On Harsh Realities

Rec’d.

Can we now start the inevitable 2010 Tiago Splitter disappointment countdown?

Rec’d. Lets do this, Leroy Jenkins style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU

or if you prefer the techno version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N6sqdrJzVo

I want the Spurs to make history.

Go Spurs Go!

Tim said during his interview, “We’re not going to back off. We’re not going to give up. We’re not going to lay down and let them take it.”

Our odds of winning are better than the odds of another Boba’ Gunoosh coming off the Sun’s bench & lighting us up for another 20+ points in the 4th.
We got Game 5….we’ll worry about the rest later.

SA Express John Mac Donald reports from practice today: Manu says Spurs know no NBA team has overcome 3-0 hole: "I guess the odds are with us then. It’s got to happen once, right?"

I do not quit in life and do not quit on my teams. This Spurs team has made the current season more difficult than it need be, but if any squad is capable of taking one small turn of direction and making a deficit such as this turn all the way around it is the group of leaders on this team.

Right now, small goals. Earn one home win. Then earn another win, giving Mr. Holt one more home date with gate receipts. Then earn another, three straight as they have done to us. Make it so that this series is still alive next Sunday. All the pressure is on us, for now, so turn the table of pressure over the next week. Two of the next three are home games so let’s start by not allowing a clinching on our floor. Right now, nothing to lose to play loose and make history, one game at a time. I’ve always felt this playoff run would be special for us and I still do. Keep pounding that rock.

Rec to you LD. This is where our collective minds should be.

I hate to say this, but our bench sucks. That’s not fair or true. Our bench has merely been outplayed, upstaged by a couple of outlying performances by this seeming nemesis.

The guys who killed us in game 2 and 3? Barbosa, Dragic and Dudley.

Our bench is going to have to play big. A couple of guys will have to go “Dragic” in order to make this a 4 to 1 series. I think they have it in them. A Spurs victory is but a minute distance further from the mean than most of the Suns victories have been.

but would it be possible to have a pink and black out next game? Everyone go old school, wear the classy Spurs gear, and hold signs that say “Remember the Alamodome!!”?

The bright side of all this: Every single person on their team has had at least one awesome nights…

Doesn’t that mean that they have no-one left to give a super-awesome night, since everyone already pitched out theirs in games 1, 2, and 3? :D

That’s the spirit, LD! Go Spurs Go!!!!!

Im sorry Brosetta Brones

I want to believe, but something tells me thats just building my hopes up just for them to be destroyed into Broblivion

I still support the team, but

Its looking pretty bleak

Next game Earl Clarke goes for 35 and probably will end up 5 for 5 from the three

THERE’S NO SANTA CLAUS?

So our chances to win are one in ten thousand?

For me this makes everything rather easy. The series is lost, no pressure. The Spurs win, the Spurs lose, it won’t matter. So I’ll just watch the game for what it is, just a game.

Guys, if the Heat, excuse me the Dwyane Wade’s, can come back from a 2-0 hole and win 4, count them, FOUR in a row against a great maverick team in 2006, then certainly we can push this to a game 7. Then who knows. Unlike most teams who go down 3-0, this Spurs team is an awesome team. Not to mention how sweet it would be to once again be that thorn in the Sunds side.

Suns*

is that at me?

I wasnt really addressing a post. Just saying what came to mind.

I just think it sucks that the Lakers are goin’ to skate thru the playoffs w/o havin’ to face Dallas, Denver, or the Spurs.
I can just hope to see another Cleveland collapse—-followed by another boring Lakers-Magic final

we had a power failure here for 8 hours and the only thing that let the time fly so fast was thinking that san antonio is going to make history.and i know that its is very impossible hard to win but not impossible.first thought that came to me was that,we will tie the series and game 7 in phoenix,george hill will explode for 51 and 30 in the 4th q,and the spurs scoring 42 in the 4th,revenge against dragic,then will make it to history by being that only team out of 89 to win.that means,0.01%,1 out of 90, and its not a big number,but its a glimpse of hope that had me thinking,maybe yes we can,if we can have 3 losing streaks then go for a 4 winning streak,that might not be that bad after all as long as your opponent hasn’t won or doesn’t have a 4-0 record.but truth be told,this is the post season not the regular season.next thing that i thought or dreamed was san antonio winning against orlando in the finals,like the scenario in the 2005 finals,game 7 against detroit.the last histroy that we will write,winning the championship as the lowest seed,7th seed.if houston,6th seeded can make it,why not us?the only bad thing is that,i don’t know if they were down 2-1 or 2-0 or 1-0 in their series(es) that they had,but surely our scenario is different from them.i want to witness something,and i hope we all can.hopefully.

i want the spurs to win.
i hope they win.
i will be cheering them on in game 4.
i think they will win game 4.
i believe that overall, they are the more skilled team.

and i think the series is lost.

does the last statement make me less of a fan? does it mean i’ve “quit” or “given up” on them? what exactly does that even mean? being realistic doesn’t mean i hope they lose (despite what i said after game 3), it doesn’t mean i don’t care that they’re down 3-0. those of us being realistic aren’t hurting any less because of whats happening. i want to be proven wrong. alas, i just don’t think its going to happen.

::shrug:: for me, the proof is in the pudding. and the pudding right now is on fire in the oven, and the firemen are on strike.

and as a side note, i find it curious that an appeal to statistics is made in a post talking about having blind faith in the team :P

“I believed, I believe, I want to believe, and I will believe, what more do you want?”

Being a fan of any competitive sports team/person, especially the SA Spurs, is a high-risk/high-reward endeavor. Some times in the past, I’ve found myself holding back so that I won’t get too disappointed, but it usually backfires. If they win, it’s not as sweet. If they lose, you feel really bad about losing hope in them.

For whatever reason, I am more calm now than I was before Game 3. They’ve got nothing to lose except their pride. I’m not even thinking about a possible Game 5,6,7. I’m just thinking about Game 4 and all I really want is for the guys to lay it all out there tomorrow so that when all is said and done, they won’t have to say, “we could have done better.” That’s all I can really ask from them.

And as ridiculous as it might be, I still believe in this team. And as one SpursTalk poster once said, “If the Spurs are the Titanic, I’m going down with the ship.”

The 0-88 includes all series where one team was clearly superior to the other and would go on to sweep. You would think there is some subset of 3-0 series where the teams were relatively evenly matched, just one team got the breaks or hit the big shots. Just like if you flip a coin three times, there’s a 12.5% chance it’ll come up heads three times.

The optimistic Spurs fan’s view would be that we’re in that subset. The odds of a team winning four times in a row (assuming the teams are evenly matched) is 6.25%. Not great odds, but as LatinD points out, better than 0. Plus, most teams in that spot wouldn’t have players like Manu or TD with multiple rings, and be facing a team they’ve owned. For the sake of argument, let’s say the Spurs win game 4 and somehow steal game 5 in Phoenix. I’ve got to believe the Suns would be hearing footsteps at that point.

It is relevant that several teams have come back from down 3-0 to force a game 7; I think Denver might have done it against Utah in the 90s, and I definitely recall the Jail Blazers coming back against Dallas, I believe in 2003, to force a game 7. In fact, I remember that game was tied with 2 minutes to go, so if ‘Sheed or Scottie Pippen or whoever had gotten hot at the right time, they could have pulled it off. So just because it hasn’t happened, doesn’t mean that it can’t.

I guess I would say I haven’t given up hope, but it’s the same hope you have when you’re team is down 10 with a minute to go. You recognize that it’s extremely unlikely, but there’s always a chance. As Andy Dufresne says, “hope is a good thing, maybe the best of all things, and no good thing ever dies.”

Genial LatinD. Un placer leer lo tuyo.