21 Back to Backs & 3 games in a row twice !!!

[ElNono]

The other issue here are injuries. A mild injury that keeps you off for two weeks might mean missing 10+ games. To be frank, I want them to give it a shot for TD and Manu, but if either gets dinged up and has to be out for a prolonged time, this is the perfect season to pull the plug and tank.

[objective]

Man, this would the season to tank. If the worst happened and TD, Manu and Parker were missing lots of games, you could still feed huge minutes to Splitter, Blair, Leonard, Anderson and Joseph, lose a bunch of games, but build valuable experience for them. And be better for the future if the big 3 could hang on for another year.

[Fireball]

The last two years I watched 95% of the games live via League Pass Broadband - but I don't know if I can keep this up with that tough schedule. European Spurs fans like me will have a hard time getting up in the middle of the night that often.

[spurs1990]

should have done 50 games not 66

This season will be even more comical than 1999.

Just reinforces my idea that it's time to blow it up right now when there is a great draft to look forward to and not in 2 years when it will most likely be and Parker/Ginobili won't have trade value.

Best case scenario is a mid-season trade, getting a decent player/pick in return, and then fall to a record that will keep the Spurs in the 'running' for a top 5 pick. Hopefully both Ginobili/Parker as neither will carry any value in 2013.

I'm actually happy about this and see this as the proverbial glass being half full. With the games scheduled the way they are, it basically means Pop is going to be forced to play the bench/young guys more than he normally would.

I see Leonard, Anderson, Neal, Splitter(if he's still here), Joseph, Butler, Green, Blair (if he's still here), etc getting a ton of playing time they normally wouldn't have gotten in a regular 82 game season.

Exactly. May this be an extended training camp for the real season in 2013 and beyond.

[jiggy_55]

To be clear, it's NOT 21 back to backs and 2 back to back to back's!

You have to exclude the b2b2b's when you count the b2b's because you are already counting them as 3 games in 3 nights. Adding them up is incorrect.

The total is 17 b2b's and 2 b2b2b's.

[spurs10]

How many b2b's are in a typical season....this is over half the games???!!

[Fireball]

How many b2b's are in a typical season....this is over half the games???!!

I think last season the Spurs had 17 B2Bs overall, but other teams had more than 20. So its less games but around the same number of B2B games.

[spurs10]

I think last season the Spurs had 17 B2Bs overall, but other teams had more than 20. So its less games but around the same number of B2B games.

Thanks !!!

[Fireball]

I just looked at the Spurs schedule a little closer and although it really looks tough, one can be sure that the other teams don't have it easier.

• Spurs have 21 B2B games (I count the third of B2B2B also as a B2B), but only 6 are at home and 15 on the road (thats the only huge discrepancy I make out of this schedule)
• Spurs will play 23 teams, which themselves are on the second night of a B2B, with 11 home and 12 road games for the Spurs (interestingly all three games against OKC fit into that category)
• 9 of the Spurs B2B games will be against teams which are on the second night of a B2B as well (4 home games, 5 road games)
• Spurs have two stretches of B2B2B games, but will also meet two teams which are on the third night of their three game stretch (namely the Thunder and the Magic)
• First B2B2B stretch will be against the Mavericks, Hornets and 76ers - Pop will be pleased to see that his team will play the first game at home, the next one on the road only to return to the AT&T Center for the third game
• Second B2B2B will be against Warriors, Lakers and Kings (all on the road) - so be prepared that Pop will not play Timmy and Manu against the Lakers
• Only six games of the Spurs will be against teams which had more than 1 day rest themselves before that game (Spurs will play a Miami team which had three days off)
• Some odd things were already mentioned, such as all games vs. the Lakers are in April and of course non of these games will be a B2B for the Lakers
• Its gonna be Rockets overkill in the first 2,5 months, as we not only play them twice in preseason, but there will be 4 regular season games with the last one on February 1st
• Other teams the Spurs have to face 4 times apart from their division rivals are the Jazz and the Suns
• Of the Eastern conference teams the Spurs play only the 76ers and the Cavaliers twice, and sadly the games against the Celtics and the Heat are in the road.
• The game against the Pacers feat. Geroge Hill will be a home game for the Spurs - so a nice homecoming for George is a given
• Rodeo Road Trip will be nine games in 17 days, with 5 Western conference and 4 Eastern conference opponents
• The longest stretch of home games will directly follow the RRT with 7 games in 15 days - visiting are e.g. the Bulls and the Knicks

[Spurs Brazil]

I just looked at the Spurs schedule a little closer and although it really looks tough, one can be sure that the other teams don't have it easier.

• Spurs have 21 B2B games (I count the third of B2B2B also as a B2B), but only 6 are at home and 15 on the road (thats the only huge discrepancy I make out of this schedule)
• Spurs will play 23 teams, which themselves are on the second night of a B2B, with 11 home and 12 road games for the Spurs (interestingly all three games against OKC fit into that category)
• 9 of the Spurs B2B games will be against teams which are on the second night of a B2B as well (4 home games, 5 road games)
• Spurs have two stretches of B2B2B games, but will also meet two teams which are on the third night of their three game stretch (namely the Thunder and the Magic)
• First B2B2B stretch will be against the Mavericks, Hornets and 76ers - Pop will be pleased to see that his team will play the first game at home, the next one on the road only to return to the AT&T Center for the third game
• Second B2B2B will be against Warriors, Lakers and Kings (all on the road) - so be prepared that Pop will not play Timmy and Manu against the Lakers
• Only six games of the Spurs will be against teams which had more than 1 day rest themselves before that game (Spurs will play a Miami team which had three days off)
• Some odd things were already mentioned, such as all games vs. the Lakers are in April and of course non of these games will be a B2B for the Lakers
• Its gonna be Rockets overkill in the first 2,5 months, as we not only play them twice in preseason, but there will be 4 regular season games with the last one on February 1st
• Other teams the Spurs have to face 4 times apart from their division rivals are the Jazz and the Suns
• Of the Eastern conference teams the Spurs play only the 76ers and the Cavaliers twice, and sadly the games against the Celtics and the Heat are in the road.
• The game against the Pacers feat. Geroge Hill will be a home game for the Spurs - so a nice homecoming for George is a given
• Rodeo Road Trip will be nine games in 17 days, with 5 Western conference and 4 Eastern conference opponents
• The longest stretch of home games will directly follow the RRT with 7 games in 15 days - visiting are e.g. the Bulls and the Knicks

Thanks for the work Fireball.
This is going to be tough, especially for TD and Manu

[Fireball]

Thanks for the work Fireball.
This is going to be tough, especially for TD and Manu

You're welcome ... I have much time to spare while I am recovering from knee surgery (torn ACL).

You're right about Manu and TD. It hurts the Spurs a little more that their core players are older than the cores of other good teams.

Still I see the Spurs squeeze out a 41-25 record ... of course the free agency and trade period results may change that estimation.

[silverblk mystix]

another reason I would have rather they cancelled the entire season instead of giving the fans a ed product....

a lot of garbage games where teams are just out of gas, injuries, etc....

the only positive way to look at this - is of course- that every team will have the same advantage and/or the same disadvantage....

[Seventyniner]

This is actually a relatively easy schedule, all things considered. The Spurs get "extra" games against the Jazz, Suns, Sixers, and Cavs, none of which are very good. Also, having only 6 games with a rest deficit will take some of the sting out of this crazily compressed schedule.

[DMC]

Funny, if George was traded from the Lakers instead of the Spurs, he would be booed off the floor in LA, not given a "homecoming".

Not surprising though, since they boo their own team on Christmas Day.