My supermodel wife has a pimple.
Chaulk up last nights loss to the Katrina factor. After the game, there was too much love going around, imo. Pop greeting Byron Scott. Parker and Chris Paul being chums. It seemed like the Spurs were happy to lose the game.
WTF?!?
Merry Christmas, NOK Hornets.
nice perspective from the pistons fan. i was disappointed with the loss but i realize a whole range of factors are involved here.
1. no manu-finley is doing an admirable job but manu brings that killer instinct that we're lacking right now
2. early in the season-everybody knows we have our lulls, as long as we're peaking late in the season, i'm ok
3. we're getting every teams best shot. let's face it, for teams like the hornets and hawks, this is THEIR championship game
4. tim-doesn't he also normally start slow and pick up speed as the season progresses?
5. team chemistry-mike and nick still getting used to the team
yes, the loss to the hawks and hornets was disappointing. but does that mean that lack of killer instinct in december is indicative of their desires for another championsip? doesn't make much sense to me. now if we're playing like this in april, i'll be more worried. but for now, my approach is win or lose, move on to the next game because April can't get here fast enough.
Spurs always start slow in the Duncan era. He's always been slow in the early half of the season but he always comes on stronger. Spurs are finding ways to win games when they're not playing well - that should scare the rest of the league.
Those of you that think only the Pistons and Spurs are the only teams in the running for the best record in the conference are sorely mistaken. That might be true in the East but is simply wrong in the West. Dallas is one loss behind the Spurs and right now is probably playing better basketball - in fact, Stein rated them number 2 today in his NBA rankings (for what that is worth).
Dallas? You're worried about Dallas?
Dallas could take the Division, take off the blinders, now if Spurs play to potential it will not happen!
However, Dallas could well be a 58-62 win team based on early play and remember they have not had their full squad play. Spurs have the potential to exceed that if they start playing like they have the full potential to play and benefit as they play Dallas their last two games at home - they should win it, but to say they will is simply not assured based on some of Spurs recent play.
If not, Dallas picks up the probable 1 seed and the Spurs are 4th. Spurs stilll have the ability too win it all, but it will not be an easy ride.
what a dumbass thread. Its december and the Spurs are a few games off the best record in the league. Get back to me in April and March and we will see what this team has. I cant belive the amount of freaking over last nights games...and now expectations for the season need to be lowered? please.
Who cares if they take the division? Are you expecting Memphis or the Clippers as a #5 seed to knock off the Spurs in the first round? Do you genuinely think Dallas can beat the Spurs in a playoff series?
If the Spurs are playing their best game going into the playoffs, it doesn't matter what the seeds are.
This could have been a special season, where the Spurs repeat as Champs, while exorcising their perennial demons of playing down to and losing to lottery teams, giving themselves and their fans a special, dominant season to remember, maybe 65 Ws. Bring it every game, like the Pistons are doing now, like Phx did last year, achieve some consistency for just one season. But no, same old Spurs, playing badly and giving away to games to lottery teams.
So they win again next June, BFD.
They're supposed to win next June.
"diminished expectations" is a good thread le.
We now return you to regularly diminished Spurs season.
Listen I have been a Spurs fan as long as anybody and am not freaking out simply about last nights play, I am just saying they are not playing as well as expected, despite an impressive record, and that for all of you that don't believe Dallas is a legit threat - have simply not been watching them play. Right now there is no reason to think they fear either the Spurs or the Pistons.
Would they beat the Spurs in a playoff series if they had home court? Unlikely but to dismiss it from the realm of plausibility is inane.
Dallas is no real threat. sorry
I think expectations are always too high when you are talking about a team like the spurs with so many players in their primes and the depth that they have at so many spots. The reality is their record is really good when you consider Manu has not been healthy at any point yet this year. You know everyone remembers the great Bulls team of 96 that won 72 games. However the regular season records of the other 5 le Bull teams was very often not the best in the Eastern Conference. The Bulls beat teams like the Knicks and the Pacers many times without the home court advantage. All to me that matters is that they get through this season and head to the playoffs healthy and ready to defend their le. In a 7 game series if we are healthy can anyone in the west beat us, i don't think so. Dallas is good but they are not ready for that championship level yet. As far as the finals goes yeah the Pistons scare me but we will worry about that when we get there, it's a long year just hang in there.
Actually, I always thought it was the Rodeo Road Trip that more or less solidified the team, since we've had several undefeated months of March in years past. We're not playing our best defense right now, and I still don't think we've jelled as a team. Let's get everybody healthy...if possible.
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