What do you mean? It could hardly be
more on purpose. The Spurs have made conscious decisions at every level to keep this team at the bottom.
Compare their off-season to the Rockettes': one team signed multiple vets to significant contracts, hired new coaching staff, adjusted the roster to fit their new prospects and put them in position to succeed and produce. The other literally re-rolled the same team that got them the #1 the very last year, which was used to sign an incredibly raw prospect mind you, not some 4-college-years Timmy D, has outwardly stated this to be an "experimental year", has made no attempts to accomodate their rookie star into the roster, is literally experimenting with playing a starter out of position as an actual declared
project.....
I guess you're saying this in a "accident vs planned thing" way, but it's just plainly deliberate. I think a lot of fans are confused by this start to the season for that - thinking the Spurs' losses are failures or even surprises. But every indicator points to the Spurs having expected a season like this, and with good purpose. It's likely their last year to get to the lottery, and they know it.
Well, again it depends on how you look at it -
down sure is a direction

. Of course they're not gonna know how to win, and again, the team consciously decided to keep Dougie McBuckets as the veteran presence. You
know they weren't even trying... And damn would I love BroLo on this team! But he's got too much juice left for coming off his run with Giannis to be the Spurs' babysitter tbh