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Is there any new info on his injury status?
Does he need the little giblets on them too?
Is there any new info on his injury status?
thinks he’s expected to be back for the raptors game
Damn good news. With how conservative the FO is with injuries, White must be at least 95%.
The thing is, PF is an injury that pretty much only responds to rest, and Pop just bought him 9-10 extra days over the ASB. That could make the difference in our season.
I would be fine with the Spurs staying 7th and getting the 19th or 20th pick, plus Denver is a far better matchup for the Spurs than OKC or Portland tbh.
How about 3rd, 6th or 7th?
The 4-5 seed will be unpopular. Teams shooting for the 3 will have a lot on the line as the season dwindles.
I think the 3rd seed is virtually out of range for the Spurs.
I still think Denver is the best first-round opponent, oddly enough. I don't think they can stop Aldridge and I think DeRozen and Gay could both have good series against their team.
On the plus side, Spurs would get a good 1st and a half-decent second rounder.
If White misses anymore games we might not make the playoffs.
The Spurs aren't likely to catch OKC unless they have injury problems. But Houston is 6-4 over their last 10 games, even with Hardon setting records. They could easily stumble enough for the Spurs to win the division and get the 4 seed. Assuming the Spurs don't stumble further. If that happened, it would most likely be Houston or Portland in the first round.
They're rolling the dice if they bring White back this soon. This season isn't as important as the next one, and the one after that.
Division winners are not guaranteed a top seed since 2015.
He’s got PF. That’s not career threatening.
I didn't say it was a guarantee seed. The Blazers have played 7 more home games than road games. They are about to play 7 in a row on the road. If the Spurs play well enough to overtake Houston, they'll be ahead of Portland too. Count on it.
I guess I should have left the part about the division out so you didn't get aroused. We'll revisit this after seven games.
If it becomes chronic, it might as well be. White isn't a 7-footer that can play the game without jumping like Timmy. Limit his mobility, and he's not much use. He had torn fascia at the beginning of this season, and now a bout with fasciitis a few months later. You'd like to see that injury get 6-8 weeks off.
Remaining games against West:
Spurs -9
Houston -15
Portland -12
OKC -15
Denver -18 !!!
Not so sure Denver can keep the second place actually.
Houston will be a beast with Capela back but 15 games against Western teams is quite tough.
Spurs need to finish .500 the rodeo trip otherwise it will be extremely hard to win 14 games and make the playoffs (never bet against LeBron, it was never a smart idea....), although the remaining strength of schedule is benign.
Utah has a ridiculously easy finishing stretch (can very well be 19-6), I think they'll make 4th seed.
It is actually. You literally can't play. You'll not make it in today's NBA playing 45 games per season. Let's hope for the best for him, but it is very troubling at his age.
Come on man,you specifically said that if we overtake Houston we'd be the 4 seed as division winners.You didn't mention Portland at that time or even Utah who are also ahead of us.It was an honest mistake,if anything it shows you are a longtime fan and you just misremembered the old rules,it's fine.
As for the actual seeding and White's injury,i have given my full schedule prediction on the 8 seed thread over a month ago.I am fully aware the 4 seed is up for grabs (Although i still prefer the 6 seed if OKC goes #2 or the 7th seed if Denver goes #2).
And as mentioned by most of us here,White is an integral,vital piece of our system,so every prediction is made with a healthy Derrick White in mind.
And plantar fasciitis is indeed not carreer threatening per se,but it is season ending if it flares up in March.
And it hurts like a mother,like a nail stuck in your heel every time you take a step.
White needs to come back healthy. This team might miss the playoffs without him tbh. Also need him to be healthy for our long term plans as well. A shame the injury came as he was really hitting his stride and having a great stretch
Spurs should realistically target the sixth place. If White returns healthy after the layoff, they can actually get to that place. If PF is hampering him despite the rest, they just need to fight for a playoff spot and try to remain in the 6th/7th slots
It's amazing how White has become arguably the second most important player on the team.
Not really, at least to me. He plays defense, and is good with or without the ball on offense. Super versatile.
The amazing part goes two ways,unfortunately.
It's amazing that White rose up to the challenge and developed a mature all around game in such a short time period.
It's also amazing in a terrible way how a team goes over summer from having great to elite defensive perimeter weapons in Danny Green,DJ Murray and #2 to having to deal with a roster that one player gets hurt and the Spurs perimeter defense goes to worst in the league.
And there are some things you can't deal with (Leonard trade request),some things you cannot predict (Murray ACL) and some things you just take the poison pill and decide if you were right or wrong in hindsight (Danny Green in the trade package).
But when everything goes wrong and you haven't prepared the team to deal with such adversities,White's importance starts getting scaled with PATFO's bad roster construction.
"Let's set up a roster with Mills,Forbes,DeRozan,Belinelli and the corpse of Q Pon as primary and secondary rotation perimeter defensive players.If Murray goes down? We got White! If White goes down? Oh,sorry,we were unlucky"
I’d be happy getting the ninth seed, jumping over all those garbage East playoff teams in the draft. This team needs to learn not to blow easy games against terrible teams. That’s your bread and butter for success in the NBA.
If Derrick white isn't healthy and back playing for us soon then I don't think we even finish .500 never mind make the playoffs. Too lazy to look it up, but our record without him is horrible.
Yep, I'd be thrilled with the 12th or 13th seed in the West if the alternative was the team getting their collective pushed in during the 1st round tbh.
crofl at some people thinking Denver or other top teams besides the Dubs are a "good" matchup for the Spurs....
This team has lost to several ty East teams at home, blown out by the likes of the Magic, Phoenix, Minny, Utah, Sacramento, etc....
They had a nice stretch during December because Pau was out but his return was horribly mismanaged by Pop who probably thinks Dante and QPon are in for a big finish to the regular season, not to mention Demar going into playoff form immediately after his championship against the Raptors
I'm praying to god they miss the playoffs because their ceiling is stealing a game against any top 4 seed in the West tbh
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