TrueHoop TV: The Spurs are not a top 5 team in the NBA

[spurraider21]

Dude got more eyebrow than he got body

this is the SJW cuck who cries racism anytime lebron is criticized

[Cloud786]

As painful as watching that video was, I viewed it up until Hassan said he had the Pelicans in his top 5. I cringed so hard and closed the tab in a blink. I truly, truly do NOT understand why everybody is all over Anthony Davis. He has to be one of the most overrated players ever. He's injury prone, lacks aggressiveness, and doesn't have the requisite intangibles that you see in a champion. With Gentry at the helm, they'll make progress if he instills a motion offense with an emphasis on defensive tenacity (see Atlanta, Golden State), but top 5? You have to be kidding me. I'd take Cousins or an aggressive MGasol over this clown. Genetic lottery hype train, he's basically another gimmick like Harden but with a unibrow instead of a beard

[Maj_G]

He is the reason I stopped listening to the ESPN BB podcast, please don't click on the link. Dude just tries to get some attention.

and to address his points;

LMA is as good of a defender as Splitter was and he can stay on the floor A LOT longer, oh and you don't think Timmy and Pop will make him an even better on D just like they did with Tiago?

plus our depth is still there; KL, LMA, TD, TP, DG, Manu, Boris, West, Patty that's 9 players deep and that's w/o the very intriguing prospects we added over summer. Continuity too. Our main core of guys are back and the new guys are good fit.

[Spurtacular]

As painful as watching that video was, I viewed it up until Hassan said he had the Pelicans in his top 5. I cringed so hard and closed the tab in a blink. I truly, truly do NOT understand why everybody is all over Anthony Davis. He has to be one of the most overrated players ever. He's injury prone, lacks aggressiveness, and doesn't have the requisite intangibles that you see in a champion. With Gentry at the helm, they'll make progress if he instills a motion offense with an emphasis on defensive tenacity (see Atlanta, Golden State), but top 5? You have to be kidding me. I'd take Cousins or an aggressive MGasol over this clown. Genetic lottery hype train, he's basically another gimmick like Harden but with a unibrow instead of a beard

I had it running for the full vid; but I stopped listening upon hearing the dude's lame reasons for the Spurs not being top 5... But Pels as top five? Wow!

AD is a great talent. Maybe he's over-rated? I'll say this much; his game is based upon extreme athleticism. He's one knee injury away from being a poor man's (old) Duncan.

If we're talking about over-rated, I think Gentry fits the bill. This is not a very smart guy, I say with all due respect. And that's why he'll never win a ring no matter where he goes, imo.

[Mal]

Pelicans in top 5 with black coach, turkish wood and chuckers who cant shoot

[kobyz]

We had a better shot winning it all last year, that for sure...

[Spurtacular]

We had a better shot winning it all last year, that for sure...

Not saying you're wrong...but how do you figure?

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

Pelicans in top 5 with black coach, turkish wood and chuckers who cant shoot

Gentry is pretty white when it comes to coaching though

[Spurtacular]

The one thing I'll say in favor of the Pelicans is that they looked so much more athletic than the Spurs in that final regular season game.

[ceperez]

It's all going to boil down to great execution and avoidance of injuries.

So lots of these predictions are really meaningless.

Spurs are consistent because they focus on execution and that's despite the declining athleticism of their best players.

A lot of NBA teams with younger talent can win the championship. Look at the Warriors, the difference between a championship and being eliminated boiled down to the system Kerr put in place to basically reduce all the bonehead plays that destroy efficiency. Spurs could have lost to any of the Warriors teams in previous years, but fortunately they had Mark Jackson coaching.

The problem for the league though is that the Spurs have a really good player now in LaMarcus Aldridge. Just enough new talent to keep them competing at a very high level for at least 2 more season.

[Raven]

lol rockets

[kobyz]

Not saying you're wrong...but how do you figure?

We were the same team that just won a le in a fashion, we should have had great momentum and confidant, others top teams were too young, too inexperienced, too lack depth or too not ready, if Pop took it seriously enough, run and manage the team the right way we should have had no threats winning it all, Pop ruin golden oportonity!

[Uriel]

Depth, Continuity, Defense.. hmm..

Depth: 14-15: Ginobili, Diaw, Mills, Joseph, Baynes, Belinelli, Bonner, Ayres, Anderson, Williams.

Depth: 15-16: Ginobili, Diaw, West, Mills, Bonner, Anderson, Simmons, McCallum, Fredette, Marjanovic.

On Sum: No big change.

Continuity:

14-15 Playoff lineup: Parker, Green, Leonard, Duncan, Splitter, Ginobili, Diaw, Mills, Baynes, Belinelli

15-16 Playoff lineup (projected): Parker, Green, Leonard, Duncan, Aldridge, Ginobili, Diaw, Mills, West, Anderson.

No. of players retained: 7/10. Improvements: Aldridge over Splitter; West over Baynes; Belinelli <> Anderson. In other words, there is continuity and clear improvement.

Defense:

Yep, technically Splitter > Aldridge; but a hurt Splitter is clearly not as good as he would be and Aldridge makes up for that. West is a good defender too. The Spurs will have as good a defensive team as last year, but will be far better on offense.

In all aspects, the Spurs just got much better. Only a blind man will not notice that.

[SupremeGuy]

Well that does it, season over. See you next year guys.



those guys, you know they're scared less of the Spurs. I hope the media keeps pumping out articles like this, tbh. I want our team to play like pissed of devils next year; just ing blitzkrieging the whole league and ting our their impure bones. WAR SPURS!

[DenialTwist]

We had a better shot winning it all last year, that for sure...

Because Kyrie and Kevin Love were out. That was their chance. Even Tony Parker said that recently. Oh well. Race for Seis in 2016 it is

[Spurtacular]

We were the same team that just won a le in a fashion, we should have had great momentum and confidant, others top teams were too young, too inexperienced, too lack depth or too not ready, if Pop took it seriously enough, run and manage the team the right way we should have had no threats winning it all, Pop ruin golden oportonity!

I still think the series of bad luck injury wise and losing games in 3OT, etc. killed that team. They had still finally got it together and then Splitter had to go and get injured. And people forget that Splitter was rocking it before that. I think he was shooting like 73 percent over a 10 plus game stretch at one point while anchoring a very strong defense.

I agree that the league was ours if we go into that playoff series right. Maybe, Pop should've shut down Parker? Maybe, he should've rested players and stopped going for HCA? I think without the benefit of hindsight, the strategy was right though. This team would've went to a conference finals as a two seed and been prime to finish off the Warriors and then Cavs.

Going into next year's playoffs though, I'm sure we won't be going up against the other hottest team in the league in Round One. So, in that way, our chance to succeed may be greater.

[spursistan]

Just by looking at Ethan Strauss on Twitter for 2 minutes, I found where this frustration is coming from.. He's mad that no one believed the Warriors could've beaten the Spurs had they met.



He's bothered by the big ass *

he is an unsufferable homer (Warriors) who is both annoying in writing and on air..I don't know where he gets that smugness of his..a couple of years ago he was some run-of mill fan/blogger..Somebody slap him silly..

[Texas_Ranger]

damn I am scared of those Pelican now.

[TheGreatYacht]

he is an unsufferable homer (Warriors) who is both annoying in writing and on air..I don't know where he gets that smugness of his..a couple of years ago he was some run-of mill fan/blogger..Somebody slap him silly..

He used to be cool like Zach Lowe, but ever since he got that Warriors beat writer job he's turned to .

Their click bait worked, it got us talking lol.

[Obstructed_View]

If I'm to believe what everyone says that the Spurs have a really small fan base, I can only imagine the motivation for people trolling us so hard is the great reactions they can get from us. Maybe some of us should stop reacting.

[spurraider21]

i like the part where aldridge doesnt help the spurs

[dweaver99027]

Who had the Rockets as the #2 seed this time last year, after missing out on Bosh and losing Parsons? Who can guarantee that Davis' improvent along with Gentry won't catapult NO to elite territory? Who can guarantee health for the Spurs throughout 2016? Not me, on all 3 counts.

[Fireball]

Nothing is guaranteed and I think the Rockets look pretty darn good. Many things can happen, but in most parallel universes the Spurs will be a Top 5 team this season and the Pelicans will be not ...

[dweaver99027]

Indeed. But using the 'in most parallel universes' argument, normalises the probability distribution of all possible outcomes. We only care what will happen, not what should happen. In simpler terms - Would we bet on it right now? How much would we bet?

[FromWayDowntown]

The great thing about the NBA is that the seasons eliminate most/all subjectivity about the quality of teams.