Reply With Quote
They'll win both games with or without Vassell.
This team is obviously way better than the record shows. Having top3 worst record took a lot of work and smart tanking, they better not ruin the entire season now. We have to keep these odds for the lottery.
Hopefully no more tanking next season. I don't expect the Spurs to become a serious playoff team overnight, but it should be a 30 to 40 wins team depending on who we draft and if everyone keeps their current development trajectory.
They'll win both games with or without Vassell.
So we're expected to beat Houston twice while potentially sitting guys and people are still milking out about Sengun being a future star?
Tanking one season is not going to do it I do not care who we draft we need Major upgrade at 3 or 4 positions - We probably only have maybe two or three of our current players that will be on this team 3 years from now.
Spurs must think they'll get Wemby, they already picked up Champagnie
Major upgrades don't have to come through the draft exclusively, especially for a team with a surplus of drafting assets like the Spurs currently. If they landed Wemba (and maybe Scoot too), I would expect the team to go into next season with at least the mindset to win games, see how they fit on the court, and what their ceiling is as group of players. Then you trade, draft, and change as needed.
If by ASB it's not working out, you tank out the season, but I don't see it as a given. I'm not on camp "treat Wemba like he's made of glass and will tear like paper", I want him to grow on the court and be load managed as needed, and permitted by modern NBA. If he's Luka-level, you don't hold him down, especially with the new flattened odds.
No Keldon, Vassell, Doug, or Branham tonight.
Good for PAFTO. the Rockets.
They're gonna get Mamukelasvhili all over them.
Spurs are legit still not underdogs in Vegas for all the “HOU is way more talented” guys on here…I find that funny that as bad as SA is with no Dev/Keldon/Doug and Jak/Josh gone SA is still not an underdog vs HOU lol
So, you’re swimming in like Andy Dufrense another year for a 1/7 shot at…what? And it’s not like this is our first lottery year. It’s our 4th consecutive.
I see the Rockets are favored by 1.5. The game is also in San Antonio
Another site has Rockets at -.5. basically a pick em game but Spurs are at home and missing players.
Last edited by rascal; 03-04-2023 at 09:23 PM.
When was the last time the Spurs won a Championship without a first round draft pick?
Has a team ever won a Championship without a first round draft pick?
Strictly guessing but ima say No.
Man, it sucks loing to the Rockets.
Worse, looking at the lottery, a team like OKC that's leaning into the tank, had a far more competetive year and will have a just barely worse chance of getting Wembanyama than we do by the end of it while winning like 15-20 more games.
DPG21920 in shambles rn. No “no kelvin or Vassell” excuse built in to this one either
But but we beat pacers without Halliburton, spurs are actually talented
DPG21920 was so wrong is believing the Spurs will easily beat houston in both games because they are so better.
He underestimated Pop sitting players out and tanking.
I told him the spurs will sit players and are in tank mode and no way they win both games, more likely the Spurs lose both instead of winning both. But I expected a split outcome.
They also didn't play mathurin in the 2nd half.DPG21920 in shambles rn. No “no kelvin or Vassell” excuse built in to this one either
But but we beat pacers without Halliburton, spurs are actually talented
With Pop out the interim coach wanted to win that game and the Pacers took advantage of that.
The Pacers are tanking to better their lottery odds.
Happy to be wrong. Hopefully HOU clear talent advantage allows them to leapfrog SA. But game 1 Spurs rested everyone and game 2 HOU is at full strength and SA still sat Sochan, Collins and Tre Jones along with Doug and this was Vassell 2nd game back.
I was not anticipating that for sure. Evens out the other two wins but make no mistake; if SA had their starting 5 playing, they are beating HOU.
CHA still look incapable of winning games. They are getting blown out every game sans LaMelo at the moment. But these two losses definitely help. SA would need to win 4 out of last 17 games (which is only 23% and completely feasible) to tie CHA for 4th best record if they continue to go winless.
I definitely still see at least 4 wins possible to end the year so it will come down to CHA winning a few and they look really, really bad right now. Would be great if HOU stayed healthy and clicked to end the year and won 30% of games but I highly doubt that.
I still say: HOU/DET behind SA and CHA 4th but wouldn’t shock me if SA caught CHA either.
If SA is truly healthy, OKC/ORL/ATL/UTA/WAS/POR/MIN all beatable. IF SA can survive the next 3: DEN, OKC and ORL, they have a good shot to lose like 6 straight and likely cement bottom 3. Win agains any of those 3 and it will get dicey if CHA cant win any in next 3-5 games (they play NY who is playing great, DET who sucks, UTA who is beatable but not for DET/HOU I’m guessing and CLE 2x). DET seems like the only one they *could* get and if they lose that one? Things will get really interesting all around.
Last edited by DPG21920; 03-05-2023 at 09:56 PM.
Hopefully Silver realizes this is the absolute best franchise for Wemby to be on to prepare him for the Lakers.
The Spurs haven't come this far in this tank season to win four more games and let CHA pass them.
lol wagggghhhhh
Spurs missing 3 starters and ST “lmao you were wrong!!!’
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
