Spurs 2024-25 Win O/U

[spursistan]

Going 12-18 vs the East including 0-6 against mediocrities like Miami/Chicago/Hornets is where we likely missed out on the play-in. Plenty of room for improvement there record-wise.

Next season it is playoffs or bust. Spurs should very clearly be better than Kings/Dallas/Phoenix and in the same tier/jumble of Memphis, Minny, GSW, LAC and may be the Pelicans.

[baseline bum]

The next step wasn't taken.

It was right there around that corner he turned too

[scott]

Can't remember if there was a pre-season predictions thread and I'm too lazy too look for now... if anyone feels like finding a bumping it. Would be fun to go back and read some bangers.

[heyheymymy]

Good call.



Whoops...but no one could have foreseen the Mavericks gifting them freaking Luka.

I should never bet against LAL getting what they need. Even without Luka they were going to be taken care of with LBJ there. They looked in shambles at the time, 50 wins is an impressive finish.

[ambchang]

Good call.



Whoops...but no one could have foreseen the Mavericks gifting them freaking Luka.

Not only that, but the lakers had an abnormally good record based on their net rating. For some reason these things just somehow happens for the lakers much more than any other team, and never for small market teams, which I just find to be curious to say the least. The lakers are the 3rd seed in the west with a 50-32 record despite being only +1.2, which is significantly worse than any other team in the top 8. You’d have to go to #9 seed kings to find a wc team with a worse point differential than the lakers. In fact, their net rating puts them at an expected win of 44 games this season. They had a +6 which is quite significant as teams are generally within 1 or 2 games. A 44-38 season would again put them as a #8 seed. It’s just exceedingly odd.

At the same time, the lakers are at 23.3 FTA a game, sitting at #3 in the league, when they are a middle of the road #18/18/19 in 3PA, FG from 0-3 feet and 3-10 feet. They are also #25 in opponent FTA. This 2.8 FTA difference is far and away the biggest difference in the league. All other 29 teams follow a relatively predictable case of more 3p attempts, less shots from 0-3 and 3-10 feet, then you have less FTA, whereas the lakers just some now found a way to buck that trend. Just amazing basketball.