2007-08 outlook: Whose moves have made them worse?

[FromWayDowntown]

People seem to be willing to overlook the fact that we still have weaknesses as far as playing the Mavs go, and unless we can get the league to fix it so that they have to play GS every year with Nellie as coach, that's still something the Spurs will have to deal with (and are still not fully prepared to do so, IMO).

I would agree that the Spurs have some problems there, but I also don't think the problems are necessarily as great as some would suggest. I'm not just trying to be optimistic here. Given the quality of those teams, it's not surprising that almost every game they've played against each other for the last 2 years or so has been nerve-wrackingly close. The Spurs haven't gotten it done in far too many of those games, which is troubling, but I don't think that it suggests that there's some major gulf, either. In both home losses in 2006-07, the Spurs had the ball in the 4th with a chance to win. In the one road loss, they were right in the game despite being without Duncan for a large amount of time.

My point is that I don't see this trade as having affected either: (1) the quality of the Spurs basketball team in the immediate term; or (2) the real threats to beat the Spurs in the playoffs. As such, I don't see that the Spurs have somehow backslid at all this summer.

[Clutch20]

This is out of left field, but a factor that really impacts on next season is.............. which team that we defeated in the 07' postseason run is the most motived to get their sh*t together? (Phoenix)
We defend the le, we get the champs nod as being the best.
Where will our motivation come from? (Repeat B-B le)

Trades made, standing pat, nonfactors.

[ShoogarBear]

All I can say is, Thank God for Robert Sarver and Mike D'Antoni!

[Marcus Bryant]

All I can say is, Thank God for Robert Sarver and Mike D'Antoni!

It's looking like a two horse race at this point.

[Obstructed_View]

Only two types of Spurs fans can like the offseason so far: blind homers and Scola haters.

When they use the money they saved to pay someone they can actually use, when they make another trade to set them up for a move nobody predicted, or when the Rockets implode despite the talent that the Spurs gave them, where will all the gloom and doom crowd be? I'll be ready to complain about the offseason when it's over, but the knee jerk reactions in the middle of July every single year are just amazing.

I'm still wondering if Dennis Lindsey is going to suddenly bolt back to the Rockets laughing about what he just did to us. I'd certainly have been happier seeing Butler take Elson's spot in the rotation and maybe trying to bring Scola in while moving Beno and Elson for whatever the team could get. However, I'm not the one down there not buying playoff tickets or complaining that I'm not getting a free T-shirt. If it's purely a money-saving move, I'm not sure I blame ownership for making it. Health is a larger factor in whether the Spurs repeat than age is, IMO.