The Spurs played 2 pathetic games in the last 2 Tuesday. Pathetic performance against the Knicks and also 3 horrifying quarters against the Mavs. Looking at the schedule and its not difficult to find out the reason for "here came the spurs", they last 10 games or far were mostly against the bottom portion of the league. Not impressed.
The last time we had a "here come the spurs" thread 2 weeks ago, they lost to the Knicks. Spurs are playing the same level of basketball they played througout the season. The myth that they're a sleeping juggernaut just waiting to be awakened died in MSG a few sundays ago.
The Spurs aren't really charging. The Warriors and the Cavs are the only teams can be said "charging." I've learned in the past decade or so never to dismiss the Spurs prematurely. However, they do look not as good as last season, even in the regular season when they kind of cruised. And the West is much tougher now than last year. So if I were a Spurs fan, I would not be very optimistic for a deep playoffs run.
Maybe, overall talent as well. Name one player from that would've been considered above average, besides Yao and T-Mac. Maybe, Battier.
Are you guys impressed now??? They whoopin up on OKC shooting, what 90% from the floor is that right???? Let's hope the Rockets are ready for this one.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Spurs leads over past 14 games: 15 34 40 10 19 26 10 39 13 19 25 26 14 31</p>— Dan McCarney (@danmccarneySAEN) <a href="https://twitter.com/danmccarneySAEN/status/580933159136559105">March 26, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Spurs about to be 11-3 in that stretch. Whole bunch of blowouts marred by eggs against NY, Dallas, plus choke job against Land of Cleve.</p>— Dan McCarney (@danmccarneySAEN) <a href="https://twitter.com/danmccarneySAEN/status/580933346936496128">March 26, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Tim Duncan says that the Spurs usually turn the corner around their rodeo trip. "It took a little longer this time." But it's happened.</p>— Ethan J. Skolnick (@EthanJSkolnick) <a href="https://twitter.com/EthanJSkolnick/status/583104185182367744">April 1, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Spurs' during last 17 games: Offense: 112.1 PP/100 (1st in NBA) Defense: 97.7 PP/100 (3rd) Winning by 13.8 PPG (1st)
Spurs are the team of which you wouldn't be surprised if they lost in the first round or if they won it all again.
For the season the Spurs are now ranked #2 on D and #7 on O per 100. We're now #4 on D and #12 on O. Definitely don't want to face them in the 1st round.
Yes, but didn't they have the weakest strength of schedule for the last third of the season? That has to play a role.
They have been dominating weak opponents and losing to the elite. Typical Spurs fashion. I think Houston will give them problems next week.
If SA keeps playing that way, and if they actually want to have the 5 seed, then it would be the 1st time 3 teams in the same division would have home court in the 1st Round.
Mavs minus Monte Ellis injured 2nd quarter Grizzlies minus Tony Allen OKC minus Durant adjusting to new players Hawks were healthy though
Take into account B2B's and 4 games in 5 nights. I'm not trying to downplay what they are doing, but let's be a little more scientific about it. In March they had 2 B2B's, and in that stretch they had no 4 games in 5 nights. In their B2B they had Dallas and OKC (not scrubs, but not amazing) then Milwaukee and NY (one super scrub, one Ok team). They had a good mix of bad and good teams in my opinion, but it's not like they are throttling the league as some of the talking heads would like us to believe.
