This team is going to get exposed badly come playoff time

[BatManu20]

Both teams played hard.

[ElNono]

An article on why the Spurs may not be le contenders, not a perfect article by slender interesting points:

http://www.foxsports.com/nba/gallery...ldridge-031617

To be fair, the Spurs have been called old as dirt since at least 2007 (with Finley, Horry, Bowen, etc)... the rest of the points are generally valid...

Then again, I don't see a more try-hard team than the Dubs in the regular season, tbh, and they're not doing a whole lot better than the Spurs (and sure, KD's injury is part of that, but that's pretty recent regardless).

[superbigtime]

Danny Green sucks.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

To be fair, the Spurs have been called old as dirt since at least 2007 (with Finley, Horry, Bowen, etc)... the rest of the points are generally valid...

Then again, I don't see a more try-hard team than the Dubs in the regular season, tbh, and they're not doing a whole lot better than the Spurs (and sure, KD's injury is part of that, but that's pretty recent regardless).

Do you not feel the Dubs have at least let the foot off the gas this season as oppose to last, though? Although the Durant injury may no onger afford them that luxury. I think Kerr should have rested them against Minny and then played them against SA since SA was Kawhi and LMA.

[TD 21]

If only you watched every Thunder, Grizzlies, Rockets, Cavs, or Warriors games..and evaluate all of their games instead of reading box scores or watching selective games

Your tune would be different..tbh.

Spurs the only team that has significant flaws? Ok. They're still more consistent than 99% of the league..and have been for 20 years lol.

Spoiled fan base tbh. You don't even know what mediocre really is..

I watch a lot of games, so my "tune" comes from a place of knowledge.

I didn't say "Spurs the only team that has significant flaws"; you did. I said, as I've been saying for 3 years now, theirs are too damaging to be able to win a championship.

Only someone with a loser mentality would consider assessing one's team without bias and not being satisfied with good enough, as "spoiled".

This is taking it a bit too far IMO No way in this team ever loses to either of those teams...think we'd sweep Memphis and beat OKC in 5, 6 games tops.

Would not be surprised if we lost to GS/Cleveland/Houston/LAC, though. Think we'd be favored against the latter two, but still wouldn't shock me at all if they managed to lose.

Put it this way: Presuming there's no key injuries, I wouldn't predict it and I'd be surprised, but I wouldn't be shocked.

They would be considered favorites versus the Rockets and Clippers, but they shouldn't be. Those should be viewed as pick 'ems and again, I'd be surprised, but not shocked, if they beat either.

Spurs are pathetic with their personnel decisions.

Spurs get Joel Anthony and the Blazers get Nurkic for a bag of chips. Nurkic would have been a great get for the Spurs. He seems to be playing well for the Blazers.

The Trail Blazers gave up a youngish low end starting - to high end backup center, who's restricted. Dedmon would be the Spurs' equivalent of Plumlee, only he's not restricted and they wouldn't have his Bird rights.

If you want to question the Spurs for their recent personnel decisions, blame the bizarre amount of faith they showed in a relatively random D-Leaguer and an unimpressive late 1st. Sure, they were limited in what they could do financially, but they could have done better or at least created more compe ion for 4th wing minutes.

[spurs10]

Not being cynical at all, but I wonder about the point of this thread? I know I'm not betting my home on us winning the championship, but I'm really enjoying watching them play. Last night was a major drag, but we are still 1 game out from being the #1 seed in the west and all of the NBA. I'm a big fan of this team and I wasn't expecting for us to be #1 in the NBA 36 hours ago.

Our weaknesses were exposed tonight and we don't need to wait for the playoffs to see that. We have 15 games to improve. Maybe our timing will be better than any of us expect. Also we are nearing the end of Manu's career and I'm going to enjoy watching him play while I can. If the point is we are not championship favorites I'd say 'okay, good' it makes any run we make all the more exciting. The easy bet as ElNono and many have said is we won't win.....along with 29 other teams including GSW and Cavs.

[ElNono]

Do you not feel the Dubs have at least let the foot off the gas this season as oppose to last, though? Although the Durant injury may no onger afford them that luxury. I think Kerr should have rested them against Minny and then played them against SA since SA was Kawhi and LMA.

They're just a pretty different team (IIRC, they gutted about half their roster), so I'm sure they're going to have to work the chemistry issues, etc. That doesn't mean they don't have talent to spare, but I don't think their game is anywhere near as cohesive as it was last season and I don't think it has to do with letting the foot off the gas. Their top talent are desperately chasing individual awards on the regular, tbh...

[xtremesteven33]

Keep pounding the rock. Unfinished product. I can see this team really coming together in the playoffs. Especially if they get the #1 seed. Momentum will be huge. The spurs do have flaws but so do all the other teams. Kawhi has more than enough to win a championship. He may not have another "Superstar", but he has the deepest team in the NBA by far and that matters just as much.

[Slippy]

Not sure why posters are laying into OP..

here is a question: outside Kawhi, do you know or have an approximation of what are getting from rest of roster on nightly basis, much less in the playoffs?

Leonard dropped a 34/9/6 and we still took an L vs the in' Blazers on B2B..

Spurs couldnt get stops in the 4th. Thats the reason they lost. Watch the 4th again & you see breakdowns on defending the p'n'r mainly by Kawai. Not too worried though since pop made no adjustments & went with the same gameplan to finish the 4th. Felt like a practice session tbh.

[spurs10]

Keep pounding the rock. Unfinished product. I can see this team really coming together in the playoffs. Especially if they get the #1 seed. Momentum will be huge. The spurs do have flaws but so do all the other teams. Kawhi has more than enough to win a championship. He may not have another "Superstar", but he has the deepest team in the NBA by far and that matters just as much.

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Spurs couldnt get stops in the 4th. Thats the reason they lost. Watch the 4th again & you see breakdowns on defending the p'n'r mainly by Kawai. Not too worried though since pop made no adjustments & went with the same gameplan to finish the 4th. Felt like a practice session tbh.

....and this.

[kaji157]

Spurs couldnt get stops in the 4th. Thats the reason they lost. Watch the 4th again & you see breakdowns on defending the p'n'r mainly by Kawai. Not too worried though since pop made no adjustments & went with the same gameplan to finish the 4th. Felt like a practice session tbh.

This was pretty evident.

[100%duncan]

Do you think you are cool when you make and repeat water is wet takes like lma sucking?