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The play in race thread turned into the lottery odds thread
I would not be surprised if this team loses to the Wizards
Lol playoffs
The play in race thread turned into the lottery odds thread
I get the feeling that once the spurs are out of the play in race they will go on a win streak to up their lottery odds.
Something gotta give here, coaching or personnel? Because Chauncey Billups with that Blazers roster has no business finishing with better record than a team with generational talent and a All-star caliber player.
shockingly, it is still not over.
Everyone was laughing at Scoot and Amen for being labelled as high quality consolation prizes after Wemby, but Amen has proven just that and Scoot has been pretty good the last month as well.
In other oddball new around the league tonight... NOP is up 14 on SAC in the second half and UTA is up 13 on LAC in the 2nd Q
coaching obviously....mitch has been doing worst lately with his rotations.Tho i approve of not playing wesley and branham.
We ing suck
This really should be a 40 win team with this roster. Heads need to roll if this team can't even get into the damn play-in.
heads don't roll here. This team has been losing for over half a decade, there won't be any changes.
Disappointing stretch, for sure. But there's still a chance, albeit very, very slim.
Wemby has to play better, Fox has to play better, and Castle has to start in place of Paul, or at least play more than he is.
With Mitch “Down 1, let’s run the clock out” Johnson at the helm, nah I just don’t see it.
Since the Spurs have now played 50 games total, I had a quick look/skim at 10 game stretches from the start of the season and this is the breakdown of wins and losses per 10 games:
4-6
7-3
4-6
4-6
3-7
Apart from that one ten game stretch (games 11-20), Spurs haven't been a very good team all season. You take out that 7W-3L stretch, Spurs are a bottom 4-5 team in the league.
I really wanted them to make the playoffs, but they're getting worse and worse. Sure, some of these games are close and they could have won, but they didn't and I don't know if it's worth blowing their draft position winning a few more games. Unless they go on a huge run, not even the play-in is looking like a real possibility to even slip into 10th.
They really should be looking at getting into the top 4 of the draft as they've played like a bottom 4 team for the majority of the season. Hurts me to say this as I don't like losing games. I don't think Victor is going to be a major drawcard if he keeps playing like this to bring in free agents to SA. If he was in LA, maybe, but SA, I don't think his current play is going to bring anyone major here. They're going to have to get a couple more good picks in the draft. I'm not an advocate for tanking, though, so I'm not sure what they should do.
Billups said (I think it was during his hall of fame speech) just like when he was a player, he's going to work and work and work at it until he becomes a great coach. He sounded very determined. When I heard him say that, I thought Portland's going to be alright once they get a good team as I believed everything he said. I think he'll show he's just as good of a coach as he was as a player. He sounded vary determined to not fail and succeed as a coach.
Last edited by Ice009; 02-09-2025 at 10:06 AM.
Zero chance this bum team makes the play in this season
doesn't help that our new starting line up has a net rating of -20 cause Mitch can't bench CP3
Since the small market Spurs have to start CP3 in order to keep their standing among potential player targets, we're all but cooked tbh.
Just 5-6 game winning streak and we’re in the play in
The problem with stringing together wins is you can't have a coach who thinks running out the clock down 1 is the play.
you do realize we didn't have a 5 game winning streak since 2019 right?
With the roster we have the spurs should be a 35-40 win team even when coasting. There are so many issues with the play calling and lineups that it’s just infuriating. It’s at a point where the team seems to be finding ways to lose even when there are no reasons to.
The player development had been dreadful. Look at a player like amen Thompson, Brandon Miller, and such. They have shown real growth in their games where as our players have all regressed significantly. Even the basic stuff. Wemby is now purely getting by on talent alone but there really hasn’t been anything added to his game. Perhaps my expectations are out of whack but I thought he’d be a top 5 player by this point but he has gotten worse. What the heck is going on?
You mean prorated post Fox trade?
Even then, factoring in the politics that player a significant role in rotational decisions and the lack of two-way players with size, I don't see it.
No I mean they should finish this season with 40+ wins. Take those two Charlotte and Orlando games that should have been Ws and they'd only need to finish the season 16-16 to get there. Though with the talent on this roster now finishing anything worse than 18-14 in these last 32 should be considered unacceptable too. Though probably gotta go say 20-12 to make the playin so maybe they pull a Dallas and tank the end of the season for draft position.
There would be nothing more hillarious than sitting supposedly good players yet again only for scrub to outperform them like last season.
Wemby surely won't sit until he gets to 65 games for DPOY, needs 21 more with 32 games left.
They'll probably shut it down in the final few weeks if we're not in the play-in race.
Also, look at it this way, Spurs with their current level of play weren't getting anywhere even with wins in past two games.
For them to be compe ive in the play-in some major changes will need to happen.
Maybe these losses will be the trigger for those changes. Won't happen, but still.
Last edited by LeBowen; 02-09-2025 at 01:32 PM.
Thompson and Miller were top 4 picks. Those guys have higher ceilings than Sochan, Keldon, Vassell, Branham and Wesley. The Spurs top 4 picks have been playing well.
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