Final 3 games. Catch Houston for #2 or stay at #3?

[MultiTroll]

5 games left. 3 for Spurs, 2 for Rockets.
Mind boggling that the Spurs control their own Lotto seeding for #2 or #3. Lose out and we are #2, period. Thought we could discuss these as they come.

Thur San Antonio Vs Portland

Fri Houston @ Charlotte
Saturday San Antonio Vs Minn Saturday

Sunday Houston @ Washington
Spurs Vs Dallas




Think it might come down to Spurs Vs Dallas on Sunday, and it may well. But Dallas sitting at #10 protected stunningly won tonight in the last 3 minutes vs Kings.

[MultiTroll]

1. San Antonio Vs Portland.
Portland has plenty of incentive to tank as they are sitting at #5 and control their own. Locking horns with 3 other teams.
Currently a half game better then Wiz and Pacer and 1 game ahead of Orlando. Portland chooses to lose out, they are #5.
That's kinda scary.
Are we looking at a total tankfest?

1b Houston @ Charlotte. Charlotte on of the few teams that has absolutely no seeding to be won or lost. Don't think Spurs should count on a Rockets loss -at all.

That all the further from me for now. This whole thing seems to change every couple days.

[baseline bum]

Mind boggling that the Spurs control their own Lotto seeding for #2 or #3. Lose out and we are #2, period.

Not true, both teams have 20 wins so if the Spurs lose out and Rockets lose out it'll come down to a coin flip for the tiebreaker.

[Mr. Body]

A masterfully tanking Portland will be hard to lose to tomorrow.

[MultiTroll]

Not true, both teams have 20 wins so if the Spurs lose out and Rockets lose out it'll come down to a coin flip for the tiebreaker.

I missed that. For some reason thought we were at 19 still.
So we can control getting to the coin toss by losing out.

[John B]

How many players do Spurs have left? 7?
I think Spurs lose all 3 games, and Spurs win the coin toss.

[pookenstein]

I don't think we'll lose tonight.

[rascal]

Portland is sitting everyone out.
They won with Sharpe going off so he might even sit tonight.

Houston is going to have to win that Charlotte game.

[exstatic]

Portland is sitting everyone out.
They won with Sharpe going off so he might even sit tonight.

Houston is going to have to win that Charlotte game.

Doesn't matter. They're not used to intentionally dumping games. If it looks too promising for us, Pop will play tank commander Gorgui 30+ minutes. They have no answer for that.

[Mr. Body]

Portland has way more incentive to tank than the Spurs. They stand to drop from 5th potentially all the way to 8th if they win. This would drop them from a 41.1% chance at top 4 to 26.3%.

Their players may get shot if they compete in this game. I predict a comfortable Spurs win.

[slick'81]

Just lose baby

[exstatic]

Portland has way more incentive to tank than the Spurs. They stand to drop from 5th potentially all the way to 8th if they win. This would drop them from a 41.1% chance at top 4 to 26.3%.

Their players may get shot if they compete in this game. I predict a comfortable Spurs win.

They'll probably wind up in a huge 3-4 way tie, and could drop to 8th anyway with coin flips.

Pop's got this.

[Mr. Body]

There was an old Encyclopedia Brown story where two teams of kids were competing in a slowest bicycle race. Problem was, the kids were going so slow they kept tipping over their bikes and never got anywhere. Then our brainiac detective came up with a solution. What was it?

[slick'81]

There was an old Encyclopedia Brown story where two teams of kids were competing in a slowest bicycle race. Problem was, the kids were going so slow they kept tipping over their bikes and never got anywhere. Then our brainiac detective came up with a solution. What was it?

you son of a im in

[exstatic]

There was an old Encyclopedia Brown story where two teams of kids were competing in a slowest bicycle race. Problem was, the kids were going so slow they kept tipping over their bikes and never got anywhere. Then our brainiac detective came up with a solution. What was it?

Put Pop on the bicycle.

[Mr. Body]

They switched bicycles.

Tonight's solution: players wear the uniforms of the other team.

[Spursfanfromafar]

They switched bicycles.

Tonight's solution: players wear the uniforms of the other team.

I would have had a race in the reverse. Who goes the opposite side the fastest is the winner.

[MultiTroll]

They'll probably wind up in a huge 3-4 way tie, and could drop to 8th anyway with coin flips.

Pop's got this.

Portland controls it's own finish. They can avoid any ties and would secure 5th by losing out.

Pops got this in the sense that he can choose to out tank them or not.
We'll see.

[exstatic]

Portland controls it's own finish. They can avoid any ties and would secure 5th by losing out.

Pops got this in the sense that he can choose to out tank them or not.
We'll see.

Based on his lineups and rotations in PHO, he'll choose to. We're apparently tanking for the slot two tie coin flip.

[MultiTroll]

^ I sure hope so.

This final weekend of NBA is going to have some very entertaining Tank / Not tank games.

[duncan2150]

Just play, the only thing now is having at worst a pick 6 or a pick 7 so the best thing is trying to finish the season in a good way imo.

[spurs10]

Entertain the crowd.

[John B]

Based on his lineups and rotations in PHO, he'll choose to. We're apparently tanking for the slot two tie coin flip.

On his interview, Pop was saying they lost 2 players the night before (Barlow? Devonte?) and checking on a 3rd one. We might see Dieng playing 48 minutes tonight

[Dex]

Spurs need to keep the game close until the very end, then hope that some of the guys for Portland want to play hero.

Players are compe ive, they hate losing. If it comes down to the last 2 minutes, they WILL compete

[John B]

1987 - 21-61 Drafted #1 pick David Robinson
1997 - 20-62 Drafted #1 pick Tim Duncan
2023 - 19-63 ???