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One regular season game. Marathon, not race. Chess, not checkers.
Somethings not right.. whats going on? is it just me or no one seem to want it bad enough? i look at tony and manu and i just cant help but to feel really bad for them. Like they are competing, atleast they are. Atleast theyre trying, man when they were rookies, when they were young, they were always hustling and playing hard. Thats the key, playing hard. But i dont see any of the guys playing hard anymore. Like they expect the starters to play good and get a free ride all the way. West and Aldrige should go. We shouldve never signed them. I miss splitter. Atleast he worked hard. Same for marco.
Aldrige is just chillen and smiling like he dont even care his team is losing, taking everything for granted.
I just dont understand, we're a good team, just gotta step up ALOT.. its a new age now in the nba. You cant win like that anymore. Gotta keep up and adapt.
And i dont wanna give excuses like for example, alot of the cavs players heated up and was having a good night.. nah thats a thrash excuse. Its the fact that none of our players got going cause they just didnt want it bad enough. So they just didnt show up. If they wanted to, then they wouldve tried to atleast work to get open, or atleast set themselves up for a good oppurtunity, but nah, theyre all just so damn passive. Theyre scared. Theyre playing so weak.
How can the spurs ever play in fear? its always the other teams that fear us. This is crazy. We're not gonna win, cause we're not competing! how can we win if we dont compete!
Man, without duncan, we got no work discipline. I think the players are afraid of him more than Pop. Idk, but i dont ever remember us losing this bad, or playing this bad with duncan.
Anyways, i got faith in this team, and i know we're still turning the wheels, tweaking here and there. For now, i guess we just wait patiently and not lose hope.
What you guys think?
One regular season game. Marathon, not race. Chess, not checkers.
two blowouts in one week, against #1 WC and #1 EC.
And the Spurs are loaded with pawns
Marathon.
Not showing all your cards, actively not coaching to win, players giving relatively underwhelming effort. etc etc
I don't like this team. It's not a championship team. Our guards are dog . All of them.
this "hiding cards" is total bull . everybody knows what everybody else does
We don't have the dude who was responsible for 5 and we don't have Coach Bud anymore.
It might just be that our older guys are getting tired, and the newer guys are not ready yet to take over the fight, especially against good teams. Maybe it's time they get to learn in the middle of the fight now.
But, perspective, we lost 8 games this season so far. There's still half a season to go.
Nah. The Spurs haven't reached a peak yet showing all their cards. It can be argued that defensively they have but I don't believe that one bit. Having a weak schedule and the NBA severely lacking parity has inflated the Spurs record. Still the Spurs have the tools to defend and score in a playoff like scenario where the game slows down and the possessions become meaningful.
Spurs are getting exposed.
People keep penciling them in for an automatic series with Golden State but I wouldn't be surprised to see them get bounced in the 2nd round.
Basically this, too. A lot of factors in play, but if you don't have TD back there to man the paint, and you aren't use to it yet, you're going to look a little ty on defense overall.
Same here. We couldn't beat OKC in a 7 game series right now.
Best the Spurs can do is win the regular season games they're suppose to win and gradually build up offensive and defensive schemes against teams that will be roadblocks between them and another Larry O'Brien. Games that are lost during the regular season should be to contenders with Pop actively experimenting to see what works and what doesn't. This has been a staple ever since the decline of Timmy D. I don't see it changing so might as well embrace it as fans. Still some fans will overreact but this is just the way its going to be.
It's not just about overreacted, the team constantly comes out flat in opening quarters and on the road against decent team that is suicide. Spurs playing like they have no pride and getting absolutely WAXED. Yes, it's January and no Duncan but as much as people hide behind the Pop not showing his cards crap, losing this badly to contenders is a worrying sign. I understand losing road games to good teams, but lose like this where the Spurs were barely in the game both against GS and Cleveland is a glaring issue.
I just don't trust this team to have enough players consistently show up in the playoffs to go really far. It's like the Clipper series last year. Everyone is all over the place and inconsistent.
There are a lot of factors that go into losing. I won't go deep into specifics but I honestly believe regular season games against contenders will be more of the "feeling out" variety with Pop coaching to see what works and not go deep into his bag of tricks. Imo this year his toolbox is very expanded and the variability that comes with what wing to play will be interesting to see how it plays out.
This team won a championship not too long ago. Still feeling out big toys they got over the offseason. Haven't even peaked yet. I guess you can call it being glass half full but I trust this team to put themselves in a great chance to contend for the chip when it matters even if that means giving up regular season games for the greater good of the larger picture perspective.I just don't trust this team to have enough players consistently show up in the playoffs to go really far. It's like the Clipper series last year. Everyone is all over the place and inconsistent.
Beating contenders in the regular season is no indication of whether they go on to win or not. Didn't they lose to every contender in the rs in 2014? And beat every contender in 2015? Still, it's concerning and they really missed Timmy. So many post ups - Pops gone back to traditional basketball instead of ball movement.
This. We saw a lot of Anderson/Simmons/Butler in these two games. Part of it is definitely the Spurs not playing well and not being ready for prime time, but it's a great chance for Pop to see which players work against the top teams. It's nothing new. Pop knows what he'll get out of his proven players.
Since the start of season, defense has been the thing that we hung our hat on..With Timmy out, more frequently so since that Wizards game mid December, it has gone down the ter relative to the historic Def rating mark we were setting before that..
It is clear that we don't have the 3-point firepower of past years to overturn 10-15 points defecit against good teams (it took an MVParker half to avoid the L in first game against the Cavs)..Let's hope our anchor comes back soon because the schedule about to take a rough turn..
"proven players like Tony/Manu" reached last post season banged up or exhausted or however we may call it.
PPl dismiss Simmons/Anderson but they may have to rescue us like they tried to in this game. Again some may say if we get to that we aren't winning jack , and maybe we aren't but these two and Boban are part of our overinflated blowouts and point differential.
They can play.
Cupcake glory, tbh. They're 1-5 vs the top 3 teams from the Eastern and Western conference. And in the one win, it took a turn back the clock Tony Parker to keep the Spurs from getting buried in the 1st half. And the so-called new guys aren't good enough to get it done against elite compe ion.
I couldn't tell who was playing on a b2b and who was coming off 2 days rest.
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It's all about the seeding right now. Spurs need to keep the number 2 seed and I don't care how they do that even if they only beat crap teams to keep that spot. Spurs need to keep the 2 seed and hope Duncan is healthy come playoff time to have a chance.
it's not bull . Popovich is purposely doing a ty job coaching and with lineups. He's not that incompetent. At what point does a hall of fame coach tell his players in the huddle, "hey guys, they aren't missing wide open 3's, let's stop leaving them open.."
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All 5 loses on the road and 2 without TD. At this point in the season, I'll take it. As Kawhi said in the post game presser yesterday, new guys have to pick up the slack. They have half a season to learn how to do just that.
If they don't, we probably won't have a chance.
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