GT Spurs @ Thunder: Saturday 7:30 PM CST, 3/10/2018

[daslicer]

Damn just checked the standings Spurs almost out of the playoffs, still in the race for now at this moment the 7th seed. 3-8 anything can happen before the end of the season most of the teams have evenly matched records, yes Spurs may not make the playoffs because all the teams have the same damn record almost.

What I find interesting is that even though the Spurs lose its not like any of the other teams are gaining traction outside of Portland. They are all losing at ridiculous rates too.

[r0drig0lac]

Defensively Kyle and Dijon did a good job on them... Pau was decent on rim protection until Collison humiliated him.

I will ask you this ironically but there is some truth. Does it surprise you at all that the Spurs looked better against GSW and almost win that game if not for a massive choke, when Pau didn't play the entire game vs the way they looked against OKC with Pau?. That can't be a coincidence.

ST studs will say that Gasoft is playing an excellent defense this year even though some of us had already indicated on the day of his signing that he is no longer a basketball player (at least not at a compe ive level)

[SAGirl]

[TD 21]

What I find interesting is that even though the Spurs lose its not like any of the other teams are gaining traction outside of Portland. They are all losing at ridiculous rates too.

No, they're not. The Trail Blazers, Pelicans, Clippers and Jazz, have all been playing out of their mind for a long time, while the Thunder have tread water and even though the Nuggets and Timberwolves (since Butler's injury) have slipped recently, they've played relatively well since the Spurs slide started at the beginning of the new year.

[tholdren]

Murray is actually decent, despite his rep as having poor handles, and is decent passer. Mills can bring the ball up the floor competently, low bar I know, and I never said he was a good passer.

Anderson is a good secondary passer ( I define that as someone who doesn't run point but is able to create off drives and finding the open man) and has solid handles.

Leonard definitely would help in terms of ball handling, then again he almost never passes to LMA so that's an issue.

I think the fact that the Spurs are such a poor 3pt shooting team is a bigger issue than Aldridge's struggles against doubles. Players like Bertans and Manu have shot poorly and the Spurs have three guards that flat out don't take 3's (only a combined 86 attempts 3600 minutes) Gay is a low volume 3pt shooter and has regressed compared to his Kings days, Forbes isn't a rotation player and Green is coming off the bench leaving Mills to chunk up 3's with varying degrees of success.

Youre wrong. Murray cant pass and doesnt have any court vision. You must not watch. Dude has trouble passing to wing. Its laughable how ty his pg ability is. Its like richard jefferson.

[SAGirl]

I actually thought about that while watching this game and I also made a similar connection concerning Pau but let's be real, GSW are just going through a "bored" phase and probably playing down to the compe ion... and let's not forget that Pop really limits Pau's minutes against the Warriors. I really didn't take much from that Warriors game even though I did actually think about how bad this Spurs team looked tonight after Pau coming back from injury. He doesn't help matters, that's for sure.

ST studs will say that Gasoft is playing an excellent defense this year even though some of us had already indicated on the day of his signing that he is no longer a basketball player (at least not at a compe ive level)

He does block a shot of he's right under the basket... Defensively isn't even the worst of it.

[tholdren]

He does block a shot of he's right under the basket... Defensively isn't even the worst of it.

So, eyeballs have said gasol sucks. It took ty stats a whole year to catch up. U dumb

[NASpurs]

He does block a shot of he's right under the basket... Defensively isn't even the worst of it.

Basically it's a $48 million contract for the high-low play with LMA that works maybe a few times a game.

[picnroll]

High low but also good discussions about wines and operas.

[TimDunkem]

High low but also good discussions about wines and operas.

:"Culture is an important thing...So is having someone to tell you where all the best vineyards in Spain to visit in the off-season are. Not everything is about basketball."