Comparing losses of the top 5 records in the league

[BacktoBasics]

As manu said the team is not ready yet for those teams, I hope they improve to have the answer when it matters if not... it will be like every season since 2007, a failure.

Talk about looking at things from one extreme perspective. Some of those teams weren't NBA finals material. Just because there's a perception that this team can compete for a le every year doesn't change the reality that some of those teams simply lived up to their expectation. You have Utah Jazz syndrome, where every year you have a good team capable of making it to the playoffs but realistically only had one or two teams throughout those years that were actually capable of winning it all. So you label it all a failure because can't reconcile reality.

[polandprzem]

I do realize that, and I do agree that it's something worth discussing. Obviously if the Spurs don't learn how to beat the good teams, it's not going to make for a very long playoff run.

I just don't think it is quite the death knell that others do. Those games are harder for a reason, and the Spurs have plenty of fixable reasons why they have not performed up to their standards. If they haven't got it sorted out by April, then I'll start to get worried. Right now, I'm still enjoying the season and watching our currently first-place Spurs get ready for the playoffs.

If the spurs can't win with anybody worthy by April I'd say they are screwed


Let's just win vs OKC Miami and Houston this month and I'll can forgive them all the previous loses and also will be waiting until April if they fixed their game

[weeks]

the players are compe ive, you think they enjoy losing to their peer group? if you think of yourself as an elite team with championship aspirations, and you've proven it, i imagine you hate losing to playoff compe ion more than random regular season upsets to lottery teams.

we should all want to beat these teams, and it's disappointing that we haven't. almost February without a signature win? I have to believe this team can and will do better.

[Chomag]

I do realize that, and I do agree that it's something worth discussing. Obviously if the Spurs don't learn how to beat the good teams, it's not going to make for a very long playoff run.

I just don't think it is quite the death knell that others do. Those games are harder for a reason, and the Spurs have plenty of fixable reasons why they have not performed up to their standards. If they haven't got it sorted out by April, then I'll start to get worried. Right now, I'm still enjoying the season and watching our currently first-place Spurs get ready for the playoffs.

Most that I have seen unless they are trolling or immature have not said spurs are dead this year, but they have been calling out that there is something wrong that NEEDS to get fixed. Yes we do have some extremes of "SPURS are doomed" , but we also have the such that says "its only January, meaningless" "Coasting" which to me is pretty much the same thing just on the opposite side of the coin. The players and staff have all said themselves that it isn't coasting and that there are concerning issues that they need to fix, how people still keep saying that there is nothing wrong is pretty maddening.

[therealtruth]

I have no problem with how the win/losses happen during the regular season. The regular season should be used to build up for the post season. You should be figuring out the strategies that work against the good teams and ways to cover your weaknesses. It's too late to wait till game 1 to try to figure that out. The majority of games in the regular season are going to be against scrub teams so when you play the good teams it's a good learning experience.