05-06 spurs will win 65+ games

[Extra Stout]

PHX, Minny might redeem themselves, seattle, dallas, houston,sac, denver is rapidly improving...
it's the in west.

You're just going on reputation.

The West is not what it used to be.

[Sense]

You're just going on reputation.

The West is not what it used to be.

So you think it's easy winning the west.....?

[Dex]

The Spurs' biggest contende, besides the Suns, will be apathy. Will they have the same desire to do it again next season - alla '99/'03.

The Spurs weren't done in by apathy in '04. They were done in by 3 crappy games vs. the Lakers, plus the curse that will forever be known as .4

The desire was there.

And I think Tim Duncan missing the playoffs had something to do with the ending of '00

[1Parker1]

There's a big difference in the degree to which players and teams desire a championship, and the things they do to achieve one.

If you asked people on the street if they desire a million dollars, I'm guessing 10 out of 10 would say yes. But a few people make plans and set goals to try to make a million dollars, while most people don't.

I highly doubt Spurs are going to divert from their goals and settle for anything less than a championship. After 3 rings, I'd like to believe they have plenty of "Desire."

[ChumpDumper]

If we had somehow gotten Mike and Jerome James this summer?

82-0

Guaranteed.

[strangeweather]

I highly doubt Spurs are going to divert from their goals and settle for anything less than a championship. After 3 rings, I'd like to believe they have plenty of "Desire."

The hard part of the desire after winning a ring is motivating to play hard in Atlanta on the second night of a back to back in January. In the past, a lot of le teams have slacked off in instances like that and lost games they should have won, ending up without home court for key series. Witness the first half of the Pistons' season last year.

Will that happen to the Spurs this year? Hopefully not, but we'll have to see.

[boutons]

Before the Rumble in the Palace, Champion Pistons were lackadaisical in November 04. Larry was whining publicly about "I never thought I'd not have to coach effort, not with these guys". But they ended up in the Finals.

The Spurs have had the coach/system/talent to win for the last 2 years. The Spurs' biggest enemy has been and will be themselves. In 04, they beat themselves. In 05, they won. It looks like the talent is getting better for 05/06.

All I ever heard about back-to-back championships, that to stay on top, to be the team with the bulls' eye on your back, is extremely difficult.

Will Pop start the season with the season goal of repeating? or will he expressly refuse to set that goal (which is a goal for himself, as well), and play it game by game?

[hussker]

62-20....