Coasting
Broken
Their chances of winning a le were thrown away by Manu last year, they hit all the right shots, made all the right defensive plays, and OKC was hurt, even the officiating was pretty fair.
Pop has this idiotic notion that Parker will win them a championship when the truth is PG's don't win championships, especially a guy like Parker, stick a long defender on him or clog the paint and he's done. Big men and forwards do, unfortunately Duncan has regressed while they do have an all star quality SF that is set up for failure, totally being misused.
Will answer this question in March. This Spurs season is following a pattern of the earlier productive ones when Pop played his rotations conservatively to protect players from injuries while keeping them in the hunt. Thus far, if that is the deal, mission accomplished. The losses to elite teams and games like these hurt. But they don't take away from the objective.
If the Spurs suck after All Star Weekend next month than we know that it's not meant to be this year.. That is the perfect opportunity for this team to get rest, get its legs for the real season.
Tim and Tony look bad in large part due to spacing being poor. Tim has been catching on, but Tony especially needs spacing to beat his man without overexerting himself. He isn't in the same shape as last season, and it's showing.
The big 3 + Tiago, coasting mostly, IMO. The team still has to sort out some stuff with Kawhi/Danny/Marco, but there's plenty of time for that. I thought last year they came out with a chip on their shoulder that they needed to improve defensively and they did. This season they started with a bang on that area too, but now it's like they're half assing it for 2-3 quarters. Reminds me a lot of last's season Spurs in the last two weeks of the season, tbh...
Yeah, but Duncan is part of the reason the spacing is poor (Leonard is the other part).
Two lesser discussed, but major issues in their own right: 1) The vanilla offense. They're freelancing more than I can ever remember and when they do run a play (not counting ato's), it's generally one of the same few. 2) From somewhere around the mid point last season on, their three point defense has to be on the short list of worst in the league.
The Spurs look somewhat like a combination of both. I think Parker needs rest and I don't know what the Leonard's deal is this season. But from what I've seen, it seems like the Spurs coast in the first 3 quarters and try to wake up and win games in the fourth. It has worked a few times but when you let some teams stay in it like this they get confident and you have scrubs like Shumpert going for career highs. They play extremely complacent most of the time except for the end of quarters/4th quarter. is kind of annoying, it's why the 2nd unit comes in and wrecks so often because they, unlike the starters, play with more intensity. It's no coincidence that the Spurs go on runs routinely to end quarters since the 2nd unit is usually out there to end a quarter.
Spurs starting lineup has been bad this year, and it makes no sense, so I'm leaning towards coasting. But they also haven't played up to par at all against the top teams. It's hard to say. I'll reserve judgment til after the ASB. Spurs routinely start off slow and gear up towards the end of the season, we can only hope they are trying to pace themselves after a long season/playoffs/grueling finals last year.
We won't really know until March/April
The bench has guys on short deals/hungry to show what they can do... Makes sense the intensity is fairly high for them. Mostly agree with your assessment.
Agree on both counts. For 1, it's the reason why Leonard and Green lack touches with the starters. 2 was something Harlem touched on in his thread. Splitter and Duncan are horrible at defending the three as a duo, while Hreen and Leonard are elite. Pop picking the former duo over the latter explains why the three-point shooting has been hurting the team even more recently.
And indeed. Duncan needs to get out of the post. He's killing the offense by doing that when Splitter is also on the court.
lol losing to the knicks. still coasting though.
I missed the game tonight. How in the did the spurs loose at home to the Knicks tonight??????
Yep, this is about the just of it.
Lack of focus it looks like. Spurs probably partied like crazy New Years Eve and enjoyed the out of having the night off last night too.
The Spurs are starstruck by teams like OKC, portland, Houston and Indiana? Who represented the WC in the NBA finals last year? I can tell you one thing, nobody's starstruck by playing the Spurs. They've been getting kicked in the teeth for about a month now and they haven't shown the ability to bounce back.
Tony Parker has broken the team for now tbh.
I think the realization that Tony Parker is a Nazi has strained relations within the team, tbh. The Spurs do a good job of keeping these things under wraps, but it's clear that the team's chemistry is shot and Partner's fanaticism (plus his tendency to fk other teammates' wives) is costing the team.
Dude you act like argentinans don't hate jews...
haha yeah that's Anderson Silva getting knocked out. The latest rematch wasn't as pretty though, he literally broke his shin kicking the opponent... like Shaun Livingston style
Pretty much what Knicks did to the Spurs tonight.
Black guy taunting at first, gets knocked the out and gets all confused at the situation.
Spurs seems like trying but there is nothing they can do to prevent from losing a game.
I guess it's time to retire this troll. Just too much ty posts and brings nothing to the board.
You're welcome to use your main account if you want to post again here.
Enough is enough.
RIP PlayNando
I think they are better than 2010.
no coasting or broken imho
Parker is just gassed, he is the thermometer of this team. He started the season decently well on the wave of the Euro... he is paying now his long summer and it won't improve if he is not rested. worst is to come.
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