Rosen on the Spurs Title compared to all time

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Rosen has another slant, which is kind of interesting to say the least about where the spurs title ranks amoung all time title teams. He basically puts them in last.

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/rosen/030615.html

Here is an excerpt I liked:

Why then did the Spurs win the championship so handily?

Because an injury numbed Stephon Marbury's shooting arm, Amare Stoudamire was too young to go steady, and Shawn Marion couldn't hit a clutch jumper to get into heaven.

Because the Lakers were too fat, too selfish, too arrogant and too used up.

Because the Mavericks were about as substantial (at least, on D) as the latest Rucker League champs and were missing Dirk Nowitzki late in the series.

And the Nets? They lost not only because their own solitary superstar can't shoot his way out of a paper bag, but because Kenyon Martin, their erstwhile superstar-in-training, is a bogus big man. (Real players don't let anything short of a broken limb wipe them out in the Finals. Martin should have dug deep into himself and kept on digging until he found the courage to keep on trucking. Was Martin any sicker than Jordan was against Utah in the fifth game of the 1998 Finals? With all of his chest-beating and self-aggrandizing antics, K-Mart went 3-for-23 in the biggest game of his life.)




I know a lot of people dislike the page 2 slants, but I for one enjoy reading them. I think the main reason I like them is that they write like fans, not journalists. A lot of their articles remind me of more polished versions of threads from this board. For example, how many of the national media members actually said that the spurs got past the suns large in part because of marbury's injury? Everyone from what I have read claims that the suns gave them a scare but the spurs overcame and defeated the lesser team. Very few people are even willing to acknowledge that had Marbury not gotton hurt, that the suns were in a great position to upset the spurs.

Oh well, enjoy the read guys
 

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Wasn't Shawn Marion one of the top players in the league in crunch time last season? I really think a lot of credit has to be given to Bruce Bowen for Marion's troubles in the playoffs. He has always given Shawn Marion a hard time. Hopefully the matrix will get back to going to the basket next season.

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Yes shawn was in the top 5 I think during the season for crunch performance, but Rosen is right about him not hitting shots in the playoffs. I took the comments as Shawn Marion was expected to hit clutch shots in the series, but he didnt, which is one of the 2 reasons why the suns did not advance.

You are right though, Bowen did a great job on him.
 

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