Hard to accept the loss~

[Danny.Zhu]

I guess the Spurs having a players-only meeting

[Hoops Czar]

No

1 game and a back to back on the road..

Who cares??

You certainly are making the rounds. This is like the 5th thread you've said the same thing. That's not really accurate. They played like crap for the past couple of weeks.

• played terrible against the Raptors, but won
• played just well enough to beat the Knicks
• narrowly escaped the T-wolves at home
• beat up on a broken down Mavericks team
• needed a shutdown 4th quarter to clip the Pacers
• played like crap in a loss to the Celtics
• Got hammered defensively against the Knicks giving up 128 points.
• stumbled down the stretch to squeak out a win in Milwaukee.

Sorry if you don't see a bit of a pattern forming here.

[dbreiden83080]

You certainly are making the rounds. This is like the 5th thread you've said the same thing. That's not really accurate.

Yeah well everyone is posting the same trolling crap

They won 8 in a row before this so all the below stuff i will ignore..

[Pauleta14]

You certainly are making the rounds. This is like the 5th thread you've said the same thing. That's not really accurate. They played like crap for the past couple of weeks.

• played terrible against the Raptors, but won
• played just well enough to beat the Knicks
• narrowly escaped the T-wolves at home
• beat up on a broken down Mavericks team
• needed a shutdown 4th quarter to clip the Pacers
• played like crap in a loss to the Celtics
• Got hammered defensively against the Knicks giving up 128 points.
• stumbled down the stretch to squeak out a win in Milwaukee.

Sorry if you don't see a bit of a pattern forming here.

You can find (at least) as many examples from the other contenders...

[024]

losing to the hornets, again, is slightly troubling as the spurs might meet them in the playoffs. i don't expect the hornets to win the series but another dragged out 7 game series will seriously deplete the spurs.

[Zero_Twilight]

During the game, I saw many things that indicated that it was going to be a tough game to win against the NBA Hornets. Okafur was playing out of his mind and I congratulate him whole heartedly for his heroics. Since it was the 2nd night of a back to back with an overnight plane trip, I was fully ready to accept this loss from an 82 game season and move on..

However!! Seeing the Hornets starters on the bench giggling and acting as if they just won a championship near the end pissed me off like Jason Terry pisses me off. This is a team the Spurs beat last time and they stormed out the arena like babies, except for David West and by the end of this game, the whole team wants to shake hands. LOL Classless. I feel disrespected and I wasn't even playing. I bet New Orleans is having a parade right now celebrating their LOB.

I'm over it now but I hope we play them again this season.

[AidanNelson2009]

Yeh, it was extremly hard to take, i expected the Spurs to go 82-0 this season, why do we lose sometimes ??

[21_Blessings]

Still the best record in the NBA.

Ya but, who da champs?

[greyforest]

b2b

bonners out, hill injured

hornets played great


all that being said, wtf spurs, ign pussy out there.

[Chachachango]

No. We saw the young guys play and saw how bad tiago is. I just want this team healthy going into the playoffs.

[George Gervin's Afro]

no, we're still 30 games over .500.

[easy7]

This is not football, there will not be an undefeated team standing at the end of the season, like the Dolphins.

[tmtcsc]

A 1 Pt loss = 24 pt loss. They had a bad night and Hornets were great.

[ChuckD]

You certainly are making the rounds. This is like the 5th thread you've said the same thing. That's not really accurate. They played like crap for the past couple of weeks.

• played terrible against the Raptors, but won
  A terrible half and a marvelous half. It balances out and we won by 9. The worst you can say is it was average, since that is our average margin of victory.
• played just well enough to beat the Knicks
  Complete fail. We handled them easily, and only a few scrub garbage time turnovers, when only Spurs bench players were on the floor even made it look respectable.
• narrowly escaped the T-wolves at home
  They're not a very good matchup for us, just as over the last 5-6 years Memphis isn't one for the Lakers. Does that mean the Lakers aren't championship cailbur? , at least we beat our tough matchups like Minny and Milwaukee.
• beat up on a broken down Mavericks team
  Aren't we supposed to do that?
• needed a shutdown 4th quarter to clip the Pacers
  Wow. Just wow. How terrible. A shutdown 4th quarter.
• played like crap in a loss to the Celtics
• Got hammered defensively against the Knicks giving up 128 points.
• stumbled down the stretch to squeak out a win in Milwaukee.
  If you look at the history between these teams, you'd know that you just throw out the records. Before last season, we were below .500 against them, the only team in the NBA that could make that claim in the Duncan era. We've now won four in a row over the past two seasons to barely edge above .500 again. They always play us like Berserkers for some reason and any win is a good one.
  
  

Sorry if you don't see a bit of a pattern forming here.

You just really need to lighten up. With your complete negative at ude, you're going to have ulcers.

It's a long season, and if they were playing flawless now, it would be a disaster, because they could never maintain it until June. Even with bumps in the road, we've built a standings cushion using a high percentage of bench player minutes.

[jag]

i know it's reasonable for us to lose the game but stll tough to accept, we shall win the game, i dont wanna see the spurs get out of the top seed in the league

Stop being such a .

[dbestpro]

Hey, if you're gonna lose a game you might as well lose it big. What I hate is losing the close ones.

Find me a Spurs fan that wouldn't take a 37-7 record starting at the beginning of the season and you would have a greater chance of winning the mega-million lottery. So we're not good enough to hve the best record of all time. We still are good enough to have the best record in the NBA and win this whole damn thing.

[DMC]

You cannot focus on one team all the time. If you do, you run the risk of tunnel vision. You have to look at all the contenders and actually watch their games, not just check out the final score or highlights. Defenses are rarely in the highlights. It's way too easy to watch only one team play and critique their game based on the best game you've ever seen them play, but the critiques should be based on how they are playing on average, vs other contenders.

Again, too many arm chair pundits watch only one team and that doesn't lend itself to an objective analysis.

[DMC]

Hey, if you're gonna lose a game you might as well lose it big. What I hate is losing the close ones.

Find me a Spurs fan that wouldn't take a 37-7 record starting at the beginning of the season and you would have a greater chance of winning the mega-million lottery. So we're not good enough to hve the best record of all time. We still are good enough to have the best record in the NBA and win this whole damn thing.

There's not a team in the history of the NBA that wouldn't accept that record at the beginning of the season. Even the 72 win Bulls would have, I am certain of it.

[Rummpd]

No worries:

1) Boston the only team in the race currently with the Spurs for HCA throughout the playoffs lost too
2) Hornets on a roll but will fade later again
3) Pop got his game to yell at and wake the Spurs up before the long road trips


It was an aberration as it was one of only a few games this year Spurs not compe ive.

[frodo]

Not this one, it is

neither, this it is

[frodo]

Aren't you hard to accept the loss?

I am not hard, I just checked and nope, semi flaccid and that's a liberal estimate.

Spurs loss? Ok... that's what cushion is for. It's pointless to be up 10 games going into the playoffs.

harder for you to accept this imho.

[UnWantedTheory]

IM not too worried. We didn't have Bonner, Ghill was injured, 2nd game on B2B, the Hornets have a hot hand, & we played poorly. It was just one of those games. I hate losing just as much as anyone, but you can't win em' all. Get over it ya .

[DMC]

A 1 Pt loss = 24 pt loss.

Hollinger disagrees. The Spurs dropped to 5th because of the point differential and Hollinger is NEVER wrong in his predictions. In fact, by the end of the Finals, Hollinger's rankings will predict the winner.

[UnWantedTheory]

Hollinger disagrees. The Spurs dropped to 5th because of the point differential and Hollinger is NEVER wrong in his predictions. In fact, by the end of the Finals, Hollinger's rankings will predict the winner.

Well then, it seems futile to argue with him. He is obviously all knowing.

[DMC]

He's Captain Hind ...errr Hindsight.