Coasting or broken?

[DesignatedT]

Philadelphia beat Portland in Portland last night btw fwiw

[Pako]

Call it whatever you want... coasting, big-picture, resting, etc etc etc... this team has done it plenty of times, and it's something the coach even implicitly advocates by resting players no matter who they're playing (the defending champs last season, no less).
Don't particularly think they're any less "hungry" because of it, I just think it's a byproduct of having your top players with many miles and that have traveled the long road before. Ultimately, Pop has said it doesn't guarantees anything, they just think it's the most sensible course of action given their experience.

[therealtruth]

The regular season is a chance to work on your weaknesses. Instead the Spurs use it as a chance to excel at their strengths. That's not going to help your chances of winning in the playoffs. We know are weaknesses. Athletic and good defensive teams. It doesn't matter how many times we beat the Wizards if we're not working on our weaknesses.

[playbonner15]

This team is coasting right now, right?

[Bad Takes]

To me, it's not even a question. Coasting is when there's nothing fundamentally different from the previous season and the players are clearly just pacing themselves. Every once in a while, against credible opposition, they let everyone know it. Broken is a when a lineup that once had success is flat out no longer capable of playing together on both sides of the ball and when your two best players take a giant step back.

I guess most times the best players are the starters, following that principle Marco should be the starter, not the big lipped dork.

Anyhow, I've said this alot over the past few years. These group of guys have stayed together long enough. Now they're complacent and just plain lazy.

Time to move some pieces around. Duncan has like 2 years left, lets not around and waste them with this pathetic unit.

This is the worst Spurs team since 2009.

Ouch

[TDomination]

The 2013-14 Spurs were one of the best teams ever, BUT that team didn't really wake up until Game 7 against the Mavericks. Then it was on!

The team took care of business during the regular season. #1 Overall. But i'm sure they coasted on quite a few games. They were good enough to do so.

[bklynspursfan]

Ouch

Spurs talk in a nuts . The most dramatic , unrealistic fans around.

[BD24]

This is the worst Spurs team since 2009.

ing idiot

My Rob with some terrible ing takes in here as well

[Chinook]

The 2013-14 Spurs were one of the best teams ever, BUT that team didn't really wake up until Game 7 against the Mavericks. Then it was on!

The team took care of business during the regular season. #1 Overall. But i'm sure they coasted on quite a few games. They were good enough to do so.

Yeah, people think 2014 and 2015 were more different than they were. But SA could have messed up and lost in the first round. By the time Game Six against OKC rolled around, the team was locked in (mainly because Diaw was about to have his finest hour). But they had their ups and downs that year. 2015 was seriously just an Splitter injury away from them making another run. Parker also declined, but Leonard's star was rising. Green shook himself out of his funk by the end of that LAC series, and Tim was playing well. Patty was also not bad. 2015 had a really weak West. The Cavs without Love and Irving were a really weak Finals match-up. Yes, the Spurs were older and has less left in the tank, but they wouldn't have needed as much.

Back to the point, it's easy to laugh at this thread now, but had SA lost that Game Seven that year, you would have heard people act like it was inevitable from the start, just like they do about 2015.

[Leetonidas]

The Spurs look somewhat like a combination of both. I think Parker needs rest and I don't know what the Leonard's deal is this season. But from what I've seen, it seems like the Spurs coast in the first 3 quarters and try to wake up and win games in the fourth. It has worked a few times but when you let some teams stay in it like this they get confident and you have scrubs like Shumpert going for career highs. They play extremely complacent most of the time except for the end of quarters/4th quarter. is kind of annoying, it's why the 2nd unit comes in and wrecks so often because they, unlike the starters, play with more intensity. It's no coincidence that the Spurs go on runs routinely to end quarters since the 2nd unit is usually out there to end a quarter.

Spurs starting lineup has been bad this year, and it makes no sense, so I'm leaning towards coasting. But they also haven't played up to par at all against the top teams. It's hard to say. I'll reserve judgment til after the ASB. Spurs routinely start off slow and gear up towards the end of the season, we can only hope they are trying to pace themselves after a long season/playoffs/grueling finals last year.

at least I didnt say we had the worst team since 09

[RC_Drunkford]

This 2018 team is probably the worst Spurs team since 2011

[Arcadian]

'11 was a great regular season, just a horrible playoff. That was when Manu broke his elbow. But '11 was the start of the Spurs resurgence.

[Play Boban]

Ouch

Good find tbh.

[YGWHI]

This team is coasting right now, right?

Indubitab...Sorry.

I say YES! We should learn not to overeact after just some loss against the Heat early in the season.

[YGWHI]

The Marco starting rotation does not make sense.

Poor Marco but still true. After 4 years is valid.





(My best to give you Belli, your first 30 pts game of the season tonight vs Rockets.)

[Leetonidas]

This 2018 team is probably the worst Spurs team since 2011

That 2011 team was 50-9 at one point iirc...considering the end game for any team is to get beat by GS I'd take 2011 regular season all day tbh

[Amuseddaysleeper]

at least I didnt say we had the worst team since 09

Spurs looked like at that point if the season tbh and we’re losing to all the elite teams

[Amuseddaysleeper]

That 2011 team was 50-9 at one point iirc...considering the end game for any team is to get beat by GS I'd take 2011 regular season all day tbh

They were always a fool’s gold team, probably most disrespected top seed in the west of the decade

[JPB]

[anon]

It's difficult to say the Spurs are coasting with a straight face when the two franchise players are leading the league in mpg.

[Leetonidas]

They were always a fool’s gold team, probably most disrespected top seed in the west of the decade

Revisionist history... Yeah Memphis wanted to play us because they matched up well in the RS but no one was really "disrespecting" SA in the media and spurs were favored going into that series. If Manu hadn't broken his elbow in the last game of the RS spurs win that series Imo. Manu was our best player that year by far

[Leetonidas]

It's difficult to say the Spurs are coasting with a straight face when the two franchise players are leading the league in mpg.

This thread is from four years ago

[playbonner15]

This thread is from four years ago

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Revisionist history... Yeah Memphis wanted to play us because they matched up well in the RS but no one was really "disrespecting" SA in the media and spurs were favored going into that series. If Manu hadn't broken his elbow in the last game of the RS spurs win that series Imo. Manu was our best player that year by far

NO ONE had the Spurs winning the le. Not revisionist history at all. Maybe your memory is foggy for that season but they were massively disrespected as a top seed. Nobody took them seriously. They were great offensively but it never felt like their game was going to translate to the playoffs.

[Mikeanaro]

Ouch

So Bad Troll, 2014 won the ring because of Donnie Groin? is he still around???