Reply With Quote
i think health is the biggest factor tbh. a hobbled san antonio could lose to detroit if a couple of things go wrong, even with TP having a phenomenal game. if timmy and manu get back sooner rather than later i like our chances though
All winning percentages self compiled, and are accurate as of 1:00pm ,eastern time, 2/10/13
The Spurs are currently 1/2 ahead of the Thunder for the best record in the west, and the NBA.
San Antonio Spurs
31 Remaining Games
(17 Home, 14 Away)
18 Games against teams +.500, 9 games on the road.
- @Brooklyn (.667 home winning percentage)
- @Chicago (.575 home winning percentage)
- @Los Angeles Clippers (.800 home winning percentage)
- @Golden State (.727 home winning percentage)
- Portland (.320 road winning percentage)
- Chicago (.625 road winning percentage)
- Oklahoma City (.625 road winning percentage)
- Golden State (.500 road winning percentage)
- Utah-(.346 road winning percentage)
- @Houston (.384 home winning percentage)
- Denver (.423 road winning percentage)
- Los Angeles Clippers (.555 road winning percentage)
- Miami (.521 road winning percentage)
- @Memphis (.703 home winning percentage)
- @ Oklahoma City (.884 home winning percentage)
- Atlanta-(.434 road winning percentage)
- @Denver (.880 home winning percentage)
- @ Golden State (.727 home winning percentage)
Oklahoma City Thunder
32 Remaining Games
(15 Home, 17 Away)
19 Games against teams +.500, 11 games on the road.
- @Utah (.760 home winning percentage)
- Miami (.521 road winning percentage)
- @Houston (.384 home winning percentage)
- Chicago (.625 road winning percentage)
- @Denver (.880 home winning percentage)
- @LAC, (.800 home winning percentage)
- @New York (.760 home winning percentage)
- Boston (.366 road winning percentage)
- @San Antonio (91.6 home winning percentage)
- Utah (.346 road winning percentage)
- Denver (.423 road winning percentage)
- @Memphis (.703 home winning percentage)
- Portland (.320 road winning percentage)
- Milwaukee-(.480 road winning percentage)
- San Antonio (.629 road winning percentage)
- @Indiana (.833 home winning percentage)
- New York (.565 road winning percentage)
- @Utah (.760 home winning percentage)
- @Golden State (.727 home winning percentage)
- @Portland (.680 home winning percentage)
Who has the easier schedule?
San Antonio, has a large amount of home games in the final 24 games of the season (17) where they have the best record in the league this season.
Oklahoma City has one of the tougher stretches of any team this season. From March 1st through March 13th, they play 8 games in 12 days. Including a pair of back to backs @ Ny & @ Charlotte and before returning home to play the Celtics on the 10th and the traveling to the Spurs on the back half of a back to back on the 11th. In that stretch , of the 8 teams they will face,6 are above .500.
Advantage-Spurs
Vs. +.500 teams
Oklahoma City- .666 winning percentage
San Antonio-64.2 winning percentage
The Spurs have played 4 more games and have an 18-10 mark in those games, the Thunder are 16-8.
Advantage Spurs
Health-The Spurs have had a mul ude of injuries this season. Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Stephen Jackson, & Kawhi Leonard all have missed at least 6 games this season
The Thunder have been, for the most part healthy this season.
Advantage-Thunder
Head to Head Match-ups
The 2 teams have split their two meeting this season. They play two more games one in San Antonio & the other in Oklahoma City. If they were to tie for the best record and also tie the season series, the Spurs could possibly have the advantage in terms of conference record. The Spurs are 22-8 while the Thunder are 26-6.
Advantage-T.B.D
Last edited by cd021; 02-10-2013 at 03:51 PM.
i think health is the biggest factor tbh. a hobbled san antonio could lose to detroit if a couple of things go wrong, even with TP having a phenomenal game. if timmy and manu get back sooner rather than later i like our chances though
Spurs need home court advantage if they are to have a legitimate shot at winning a le this year. No way we can beat OKC in a 7 game series if they have HCA imo.
On paper the Spurs seem to have the edge, but anything can happen. The idea we have done as well as we have, with so many injuries, is a good sign. Been riding Tony pretty hard, but he seems to be in great shape.
As far as the end of the season standings go, " It's very far away, takes about a half a day to get there....if you travel by... a dragonfly."
Also, it goes by conference records, NOT division records, if the Spurs and Thunder are to tie at the end of the season with a 2-2 head to head record, since the Spurs and Thunder are in differing divisions. Which is why a loss to the Pistons, while not ideal, doesn't kill us THAT much.
i forgot about that, I'll fix it thanks.
If the Spurs are within a game of OC after the RRT, the Spurs will run away with #1 barring significant injuries.
If the Spurs are not good enough to win on the road in the playoffs they're not good enough to win a le. Also when you're a good team you're not measuring yourself against your schedule but against your own internal improvement.
OKC is the 2nd best home team in the league. The are more talented at the top and Westbrook and Durant are fully capable of playing the entire game. We need every edge we can get. Home court is a big deal and even if we have it, it doesn't mean that we won't have to win tough road games.
I like your styleOn paper the Spurs seem to have the edge, but anything can happen. The idea we have done as well as we have, with so many injuries, is a good sign. Been riding Tony pretty hard, but he seems to be in great shape.
As far as the end of the season standings go, " It's very far away, takes about a half a day to get there....if you travel by... a dragonfly."
OKC's got's this pretty easily. Their core of players are iron men - never miss a damn game, able to play 40 mins a night if needed. It's the sad reality of being a fan of an aging squad.
I don't like going to OKC for a series. But the path to the finals is easier as the 2nd seed. Not sure what to think tbh. But I would rather not have to clash with the Clippers, then OKC.
I'm not sure its going to be that easy 20 of their final 32 games are against +.500 teams and half of those are on the road take note in the home winning percentage of the teams they have to play on the road. All 11 teams win at least 65% of their home games. Add in the off nights they might have against teams i didn't list (like the Cleveland game) and the spurs have a 60% of getting the #1 seed imo.
if the spurs get #1
1st-Utah
2nd-Denver
WFC-OKC/Clippers
if the spurs get #1
1st-Houston
2nd-Clippers
WFC-OKC/Memphis
Imo I would like door #1.
SAN ANTONIO
Tony must have been listening to Jimi tonight because he was playing like he was from another planet...
That was beautiful basketball 29pts, 11 asts, 0 T.O's its ridiculous that he scored or assisted roughly 54 points or 48% of our offense. He is making last seasons tony, look bad.Tony must have been listening to Jimi tonight because he was playing like he was from another planet...
I think the Spurs are too good this year for OKC (or anybody for that matter.)
Yeah, when two of their 3 best players are hurt they're going to have a bad game every once in a while like they did against Detroit. But they also came back from being down 10 in the first quarter against one of the best teams in the East and beat them by 25 with just Parker. Not to mention how stupid some of our lineups were in that game. Nando de Colo, Patty Mills, and Gary Neal on the floor at the same time...
That lineup was just fine for the last three minutes of a game that the team was leading by 23 points.
People are still concerned with the number 1 seed after the last two years.
Not everyone is in a rush for the Spurs to become a lottery team.
How do you block a poster? I want to block Mel_13.
This asshole feels the need to follow me around in here.
1.
2. You've been posting here for years and don't know how to put someone on ignore? Add that to the list of things you suck at.
3.@ following you around. If you post, you invite a comment. If you don't want people to comment on your relentlessly pessimistic, craptastic posts, then don't post. Otherwise, STFU or ignore it. Crying about it just enforces your image as a loser.
Spurs desperately need HCA when you factor in that the series they did lose in the past 5 years all ended where the Spurs didn't win a single road game.
08: Lakers (0-3 in road games for that series)
09: Mavs (0-2)
10: Suns (0-2)
11: Grizzlies (0-3)
12: Thunder (0-3)
It's gonna be tough.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
