PtR Survey: Essentially the most likeable and annoying Spurs of all time

Welcome again to the PtR Survey, the place we’re following a web based pattern the place followers are voting on gamers from their workforce to fill out a grid just like the one beneath. Most lately, we did probably the most underrated and overrated Spurs of all time, and the outcomes have been as follows:

Most underrated was the closest ballot but contemplating a whole lot of Spurs are perennially underrated in no small half because of them being a small market workforce, however profitable with 39% of the vote was Manu Ginobili. How can a Corridor of Famer be underrated, chances are you’ll ask? Nicely, whereas some neglect that it’s the BASKETBALL Corridor of Fame, not NBA, many thought he was nonetheless unqualified, forgetting all he had contributed to the sport each across the globe and within the US. Additionally, many use the truth that he solely ever received one Sixth Man of the Yr award (which was created in the midst of his profession) to not think about him because the “greatest ever sixth man”, which is a travesty.

At most overrated, profitable with 49% of the vote is everybody’s favourite former Spur, Richard Jefferson, who was introduced in anticipating to convey a scoring punch to a Spurs workforce that was attempting to catch up offensively because the NBA was transferring out of its most defensively-dominant period and placing extra emphasis on the opposite facet of the ball. After averaging 20 factors per sport throughout his earlier 5 seasons in New Jersey and Milwaukee, Jefferson simply couldn’t reside as much as the maybe unfair hype positioned on him when he got here to San Antonio, and he was traded simply two-and-half seasons later because the Spurs determined to go in a special course.

Our subsequent class is less complicated to outline however could also be simply as laborious to make choose, as they’re extra persona primarily based. Starting with Most Likeable, there may be fairly the abundance of contenders for the reason that Spurs have been identified to signal prime quality characters. For me, these are gamers who have been beloved by followers and teammates, locker room leaders, lively locally, represented the workforce nicely, and can all the time obtain a loud spherical of applause after they seem at Spurs video games. On this case, I couldn’t actually slim it down to only 4 choices primarily based each on suggestions and my very own intestine feeling, so we now have six! Good luck selecting only one.

For Most Annoying Spur, there haven’t been as lots of these over time however nonetheless sufficient that I couldn’t slim it down to only 4. (As a facet notice, I thought-about making this “most unlikeable” to extra mirror of the primary class, however “most annoying” is what’s being utilized in these tasks on social media, so I’m sticking with the norm for this one.)

These may very well be gamers who have been problematic throughout their time with the Spurs (reminiscent of Dennis Rodman or Kawhi Leonard) or have develop into extra annoying since they left. That would definitely be the case for gamers like Stephen Jackson and Robert Horry (and to a lesser extent, Jefferson), who’ve all gone out of their technique to criticize the Spurs to the media and on podcasts, in some circumstances carrying 15-20 year-old gripes about position and enjoying time or making absurd claims like member of the Massive Three costing the Spurs championships. That’s sufficient to make any fan’s blood boil.

All of those guys have irritated Spurs followers on or off the courtroom sooner or later or one other, generally repeatedly, so once more, good luck selecting only one.

You’ll want to vote, and bear in mind, if “Different” wins in both ballot, I’ll test the feedback right here and on social media, and probably the most preferred will win.