Game Thread: Spurs vs. Jazz 12/26/2023 7:00 PM CST

[TXstbobcat]

Jazz -3.5

[spurraider21]

Spurs by 20+ tbh

[baseline bum]

Woah is Wemby playing for Utah to only be -3.5?

[CorrectCrusader]

Going to the game. Victor Wembanyama franchise game time

[exstatic]

GSG

[SpursWoman]

:flag:

[spurraider21]

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[John B]

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Keldon playing the Manu-role could be good spreading the touches. I like them to win, but I rather they get top draft pick and help convey the TOR pick.

[spurraider21]

:wow

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[freetiago]

Johnson can’t do anything without the ball. Problem is he isn’t good enough to be a primary ball handler. Can’t punish teams who go under screens and give him drop coverage. He just runs into them and yells AY hoping he gets a foul call. Unless he develops at least a reliable mid range shot he’s going to be a bench player at best. Took this moron coach king enough to see it.

[Leetonidas]

Pop pulling the one coaching move he knows and benching a starter :lmao

Get a PG or start Jones? Nah, this Keldon off the bench thing is the change that's gonna unlock this team! :lmao :lmao fucking imbecile

[Splits]

Keldon == Manu 2.0

[spurraider21]

johnson to the bench felt like an inevitability long term, but only when we got the starter who would cause keldon to get bumped, like OG or Risacher or somethin. i dont think champagnie is good enough yet, but lord knows the bench has been getting annihilated this year and keldon should be able to feast on opposing benches.

if pop benched branham for a point guard that would be the next obvious move to make

[onechance87]

get graham to start....Decent shooter and passer....im done with tre and branham

[Extra Stout]

It’s well and good to bench Johnson, but Branham and Champagnie are not NBA players. On the other hand, the Spurs with their roster have a hard time putting 5 NBA players on the floor regardless.

[poopbox]

Keldon getting sent to the gulag for fucking Champagnie is a perfect example of Pop as a coach tbh :lol

[LeBowen]

I don't think any player with enough quality to start should be coming off the bench unless he's a creator on a team that already has enough creation.
Why not just stagger minutes so Keldon plays when Devin is off the floor?

[Splits]

Coming off the bench and taking advantage of shithole players can make an average guy look like a HoFer. Exhibit A:

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[itzsoweezee]

Keldon is a natural bench player, so not mad at that. Champagnie better make some shots Otherwise, starting him over jones is absurd

[spursparker9]

15 points loss. calling it first

[Splits]

so far so good, no ball bois undercutting VW

[Splits]

USA USA

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Tranny singing the anthem is a good sign

[SpursFan86]

That pass by Victor was filthy

[LeBowen]

Here we go again. Solid start which will inevitably be ruined in third quarter.

[Splits]

Spurs got this ish. Champ is flashing back to summer league.

[TekXX]

Pop raging at the official like a mad man, is that who we are? Ok yea that's him.

[poopbox]

Pop actually upset about something that happened in the game and giving it to the refs :wow

[spursparker9]

Spurs got this ish. Champ is flashing back to summer league.

Spurs got this in most 1st Quarter. Then they don't got this by 3rd Quarter ends

[Leetonidas]

Still subbing Victor out 6 mins into the game :lol

[Splits]

Damn, Jizz defense makes the Spurs look respectable.

[Pauleta14]

Pop getting angry.... finally!

[onechance87]

weak ass d from the spurs right there

[Splits]

Still subbing Victor out 6 mins into the game :lol

"they" put him on a minute restriction :pop:

[TekXX]

Why wasn't pop pissed about the hundreds of hours of shit basketball we've seen from the Spurs so far? I'm guessing he didn't expect them to embarass him this badly so now he finally has to coach.

[Splits]

no way we can blow a 13pt lead

[poopbox]

Kessler out here looking like shaq

[r0drig0lac]

fucking scrub Zach

[Robz4000]

:lol Collins really sucks the air out of the Spurs' sails when he checks in

[SpursFan86]

Our offense is so fucking awful :lol Just such inconsistent shooting…guys bricking wide open shots left and right

[SPURt]

Collins playing like absolute trash. Barlow is over there in street clothes :depressed

[onechance87]

keldon lol

[Spurs Brazil]

KJ terrible again. As soon as he enters the game our D get worst. And on offense he’s taking dumb shots

[poopbox]

Spurs were playing pretty good then Collins, Keldon, and Tre checked it and ruined it.

[Mugen]

Such garbage with zero improvement over 1/3 of the season.

[TekXX]

Ok Keldon you see Markkanen and their center there, don't try to go over them, so something else.

[Mugen]

Such a trash head coach, literally the worst in sports and this dumb ass organization extended him lol

[SpurSpike]

Maybe if we had Victor playing more the Jazz wouldn't be making this run with their bigs.

[Spurs Brazil]

Jones playing defense is a joke.

[onechance87]

tre jones cant guard nobody lol

[SpurSpike]

Please let this be the game were things start to click and we get out of the expectation that Spurs lose every game...

[onechance87]

im ready to give wesley a chance over tre jones

[tbdog]

Oh so marginal contact is a rule now?

[TekXX]

Wemby you're right there, just shoot it, they don't all have to be threes

[Splits]

00 Rick James playing for the Jizz.

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[Devi8or]

Doing a lot better job feeding the ball down low to Victor so far today

[TekXX]

Am i witnessing Wemby score in the paint like he should?

[poopbox]

we got all our worst defenders on the floor at once. Nice going Pop.

[Mugen]

Wemby gets a 3pt play and Pop immediately called for Zollins to sub in. Absolutely disgusting.

[SpurSpike]

Victor isn't going to play more that 6 minutes a quarter is he?

[onechance87]

pops rotation on mins is terrible

[Robz4000]

:lmao they throw lobs for Vassell but not Wemby

[Mugen]

Please force yourself to a real organization, Wemby

[Splits]

Need Chinook to explain to me how all these lobs are possible.

[onechance87]

jump branham wtf

[spursparker9]

:lmao they throw lobs for Vassell but not Wemby

Rookie haven't earn his due to receive lobs. :lol

[Splits]

Victor isn't going to play more that 6 minutes a quarter is he?

:pop: "they" put him on a minute restriction

[djohn2oo8]

:lmao they throw lobs for Vassell but not Wemby
:lol yeah Pop definitely gotta go

[Mugen]

Minutes restriction is such a bullshit excuse, not believing it for a sec

[Robz4000]

This game going like basically every game this season tbh. How much do the Spurs get outscored by in the third quarter tonight? My bet is 19 points imo.

[Dex]

Victor isn't going to play more that 6 minutes a quarter is he?

He's averaging 30 MPG as a rookie and a giant. I think that's fine while he gets used to the NBA schedule

[Dex]

This game going like basically every game this season tbh. How much do the Spurs get outscored by in the third quarter tonight? My bet is 19 points imo.

I'll take the under but only because it is the Jazz

[Joseph Kony]

god damn Collins is such a piece of shit on defense

[Joseph Kony]

:lmao this midget lineup

[Splits]

Jones defense not terrible so far

[Thomas82]

Wemby gets a 3pt play and Pop immediately called for Zollins to sub in. Absolutely disgusting.

Yeah, that's frustrating as hell.

[r0drig0lac]

jeremy buckets

[Mugen]

Literal trash lineups

[Dex]

I've been a Sochan hater so far (mostly because he is NOT A POINT GUARD) but his three-point shot is actually improving so that's good

[Spurs Brazil]

Jones can’t play any D and can’t shoot. The only good news is he just have one more year on his contract.

[Splits]

No problem, we own the 3rd quarter. Pop is the master of half time adjustments.

[weebo]

:lol yeah Pop definitely gotta go

KJ back on the texans homie

[onechance87]

Jones defense not terrible so far

are u even watching the game

[Kawhi Duncan]

Why is Wemby playing the least minutes out of all the starters? Sabotaging his career... Literally the worst coach Wemby could have gotten

[onechance87]

Why is Wemby playing the least minutes out of all the starters? Sabotaging his career... Literally the worst coach Wemby could have gotten

yup im sure wemby not happy being treated like a baby

[playbonner15]

LOL Sochan shitting on Spurstalk

[Rocalcio]

Why is Wemby playing the least minutes out of all the starters? Sabotaging his career... Literally the worst coach Wemby could have gotten

The kid is coming back from injury, that was expected

[Chinook]

Need Chinook (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=37557) to explain to me how all these lobs are possible.

You mean like the lob to Vassell? So that was there because Collins and Devin communicated it before the cut. A similar thing happened when Wemby got his lob off that Robinson spin move. A while back I made a post going into how teams like the Lob City Clippers and Chandler Knicks did to get their oop passes. Basically you need the receiver to coordinate with the passer to sync up their actions and create a window. A big who goes too early is going to be covered back up by the time the pass gets there. That's why a guy like Robinson hung out in the dunker spot then made his move at the right time to get the ball rather than just demanding it all the time (especially when he was young) Off-ball movement in the paint requires timing because of three-seconds calls. They can literally communicate the action like Collins and Vassell and Vassell and Wemby did or they can have a refined enough offense to where certain actions are keyed based on the defense. What you don't usually see is a big manufacture a lob in a set offense. That's true for the role-players who are normally the recipents of lobs and the star bigs who had them as part of their offense.

I hope people realize now that the Spurs players actually do know how to throw the pass though. It's funny that instead of wondering if there was anything different about these successful lobs versus the lobs that aren't being thrown to Wemby, folks are still trying to dig deeper into conspiracy. Wemby is raw. A lot of things he does on the court are wrong. That's completely normal. What's unhealthy for him is to pretend that he's a vet superstar who doesn't need coaching and structure to grow within. He needs to be put into good positions and develop reliable offense before trying to defer to him on all this stuff. It's like how most rookie QBs aren't calling their own plays or even their own audibles/protection shifts.

[Joseph Kony]

:lmao predictable beginning to the 3rd. this team is a joke

[SpursFan86]

Has anyone seen some historical context around our 3rd quarter play this year? I feel like we have to be one of the worst 3rd quarter teams in recent memory :lol Would love to know how much we’re getting outscored by

[onechance87]

branham needs to be cut by tonight

[PhantomDashCam]

Like clockwork… Show some backbone ye shits.
:pop: “That’s not who we are…”

[spurs10]

What the hell is going on during halftime? Turn my head and 4 is 11.

[Robz4000]

:lol this team blows like a seasoned prostitute

[SpursFan86]

3 missed layups in a row :lmao

[TekXX]

These halftime speeches by Pop must be amazing.

[onechance87]

lmao tre is so bad....him and branham dont belong in the nba

[Joseph Kony]

What the hell is going on during halftime? Turn my head and 4 is 11.
team has completely tuned Pop out imho

[Blizzardwizard]

Watching the Pistons game... Cade Cunningham just had a 37-point half.

There's no way these guys beat Detroit. Cade might go for 60+ and Bojan Bogdanovic is a notorious Spurs Killer (who isn't these days I guess).

[Kawhi Duncan]

The kid is coming back from injury, that was expected

For one, he wasn't injured... He wanted to play, but Pop kept him out as a precaution... Secondly, let's not pretend as if Pop has t been doing this all season

[Kawhi Duncan]

I think ppl simply watch Jones' height and assume he is bad on defense when it's not the case... Dude was DPOY in college... Sohan gets washed on D all the time, but because he is tall, it doesn't register to people how bad he actually is...

[Joseph Kony]

:lol Kessler clobbered Johnson on that dunk and no call??

[SpursFan86]

Please get Clarkson the fuck outta here

[Kawhi Duncan]

Wesley should be our starting PG until we get someone better... I've always thought he was better than Branam

[spursparker9]

:lol Kessler clobbered Johnson on that dunk and no call??

Marginal contact :lol

[Blizzardwizard]

Did Collins just block his own teammate at the rim twice?

I'm not even mad. That was amazing.

[Chinook]

I think ppl simply watch Jones' height and assume he is bad on defense when it's not the case... Dude was DPOY in college... Sohan gets washed on D all the time, but because he is tall, it doesn't register to people how bad he actually is...

I think it's because in an ideal world, Jones would be the weak link of the Spurs because of his size. The problem is that the Spurs are nowhere near that ideal case, and Jones is probably their most sound defender. Most defense is played with a player's feet. It's how you move and where you are, not really how high you can reach. Jones isn't perfect, but he's the only guy playing above-average in those metrics. A better-coached team would have or be playing multiple guys with that level of defensive understanding. Then they could worry about Jones' size. Right now, that's not limiting the team.

[Joseph Kony]

wide open 3 after wide open 3 after wide open 3 :lmao

[Kawhi Duncan]

Our players always overhelp and give up wide open threes... And Pop refuses to change... Dude is so stubborn... This isn't 2003 anymore... You WILL be beat by the three point line

[SpursFan86]

Damn. Felt like we threw everything we had at them and still down 7 going into the 4th. Just couldn’t get stops

[Spurs Brazil]

Very nice minutes for Wesley. Too bad the rest of that lineup don’t play any D

[Degoat]

Giving up 100 points thru 3 quarters we suck defensively so bad

[Splits]

If VW got that Collins nosebleed, he'd be out for the next 5 games and on a minutes restriction for the season

[spurraider21]

Wesley holding his own tbh

[Robz4000]

:lol of course Wesley can't hit his freebies either

[R. DeMurre]

Markkanen is so good. It's crazy that some people are still viewing him with scouting reports from 2021.

[spurraider21]

"breaking down defensive mistakes" guy gonna have a field day with this one

[Robz4000]

:lol Wemby's conditioning has somehow gotten worse as the season's progressed

[spurraider21]

Markkanen is so good. It's crazy that some people are still viewing him with scouting reports from 2021.
he's awesome. he's what ST was hoping Samanic would be

and he was more or less salary filler in the Mitchell trade :lol

[Kawhi Duncan]

Wemby playing soft, low IQ basketball

[tbdog]

Wemby not playing well. Looks slow or injured.

[Degoat]

This entire team is ass, wemby under performing in his last couple games. Every team has so much more talent then the spurs do it’s funny

[Thomas82]

Here we go subbing Wemby early as hell again. SMH

[Kawhi Duncan]

:lol Wemby's conditioning has somehow gotten worse as the season's progressed

With the way Pop has been babying him lately, it's expected... Dude has barely played lately

[SpurSpike]

Crowd booing pop for taking Victor out. He looked gassed though tbh.

[Robz4000]

Here we go subbing Wemby early as hell again. SMH

He's completely gassed and was playing like crap because of it.

[Robz4000]

This entire team is ass, wemby under performing in his last couple games. Every team has so much more talent then the spurs do it’s funny

Brian Wrong tbh

[SpursFan86]

Clarkson legitimately looking like a fucking all-NBA caliber player against us :lol Nothing to do but laugh at it.

[Thomas82]

With this minutes restriction, I assume Wemby is done for the night.

[Rocalcio]

For one, he wasn't injured... He wanted to play, but Pop kept him out as a precaution... Secondly, let's not pretend as if Pop has t been doing this all season

Are you on the medical staff to know that ?
I can name you a lot of players who want to play while being injured. He missed the previous game because the staff wanted to be cautious, that’s what we call coming back from an injury.

[Thomas82]

He's completely gassed and was playing like crap because of it.

I wouldn't be shocked if we don't see him again tonight.

[spurraider21]

Clarkson legitimately looking like a fucking all-NBA caliber player against us :lol Nothing to do but laugh at it.
its actually kinda incredible how many laker castoffs have gone on to have successful careers in the last decade

[Splits]

I mean if this is just an experiment season, sure would like to see more of Wesley.

[Barfunk]

Damn, another L :-/

[Frenchfred]

:lol Wemby's conditioning has somehow gotten worse as the season's progressed

And next summer, he'll play in the Olympics so not sure if he'll be able to improve his conditioning. Hopefully, we can get a good PG to make his life easier

[Barfunk]

:pop:

[Thomas82]

With this minutes restriction, I assume Wemby is done for the night.

I'm happy to be wrong.

[Robz4000]

:lol Wemby playing like absolute ass

[spursparker9]

Seems like KJ's throat got hit by Clarkson's shoulder. Common foul tbh

[Mugen]

I've never had less joy from watching a sports team than this season. And I've watched some horrible Raider teams in the last two decades.

The old man managed to suck every single positive heading into this year. They're going to be paying for this horrible year for many, many years to come.

I'll do an ELE bet with any legitimate sniffer on this board that the Spurs lose to the Pistons tbh.

[spurraider21]

branham 0 points in 15 minutes :lol

[onechance87]

branham 0 points in 15 minutes :lol

dude does not belong in the nba....every few games he will hit a few shots...But thats it
Cant shoot,Cant defend,Cant rebound,Cant do nothing wel

[Kawhi Duncan]

Pop has successfully broken Wemby... He doesn't have the confidence or swagger he had from the preseason and early on in the year...

[Barfunk]

We got a longgggggggggggggg way to go. I mean in the draft, the Spurs probably aren't even going to pick the best player and even then, Pop won't even play the pick next season much. Sorry Pop diehards. He simply needs to go, and honestly, I'm actually indeed a Pop fan, but I still prefer to call things as they are.

[spurs10]

We are every bit as bad as Detroit, actually worse as they compete.

[Mugen]

Pop has successfully broken Wemby... He doesn't have the confidence or swagger he had from the preseason and early on in the year...

Yeah. Wemby is done playing for this org and I don't blame him one bit :lol

What a masterclass in how to absolutely torpedo getting a generational talent.

[Barfunk]

You need a hard nosed coach, most all great championship teams had a hard nosed coach, but not a coach who's an outright freaking dictator.

[tbdog]

Jazz just have legit nba players, playing with youth. They are a better than their record. Wemby looks injured unfortunately.

[Blizzardwizard]

Wemby looked massively tired, demotivated and possibly carrying a lingering injury tonight. Poor guy.


If he gets shutdown for any meaningful period of time to rehab that ankle the 11-12 Bobcats' fewest wins record could genuinely be in play.

[SPURt]

Spurs aren’t gonna win a lot of games with Wemby playing like that. Collins, Jones, Cedi, and McBuckets gave absolutely nothing. Winnable game, terrible play in all the wrong places.

[Mugen]

:lol Wemby was doing between the legs dunks during warmups. He's not injured.

I think it's starting to realize that this wasn't the Spurs org he grew up watching. It's amateur hour.

[baseline bum]

I gotta stop tuning into these games. Until they get a coach who gives a shit about defense this team is going to be unfuckingwatchable.

[Robz4000]

:lol Wemby was doing between the legs dunks during warmups. He's not injured.

I think it's starting to realize that this wasn't the Spurs org he grew up watching. It's amateur hour.

This tbh.

[Mugen]

I gotta stop tuning into these games. Until they get a coach who gives a shit about defense this team is going to be unfuckingwatchable.

Wide open 3 after wide open 3 because these fucking bums are being coached to overhelp to defend the paint when probably the best shot blocking prospect in NBA history is at the cup :lol

[Pauleta14]

And they're supposed to be working specifically to find Victor more lmao

SURREAL spectacle and sad for Vic who's body language speaks volume. Forget his interviews

[Barfunk]

Wemby not playing the back to back.

[onechance87]

rebounds and shooting is whats killing us.....We made shots in the end but the game was already over..
Our guards have been terrible in vassell,jones,and branham...Its time to switch it up maybe try
wesley and granham a chance already

[spurraider21]

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[Mugen]

:lmao

[spurraider21]

considering thats coming after today's game, he's almost certainly referring to branham at the very least

osman has also been inconsistent (and mcdermott consistently bad) but its not like this team is flooded w/ wing options

and of course collins, but with Bassey out and Barlow seemingly in exile... not really seeing much to be done there

[onechance87]

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gotta start with branham and tre jones....time to switch it up with wesley and granham and
maybe mamu over collins

[sananspursfan21]

Aside from Wemby, you’re looking at a team comprised of not the best guy available in the draft but some offshoot name that nobody else would have even joked about drafting with that pick. This isn’t the big 3 Spurs where you can afford to do that every once in awhile. This team is just a bunch of players that might have made nice 15th men getting 10 minutes a game in garbage time in 2005

[spurraider21]

Aside from Wemby, you’re looking at a team comprised of not the best guy available in the draft but some offshoot name that nobody else would have even joked about drafting with that pick. This isn’t the big 3 Spurs where you can afford to do that every once in awhile. This team is just a bunch of players that might have made nice 15th men getting 10 minutes a game in garbage time in 2005
eh, i dont really think this is the case at all. vassell/sochan/branham/wesley were all drafted basically in line with their projections. tre jones was a SRP. keldon was a very late first and a successful one at that. the rest of the guys have all been around long enough where they're no longer really associated with their draft positions

the spurs draft reaches in recent years were Primo and Samanic

[Mugen]

The big fucking move is starting Wesley over Branham for a couple of games and them still getting skullfucked by 20+ a night :lol

There is zero, literally zero chance that guys like Graham, Mamu and Barlow will see meaningful mins in the next 20 games for the simple reason that it makes too much sense.

[Leetonidas]

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:lol I'll believe it when I see it

[playbonner15]

considering thats coming after today's game, he's almost certainly referring to branham at the very least

osman has also been inconsistent (and mcdermott consistently bad) but its not like this team is flooded w/ wing options

and of course collins, but with Bassey out and Barlow seemingly in exile... not really seeing much to be done there

Branham's been turrible

[NASpurs]

Hopefully the changes he refers to is stepping down from basketball operations.

[spurraider21]

The big fucking move is starting Wesley over Branham for a couple of games and them still getting skullfucked by 20+ a night :lol

There is zero, literally zero chance that guys like Graham, Mamu and Barlow will see meaningful mins in the next 20 games for the simple reason that it makes too much sense.
Barlow not seeing any minutes after Bassey going down has been really bizarre tbh

think pop is warming up to Wesley getting run. Graham is a lost cause.

and Mamu is fun for spurts but his defense is beyond horrid. I’ll watch him do some nice things for 3 minutes and think “wtf why doesn’t this guy play more” and then i watch more closely and go “oh that’s why”

there’s definitely a place for Mamu minutes in a year like this. Definitely more than we’ve seen

[baseline bum]

The big fucking move is starting Wesley over Branham for a couple of games and them still getting skullfucked by 20+ a night :lol

There is zero, literally zero chance that guys like Graham, Mamu and Barlow will see meaningful mins in the next 20 games for the simple reason that it makes too much sense.

Though to be fair, any move that gets Branham the fuck off the floor is an enormous positive. That pos is allowing his man to shoot 57.4% against him this year, not fucking joking. Among players who have appeared in 20 games this year Branham is fourth worst in the league. He makes Collins look like Mount Mutombo. Though Graham's allowing his man to shoot 58.8% so not sure he's an answer either.

[spurraider21]

It’s a nice change of pace for Sochan to not be the most frustrating player of the game. But i question his long term prospects if he’s simply not an impact defender

[baseline bum]

It’s a nice change of pace for Sochan to not be the most frustrating player of the game. But i question his long term prospects if he’s simply not an impact defender

Poor man's Malik Rose

[Mugen]

Barlow not seeing any minutes after Bassey going down has been really bizarre tbh

think pop is warming up to Wesley getting run. Graham is a lost cause.

and Mamu is fun for spurts but his defense is beyond horrid. I’ll watch him do some nice things for 3 minutes and think “wtf why doesn’t this guy play more” and then i watch more closely and go “oh that’s why”

there’s definitely a place for Mamu minutes in a year like this. Definitely more than we’ve seen

"He can't play defense" excuse went out the window about 15 games ago. Literally only Wemby plays D this year so that reason should never be held against a guy as to why he's not playing.

Graham not seeing a lick of playing time is so insane especially when he's inevitably bought out in a month instead of this dumbass FO using him as salary fodder in a trade.

I'm assuming Barlow isn't getting minutes because of some stupid two way player games restriction but that should have been thrown out the door the moment Bassey went down.

Again, this is all common sense shit that should be happing when you're talking about a team that's historically one of the worst in NBA history.

But I literally can't even expect Pop to do any of that. People think it's hyperbole but I legitimately think this season's version of the old man has been the worst coach in sports in the last 25 years. He makes McDaniels look like a genius tbh.

[Mugen]

Though to be fair, any move that gets Branham the fuck off the floor is an enormous positive. That pos is allowing his man to shoot 57.4% against him this year, not fucking joking. Among players who have appeared in 20 games this year Branham is fourth worst in the league. He makes Collins look like Mount Mutombo. Though Graham's allowing his man to shoot 58.8% so not sure he's an answer either.

No argument from me that Branham sucks. But give Wesley 10-15 games to show horrible he is and then we can check back in tbh :lol

[daslicer]

I gotta stop tuning into these games. Until they get a coach who gives a shit about defense this team is going to be unfuckingwatchable.

I have a policy of only watching 1 Spurs game per a week and that's it. This team is too boring and unprofessional to give away too much time to watching them.

[Spurs Homer]

Someone needs to tell pop that since wemby gets gassed after 5 minutes- pop needs to sub him out for maybe 1-2 minutes and then throw him back out there for another 5 minutes

then 1-2 minutes rest and then right back out there

start game- sub him out at 7 min mark

back in at 5 minute mark - EVEN if you have to burn a timeout to get him right back in

finish 1st qtr - and along with tv timeout- put him back in at the 11 minute mark of 2nd qtr

sub out at 6 minute mark

use timeout to make sure wemby is back by 4 minute mark of 2nd qtr to finish out first half

that is 19 minutes out of the 24 minutes on the floor and only 5 resting and timeouts also

repeat in 2nd half and this will give vw 38 minutes a game and the ONLY chance the spurs have to win games

tonite pop subbed vw out way before halftime and NEVER put him back until the 3rd qtr

why the fuck did vw need 7 minutes of rest PLUS HALFTIME?

[poopbox]

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"Demanding consistency" from players who are bottom 5 in almost every offensive and defensive category :lmao

"Make some changes" :lmao

[Tyronn Lue]

If the amateur fighting Tyson Fury doesn't do better, we're going to have to change him up to southpaw.

[The Truth #6]

Blake has shown aspects of faint improvement. In theory, he gets into the lane and tries hard on POA defense. Might as well start him. Fuck it. Branham has regressed and not just from being the sacrificial "point guard" of the moment.

[offset formation]

Another 130 points on the board against the vaunted Spurs D.

[Dex]

Another 130 points on the board against the vaunted Spurs D.

It's just a game :pop: There are people out there putting ketchup on their eggs. You ever think about that?

[Jordan Jackson]

I’m not sure this Spurs team can beat the Pistons. They can’t shoot 3s but if left open which the Spurs are prone to do - they will make them. Better hope the Pistons win before they play the Spurs.

[Barfunk]

It's just a game :pop: There are people out there putting ketchup on their eggs. You ever think about that?

I can dig some ketchup on scrambled here and there

[baseline bum]

No argument from me that Branham sucks. But give Wesley 10-15 games to show horrible he is and then we can check back in tbh :lol

At least Wesley can play defense :lol

Pretty sure he can slide right into Branham's offensive role of missing wide open shots and throwing retarded low energy passes for turnovers

[TrainOfThought5]

Has anyone seen some historical context around our 3rd quarter play this year? I feel like we have to be one of the worst 3rd quarter teams in recent memory :lol Would love to know how much we’re getting outscored by

I’ve been a fan of the spurs since ‘98. I’ve never seen us be a good third quarter Team.

[Splits]

Has anyone seen some historical context around our 3rd quarter play this year? I feel like we have to be one of the worst 3rd quarter teams in recent memory :lol Would love to know how much we’re getting outscored by

This is a couple weeks old, but not much has changed I would think

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0b87a174-6cf3-43bb-81f1-465e9d5d01bc.jpeg?format=webp

[DrSteffo]

First 9 minutes were good. I think this team really need to have a shooter like Champaigne in the starting lineup with Wemby. Sochan looked good to me and I don't understand the hate on him. I like him a lot. Branham is not starting caliber but could become a decent bench guy. This is a tanking team. With a real PG and a 3 and D guy at SF, next year could be fun.

[SupremeGuy]

:lol Wemby was doing between the legs dunks during warmups. He's not injured.

I think it's starting to realize that this wasn't the Spurs org he grew up watching. It's amateur hour.I know some people that were at the game the other night when he got "injured." They said they saw everything happen and were genuinely surprised/pissed when they found out he was being kept out of the game that night.

I don't know how anyone can still support poop. The writing was on the wall with bitchass kawhi tbh.

Is there any possible way for the Spurs to get out of the stupid contract they just gave him?

I'd really like to see Manu, if he wanted it, the HC position. Add in some TP and Diaw to keep our french franchise happy, and we could turn this ship around.

[Dex]

I can dig some ketchup on scrambled here and there

:vomit:

[Barfunk]

:vomit:

Lol, eh, I use to know this chic back in high school who liked to put potato chips in her Lucky Charms cereal, so ketchup on eggs isn't bad. Lots of people like ketchup on eggs, it's not that weird of a combo, lol.

[SpursFan86]

This is a couple weeks old, but not much has changed I would think

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0b87a174-6cf3-43bb-81f1-465e9d5d01bc.jpeg?format=webp

Good stuff (the data, not the fact that we’re getting blown out by fucking 28 points per 100 possessions in the 3rd quarter :lol )

[djohn2oo8]

KJ back on the texans homie
We back up