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What Pro Sports Team "Model" should the Vancouver Canucks emulate?

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Boston Canucker wrote:How about we emulate the San Antonio Spurs! No flash or dash, just unselfish team play from top to bottom, and rings, many many rings!
Yeah, no doubt. Them old suckers too, yet they still perform @ a high lvl. We just need to find a big centre like Tim Duncan and a skilled point man like Tony Parker. :lol:
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I prefer the old days of just blaming it on a European captain or to many Europeans.

Much simpler vs. doing math.
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Reefer2 wrote:I prefer the old days of just blaming it on a European captain or to many Europeans.
Interestingly enough, this is probably about as logical as trying to emulate another teams "model".
This is a team we can turn around quickly.
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Boston Canucker wrote:How about we emulate the San Antonio Spurs! No flash or dash, just unselfish team play from top to bottom, and rings, many many rings!
If The Canucks' are going to follow the Spurs model, they have to have the No. 1 pick and draft a franchise all-time HOFer like Tim Duncan that's low maintenance and a "team" guy. When was the last time the Canucks drafted 1st overall? :mex:
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Betamax wrote:
Boston Canucker wrote:How about we emulate the San Antonio Spurs! No flash or dash, just unselfish team play from top to bottom, and rings, many many rings!
If The Canucks' are going to follow the Spurs model, they have to have the No. 1 pick and draft a franchise all-time HOFer like Tim Duncan that's low maintenance and a "team" guy. When was the last time the Canucks drafted 1st overall? :mex:
They also have to realize selling out to get the #1 pick won't do it alone as the key to a long run of success is great drafting and deep team in which the team does not rely on one star to win games or carry everyone else; you find the guys that other teams deem to be mere second fiddle players - 2nd round draft choices, free agents - who have the character to be part of a team of interchangeable moving parts but other teams turn up their noses at. You don't sell all out depth for the next Shaquille or Lebron, have weak supporting players and hope for the best...Duncan is great, love the way he plays, but he'd be the first to admit it is the depth of the team that is the key to it's long run of success.
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Boston Canucker wrote:
Betamax wrote:
Boston Canucker wrote:How about we emulate the San Antonio Spurs! No flash or dash, just unselfish team play from top to bottom, and rings, many many rings!
If The Canucks' are going to follow the Spurs model, they have to have the No. 1 pick and draft a franchise all-time HOFer like Tim Duncan that's low maintenance and a "team" guy. When was the last time the Canucks drafted 1st overall? :mex:
They also have to realize selling out to get the #1 pick won't do it alone as the key to a long run of success is great drafting and deep team in which the team does not rely on one star to win games or carry everyone else; you find the guys that other teams deem to be mere second fiddle players - 2nd round draft choices, free agents - who have the character to be part of a team of interchangeable moving parts but other teams turn up their noses at. You don't sell all out depth for the next Shaquille or Lebron, have weak supporting players and hope for the best...Duncan is great, love the way he plays, but he'd be the first to admit it is the depth of the team that is the key to it's long run of success.
Well, you can't directly compare basketball to hockey, because three core players can essentially build a Championship Contending team. They SA are the one outlier in that they have been very successful finding core/franchise type players with later picks by going the unconventional route of drafting and finding high end foreign (non North American Players) ballers ... Parker and Ginobli and having them being instrumental in their success. In the NHL, teams don't really discriminate on nationality (unless it's Russia because of the KHL dilemma ) ........ :mex:
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Betamax wrote:
Boston Canucker wrote:How about we emulate the San Antonio Spurs! No flash or dash, just unselfish team play from top to bottom, and rings, many many rings!
If The Canucks' are going to follow the Spurs model, they have to have the No. 1 pick and draft a franchise all-time HOFer like Tim Duncan that's low maintenance and a "team" guy. When was the last time the Canucks drafted 1st overall? :mex:
haha nice, getr done JB!
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Betamax wrote: Well, you can't directly compare basketball to hockey, because three core players can essentially build a Championship Contending team. They SA are the one outlier in that they have been very successful finding core/franchise type players with later picks by going the unconventional route of drafting and finding high end foreign (non North American Players) ballers ... Parker and Ginobli and having them being instrumental in their success. In the NHL, teams don't really discriminate on nationality (unless it's Russia because of the KHL dilemma ) ........ :mex:
For that reason, it may make them a rather appropriate sports team model. They take a hockey approach more than the usual basketball get a big 3 and filler approach..and they win, and win, and win, and just keep on winning.
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SKYO wrote:
Betamax wrote:
Boston Canucker wrote:How about we emulate the San Antonio Spurs! No flash or dash, just unselfish team play from top to bottom, and rings, many many rings!
If The Canucks' are going to follow the Spurs model, they have to have the No. 1 pick and draft a franchise all-time HOFer like Tim Duncan that's low maintenance and a "team" guy. When was the last time the Canucks drafted 1st overall? :mex:
haha nice, getr done JB!
If Vancouver didn't have an idiot GM in STUpid, and the NBA didn't restrict the opportunity for the Griz to draft No. 1 and the chance @ Duncan, chances are the team would still be here. :mex:
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Betamax wrote: If Vancouver didn't have an idiot GM in STUpid, and the NBA didn't restrict the opportunity for the Griz to draft No. 1 and the chance @ Duncan, chances are the team would still be here. :mex:
Yes, more the former than the latter though. A #1 pick with a bad GM would not have saved the team. I'd have rather had had a great GM and no #1 pick and then that would have improved the odds. Such as a GM who did not get caught up in not drafting Nash because he was a local boy...but that team was doomed from the start when Stern decided the management for Griffiths. In 10 years, we'll get another shot I bet.
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Who cares, the NBA sucks.

Shitty sport full of selfish wannabe-gangster premadonnas.
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Rumsfeld wrote:Who cares, the NBA sucks.

Shitty sport full of selfish wannabe-gangster premadonnas.
Yeah.

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Rumsfeld wrote:Who cares, the NBA sucks.
Quoted for accuracy.
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