Lack of urgency..

[MultiTroll]

He can only do so much tbh. Says alot when the second best perimeter defender is Derozan.

This. On a simple switch off LMA stood there and waved at him Pau Gasol style.

[K...]

I honestly find it refreshing that these guys play hard and don't care. I mean Durant is still on the warriors so why try? Wining home games is good for the team bottom line. Patty gets paid. pop gets to stay busy.

[paperboy77]

Sometimes it really isn't about the talent; it boils down to playing hard and seizing the moment. This team is the an hesis of that.

Simply can't root anymore for this bunch of losers. They deserve to be clowned and humiliated by the Warriors for a third straight year. They begged for it.

I agree with your first sentence. After that it's a knee-jerk.

This is a good team. NO TEAM is better than the Dubs so in that sense we kinda are every team. Just be a fan dude and cheer our beloved Spurs on. That's about all we can do.

Now them Clippers... WTF! They are on serious beast mode! How the are they doing it... Pop?

[marinoman]

I think the zone D on us changed the game. With poeti, lma and derozan there’s no spacing for 3s, the zone will cause big problems for us

[timtonymanu]

I agree with your first sentence. After that it's a knee-jerk.

This is a good team. NO TEAM is better than the Dubs so in that sense we kinda are every team. Just be a fan dude and cheer our beloved Spurs on. That's about all we can do.

Now them Clippers... WTF! They are on serious beast mode! How the are they doing it... Pop?

Because the clippers actually have players that try hard and don’t take games for granted like our loser team does. The spurs may be a good team but they constantly have played down to their opponents and also choked away winnable games and this was suppose to be the easy part of their schedule and they still only come up with 1 win out of 4 games during this stretch. There’s no more excuses for this team. At least okc legit has a hard schedule and the clippers are actually taking advantage of their easy schedule. It’s the at ude of this team that is so loser like and uninspiring. Why should fans have to suffer through that if the players don’t show enough pride?

[tmtcsc]

Now them Clippers... WTF! They are on serious beast mode! How the are they doing it... Pop?

The Clippers are galvanized, inspired and playing for each other. The Spurs don't seem to have that fire. Not consistently anyways. They are a collection of scorers for the most part with 1 complete player who is not experienced enough to be THE leader yet.

[Atl Spur]

Yo............ Brighter days are ahead! Two HOFers left; digest that for a minute��

[ZeusWillJudge]

"Trap Game"

[paperboy77]

Because the clippers actually have players that try hard and don’t take games for granted like our loser team does. The spurs may be a good team but they constantly have played down to their opponents and also choked away winnable games and this was suppose to be the easy part of their schedule and they still only come up with 1 win out of 4 games during this stretch. There’s no more excuses for this team. At least okc legit has a hard schedule and the clippers are actually taking advantage of their easy schedule. It’s the at ude of this team that is so loser like and uninspiring. Why should fans have to suffer through that if the players don’t show enough pride?

I hear you but I still root for this team vs anything else. I remember the Cadillac Anderson Spurs in the mid 80s. Those guys had no shot! That was just before 50 come around.. I was just getting into sports. I was just happy when they played a close game.

[Kobe'sAchilles]

I know it's been 20 years but damn I miss Mario Ellie. There was no other player like him tbh. Had the toughness, the leadership, and the know how to win. like tonight wouldn't get a pass from Ellie.

[Mugen]

I mean there's a few reasons they no longer run any of the old plays that Manu, TP, and Timmy used to run and it's directly tied to why the team struggles...

1) They have really stupid ing players on the team. Like Derozan and LMA are absolutely average at best when it comes to BBIQ (Derozon is borderline re ed as soon as it becomes clutch time tbh) so those little extra baskets or defensive plays ("winning plays" just don't happen. That's the difference in winning/losing games especially on the road.

2) The same story it's been for the last 4 years. The coaching is pretty poor. Sure nobody's perfect but just so many coaching mistakes game in / game out, stuff that you'd expect from a got like Nick Nurse or something, not from arguably one of the greatest coaches of all time. Tonight was prime example of that obviously. Again, it's fine because everybody loses it eventually...the issue is when you continue to hang around when obviously you just don't have the same compe ive spirit , he's not Bill Bellichick that's definitely clear but he's also a lot older.....


But yeah, they're not that good but they really don't make up for it with more effort or smarter basketball. It starts with LMA (not really that compe ive) and Derozan (not that smart)....

[spursistan]

I mean there's a few reasons they no longer run any of the old plays that Manu, TP, and Timmy used to run and it's directly tied to why the team struggles...

1) They have really stupid ing players on the team. Like Derozan and LMA are absolutely average at best when it comes to BBIQ (Derozon is borderline re ed as soon as it becomes clutch time tbh) so those little extra baskets or defensive plays ("winning plays" just don't happen. That's the difference in winning/losing games especially on the road.

2) The same story it's been for the last 4 years. The coaching is pretty poor. Sure nobody's perfect but just so many coaching mistakes game in / game out, stuff that you'd expect from a got like Nick Nurse or something, not from arguably one of the greatest coaches of all time. Tonight was prime example of that obviously. Again, it's fine because everybody loses it eventually...the issue is when you continue to hang around when obviously you just don't have the same compe ive spirit , he's not Bill Bellichick that's definitely clear but he's also a lot older.....


But yeah, they're not that good but they really don't make up for it with more effort or smarter basketball. It starts with LMA (not really that compe ive) and Derozan (not that smart)....

Good post, tbh..

The collective IQ of this team has taken a huge tumble over the last few just years..It is not only because of the decline and retirement of the Big 3; even the departure of role players like Danny/Diaw is starting to get felt. Both of those two, for example, could suck an entire game and yet they end up making a clutch block or pass to seal a W on the road..

[ZeusWillJudge]

The Spurs got the ball back with 19 seconds and two timeouts. Pop could have called one, advanced the ball, and drawn up a play. And they still had a spare timeout for when they failed to get the ball inbounded on time. He didn't do that. Instead he let DeMar freelance. It would have been different on a short clock, if the Hornet's defense hadn't had time to set up.

Personally, I think this is one time when DeMar did the right thing. The worst thing would be to turn the ball over, and the second worst would have been to get fouled with 3-4 seconds left, and have them bury a 3 to win the game. (The way they were shooting, that could have happened easily.) DeMar didn't dribble into traffic, and he made sure that his shot was the last shot.

If Pop doesn't think he can draw up a play that would be better than DeMar freelancing against a set defense, that's on him. coaching job. I don't care if he is enjoying himself.

[Em-City]

The Clippers are galvanized, inspired and playing for each other. The Spurs don't seem to have that fire. Not consistently anyways. They are a collection of scorers for the most part with 1 complete player who is not experienced enough to be THE leader yet.

Who's the "complete" player?

[phxspurfan]

Yep Beverly at least has some value on the court. Yet we're relying on 50 Mills to pick up teammates from the floor and pat their backs while he's sometimes the sole reason the team is in a funk in the first place.

this is why the team needs a Jalen Brunson/Malcolm Brogdon/Kyle Lowry type.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

This should should be the official cliff jumper thread. Spurs lost. Like in their other recent losses they didn’t tighten things up until it was too late. Effort was lacking and we haven’t been hitting our 3’s. If we could hit a 3 we’d have gotten at least 2 of these recent games. As Pop would say, they beat us because they scored more points. Not sure what folks were expecting, beyond a 7 or 8 seed. This team has already over achieved.

[R. DeMurre]

This should should be the official cliff jumper thread. Spurs lost. Like in their other recent losses they didn’t tighten things up until it was too late. Effort was lacking and we haven’t been hitting our 3’s. If we could hit a 3 we’d have gotten at least 2 of these recent games. As Pop would say, they beat us because they scored more points. Not sure what folks were expecting, beyond a 7 or 8 seed. This team has already over achieved.

I remember reading three different articles in one week last summer, all saying the Spurs would not make the playoffs this year-- and that was before Dejounte Murray was lost to a season ending injury. I went and found one of these articles from Pounding the Rock-- it contained an ESPN prediction saying the Spurs would win 38.5 games... Not really sure what people were expecting. They've surpassed almost all expectations.

https://www.poundingtherock.com/2018...offs-2018-2019

[ZeusWillJudge]

I remember reading three different articles in one week last summer, all saying the Spurs would not make the playoffs this year-- and that was before Dejounte Murray was lost to a season ending injury. I went and found one of these articles from Pounding the Rock-- it contained an ESPN prediction saying the Spurs would win 38.5 games... Not really sure what people were expecting. They've surpassed almost all expectations.

https://www.poundingtherock.com/2018...offs-2018-2019

And the reasons they listed for those low expectations all centered around ty roster construction. That doesn't happen because of global ing warming - it's on PATFO.

I wonder sometimes if you guys ever stop to think about the stuff you say. The article was written before Murray got injured, right? So if Murray had been healthy, they would have won at least 50 games... right? So if Jesus Gomez predicted that they would win 38.5 games, and they really would have won 50+, what kind of a stupid-assed prediction is that? Why would you ever quote someone that ing stupid?

You can't have it both ways.

[dbestpro]

I don't know what game you guys watched -

I saw a good effort and some great performances - overshadowed by a great player (Kemba Walker)

who willed his team to a victory.

Disappointed , sure - but I thought the Spurs played hard.

When the Spurs play hard. The Spurs don't lose. Problem is they refuse to play hard on the road. Tissue soft.

[R. DeMurre]

And the reasons they listed for those low expectations all centered around ty roster construction. That doesn't happen because of global ing warming - it's on PATFO.

I wonder sometimes if you guys ever stop to think about the stuff you say. The article was written before Murray got injured, right? So if Murray had been healthy, they would have won at least 50 games... right? So if Jesus Gomez predicted that they would win 38.5 games, and they really would have won 50+, what kind of a stupid-assed prediction is that? Why would you ever quote someone that ing stupid?

You can't have it both ways.

You're so excitable, Poseidon.

[RaShallDecide]

You're so excitable, Poseidon.

[monty4329]

The Spurs got the ball back with 19 seconds and two timeouts. Pop could have called one, advanced the ball, and drawn up a play. And they still had a spare timeout for when they failed to get the ball inbounded on time. He didn't do that. Instead he let DeMar freelance. It would have been different on a short clock, if the Hornet's defense hadn't had time to set up.

Personally, I think this is one time when DeMar did the right thing. The worst thing would be to turn the ball over, and the second worst would have been to get fouled with 3-4 seconds left, and have them bury a 3 to win the game. (The way they were shooting, that could have happened easily.) DeMar didn't dribble into traffic, and he made sure that his shot was the last shot.

If Pop doesn't think he can draw up a play that would be better than DeMar freelancing against a set defense, that's on him. coaching job. I don't care if he is enjoying himself.

Absolutely gutless coaching the last minute. I don't want to even go to DDR bull last shot, because it is totally on Pop. So many mistakes on the last possession:
1. no timeout -because he feared the inbound turnover?
2. no set play
3. ball in got hands instead of an easy White to Anybody-but-Chocker out of a screen for a shot or for a penetration looking for FT
4. no screen -afraid of the crybaby misdribbling it into the switch?
5. 18 footer jumping BACK with the defender in his face

Pathetic.

I am speachless after this loss. And we got to OT just by luck, officiating certainly wasn't favoring the home team.

[jjktkk]

Exactly why I hate this year's team regardless of what Nephew did to them. There's just no heart or hunger that's been lacking especially since Manu and previously Tim retired.

You're right, but exactly what where you expecting when two hall of famers retired and Leonard quit on his own team? Did you expect the Spurs to just keep humming along?[/QUOTE]

It says a lot when the so-called heart of this team is an overpaid backup PG who hasn't shown any improvements to his game or diet in the last few years.

I think LA has heart, but from personal experience, I've seen players from championship teams that follow a legend like LA is, will always be compared to their predecessor(Duncan) and never live up to expectations. Like you, I hated the Patty signing, considering we already have Forbes. This team is flawed, but I still give them a shot to get out of the 1st round.

[jjktkk]

this is why the team needs a Jalen Brunson/Malcolm Brogdon/Kyle Lowry type.

a healthy Dejounte Murray would of been a lot of help against Kemba last night.

[tmtcsc]

Who's the "complete" player?

I'd give that distinction to White. Maybe I should have written "with the most complete player (compared to the others) not experienced enough to be THE leader." He's definitely the best perimeter defender and seems to be one of the better playmakers on the team. He's decent offensively but can be inconsistent.

DeMar is one of the best mid-range scorers in the league but he's a sub-par defender most of the time. He has his moments where he can be good. Rudy Gay is pretty awful and Bryn Forbes...well you know. Aldridge's Defense is sometimes great and many times soft.