[Highlight] The San Antonio Spurs win their 7th straight game with a victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder, 130-110. It’s San Antonio’s longest win streak since 2018-19, as they beat the Thunder for the second time this season.
Stephon Castle was incredible tonight.
He looks like a legit super star guard.
He is a legit super star guard.
So the Spurs basically have their own JDub but he is almost 4 years younger.
And 2 inches taller
And can effectively run an offense.
come on now, don’t be modest. He is the GOAT!
Best Steph of all time and it’s not even close
You really think he’s better than Starbury?
Him and SGA train with Theguardwhisperer on youtube you should check it out. Im a Uconn fan so i was watching his offseason workouts over the summer and when i tell you the season he having now was literally manifested this shit is so amazing to watch lmao
It honestly seems like he’s better than Fox already sometimes. His scoring is so much better compared to last season and he plays great defense
fox is deferring a lot of the ball handling duties to steph and dylan alot, but he knows when and when not to look for his own shot and hes been great at that this season
They (along with Harp and Dev) all compliment each other, each brings a little different sauce to the table. Mitch and the staff have done a masterful job getting them all on the same page.
I’m telling you, Jimmy B is Steph’s floor.
Dude them having Castle, Fox, and Harper with Wemby just ain’t right.
Everyone talks about a potential Thunder dynasty but this team is the one to watch for how they keep developing over the next couple of years. Wemby/Castle/Harper core legit looks like it could become the next Duncan/Parker/Ginobili
Barring injuries, this is the worst that the Wemby/Castle/Harper/Fox core will be.
Fox is like 6 years older than the other 3 in the core but he will still be a key scorer/contributor for the forseeable future, he’s got like 7 more years as the other 3 hit their primes.
Bridge to the future
Yeah the thought crossed my mind in terms of drafting Harper when they already had the fastest PG, but it takes the pressure off and they can even play together at times and really chop up smaller lineups like veggies
fun fact: tony parker is 6 years younger than duncan
Yeah. The Spurs Big Three never had their individual primes overlap with one another. Closest in 2007 where Timmy was getting to the tail end of his prime but Manu was a beast and Parker came to his own.
Fox is the “Stop gap” basically from what I can tell and heard from various rumblings in the rumor mill. Basically Harper will be our team’s PG but bring Fox on and have teach Harper while he gets his chops up
Assuming everything goes as planned, trade Fox as Harper’s re-sign comes up and go from there.
I dont think we are getting a modern dynasty for awhile. Every new team that gets crowned is replaced within like 2 years.
2021: “Wow Bucks are a future dynasty”
2023: “Wow Nuggets are a future dynasty”
2024: “Wow Celtics are a future dynasty”
2025: “Wow Thunder are a future dynasty”
Easy to say just cause a team wins a chip and has a lot of young players but at the end of the day it’s just not that simple. Beating 4 different teams 4 times in 7 games is very difficult no matter who you are. It is really, really goddamn hard to be a dynasty
Yeah and the last team to do back to backs had prime Steph and KD together, and before that Heat had prime Lebron and even if he could only win twice.
You don’t really need to win back to back to be a dynasty. The Spurs dynasty never won back to back. Warriors’ dynasty includes all their 4 rings between 2015 and 2022
Yeah. The Spurs got 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2014.
Warriors have 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022. But it could easily have been spread apart more even then.
In the NFL, we have dynasties who won throughout a single decade but they were spread throughout the decade. 49ers are the best example. ‘82, ‘85, ‘88, ‘89 with Montana/Rice. They did go back to back at the end, but they were very spread out.
The Lakers in the 80’s did something similar.
A lot of people hate on LeBron for that reason, going 2-2 with a superteam after saying “not 1, not 2” etc etc. But in the words of D Wade, winning championships is hard. Extremely hard. Especially in the modern era, where the level of the average player has creeped higher and higher. I don’t fault anyone for losing a championship, I only praise people for winning them.
You don’t need to win back to back to be a dynasty thought. Duncan/Parker/Ginobili never did it
OK3 was going to be a dynasty. Sad what happened after.
The others maybe, but I never thought about bucks that way lol that year just felt like a transition year for every team
Literally everyone knew the Celtics were working on borrowed time. They weren’t on a bunch of rookie contracts. Same with the Nuggets AND Bucks lmao
This was mainly said about the Thunder because of their age and draft capital.
Too hard to keep a team together with today’s salary situation. Teams only get a few year window when they have key players on cheap deals.
League really ought to give cap relief towards guys on a team for 5+ years or drafted by a team
Something to let teams that are built properly not face a disadvantage
Or reward teams who draft well. This cap is insanely restrictive.
They want the disadvantage, the hope is that those guys leave and end up taking a bag helping build up one of the incompetent organizations that can’t draft or develop talent.
Very true, however, both OKC and SAS are as equipped as any franchises to challenge this paradigm.
True. Thunder f*cked up when they overpaid for Chet+Jdub - once their extensions kick in and once they actually have to perform like the max players they were paid like (in which they will more often than not miss rather than hit just like they do now), their vaunted depth will disappear along with their contender status.
I’d be pleasantly surprised if a team emerged as a dynasty under this CBA because that would mean an organization and its talent overcoming massive odds.
The Thunder have the best chance at it based on their skilled youth, depth and prospects but it’s a competitive league right now.
And they were making fun of thunder fans for making historic comparisons. Wemby is obviously a generational player but that spurs team was once in a lifetime
yeah spurs are def the team nba folks think the thunder are. just glad we got one : p
True. Thunder won’t get a lottery pick as Clippers are recovering and Jazz will tank; meanwhile Jdub and Chet will continue to be ass in the playoffs and this time, injuries to AG and Hali won’t save OKC from a humiliating exit lol! OKC frauds!
Oh and SGA won’t steal another MVP from Jokic or Luka
Amazing and love the throwback jerseys
Knew we were fucked when I saw the Fiestas
It’s a different energy
y’all should bring back either the obsidian blues or the native american ones, those were top tier jerseys
You were also on a second night of a back to back away, that’s fucked too. But I’ll take the dub still
People who were underestimating this team forgot that wemby is playing off the bench on minutes restriction lmao
Dude is on a goat trajectory
Before the season, they say this spurs team is a playin team lol. There’s still doubts coz they don’t got any playoffs experience but this team is mad, mad, serious.
People said the same thing about OKC. The Spurs will be fine, plus they’re ahead of schedule
Usually teams like this make a surprise conference finals run in a year like this and then are perennial contenders going forward.
It’s still very hard to be the best player on a Finals team. All flaws are revealed and exploited in the playoffs. I don’t doubt that 26 year old Wemby will have a top 10 all-time peak but he’s 21.
Him being on a minutes restriction is not forgotten, it’s the point. He has to play a full season on starter minutes before he can be expected to play a full season on starter minutes. Year 3, and it’s not this season.
How about year one when he won roty?
Minute restricted for most of the season.
Why would you just make this up lol
How am I making this up?
“He has plenty to work on. Wembanyama was on a minutes restriction for most of the season, but still looked tired late in games.”
https://www.poundingtherock.com/2024/5/22/24162141/2023-24-san-antonio-spurs-player-reviews-victor-wembanyama-rookie-of-the-year-all-defensive-first
Maybe it’s a Mandela effect if this guy hallucinated it too.
Yeah I think that is a careless sentence in the article. He was on a minutes restriction from about mid-December through January. It wasn’t anything approaching “most of the season”. Credit to you for having a source though I shouldn’t have said you were making it up
This was a great win, obviously and I’m super high on the Spurs, but that loss to the Knicks in NBA Cup Finals feels like a pretty big asterisk to that 7 game win streak.
Same as our big streak last year that was unofficially split up by that Bucks loss lol
The Knicks won fair and square, but god damn did it feel like the better team lost. I felt like a fourth quarter collapse was inevitable when we led for the first three quarters and couldn’t break into a double digit lead.
I guess we’ll see at the end of this month if I’m right or not.
The narrative is that Spurs is better, which is why you felt the way. But reality is that Knicks beat the Spurs
… yes, that’s what I said.
Glad we’re on the same page.
Outcome might have been different if Wemby was in a better mind space due to his grandmother
I was so confused on how we won 7 straight that quickly after that. Just now realized that game didn’t count toward the streak
I was gonna say it feels like us
I mean if the stats aren’t gonna count for the players’ season totals then the game shouldn’t count on the record
But somehow (and thankfully) it counts for Wemby’s 65 game minimum
It was like when LeBrons double digit streak didn’t include him scoring less than in a Finals game. Only counting the regular season.
fucken love it. this spurs made my christmas.
They only won cus OKC didn’t have their 6th man of the year…the refs
Okc better sue Chris Finch 😂😂
This would only make sense if OKC isnt bottom half of free throw attempts for the whole year, this is just blind hating following the trend of assuming OKC get’s a good whistle 😭..also this is incredibly incredibly ironic coming from a Lakers fan LOL
Not even how it works. If okc ever has more freethrows than their opponent something went very wrong. Schematically okc’s plan is to have less free throw at the cost of forcing more turnovers via aggressive defence.
Even if okc doesn’t have a bias whistle, only braindead people say its due to them having lower ft rates.
That’s what he and others are implying. Mark has made a push/complained about it especially since last year OKC was bottom 5 iirc, he spoke on it recently talking about how they’ve tried to get better.
Okc is top 10 in drives per game and the fta correlation doesn’t add up. So no, that’s not the that’s just how it shakes out. People have been saying OKC has a bias whistle because of all the calls they get on offense,”flopping” etc,the team gets called out but mostly Shai(who is also top in drives,lead it last year and is 2nd this year)
but now he’s showing y’all he could do it without the free throws. The amount of times I brought up OKC is bottom of the league in free throws and people are flabbergasted because they assumed they were up because of Shai 😭 im surprised you actually knew, and this take for the most part is sensible but when you go deeper it’s more than just that.
from jake paul getting kocked the fuck out, to tate getting destroyed and now this? what a joyous xmas this is
The beautiful thing is Wemby didn’t even really do much damage. Team effort. These guys are deeper than the Pacific
His presence alone is already doing much damage.
The damage he does a lot of the time doesn’t end up on his own personal stats but his impact is huge. Teams will often just give up trying to score in the paint when he’s there
That’s why he didn’t get any blocks. Except for SGA, nobody dared shoot near him.
Shit his streak was ended?!
Yup.
That, plus it lets perimeter defenders be super aggressive b/c they know he’s got their back.
It’s exactly like Curry but on the defensive end
Puro Spurs
Its beginning to feel like 2016 again 😔
(even bigger sad face from my flair)
those shirts / court are immaculate
Fiesta is the best color scheme in the league and I’ll die on that hill
In sports
Straight facts
These fiesta jerseys really should be our permanent alt jerseys, but the NBA is gonna make us change it next year so they can sell more jerseys
Didn’t even need Wemby to do it. Spurs are legit.
Did you watch the game ?
Yes! They looked great. They’re playing at a very natural pace that seems to play past other teams as the game goes on. When Wemby gets to 100% they’re going to be scary.
We need an OKC-Spurs and Denver-Houston semis.
West is so stacked it’s not fair
Death, Taxes, and Spurs
they really should abolish conferences for play offs division. Ideally this year
And I’m not saying this just so the hawks pick would be better
I thought OKC was supposed to be the greatest basketball team of all time…?
OKC bin San Antonio Spurs.
Damn Keldon and Dylan Harper were lookin fly af
Thunder killers
This Spurs team is hella fun to watch.
Spurs were too physical
Spurs are our only hope.
I recall them losing at least one game recently.
Frauds exposed
a cup sized asterisk on that win streak
Oh great now you pissed off presti and he’s going to get Giannis for like 100 picks that we all somehow forgot he had stashed.
OKC still beating that GSW record tho? 🤣
They lost to the Knicks. How is it 7 straight?
That game counted as an exhibition
I don’t know why you are being downvoted for asking a very reasonable question
Cup Finals is an 83th game that doesn’t count in standings
Read the rules
Okc never gonna get that record 😆
Ethical basketball prevails
Well yes, they won seven “in a row” but still lost to the Knicks in that timeframe
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NBA Cup final doesn’t count for official stats, do some research.
That’s not what the standings say!
Read the rules nephew
OKC = most overrated defending champs ever! Wish the spurs would be 4th/5th so wemby can sweep these frauds in the 2nd round with MoV of 50pts per game. OKC is not repeating unless they upgrade Jdub / Chet for a true superstar!
Wemby >>> SGA+Chet+ Jdub
Yes, but the Cup Final does not count as a regular season game, therefore it does not exist statistically when they refer to these metrics.
And they’ve played 8 games since then lol