Game Thread: Spurs (22-26) @ Hornets (12-36) 2-7-2025 6 PM CST 2 AM RAiGA 2 PM HAWAII

[dn0774]

Hopefully a lesson Castle learns well. He didn't need to leave his man wide open at the 3 pt line.

Honestly, Bridges is a 29% 3 pt shooter this year, not the worst guy to leave in terms of odds. Absolutely a mistake that he should learn from (just let the dude get a layup when you're up 2). Teams/scrubs going on heaters every time the Spurs come to town is getting tiring. Lamelo missed the last 5 games on a tanking team but you know he couldn't wait to play the Spurs for what was essentially their Super Bowl. Just embarrassing.

[Mugen]

Tough loss but the Spurs can still make it up with an unexpected win on this road trip against BOS or the Rockets later this month.

We're now 1-3 in February.

We need to come out of this month with 8 games to go. We need to at least go 7-5 in February (but probably 8-4) to stay in contention for the play in. With that said, I'll be happy with just a compe ive push down the stretch to make it like the Rockets had last year. End the season with positive momentum, have a good offseason, and come back next year like the Rockets this year.

Let it go, scott. This team ain't doing any of that this season

[Obstructed_View]

Someone here posted earlier that the Spurs haven't won 5 games in a row since 2019. I'm not holding my breath that we'll have one this year.

They just traded for an all star and lost to a 12 win team.

[Pauleta14]

Don't get too focused on Udoka, my initial point was that good teams have a handful of great coaches on the bench.
Mazzulla was #3, got promoted unexpectedly and won in his first season.
Pop has yes men on the bench.

There are diff types and stages of coaching.

Mazzulla didn't have to build a team from scratch and benefited from Ime's work, especially on the defensive end. Things are a lot easier for him than Ime in Houston who has to do all the dirty and patience job.

In the end a team 99% of the time ends up at the image of their coach in terms of personality, that's why I've always been I'm very optimistic about Ime (got killed last season for saying Rockettes had a great future and roster btw), not so much with Mazzula who's massively overrated with his dogmatic nerdy strategies "a la" Pep Guardiola.

And that's why I don't want Mitch from the get-go. Don't want my team at his image ffs

[widowmaker]

Whats up with these nail biter games lol

[BatManu20]

Whats up with these nail biter games lol

Spurs are a poor shooting team (which leads to a lot of fast breaks the other way) and give up a -ton of offensive rebounds. Surefire way to keep bad teams in games.

[BatManu20]

[dbestpro]

We added a better player so now maybe its time to add a better coach.

[dn0774]

You think Ime would be letting Pop coach through him from afar ala what Mitch Johnson is doing? No way. Mitch was put in a tough spot no doubt, but his personality appears to be to avoid any kind of conflict no matter what. Say what you want about Ime and Mazzula (and I am a Mazzula fan), their record is going to be a result of their choices and not what their front office is "suggesting". Ime glued Reed Sheppard to the bench so tight he got sent to the G-League despite what their front office likely wanted.

[skin27]

If you watch the replay castle’s man was yhe number 8 guy. It was fox who left bridges at the corner to help with lamelo ball. Sochan got blown by lamelo.

[Knoxxx]

Tank goodness for the L!!! Could those be the extra ping pong balls we needed!?!

[hater]

Yeah hope we miss the playoff tbqh

But the guys are playing well

Great times

[hater]

Tank goodness for the L!!! Could those be the extra ping pong balls we needed!?!

We need lots of Ls but entertaining ones

[Knoxxx]

We need lots of Ls but entertaining ones

You could not have scripted a better loss than that one. Not sure Fox thumb should be risked on too many more games this season. Wemby could probably use some DNP allergies as well.

[hater]

You could not have scripted a better loss than that one. Not sure Fox thumb should be risked on too many more games this season. Wemby could probably use some DNP allergies as well.

I think Fox can play thru. Not playoffs of course.

We need to be entertainibg but tank.

Wembys 3rd year will be something to behold.

Of course we need to pray for health, always.

[CGD]

The bbiq on this guys is damn good.

[Raven]

I was the first one to write Castle ed up.
Castle is the only reason we weren't blown out in that game.
If you want to continue being re ed, feel free to do so, but you can't possibly be that stupid not to realize you're just digging yourself deeper with each passing game.

what does one have to do with the other? Answer to the comment you're quoting instead of running narratives.

[Raven]

actually I was wrong Bridges should have been guarded by Vassel. Castle shouldn't have been there either but Devin got caught ball watching

https://streamable.com/ickkwk

yeah, no. Vassell goes to contest the shot at the rim as he should, while castle decides he needs to get the rebound instead of backing off towards the 3pt line. There is no reason for castle to move towards the rim with 1sec to go when he has no chance of contesting the shot.

[spursgu]

Terrible loss but all the losers saying stuff like wemby should go to LA or calling him soft, sneezey etc. should maybe stop posting for a while.

I get that you're insecure losers that have to live through your sports teams but have some goddamn perspective other than getting off on being posty.

[z0sa]

If you watch the replay castle’s man was yhe number 8 guy. It was fox who left bridges at the corner to help with lamelo ball. Sochan got blown by lamelo.

The plan for Sochan was to prevent an open 3 pointer. He did his job well. Too bad somebody else (looks like Castle) didn't do theirs.

Growing pains, yeah. But against the Hornets? Tough way to lose.

[Knoxxx]

This is funny that a good L triggered all this catfighting.

[MannyIsGod]

2 games in and its clear to me Paul needs to come off the bench. I don't know if Mitch has the balls to do it, but frankly there's no reason to start him. It's redundant and just confuses the offense. I would start Castle in his place, and I would make sure that Devin was told the ball is not to stick when it comes to him. Paul is valuable to this team and has been really helpful but it makes zero sense to start him next to Fox. I don't get what the benefits to that are and it has been clear what the downsides are.

[CGD]

2 games in and it’s clear to me Paul needs to come off the bench. I don't know if Mitch has the balls to do it, but frankly there's no reason to start him. It's redundant and just confuses the offense. I would start Castle in his place, and I would make sure that Devin was told the ball is not to stick when it comes to him. Paul is valuable to this team and has been really helpful but it makes zero sense to start him next to Fox. I don't get what the benefits to that are and it has been clear what the downsides are.

That’s why he’s the new tank commander. Obviously he needs to come off the bench, and anchor that unit. Castle needs to get reps with Fox and Wembs.

[onechance87]

2 games in and its clear to me Paul needs to come off the bench. I don't know if Mitch has the balls to do it, but frankly there's no reason to start him. It's redundant and just confuses the offense. I would start Castle in his place, and I would make sure that Devin was told the ball is not to stick when it comes to him. Paul is valuable to this team and has been really helpful but it makes zero sense to start him next to Fox. I don't get what the benefits to that are and it has been clear what the downsides are.

yea our d has been bad.Fox,paul and vassell is just small and soft at defending.Would actually put castle and champ to add lenght.
Vassell has been a major disappointment with his d and shooting.

[HankChinaski]

That slow start in the first quarter was rough.

Fun game to watch regardless if they lost.