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Just enjoy the ride. We're only a few stops from the terminus unforch.
Are we really this good?
In before Golden State. We've looked better than them, even when they were fully healthy (the Clippers let those gots off the hook twice, and Lionel Hollins black-coached his way out of a win against them, as well).
The offense has caught up to the defense now. Scary, scary .
The natural skeptic/pessimist in me doesn't believe it. I love Kawhi, but will he repeat the Matt Barnes fiasco again? Will LMA choke in the playoffs (he has a history of doing so)? Will Parker kill the team again? Will Duncan turn to dust?
I expect all that to happen, but at the same time these Spurs are looking like one of the better teams of the last decade.
I don't know what to believe.
Just enjoy the ride. We're only a few stops from the terminus unforch.
the ceiling of this team definitely looks scary tbh.
This has got to be the scariest team of the Pop era. And that's saying something. Here's hoping they reach their full potential.
The West is terrible this year so they should get an easy first round opponent this year (in b4 the Pelicans get det 7th seed and cuck the Spurs). That'll give them the chance to get their playoff legs. OKC is an easier match up than it was before and Kawhi generally plays well against the Durant/Westbrook combo. If this team fails to get to the WCF and its not due to a match up with the Pelicans, then the team choked massively.
I'll wait and see approaching the playoffs. We said the same thing in 2011. Granted, this team is NOT fool's gold as that team was.
lol barnes fiasco when we were playing belinelli
It's still early in the season, but you don't just fluke into being this dominant for 35+ games. Someone here posted a tweet showing the best point differential through 35 games, and the Spurs were 2nd all-time behind only the '72 Lakers. The other teams on that list were the '72 Bucks and '97 Bulls...so needless to say, pretty good company. They had over a +20 net rating in December, which is the best month since the '96 Bulls had a month with a +16 net rating.
If this were basically any other year, the Spurs would be getting insane amounts of hype and would be clear-cut favorites to win it all. Unfortunately there's another GOAT-tier team in the conference though. That being said, I've grown much more confident in our chances of beating GS. If you asked me at the start of the season I would've said we only have a 30-35% chance of beating them. Now, I think it's about 50/50 (and that's assuming they get HCA).
The most encouraging thing is that it's not like we're playing way above our ceiling or anything. Green has been awful for most of the year. LMA has been inconsistent as he's trying to learn how to fit in to the new system. Duncan has been taking it easy and not exerting a ton of effort. I think Parker's play from earlier on is unsustainable, but we've still looked great even when he doesn't play that well. Kawhi's shooting might regress a bit but even if it does, he could still be a 21-22 ppg scorer on 57-58 TS%, which is all we could've asked for going into the season. Schedule has been admittedly easy, but 1) we've still played well against +.500 teams, and 2) even if we regress some as the schedule toughens, we're still shaping up to be one of the most dominant teams in the past decade.
If this team stays healthy, I like our chances against anyone...even another all-time great team like the Warriors. Hopefully we're the '72 Lakers and they're the '72 Bucks
Last edited by SpursFan86; 01-04-2016 at 10:49 PM.
We will lose to the Knicks.
marco probably needed more minutes in that series... green was struggling on both ends, at least marco was hitting his shots. duncan, manu, and marco were the only guys who didn't have any major struggles during the series
in any event, marco is irrelevant to the "barnes fiasco" as midnightpulp alluded to. leonard struggled pretty mightily in games 5-7 after being awesome in games 1-4
We've had the weakest schedule so far. True, you can't play against yourself and if you're top of the heap you dilute the SOS, but we are playing basically lottery teams except Houston. Let's wait until we play OKC, GS, Miami, Cleveland, Clippers (again) and Dallas.
We are 2nd best in the league though, any way you spin it.
Manu shot 34.9% for 8ppg that series tbh.
Both teams started out 30-6, but this current Spurs team has been far more dominant.
2010-2011 Spurs through 36 games: +7.7 net rating
2015-2016 Spurs through 36 games: +13.6 net rating (will be slightly higher since that's not taking into account tonight's game)
GSW, with HCA, will beat us in the playoffs if OKC doesn't.
He led the team in assists, IIRC.... but he was average... though it's difficult to ask him at this age for another 2014 type of performance...
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I believe we can find a way to win in 7 games if we have to go against GSW.
We won't win in 7 if game 7 is at Oracle. No chance in . Only chance is to win in 6.
Patty was shooting really good from 3, I'd have preferred to see him getting more minutes than injured-Parker/Danny.
We are that good. I'm enjoying every minute.
Why are people acting like it's impossible to win at Oracle? Spurs clapped them there plenty of times, they never struggle there... Lebron beat them there too in a Finals.
Exactly...to top it off, we didn't get to see Spurs vs GSW in playoffs...so we don't know how either will fair in head to head when it counts until we see it.
I still contend that the final game against Hornets last season cost us last years championship...and I have a feeling Pop feels the same way, which is why uncharacteristicly the Spurs are not holding themselves down in the regular season, I believe this is the reason for the rise in the MoV stat.
The schedule really helps.
Not just un terms of winning games but as the team has progressed without sacrificing much wins thanks to the poor schedule to start the season.
Our personnel at this point seems very deep.
This overrides our weak schedule.
Im comfortable. Very comfortable.
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