Their playoff defeat by the Thunder may have prompted questions about the future of this San Antonio Spurs team, but veteran duo Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili insist they haven’t made their minds up whether to call time on their Spurs careers just yet. “But when they do decide to move on, sometime between now and the next five years – that’s a little bit of a joke – it will feel a little differently walking into the gym”. “It’s going to be a long summer for us”. This is an area that Popovich says the Spurs will improve on in the offseason. Donovan’s key adjustment in that series was playing Adams and Enes Kanter together for big minutes, which allowed Oklahoma City to obliterate San Antonio on the boards – particularly in offensive rebounding.
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Rather than write the formula for the Spurs’ demise, perhaps the equation is far more simple: it’s just not easy to win championships. That’s a credit to Pop (Spurs coach Gregg Popovich) and the coaching staff and the players who are willing to just believe in their system.
“I’ll get to that after I get out of here and figure life out”, he said.
Ginobili, 38, is looking at returning for a 15th National Basketball Association season and has a $2.9 million player option to do so. And while Oklahoma City lost all three regular season meetings with the Warriors, it led in the fourth quarter in Oakland and had a four-point lead at home before losing in overtime on a half-court shot by Stephen Curry in another. “So, I doubt it highly”. I just wanted to make that clear.
Saturday, May 28: at San Antonio, 6 p.m. And they have the reigning two time Defensive Player of the Year and runner up for the MVP this season, Kawhi Leonard.
He left the game to a standing ovation after a superb personal contribution that also included nine rebounds and two assists. After so much death, it’s possible that we’ll see a break in the action-I would normally bet on it, if this episode weren’t called “The Book of the Stranger”, a reference to the Faith of the Seven’s God of Death. People have the audacity to brand LeBron James a loser simply because he doesn’t bag a ring every year.
Old Man River Walk got old before our eyes in this series.
After some early struggles adjusting to a new system, Aldridge developed into the offensive threat the team hoped for when it signed him in the offseason. In Game 4 Diaw had 11 points in 21 minutes, shooting 5-of-8. Some suggested that Popovich should sit Duncan. “I thought he’s still capable”.
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Even if no one else on the Thunder show up – a real possibility – these two are good enough to win a game or two. “There’s only one team that is happy at the end of the year and everybody else at some point is sad, but you get over it. You get over it”. “Being a part of this team, I’m very proud of it, even if sometimes it doesn’t go our way”. Boris Diaw is the one thing Popovich didn’t try. Popovich asked. “Do you know something that I don’t know?”
