Game Thread: Spurs @ Thunder - Feb. 23, 2020 @ 6 PM CT

[timvp]

Can the Spurs close out the Rodeo Road Trip with three straight wins after beginning the trip with five straight losses? If they can, they'll close to within three games of the eighth seed :tu

[Strategic]

Hope you’re wrong

[slick'81]

My 3-5 prediction can still come true:eyebrows

[BillMc]

Spurs by 8

[RC_Drunkford]

Can Forbes guard Gilgeous-Alexander?

[slick'81]

Can Forbes guard Gilgeous-Alexander?


Forbes is god

[Tung]

CERTAINLY with DDR back and current D is better in spite of RRT.

[Coach X]

There has been a lot of games where Spurs played a top team that didn't show up until the 4th. It makes sense looking at the standings. In those games, San Antonio competes until the other team plays at its level in the 3rd/4th quarter and solves the game. In Utah, Murray put the Spurs 20pts up and when Utah tried to comeback, White saved the win.

Spurs won at OKC before the break and tonight won't face a team with the same approach. They will be ready from the start. Anyway, we know the recipe for a Spurs win this season: decent team defense, Murray and White playing well, Forbes and Gay sitting in the bench as much as possible.

[slick'81]

Who gets to three in a row first sa or okc?

[slick'81]

God, matt bonner is horrible at commentary

[slick'81]

Two quick fouls on murray

[slick'81]

Timeout spurs

[slick'81]

Get em bryn

[slick'81]

Sick spin dunk by adams

[NASpurs]

Can't tell if my hate for Forbes is rational or irrational. Even making that 3 and I'm like "Ugh"

[slick'81]

Come on lma nail that 3 ball

[Robz4000]

Adams is raping the Spurs already

[ZeusWillJudge]

It's good to see teams living in fear of Aldridge's 3P shot. :lol

[slick'81]

Lma not looking good at all right now

[slick'81]

Wth is this dort fucker

[NASpurs]

Other teams, wide open three: "Swish"

Our team, wide open three: "clank"

[NASpurs]

Dort can't be a real name.

[slick'81]

Patty mills ftw

[Ron Swanson]

FIBA Patty :cry

[ducks]

Spurs need to get hot

[slick'81]

Poodle power

[slick'81]

Rudy cant buy a bucket but patty can

[slick'81]

Get that shit outta here

[NASpurs]

Rudy is such ass. How many more seasons?

[slick'81]

Rudy is such ass. How many more seasons?


Just one

[slick'81]

Pooodle pooower

[tholdren]

Rudy gay and hairdo are both in the NBA. Hilarious

[Spurtacular]

:lmao Derrick White taking a charge on a half-court shot.

[slick'81]

Tied up after one

[slick'81]

Way to blow a wide open layup patty

[NASpurs]

That professional basketball player missed a wide open layup.

[slick'81]

Bryn forbes baby!

[ZeusWillJudge]

LOL. Adams takes three steps while holding that screen on Lonnie. Nice job, zebras.

[phxspurfan]

Randomly tune in and it's the Forbes missing layups show

[Ron Swanson]

Several missed layups so far.

[Prime BEEF]

Gay Forbes leading the way so far

[r0drig0lac]

good basketball

[ZeusWillJudge]

NICE setup by Lonnie! And Lyles knocks it down.

[NASpurs]

Lonnie being the playmaker in the last few sequences.

[slick'81]

Nasty step back by gallo

[slick'81]

Nice transition d bryn,not

[NASpurs]

Nice transition d bryn

Ah yes, the mosquito defense. You think he's there, you hear him buzzing but you just end up brushing him off.

[JPB]

Spurs sweeping out the rest of the season tbh

[slick'81]

Spurs sweeping out the rest of the season tbh

oh without a doubt

[slick'81]

9-0 run by thunder...

[NASpurs]

Six minutes still left in the 2nd? Jesus.

[slick'81]

11-0....

[r0drig0lac]

rape

[slick'81]

16-0

[TimDunkem]

Gallo reversed it. :lol

[XDT76]

16-0

[Robz4000]

Dort, Adams, and Noel taking turns running a train on SA.

[Leetonidas]

Ah. There's the 2020 spurs I remember, complete with random scrub having a career night :lol

[tholdren]

Lol murray. Hes hairdos ceiling. 1 good game every 20

[slick'81]

Good ol lma in the post

[objective]

Take out Lonnie, refuse to play White and Murray together ...

[boutons_deux]

+9 to -7

[YoungbuckMurray]

Game over

[slick'81]

Wow

[sasaint]

LMA...MEH!

[spurs1990]

Murray Walker White combined 0-10 and only down 7. A small lining

[slick'81]

Noel with 4 blocks:wtf

[Robz4000]

Noel getting the Abaka treatment from the refs.

[slick'81]

And on q mills bricks a trey

[tholdren]

Murray Walker White combined 0-10 and only down 7. A small lining

Murray and walker suck.

[boutons_deux]

33% :lol

[slick'81]

Murray Walker White combined 0-10 and only down 7. A small lining


Ah yes a silver lining

[FkLA]

Welp that was fun while it lasted, tbh.

[slick'81]

Grown man move gay

[Ron Swanson]

Rudy :wow

[sasaint]

Poodle...Meh!

[slick'81]

Two more missed layups

[slick'81]

Spurs down 6 after two

[spurs10]

Spurs down 6 after two Lot of missed shots.

[Robz4000]

Thunderefs in full effect on both ends. Crazy how such a small market routinely gets this treatment.

[sasaint]

Spurs down 6 after two

Another silver lining: Spurs won't lose this one by blowing a 20+ pt lead.

[spurs1990]

Forbes being your leading scorer does not inspire confidence

[tholdren]

Forbes being your leading scorer does not inspire confidence
Par for course. Forbes outplaying murray and hairdo

[gambit1990]

dort has been steadily improving. dude went undrafted.

[slick'81]

Forbes being your leading scorer does not inspire confidence


That lining though

[Floyd Pacquiao]

Forbes getting more minutes and touches than Lonnie just cause he "fits" Pops offense is disgraceful per par.

[slick'81]

dort has been steadily improving. dude went undrafted.

Luguentz ftw

[tholdren]

NBA is awful.

[tholdren]

Forbes getting more minutes and touches than Lonnie just cause he "fits" Pops offense is disgraceful per par.
Walker is terrible get over it

[boutons_deux]

Two more missed layups

not even layups, just put backs by guys 6'10" +

[slick'81]

Atleast spurs got that horrid shooting stretch over in the 2nd,hopefully

[sasaint]

Atleast spurs got that horrid shooting stretch over in the 2nd,hopefully

I'm not confident you are right, but I do like your optimism. :tu

[slick'81]

Come on murray

[slick'81]

3 is just not there for lma tonight

[slick'81]

Ugh

[slick'81]

Man murray is ice cold after foul trouble

[Robz4000]

This one's over. It was touched upon before the game but the Thunder brought the proper level of respect for this game. Spurs only beat good teams because they tend to overlook the Spurs.

[spurs1990]

Where's DeRozan. He should be picking up the offensive slack on nights like this. 3-9 FG

[ZeusWillJudge]

These Spurs have such a knack for making half-assed players look like All-Stars. Tonight it's Dork.

[slick'81]

Lol dort

[tholdren]

Come on murray

He sucks get over it

[tholdren]

Where's DeRozan. He should be picking up the offensive slack on nights like this. 3-9 FG

Murray gay in full effect

[slick'81]

Where's DeRozan. He should be picking up the offensive slack on nights like this. 3-9 FG


If youre expecting derozan to be our savior :cry

[slick'81]

U suck patty

[slick'81]

Noel fucking us up

[slick'81]

Thats it patty chuck us outta this game

[slick'81]

Gaaalo

[slick'81]

Lead cut to 13

[ZeusWillJudge]

Damn, how many shots have the Spurs missed at the rim tonight?

[boutons_deux]

-13 in the 3rd

[slick'81]

This one's over. It was touched upon before the game but the Thunder brought the proper level of respect for this game. Spurs only beat good teams because they tend to overlook the Spurs.


Okc was def coasting before the break,tbh

[ZeusWillJudge]

Lonnie jogging off the floor - doesn't even glance toward Pop.

[spurs1990]

If youre expecting derozan to be our savior :cry

If he wants a Max extension from San Antonio this summer this is the type game to show it. That's his strength, scoring. Go out and do it

[boutons_deux]

poertl can;t get a FT in the cylinder? WTF?

[slick'81]

Okc up 17

[slick'81]

Okc is gonna be scary with all those picks

[ZeusWillJudge]

poertl can;t get a FT in the cylinder? WTF?


His FT% has gone completely to hell. I think he's down around 50% now.

[slick'81]

Gt patty the fck outta there!

[ZeusWillJudge]

Oc is gonna be scary with all those picks


Don't be ridiculous. Teams can't improve through draft picks. :lol

[SPURt]

This is fun...

[ZeusWillJudge]

Dammit! Just when the Spurs get the lead down to 17, the Thunder make another bucket.

[Ditty]

Lonnie Walker is pretty fucking useless without the ball in his hands.

[slick'81]

If he wants a Max extension from San Antonio this summer this is the type game to show it. That's his strength, scoring. Go out and do it


If we give him a max extension,god help us all

[Spurtacular]

I tune back in and Spurs are down 19 and Formes is on the floor. :pctoss

[ZeusWillJudge]

DeRozan just took out the Neanderthal. That looked like it hurt.

[slick'81]

Lonnie Walker is pretty fucking useless without the ball in his hands.


I tune back in and Spurs are down 19 and Formes is on the floor. :pctoss


Patty mills has been worse,tbh

[LakerHater]

Man, Derrick White might b an overrated defender!!

[tholdren]

I tune back in and Spurs are down 19 and Formes is on the floor. :pctoss

Hes the only player who has don anything.

[Prime BEEF]

Don't be ridiculous. Teams can't improve through draft picks. :lol
lmao! Perfect

[slick'81]

Refs keeping spurs in it

[tholdren]

Walker dumb.

[Prime BEEF]

Spurs are back baby! Don’t give up! We are making the playoffs!

[slick'81]

Only down 20 guys:flag:

[tholdren]

Spurs are back baby! Don’t give up! We are making the playoffs!
You probably have that on ig

[spurs1990]

If we give him a max extension,god help us all

This team signed Carroll and has started Forbes for two years. Put nothing past them

[slick'81]

Spurs are back baby! Don’t give up! We are making the playoffs!


The streak is all we fans have:cry

[Spurtacular]

Hes the only player who has don anything.

-18 :lmao

[SPURt]

We have ‘em right where we want ‘em!! Go Spurs Go!

[slick'81]

Spurs are back baby! Don’t give up! We are making the playoffs!


The streak is all we fans have:cry

[tholdren]

-18 :lmao

How dumb are you? Plus minus? Lololololol

[slick'81]

Patty mills shitting the bed per usual

[Spurtacular]

How dumb are you? Plus minus? Lololololol

Yea, two threes but giving it all up and then some on defense, bruh.

[slick'81]

Lma hasnt hit one three tonight

[tholdren]

Yea, two threes but giving it all up and then some on defense, bruh.

Ok gay is better than Paul

U dumb

[slick'81]

Marco time!

[timtonymanu]

It’s okay guys. Memphis just needs to lose 5 straight or more and we’re back in the playoff mix

[r0drig0lac]

the brick game

[sasaint]

Murray...Meh!

[tholdren]

Beli in the Game, all hope is LOST.

Empty the Bench you old fart.... Its OVER

Yep spurs need more dumb hairdo

[Spurtacular]

Ok gay is better than Paul

U dumb

-18, bruh.

Plus/minus a barometer. Come to terms.

[slick'81]

It’s okay guys. Memphis just needs to lose 5 straight or more and we’re back in the playoff mix


Lol at peeps hoping for injuries to mem and por so spurs can sneak into the 8th seed and then get obliterated

[Darius Bieber]

God damn this team is pure trash.

[tholdren]

-18, bruh.

Plus/minus a barometer. Come to terms.

Dude you dont understand how that works. Its obvious. Move on.

[FkLA]

Pop with his stupid ass hockey subs. He just needs to retire already.

[slick'81]

Kj sighting!

[Spurtacular]

Dude you dont understand how that works. Its obvious. Move on.

Says the guy who just made the point that Gay +3 better than Paul +8.

GTFO

[tholdren]

Says the guy who just made the point that Gay +3 better than Paul +8.

GTFO
Steven Adams the 7th best okc tonight, huh? U dumber than lonnie

[slick'81]

Spurs down 25 and dejounte=o-7

[Spurtacular]

God damn this team is pure trash.

Don't even know if I'd still follow them if I wasn't a reg on ST. It's not like I live in SA.

[boutons_deux]

-19 in 3rd

[tholdren]

Don't even know if I'd still follow them if I wasn't a reg on ST. It's not like I live in SA.

Duh plus minus duh

[sasaint]

Chris Paul was talking mad shit to Pop and Timmy at the end of last game, shook their hand.

He KNEW he was gonna show them what a scrub team and "leaders" he has.

Push it to 30pts CP3

Doubt they stop at 30.

[slick'81]

Bbb but arent we back:cry

[Spurtacular]

Duh plus minus duh

You still throwing your tantrum?

Good luck with that.

[Darius Bieber]

White, Murray, Walker... 1 of 16 tonight.

[slick'81]

Nce finish kj

[tholdren]

Patty mills plus minus makes him better than all the spurs starters.... duh

[slick'81]

White, Murray, Walker... 1 of 16 tonight.


Walker has been mia for a while now

[tholdren]

You still throwing your tantrum?

Good luck with that.
Nope just pointing out how you dont understand this stat.... keep posting. This is classic

[slick'81]

Welp, it was a nice two game stretch for dejounte

[slick'81]

Just glad kj&walker getting some run

[tholdren]

Patty mills plus minus makes him better than all the spurs starters.... duh

[timtonymanu]

Lol at peeps hoping for injuries to mem and por so spurs can sneak into the 8th seed and then get obliterated

People are sleeping on the pelicans too. Spurs (actually Pop) have no one to blame but themselves for being in this current state. They should have taken care of those winnable games to start the year. Now it’s hope Memphis keeps losing instead of the Spurs just showing to the league they deserve to be there. Which obviously up to this point, they don’t.

[slick'81]

Vroom vroom

[Spurtacular]

I have to watch Trey Fucking Lyles start games; do I have to watch his sorry ass in garbage time too?

[timtonymanu]

Pelicans and blazers gotta take care of their games today

[tbdog]

Johnson is small. He is a guard :(

[TimDunkem]

Settle down the crowd? The crowd isn't in it because you're down 23, Sean, you fool. :lol

[r0drig0lac]

Jesus...

[Darius Bieber]

This is what the Spurs have become and will forever be from now on, just the laughing stock of the league.

[slick'81]

Turning this one off boys n girls...glad the yung'ins getting some run

[Spurtacular]

Keldon Johnson knows how to fill a lane and flush it down. Formes knows how to fan out to the three and maybe make it.

[TimDunkem]

Johnson is small. He is a guard :(

Of course he is. He can slide to the 3 in smaller lineups, but he isn't fixing the whole no SF on the team thing...

[Leetonidas]

Pathetic

[phxspurfan]

That 2020 Spurs defense. Letting a guy right down main street for the slam

[sasaint]

I would like to be able to blame this debacle on Pop, but really we are just a bad basketball team.

[slick'81]

Walking dead time,enjoy this shit show guys

[Spurtacular]

Nope just pointing out how you dont understand this stat.... keep posting. This is classic

So, yea; still throwing your tantrum :tu

[timtonymanu]

I would like to be able to blame this debacle on Pop, but really we are just a bad basketball team.

Very true

[spurs1990]

Whole team just didn't show up. Guess you can't be upset if you look at that way

[Robz4000]

KJ looks a lot better than he did earlier in the season :tu

[slick'81]

I would like to be able to blame this debacle on Pop, but really we are just a bad basketball team.


But wed be top 3-4 if we strated lw4 instead of bryn ,right?

[Robz4000]

:lmao holy shit Beli

[sasaint]

Marco... :lol

[r0drig0lac]

KJ is ready, playing bullyball like a veteran out there

[TimDunkem]

I've never seen a man so ready to shoot an airball. :lol

[slick'81]

Whole team just didn't show up. Guess you can't be upset if you look at that way



Yea we got our asses kicked but didnt show up:spin

[sasaint]

But wed be top 3-4 if we strated lw4 instead of bryn ,right?

Sure.

[LakerHater]

WooooooW Beli :depressed

[gambit1990]

KJ is ready, playing bullyball like a veteran out there
i like what i've seen from him. he might as well be starting over forbes.

[gambit1990]

even in the offseason i was saying spurs should attempt getting pieces from okc. during the season i kept saying PATFO should try getting as many okc players as they could.

[Ditty]

Team is a lot more fun to watch without Rudy Gay and Derozan playing iso ball and Aldridge chucking up 3 balls.

[LakerHater]

Slow and out of position is what I always have seen. He is just better than most of the trash that he is playing with.

& W his hands at his side. They bn Poppin ez lil shots right over & on top his head.

[gambit1990]

wouldn't surprise me if the thunder finish the season with the 4th seed.

[tholdren]

i like what i've seen from him. he might as well be starting over forbes.
He outplayed murray and Walker, just like forbes did

[Spurtacular]

I would've taken Metu over Forbes/Lyles all season. Pop is one sorry fucker.

[talkspurs]

Metu needs to get some time other then garbage time. He still needs to work on some things but might also be our best PF.

[SPURt]

This is embarrassing

[Chinook]

I hate watching Metu play. Least favorite Spurs since Kevin Martin.

[TimDunkem]

Did this goofy Peter Peckerwood motherfucker just say that the game is just now "getting away from the Spurs"?

Jesus Christ. It's like someone put one of the resident sniffers on the mic.

[sananspursfan21]

This team gave up at halftime.

[gambit1990]

tipping the ball in backwards :lol

[FkLA]

But wed be top 3-4 if we strated lw4 instead of bryn ,right?

Comfortably a playoff team at the very least.

Playing at OKC is a very losable game even for good teams.

[sananspursfan21]

And to think, I’m at this game. Pray for me....or send thoughts. Whatever you believe in I guess

[sasaint]

I hate watching Metu play. Least favorite Spurs since Kevin Martin.

ON a night like tonight, it's hard to single out one player.

[tholdren]

I hate watching Metu play. Least favorite Spurs since Kevin Martin.
Kevin martin led the nba in scoring or was close. NBA is where talent lives

[sasaint]

This team gave up at halftime.


Seems like it on TV.

[NASpurs]

*checks box score*

Wtf happened in the last hr? :lol

[tholdren]

I would've taken Metu over Forbes/Lyles all season. Pop is one sorry fucker.

Bwaj.gahaja man u r not smart

[weebo]

Walker, Murray, and White total of 60+ minutes played 5 total points. :lol

[slick'81]

Chimeze jr reid

[Collins21]

I hate watching Metu play. Least favorite Spurs since Kevin Martin.

Exactly anybody who says he should get more time should go back and look at the Chicago and Utah games. This dude is low IQ player but he has the ability to dunk so people like him.

[slick'81]

Walker, Murray, and White total of 60+ minutes played 5 total points. :lol

offense is not white or murrays strong suit

[Chinook]

ON a night like tonight, it's hard to single out one player.

Well, yeah, he's definitely not the reason for the loss or anything, but I really don't like to see him anywhere near a basketball.

[Barfunk]

We don't care about basketball strikes again

[sananspursfan21]

Poor rotations and inconsistent effort is what’s plagued this team

[DC23]

lol what a pathetic game

[DC23]

Up 9 to lose by 28

[rude1_79]

didnt catch the first half. but wow, disappointing. KJ was the only one who looked like he was trying. really disappointed in walker too, seems like it would be a good time to shine, but nothing.

[slick'81]

Fck patty mills overpaid ass,tbh

[weebo]

didnt catch the first half. but wow, disappointing. KJ was the only one who looked like he was trying. really disappointed in walker too, seems like it would be a good time to shine, but nothing.

Walker is trash...every time I see the guy play he looks disinterested.

[SpurPadre]

lol, yet some of you still want this team to make the playoffs. This is why Friday's win was fucking stupid. Just tank and get it over with. Fuck getting 8th seed and ass rammed in the 1st round.

[KDKSpurs24]

Walker is trash...every time I see the guy play he looks disinterested.
I’m not gonna call him trash but I have to agree.. it’s really disappointing. There are times where he just puts his hands down and watches the ball.. and then he isn’t even willing to be aggressive. He just gets the ball takes a dribble or two and gives it up

[Spurtacular]

Bwaj.gahaja man u r not smart

You're the dumbest fucker on ST. Nobody cares about your assessments. NOBODY

[cd98]

Bench got destroyed by their bench. Imagine if they played against starters. Young guys aren’t near ready.

[weebo]

I’m not gonna call him trash but I have to agree.. it’s really disappointing. There are times where he just puts his hands down and watches the ball.. and then he isn’t even willing to be aggressive. He just gets the ball takes a dribble or two and gives it up

I'm not saying he isn't talented...I don't know tbh..for someone with that much physical ability you would think he would want it on display...not really sure if its confidence or poor motivation or a combination of the two.

[TimDunkem]

Bench got destroyed by their bench. Imagine if they played against starters. Young guys aren’t near ready.

The team stinks from top to bottom.

[Slippy]

I hate watching Metu play. Least favorite Spurs since Kevin Martin.

Metus always a step late defense and too late block attempts are useless in the nba. Almost like Brents fake hustle.

[DPG21920]

NO better not screw this up.

[TimDunkem]

Please oh please let Portland and NO win tonight

[RC_Drunkford]

Don't tell me y'all watched the game? :lmao :lmao

this was a scheduled loss. Get yourself a bitch or something

[Slippy]

Bench got destroyed by their bench. Imagine if they played against starters. Young guys aren’t near ready.

They did go against each other. Because im at work could only follow play by play. Im pretty sure in 3qrd quarter around 8mins pop emptied the bench for the starters who were not getting it done.

The mass subs didnt go too well .

[ace3g]

https://twitter.com/N_Magaro/status/1231773114415144960

[NASpurs]

https://twitter.com/N_Magaro/status/1231773114415144960

Already better than Forbes and that's just by existing in this world. Anything else is just gravy.

[RC_Drunkford]

Flopovich getting outcoached by Donovan never gets old

[DMC]

Spurs continue to be a shitty 3rd quarter team. Something about halftime that causes these players to play like shit. It's been a coach Pop problem for a long time, maybe his halftime schtick is mentally taxing.

[slick'81]

Already better than Forbes and that's just by existing in this world. Anything else is just gravy.


And mills,tbh

[tholdren]

Already better than Forbes and that's just by existing in this world. Anything else is just gravy.
Forbes outplayed murray and walker. So did johnson. Not saying much about ig or hairdo

[slick'81]

Spurs continue to be a shitty 3rd quarter team. Something about halftime that causes these players to play like shit. It's been a coach Pop problem for a long time, maybe his halftime schtick is mentally taxing.


Naw, just getting outplayed when it matters most,tbh

[RC_Drunkford]

Spurs continue to be a shitty 3rd quarter team. Something about halftime that causes these players to play like shit. It's been a coach Pop problem for a long time, maybe his halftime schtick is mentally taxing.

I've been saying this for a while. They always come out flat at halftime and turn the ball over. They also turn it over on a lot of out-of-time-out plays. I assume they know the old man went senile