Episode 23 - "05 Championship - Part 1" | The Ring of the Rowel San Antonio Spurs Docuseries

The series that changed the game forever.
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[@PintadoProjekt]

Antonio Daniels - "let's not leave Tim Duncan, let's not leave Tim Duncan, let's not leave Tim Duncan... And we left Tim Duncan. And he made us pay for it. "

[@RicardoAGuitar]

It's also what made Ginobili so deadly. Daniels was with him stride for stride, then BOOM - blink-of-an-eye, a bullet pass out of nowhere. How many guys could make that pass in that situation?

[@MaximusR93]

8:48 that’s how you defend a corner 3 by Allen to seal a series up 3-2 (notice Timmy is actually in the game)

[@OrionOodama]

If only Timmy was in the court on that ill-fated Game 6 of 2013 Finals (sigh again).

[@nintendolegonbafan5413]

Duncan’s series-winning shot against the Sonics is EXTREMELY underrated. Almost never hear anyone talk about it.

[@NickatYouTubeSucksJK]

I saw TD hit a GW’ing buzzer beater in Cleveland in 2005. You can’t find video of it anywhere on the internet. It’s the weirdest thing ever. Like a glitch in the matrix 😹 What other superstar has ever hit a GW buzzer beater that is impossible to find anywhere?!?

[@OrionOodama]

No worries. He’s not into fanfare and attention anyway. It’s just how I wish he made those winning shots with no time left like MJ the GOAT. Or I guess it’s hard to simultaneously having confidence to make a winning shot and leave no time for the opponent to do theirs.

[@onesevenonethree1713]

before the 2014 chip, this 2005 championship was my favorite because it was a battle between the league's most suffocating defenses. Also, in my personal opinion, while I love Timmy, I think Manu should've won Finals MVP in 2005.

[@ArcadianGenesis]

I was with you until the last part. Tim was the leading scorer and leading rebounder across both teams in the Finals. You can't be the leading scorer and rebounder and not win FMVP. Nothing against Manu - he was epic, and 05 was his peak performance.

[@dash_r_media]

@@ArcadianGenesis Sure you can. Compare Tim and Manu's shooting numbers in that series. I think they both should have gotten the MVP. The voting was 6-4 for Duncan, so one of those votes flipping would have meant co-MVPs

[@ArcadianGenesis]

@@dash_r_media Yeah because Tim had the Wallace brothers guarding him and he was playing on hurt ankles. Tim was the anchor on both offense and defense, which is infinitely valuable.

[@dash_r_media]

@@ArcadianGenesis I can't really argue about things that can't be quantified, IE, being the anchor. I can argue things that can be observed. And in my view, Tim and Manu each have strong arguments for MVP: Manu: 1) Led the Spurs in +/- for every game the Spurs won except game seven (Horry and Barry were #1 and #2), and Manu was the best of the Spurs starters in that game 2) Played his best in wins: led the Spurs in Game Score in games 1, 2, and 7, and in game 5 was third behind Duncan and Horry 3) Despite being fourth in minutes played on the Spurs, he led the club in assists 4) Was the best shooter on either team; his True Shooting percentage was tops at .636 (Horry was the only other player with a TS over .600, at .611) 5) The team performed better with Manu on the floor than any other Spurs starter: their Offensive Rating - Defensive Rating differential while Manu was in was greater than anyone else except Horry. This was also true of their individual ORtgs. (Pistons Chauncey Billups and Ben Wallace enjoyed greater ORtg-DRtg differentials than Manu) And now, Tim: 1) The Spurs defense performed better when Duncan was in the game compared with everyone else on the team, although the Pistons frontcourt trio of McDyess and the Wallaces had slightly better DRtgs 2) Led the Spurs in all the basic counting stats: MINS, PTS, FG/FGA, FT/FTA, REB, BLK, tied for third in AST 3) Worth a mention: Pistons' Three-Headed Monster (McDyess/Wallaces): 31.7 PPG/14.9 REB/3.9 AST/6.6 BLK Tim Duncan by himself 20.6 PPG/14.1 REB/2.1 AST/2.1 BLK He damn near offset those three players' production as an army of one. 4) Much more consistent than Manu, Tim led the team in Game Score four times, was second twice, and was third once. Manu on the other hand was solid in two of the losses (games four and six) but was abysmal in game three, where he was the only Spurs starter to post a negative Game Score during the series. There were three negative Game Scores for the Spurs during the series, and the other two were turned in by Bruce Bowen and Brent Barry 5) The stretch of minutes that I think earned Tim Duncan the MVP by himself (instead of being co-MVP with Manu) was after the Spurs fell behind by nine with 7:44 left in the third quarter. Gimping around on two bad ankles since the second round and on a night where his shot wasn't falling, with everything going against the Spurs, Tim cranked it up. In that 7:44, Tim was 4-8 from the field, 4-4 from the line, scored 12 of the Spurs final 18 points of that quarter, throwing in four rebounds and a block. (Over a full game, that's 48 points, 16 boards, and 4 blocks) When the fourth quarter began, the game was all tied up. The Spurs outscored the Pistons by seven to clinch the championship. Six of their twenty-four 4th quarter points came on threes by Bowen and Ginobili assisted by Duncan - and in those replays, you can see that when Duncan made his move into the paint, all five Pistons had at least one foot in the lane, leaving the shooters wide open. No doubt Duncan's third quarter outburst was still fresh in their minds. Duncan's end-of-third quarter barrage, which radically changed the course of a game getting away from the Spurs into a tie going into the fourth, must have been a big pick-me-up for the rest of the guys.

[@ArcadianGenesis]

@@dash_r_media Good comment. In your second to last paragraph, you explained exactly what I meant by Tim being the anchor: "when Duncan made his move into the paint, all five Pistons had at least one foot in the lane, leaving shooters wide open." Exactly. So it _is_ observable. That's also what is called "gravity" in basketball. Tim had offensive _and_ defensive gravity, affecting every player's position on the court with his mere presence alone. That's why he was the MVP of an entire generation.

[@skelley3278]

Truly miss trying to keep teams under a hundred

[@dg87]

So the '13 finals was Ray Allen's revenge on us? He missed a 3 here and got us back in '13, F*ck!

[@AceNicoify]

I just found that out too! 😂

[@kilometer214]

it was boring to people who don't appreciate defense

[@ArcadianGenesis]

The 05 Spurs were the most versatile team of all time. They beat the Suns with epic offense, and the Pistons with epic defense. They could match anyone's style and do it better.

[@jiyuong]

The 05 Team is just a masterclass of signing roleplayers for the bigger picture. It was hilarious. Robert Horry waking up for the playoffs is an entertaining arc.

[@thereal_notoriousakagdubb3486]

Nazr Mohammed came over from the new york knicks for Malik Rose in the middle of the season

[@RGE_Music]

I love this! GO SPURS GO!

[@rausalazar]

Sean is a class act.😮😅😊😢😮😅😊

[@josephleighton2458]

"Unbelievable!"

[@SeayMyWorld]

🖤🖤🖤

[@gotm210]

Defense wins championship's 🏆💯

[@ernieestrada193]

I remember this championship I was 12 years old and I really thought the pistons were gonna beat us

[@RicardoAGuitar]

I was 30 then, and I was utterly unconcerned after the first two games. After game four: 😬

[@doctorx1924]

@@RicardoAGuitar I was 22 at the time and was arrogant after the first two games. I thought the Spurs would take them out in 5 games. I never expected it to be as competitive as it was come game 5.

[@RicardoAGuitar]

@@doctorx1924 I've never been a strong advocate for Robert Horry for the HOF, but his performance in game five was better than HOF. He made more big plays in that second half and overtime than anyone could ask for. The fact that he was 35 and dunked from about ten feet away while getting fouled...and that was before his biggest play

[@oeao2841]

I was 17 so I has already seen 3 titles

[@HappyKamote]

I was 10 and i was crying after game 4 😭 i was wrecked HAHA

[@thereal_notoriousakagdubb3486]

In the middle of March,2005 against the defending nba champs Detroit in the regular season,Tim Duncan went down with a sprained ankle on the hook shot and went on to missed the final 12 of 16 GMs in the regular season?

[@Rapboy89]

Man, I remember that comment from Jerome James! Good grief. I wonder if he finally showed us respect! 😂

[@OrionOodama]

To his credit, his performance for the Sonics convinced the Knicks to give him overpriced contract that James made him contented, lax, and played overweight (provided he's not injured).

[@kristianpomida8259]

My personal favorite finals ( miami is second because the lead every game wasnt even close). Defense was off the charts, both teams barely scored 90, went 7 games, every shot and every free throw was huge

[@OrionOodama]

The 2005 Championship run proves the Spurs are not defined by the 0.4 shot. I think Mike Monroe wrote in ExpressNews Pop relived his assistant duties, or sooner than scheduled (Larry Brown and Pop were members of coaching staff of that ill-fated US basketball in 2004 Athens) to Brown, giving pointers and first hand info about the Lakers. Brown's Detroit Pistons have the material to beat LA and did so convincingly and surprisingly. Like the Heat and Knicks, Spurs and Pistons mirror themselves but without animosity. It only happens Brown prefers to be vagabond, jumping one team to another regardless of success.

[@vanilla511_YT]

Go Spurs!! 🖤🤍 #PorVida

[@thereal_notoriousakagdubb3486]

Part 2

[@nba0028]

Manu Ginobili is the '05 Finals MVP! It's never too late to right a wrong. Tim Duncan, a natural Center who pretended to be a Power Forward half his career, underperformed in the '05 Finals based on his capabilities. That is fact.

[@nba0028]

Was there pressure to give an undeserving Duncan the Finals MVP. When Shaq dissed Duncan about having less MVP votes Duncan responded with "Shaq can have my votes". Duncan never cared about trophies. So why give him one he didn't deserve?

[@Miamisbestalltimeshooterrayray]

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