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spurs had a solid core in duncan, manu and Parker for those glorious years, with which they won three titles in 5 years. and they always found the right role players to facilitate their runs without overpaying, thanks to their FO. also don't forget they had one of the all time greatest coaches. if mavs had such a great coach instead of don Nelson and Avery for those years I guess Dirk would've got a few more rings as well. spurs had competent rosters for those years for sure, but in terms of talent level I don't think ours were much worse tbh. RC was probably the best coach we had in our franchise history (still not as good as Greg though), but the team during his tenure was apparently not the best talent-wise. RC was stuck in a mediocre/rebuilding team that we were for the majority of 2010s after the championship, and if we had him as coach for the prior decade we would've probably done a better job securing our 06 championship, at the very least.