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I just want 2nd place in the west. 62 wins and maybe have homecourt vs the east.
I was just looking through the divisions, and while the SW division looks like a league of it's own, the Pacific division, especially with the Clippers losing a bit of steam, is just way too weak.
Dubs should just run circles around those teams, and frankly, 65+ wins doesn't seem out of the question for them.
Add to that the weak East and the Cavs trying to get better, and that's another challenge...
So, realistically speaking, one of the priorities for this team is to build the "road warriors" mentality, because I think we're going to need it.
I just want 2nd place in the west. 62 wins and maybe have homecourt vs the east.
Enter David West, the grizzled warrior
the super sheriff
The Wyatt Earp of the Spurs, hahahahahahaha
we can do 61 wins ill bet ya
is that good enough for HCA??
Warriors are probably going to be suffering all those injuries everybody else got last year yet they miraculously avoided. They made a deal with the Devil for a ring now its time for them to get burned.
if our players are clicking on all cylinders all minutes will be monitored and saved for the playoffs.
and remember dubs i dont think had one major injury(bogut?), thats why they were able to win all those games.
edit: bandit beat me to it.
If Tony Parker is injury prone and ineffective as he was last season, they might not have HCA in the first round again.
while not a big CoJo fan, losing a PG that knows the system could be costly if he's not replaced.
having a healthy patty mills would have given us a few extra wins. remember we would have been #2 if we beat the pelicans.
Going to need a top 2 seed for sure this time around..Spurs got bitten in the ass last year by not taking some teams/games seriously in the regular season..I think the Warriors will be less urgent about it and might not get fortunate with injuries like they did in 2015 though they should be a 60-62 win team easily with that gutted division..
We can survive without HCA vs the Warriors, but we need the 2nd best seed in the NBA to win the le. We cannot afford to not have HCA in the Finals vs the East and Lebron, you know how that turned out in 2013. Also, if we do get the 2nd seed, it will be interesting to see who gets the 3rd and 4th seed, since the Thunder will be guaranteed no worse than 4th with the Blazers out of the picture and the rest of that division just horrible.
We must focus and win the easy games; we did a great job of this in 2014 (despite a lousy record against the top teams), but coughed up way too many gimmes last year and that killed us at the bitter end.
Warriors will not have their foot on the gas pedal like last season ... but I agree that we are too thin on some positions to survive this one stretch that will surely come where 3-4 players are injured at the same time and Pop rests other guys. This and the brutal December schedule costs us last year (when we still were deep). No hustling CoJo who can take over the starting PG spot for a month, no Belli to hit threes or cutting to the basket, no Big for Manu to play P&R with (and I mean roll ... not pop) ... it will be tough to get HCA. Hopefully the schedule will not be a complete pile of like last season.
I mean, just look at the SW division... Spurs, Mavs, Rockets, Grizzlies, Pelicans.... all playoff teams last season, all were already stacked or reloaded with more talent. These are the teams we're going to be playing the most.
Then on the Pacific: Warriors, Clippers, Suns, Kings, Lakers... Suns are worse, Kings and Lakers are the same dog .
Northwest: OKC, Blazers, Jazz, Nuggets, Wolves
Our SOS is going to be crazy difficult compared to the Dubs, and even the Clippers or OKC, and you gotta add the required rest on top... just gonna be tough.
It will be nice if the 4 teams they'll play just 3 times will be from the Division of OKC.
How does NBA determine that anyway?
Yes it will be ...
... but it I am still looking forward to it more than ever. With Timmy's career nearing its end I told my girlfriend that the times of getting up at 3am in the morning to watch the Spurs live are soon over ...guess I was wrong. This team will continue to win 50+ games ...
Yep..i could see 8 Ls between those matchups (Mavs, Rockets, Grizzlies, Pelicans). We simply need to take care of our East chunk of schedule (no more stinkers vs Knicks/Det) and hopefully make up in those almost yearly B2B "scheduled" losses against a now weakened Blazers team, which i can't remember we ever won the season series against them..
All in all, health will play factor in SW race. Mavs have it in Parsons' knee and Wes' achilles; Grizzlies Conley's ankles and Zbo knee; Rockets in Howard back , Pelicans in AD all body and ours in Kawhi's hands..
Last season's team never really clicked properly. Unlike most previous seasons, it got off to a poor start and had a particularly terrible December and into January. I remember a run of 7 games out of 10 (or thereabouts) that we either: gave the win to the other team through uncharacteristic, horrific fourth-quarter execution and plentiful mistakes; or were beaten by really bad luck. It was a sequence including the two consecutive overtime losses. If we win even one of those 7 games, we are the #2 seed.
The Spurs cannot afford that this year - we need to start strongly like previous years, pulverise teams for the first 20 games when they are in disarray, and then continue to win every game against mediocre or poor opposition through the middle of the season. And avoiding a large swoon in the January dog days is also important. It doesn't matter whether we start beating good teams until mid-February.
If the rhythm of the season goes like that - as it has quite a few times in the past - I think 60 wins, second in the West, and HCA against the East, is not an unreasonable expectation. Let's say 8 losses in the division, that leaves 14 for the rest of the season. So, we need to beat the teams we should and not give games away like last season.
The major variable with this team though is age - is this the year the wheels fall off for Timmy (I doubt it), Manu (maybe... but I hope not), Tony (hopefully taking the summer off will rejuvenate him - he played for three or four off-season straight before this one), Westy (35 and plays a rugged style - how is his body holding up?), etc. Managing the minutes this year to have everyone peaking in June is a Gordian Knot, but if anyone can do it, Pop can.
No. It's 2 teams from each division that isn't your division but is in your conference. The other 10 teams (the other 4 in-division, plus 3 from each other division within the conference) you have to play 4 times. The cycle rotates every six years, so you play every non-division conference team 4 times four out of every six years, and only 3 times the remaining two years.
For instance, we played OKC only three times last year, so we're getting them 4 times next year.
If we don't get a top 3 seed it would be the biggest chokejob in the history of human social interactions.
Yes worse than game 6
The 2 most important things. Good health and getting the defense great.
That's re ed
The warriors were taken to the brink by a depleted cavs team. If were clicking on all cylinders and healthy we will hand there a** to them, not mentioning the wing stop. Aldridge and west will have a field day on them also. I just see having a better record than the cavs as a priority as I think we still beat GS with or without HCA. Point is the spurs can shut down there motor(Curry, Thompson) like no other team.
Just get HCA over the Thunder. Dubs and Cavs can be beat without it imo.
Health, that's the biggest enemy here. I'm gonna beat that drum like it owes me money. It's hard to imagine the Warriors avoiding injury an entire season and through the Finals two seasons in a row. West, Parker, Ginobili, and Duncan aren't gonna play all 82.
As long as we get the 2nd seed and maybe hca in the finals. Lebron always coasts in the regular season
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