Game Thread: Spurs (7-18) @ Heat (12-14) Saturday Dec. 10, 2022 4:00PM CT 12:00AM RIGA

[lefty20]

KBD, Sochan, Poeltl & Wesley are out.


Vassell was listed as questionable.

[LeBowen]

Gotta get on the right track after an upset the other night. Can't have any more mistakes.

[lefty20]

Vassell on fire

[TDMVPDPOY]

with or without resting players, heat will just push pops shit back in anyway

[lefty20]

Miami letting us hand around in this. Hopefully they'll get their act together in the 2nd half.

[LeBowen]

Heat is the definition of a team that should've blown it up, but are hopelessly trying to compete.
What's their plan?

All the Ls aside, our guys are improving. By the end of the season, tank will have to be even more blatant.

[heyheymymy]

lol at FTX, dead 15 games into a 19 year arena naming rights sponsorship deal

[SPURt]

Bassey out here playing like Draymond

[heyheymymy]

lol bass owning dedmon

[slick'81]

Spurs gonna mess around and get a W:lol

[lefty20]

Dedmon :lol

[slick'81]

Tank off?

[SPURt]

Heat getting the home cooking going

[SPURt]

Vassell!

[heyheymymy]

Cody Martin playing well but love the ice cold answers from Dev

[emanueldavidginobili]

Vassell hits two incredible shots and Spurs are going to try to force feed Keldon and turn it over lmao

[heyheymymy]

Zollins covering Bam well defensively there and thanks to Tre and his speed burst Spurs came away with it

[Barfunk]

Teams are now colluding against the Spurs to ruin their draft position. Go figure. Probably organized by the great Adam SLiver.

[tim_duncan_fan]

I'm sorry but this nigga Tre Jones sucks and should just barely maybe be in the league.

He plays guard but can't move at a medium speed with the ball in his hands.

[Thomas82]

The Spurs messed around and let an L get away from them.

[heyheymymy]

lol did Spurs just need 2 timeouts to inbound the ball?

[LeBowen]

Masterful tank, tbh.

[SPURt]

lol did Spurs just need 2 timeouts to inbound the ball?
Yes lol

[lefty20]

ref trynna help the tank. good guys them refs

[heyheymymy]

Yes lol

And still "accidentally" turns it back over to the heat lol

[itzsoweezee]

The ending of this game is so stupid.

[heyheymymy]

Bet Martin hits a 3 to help MIA win by 1

[LeBowen]

Fucking Heat.

[lefty20]

Did everything humanly possible to give this game away and the Heat wanted no part of it.

[itzsoweezee]

Wtf are you doing Bam? An absolute dumbass

[heyheymymy]

wow did little PG Jones just rip that board in front of Bam?

[james evans]

shit!!! I was hoping for a Heat win. Any other season, a team would have hit that 3. Most of us want to tank and now we're not losing all we should.

[LeBowen]

Wtf are you doing Bam? An absolute dumbass

Modern NBA for you. 7 footer alone right under the rim, kicks it out for 3.

[heyheymymy]

Heat with a look to win, a rebound and a second even better look to win - nothing

[SPURt]

The Heat choked that away, ugly loss for them. It’s fun seeing Bassey and Langford turn into role players. I thought they were just warm bodies originally. Langford really bringing a lot out there.

[heyheymymy]

Spurs hovering low enough in the standings to maintain that 14%, even while winning up a bit. It's still early, plenty of time to plummet more later

[LeBowen]

The Heat choked that away, ugly loss for them. It’s fun seeing Bassey and Langford turn into role players. I thought they were just warm bodies originally. Langford really bringing a lot out there.

Yeah, they both have potential to be solid rotation players.
JRich should go asap.

[heyheymymy]

Man Lang is really putting it all together here

also very solid game from Zach Collins. Did the concussion knock some skills online or something?

[Barfunk]

On a good note, some really nice shots from Vassell there at the end.

[slick'81]

Explain to me how were tanking

[Spurs Homer]

Tanking is so confusing!

Spurs get calls in the fourth qtr to go their way- yes! No wait- fuck!

collins playing his heart out gets called for a bogus flop by flopper lowry- fuck! - no wait - yesss!

spurs win! - uh… ?

[slick'81]

Start kissing that top 3 pick goodbye

[mo7888]

Start kissing that top 3 pick goodbye

We'll end up bottom 3 in the standings then We'll see how the ping pong balls go...

[ismael-robert]

No Spurs No! I didn't really care for the tank but when u hit bottom of the league there's no point messing it up now. Tre really did jump out gym on that rebound over the bigs n shut up "Tim Duncan fan"

[slick'81]

We'll end up bottom 3 in the standings then We'll see how the ping pong balls go...

maybe in the western conference

[slick'81]

Win moves spurs to 5th worse record in the League

[Mr. Body]

It's not really reasonable to expect the Spurs to lose more games than Houston, Orlando, or Detroit lose. The rest is up in the air. People should be more happy that teams like Portland and Sacramento have moved comfortably out of high lottery contention.

[mo7888]

maybe in the western conference

In the league.... we're 2 and 8 in our last 10 which is worse (or better depending on your view) than any of the other bottom 5... we have a worse point differential etc.... it's inevitable that we end up in the bottom 3...

[mikec]

It's not really reasonable to expect the Spurs to lose more games than Houston, Orlando, or Detroit lose. The rest is up in the air. People should be more happy that teams like Portland and Sacramento have moved comfortably out of high lottery contention.

This. We can't out tank those 3 teams. I would be happy with a top 4 pick. My fear is competing with Charlotte for that 4th spot. Hoping Lamelo Ball comes back soon.

[boutons_deux]

Heat had their chances, but Spurs didn't give it away.

2 halves of rather consistent bball.

[SPURt]

Yeah, they both have potential to be solid rotation players.
JRich should go asap.
Agreed. If they really want to tank they need to trade McBuckets. That dude puts in game changing buckets.

[TDomination]

Spurs hovering low enough in the standings to maintain that 14%, even while winning up a bit. It's still early, plenty of time to plummet more later
Yup
besides history tells us the worst team hardly ever wins the lottery so being 2nd or 3rd worst team would be good tbh

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Vassell…wow. Those two shots at the end were incredible.

[Thomas82]

Yup
besides history tells us the worst team hardly ever wins the lottery so being 2nd or 3rd worst team would be good tbh

Yeah, even in both of the years we won the lottery we didn't have the worst record.