San Antonio Spurs End of Season Wrap Up

Predicted Outcome: 50-32, tied first place Southwest Division

Finished: 61-21, first place Southwest Division, 2-4 in the playoffs

Forget about all the nice things I have said about the San Antonio Spurs. They had just wasted a story book season by getting ousted in the first round of the playoffs by of all teams, the Memphis Grizzlies. Here’s a team that had never won a playoff series in its entire. They had a young and very inexperienced team and they were facing a team that had won three NBA championships this past decade. The Spurs outmatched them in every conceivable way. They were bigger, stronger, deeper and more experienced than Grizzlies, yet Memphis manhandled them. The Spurs have not only lost the series to a group of young squirts in the Grizzlies, but they have lost a lot of the credibility and respect.

Here was a team that has been overlooked by the media as they were not a very sexy team. They played with little flash and did not really have you jumping out of your seats. The Spurs just played solid textbook basketball—they rotated the ball, looked for the open man and made the extra pass. You would not see them scoring in huge bunches, neither. They probably scored the most points this season than they have for fifteen years (103.7—6th in the league). They won by grounding their opponents to a halt on the defensive end and working their offense through their star, Tim Duncan. Their style of play never really won them any fans other than those who lived in San Antonio. Now with that embarrassing collapse, the Spurs have lost even more respect than what little they had before.  (To be continued)