VERY amusing PtR article
I'm not going to say anything, cuz I like some of the passionate guys (yes, you CMoney) who write over there at PtR, but this is a funny read.
"my mind drifted back to the fact that the Spurs haven’t been quite right since the 05-06 season, the year of the infamous Manu Ginobili foul. We all remember that moment and, thanks to Gregg Popovich, we know that if it weren’t for that foul the Spurs would have repeated as champions and gas would still be less than $2 per gallon....
Do you agree with the following statement?
The Spurs lost the WCF because Manu Ginobili was hurt.
I have a feeling most Spurs fans and Spurs management would agree with that statement. That agreement is a symptom of the disease plaguing the Spurs. The problem is not that the statement is false; the problem is what it implies. It implies, similarly to Popovich’s numerous statements about the ’06 Dallas series, that the Spurs would have won if it not for one bad break. That leads to the conclusion that there was only one variable controlling the Spurs fate; one flip of the coin. It’s saying the odds of coming up heads four times in a row is one out of two, because you’re assuming the first three events turned in your favor. The reality is that the Spurs lost to the Lakers because any one of the following four things happened:
1. Tim Duncan was less than 90%.
2. Manu Ginobili was less than 90%.
3. Tony Parker was less than 80%.
4. Bruce Bowen was less than 90%....
Pop dicked around with lineups / game plans / time out calling / substitution patterns all year, openly admitting he didn’t care about home court advantage. Well, hmm, that might have come in handy against New Orleans. (Sound familiar?)
2 months ago
Toddy
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