The Ship is Sinking...

[ElNono]

EVERYTHING IS FINE...

[james evans]

Tank and get a lottery pick.

haha. it's funny I said that this past summer and everyone said we can't afford to tank. I know I keep bringing it up lol. But I said we should have traded Kawhi for a 2019 first round pick to a garbage squad that would be back in the lottery, Trade aldridge to another garbage ass team for a 2019 first round pick and then tank. One bad year would have landed us 3 lottery picks in next year's draft which has a few big prizes. But noooo, that wasn't a smart thing to do..

[MVPCues]

My reaction...

8.465/10

[SpursDynasty85]

What in the world is going on? Minnesota isn't very good without Butler. Spurs can't be this bad, can they? I know it's 1 road loss but wow. If things don't improve this might be time to unload LA's contract if he is going to play THIS bad.

The problem with Minnesota has never been talent. They have been on fire since the trade and honestly on paper they look really good. Kind of like the Toronto Raptors of the West. Long, athletic, deep, good defense.

[Play Boban]

That's the lack of talented basketball players around him. On the Warriors he'd average a full 30 and 10.

Fake news.

[UZER]

Demar’s numbers are slowly going down too

The Pop effect.

[sasaint]

Sorry, but who ever walks through that door next is unluckily to have even 1/3 the success of Pop and R.C. The Pistons, Bulls, Jazz, Rockets, etc. have been magically able to reproduce what Larry Brown, Phil Jackson, Jerry Sloan, Rudy Tomjanovich (sp.) were able to do just cause they were set out to pasture. I agree they've made some puzzling decisions (giving Patty $12.5 million a year), but they've also likely found the starting backcourt for the next 8 - 10 years in Walker and Murray (and possibly a solid 3rd/combo guard in White).

They could also have a lottery pick, a 27 - 30 pick and other assets (if LaMarcus or DeMar are moved), but as always around here people overreact and behave like Pop and R.C. will cause irrevocable damage.

I trust two of the best NBA minds ever even if things look "bleak," right now.

Do you expect PATFO to be around for 8-10 years? No. 2? Likely. Do you expect them to have a legit contender re-built in that time? Especially if they continue to run things as they have the last few years - a resounding "no."

Perhaps PATFO was the best a few years ago. But they are going the way of Tom Landry in his last few years as Cowboys HC. The Spurs need their own Jerry Jones. Oh, and Jimmy Johnson wasn't a bad successor to Landry. I know it isn't basketball, but not all successors to legendary HCs are failures.

[tim_duncan_fan]

haha. it's funny I said that this past summer and everyone said we can't afford to tank. I know I keep bringing it up lol. But I said we should have traded Kawhi for a 2019 first round pick to a garbage squad that would be back in the lottery, Trade aldridge to another garbage ass team for a 2019 first round pick and then tank. One bad year would have landed us 3 lottery picks in next year's draft which has a few big prizes. But noooo, that wasn't a smart thing to do..

Kawhi had to go to a team that could/would risk not having him the following year.

No one was giving up a lotto pick to rent a guy for a year. We did fine in that trade. We just need a real big to pair up with DD and a perimenter defender with a 3pt shot.

[J_Paco]

Do you expect PATFO to be around for 8-10 years? No. 2? Likely. Do you expect them to have a legit contender re-built in that time? Especially if they continue to run things as they have the last few years - a resounding "no."

Perhaps PATFO was the best a few years ago. But they are going the way of Tom Landry in his last few years as Cowboys HC. The Spurs need their own Jerry Jones. Oh, and Jimmy Johnson wasn't a bad successor to Landry. I know it isn't basketball, but not all successors to legendary HCs are failures.

Name the last time it happened in the NBA and Jerry has proceeded to make dumb move after dumb move since being gifted Aikman, Irvin, Smith and the rest of that HOF talent.

I also realize that Pop and R.C. will be around for the short term, but they team will be out of their "terrible" contracts shortly, have some promising young guards and possible lottery picks.

These are the pains that the rest of the NBA fandom feels, both on - court and in the front office, but I'd rather they attempt to groom the next crop of guys (Murray, Walker, White, Metu, Poetl, lottery pick, etc.) plus name their successors.

Seeing how they have a keen eye for front office, coaching and on-court talent.

[therealtruth]

We need to ing tank and get it over with. Shouldve done it when we lost Kawhi.

I think the idea was the Murray would be the savior after losing Kawhi. They should have tanked after he got hurt.

[alpha_HaZE]

Well, Poodle was 10th pick not that long ago so 11th pick isn't necessarily a lock for greatness, tbh.

That's true, but judging what we did with DJ at 29 and Kawhi at 15, am hopeful.

[ECOV]

Tanking doesn't always make you better, you play hard to the end

[TDomination]

If i was Pop I would go ahead and tank by having the team shoot 60+ three's a game. Almost every play. 3 pointer.
It will be like, "i thought this was what the league wanted right?" Obviously we are not going to make that many 3's so we would lose a lot of games.

So one, we would be conforming to what the league is all about. But we would suck at it allowing us to tank for Zion! lol

But then watch us continue our great 3pt percentage and we find a formula that works by accident lol.

[ECOV]

If i was Pop I would go ahead and tank by having the team shoot 60+ three's a game. Almost every play. 3 pointer.
It will be like, "i thought this was what the league wanted right?" Obviously we are not going to make that many 3's so we would lose a lot of games.

So one, we would be conforming to what the league is all about. But we would suck at it allowing us to tank for Zion! lol

But then watch us continue our great 3pt percentage and we find a formula that works by accident lol.

Kinda like that idea make mostly every play a 3