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Curry is going to have an MRI on his knee. You don't like to see anyone get hurt but obviously if he isn't 100% it changes everything.

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I didn't mind seeing it.

I want to beat the Warriors with curry

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I do too, but you won't see me cry one damn tear if he isn't around. Bunch of loud mouthed, showboating twats.

I hope David West knocks about 8 of Draymond's stupid teeth out while he flexes and yells.

Anyone been watching the Cavs? Their offense looks so poorly coached, but I guess this is what every Lebron offense looks like. Every team he has played on, the majority of players just stand around. Bosh stood in the corner all the time, Wade and Lebron stood around the perimeter until they got the ball and could try to break down their man. Now same with Cavs. Last night was hard to watch them close that game out.

When was the last time you saw someone like Lebron or Irving move without the ball just to create space and flow within the offense. If they are cutting on the offensive end, its usually TO the guy with the ball so they can take it from them, dribble for 15 seconds and then pull up for a contested 3.

Manu's heroics in those, what was it, 2012 playoffs with the elbow issue?

The convo here made me think back to that. One of the all timers for us Spurs fans.

Help me remember, I feel like injuries have been pretty kind to the Spurs during the Duncan Era.

Leonard and Aldridge Era:
2016: TBA

Beautiful Game Era:
2015- 1st Round, LAC. Clippers got hot and we lost a heartbreaker. Really felt like the Clips had made the leap from pretender to contender. Then they shat the bed against Houston. We should've won and battled GS for the conference.
2014- Champs baby!
2013- Brutal loss. We all remember this one. No injuries, just sadness
2012- Collapse against OKC. Were there injuries here?
2011- 1 seed losing to 8 seed Memphis. Woof. They were the one team that had given us trouble during the season. Could've eliminated them last night of regular season IIRC. Was Manu hurt here?

Regrouping Era:
2010- 2nd round sweep at the hands of the Suns. Woof. Seems like we were beat up a lot these two seasons, bit never really contenders.
2009- 1st Round To Dallas. Must have blocked this one out.

Big Three Era:
2008- West Conference Finals- Lost to the Lakers. All I remember was the no call on Brent Berry in Game 4 maybe? We seemed to be out of gas after expending everything to be NO Hornets in Rd 2
2007- Champs baby!
2006- Brutal loss to Dallas in Round 2. Game 7 OT. The classic Manu moment were he hits the epic 3 pointer on one end and then the bonehead and 1 foul on the other. Second most painful series loss in Duncan Era
2005- Champs baby!
2004- ****ing .04 seconds.

Twin Towers Era:
2003- Champs Baby!
2001 and 2002. These seasons run together to me. Lost twice to the Lakers and i don't think it was really close. Kobe and Shaq duo in their prime. DRob hurt one of these seasons I believe. Derek Anderson too?
2000- Duncan got injured here I believe. Can't remember much about this season to be honest. Only time he missed playing in the playoff right? Spurs made the postseason, but Duncan didn't play.
1999- Champs Baby!
1998- Second round loss to Utah. Duncan was only a rookie, Utah in their prime

2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2006, 2004 are really the only seasons I feel like the Spurs were true contenders yet didn't win the title. Maybe one of the 2001 or 2002 seasons but I can't remember too well. Injuries played a small part in '11 maybe in '12 too. Likely a bit in the early 2000s. All in all I feel we have been pretty fortunate. Testament to Pops coaching approach to the regular season I would say.

Thoughts?

Right on all accounts.

I don't think we would have sniffed the title in 09 or 10 even with a healthy Duncan. Parker in 13 and 15 was banged up, but I wouldn't say that is why we lost. 2000 could've been much different with healthy TD

2013 we had 99.9% of the title and didn't take it home.

2006, I give us a 70% shot to win the ship if Manu doesn't foul dirk.

2004 is hard to say. 0.4 wouldn't have definitely decided the series with the Lakers either way, plus the Pistons were damn good that year.

2015, I thought Splitter was for sure hurt and very limited and Parker was playing through injury.

Personally, I feel Splitter being virtually out and Parker being very banged up and limited in his ability to drive and play defense was a deciding factor in a series that came down to the last second.

Splitters injury was a major factor, I had forgotten about that.

Yeah but hard to blame injuries for 2015 when Chris Paul beat us on one leg in game 7

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I think it makes the point that there's no such thing as an asterisked title though. Everyone deals with injuries, everyone may have been robbed at some point, and every champion can point to an injury that cleared the path. All you can do is put yourself in position year after year.

Definitely agree, there are injuries every year that can have you playing the what if game. I think the clippers handle the rockets last year with a full strength team and could have given GSW all they could handle, those guys were playing great against the Spurs but were worn down and the CP3 injury that I mentioned really effected him. Then GSW got to play a banged up Cavs team after Love had his shoulder pulled by Olynyk.

OKC might have missed a whole championship window since they haven't had a healthy playoff run since 2012.

'98 Timmys rookie season he turned his ankle during that series against Utah. If he's stays healthy they may shock the world.

'00 Timmy hurt the knee and that team was poised to delay the Lakers dynasty for one more year. That team was loaded with vets ready for one last run and DRob was still a force.

We really only got to see one full playoff with Duncan and David at full strength.

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I think we would have lost to the Bulls. Elliott was out for the playoffs so we had Rob/Tim and then Jaren Jackson/Vinny/Avery starting at point and wing. No way we beat the 98 Bulls with Jaren/Vinny/Avery. The only two bench players we were even playing were Will Purdue and Chuck Person because everyone else was so terrible (Monty Williams, Carl Herrera, Brad Lohaus.)

We were even going with the triple towers with Perdue at center, Timmy at PF and Robinson at SF. Robinson was great, but I am glad we didn't see him guarding Pippen.

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'98 Timmys rookie season he turned his ankle during that series against Utah. If he's stays healthy they may shock the world.

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I think we would have lost to the Bulls. Elliott was out for the playoffs so we had Rob/Tim and then Jaren Jackson/Vinny/Avery starting at point and wing. No way we beat the 98 Bulls with Jaren/Vinny/Avery. The only two bench players we were even playing were Will Purdue and Chuck Person because everyone else was so terrible (Monty Williams, Carl Herrera, Brad Lohaus.)

We were even going with the triple towers with Perdue at center, Timmy at PF and Robinson at SF. Robinson was great, but I am glad we didn't see him guarding Pippen.

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They might've still lost to the Bulls. But they probably had a better shot than Utah. Jordan never had to deal with two elite centers at the same time. The Spurs led the league in defense that year and Duncan was the primary offensive weapon.

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'98 Timmys rookie season he turned his ankle during that series against Utah. If he's stays healthy they may shock the world.

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I think we would have lost to the Bulls. Elliott was out for the playoffs so we had Rob/Tim and then Jaren Jackson/Vinny/Avery starting at point and wing. No way we beat the 98 Bulls with Jaren/Vinny/Avery. The only two bench players we were even playing were Will Purdue and Chuck Person because everyone else was so terrible (Monty Williams, Carl Herrera, Brad Lohaus.)

We were even going with the triple towers with Perdue at center, Timmy at PF and Robinson at SF. Robinson was great, but I am glad we didn't see him guarding Pippen.

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They might've still lost to the Bulls. But they probably had a better shot than Utah. Jordan never had to deal with two elite centers at the same time. The Spurs led the league in defense that year and Duncan was the primary offensive weapon.

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I definitely would have loved to have seen Rodman, Wennington and Longley try to guard Robinson+Duncan+Perdue. Remember Rodman was 37 at that point. His numbers fell off drastically in the 97 and 98 playoffs.

Curry with a Grade 1 Sprain, will be reevaluated in 2 weeks.

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Curry with a Grade 1 Sprain, will be reevaluated in 2 weeks.

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Does he play through it? Or sit and hope they win without him so he's healed by the WC Finals?

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Curry with a Grade 1 Sprain, will be reevaluated in 2 weeks.

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Does he play through it? Or sit and hope they win without him so he's healed by the WC Finals?

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Nope, he is out two weeks, then they will test it again.

MCL is sprained. Grade 1 is the most mild sprain.