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Don't want or need 70 wins. Get the 1 seed and the rest of it
Halfway to 70, but is it sustainable?
by Jesse Blanchard
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Halfway in, and halfway to 70, the San Antonio Spurs are on a franchise-best pace that few other teams have matched in NBA history. Yet, to believe that the Spurs can actually achieve 70 wins one would have to be, as head coach Gregg Popovich put it–drunk.
Up to this point everything has been a perfect storm of relatively good health for the Spurs, the opposite for the opposition, and some coin flip wins.
A team whose core is aged this much, who treat the occasional regular season game with such nonchalance, cannot possibly be expected to keep up with this pace, right? In theory, eventually this team will take its foot off the gas and suffer a few let downs.
But still, 35-6…
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Don't want or need 70 wins. Get the 1 seed and the rest of it
Not gonna happen
This..... but who cares, HCA is all that matters.
hope not...rest after hca...
Another reason that the Spurs will not reach 70 is that Popovich simply will not pursue it. Given a choice, Popovich will always rest starters in favor of playoff success over regular season glory.
But to think the Spurs will eventually take their foot off the gas is to assume that they have it on there in the first place. This is not the post-Larry Brown Pistons or Boston Celtics, playing their top six players 35-45 minutes on a nightly basis.
this. what's frightening (for other teams around the league, i would imagine... maybe incorrectly, though), is that the Spurs aren't slamming their foot on the pedal. they're just playing GREAT ball.
Agree. Rest after HCA is secured and hopefully that won't take more than 60-62 wins. Of course, this has the added benefit of giving our 2nd unit more burn before the playoffs which would hopefully help their confidence and rhythm
Very Very True.
Rest won't be coming for awhile. Boston, Miami, Orlando and LA will all be within striking distance in April. At best, SA could hope for rest after the April 6 game against Sac-Town.
Of course they don't need it, but do you honestly not want it? Are you saying you'd actually be upset about it if the Spurs win 70 games?
Ginobili is taking more threes and choosing not to drive as much - to conserve his health - by design. When the Spurs finally place their "foot on the pedal" in the playoffs that will mean that Ginobili will be far more agressive attacking the rim. That's why I'm not really worried that he is not attacking as hard (as good as he's been).
Health is key.
As a fan I want 70 wins + the le.
I don't really know why any fan wouldn't want that.
The pace will fall off. So far they've had lots of home games and not many back-to-backs. Hope for health and HCA.
The Spurs should be better in 2nd half than 1st half:
1) Blair will be better
2) Anderson will be better
3) Splitter will be better
4) The rodeo road trip
5) Spurs historically better in 2nd half as Pop gears for playoffs.
6) Light minutes for starters
Last edited by Galileo; 01-19-2011 at 04:32 PM.
WGAFF
All I care about is 16W in the playoffs.
so you are saying the Spurs should be better because two non-factor players will be better non-factor players and because they will have a lot of road games.
k.
There must be some members of the Colts coaching staff posting in here
us laker fans are hoping you guys lose HCA to us.... im not hoping for an injury but i am hoping for some mental fatigue out of your primary weapon in ginobili...exhaustion on duncan and hoping parker goes back to the inconsistency in 2010.
So either you are calling Blair a non-factor, or Anderson a non-factor. Are you calling our every game starter for the 41 games this season a non-factor? Or are you calling an injured player who was playing extremely well off the bench a non-factor? If the former, wtf. If the latter, how can Anderson play worse than not being on the court?
As for the rest, well, it's up for debate, but I think the case can be made that the Spurs can definitely tighten up a lot more on defense than they have been. Doubt they'll go 35-6 in the second half, but they could start 28-4 and then have Pop shut them off if we have clinched the #1 seed by then.
This.
SAS also has a lot of road games left.
Although EXTREMELY unlikely would it not be interesting to see Pop and the Spurs at 71-9 heading into a back to back at the end of the year (first game vs. Lakers) and see how Pop would play it?
I would think Anderson would be the obvious non-factor since not playing makes him a non-factor. Him getting any kind of minutes will make him better for sure.
Not sure though how he would be a factor in wins/losses when he comes back. If all the Spurs are healthy, please elaborate on Anderson's potential value in the 2nd half of the season.
You said:
"so you are saying the Spurs should be better because two non-factor players will be better non-factor players and because they will have a lot of road games."
Anderson was indeed injured in the first half of the season. How would his return not make us a better team? At the very least, one that's deeper and able to make more flexible rotations to match up better with teams we struggle against?
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