Game Thread: Spurs @ Paper Clips 7:30 p.m. PST on TNT

[Silver&Black]

Lost in all the suck ude of tonight's loss was Duncan's great game. 30 pts, 11 rbs, 2 blks, 1 stl, 0 tnvrs. Against one of the best defensive bigs in the game in DeAndre Jordan.

t's crazy that a big who's almost 40 ing years old is still our best player... You really can't say enough good things about Timmy. He's just unreal and we'll never have another player like him.

Timmy the GAWD

Think he was like 12-14 from the field too....outstanding Timmy.

[RD2191]

We lost this game tonight......we're ing finished.
If we win this game tonight.....we've flipped the switch.

Step away from the cliff people.

I don't think so. A win would of been the same as a loss for me, tbh. Team still looked like either way.

[Darius Bieber]

I don't think so. A win would of been the same as a loss for me, tbh. Team still looked like either way.

this tbh. Clips were without Griffin.

[CitizenDwayne]

Yeah, still too soon to count the Spurs out. But there is reason to be concerned. IMO, Diaw/Splitter is the biggest concern. Don't know if they are just coasting, but their subpar play has been hurting the Spurs this year.

I completely agree.

I agree with everything you said, and that there's cause for concern, just not the nightly meltdown we're faced with on here.

We still have Pop/Duncan/Parker/Ginobili. The Spurs are still relevant and a legitimate playoff threat. Therefore, I am happy. Anything after last year is gravy.

When those 4 leave, dark times may be ahead. And I'm very curious to see how this forum's posters will react.

[daslicer]

We lost this game tonight......we're ing finished.
If we win this game tonight.....we've flipped the switch.

Step away from the cliff people.

I agree with what you said. We'll know in the next few weeks how good the spurs really are. If the Spurs are still crap at the end of March then people should start panicking.

[CitizenDwayne]

We lost this game tonight......we're ing finished.
If we win this game tonight.....we've flipped the switch.

Step away from the cliff people.

[HI-FI]

I completely agree.

I agree with everything you said, and that there's cause for concern, just not the nightly meltdown we're faced with on here.

We still have Pop/Duncan/Parker/Ginobili. The Spurs are still relevant and a legitimate playoff threat. Therefore, I am happy. Anything after last year is gravy.

When those 4 leave, dark times may be ahead. And I'm very curious to see how this forum's posters will react.

probably won't be a ST when that happens. or it will be trolls and shills amidst a wasteland.

i don't look forward to those dark times either. so many little things that we all take for granted. TD will be the hardest to replace, he's a once in a generation type of guy. As long as they can put together some really compe ive teams that play the right way, that will be huge. Also, on the flipside it will be nice to not have to worry about every little injury the older guys get. It will be interesting how RC builds a team with a lot of youth again.

[Sean Cagney]

We lost this game tonight......we're ing finished.
If we win this game tonight.....we've flipped the switch.

Step away from the cliff people.

I agree but they are not winning that game tonight man, lets be honest here.

[spurraider21]

Don't understand why CoJo couldn't get any minutes in this one... Mills was struggling, Manu was largely a non-factor (though he did hit some timely 3's), and Green wasn't doing much for most of the game.

[BillMc]

Stats show that losing close games is effectively almost random. One shouldn't worry too much about close losses like tonight, they can go either way. It's games where we get blown out (or blow out the other team) that are indicative of our true strength either way. A bigger concern than our records is the fact that our point differential is the weakest of any Western contender except Houston and OKC.

[Chillen]

Spurs are 14 game above .500 while they are only 4 games above .500 with the same amount of games played. I still feel the spurs have a good cushion on them. Its usually hard to make up that type of deficit. Its possible but it will take a massive nose dive from the spurs to do it. The ball is in the spurs court and if they can't keep ahead of OKC they have only themselves to blame.

Either way it sucks to be the Warriors and Grizzlies. They will have to play either Spurs or Thunder in the 1st round the way the seeding is shaping up.