PtR Quick Cap: It's Over. The Season Is Over.

Is it time to panic, or should we just go straight to mass suicide? Discuss.

I think the one bright spot in an otherwise pitch black dungeon of shit has been Geroge Hill. The kid can play.

Don’t Panic. It’s in the good book.

thats it? this is how it ends? in 5 games? against dallas? in the first round?

fuck off. i’m not ready for the season to be over.

damn it,

We’re really solid and deep at the 1 and 2, with Parker/Manu/Hill/Mason. We’re also good at the 5, obviously, with Timmy, though we can no longer rely on him to dominate.

We’re absolutely terrible at the 3 and 4. That has to improve. Is there anyone on the Toros who could play there? Hairston is too small. Maybe Marcus Williams, or James Gist, or Yawn, or random free agent (Trevor Ariza?). If we can get someone even passable there, Bowen and Finley will be serviceable in limited roles as backups.

One thing we really have to remember is how different this team is with a healthy Manu Ginobili. Our future seasons are not hopeless. Like Stampler said earlier in the season, we have 3 of the 25 or so NBA players that actually matter.

That doesn’t mean that we can just sit back and hope that everything gets better. But there is reason for optimism.

G.I.S.T.

so who’s under contract and who’s a free agent on our team??

I’m going to be driving through Dallas soon. Can I get directions to the AA Center so I can flip a bird on the way by??

Hey, you guys tried to lose me.

Atleast Tim and Tony didn’t die out there. They played like the Champs they are.The guys out there that mattered for us played hard.

I thank you all for graciously accepting me on this site and letting me watch basketball with you this season. PTR has become a welcome addition to my life, as have all of you! I look forward to a, hopefully, productive off-season.

Where do we (as fans) go from here? Loser threads? We’ll call the Champ threads. :P

ATS said:

You realize Tim only had 8 boards in 42 minutes right?

He was hitting his jumper though.

He was also posting up just fine, did a couple of turnaround jumpers, passed the ball when he was doubled, hit the bank shot…

What if we actually get a big able to help him corral down rebounds?

I hope they’ll be threads for the other games on here so we can discuss/mock/be jealous of other teams

Pop looks like he’s about to cry in the postgame

Hello guys…..strange.Im not that down…….

Did you guys notice what pop said in the post conference? He said " They are a better team than us ……….right now."

You gotta love that looking ahead.Knowing this is just one season …

Maybe pop did cry.Or maybe he unloaded on the guys in the lockeroom in a furious tongue lashing………..who cares.

And the experts said Timmy couldn’t get it done. If you wear a Spurs jersey and your name is not Duncan, Parker, Bowen or Hill (and what the hell, Thomas), hide in shame.

We need a guy who can block shots. Did you guys notice how they killed us on the midrange game? Where they would pass up the long jumper, drive it in a little and take a higher percentage shot?

Mrs ATS says, “Fucking Spurs!”

Could’ve been the 3rd scorer. 1 point the last two games. 8 in the last three. Good Lord we coulda used some scoring help.

A big who can block shots (Maybe Ian?)
A 3/swing that can guard and make a few open shots (someone like Ariza would be perfect, or if Hill suddenly grew about 4-5 inches).

Thanks, I have enjoyed reading this blog more than any of the other sport writers, you guys are great ! I love my Spurs !!

Timmy D …. enough said.

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But nobody is one right now. It’s just an empty table in a room full of reporters.

FUCK YOU FINLEY! THANKS FOR HITTING THAT 3 AGAINST THE HORNETS TO FORCE OVERTIME WHICH WE THEN WENT ON TO WIN AND CLINCH THE DIVISION AND 3RD SEED!!!

End of rant.

Scola at the podium, now I want to cry

Well how many “Thank God the Spurs Are Out of the Playoffs!” stories do we think will be on the web tomorrow??

This team succesfully reloads with a shotblocker( maybe sheed), a better small forward ( Sorry Ime), And manu ginobili on the court.

Maybe get rid of some of the dinosaurs ( Fabio…….KT?)

Bruce probably has one more lock down season left in him.

On that, I’m out. I’ll talk to you guys soon! Thanks for making this season fun for me, whatever the outcome.

Team is everything.

gnite dj

Duncan, Parker, Manu, Hill, Bowen for sure.

Mason, Ime, Fab, maybe KT are likely.

Everything else is open. Can Ian get healthy? Do we go after Shee and/or Ariza? I know one thing: outside of our core guys, we have too many regular season players. No one other than Hill seemed willing or excited to step up and score or get dirty on D. In a playoff series. Can’t have that and hope to advance. I’d rather win ugly and be “boring” than play like the Mavs and Suns.

maybe sheed can be had for peanuts

Its time to part ways with Ime…….he hurts the team too much. That good man to man defense doesnt offset the fact that he basically has a Bruce Bowen offensive game.

Except that Bruce can actually hit a three.

Well, I’m heading off to bed. I’d take a shower but I don’t really trust myself around sharp objects at the moment.

’Night all!!!

always draw some joy from the fact that we didn’t even get to the playoffs to have a nice, friendly elimination at your hands

Its dsnt matter whether you win or lose, its how you play the game :P

Closing the comments for the game threads might encourage people to move to the new thread, ATS, but it also ruins any chances of continuing the conversations in it after the game. Like we usually do.

By the way, guys. We might not be able to win the championship this year. There, I admit it. :)

Timmy still has some good years left, Manu can hopefully get healthy and be a 6th man of the year contender, and Tony is one of the top 5 PGs in the league.

The Front Office really needs to Do Work this offseason to compliment and help those three before Timmy and Manu really get over the hill

Reporter: “Hindsight being 20/20, would you play George Hill more in the first 2 games”
Pop: “No, absolutely not”

http://www.examiner.com/x-4160-Dallas-Mens-Singles-Guide-Examiner~y2009m4d29-All-things-must-pass

Good analysis. I’m not all that bleek about next season either. We know that Tim, Tony and Manu aren’t going anywhere. That’s where it starts, and ulitmately ends. Those three carry us to victory. It’s the inbetween that is the problem.
(In no order)
I know Rasheed is old, but I believe he can be a good role player for us. I think he wants to be here. I agree we need to develope Hill. Lots of potential there. We should keep Mase, though only as a spot up shooter. He cannot handle the ball. Bowen…I couldn’t let Bruce go. He’s still good on D, and thats important. Finley, Bonner- gone. Sorry. I know Fin’s given us some good years, but he and Bonner have proven they are not reliable and consistent. They’ve proven that. Mase is kind of the same way, useful only as a spotup shooter, but we have more invested in him. Fab, Ime, gone. Gooden, I’d say keep around. He can rebound and score, and I don’t think he ever really had a chance to develope with this team yet. KT…eh, keep. He had a good season. Ariza, while I can’t honestly say I like the guy (based solely b/c he’s a Laker and has stung us), I’ll take him on our team. We’ve all been on that side of things (see Robert Horry- Suns-Rockets-Lakers) He can play.
(I think that’s all I have for now.)

I was negative about the 2008-2009 season before it tipped off. I said things like that would be lucky to win 50 games and didn’t think George Hill would be able to contribute. Six months later, I’ve done a 360, this team will win nearly 60 games in 2009-2010 and they will be in title contention. I’m also a big believer in George Jesse Hill Jr. and think he’ll be able to give you 20-25 solid minutes a game next season. So this run ain’t over.

i was super-sick last night and not able to get in on the game thread. heck, i’m just now able to sit upright for more than 10 minutes ata time. what a shitty shitty way to end the season.

one thought did keep crossing my mind as i lay on the couch sweating out my fever with 4-5 covers on top of me. it was the shovel. for the last several years, the spurs used a shovel to bury all of their opponents. i mean, just bury them. to me, you always knew they were going to win all the tough games. they were gonna keep pounding the rock until it split. some of that was still there with timmy lighting up dallas to tune tune of 8-9 made FGs in a row – but it was never enough. we never got enough of theat “spurs basketball” that we all love and everyone else hates.

last night was different, our boys were using a shovel all night, but it was for trying to dig themselves out of a hole. it was the same kind of digging that our boys had been doing most of the year, really.

from here on into the summer, i am hoping they use that shovel to move some of the dead weight that kept us chained to the bottom in this series. i love some of theese men, but at minimum we gotta cleanse the roster of guys like ime, jv, bruce, fin, matty, KT and fab. we still need a back-up for Tony and another solid big – but forgodsakes, its time to bring in some other guys that can play D.

sadly, only a fraction of those moves will probably be made. and we will be contractually obliged to some too. but our run can definitely continue with the right mix of guys behind the healthy big 3. i’m bummed about right now, but not totally bummed about the future. these guys are NOT gonna stand for getting bounced out in the first round.

Just wanted to add to this discussion, Stampler you freaking suck! You got all that heat from PTR and for what? You were wrong as hell. We lost in 5, not in 7.

Is there gonna be a thread for the games tonight? Is anyone interested?

The Hornets are +11 tonight. Seems a little low to me.

The next poll I put up will be about who will win the Thuggets and Mavs series, and by how much. After all of the first round series are complete, I’ll be re-doing the “Who Will Come Out of the East” poll, and do one for the West.

Don’t feed the troll, guys. He’s taken care of anyway.

I wasn’t feeding him, I was educating him….

Okay, I’ll be good.

you could probably pick up Frye w/ the Biannual exception or a fraction of the MLE.
He’s a good player if he gets his minutes, he just doesn’t give Portland anything LMA doesn’t and Outlaw is more effective as a mismatch 4 then as a 3.

Also, Shawn Marion would be pretty awesome in S.A.

Let me start off by saying Thank you. I have gone on other team’s blogs and the debates have been very heated. But recently a post was up on the Lakers blog and I just had to come here not as an enemy but just as a basketball fan. I have a friend who is a die hard Spurs fan. But, we never argue about which team is better. I have so much respect for the Spurs. Now, I am not here expecting brownie points or anything like that. But as a fan of the game you cannot help but admire a great team. I cannot believe to admit this but I seriously appreciate Pop’s coachins style. I seen him once call a time out in a game and he just got into Duncan’s face. Someone on the Lakers post said it best when they said that Laker fans hated the Spurs but mostly because of the threat they posed to the Lakers. But, believe me, any Laker fan that says, “I wish we met the Spurs in the playoffs” is a dam liar! Maybe this year yes but not prior to that. Either way, I love the Lakers but respect the Spurs 100% and although I do not believe this team’s best days are behind them like the media wants to suggest I am not looking forward to any additions this team might make for next year. Good luck and sincerely speaking I truly believe that this teams has been one of the best coached teams and a classy champion. THANK YOU!

So the day I finally reach a deal to get internet in 20 days, the spurs are gone. Fuck the universe, fuck the mavs.

GO HOUSTON GO