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If they were 44-18, they'd be on pace to 58 wins. (I'm not sure where you came up with 56 or that was just a guess).
March is here. 7 weeks to playoffs
After 3 days rest, the Spurs start March with 4 games in 5 days. Adding the last game of a 4-game road trip out west, end-to-end, that will be 5 games in 7 days.
Sweeping those 5 games would make 11 straight and would be a signal that the Spurs have decided to focus, to salvage a mediocre Spurs season, finally to rediscover how to play Spurs basketball.
But those 5 wins would push the Spurs to 44 - 18,
still only a mediocre 56 - 26 season.
If they were 44-18, they'd be on pace to 58 wins. (I'm not sure where you came up with 56 or that was just a guess).
I was using Windows calculator, must be a bug.
Would you consider 58 mediocre?
I don't think I'd consider a 56 or 58 win season mediocre. A 41 win season is mediocre.
Yeah, Spurs are a 60-W team. Especially this year where 2 other WC teams will be 60-W teams, with one now flirting with a historic 70 W season.
It's mostly the Spurs' fault I'm spoiled
Part of the blame is mine, since I've only been able to follow them closely since the 01/02 season.
I don't consider 58 mediocre. It only seems mediocre in comparison to the historic streaks ripped off by Phoenix and Dallas. If the Mavs had, say, 13 losses instead of 9, they would still seem damn good but they wouldn't seem uncatchable. I'm just not going to worry about it. Either the Mavs are unstoppable or they're not, and I'll know for sure in a few months.
For a team with high expectations such as the Spurs, anything less than 55 wins is mediocre.
Spurs have a really easy schedule with their next real challenge being Utah Jazz at the end of the month. Compared to the history of their winning percentages, they are not bad off right now at 39-18 (68%) (Yeah this is a lot of numbers), considering their careless narrow losses this year, seven out of their 10 losses since January 1 have been by 5 points or less.
1997-1998 - 56-26 record - 68%
1998-1999 - 37-13 record - 74% *CHAMPIONSHIP*
1999-2000 - 53-29 record - 64% (Duncan injured part of the season)
2000-2001 - 58-24 record - 70%
2001-2002 - 58-24 record - 70%
2002-2003 - 60-22 record - 73% *CHAMPIONSHIP*
2003-2004 - 57-25 record - 69%
2004-2005 - 59-23 record - 72% *CHAMPIONSHIP*
2005-2006 - 63-19 record - 76%
Anything below 56-26 would be mediocre in my opinion. So that's 17-8 the rest of the way, very doable with the schedule they have left. Only Utah and Dallas would present any real challenges.
damn, Spurs have been killing last 10 years
54 wins or above and I'm very happy. Especially if all big 3 are healthy going into playoffs.
I wouldn't say they have a really easy schedule. They play Orlando on Friday and then Houston on the road on Saturday. Since Houston's already beaten them twice pretty convincingly, why are you taking the Rockets lightly? Especially on the second night of a back to back, after playing a young athletic team who recently proved an 18 point lead against them wasn't safe. Also, I assume McGrady's back (I know he sat out recently with the flu or something).
I believe they also have a four-games-in-five nights stretch coming up, which isn't easy no matter who they play.
If Dwight Howard will make another winning dunk with under a second left against the Spurs, then they are a challenge, but I don't see that happening again. Orlando isn't even a .500 team at 28-30. Dwight Howard's dunk was the highlight of their season. Overhyped highlight reel play there, not happening again. Orlando will get beaten by at least 15 by SA.
The Rockets, nope. Enough said on that. I don't know why people are talking about them as making any noise this season. They have played well against the Spurs, but who else? They are 1-3 vs Dallas.
LOL...jeffdrums22 is my fav ST poster...
what a classic...
In their 30 year history, the Spurs only have three seasons with 60 wins (94-95, 02-03, 05-06). Given that historical arc, and given how well the other powers in their own conference are playing, I'd think that a 56-58 win season would be anything but mediocre.
I understand the historical context is frequently lost in the years of recent success, but it's beyond odd to me that Spurs fans once got giddy -- in 1994-95 -- when the Spurs had a chance to win 60 games. The 2000-01 team was hailed as one of the dominant Spurs teams ever (during that regular season) and it won 58 games.
This Spurs team still might win 60 (though it seems unlikely), but should finish in the 56-60 range, and that season is seen as a near-failure.
I agree with this, I think people are looking more at how we won/lost the games this season though rather than the actual numbers.... Either way I'll be more than satisfied with 56 wins this season.
"In their 30 year history"
damn, all y'all never learn. Comparing the Pop/Tim Spurs to the 22 years w/o Pop/Tim is exactly the same cheap silliness as comparing the Spurs to the 25 bottoms NBA teams that don't have a prayer in the playoffs
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Well, some of us have been watching closely since long before Tim and Pop and have a broader frame of reference when it comes to assessing medocrity, I guess.
I'm not saying that this season, to this point, hasn't been somewhat disappointing. I am saying that historically, there's nothing about a 56-58 win season that is mediocre. There's a stark difference in the meaning of those words, I think.
Can we get a room for LEONARD and jeffdrums22 : they turn every topic into troll board material.
No, but they can both be banned if they don't shut the up because I'm frickin' sick of their trash.
Any thread he posts in gets that way...usually because Spurs fans are telling him what a jackass he is...
anybody that says Dwight Howard is a "fluke player" is b-ball idiot...
True. So use your frickin ignore list and stop perpetuating crap.
I love Dallas!
That should keep me not banned.
My ignore list is getting full though
ok ok...
With T-Mac injured, the Rockets are going nowhere. That team is like Eeyore. So sad.
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