Keeping it Real....False Expectations

[Capt Bringdown]

Oh Spirit of Gravity...golly gee, our expectations are out of line. Piffle!

[Keepin' it real]

First, nice thread le.

Second, the Spurs will go as far as Kawhi and LMA take them. And by that I mean making clutch plays late in playoff games.

They haven't performed great in the clutch lately ... LMA vs. OKC last season and Kawhi vs. LAC two years ago.

I've got a hunch they're due.

[NameLess Scrub]

Nice post. I didn't know what to expect, but I am a fan, not some ESPN "analyst". I want the team to win every game in unrealistic fashion, yes. Where they were "clutch" before, they now are not and have lost a number of really close game to poor teams (the Suns? Mavs? Pelicans when healthy are a good team though. They really got outplayed). I always blame defense because you can't control the "clutchness" factor of a shot going in or not (or Lamarcus missing freebies apparently). The few games they have lost recently were winnable. This last one they gave away at home again after being up 10 at half time.

By the way, SEth Curry has had career nights against the Spurs in consecutive fashion. The first time he torched the Spurs for 23 points, last night it was 24. That is not some nightly production for him. The guy can shoot and is skilled but he exposed the Spurs poor defense on guards, which is a worry bc again, you can't control a shot going in but if you can't defend even Seth Curry and are making him look like an allstar? It doesn't look good.

If I didn't think Spurs had a chance at all, then I would rather Pop play his young players and develop and maybe even make a trade looking at the future, and then I would lower expectations and be more tolerant of growing pains and losses. But Pop is sticking to his veterans, the young players only get time when there are injuries, and the reason to stick with his veterans is to win every game and make it deep in the playoffs, so the Spurs have set my expectations on something else.

They have a chance to get to the WCF, and need luck, and for everyone to hit their stride at the right time for a championship. I don't expect that, expect it is too strong a word... but they do have a good team, capable of beating other good teams any night "if their guys play well". Lately some guys are not playing well, Lamarcus is the more noticeable because he's the team's "second star".

I like this one to quote.

I think it's worth mentioning too that this stupid super teams put a lot of pressure on the Spurs by hardly dropping games, so we start nitpicking, specially because of all this crappy losses by bad teams and scrubby little chuckers .

Maybe in the pre-super team era we wouldn't care that much, as the Spurs would probably be more comfortable standing wise.

Haven't checked the numbers though.

[coachmac87]

I like this one to quote.

I think it's worth mentioning too that this stupid super teams put a lot of pressure on the Spurs by hardly dropping games, so we start nitpicking, specially because of all this crappy losses by bad teams and scrubby little chuckers .

Maybe in the pre-super team era we wouldn't care that much, as the Spurs would probably be more comfortable standing wise.

Haven't checked the numbers though.

Exactly..the cliff jumping starts because people are so focused on GSW and what they're doing. I mentioned it in the OP...people need to stop worrying about them. They were the overwhelming favorites in the July and they will be in the come postseason barring injury.

Losing games suck..regardless to who..it always makes you second guess things etc. Losing games like the Pelicans game worries me..but other than that pretty much every loss as been by a possession or two.

[coachmac87]

Bump

[coachmac87]

Let's not forget and overreact if things don't go wwlll hahahaha