Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls basketball fans, San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs fans, Welcome to another edition of the San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs Weekly Podcast with your boy, a fan of the
Speaker 1: Black and Silver of forty years, a former stand up
Speaker 1: comedian and actor, and a heck of a YMCA basketball coach.
Speaker 2: I love that I know you do. Here he is
Speaker 2: leading the point, your host, my host, our host, Kay Dizzle.
Speaker 1: What an introduction befitting of the NBA playoffs and the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals right around us. Can you believe this, Spurs fans?
Speaker 1: The NBA season is almost completely at a complete halt.
Speaker 1: Of course, it finished for us a couple months ago,
Speaker 1: but we've been having fun here on the show with
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Speaker 1: videos on YouTube. We do a lot of little fun
Speaker 1: shorts on there, making fun of the NBA, talking about trades,
Speaker 1: talking about the Spurs, talking about you fans, and of
Speaker 1: course talking about yours truly as well. No topics off limits,
Speaker 1: especially here on the San Antonio Spurs Weekly podcast and
Speaker 1: the topic this week, we're going to continue to talk
Speaker 1: about some of these trade rumors, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: call them out landish trade rumors because they're starting to
Speaker 1: look like they could really happen. Last week we talked
Speaker 1: about the Gianas thing where if San Antonio kind of
Speaker 1: unloaded the boat, this would possibly happen here in San Antonio.
Speaker 1: But I also talked to a guy in Milwaukee about
Speaker 1: where he is really going to go. We're not going
Speaker 1: to share that on this episode. Talk about baiting you
Speaker 1: in and throwing you back out into the ocean, right.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on a later show as well.
Speaker 1: Where Giannis really could be going other than San Antonio.
Speaker 1: But there's some interesting names being thrown out there in
Speaker 1: the trade world. We'll talk about one or two of
Speaker 1: them on the show today. We're going to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit of the NBA playoff action now. Of course,
Speaker 1: when we're recording this show on a Monday, it is
Speaker 1: pre recorded, And I just want you guys to know
Speaker 1: that we don't know all the information when it comes
Speaker 1: to who wins in the playoffs. Right now, we just
Speaker 1: watched Game five of the Eastern Conference Finals, where the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks have now closed the gap the three.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that a little bit here in a moment.
Speaker 1: And who's the better opponent for Oklahoma City when it
Speaker 1: comes to the NBA Finals? Is Oklahoma City just gonna
Speaker 1: run Rockshaw and take whatever team? Kind of looks that way?
Speaker 1: And I know Spurs fans, we don't like saying that.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, And today you're really not gonna
Speaker 1: like the show. Hey listen, no topics off limits. Remember
Speaker 1: we may be Homers, but we got to remember where
Speaker 1: we came from. Today on the show, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a little bit of fun too. Taking a look at
Speaker 1: what the Internet says about the top fifteen players in
Speaker 1: NBA history for the San Antonio Spurs. Do you believe
Speaker 1: that some of these should be on the list? Off
Speaker 1: the list? Who's on your list? You can actually comment
Speaker 1: with us on YouTube. You can go to SA Spurs
Speaker 1: Weekly WKD comment on any of those videos and let
Speaker 1: us know who your top fifteen are. We'll probably have
Speaker 1: a new short up very shortly, no pun intended, and
Speaker 1: we'll love to have your guys camaraderie in that section.
Speaker 1: We're also going to talk about the best San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs team of NBA all time, what that never made
Speaker 1: it to the NBA finals. We're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: best Spurs team of all time that never made it
Speaker 1: to the NBA finals. Spurs fans, do you know who
Speaker 1: that is? I'm gonna I'm gonna let I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: you let that kind of marinate right there for you
Speaker 1: and yours before we get into the show. But we
Speaker 1: got a lot to get to here today. We're gonna
Speaker 1: try to make this a quick, painless and kind of
Speaker 1: have that really nice flow of offense going here today.
Speaker 1: But let's talk a little bit about the NBA playoffs. Currently,
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks have closed that gap to three
Speaker 1: games to two. It looked like the Indiana Pacers were
Speaker 1: gonna run away with this. We predicted the Pacers to
Speaker 1: win in seven games. And I guarantee you after the
Speaker 1: other night's loss in New York, Indiana does not want
Speaker 1: to go back to New York for Game seven. They
Speaker 1: do not want to go back to New York. That
Speaker 1: let's call them the fifteenth or sixteenth man. Those fans
Speaker 1: in New York are brutal, baby, and they came out
Speaker 1: and so did the Knicks. So where does this leave Indiana.
Speaker 1: Their backs are against the wall. They need to win
Speaker 1: game six. They need to win Game six. But let's
Speaker 1: talk about NBA conspiracies. Everybody's saying the league is rigged right, Well,
Speaker 1: now we want to extend the NBA playoffs just a
Speaker 1: little bit more and get a little bit more AD revenue.
Speaker 1: Let's kind of go back on the script here. A
Speaker 1: lot of you guys are saying, where the New York Knicks,
Speaker 1: of course, are going to.
Speaker 3: Win Game six. It's gotta go game seven so.
Speaker 1: Everybody can watch. We haven't had a interesting, fun filled
Speaker 1: game seven throughout any of these playoffs. Let's be honest,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City has run Rockshoff all over everybody. Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: right now, Spurs fans, I know you hate, this is
Speaker 1: definitely the best team in the NBA, and one of
Speaker 1: the best I've seen in a long time. They have
Speaker 1: two thirty point plus scores a night, and that is
Speaker 1: tough to beat. And that's what the Spurs are trying
Speaker 1: to go for here in San Antonio. Wemby could be
Speaker 1: that guy. Who's the next guy who's another twenty to
Speaker 1: thirty point scorer for the Spurs. We're still trying to
Speaker 1: find that, and that's why we're so excited here in
Speaker 1: the city. And I believe we got to trust the process.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City did. Oklahoma City trusted the process. Their general
Speaker 1: management staff went out there and made some trades, made
Speaker 1: some amazing deals, and now they're sitting pretty for many,
Speaker 1: many years to come. So that kind of leads to
Speaker 1: our trade talk here. In a few moments, do we
Speaker 1: go out and just grab somebody because we want to
Speaker 1: be in contention right now. We talk about this every week,
Speaker 1: and I just kind of feel like we're beating a
Speaker 1: dead horse. All of us San Antonio Spurs fan podcasters
Speaker 1: are doing this. I'm a big believer in trusting the process.
Speaker 2: Us.
Speaker 1: Let's make the playoffs next year, Let's get a five
Speaker 1: or four seed, Let's shock somebody in the first round
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. But I believe your next dynasty right
Speaker 1: now is okay. See question is can they hold this
Speaker 1: team together next year? I was telling my son, you
Speaker 1: tend to see this in sports with a lot of
Speaker 1: young players these days, where you get your ring early
Speaker 1: and now it's time to go make your money. What
Speaker 1: if you get hurt in the offseason. What if you
Speaker 1: get hurt in practice and you lose that contract, and
Speaker 1: now you know, you become somebody like Greg Odin in
Speaker 1: the past, where you're the number one pick in the
Speaker 1: NBA draft, you get hurt and you lose.
Speaker 3: All that money.
Speaker 1: You want to set your family up for many, many
Speaker 1: years to come right. So these younger players are doing
Speaker 1: just that. They're starting to go to greener pastors after
Speaker 1: they wing that win that golden ring. So can Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City keep it together? A lot of great storylines leading
Speaker 1: up to next year and we ain't even done with
Speaker 1: this year. That leads me to the Knicks and Pacers.
Speaker 1: What team can contend with OKC? OKC runs pretty deep
Speaker 1: on their bench, They've got a really good defense, Alex
Speaker 1: Caruso has been a beast, and Alex Caruso might be
Speaker 1: one of those key parts too. You see I win
Speaker 1: a ring, I'll go elsewhere. And he's a great player
Speaker 1: to kind of add to teams that need a specialty
Speaker 1: player like him. He knows his worth. He's been with
Speaker 1: many teams. He could be one of those elite players
Speaker 1: in the NBA if he wanted to, but he's becoming
Speaker 1: one of those. He reminds me of a Bruce Bowen type,
Speaker 1: somebody that could score the ball, play defense, and lead
Speaker 1: the team while certain players are sitting the bench and
Speaker 1: getting their breath. Okac seems to have it together. They
Speaker 1: run very deep with both Jalen, both Williams, guys Sga Caruso, Chet,
Speaker 1: Holmgren and Chets really haven't had a great playoff run.
Speaker 1: Chet may grab his ring and may get traded. It's
Speaker 1: just an interesting scenario, Okac. Are they going to be
Speaker 1: a one hit wonder? Are there going to be a dynasty?
Speaker 1: I think they're in a really good position.
Speaker 3: That's like the Spurs. The Spurs look like.
Speaker 1: A young OKC team and Spurs fans kind of rest
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 3: Rest on that.
Speaker 1: Now, who matches up.
Speaker 3: With Oka se New York.
Speaker 1: As Charles Barkley said, He said the Knicks will go
Speaker 1: as far as only as Jalen Brunson can go. Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson gets forty to fifty at night, it's over Nick's
Speaker 1: will win. But the moment he hits thirty or less,
Speaker 1: who else is scoring. Michael Bridges has had a eh
Speaker 1: ah playoff after what he did to the Spurs on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, you think he would be the breakout player.
Speaker 1: You would think that a player that was traded for
Speaker 1: five draft picks from the Brooklyn Nets. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: that's a pretty big trade that you would think you
Speaker 1: would be more of a load carrier on that team.
Speaker 1: I'm not impressed with cat guys. I'm sorry. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: a cat hater. I don't know. You know, I'll take
Speaker 1: an antoine car dog any day. You see what I
Speaker 1: did there?
Speaker 3: Cat and dog. Yeah, sometimes we do that on the show.
Speaker 1: Dad Jokes galore. But Carl Anthony Towns is the softest.
Speaker 3: Player of the NBA.
Speaker 1: Every time he goes up for a shot or goes
Speaker 1: through the lane, he wants a foul. Dude, you're seven
Speaker 1: foot something almost three hundred pounds. Shut up, just stop,
Speaker 1: just stop stop being zesty. As the kids today would say, stop.
Speaker 1: Then you see people complain like a like a Josh Hart.
Speaker 1: This guy is a knit and gritty guy. He kind
Speaker 1: of reminds me of the Alex Caruso, and I like
Speaker 1: what the Knicks did by bringing him off the bench.
Speaker 3: Now he's a spark plug.
Speaker 1: But stop crying for every call, stop and just play
Speaker 1: the damn game. If you played the game that your
Speaker 1: coach put before you and you stuck to that game plan,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you won't have to worry about the refs
Speaker 1: or anybody else. It's basic coaching. It's one oh one
Speaker 1: basketball play. But because they start getting these egos, they
Speaker 1: think that they can kind of push the narrative a
Speaker 1: little bit. Who else is going to do it for
Speaker 1: the Knicks? Say it is Brunson and Cat and they
Speaker 1: have an amazing NBA Finals. Let's just say that, who's
Speaker 1: your third or fourth guy to really hold down the four?
Speaker 1: The Knicks bench is starting to play decent. When Brunson
Speaker 1: goes to the bench, Kat goes to the bench, it
Speaker 1: seems like the the bench is like, all right, we
Speaker 1: need to step this up now. But is it little
Speaker 1: too late for New York? Say Indiana makes the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: same kind of situation, We saw it with Halliburton in
Speaker 1: game four, he was a monster triple double, thirty plus points,
Speaker 1: seventeen I believe assists no turnovers. That's putting you in
Speaker 1: legend status there. And this dude's still young, twenty four
Speaker 1: to twenty five years old. But then when you come
Speaker 1: back into game five and give us what you gave us,
Speaker 1: that is not super star potential, that's just star potential.
Speaker 1: You're not in that upper echelon just yet. Will this
Speaker 1: be fuel to fire? And like I said, when we
Speaker 1: do this show, we are recording it early. Indiana may
Speaker 1: be advancing to the finals already, but Indiana needs to
Speaker 1: win game six, Game seven in New York. Man, oh man,
Speaker 1: get your popcorn ready if that has happened or will happen.
Speaker 1: But who's gonna produce for Indiana outside of Haliburt Siakam?
Speaker 1: Siakam's another one of those players up and down. You
Speaker 1: would have thought it would have been somebody like nim
Speaker 1: Hard or Miles Turner. But Miles Turner's been that player
Speaker 1: his whole career. One night it's twenty five points, one
Speaker 1: night it's seventeen. He gets in foul trouble. Indiana's got
Speaker 1: a cast to characters. The one thing I told my
Speaker 1: son there usually is one player that can carry that
Speaker 1: team every night. The disappointment has been Mathrin. Mathren has
Speaker 1: been a disappointment. Every time he gets the ball too.
Speaker 3: He thinks he's fouled.
Speaker 1: Just just play the damn game. So who favors against Okac?
Speaker 1: I would love to see an sea, but they's see
Speaker 1: OKAC winging five. I would love to see Indiana coach
Speaker 1: because the fact they're the underdog. They have been there
Speaker 1: in all it's their time. They've lost two Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 1: It's their time to at least get to that next step.
Speaker 1: And in Halliburton's young career, he could establish himself to
Speaker 1: being one of the Indiana greats. They lose this year,
Speaker 1: they come back next year, putting some players around him,
Speaker 1: maybe a Yanas.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yanas doesn't want to leave the East now. From what
Speaker 1: we've heard out of Milwaukee sources, very interesting setup to
Speaker 1: the NBA season. To close out this season and to
Speaker 1: start next season. I believe it's still Indiana going to
Speaker 1: the finals versus OKC. And if that's the case, OKC
Speaker 1: in five Okac.
Speaker 3: Will bring the ring home to Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: City applause for you OKC fans out there taking a
Speaker 1: listen today. Let's get right into the trade talks here
Speaker 1: in San Antonio. Let's go trade talks galore here in
Speaker 1: San Antonio over the last couple of weeks, and we've
Speaker 1: been trying to be on top of him, and some
Speaker 1: of those other great podcasters out there as well have
Speaker 1: been doing the same thing. Like our baseline bums, what's
Speaker 1: up to you guys out there? TSR Sports on YouTube
Speaker 1: as well have been doing a great job following up
Speaker 1: on what's going on here in San Antonio. With the
Speaker 1: trade talks was hot and heavy with giannasaka Patubo. We
Speaker 1: found out that Chris Paul will not be re signing
Speaker 1: with the San Antonio Spurs. We kind of felt that,
Speaker 1: and if you're a Spurs fan, you saw that at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, signing him to a one
Speaker 1: year deal, helping out wemby a little bit, helping out
Speaker 1: some of the crew, and his knowledge was basically paid
Speaker 1: for for that one year. It's almost like bringing in
Speaker 1: somebody to your business that knows how to make your
Speaker 1: business grow and you have them do a bunch of
Speaker 1: conferences and sit down in a room full of people
Speaker 1: and you hash out ideas, this is what Chris Paul
Speaker 1: was hired for. A lot of us get caught up
Speaker 1: in wanting to see people stick around.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The scary part of this spurs fans, especially in our conference.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's rumored that Chris Paul is going to
Speaker 1: go to the Dallas Mavericks. Can you imagine what he's
Speaker 1: going to do with Cooper Flag? Can you imagine, you know,
Speaker 1: with Kyrie out right now, he's a perfect piece to
Speaker 1: that puzzle to kind of keep Dallas in contention until
Speaker 1: about January or February when Kyrie comes back. So what
Speaker 1: does that do for Chris Paul? Does he sign another
Speaker 1: one year contract or does he go back to Charlotte
Speaker 1: Is the one thing that's being thrown up in the
Speaker 1: air right now. Whatever happens in Chris Paul's life right now,
Speaker 1: we really do want to give him a big round
Speaker 1: of applause as well for what he's done in San Antonio.
Speaker 3: A one year impact.
Speaker 1: Really boosted our morale on the team and also boosted
Speaker 1: the fans again. Only winning nineteen games in twenty one
Speaker 1: games and now winning thirty plus this past year. This
Speaker 1: is a positive and I know what you're taking. No,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul's going, we ain't gonna do that. Dearon Fox,
Speaker 1: is there, guys? Deeron Fox was on a subpar King's
Speaker 1: team his whole career, right around that thirty eight forty
Speaker 1: win mark. You know, they were pushing playoffs throughout his career,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have a dominant player like Victor Winmbinama.
Speaker 1: He didn't have a young core like a Devin Vaselle.
Speaker 1: And now I know these guys may not be here
Speaker 1: if there's a big trade about to happen here in
Speaker 1: San Antonio. But there's so much positive vibes here. I've
Speaker 1: watched some clips on Dylan Harper. I mean, you even
Speaker 1: got legends saying he's possibly going to be a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer, so stick and stated of the course, I say,
Speaker 1: But some of the biggest rumors right here. Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: has now stirred up in the mix here in San Antonio.
Speaker 3: Again, I've seen a.
Speaker 1: Lot of your tweets out there, really interesting tweet, and
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant blasted back on one of the gentlemen not
Speaker 1: here from San Antonio. But is he a top fifteen player?
Speaker 1: Spurs fans, not in Spurs organization history if he gets hired.
Speaker 1: But is he a top fifteen player all time in
Speaker 1: the NBA? Some people say, well, because he went to
Speaker 1: five different teams, or if he's going to come here
Speaker 1: to San Antonio and another team, No, it's not.
Speaker 3: Hold on, let's pump the brakes. Pump the brakes.
Speaker 1: Today's alleged goat for some of you, Lebron James, who's
Speaker 1: on the mount rushmore. Of course, my eleven year old
Speaker 1: son brought up something. Lebron James has been with four
Speaker 1: different teams, Ben with Cleveland twice, twice, LA and Miami.
Speaker 1: He's been traded four times, and you can't say, oh,
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cones is one team. No, those are two different teams.
Speaker 1: He had a different team younger in his career, and
Speaker 1: then he had the other team with Kyrie, So those
Speaker 1: are two different teams. Technically, is Lebron not in your
Speaker 1: top fifteen? Hell, some of y'all continue to argue that
Speaker 1: he's the goat above Michael, why are we laughing?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can't tell where Jordan fans on this show, right,
Speaker 1: But to be perfectly honest with you, think about that
Speaker 1: is Kevin Durant your top fifteen? I love Katie. I
Speaker 1: loved Katie, not just because you know, my name's Katie
Speaker 1: and I'm older and I had the name first. But
Speaker 1: I'm not going to copyrite it, you know, Kevin, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to come after you or anything. But I'd
Speaker 1: love to have a Katie versus Katie show if you
Speaker 1: come to San Antonio. I think we could do that
Speaker 1: here on the podcast as well. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: hook a white e. That's all I'm asking as well.
Speaker 1: But it's interesting. Is he top fifteen material in the NBA?
Speaker 1: How about this one? For a barn burner conspiracy theory?
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant is Camaro Carmelo Anthony with a few rings.
Speaker 1: Wh I throw that out there? I want to throw that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, Kevin. I know you're like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm listening this guy. I want to come on a show,
Speaker 1: But now I don't. No, no, no, no no, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm starting a conspiracy theory. What do you guys think
Speaker 1: about that? Is Kevin Durant a Carmelo Anthony with the rings?
Speaker 1: Carmelo tried to chase the ring went to La Denver
Speaker 1: New York. He chased because when you get toward the
Speaker 1: end of your career, that's what you want.
Speaker 3: You want that ring.
Speaker 1: Kevin, I'm sure wants to add another one. I think
Speaker 1: he sees with san Antonio they possibly could be that
Speaker 1: next superpower. Can you imagine the knowledge that Wemby would
Speaker 1: develop having Paul last year and now somebody like Kevin
Speaker 1: coming in. These are some other rumors, some other rumors
Speaker 1: for san Antonio right now, they're definitely actively seeking a
Speaker 1: trade for a wing They want another wing player. We've
Speaker 1: talked about some of the wing players out there, some
Speaker 1: of y'all are throwing out there. Jalen Brown, I just
Speaker 1: don't think his attitude fits san Antonio. Jalen Brown reminds
Speaker 1: me of another Stephen Jackson. Steven Jackson did win a
Speaker 1: title with us, though, but his attitude we don't I
Speaker 1: think would only fit here for like two three years.
Speaker 1: We'll take a little bit more a look at the
Speaker 1: trade rumor mill here in weeks to come on the
Speaker 1: show as well, so make sure you stick around for that.
Speaker 1: But let's get right into our next segment with the
Speaker 1: greatest San Antonio Spurs team that never made it.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows, somebody didn't know, somebody didn't know something about it.
Speaker 1: But I won't have now way. So let's go. What
Speaker 1: was the greatest San Antonio Spurs team that never made
Speaker 1: the NBA finals? Spurs fans that are really young, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this one, US older fans,
Speaker 1: This one actually shocked me. I did a little bit
Speaker 1: of kind of research on this one. We had a
Speaker 1: great team in the Oklahoma City Thunder actually took us
Speaker 1: out in the Western Conference Finals in six games. Is
Speaker 1: this a prelude to what's going to happen with this
Speaker 1: year's OKC team. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm not a prophet.
Speaker 1: I'm just here to give you some fun NBA talk.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to make predictions. But it's ironic that
Speaker 1: I kind of said Okcity.
Speaker 3: Is gonna win it all.
Speaker 1: And now we're talking about the team that de thrilled
Speaker 1: the Spurs. And here, can you name it? On the
Speaker 1: count of three, maybe you already have on the count
Speaker 1: of three, three, two and one, the greatest San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs team that never won the NBA title was the
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen twenty sixteen Spurs. I was shocked at this
Speaker 1: sixty seven wins that year, and the top that off
Speaker 1: Spurs fans. They tied the Celtics for the most home wins.
Speaker 3: In the history of the NBA.
Speaker 1: Did you know that forty wins at home? Forty and
Speaker 1: one at home? The Spurs were in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: This team had just about every statistical category unlock. This
Speaker 1: is the only thing that scares me about teams like
Speaker 1: OKC or a dominant team like the Spurs were. We
Speaker 1: saw it happen to the Celtics this year. Of course,
Speaker 1: the Celtics ran into a little bit of an injury
Speaker 1: issue there as well, so we'll have to take a
Speaker 1: look at that. The twenty fifteen twenty sixteen Spurs, of course,
Speaker 1: dominated almost every statistical category for them. Taking a look
Speaker 1: at their offensive rating, they were fourth out of thirty
Speaker 1: that year. They were first in defensive rating, only giving
Speaker 1: up ninety nine points. They were beating teams by almost
Speaker 1: twelve points a game. That's a lot on average. But
Speaker 1: they just couldn't really do it on the road. Think
Speaker 1: about their road wins. You won forty out of sixty
Speaker 1: seven games, you won twenty seven on the road.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's still not bad.
Speaker 1: Right, you were twenty seven and fourteen, but showed shows
Speaker 1: in the playoffs that you need to win on the road.
Speaker 1: And at that time that OKC team was such a
Speaker 1: dominant team at home as well, and that those fans
Speaker 1: were just so nasty, kind of like they are now.
Speaker 1: They're like the New York Knicks of the Western Conference.
Speaker 3: You don't want to play in OKC in a big game.
Speaker 1: Now, the San Antonio Spurs were an excellent team at
Speaker 1: that time, and they were second in the NBA Western
Speaker 1: Conference at sixty seven and fifteen, and they had won
Speaker 1: forty wins at home and of course losing in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference finals. They swept the Memphis Grizzlies in the
Speaker 1: first round four to zero, and then they dropped that
Speaker 1: six game series against the of course, okay, ced thunder. Now,
Speaker 1: let's compare those stats that I just said to you
Speaker 1: to last year's team kind of give you an idea
Speaker 1: of where the Spurs are sitting. Okay, Spurs fans, here
Speaker 1: comes your reality check, here comes your silver lining.
Speaker 3: All right, so you're ready.
Speaker 1: So we talked about they were first in defensive rating,
Speaker 1: They were third in the league in offensive rating in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen or twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen. Sorry, now,
Speaker 1: last year's rating, they were nineteenth in the league in.
Speaker 3: Offense, middle of the pack, not bad.
Speaker 1: The game has changed, I get it, one hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen points a game. Defensive rating they were twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: Even though we had good games at times where we
Speaker 1: shut teams down, our defense was great. They were twenty
Speaker 1: fifth in defensive rating and overall net rating at minus
Speaker 1: three a game. So we were losing close games. We
Speaker 1: were losing a lot of close games last year with
Speaker 1: the Spurs, So where does that lead this team coming
Speaker 1: up this year? We need to be in that mix
Speaker 1: of what we were like back in the day. I
Speaker 1: know being first and being third and offensive and defensive
Speaker 1: rating is tough to do, but look at okc Okac
Speaker 1: was top five in defense and top five in offense
Speaker 1: this year. Look where they're at. A dominant team that
Speaker 1: won sixty plus wins and now in the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: find themselves four games away from winning the NBA championship
Speaker 1: this year. So I wanted to throw that out there,
Speaker 1: the best team that never made it in Spurs history
Speaker 1: at twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen, Spurs if you get
Speaker 1: out of here, I want to take a little bit
Speaker 1: of a look at the Spurs NBA All time roster.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you my favorite players of all
Speaker 1: time put together our foster here on the San Antonio
Speaker 1: Spurs Weekly podcast on a future show. So make sure
Speaker 1: you guys stick around for that one. But according to
Speaker 1: a lot of sources on the web, you can google this.
Speaker 3: You can put in.
Speaker 1: Great Spurs players of all time right here. Great at
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs roster of all time you can put
Speaker 1: up on Google. And here's the players. Let's go over them.
Speaker 1: Agree or disagree. I'm going to agree with almost all
Speaker 1: of them so far. Tim Duncan of course, David Robinson,
Speaker 1: George Gervin, Jenobley Parker, Leonard Shawn Elliott, Avery Johnson, Bruce Bowen.
Speaker 1: Artist Gilmore. We forget about how good artist Gilmore was,
Speaker 1: especially early in the days playing with Chicago back then
Speaker 1: as Aba days, he was very, very dominant. Here's one
Speaker 1: I'm not too sure about. Some of you guys be like, oh, really,
Speaker 1: I loved him in Portland, but when he came to
Speaker 1: San Antonio, he just didn't give us what he had
Speaker 1: in Portland and that's LaMarcus Aldridge. I love LaMarcus as
Speaker 1: a person.
Speaker 3: U T grad.
Speaker 1: I love it. Mike Mitchell. Mike Mitchell on the list.
Speaker 1: I loved I grew up watching Mike Mitchell, James Silas,
Speaker 1: Larry Kenyon, Johnny Moore. One of my favorites. Danny Green
Speaker 1: of course should be on that list. Robert Rory and
Speaker 1: Patty Mills absolutely agree with those the ones on the list.
Speaker 1: I'm not too sure top fifteen, but I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to compile my roster and take a look at some
Speaker 1: of my favorites. Maybe the best Spurs that never made it.
Speaker 1: There were so many great Spurs that we forget about
Speaker 1: because we've had so many great talented players now here
Speaker 1: in San Antonio. Another player that comes to mind, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't put him on the list
Speaker 1: anymore because of his off court antics and he's in
Speaker 1: jail of course, saying he's done some bad things outside
Speaker 1: the court is Alvin Robertson. Alvin Robinson was runner up
Speaker 1: for Rookie of the Year. He led the league in
Speaker 1: steals many many seasons. Great defensive player, was a leader
Speaker 1: on this team for many years. But we tend to
Speaker 1: cast people to decide that have had problems off the court,
Speaker 1: which I completely understand. What about Dennis Rodman. Dennis Rodman
Speaker 1: had a heck of a career here in San Antonio
Speaker 1: as well. Jazz didn't fit that San Antonio mold, kind
Speaker 1: of like Jalen Brown we talked about a little bit
Speaker 1: earlier on the show. But those are your top fifteen
Speaker 1: NBA Spurs great of all time in our organization, a
Speaker 1: lot of Spurs talk, a lot of action coming up,
Speaker 1: a lot of off season trades. We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: stay on top of all of this just like you
Speaker 1: do as well. Thank you guys for listening to another
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Speaker 1: followers as of late lately showing your love for the
Speaker 1: Black and Silver, and remember, no matter what the Spurs
Speaker 1: do in the off season or what they do next year,
Speaker 1: let that black and silver blood run through your veins
Speaker 1: and go Spurs, Go,