Spurs as an organization. Although Duncan will continue to be effective because of his high IQ for the game, Ginobili will likely continue to burn himself out, much like Iverson has begun to do. Their respective styles simply make it impossible for either of them to leave the game any other way.

I really hope that we’re able to inject the necessary youth component that we need. The Spurs are like a classic car. It will still perform, and win you some trophies. You just have to look after it a little bit more…

by scrappy-doo on May 30, 2008 1:09 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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