San Antonio in winning games by blowouts are 40-4 the enitre season. 40 blowout wins!! That is by 10 or more points, according to www.espn.com. I wonder if this will translate into the playoffs.
I guess we'll see how this translates in the playoffs when games are much tighter against the best competition, but they have been here before and now hot to perform in the post season. If I were a Spurs' fan, I would really worry about the free-throw shooting. That could haunt them in those close games and be their downfall.
yah, shiver me timbers. spurs are a good team for sure, but they definitely have their exploitable weaknesses. I wouldn't be scared if the rox were facing off against them in the 2nd round. Weatherspoon can more than hold his own against Duncan.
winning that many by 10 is probably pretty damn good historically (which is a reason they had such a huge margin of victory about 55 games into the season) but what's amazing to me is apparently that stat is saying they only lost 4 games by 10 or more all season. that's damn near impossible. as has been mentioned, it's easy for a close game to end up as a 10 point game and to only lose by that much 4 times is amazing.
I looked at the top 3 teams in terms of blowout losses, in this case being beaten by 15 or more. I excluded teams without their best player for that game(Shaq, Nash, Duncan). SA has been blown out 1 time (at Sea) Phx has been blown out 2 times (at SA, at Hou) Mia has been blown out 2 times (at Dal, at Phx) I think the more interesting story is the teams doing the ass kicking. SA, Phx and Hou would not surprise you, but it shows Sea and Dal if clicking can be a load for anybody. Interesting, Seattle has beaten a fully loaded Spurs team twice, one time a blowout and another time at SA. Maybe they won't be such an easy opponent for the Spurs in round 2 if that is what it comes to.
In my very weird opinion, a blowout is anything more than than 12. Because you cut it under 10 with a 3 if you trail by 12...I dont know my logic is weird -_-
i'm not sure about the others, but i do believe i remember the houston blowout win over phoenix was in phoenix, no?
Point differential is a truly underrated stat. If you look at the point differential stats from teams 1 to 30, it's almost like looking at the overall team records from 1 to 30. You'll see crummy teams lead the league in rebounding, or mediocre teams lead the league in field goal percentage, but point differential is almost always a mark of how good a team you are. Hubie Brown is big on point differential as well. I remember a JVG quote from last January, talking about how telling it was that, when the Spurs only won by nine, that it was a statistical let down.
59-22 is their regular season record so that means that they are 19-18 in close games. So if you keep it within 10 points, you have almost a 50 percent chance of beating them. I'm not suprised by that at all considering the number of times I've seen them choke in the playoffs the last few years.
Rock box: Having won 40 games by 10 or more points (roughly half their games) - then losing half of those remaing - are you saying they are vulnerable because they lose 1/2 of 1/2 of their games? Looking at that stat, I agree with the original poster - its pretty scary. Essentially you can assume the Spurs are essentially going to run away and hide from their oppoinent in at least a couple of games each series - and keep all the others close; gonna be real tough to beat them in a best of 7. They have beaten all of the WC playoff teams in convincing fashion (10+) at least one time. The team has been coasting for a long time this season; I don't believe these playoffs are as "wide open" as people are suggesting
What I'm saying is the spurs are a solid team that don't lose to sorry teams like we do. They run away with it, but if against good teams that keep it close they are as vulnerable as anyone else. Just look at their division record and conference record. They are comparable to us and Dallas, worse than phoenix, and not that much better than the Sonics. The Spers are a good team but they aren't a lock.
