I smell a theme here.completely meaningless loss where a chucker got hot and virtually every Spur but Kawhi and Manu came out flat in a different country at al ude..
Remember all those "meaningless regular season games" in 2015 that saw the Spurs drop from the second seed to the 6th seed with a loss to the Pelicans on the final day of the season? Sure would have been nice playing game 7 against the Clips at home rather than on the road.
The spurs werent going to win against the Clippers with baby Kawhi, banged up Tiago
Pop changed the offense midway and the spurs was still structured to rely on Tiago.
A good portion of fans knew what was going to happen
When Spurs are winning everything is smooth sailing on Spurstalk.....But when there losing everything is a total meltdown.....
Mexico games shouldn't count
didn't watch, January game
The suns had three extra days to get acclimated to the elevation. It showed in the final quarter, Kawhi was gassed and he was the only one doing . Pathetic is giving two home games to another ing country because your city thinks you're and pathetic is celebrating a regular season game like you won the championship like the Suns bench was doing.
Despite everything in that series the Spurs made it to a 7th game on the back of Duncan. If Pop coached competently in that series the Spurs win in 6. That series above any other is one that Pop cost the Spurs.The spurs werent going to win against the Clippers with baby Kawhi, banged up Tiago
Pop changed the offense midway and the spurs was still structured to rely on Tiago.
A good portion of fans knew what was going to happen
No reason to overreact.
The reason the Spurs lost was an anomaly at the line:
Phx 22-24.
Spurs 24-34.
Ten more FTs for the Spurs but only two more points. That more than explains the margin of loss.
Remember in 13' when Green was paid $3,5 millions a year while putting 10+ pts on a very good 3pts %, great D and was on pace to be FMVP after 4 or 5 games?
If you want refund when the player underperform, you have to give him more when he overperform
does anybody know wtf happened on that that play where the score was tied at 100 and they called "goaltending" even though the spurs didn't even touch the ball and then gave the suns the 2 points?!
Just a blown call by the refs sadly.
Never change, SpursTalk.
I second that!Mexico games shouldn't count
it's not been smooth sailing this seaons cuz we haven't been winning like we should be winning. We're barely getting by most games and it's the same story. We jump out to a big lead, Popvich puts in the worst lineup possible allowing a comeback, Kawhi has to save us in the 4th.
True, but it is possible to be significantly better or worse than your expected record. The '16 Warriors were a prime example of the former, as the had a differential of 8 between expected and actual record and only in the latter half of the Finals did it begin to regress to the mean. The '14 Timberwolves were a prime example of the latter, as they too had a differential of 8 between expected and actual record.
Not long ago, the Spurs had a differential of 3 and they managed to erase it in short order. After a lot of bad luck "in the clutch" the previous 2 seasons, it seems they were due some good luck and are now regressing. As ever, the lack of anything resembling a dynamic play maker is their undoing and games like these only exacerbate it. When Leonard is on fire, he naturally becomes emboldened and takes on a greater creative burden, which means the offense devolves into him looking to fire at the slightest bit of daylight coming off a high screen, forcing shots in traffic when he can't get all the way to the rim and making passes only when forced to.
I don't want to start a whole new thread, but is anybody watching the beat-down GSW is putting on the Cavs? They're up by 33 with about 3:00 left in the 3rd. Good thing there's no such thing as a statement game.
That was a pathetic loss to the Suns. But happens in the NBA. Go to sleep for a quarter, even against a bad team, and you're courting a loss. But imagine the melt-down if the Spurs had lost the opener to GSW as badly as Cleveland is tonight.
The Dubs needed this game for a lot of different reasons while the Cavs have every reason to coast; GS should be dismantling the Cavs. Meanwhile, the Spurs had a stretch of games here between Christmas and the end of this month to really fatten up their record and at least put some distance between themselves and the rest of the West. Instead they've dropped nearly half their games since New Years and haven't gotten any separation from Houston/Cleveland/LAC despite them having their hardest stretch/injuries. On top of that the same fatal issues that many were worried about (depth falling off, poor play from the bigs, Manu falling off a cliff) and some unexpected issues (Patty falling off a cliff, Green suddenly becoming a poor defender, Pop declining further as a coach, clutch time play becoming a bugaboo) have the team trending in a bad direction. All things considered the meltdown as of late are definitely warranted.
I can't disagree with a lot of that, but somehow I don't think coasting was anywhere in the Cav's game plan for tonight. The Dubs are flat kicking their asses - even with their All Star center having only 4 points.
Good thing we didn't have this kind of weak performance against them. I'm not sure if their game tonight is a proper barometer in how those teams stack up in the long run.
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