70 Win Season?

[BanditHiro]

Is this the season the Spurs finally get over the hump and hit 70 win ecstasy?

[JRHernandez88]

:jack

[Splits]

Definitely. I think they could win 75. Better pick it up though, they're playing like shit. Only on pace to win 66.

[Arcadian]

Well, they're currently winning 81% of their games. If multiplied by 82 games, that equals 66 wins. And they probably won't maintain 81%. But, to be honest, the upcoming schedule is not very challenging...so that percentage will continue to rise for a while. It would need to rise above 85% to hit a 70-win pace, which would happen with a record of 24-4.

[spurraider21]

:flypig

[spurraider21]

Well, they're currently winning 81% of their games. If multiplied by 82 games, that equals 66 wins. And they probably won't maintain 81%. But, to be honest, the upcoming schedule is not very challenging...so that percentage will continue to rise for a while. It would need to rise above 85% to hit a 70-win pace.
At Utah, at Portland, vs Boston, at OKC, at Denver... yeah upcoming schedule is just freakin dandy

[Arcadian]

At Utah, at Portland, vs Boston, at OKC, at Denver... yeah upcoming schedule is just freakin dandy

It's certainly not intimidating.

[mathbzh]

Sure, now that Pop can't drop games without getting fined... I guess we will go undefeated until the playoffs :rolleyes

[TDMVPDPOY]

70 wins dont mean shit, bulls record is bullshit also...diluted league with 2 expansion teams

today its diluted also with the super teams, and the remaining 20-24 teams making up the numbers

[PÒÓCH]

Won't happen, once the Spurs reach a comfortable lead Pop will just rest all the starters and can the rest of the season.

[Sean Cagney]

70 wins dont mean shit, bulls record is bullshit also...diluted league with 2 expansion teams

today its diluted also with the super teams, and the remaining 20-24 teams making up the numbers

Bulls were a great team that year but I agree with what you said. Super teams only! That will water down the rest of the league, so many easy wins out there.

[spurraider21]

It's certainly not intimidating.
Intimidating is one thing, but saying "it's not very challenging" is also a stretch. I mean OKC is as tough a matchup as there is, especially with Kawhi and Jax out. And having to play IN denver on a second of back to backs is tough. I'm not going to say something nuts like Utah is a great team, but they're 8-1 and home compared to 3-9 on the road. I'm not calling any of these games "sure losses" but there are definitely some challenges here. And yeah, Portland has given us problems in recent years and we'll be playin them in their backyard.

Im guessing nobody besides Miami constitutes a tough matchup in your eyes

[ata]

Who cares - 50, 60 70...

I want 16 wins in PO, rest ist not important

[spurraider21]

Who cares - 50, 60 70...

I want 16 wins in PO, rest ist not important
This.

But to extend our streak of 50 win seasons would be cool, although that's essentially a certainty already

[Nathan89]

I hope not that would make a playoff exit even worse.

[racm]

Who cares - 50, 60 70...

I want 16 wins in PO, rest ist not important

Rest is not important? :lmao

[ata]

No, it is not; given that baring injuries Spurs have 50+ wins and PO spot.

[YoMamaIsCallin]

Regular season wins is not a goal for the Spurs. Winning in the playoffs is. 70 wins is not anything anyone on the Spurs spends a second thinking about.

[Darkwaters]

A little premature, no?

[ChuckD]

A little premature, no?

Premature would be if we were actually ON PACE. Misguided would be more like it. Spurs are 4 games off pace, and would have to sharply increase their win percentage to have a shot, and then Pop would have to NOT SHUT DOWN when playoff seedings are decided. Neither of those things have much of a chance of happening.

Besides, what good is it to win 70 games? That isn't the record, 73 games would be.

[therealtruth]

70 wins doesn't matter. The most important thing is continuing to improve the offense and defense from game to game. That way when the team gets challenged in the playoffs they don't lose their identity and continue to play the same way.

[swaggerjackson]

If we were on pace to win 70 I don't think Pop would just rest the starters; he would start forfeiting all games in road trips.

[Kidd K]

They won't win 70 for sure. But it doesn't matter. . .they should probably get 60 again, possibly even crack 60 by a bit unless even more injuries pile up. In the end, the Spurs should be around the 1-3 seed regardless. Most likely 1-2 seed. Looking good so far for the postseason. They appear to have "woken up" now.

Best news: They have a nice record despite multiple injuries. So the team can get even better!

[ffadicted]

NEed the 1 seed to let memphis and okc beat up on each other, anything else is meaningless imotbqhtbqh

[spurs1990]

Pop can rest everyone he wants but the Miami game proved even the 2nd/3rd string is capable of competing with any team.

In light of that and the race with Thunders/Vancouver for homecourt, I think we'll see the Spurs topping their 63 victory plateau from 2006.

[racm]

65-17 seems reasonable, tbh. The offense has been rounding back into shape and the defense has been the best it has been in years.

[Biggems]

It wont happen, but our chances would have been so much better had we not given away the Knicks, Heat, and 2nd Clippers games. I can realistically see us winning between 60-68 games this season. But it depends on our health, and also on how many games we give away by resting the big 3.

[maverick1948]

:lmao:rollin

Have a good daydream.

:toast

[TampaDude]

65-17 seems reasonable, tbh. The offense has been rounding back into shape and the defense has been the best it has been in years.

^ this

65 wins seems to be about right IF they can stay relatively healthy. Of course, the bench is starting to come on, too...Spurs, as usual, have one of the deepest benches in the NBA.

[jestersmash]

I know this thread is tongue-in-cheek, but the 72 win Bulls were 19-2 at this point in the season (we are 17-4) -

http://espn.go.com/nba/features/best

I still get a kick out of the fact that ESPN hasn't replaced the Lakers with a team more worthy :lol (Memphis, OKC, New York, Miami), although of course in reality no team this season has a chance to win 70 games so the '12-'13 teams that ESPN chooses to represent on that page are ultimately irrelevant.

Last season the two '11-'12 teams that ESPN chose to represent on that features/best page were the Heat and the Spurs.

If anything, there's at least a tacit assertion that ESPN believes the Spurs are frontrunners for a regular season championship.