Game Thread: Spurs @ Timberwolves - Nov. 13, 2019 - 7:00pm CT

[poopbox]

I used to laugh and mock teams who played like the spurs play now :cry

Remember when we played the T Wolves and the only question would be how bad was Kawhi going to embarass Wiggins this time :cry

My all time favorite coach turning into a senile old man who is going against the grain just because :cry

I wonder how many times he is called Timmy Tony...or how many times Timmy has had to say "You can't put manu in pop he doesn't play on this team anymore":cry

We traded Kawhi Leonard for the hope that Keldon Johnson will be a good nba player :cry

[Mugen]

Even all the young guys look fucking miserable playing under Pop.

[raybies]

Dang bro and you were one of the optimists on here
bro i been an optimist for the long time ... but i ain't defending the no effort soft team man. this ain't the big three. i had fun defending winners when people were crying way out of nowhere. this is not that. we got demar lma and the writing is on the wall. people wasted a lot of good years cliff jumping and crying when we had one of the greatest runs of all sports. i understood that and enjoyed that. this just sucks now man. this ain't no big three

[BackHome]

Can we get a draft thread going?

We need mods to allow one it’s going to be a long season can’t keep reading “Pop needs to retire, Beli can’t shoot or guard, Forbes can’t guard, trade DEROZZ and LMA”.

[Chinook]

:pop: "I tried playing Lonnie and I tried playing Murray with White, and we lost. Don't question me again."

[TheGreatYacht]

Craterface has the audacity to play Murray, White, and Lonnie in garbage time as he’s chitty chatty with his bath water drinking coaches :lmao

[Raven]

had to have beli in so they can switch onto him... oh well, i'll take what i can get

[RC_Drunkford]

My all time favorite coach turning into a senile old man who is going against the grain just because :cry

I wonder how many times he is called Timmy Tony...or how many times Timmy has had to say "You can't put manu in pop he doesn't play on this team anymore":cry

We traded Kawhi Leonard for the hope that Keldon Johnson will be a good nba player :cry

the guy is 70. I bet they look at him as the retarded grandpa with alzheimers

[tim_duncan_fan]

I’m rooting for losses now. Does that sound bad?

Sounds logical.

[Darius Bieber]

I’m honestly surprised this trash team beat the Warriors

[Mugen]

The fucking audacity to finally play Derrick and Dejounte together and it's in garbage time.

[r0drig0lac]

Walker is so athletic

[ZeusWillJudge]

Can you imagine how much worse this team would be if Pop played Carroll? I mean... that would really ruin the chemistry.

[raybies]

call me crazy but i think pop is getting an eye test on if he wants to move to the youth... please show them something youngins

[TimDunkem]

Could Belli drive like Lonnie just did? Does Poeltl get up for boards like Metu just did? Does anyone run the floor like these two? Get a clue, Poop.

[timtonymanu]

Walker is so athletic

Sniffers: but he sucks when he plays on the court so the solution is Beli

[TheGreatYacht]

Metu-Lonnie-White-Murray lineup getting stops, running, and scoring.

Craterface making sure Marco is in there to get his +/- up

[Mugen]

Lmao that fucking dunk cost me the +800

[spurs1990]

Metu looks good. Interesting Gregg respects Carroll enough not to play him in garbage time.

[TimDunkem]

call me crazy but i think pop is getting an eye test on if he wants to move to the youth... please show them something youngins

You're crazy. He's sending a message to the rest of the guys. His rotations aren't going to change.

[tim_duncan_fan]

Yay game over.

Now let's go out there and do the same thing with no changes next game.

Fucking aggravating.

[Mugen]

Can't wait for the same fucking lineup and rotations next game.

[Spurs fever]

Metu-Lonnie-White-Murray lineup getting stops, running, and scoring.

Craterface making sure Marco is in there to get his +/- up

I have no idea what he has against the youth.

[Darius Bieber]

Can’t wait to see Orlando beat us by 20

[BillMc]

Well, that wasn't fun.

[RC_Drunkford]

Flopovich just got outcoached by a 33-year old sophomore coach. But he's the GOAT:lol

[raybies]

i could defend a lottery team or any team with heart and played with effort. these guys ain't respecting the game or the city. just rolled over tonight. gah lee i'm salivating over this Orlando trade inquiry. I'd take Gordon and Aminu in a heart beat. They would bring versatility on Defense. The more I see the league I'm beginning to believe the best place to have elite defenders is on the wing. Gordon and Aminu would cover a lot and Demar would be addition by subtraction. Give beli too if possible. Apparently they are desperate for three.

[FkLA]

This was Murray's 10th game. Minutes restriction is done going forward. The optimist in me hopes that he was taking a look at the Murray-White combot that he plans on using a lot more going forward.

Probably not though.

[GAustex]

Lol getting a train run on them by Minny

[r0drig0lac]

Lmao that fucking dunk cost me the +800

shit :lol

[cjw]

As sad as our offensive schemes are, we are still putting up points. But because we consistently can't get stops, it just means during our offensive droughts, we always are behind.

Exactly. The offense isn’t the problem, no matter how awful it looks. It’s the defense x100.

[raybies]

Sniffers: but he sucks when he plays on the court so the solution is Beli
i don't think pop can afford to make him earn it now. we are looking like a lottery team right now. How much losing before the fire sale and developing the youth. I'm not rooting for us to lose but let's put it this way every game is a win win for me. We lose than changes must be made. We win than that's good.

[FkLA]

I have no idea what he has against the youth.

He's a Larry Brown disciple. That's just how those dudes are. Brown preferred bronze over playing young LeGOAT, Wade, and Melo alonngside Timmy.

[Harry Callahan]

Pop should take a hard look at the approach at game 20. I suspect the Spurs will be 8-12 on the road to nowhere. This team has no shot at the playoffs. None - even now. If your key players can't shoot and can't defend at a high level - time is being wasted.

This crap that is being foisted on the fan base now is just a joke.

[Mugen]

This was Murray's 10th game. Minutes restriction is done going forward. The optimist in me hopes that he was taking a look at the Murray-White combot that he plans on using a lot more going forward.

Probably not though.

Bruh - you know better than this.

[TDomination]

The last 4 minutes were the most entertaining in the game. Minus Marco

[Mugen]

Petition to change this site's name to EdgelordTalk tbh.

[TimDunkem]

The Spurs feature 3 awful guards, their "stars" are soft, they have no true SF or switchable bigs.

The defense isn't going to improve much.

[gambit1990]

a few people on ST thought this roster would beat the clippers in the POs :lmao

[GAustex]

Amongst other things Murray and White need to play better
No chance of being somebody no matter what happens with trades or what not.
The young guards need to play better

[NASpurs]

There's no way a simple rotation adjustment can fix this abomination.

[r0drig0lac]

i could defend a lottery team or any team with heart and played with effort. these guys ain't respecting the game or the city. just rolled over tonight. gah lee i'm salivating over this Orlando trade inquiry. I'd take Gordon and Aminu in a heart beat. They would bring versatility on Defense. The more I see the league I'm beginning to believe the best place to have elite defenders is on the wing. Gordon and Aminu would cover a lot and Demar would be addition by subtraction. Give beli too if possible. Apparently they are desperate for three.


what? this is the absolute reality in the league since 2015 (begin of warriors era)

[Mugen]

There's no way a simple rotation adjustment can fix this abomination.

Yeah I changed my mind. Maybe if the young guys were given the keys last year, then adjustments would help.

But the roster makeup plus still continuing to run on the two softest losers in the league means this team is beyond repair.

[Genovaswitness]

Yeah I changed my mind. Maybe if the young guys were given the keys last year, then adjustments would help.

But the roster makeup plus still continuing to run on the two softest losers in the league means this team is beyond repair.

we are a bottom four team. it’s pitiful

[SAGirl]

Welp! I was wrong. Thankful I don’t bet. I thought they’d pull this one. Free fall here we go.

[tim_duncan_fan]

The last 4 minutes were the most entertaining in the game. Minus Marco

Yep

[sasaint]

The fucking audacity to finally play Derrick and Dejounte together and it's in garbage time.

Total mondo bizarro in Spursland these days.

[spurs1990]

Our starting five consists of:
1) still young PG coming off major leg injury
2) a minimum salary undrafted/undersized SG
3) the only swingman in all of creation that won't shoot a 3pt
4) A still pretty good NBA player whose motivation doesn't match his talent
5) A young cast off and minimum salary player

Face it most of the issues here is talent. I think we're just not very good.

[Spur4ever]

Yeah I changed my mind. Maybe if the young guys were given the keys last year, then adjustments would help.

But the roster makeup plus still continuing to run on the two softest losers in the league means this team is beyond repair.

I truly think our young guys really aren’t that good. I see a lot of blame on pop but nobody in the history of the league could do anything with this shit roster

[r0drig0lac]

https://twitter.com/mikecwright/status/1194817973854375936

[spurs10]

Hard for me to keep the game on. When someone asked about the next 4 games starting with Memphis 3-1 seemed like a good call.

[Dennis the Menace]

I truly think our young guys really aren’t that good. I see a lot of blame on pop but nobody in the history of the league could do anything with this shit roster

LOL Pop is coaching the flawed roster that he built. That’s the problem.

[sasaint]

i don't think pop can afford to make him earn it now. we are looking like a lottery team right now. How much losing before the fire sale and developing the youth. I'm not rooting for us to lose but let's put it this way every game is a win win for me. We lose than changes must be made. We win than that's good.

That’s exactly how I feel. Surely somebody in ownership sees that Pop has to go.

[gambit1990]

may each of you be absolved of the hope that you never should've had in the first place.

[TheGreatYacht]

https://twitter.com/mikecwright/status/1194817973854375936
But none of these spineless fucks will ask him postgame

[SAGirl]

I truly think our young guys really aren’t that good. I see a lot of blame on pop but nobody in the history of the league could do anything with this shit roster
Have drafted late and perhaps there’s not a future star in the bunch. Difficult to know when they don’t play through mistakes and develop, and if there isn’t star, have to go fishing in the draft old school style. Lotto pick would help.

[sasaint]

Our starting five consists of:
1) still young PG coming off major leg injury
2) a minimum salary undrafted/undersized SG
3) the only swingman in all of creation that won't shoot a 3pt
4) A still pretty good NBA player whose motivation doesn't match his talent
5) A young cast off and minimum salary player

Face it most of the issues here is talent. I think we're just not very good.

The beginning of the end was signing LMA. Then there was Fitty Mills and Pau. Then the Dumbmar acquisition was pretty much the nail in the coffin. When you tie up big money in the likes of those guys, you are pretty much sunk.

[sasaint]

may each of you be absolved of the hope that you never should've had in the first place.

Nice turn of phrase.

[SpurPadre]

I've been trying to be positive with the fact that it's still too early to call it a season but this recent play is troubling and it's apparent we need to make some serious changes. Unfortunately, that's just not how PATFO operate but hopefully something can be worked out.

[GAustex]

The young guards need to play better including Walker or Spurs have no chance no matter what

[gambit1990]

any postgame comments by pop? i checked real quick but didn't come across anything.

[FkLA]

There's no way a simple rotation adjustment can fix this abomination.

Depends on what you mean by fix.

Let's not forget last year's team also started off looking like absolute shit, including back to back 30 point losses (one of them being to Minny IIRC). Derrick White's emergence alone was able to help the team become respectable. There's no reason why more White, Murray, Lonnie, Carroll and less pets wouldn't have an even bigger impact.

[RC_Drunkford]

any postgame comments by pop? i checked real quick but didn't come across anything.

congratulations to Minnessota they played great and were aggressive. Our defense was bad. I'm out

is basically what he said

[Down Under]

Trey Lyles has been the biggest bright spot of the season. Seriously.

[raybies]

congratulations to Minnessota they played great and were aggressive. Our defense was bad. I'm out

is basically what he said
i believe he said we were defensively challenged

[Mugen]

i believe he said we were defensively challenged

raybs, my guy. Props to being one of the few sniffers left during our Edgelord Game Threads tbh :toast

[DJR210]

:lol I just saw there was almost a Gay KATfight

[Mugen]

Highlight of the night was Bill Land going crazy over that "Gay Stuff" after Rudy had a dunk tbh :lol

[duncan2k5]

Trey Lyles has been the biggest bright spot of the season. Seriously.

U can't be serious... That dude is ass... He doesn't move the needle one way or the other... U can literally replace him with anyone

[Slippy]

The beginning of the end was signing LMA. Then there was Fitty Mills and Pau. Then the Dumbmar acquisition was pretty much the nail in the coffin. When you tie up big money in the likes of those guys, you are pretty much sunk.

Disagree the begining of the end was when Kawhi left. LA and kawhie in the wcf were balling as well as dominant before the zazza effect . That season we had 60 plus wins with second best record. Memories damn

[ragas]

Seems like everyone has a white scrub that can hoop. We have an autistic Shawn Bradley and Stallone that never got a gym membership

But somehow Poeltl has the best netrating of all Spurs scrubs. So the black scrubs suck even more?

[ragas]

So when will Pop decide to change line ups? :lmao I bet his first move is to start Poeltl and have Forbes out there as the only 3-point shooter

Spurs shot 3/17 from 3. You think teams are afraid of the Spurs 3-point-shooters *rofl*

[raybies]

raybs, my guy. Props to being one of the few sniffers left during our Edgelord Game Threads tbh :toast
I’m really trying to sniff on but it’s getting harder and harder. I read reddit posts to keep me strong.

[r0drig0lac]

I’m really trying to sniff on but it’s getting harder and harder. I read reddit posts to keep me strong.

:lol

[Down Under]

U can't be serious... That dude is ass... He doesn't move the needle one way or the other... U can literally replace him with anyone
He's been dominant on the glass, has decent vision & good enough defense to be a rotation player. He hasn't shown that in either of his previous stops.

[duncan2k5]

He's been dominant on the glass, has decent vision & good enough defense to be a rotation player. He hasn't shown that in either of his previous stops.

Very wrong... His defense is bad, and his vision is non-existent... Being afraid to shoot so u pass off the ball isn't the same as being a playmaker

[duncan2k5]

Trey Lyles has been the biggest bright spot of the season. Seriously.

U can't be fucking serious... The guy has zero impact on the court... Even his rebounding which gets the most praise is a product of Murray playing low minutes, and LMA sucking... Everyone else is midgets, so who else will grab them? As soon as he gets any opposing competition for the rebounds, he gets bitched (like VS Minnesota)... The guy is a low IQ defensive player and does nothing on offense... U usually never know he is out there...

[RC_Drunkford]

Pop should look at starting White and Carroll in place of Murray and Lyles

[Ice009]

I think I'd rather start Derrick White, also I'd consider starting Rudy Gay at PF or Demarre Carroll at PF. The starting lineup is trash. Forbes needs to go to the bench.