It Still Hurts

[south side spur]

1995 WCF was worse than 6 to me tbh

Game 1 was an Elliott nightmare. Olajuwon did not come out and dominate Robinson Game 1. It was there for the taking. Elliott pulled a Ginobili '13 or Parker '15 and set the tone for the series.

[tesseractive]

1995 WCF was worse than 6 to me tbh

This. In 2013, we had 4 les to look back on. In 1995, we had zero, and we had no sign that the franchise would recover after getting completely flattened in their best chance at a le. Without the freak luck in the '97 lottery it would have all been downhill from there. Just another team with a memorable star who could never put enough of a team together to have a serious shot at the le. Like the Garnett Timberwolves, maybe.

Nearly 2 decades of Timmy and Pop make it hard to remember what that was like for a lot of folks, but no one had the slightest inkling we'd be hoisting a trophy in 4 years at that point.

[pgardn]

phone auto-correct

I thought you did that on purpose and it was quite brilliant.

Mourning the next day...
Pretend you did.

[baseline bum]

Game 1 was an Elliott nightmare. Olajuwon did not come out and dominate Robinson Game 1. It was there for the taking. Elliott pulled a Ginobili '13 or Parker '15 and set the tone for the series.

Then Rodman statpadding for the rebound and leaving Horry open for the gamewinner to seal it. Then Rodman coming out in a must win Game 2 and jacking up three 3 pointers in the first quarter. In the age of social media Bynum got crucified for doing it once in a meaningless regular season game but head Rodman does it three times in the WCF down 0-1 and get his sorry ass benched for it.

[south side spur]

Yeah, whoever said the series was over going down 0-2 headed to Houston was wrong. The series came back to San Antonio tied up 2-2 and Rodman got into it with Hill I guess and showed up late for shoot around or something like that. That idiot would have his political stands during timeouts and made sure the cameras caught him not giving a . Game 5 was doomed from the start. I'm not saying '13 Finals were easier to stomach but the city was crushed just the same in '95. I would say '95 and '06 were more difficult for me because of losing the in state rivalries. In '13 we could say at least we have 4 les. What could we say in '95? We were still the soft, never was franchise.

[horsielove]

[TheGreatYacht]

Lol

[jeebus]

It's been approximately 162,000 minutes since it happened . . . and, honestly, it hurts. It's a pain deep in the soul that I probably won't ever shake. To be that close to such a great moment -- only to see it slip through the fingers -- is still devastating. Somehow, it seems to have hurt more and more as the summer progressed as the realization set in regarding what exactly was at stake.

Sure, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't mean much. It's not something real. It's not a death or some other sort of real life tragedy. But given that following the Spurs is my only hobby in life, it's painful. I'm not going to even try to lie. It hurts.

I've tried getting away from it all to try to forget about it. But there I was, in the middle of the Pacific on a cruise ship in a pitch black room trying to fall asleep, and all that I can see are those 28 seconds replaying again and again.

Logically, I know the pain doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's just a basketball game. And the Spurs already have four championships. And going into last season, a trip to the Finals would have been seen as a great success. , going into the playoffs, I thought getting to the Western Conference Finals was a success.

Logically, what the Spurs did last year was a great accomplishment. A year ago, if you told me the Spurs would be 28 seconds from a championship, I would have been thrilled.

But damn.

This pain doesn't compare to anything else I've experienced in my Spurs fandom. Yeah, .4 sucked. The foul was tough to swallow. The no-look pass was unpleasant. The backdoor sweeps weren't fun. The frontdoor sweeps weren't enjoyable. But all of those don't even register compared to this.

I've had an extremely busy summer. Life is great -- never better. But it continues to haunt me.



Hopefully going to the game tonight will provide some sort of relief. The great thing about sports is there is always tomorrow. For now, at least, the pain of yesterday outweighs the excitement of tomorrow. I'm hoping that changes. Starting tonight.

truth bomb

[HI-FI]

It's been approximately 162,000 minutes since it happened . . . and, honestly, it hurts. It's a pain deep in the soul that I probably won't ever shake. To be that close to such a great moment -- only to see it slip through the fingers -- is still devastating. Somehow, it seems to have hurt more and more as the summer progressed as the realization set in regarding what exactly was at stake.

Sure, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't mean much. It's not something real. It's not a death or some other sort of real life tragedy. But given that following the Spurs is my only hobby in life, it's painful. I'm not going to even try to lie. It hurts.

I've tried getting away from it all to try to forget about it. But there I was, in the middle of the Pacific on a cruise ship in a pitch black room trying to fall asleep, and all that I can see are those 28 seconds replaying again and again.

Logically, I know the pain doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's just a basketball game. And the Spurs already have four championships. And going into last season, a trip to the Finals would have been seen as a great success. , going into the playoffs, I thought getting to the Western Conference Finals was a success.

Logically, what the Spurs did last year was a great accomplishment. A year ago, if you told me the Spurs would be 28 seconds from a championship, I would have been thrilled.

But damn.

This pain doesn't compare to anything else I've experienced in my Spurs fandom. Yeah, .4 sucked. The foul was tough to swallow. The no-look pass was unpleasant. The backdoor sweeps weren't fun. The frontdoor sweeps weren't enjoyable. But all of those don't even register compared to this.

I've had an extremely busy summer. Life is great -- never better. But it continues to haunt me.



Hopefully going to the game tonight will provide some sort of relief. The great thing about sports is there is always tomorrow. For now, at least, the pain of yesterday outweighs the excitement of tomorrow. I'm hoping that changes. Starting tonight.

damn...

[Robz4000]

CRAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWLING INNNNN MYYYY SKIIIIIIIIIIIN, THEEEESE WOUUUUUUUNDS THEEY WIIIIILLLLLL NOOOOOT HEEEAAAAALLLLLL

[NameLess Scrub]

It sucks.. I think the unusual pain came/comes from things like:
1. The absolute certainty that the le was in the bag. Spurs had almost complete control of that outcome.
2. The unexpected run. Spurs were supposed to have their le window closed.
3. The opponent. The Lebrons and their hype were going to be beaten.

At least for me.

[ajh18]

It doesn't hurt anymore. Sunday, June 15, 2014 made it all better. That le made what happened the year before the start of the story (and one of the best comeback stories in sports history, at that), not the end of it.

Tim Duncan said it best: "It makes last year ok."

Let it go. At the end of the story, we beat the Heat down so badly that we broke the Superfriends up and sent Lebron back to Cleveland.

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

This seems like an eternity ago… dark times for this forum

[jimbo]

[Keepin' it real]

Does it sting?

[gambit1990]

It's a pain deep in the soul that I probably won't ever shake.

[kobyz]

Why people make fun of it? life is not the same since that trauma, the suffer still exist big time, those terrified moments still hunting and hurt the soul, forever flashbacks in so many ways will come to sting you and make you think what if and how much heaven we missed and instead got biggest mourning, being on the verge of the most exciting and sweet le and losing it in the most cruel way...

[dg7md]

Legendary thread tbh

[SquawkinHawkBigCock]

Tbh...

[Stabula]

All a part of Satan's great plan

[Darth_Pelican]

[Play Boban]

[Keepin' it real]

Dolores...

[jeebus]

[Walter Donovan]

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