Game Thread: Spurs @ Heat - Oct. 8, 2019 @ 6:30 PM CT - Preseason Game #2

[Genovaswitness]

WHITE STILL HAS ONE POINT LOL

STILL MADE AND SHOOK LOL

[TimDunkem]

This team made zero adjustments in the off-season. Lol. If they're timid about shooting 3s in the preseason, no way in they're shooting then when the games count

B...b...b..but Murray who can't shoot is back, and we have DeMarre Carroll now! Lonnie Walker! We got slightly better for sure. Good thing no one else in the league improved or we might just be a painfully mediocre team!...Wait.

[Chomag]

Perhaps we should just face the fact that the Spurs system and ways is to old and tired now and the NBA has passed it by. Things won't change as long as Pop is still at the helm as he is stuck in his ways.

[TimDunkem]

People cliff-jumping after Game 2 of the preseason with our best players still healthy.

Things literally look the same with this team.

[FkLA]

Yeah, sure. You are just an idiot riding Derrick who still has a lot room for improvement.

"Duh. I'd give Derrick the max in a heartbeat. Duh" LOLOLOLOLOL

And he continued to the bed in the 2nd half, too. LMAO

But, for real whatever is going on hopefully he can get out of this funk. The Spurs need him to be good if they want a chance at a playoff berth. I pray these two terrible games aren't indicative of his effort all season (they probably aren't).

And Spurs fans have warped concept of what " ty" team looks like. The Suns, Wizards and Knicks are " ty" teams. The Spurs are a middling team until or if one of their young players really breaks out.

Don't be a got by bringing up an obvious joke post about giving him the supermax. JMurray sucks too.

It's so obvious that it's a confidence thing right now. He was efficient and in control all of last season. His AST/TO ratio and midrange jumper was solid. He was much more aggressive with taking and making threes. He didn't magically lose all that ability overnight. He'll snap out of it, but again I don't understand why people that want him to succeed wouldn't want the Spurs to help him out with his confidence more. He's not reaching his full potential without helping him get rid of that "unconfident" label that Pop mentioned.

[cool cat]

I'll just say the Heat commentators are really solid.

[Dennis the Menace]

Perhaps we should just face the fact that the Spurs system and ways is to old and tired now and the NBA has passed it by. Things won't change as long as Pop is still at the helm as he is stuck in his ways.

Fans that understand the game at a high level have been saying this for the past several years. Pop should’ve retired with Timmy. Just like he said he would.

[TimDunkem]

Perhaps we should just face the fact that the Spurs system and ways is to old and tired now and the NBA has passed it by. Things won't change as long as Pop is still at the helm as he is stuck in his ways.

Is it really the system though and not the front office? They're the ones who decided to build around 2pt shooting chokers and abandoned everything (that was in their control) that made them contenders from 2011-2015.

[SpurPadre]

Things literally look the same with this team.

Except we finally have our best PG back healthy. There are obvious concerns but it's still way too early to consider this a lost season already.

[Russ]

Weatherspoon looks awful good . . .

[TimDunkem]

Except we finally have our best PG back healthy. There are obvious concerns but it's still way too early to consider this a lost season already.

You realize just about every other team improved too, right? An incremental improvement just leaves us where we were last year, and that's an 8th or possibly 7th seed at best.

[FkLA]

Except we finally have our best PG back healthy. There are obvious concerns but it's still way too early to consider this a lost season already.

He's over the plantar fascitis he had last year but he might be a little fatigued from FIBA, tbf.

[TimDunkem]

Damn. If White is already fatigued then it's going to be a loooong year. It's not like he didn't have a break after being bounced out of the playoffs in April...

[GAustex]

On the road
Second exhibition game
Keep on pounding the rock and then we will see

[SpurPadre]

You realize just about every other team improved too, right? An incremental improvement just leaves us where we were last year, and that's an 8th or possibly 7th seed at best.

The Dubs lost Durant and will be without Klay for a while. There are no clear cut favorites or dominant teams out there other than Paul George's Clippers and they have that made got's load managing shenanigans to deal with. The season is up for grabs, tbh.

[tim_duncan_fan]

It's 2019-2020 and exactly one guy will go off from 3 on a semi-regular basis.

We ed up.

[Dennis the Menace]

Not even Prime Timmy could carry this roster

[TimDunkem]

The Dubs lost Durant and will be without Klay for a while. There are no clear cut favorites or dominant teams out there other than Paul George's Clippers and they have that made got's load managing shenanigans to deal with. The season is up for grabs, tbh.

Yeah, it is, but not for us. Also, as soon as Klay is back that'll be another team better than the Spurs.

[GAustex]

It's 2019-2020 and exactly one guy will go off from 3 on a semi-regular basis.

We ed up.

Running Davis out might have been and option
Oh well...

[SpursDynasty85]

Damn. If White is already fatigued then it's going to be a loooong year. It's not like he didn't have a break after being bounced out of the playoffs in April...

No way White is fatigued. You can tell he must've done a lot of squats or something because his legs just look heavier even during the World Cup. Hopefully he can get his speed and rhythm back. He played like 12 MPG, ITS DEFINITELY NOT FATIGUE.

[SpurPadre]

Not even Prime Timmy could carry this roster

Prime Manu would, though, if given the chance to start. Prime Manu would murk today's league.

[daslicer]

The Dubs lost Durant and will be without Klay for a while. There are no clear cut favorites or dominant teams out there other than Paul George's Clippers and they have that made got's load managing shenanigans to deal with. The season is up for grabs, tbh.

Just calling my shot now but the Warriors are a bunch of liars about Klay's injury due to them needing to sell tickets for their new arena. He's not coming back this year. I have never seen a player comeback from an ACL tear in less than a year ever. Just look at Dejounte, Porzingis. Lavine. All these guys are below the age of 25 and it took them a year or longer to comeback from the injury. Klay is now close to 30 doubt he can have a ridiculous recovery time better than those guys.

[TimDunkem]

It's 2019-2020 and exactly one guy will go off from 3 on a semi-regular basis.

We ed up.

That's just poor roster construction, tbh.

I mean, fine, if you want to run your offense through chokers with outdated games then okay.

But to fail to surround them with even a couple of truly competent 3pt shooters - and I'm not talking about old, washed up, one-dimensional scrubs like Fatty or Belli - in this league is just ing inexcusable.

[BillMc]

Luka getting no burn. Pissing me off.

[Collins21]

Except we finally have our best PG back healthy. There are obvious concerns but it's still way too early to consider this a lost season already.

Pay him no mind as soon as the regular season starts and they look good he will disappear.