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Is this going to be a game of point guards or big men match ups, I think KG is going to have his way, so therefore Tony really needs to push the ball for the Spurs.
Spurs next game against Boston is the first true test to see in which direction the team is headed in. Boston is the best team in the East and one of the top teams in the league, there should be no excuses about its early in the season, we are still on a 5 game winning stretch here if its early for the Spurs its early for Boston.. Boston is also trying out new pieces and different rotations.
So again this is a true test to see where both teams are headed.
Is this going to be a game of point guards or big men match ups, I think KG is going to have his way, so therefore Tony really needs to push the ball for the Spurs.
The Celtics and Lakers are battling for HCA, playing kickass dominant basketball from the get-go. The Spurs, well, it's getting harder and harder to say what objectives they have for the regular season other than staying healthy.
So in that regard, regular season tests or statement games for the Spurs are a thing of the past. The best we can hope for is to get healthy and catch fire before the playoffs start.
Spurstalk is preparing itself for epic meltdown....
That's bull . The Celtics haven't played dominate basketball since they started 6-0.
Pop said it very clearly a couple of seasons ago.. all you can really hope for is to be one of the 5 or 6 teams remaining at the end of the regular season with a chance to win it all. He's made it apparent that win-loss records or even home-court advantage aren't at the top of his agenda. I just hope to see the Spurs continuing to build on what they've accomplished in their previous games, specially on the defensive end.
You haven't been paying attention. The Spurs objectives for the regular season are eminently clear. They are to get to the playoffs healthy, mentally ready, and with something left in the tank. Popovich will never compromise any of these objectives to try to get a regular season win.
Look at the back-to-back 2nd night in Denver last season. Popovich sat all of this big 3 just because he didn't want to burn them out. And, what do you know, they almost won anyway. Would any other coach of a top-tier team do this?
If I ever took this lackluster at ude to work or school I would be fired in a heart beat. I just had test thats wasn't very important to me passing my class. However I still wanted to keep my grade up so I tried my best to ace it.
Geeze,what ever happened to pride? What ever happened to that killer instinct, that hunger that championship teams posses? Are we not a team that wants to contend for the championship, or one of those teams that are satisfied just to make the playoffs. I had thought it was the first option, but maybe I'm proven wrong.
Why do some of you even watch these games if they realy don't seem to matter?
I'm sorry for the rant. Maybe I'm just way to old fashioned, and times have changed with this lackluster at ude towards everything. I'm just not used to it, so please bare with me.
+1
I see spurs losing mostlly due to the 4 days off
also, they don't have a good record on national tv do they?I see spurs losing mostlly due to the 4 days off
true. Spurs record on TNT is horrible.
Optomistic myself. I can see the Spurs having a great shot at winning the game.
If you start bad you will end bad, look at the Lakers last year, does the Spurs have any one on the Team Hungry like Kobe, that goes out and end every game with that winning passion.
If only Duncan was as committed to winning as Kobe. That's the real reason the Spurs don't win more, Duncan's poor at ude.
Trust me Duncan is trying hard, and he has a great At ude, but when age comes knocking on your door, what you do.
If only Duncan was as committed to winning as Kobe. That's the real reason the Spurs don't win more, Duncan's poor at ude.
We need some young killers on the team, some young beast. Tony Parker is the closest to a Young Beast.
Nice backtracking.
Your analogy is bad. If there was no downside to playing as hard as possible every night, Spurs would obviously do this.
There is a downside - players get injured and worn out playing at maximum strength. For an especially old team, this problem is much more exacerbated.
If the spurs can't get past the Lakers what the spurs do in a regular season game against the Celtics doesn't matter at all.
Manu used to be. It seems to me at times that the big 3(or I should say big 4 with POP) are waiting for retirement. Manu, Tim, and Tony (and Pop) have already cemented their spots in the B. HOF. I think their satisfied with their 3 rings and ain't as hungry as they used to be. You could notice it in their body language, that they don't play with the same passion or intensity as in years past.
Wallace vs Bonner oh ya cant wait
God Almighty, what is difficult to understand about it being December? The season is 82 games long. Not 10, 12, 14. This is not a sprint. This is a long season that has to be managed especially carefully because our marquee players are of advanced age.If I ever took this lackluster at ude to work or school I would be fired in a heart beat. I just had test thats wasn't very important to me passing my class. However I still wanted to keep my grade up so I tried my best to ace it.
Geeze,what ever happened to pride? What ever happened to that killer instinct, that hunger that championship teams posses? Are we not a team that wants to contend for the championship, or one of those teams that are satisfied just to make the playoffs. I had thought it was the first option, but maybe I'm proven wrong.
Why do some of you even watch these games if they realy don't seem to matter?
I'm sorry for the rant. Maybe I'm just way to old fashioned, and times have changed with this lackluster at ude towards everything. I'm just not used to it, so please bare with me.
We saw exactly how far we can get when they are injured.
The goal is not (and has never been) to win every single game. The goal is to work the season with a view of the playoffs. You can't make it your goal to win every single game at the cost of everything else - everything else being the master strategy.
The master strategy accounts for a lot of things - team cohesion, team unity, offensive purpose and unity, health of the players, and peaking at the right time of the season (hint: it's not November or December or January) to go into the playoffs with all gears turning and working in smooth harmony.
You cannot get there unless you take the time to move the pieces around and see what combinations of players work best together, edge out the rough spots when you have combos that have to play together and aren't clicking (ie, RJ and Tony right now), give everyone time to learn the system and their places in it and to gain trust in each other, and above all, manage the minutes so everyone arrives healthy.
It's downright foolish to pursue a regular season victory over a team that isn't even in our conference, that we will see one more time this year unless all the pieces fall into place for both teams to meet again in the Finals, at the expense of the ultimate goals.
Winning against Boston (or going balls out every single freaking night) is not the goal. Winning the championship is.
Winning as many regular season games as possible doesn't matter as much as getting the pieces into place for the run at the playoffs (regular season records mean very little to the playoffs - you should know that). Unfortunately for you (and a bunch of other people that make me wonder if they've ever watched the Spurs ever) working out the puzzle and putting the pieces in place will potentially cost them wins. But that's ok, because they are a smart team that learns even in their losing.
I can think of at least one Spurs championship that proves that theory wrong. And multiple Finals appearances by other teams that decries it as well.
LOL Go kill yourself.
Does this game win the championship for us. No,but its one step closer to that goal. The championship trophy is not just waiting there for the Spurs. They have to work to get to it. IT just seems silly to me that the season is to be taken for granted.
Injuries can happen to anyone at any given time. It's part of the territory of being in a heavy physical activity such as sports. If we have to constantly be paranoid and walking on eggs over injuries then we are already in trouble. If we are so scared about an injury we even play.
I'm not talking about us winning or losing this game. Win or lose as long as the Spurs "compete" that what matters most right now.
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