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Only see OKC three times next season, huh?
Only see OKC three times next season, huh?
Spurs got royally screwed on the schedule
OKC on Christmas. Go ahead and put us down 0-1 in that series for the season
Yeah, you play your division 4x (16 games), other conference 2x (30 games), leaving 36 games for the other ten teams in your conference. Means you play four 3x and six 4x. Each of those OKC games becomes slightly more important then in gaining HCA.
4x: Clippers, Blazers, Suns, Wolves, Nuggets, Kings
3x: Thunder, Warriors, Lakers, Jazz
Seems pretty balanced to me between the good and bad teams, though the division itself is stacked.
I count 5 Thursday, presumably TNT, games. That doesn't seem like very many.
YOU NBA AND NATIONAL TV NETWORKS.
TNT seven times, NBATV six times, ESPN ten times and ABC twice.
I understand the sentiment, but I watch the Spurs on NBA LP BB, so the less they're on national TV the better for me. The games that they're on TNT, NBATV, and ESPN, I miss--or watch crappy streams. It looks like 23 games on those channels that'll be blacked out on NBA LP BB, which sucks. (That's not counting the 2 games against Cleveland which I have to use a VPN to get around the geographic blackout in Ohio.)
Are y'all seriously ing? 19 times is plenty for a team in a small market with no real superstars. That number goes up to 25 if you include NBATV games.
ing about LA teams getting lots of nationally televised games is like ing about the summers in Texas being too hot. The happens every year lol...no use in complaining about it. They're in the biggest (or 2nd biggest, can't remember if NY is bigger) market in the country and have one of most popular superstars in the league in Kobe. They're going to get a lot of nationally televised games. It's inevitable.
Damn, Spurs better keep winning. Boston with only 1 nationally televised game. Damn.
I bet their tickets are cheap though...
There may be some flexibility in that national TV schedule.
I'm not sure it's dawned on everyone how bad the Lakers are -- and how they will get worse (not better) as the season wears on.
And how done, as an exciting player, Kobe Bryant is.
Chicago with 25 national games lol...god i hope D-Rose s his knee up again
Spurs @ Orlando on April 1, 2015. Sweet. Gonna have to make the one-hour drive to the Amway Center and rock my Spurs gear hardcore.
two 5 game home stands and a 4 game home stand
What's the point of an extended all star rest period if there are going to be periods in the season where you have to play more games closer to each with less rest between games? Is that really going to be beneficial at all?
They have a huge fanbase. They'll get their televised games regardless of how crummy the team is.
Not the worst part. I'd bet at least two of the last four of that stretch are TNT/ESPN games.
Spurs in Utah for my birthday = good scheduling in my book.
Visit white house at about Jan 12?
My first observations:
-21 b2bs, only 17 times they play a team which is on the second night of a b2b, clearly a negative here
- the first two months look brutal to me ... 32 games from November 5th to December 31st... 11 b2bs packed in it and 4 times the Spurs have to play 5 games in 7 nights (without Patty I see Parker playing more and CJ needs to step up as well)
- the last four weeks look tough as well, but there are not many b2bs and the Spurs will have a nice chance to go into playoff mode against good teams
I can see the Spurs only starting 20-10, but after that comes a stretch with many easy teams to beat leading to a possible 40-13 record before the All-Star break. All in all 62 wins are possible if Joseph plays well, Pattys return is smooth and we do not sustain a cluster of injuries like last season.
With the prolonged All star break ( that'll be boring as ) I imagine the b2bs for all teams will be more than usually, so 21 is OK. It's good that most are early on.
It's easy to predict the Spurs would start slowly, however, hopefully they could survive it and not allow themselves to coast too much because their margin of error when it comes to eventually repeating would be small and having home court advantage for at least 3 rounds would be a big positive. Obviously they can win on the road and they've proven it last season as they've won at least one game on the road in each series but one of the important stats from the playoff run was : Game 1s record : 4-0. Game 5s record : 4-0.
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