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are the spurs the 72-10 bulls? no. are they better? no doubt.
Yes, the Spurs winning percentage is higher now than the winning percentage that the 72-10 Chicago Bulls finished with.
Of course, I do not expect this pace to continue, especially with all of the tough games ahead of us. Games at Dallas, at Orlando, at Boston on a back to back ... will almost certainly knock us off of first place and down to Earth. After that stretch, we are likely to be second in division and may win only 5 of this difficult stretch of 9 games. Obviously, that 72-10 Bulls team is better as they had the GOAT, MJ, as well as Pippen on their team. Tim Duncan, in my book, is a top 5 or top 10 player of all time, but he is not in his prime. So, he won't put up big numbers on a consistent basis during the regular season. In the playoffs, it looks like he will be the same dominant Tim Duncan and will be our best player. He just can't do that now over an 82 game season.
Despite all of these caveats, I find it very impressive that this Spurs team was able to get through more than a fourth of the season and have a better winning percentage than the Chicago Bulls finished with, especially considering all of the rest that they have given Timmy.
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are the spurs the 72-10 bulls? no. are they better? no doubt.
are you serious?
The spurs could have an outside shot at that record if Pop made everyone play balls out. The spurs would however be gassed and too tired to take on the deep West in the playoffs though. Pop would never let that happen. Spurs will finish around 59-63wins. Hopefully thats what we'll need for the #1 seed.
Maybe I am wrong, but it seems unusual to me that so many teams would have such great records this late in the season. It looks to me like there is not as much parity this season. There are several great teams, Spurs being the best so far, and those teams include Boston, LA, and Dallas. There are a few very good teams like Orlando. And a bunch of teams which are not very compe ive.
I believe that this is correct, except I suspect that we will go 5-4 or 6-3 over a difficult 9 game stretch. And that will be the end of the search for that holy grail. If somehow, we stayed on pace through that series of games to have a chance at beating that record, then I would completely agree with you, Pop is about championships, not regular season records. He would rest his players to give them the best chance of winning a championship instead of pursuing the regular season record books.
Yeah, no way are they going to beat that 72-10 record. Nobody will have enough gas in the tank for the playoffs.
Ya'll remember the Bulls had 6 games v expansion teams.
On top of that an EC team has an easier road than WC. For instance, the East Coast is more compressed, and you don't find yourself flying from Portland to New Orleans, LA to Minnesota more than once a year.
That being said, the Spurs can take it one game at a time and finish 74-8. Anything less and a bit of disappointment is perfectly acceptable.
What is unusual is that whomever set up the schedule this year back-loaded it so the good teams don't play each other much in the first third of the season.
It is interesting to note that the difference in the two conferences this year. West is Best. Dallas and San Antonio have 2 of the 3 best records in the league. All of the games that they lost were to Western Conference Teams (this is not conclusive of course, but it is suggestive - Spurs lost to Clippers for example). Boston has lost only 1 game to teams in its conference.
I notice also that our division is clearly the best. Spurs, Mavs, and Hornets. wow. No other division is really close. Northwest may be next: OKC, Denver, and Utah. Then, we could be looking at Chicago, Orlando and Atlanta as being in the third best division. The rest of the divisions have one good to great team and no other serious le contenders.
yeah we'll never reach 70 wins
Pop will rest the starters once we have a seed locked up
was this thread serious??are you serious?
And this explains the disparity in records. But all of that is about to change. Spurs are playing Orlando, Boston, LA, Dallas, Denver, and Chicago in an upcoming series of games.
the Bulls had only 4 losses by the all-star break..... that gives us only 1 mistake in the next 2 months to keep pace
about the Spurs having a better winning percentage than the 72-10 Chicago Bulls finished with, yes. That is a mathematical fact.
And that is what this thread was all about. I even pointed out that the Spurs were not as good as that Chicago Bulls team.
and a horrible grouping of games. no way.
However, I am sure that you noticed the metric I am using is not comparing their records at the same time time in the season, but rather the Spurs current winning percentage against the winning percentage that the 72-10 Bulls finished the season with (horrible English to finish a sentence with a preposition ) .
Man at this rate i don't know, i feel we can be up there. We look like were just cruisin through the regular season...
the bulls were 41-3 at one point. So ... yeah if we can rattle off 18 wins, cool. They had like two more streaks of 15+ wins to come at this point in the season. The fact that we can even talk about this is cool, but it would take some magic.
it would be a miracle to do it, look at the last few games - we won with 1-2 points diff. Usually there are nights when the dice will roll against us, even if we have a pts diff of 20 as average (for the season). But of course records are records in order to be beaten, I mean, it happened once, it should happen again, if we are the team to do it - it would be great for all us - spurs fans, to be part of the historyHehe, excuse my english
72-10 bulls played in a league weakened by a recent expansion draft of 2 teams. That team also had the liberty of playing those expansion teams 4 times each. For me the team before was better.
Not that I wouldn't love to see it happen, but there's two reasons I believe SA won't sniff that 72-10 Bulls' eye. First, the Bulls' level of compe ion during that season was hardly of the caliber the NBA offers in 2010. Secondly, Popovich has ALWAYS valued postseason games more than regular season success, and I highly doubt that he strays away from that bedrock principle of San Antonio's success merely to chase a regular season record.
we are 22-3
the bulls were 41-3
I'm still a little mad about that loss to the Clips, we should've had that game
>=o!!!! Would've made our pretty record look even better.
No, and it's not even on their radar.
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