This team is going to get exposed badly come playoff time

[BillMc]

Can't get past the second round if this version of LMA is your second best player on paper.

While LMA shot a lousy percentage tonight, his season FG$% is better than it was his last 2 years in Portland, when he was ALL NBA. He's just getting less shots now and less minutes now. No real difference in his game, other than improved defense, its all just perception. Not what people want to hear on a night like tonight but it is true.

It's kind of like pointing out what an absolutely military genius Napoleon was after Waterloo. Not the best timing.

[spursgu]

It's funny how spurs have a great record vs the top teams but the losses to inferior compe ion (something spurs have always done) elicits all the second round fodder talk tbh

Yeah and somehow the other teams in the West are contenders but the Spurs aren't. Gtfoh. TD21, amused, Darius Bieber etc. this thread is for those cliff jumping specialists.

[Horse]

Bunch of gots. Lillard and McCollum threw trash up all night. It just happened to go in.

[ElNono]

If you think this team can't beat the Cavs, Dubs or even Clippers or Rockets, that's certainly fair. However, this particular game tonight has nothing to do with that.

We're going to lose some games here or there, tbh... especially on nights when we don't shot particularly well or defend well... it's a long season...

[emanueldavidginobili]

Yeah this team is one of the worst teams we had probably since 2011. Basically the team is riding Kawhi coatails. We are lacking a young player that can create his own shot. The fact that we are still relying on the second oldest player in the NBA for playmaking is a complete joke. We have a bunch of players past their prime, Green, LA, Parker, Ginobili, Gasol, Lee, Mills isn't going to get any better than he is either. Those are 6 of our main 8 players. Simmon isn't going to turn the corner. We need young players with upside there's no way in we are beating CLE, GS, HOU, or maybe some other teams. I'm usually optimistic, but this is reality.

[daslicer]

This season is different, while I think the gap was always bigger between the Warriors/Spurs last year than people realized, this year's team is probably the second worst of the decade for the Spurs after 2011.

Spurs don't need to be crucified because of that, but it is very difficult to have faith in a team that scrapes by and relies on one player to carry the load all the time. Spurs have absolutely no margin for error.

Another suicide rant by you. What does the gap between the Spurs and Warriors have to do with the spur sucking? I just don't understand what you are trying to get at here. The warriors will definitely be tough to beat in a 7 game series but it's doable. The Spurs will have to play at a high level to pull it off much like they did in '14 against the Thunder and the Heat. I just don't understand what you are trying to get at here. Also saying this team is the second worst Spurs team of the decade is asinine. This team is clearly better than 2015 and 2016 team. Lee, Dedmon, Gasol, Bertans are upgrades over West,Diaw, and last year's Duncan.

The perimeter is definitely a weakness of the Spurs that the Warriors will have an edge against the Spurs but we'll see how it plays out. The Warriors are the favorites against the Spurs in a 7 game series but I do believe the Spurs have a chance in . I'm not willing to declare the season is over like a re which you do every time the Spurs lose.

[dabom]

OPs been waiting on this thread for a while now.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Another suicide rant by you. What does the gap between the Spurs and Warriors have to do with the spur sucking? I just don't understand what you are trying to get at here. The warriors will definitely be tough to beat in a 7 game series but it's doable. The Spurs will have to play at a high level to pull it off much like they did in '14 against the Thunder and the Heat. I just don't understand what you are trying to get at here. Also saying this team is the second worst Spurs team of the decade is asinine. This team is clearly better than 2015 and 2016 team. Lee, Dedmon, Gasol, Bertans are upgrades over West,Diaw, and last year's Duncan.

The perimeter is definitely a weakness of the Spurs that the Warriors will have an edge against the Spurs but we'll see how it plays out. The Warriors are the favorites against the Spurs in a 7 game series but I do believe the Spurs have a chance in . I'm not willing to declare the season is over like a re which you do every time the Spurs lose.

BULL , no effing way are they better than 2015 and 2016. 2016 was genuinely an elite defensive team, even though Duncan after February was a bummer.

2015 blows this team out of the water.

[dabom]

Spurs teams aren't ranked by RS. Save your clifjumping for the Playoffs, got.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Spurs teams aren't ranked by RS. Save your clifjumping for the Playoffs, got.

And you think this team is going pull through come playoff time?

[spursistan]

Not sure why posters are laying into OP..

here is a question: outside Kawhi, do you know or have an approximation of what are getting from rest of roster on nightly basis, much less in the playoffs?

Leonard dropped a 34/9/6 and we still took an L vs the in' Blazers on B2B..

[dabom]

And you think this team is going pull through come playoff time?

I ain't a crying every time we lose. You were probably doing this in 2014.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Not sure why posters are laying into OP..

here is a question: outside Kawhi, do you know or have an approximation of what are getting from rest of roster on nightly basis, much less in the playoffs?

Leonard dropped a 34/9/6 and we still took an L vs the in' Blazers on B2B..

exactly

[bic50]

Not sure why posters are laying into OP..

here is a question: outside Kawhi, do you know or have an approximation of what are getting from rest of roster on nightly basis, much less in the playoffs?

Leonard dropped a 34/9/6 and we still took an L vs the in' Blazers on B2B..

lasharkus had a bad game.

[illusioNtEk]

chill the out everyone... its games like this that bring the best out of you.

[Hoops Czar]

Is this the knee-jerk reaction thread of the night, tbh?

Well, it's turned into one of those silver and black blindfold thread where posters are in complete denial. Are we watching the same effing team?

[Amuseddaysleeper]

lasharkus had a bad season.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Well, it's turned into one of those silver and black blindfold thread where posters are in complete denial. Are we watching the same effing team?

This is what surprised me. I may be a cliff jumper but the amount of homerism from some of these posters is baffling. This team is a one man team.

[Hoops Czar]

I ain't a crying every time we lose. You were probably doing this in 2014.

No, but you and 85% of the posters in this thread won't be anywhere to be found after this team loses in the second round. And the cycle will repeat itself next year.

[Dingle Barry]

One of those win-win threads for such a poster. They go all the way you are happy. They lose, you feel like you are smart and intelligent. Never really understand this.

You explain it perfectly, then follow that with you don't understand?

[MI21]

You explain it perfectly, then follow that with you don't understand?

Allow me to elaborate. I don't really understand the mindset of why someone would bother say this.

[Hoops Czar]

Allow me to elaborate. I don't really understand the mindset of why someone would bother say this.

Yeah, this is the 2015 and 2016 regular season all over again. Just wait until the postseason when you and evry other doubter eats their words... oh, wait.

[ElNono]

No, but you and 85% of the posters in this thread won't be anywhere to be found after this team loses in the second round. And the cycle will repeat itself next year.

You can always find me, tbh... then again, I don't think any poster here guaranteed a championship...

Don't know if OP is black, but thread smells like frustration and cocoa butter after a loss, that's all...

[Keepin' it real]

Team going to get exposed in the playoffs

I ain't scared.

[sasaint]

This is what surprised me. I may be a cliff jumper but the amount of homerism from some of these posters is baffling. This team is a one man team.

Kerrite!