Matt Moore: Spurs' supporting cast the worst in San Antonio's history as a contender

[GSH]

I'm worried about three guys in the SL, but he's talking about the bench? Forget comparing them to Spurs teams of the past. How do they compare to the rest of the league? The Celtics have the best record in the East now. They have Marcus Smart playing over 30 minutes per game off the bench, so he's good bench player (or a sixth starter like Manu used to be.) After that they have:

Kelly Olynyk
Terry Rozier
Gerald Green
Tyler Zeller
Jonas Jerebko

The Spurs are going to have a of a time getting out of the West. But if they do, I'll take their bench over any team in the East. And if the bench plays like it did last night, they may have a good of a shot as anyone in the West. So if this is the worst bench they've had in 20 years, why hasn't he been writing articles about how overpowering those other bench units were?

Just a stupid, stupid clickbait article.

[TD 21]

I don't agree with Moore ('02-'04 only were contenders because they had the best player in the league), but too many are taking "supporting cast" to automatically mean bench. There's no question that the Spurs have the best 6-9 in the league, but he's probably referring to anyone not named Leonard and maybe Aldridge.

By virtually every metric, they're worse than last season. It's nice that they have two able bodied, legit centers and their best player has gotten incrementally better, but their second best player has fallen off a cliff and their already no longer starting caliber starting point guard has gotten incrementally worse.

[GSH]

I don't agree with Moore ('02-'04 only were contenders because they had the best player in the league), but too many are taking "supporting cast" to automatically mean bench. There's no question that the Spurs have the best 6-9 in the league, but he's probably referring to anyone not named Leonard and maybe Aldridge.

By virtually every metric, they're worse than last season. It's nice that they have two able bodied, legit centers and their best player has gotten incrementally better, but their second best player has fallen off a cliff and their already no longer starting caliber starting point guard has gotten incrementally worse.

Well, ... you're right. He didn't say bench, he said supporting cast. He's probably right on that count.

That's a good catch.

[spursistan]

They need to make the Conference Finals this year; otherwise no one is going to take this team seriously anymore and pundits being dismissive about them would be more than warranted..

Has it ever happened that a back-to-back 60+ win reg season team failed to reach the conference Finals in those years?

[PopTheGOAT]

I wasn't talking but one championship in 10 years? If I were you, I'd fall off dat pedestal.

I talked 0 . Just called you out for it. Not sure what made you think I'm putting the Spurs on a pedestal. I damn sure have more right to it than you do, though