The Spurs blueprint for building a team is highly overrated

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

how come
Orlando didn't win with Dwight?
Celveland didnt win with LeBron?
Orlando didn win with Shaq?
Houston didnt with McGrady?
Jazz didnt win with Malone and Stockton?
Sonics didnt win with Payton and Kemp?
76ers didnt win with Iverson?

this is a gay ass thread. glad the homo is in red

 

[ghostwriterx]

im not gonna say their blueprint is overrated. first of all, not a lot of teams would have the guts to sit robinson and tank. also do you know how hard it is to add new free agents and draft picks when you constantly have low draft picks and when you arent a major free agent destination. (name the biggest spurs free agent acquisition??)

i will say this. i think popovich took advantage of a great coaching .situation. firing bob hill, getting duncan and now your the one of greatest coaches of all time? i think bob hill would have been successful with the duncan spurs as well.

They're still successful now and Duncan is They were this close to the Finals last year while running a completely different system from Duncan's prime years.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Threadstarter a fukk nikka for even making this thread. Yeah we got lucky in 1997 by winning the lottery and drafting Tim Duncan but Pop and RC Buford still had to build the rest of the team, have a system that would make everything successful and put pieces into place. Not only that but by getting the team and the players to buy into the system each and every year.

Drafting Tony Parker late in the first round
Drafting Manu Ginobili late in the second round
Getting perimeter threats to surround Duncan (Sean Elliott, Jaren Jackson, Stephen Jackson, Danny Ferry, Steve Kerr, Steve Smith, Michael Finley)
Picking up solid role players (Bruce Bowen, Robert Horry)
Having one of the best coaching staffs and front offices over the past decade

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Im sure Spurs management know the blueprint better then "Coli" analysts

 

[Texas2step]

Aside from Robert Horry for a few games who the fukk outside of their big 3 played a big role in them winning titles

roel players are interchangable in the nba and only as good as the players around them

How about Bruce Bowen? Sean Elliot? If you think about it, most championship teams had a 3pt/defensive specialist.

at outside the big 3 who played a big role...It is only 5 spots on the floor, so do you expect the other 2 players to have a big role? there is only one ball

 

[KEEPITTRILLA]

anyone that can call the Spurs blueprint overrated is a fukking moron, ban this fakkit

 

[Coli Bot]

Seems solid to me

 

[Texas2step]

There good players but without Duncan they are not nearly as good hes the main reason they won titles without him they win NONE

Duncan won a title when Parker was a rookie on the bench in the playoffs and Speedy Claxton started over him and was there 2nd best player in the playoffs

Wrong. They won in is 2nd year and he was getting them a solid 15ppg and he was the 2nd leading scorer on the team.

Duncan is a great player but you can't give him credit for Manu and Parkers accomplishments. He didn't make Parker's floater or drive to the hoop unstoppable. He didnt make Manu a clutch player or a crafty player. Spurs are great at recognizing talent

 

[CrimsonTider]

These reason they haven't won a title since 07 is because Duncan got old

 

[malbaker86]

Wrong. They won in is 2nd year and he was getting them a solid 15ppg and he was the 2nd leading scorer on the team.

Duncan is a great player but you can't give him credit for Manu and Parkers accomplishments. He didn't make Parker's floater or drive to the hoop unstoppable. He didnt make Manu a clutch player or a crafty player. Spurs are great at recognizing talent

He was wrong about the year Parker was in but, I think he's referring more so to in the playoffs when Parker was getting benched in the 4th quarter for Craig Claxton.

 

[Bilz]

These reason they haven't won a title since 07 is because Duncan got old

And even though he is they have still been in contention to win it all just about every season. They're always contending so they don't get high draft picks and they're in fukking San Antonio so they don't get big free agents. Instead, they recognize useful talents in players that were overlooked or tossed aside by other teams and turn those guys into high quality system players. If they were just sitting back and living off of Tim Duncan, they would have fallen off a long time ago.

 

[CrimsonTider]

And even though he is they have still been in contention to win it all just about every season. They're always contending so they don't get high draft picks and they're in fukking San Antonio so they don't get big free agents. Instead, they recognize useful talents in players that were overlooked or tossed aside by other teams and turn those guys into high quality system players. If they were just sitting back and living off of Tim Duncan, they would have fallen off a long time ago.

You are right, but the reason they can't beat a top team 4 out 7 grabs is becaus Duncan can't dominate the game on both ends anymore.

If Duncan was still in his prime that would have beat Memphis an OKC

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Naw son. It ain't just Timmy. They did an amazing job of keeping good talent Manu, Parker, Bowen in that sorry ass city. I also have to applaud their culture.. Humble quiet winners..

I hate SA an the fukkin swagless spurs but they deserve all the credit for huge success an a city that no star nikkas wan to live in.. They didn't have the benefit like NY,MIA and LA of attracting stars.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

And if San Antonio's blueprint is so overrated how come on other teams can or have been able to do it?

 

[Mic-Nificent]

And if San Antonio's blueprint is so overrated how come on other teams can or have been able to do it?

I'd argue OKC has been doing it pretty well recently...

Plus other teams typically don't draft (and keep) one of the three best players of their generation.

It's not an either or situation...

You need a superstar, best of their generation type player, but you also need a smart front office who knows how to put the right people around that player.