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60 wins. 2nd seed. The Spurs always have their best season when everyone discounts them including their own fans.
45 wins, 9th seed
60 wins. 2nd seed. The Spurs always have their best season when everyone discounts them including their own fans.
Don't think we're a good enough outside shooting team so win 60. We're not gonna have great spacing this year. And that would be a really big jump from last year's 47 wins.
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I am curious.
I think many casuals who are showing up in the summer didn't really watch much of the team this past season...
Done deal.
I think Poltl is a massive improvement over Joff too.
I think 52-55 wins. It can vary depending on Murray and White contributing. Also Manu was worth a few close games that he closed. If he retires or rather time catches up what was coming to him anyways, it varies. I thought there were a few games Gay was decisive to win but he missed around 23-25 games last season and was still recovering. He might be better (or get injured again, who knows?)
Depending on their youth development they will have depth to weather some RS injuries or not. Considering uncertainties tough to predict but I do expect them to be better.
P.S. Even if some guys don't admit it There will be games defense will be missed and Danny and Kyle will be missed.
I know bc I used to take Timmy D for granted defensively until I was forced to watch Gasol in his stead. Yes, Gasol was better than Timmy offensively his last year but Tim with no knees was better on D than Gasol. There will be games that you will think wtf is this defense????
At least th team will score and be fun to watch though.
Dark horses for me are Murray, White and Walker. Could help the team so much and we get don't know... Or can underwhelm but time.
Still think they get 50+ wins and first round home court.
After thinking about it further I will guess 57 wins and the 3rd seed.
50 wins 4 seed
Last year was 47 wins with Gay missing 1/3 of the season, basically no Kawhi, and underperforming compared to Pythagorean expectation (which tends to even out over time). With average injury and close game luck 50 seems like a lock. 60 is really pushing it, so I'll go with 53 wins.
Seeding is a real wild card. OC should be better by getting Roberson back and losing Carmelo. Utah could keep up their white-hot end to last season but could also slog like they did at the beginning. LeBron can will his team to wins, though more often in the playoffs.
I will say the 4th seed but there's a wide variation here, nothing between 2nd and 7th would surprise me.
54 wins.
54 wins. 3rd seed.
Too early to say, pre-season predictions are usually pointless..however, most people don't seem to realize how bad the West was last seasonit was the least amount of 50-win teams in the conference in like 30 years IIRC..none of the teams in that range got better, either..
with HOTS gone there's no real point guard on the roster. 45 wins 9th place.
If DeMar somehow tries and improves his defense we should make the playoffs
Hate to say it but in some respects we'll be back to a similar season like those pre-TD in the 1990s. There'll be enough talent to make the playoffs, win 50 something games, but the ceiling in the playoffs will be the 2nd round.
They are going to be able to score, but that ability to control the game defensively just won't be there.
They need a 3 and D starting SF desperately. The interest in Luc Mbah Kunta Kinte a few weeks back was a pretty good indicator the Spurs were going to move Leonard soon, in retrospect.
In addition to how DeRozan fits in with the team and how Pop fits the team's offense around him and LaMarcus, the development of Murray, White, and Walker will be a significant factor in how well the team progresses. The next major move this offseason will presumably land a starting 3.
That is bad news. If DeRozan isn’t good enough to add more wins over last years team they need to flip him asap.
I am at the point though where I really hope SA doesn’t flame out and win the same or less than last year. There are already a lot of writers bashing SA for the trade and it will be ten-fold if they don’t add wins.
the haters, my dude. Those guys are just dusting off their bash the Spurs articles from 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013
The Spurs have a good chance of being better next year. The Western Conference will be good. Very hard to predict with all the new players and young players like White. I'm excited.
The Spurs won 47 last year, but we lost a ton of close games in case people forgot, mostly due to the offense getting stagnant because we did not having a closer... Not saying DeRozan will be that for us, but if he can just be good enough to where we are not in so many tight games with a minute left in the fourth, I don't see how we don't win at least 50 games tbh. (Barring injuries, of course).
We dont need Derozan to be a closer,although he probably will be for sometimes, we wont need to cause we going to be winning by a comfortable amount.
But shouldn’t it be like that? The better (or more equal) teams are in a conference there will always be wins distributed out between those teams. That’s why 3-9 was so close together.Too early to say, pre-season predictions are usually pointless..however, most people don't seem to realize how bad the West was last season
Manu is coming back and I believe Metu will spend time in G-league. Jaron could be on the team though.
To me, this is the roster
DJ/White/Patty
DDR/Lonnie/Bryn
Gay/Belli/Manu
LA/Davis/Cunnigham
Pau/Jakob Poeltl
And we are significantly better than last year. 1) We have 3 point shooting! And 2) we have a closer, someone that can score the ball or draw a foul in the last few minutes of a game. And 3) we have another scorer to pair with LA. And 4) we have someone that can create for others. And 5) we have chip on our shoulders. We have a much better team there is no deny about it.
HOU has taken a step back, OKC, LA, Utah, and Nuggets have gotten better, but I think the Spurs will be third. Hard to argue otherwise, if we are healthy of course. Last year, we had all sorts of injuries. Rudy Gay missed a significant amount of time, Pau played the last third of the season with a shoulder injury, Manu was banged up, Bryn hit a wall.
Yeah, but Aldridge was motivated to reprove himself a star and turned in a career season at 32, while Green and Anderson provided strong wing defense. There was also enough of the old guard left, who willed themselves across the finish line on sheer pride.
I could see DeRozan being motivated after feeling like he was lied to, but there's not a single credible wing defender on the team, they will have serious spacing issues in their starting lineup (Gay probably comes off the bench, but I include him considering the amount he's likely to play and close) and the old guard is almost gone.
Anything from 3-10 wouldn't surprise me, but having 3 as the high end speaks more so to the lack of anything resembling a 3rd power than it does this team's potential.
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