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Warriors have an injury. What did the fully healthy Spurs loss teach you?
After watching the Warriors almost losing to the Jazz yesterday, it's clear that Warriors have trouble defending teams that pass a lot, but are way better on defense with hyper isolation heavy teams. I hope the media continues to suck the Warriors off so the Spurs keep flying low on the radar until playoffs time comes around.
Warriors have an injury. What did the fully healthy Spurs loss teach you?
That the Spurs can't dominate a playoff team on the road when only two players on the team can hit the broad side of a barn. Huge takeaway in late November tbh.
Spurs aren't better than GSW right now. Maybe by the end of the year.
lol
This argument will be settled in the playoffs.
What a ty ing thread.
"Hey you all remember that one meaningless game back in the spring last year? The Warriors totally got owned hahahahaha Warriors are pretenders and will never win with this group of players!"
Spurs will put them in they're place come playoff time. Spurs are the Warriors' kryptonite.
This wreaks of insecurity
"Hey you all remember that one meaningless game back in the spring last year? The Warriors totally got owned hahahahaha Warriors are pretenders and will never win with this group of players!"
Spurs aren't as good as their record, right now, tbh..
Maybe, but the league overall is really down right now, with very few exceptions...
Disagree
Right. As I mentioned in other thread, 13 of 14 wins by at least 8 and weren't in doubt down stretch (only Dallas was; Boston and Philly closer until about 5 minutes left). 3 of 4 losses, Spurs had chance to win down stretch. So could easily be anywhere from 17-1 to 13-5.
Meanwhile, GS's had games that came down to the wire against the Clippers (x2), Utah, Toronto and Brooklyn but managed to win them all. Better execution for sure, but also some luck to go 5 for 5 vs. Spurs 1 for 4.
You're forgetting that we had a fairly friendly schedule to start the season. But even then, a bunch of teams that a priori looked like heavyweights have played poor basketball so far (WC Finalists Rockets being the extreme case)
Spurs couldn't beat the Nets, Wizards, Bulls or OKC....... Not better than Warriors by any means. Spurfans premature iness is showing..
As a team I don't think we're better than the Warriors. However I think we match up against them better than some other teams. I'm always worried about how we matchup against great athletic teams as opposed to great shooting teams.
If GSW beat us in the playoffs it's not because we matchup badly, they'll literally just have to outshoot our defense. If we make shots tough for them we have a real chance.
The lack of depth and 3pt shooting might be the death of the Spurs. KA is a complete 0 at the nba level. He has nothing to offer the Spurs at this point in time. Paddy is worthless if he can't knockdown open shots. Butler can't shoot to save his life. Green can't shoot to save Butler's life. West's defense is appalling. Diaw's defense is less than appalling but still underwhelming and his offense has been very suspect. Manu is night and day on the court. Some days, he's great and other times, he's terrible. It's pretty damning when the de facto back up PG has a bad game because the Spurs don't have another option other than a seldom used 3rd stringer who has no business being on the floor in a tight game.
They beat the Nets.
Last I heard it doesn't matter how well you play until it matters.
I heard that all last season until it became the final day of the regular season and the Spurs dropped from the 2nd seed to the 6th seed. Since then, you haven't heard too much talk about meaningless regular season games.
So the more we , the less likely we are to lose?
Spurs are in a good spot. I'm impressed with how well we've done compared to how ty we look. All we can do is sit back and watch
Smoke weed much?
I think this confidence is coming from the beating we gave gsw in our last meeting with them last season. This is a new season though and they are playing incredible. They'd likely beat the crap out of us right now.
Yet, despite all that, we've done pretty well so far. I think this team has a high ceiling. It's a process and we're not there yet. There's no familiarity, the offense is a work in progress, etc. Of course, it will take our designated shooters to make more shots than they've been making, and players generally understanding what we are running, where they need to be at all times, etc. Some of our kids are going to have to grow up, and they're going to make mistakes in the process.
Frankly, I have very little to complain about when it comes to the defense. Despite some lows in certain games or stretches, I think that's the one thing they've done very well, and it would be simply amazing if they can further improve it.
This is a very different team from years past, where everyone knew each other and we knew what kind of basketball we were playing. It was easier to hit the ground running when the season started back then (then again, we started 17-4 in '13-'14, a mark this team can match). Even on those years, we would lose games all the time to teams like the Bucks.
We all knew going into this season that it was going to be a long process and we were going to need to have patience. I thought so far they've performed above expectations. We're on pace to win 64 games, and you know the team can get better (saving a key injury). There's going to be some tough losses on the way, and hopefully some solid wins further down the road.
Now, if you're going to compare to the Dubs right now, then you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They do have the familiarity of last season, and what they're doing right now is historical in the NBA. All you can hope for is that they slow down. It's a long season, a lot of things can happen between now and April, and you just have to keep getting better and hopefully build something special to battle with in the Playoffs.
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