Have the Spurs peaked?

[TD 21]

No, they haven't. People need to stop looking for reasons for this team to fail and acknowledge them as what they are: the best team in the NBA. It's going to take a catastrophic injury for them to not have a good chance to win the championship.

Their capacity to improve internally is greater than that of any other contender, just because of the low minutes being played by their best players (also, Duncan, Ginobili and McDyess will not need to pace themselves in the playoffs) and the fact that they have two rotation quality players not currently in their rotation (both of whom would be a defensive upgrade on their potential replacements . . . not that I expect a change to the rotation at this point).

So not only have they not peaked, they're more likely to go up another level than they are to go down a level.

[NRHector]

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