Anyone else feeling no interest in this upcoming NBA season? After the weakest move in NBA history having Durrant join the warriors, it feels like a waste of time investing anything to watch games. How is the NBA going to try to sell games on a nightly basis, as if the finals aren't already pretty clear. Its going to be another season of nauseating games of golden state with the todays NBA 3 chuckers trying to "prove" people wrong and go for more 3 point records. Whos going to make the playoffs and seeding won't matter, the games won't mean anything. TNT pushing a Warriors/Houston Heat/NY double header games? The only variable that could change things would be injury. I've never watched football much in past years but have been getting into it alot more recently, at least there is some uncertainty of who can actually make it to the superbowl, you generally never can say fully at the start of a season who will get there. Much more variables to make it interesting to watch than todays NBA. I think the Spurs are the only constructed team in the west who have any chance against the Warriors and even at that I don't see them going past them in the playoffs. The league would have been much better off having some better measures with the cap increase over 1 season to keep the league more compe ive and prevent teams for spending crazy money on scrubs and making those teams less compe ive in the future because of the financial burden. Stern would have probably have managed it better as funny as it is to say that.
In before "Stern would've sent Durant to the Lakers" comment.
And yes, it gets worse every year. But when the season starts, and you see the Spurs perform, you might get more invested, and look forward to Spurs' match ups with the superteams, at least.
I've lost interest due to Timmy retiring
I am super ecstatic about the season.
For the Manu fan, his last season in all likelihood. You don't want to miss that.
There's a new star signed: Pau, a player the Spurs have coveted for a a while.
Kawhi. He is still young and developing as leader. It's a new dimension to watch.
There's an almost completely overhauled benched with a lot of youngsters that may see action at some points through the season and you get to watch their first steps in the league, their inaugural game, etc. One or two of them may become rotation players for the Spurs in future seasons. Hopefully a future difference maker among them. It should be interesting. (There's excitement over Bertans, Murray, even Garino). There are interesting rookies to watch.
IThis is a very intriguing season since there are new faces, maybe new schemes for Kawhi. And I look forward to watching Anderson, though I know he's not everyone's cup of tea. He is still developing too, ppl forget that, and there a lot of other new players. The season has a lot of intrigue. I don't care about other teams frankly.
I am very interested. Change happens. It's inevitable. We saw something happen in the Finals that has never happened before. Down 1-3 and Cleveland reigns supreme. I've been watching the NBA for more than a half century and that was worth talking about! 2016-17 should be pretty cool. From a Spurs perspective, there is certainly reshaping going on. OKC is still a playoff team. Zaza Pachulia, JaVale McGee, and Damian Jones aren't exactly the great rim protection the Warriors got from Bogut and Ezeli. Golden State isn't a lock for the trophy.
Last edited by Solid D; 09-22-2016 at 01:35 PM.
Pretty much.I've lost interest due to Timmy retiring
I have a lot more interest in the Spurs season than reading the OP.
To seriously answer the question in the thread le, not even close. I am more interested in this season than I have been in a few years (probably since Kawhi was drafted). So much uncertainty and potential.
EDIT: After skimming the OP, I see it's Warriors related. I gave exactly zero s about them before, and I give just as many about them now. The Spurs being interesting is more than enough for me.
Lot of betas here.
Sit down or bring a take, pipsqueak.Lot of betas here.
Shut up got.
Relax, dabom. That was just a test to see if you've matured.
You didn't get an emoji..
Such crybaby crap. The Spurs still have a really good team I'm excited to watch next season.
Is Manu still playing? Yes? Then no
This. I've never been this excited tbh. Kawhi is growing, potential to a be a great 60 win team, we have some possible decent rookies, deadmon is ig exciting..
It's a new leaf.
The fact that Golden State and Cleveland are seen as the better team makes me even more exilcited.
First season without TD is by default "interesting." Also, with such a new bench also interesting.
As far as the Dubs being a finals lock to the point where the season isn't even interesting, I'd say that super teams don't always win les, certainly don't every year, and many super teams outright fail. And even if we accept the Dubs as a super team (which at this point they are only on paper), facing such a team with long odds is interesting in itself.
What is un-interesting is when you have a team that has no chance to make the playoffs and couldn't under any reasonable cir stances win the le. A situation Spurs fans haven't faced since...the 90's? Or more probably the 80's?
We're Gunsmoke or the Simpsons, baby. Some seasons are better than others, but we're always watchable and playing on and on for decades.
Too many fairweather fans will bail without Timmy, but my fandom began before him and will continue until my time on Earth ends.
Excited to see the continued growth of Kawhi, the development of Murray, Bertans and Jean-Charles while this is Manu's farewell season.
I knew you were old, but
I am very interested. Change happens. It's inevitable. We saw something happen in the Finals that has never happened before. Down 1-3 and Cleveland reigns supreme. I've been watching the NBA for more than a half century and that was worth talking about! 2016-17 should be pretty cool. From a Spurs perspective, there is certainly reshaping going on. OKC is still a playoff team. Zaza Pachulia, JaVale McGee, and Damian Jones aren't exactly the great rim protection the Warriors got from Bogut and Ezeli. Golden State isn't a lock for the trophy.
It's not that the Warriors are necessarily unbeatable and they're definitely not without weakness, it's that the Spurs match-up too terribly against them for it to matter.
I went into greater detail in my thread, but long story short: They can't score on them and 3 of the top 7 players can't defend against them.
I know all those that were late to the bandwagon are thrilled to be moving on from the big three era (just wait until it sinks in that you're probably never witnessing another championship in your lifetime), but that hasn't changed.
The Spurs need to push for the 1 seed and hope the Clippers can eliminate them in the WCSF.
Regular season is too long and too boring, been saying this for years now. And now with KD joining GS the regular season becomes even less compe ive.
Yeah, even if its not a lock for the dubs the amount of teams who can challenge them is pretty low. I guess there will still be some things of entertainment value like watching Westbrook trying to single handedly win games all season. Hopefully the teams who can actually challenge the warriors have improved some defensive schemes this season to not make it so easy for wide open 3 chucking. It still amazes me that Durrant joined that team after the WCF loss he gave away. I think overall the Spurs have rebuilt a really nice team and I'm looking forward to see what kind of future our new additions bring like Murray/Bertans.
Haha. Yeah. I started out as a Celtics fan when I was young. I'm old enough to have attended a regular season double-header at the Boston Garden. Bucks @ 76ers in the first game and the Hawks @ Celtics in the second game (Larry Siegfried, Sam Jones, Hondo Havlicek, Satch Sanders, Bill Russell, Bailey Howell, Don Nelson).I knew you were old, but
LJC is garbage as a two week old croque monsieur at the bottom of a dumpster.
Normally around this time I get excited about the upcoming season but this year is different. I guess the retirement of timmy and more images of kyle checking in can do that to a man
Also, the best sport in the world is on right now and heating up and it's way more exciting than the 2 team league.
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