The Next 10 Games

[Solid D]

Is there a Tom Emansky instructional video on FT shooting?

It's time to go old school, Napolean Dynamite-style, and break out the old 70's "how-to" tapes.

[Duncanoypi]

10-0...Duncan will be WC player of the month...

[boutons]

"A few trends I see are:"

1. Getting FB and transition points has been a big improvement for the Spurs this year, as well as "motion offense" (which the Spurs adopted when Tim was hurt last season). But we insist on going stupidly, repeatedly to 4-down frozen offense, with 4 guys stand still watching Tim it up, and absolutely give games away.

2. The NBA range of team FT% is 81% to 66%, with critical crunch-foul players like Shaq and Tim leading their teams' FT%'s to the bottom of the league. Haq-a-Shaq and Punk-a-Dunc work. Teams have and will do that in close games. FTs are huge stains on HoF careers of Tim and Shaq. Missing FTs will keep the Spurs from winning over 60 games, or maybe ever being able to reach even 60. ie, with the Spurs hitting the league average 75% FTs, they could win 65+. Shooting 71%, they struggle to win 60 max. Pop admitted as much last year, losing 5-7 games/year on FTs alone. Last night was a classic example of how the Spurs Do It With FTs.

3. super duh. The range of team FG% is 25-7 Miami @48% to 2-26 Nouvelle Orleans @40%. 99% of the time, the team with the higher FG% wins, that's why the Spurs holding opp FG% to league-best 41% is so fundamental to the Spurs success. But SAC hit 44%, which is mediocre vs many other teams that hit over 50% this season on hot nights. More decisively, Spurs hit New-Orleans-like 39% (mainly due to Tony not driving. Manu drove well (ie, driving on SAC was do-able, Tony just didn't do it), and got a team-leading 18 pts), while the Spurs continued to be one of the worst teams on allowed 3G%, letting SAC hit 3G @47% (SAC only avgs 35% on 3's).

The only team that can beat these Spurs is the Spurs themselves.

[waly.mg]

9-1
Suns 5-5
Sonics 7-3

[Solid D]

Just a reminder, ya'll -
This thread was started 8 games ago due to the stretch of games versus teams with winning records and certain tough stretches, i.e. 3 games in 4 days.

There were prognostications given and some people have guessed pretty well, at least those who were somewhat taking it seriously (exception Sequ, )

[Solid D]

Limited props to boutons, for calling his shot on the SAC game...although he missed it on the Phoenix slaughter.

Sat 12/18 Golden State W

Wed 12/22 @ Orlando W
Thu 12/23 Minnesota W

Sun 12/26 Boston W

Tue 12/28 Phoenix L (simply too tough)

Thu 12/30 @ Portland W
Fri 12/31 @ L.A. Clippers W

Sun 1/2 @ Sacramento L (SAC shoots hot, SA tired, shoots cold in 3rd game of road trip)

Tue 1/4 L.A. Lakers W

Thu 1/6 Indiana W

8 - 2, but with crappy performances like last night, and the Spurs' habit this season of completely non-playing offense and defense for one fatal quarter, 7 - 3 is more likely.

[T Park]

8-2 during a tough 10 game stretch like that is fine with me.

although, it wouldve been nice to correctly predict a team's record over a stretch of games for about the 3rd year in a row.

Im 2-0 on the guessing for the Rodeo Roadtrip, heres to this year going 3-0.

[waly.mg]

SAN ANTONIO

Tue 4 L.A. Lakers WON
Thu 6 Indiana WON
Sat 8 Denver WON
Mon 10 @ Utah WON
Wed 12 Milwaukee WON
Fri 14 Dallas WON
Sat 15 @ Houston LOST
Mon 17 Washington WON
Wed 19 L.A. Clippers WON
Fri 21 @ Phoenix WON
9 W - 1 L: 34 - 8

Sun 23 @ Sacramento LOST
Mon 24 @ Portland WON
Thu 27 Sacramento WON
Sat 29 New Orleans WON
Mon 31 @ Seattle LOST
Thu 3 @ L.A. Lakers LOST
Tue 8 @ Charlotte WON
Wed 9 @ Washington WON
Fri 11 @ New Jersey WON
Sun 13 @ Miami LOST

6 W - 4 L: 40 Y 12
Wed 16 @ New Orleans WON

ALL STAR: 41 Y 12

Phoenix : 26 - 4

Tue 4 @ Minnesota LOST
Wed 5 @ Houston LOST
Sat 8 @ L.A. Clippers WON
Sun 9 Indiana WON
Tue 11 Miami LOST
Wed 12 @ Utah WON
Fri 14 @ Indiana LOST
Sat 15 @ Washington WON
Mon 17 @ Detroit LOST
Wed 19 Memphis WON
5 W - 5 L: 31 - 9

Fri 21 San Antonio LOST
Sun 23 New Jersey WON
Tue 25 @ New York LOST
Wed 26 @ Milwaukee WON
Fri 28 @ Boston WON
Sun 30 @ Toronto WON
Tue 1 @ Memphis LOST
Wed 2 @ Minnesota LOST
Sat 5 New York WON
Tue 8 @ Sacramento LOST
5 W Y 5 L: 36 - 14

Fri 11 Seattle WON
Sun 13 @ Golden State WON
Mon 14 Utah WON
Thu 17 Dallas WON
4 W: 40 - 14

ALL STAR RECORD: 40 W - 14 L

SEATTLE: 22 - 6

Mon 3 @ Miami LOST
Wed 5 @ Orlando LOST
Thu 6 @ Washington WON
Sun 9 Miami WON
Tue 11 L.A. Clippers WON
Wed 12 @ L.A. Clippers WON
Fri 14 Golden State WON
Sun 16 Cleveland WON
Tue 18 Denver WON
Fri 21 Minnesota LOST
7 W Y 3 L: 29 / 9

Sun 23 Utah WON
Tue 25 @ L.A. Lakers LOST
Wed 26 @ Utah WON
Fri 28 @ Golden State WON
Mon 31 San Antonio WON
Tue 1 @ Sacramento LOST
Sat 5 Charlotte WON
Tue 8 New Orleans WON
Thu 10 Sacramento WON
Fri 11 @ Phoenix LOST
7 W Y 3 L: 36 - 12

Sun 13 Dallas WON
Wed 16 Golden State WON
38 W - 12 L

STANDINGS AT ALL STAR BREACK:

SAN ANTONIO 41 - 12
SEATTLE 38 - 12
PHOENIX 40 - 14

[Jimcs50]

I win!