Impressive Spurs facts and streaks heading into 2006-07

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Originally Posted by FromWayDowntown

Curiously, if the Spurs sweep Atlanta this year, .

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This hasn't been as easy as it should be. I think the Spurs have more NBA titles than Hawks sweeps over the last 5 or 6 years. In fact I think the Hawks swept the Spurs a couple of years ago.

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Originally Posted by Guru of Nothing

While you geeks are at it, what is Pop's W/L record? ... and where does he rank amongst the best ever (with respect to W/L)?

TIA.

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dknights got the raw numbers.

For what it's worth, Pop is 4th all-time in NBA history in regular season winning percentage among qualifying coaches:

.713 -- Phil Jackson
.698 -- Billy Cunningham
.674 -- K.C. Jones
.673 -- GREGG POPOVICH
.663 -- Red Auerbach

Pop is 8th all-time in playoff victories by a coach

178 -- Phil Jackson
171 -- Pat Riley
100 -- Larry Brown
99 --- Red Auerbach
81 --- K.C. Jones
80 --- Lenny Wilkens
78 --- Jerry Sloan
76 --- GREGG POPOVICH
75 --- Chuck Daly
70 --- Rick Adelman

and 6th all-time among coaches in playoff winning percentage at .618:

.709 -- Phil Jackson
.636 -- Butch van Breda Kolff
.632 -- John Kundla
.629 -- Billy Cunningham
.625 -- Byron Scott
.618 -- GREGG POPOVICH
.617 -- Larry Costello
.615 -- Larry Bird
.615 -- Pat Riley
.607 -- Stan Van Gundy

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Originally Posted by whottt

This hasn't been as easy as it should be. I think the Spurs have more NBA titles than Hawks sweeps over the last 5 or 6 years. In fact I think the Hawks swept the Spurs a couple of years ago.

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Oh, I agree. Far from a foregone conclusion.

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Originally Posted by theroc5

duncan hasnt ever lost an opener...i think

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yup. spurs are 10-0 in openers in the Tim Duncan era... :toast

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Originally Posted by whottt

Guy hasn't updated his site in a while but I am pretty sure we belong on that list...I show our record over the last 5 years to be 293 wins...which should put us right there between the Jazz and Sonics, but the PCT is probably not good enough...

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He has the raw numbers right, but he shows the Spurs with only 1 title and the Heat with none.

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Originally Posted by TDMVPDPOY

does anyone have the winnin records in the tim duncan era?? im not talkin about the 70% winnin rate, i want the h2h details....

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Ask and ye shall receive -- I've compiled this list, but I'll admit that there's one loss that I must have missed somewhere along the way. I checked the closest matchups to make sure it's not one of them -- I'm pretty sure it's not.

Since 1997-98 (including 2006-07 season)
1.000 -- Boston (16-0)
1.000 -- Charlotte (4-0)
.882 -- Golden State (30-4)
.853 -- LA Clippers (29-5)
.829 -- Houston (29-6)
.800 -- Memphis/Vancouver (28-7)
.765 -- Utah (26-8)
.765 -- Chicago (13-4)
.765 -- Orlando (13-4)
.750 -- Denver (27-9)
.750 -- New Orleans/OKC/Charlotte (15-5)
.750 -- Atlanta (12-4)
.750 -- Indiana (12-4)
.750 -- Miami (12-4)
.706 -- Cleveland (12-5)
.706 -- Toronto (12-5)
.688 -- New Jersey (11-5)
.688 -- Washington (11-5)
.686 -- Portland (24-11)
.667 -- Seattle (22-11)
.649 -- Dallas (24-13)
.647 -- Philadelphia (11-6)
.625 -- New York (10-6)
.600 -- Minnesota (21-14)
.588 -- Sacramento (20-14)
.571 -- Phoenix (20-15)
.543 -- LA Lakers (19-16)
.500 -- Milwaukee (8-8)

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Originally Posted by FromWayDowntown

.750 -- Atlanta (12-4)

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This doesn't seem right at all...unless all 4 of those losses have come in the last 4 or 5 years...but before that the Hawks were actually a pretty decent team. I know they gave us fits when they had Big Dogg there...

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Originally Posted by whottt

This doesn't seem right at all...unless all 4 of those losses have come in the last 4 or 5 years...but before that the Hawks were actually a pretty decent team. I know they gave us fits when they had Big Dogg there...

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From the Spurs media guide:

1997-98: Tied 1-1
1998-99: DNP
1999-00: SA 2-0
2000-01: SA 2-0
2001-02: SA 2-0
2002-03: Tied 1-1
2003-04: Tied 1-1
2004-05: SA 2-0
2005-06: Tied 1-1

Atlanta hasn't won in San Antonio since February of 1997.

lmao @ atlanta