It’s crazy that the Spurs dont go through Fox more often in the fourth. Today felt like the first time in a while they actually used him properly in the clutch

He has been great and kept us afloat when Wemby was out. Obviously, he’d be worse in the win column without him but we still have lost games where he was playing and had big leads. 11 games I believe (?) we’ve lost when led by 10 or more (not sure which of that subset Fox actually played) but the point being we’ve lost winnable games and I was partially hoping Fox would get us over that hump.

12 straight points in the span of a minute or some shit, he bailed us out lol

I don’t understand Harper only getting 13 minutes when Devin is hurt.

Run the rook, man. Get him some minutes out there.

that brotha needs help

I can’t believe McLaughlin even got minutes at all.

How did Dylan get benched by him? What is the thought process there

every time I see him and Lindy Waters I just imagine ‘what if that guy at the Y got burn in an NBA game’

I want him back too but that would mean Champagne goes to the bench because Spurs have this weird obsession with not benching veterans. Barnes has been a complete disaster since the NBA Cup and he really has no business starting anymore.

Let’s slow it down a little… im trusting the experienced defending champs 10x more than Wemby in his first playoff series

Absolutely not. When the jump shooting doesn’t work, they collapse hard.

If the playoffs were seeded today, the spurs would play the timberwolves in the first round, a team the spurs have beat once and lost to twice They would then have to play the winner of nuggets/suns to get to the thunder if the thunder wins their first two series. The west is loaded with teams that can win so even getting to the thunder is going to take some effort.

There’s no way it’s happening, but Nurkic winning any kind of award in the big 2026 would be the funniest timeline

I feel like the jazz are going to be scary next year. Another team to add to the list of stacked teams in the west sheesh.

Dude lookin like a vampire out there

Yeah, league isn’t too keen on telling us what sicknesses players have but I can’t think of anything other than the flu or COVID that could floor an NBA player like that. He looked pale AF and not quite right.

Bryant’s been showing some improvement as of late, he’s earned some more time to build consistency.

Fuck that, send Olynyk back to Canada or something, dude is so bad

i was intrigued by that lineup. it seemed to work

Pretty much saved us the game. Good adjustment by Mitch

The bench shit the bed and the starters had to carry. No surprise it happened.

It’s become common place to call every losing team’s ever loss a tank even when u can see on the floor they’re genuinely trying to win. It’s mainly a reddit thing.

Groin injuries are nasty. The risk for re-injury is very high.

punking him all game… dude had 14 points lol

Nurkic was “punking” him all game because Wemby couldnt do jackshit against the backdoor cuts… possession after possession our Guards kept losing their man

There will be growing pains.. the spurs are literally the 2 seed

Castle was +18 tonight. He’s +117 for the season and Harper is +177. Fox is the lowest of the three at +113. I’m starting to get concerned that people are actively hoping and cheering for Castle and Harper to fail.

Castle’s been injured and he’s still figuring his ish out. He also suffers more when Devin isn’t playing because floor spacing is tougher.

Harper hit a rookie wall and he’s gotta retool a bit. He’s 19. I think he’ll be fine. I could see him having a big February. The grind of an NBA season has to be crazy hard after a college schedule, esp if you’re still 2 years away from drinking age.

Not concerned with Harper tbh, I just think he’s overthinking a lot… i.e. deciding to pass out instead of taking a floater or turnaround; We know he has that to his game. Castle on the other hand is a bit worrisome imo… he’s obv still young and developing, but he’s getting some real bad habits when it comes to driving into traffic and making ill-advised passes.

38 wins (?) I believe with no staff and no training and no prep his first year, thrown into the fire mid-season… 31 - 14 his second year, 2nd or 3rd best record in all of the NBA. You have to be thrilled.

Mitch, much like how this Spurs team is performing, can be very hit or miss. Some games he’s absolutely locked in and doing all the right things. Those first 3 OKC games are the prime example. Then you have these run-of-the-mill games where he just lets players keep playing through their ruts. When players look lost on court (including Wemby), I think he has to do a better job of telling them what to do and how to change things up.

I think he has a lot of room to grow and potential. He’s clearly effective enough to make a game plan that beat OKC 3-1. I think in a playoff series the Spurs can beat any team. But I also think they can lose to any team if Mitch isn’t able to sharpen his players and get them out of ruts. The Spurs might have the 2nd best record in the league but they definitely aren’t playing like it right now.

I don’t think he would want the job at this point in his career and I absolutely wouldn’t blame him. They’re very young, they have like 27 guards, a PF who plays like the worst guard of them all, not a single player who is anywhere Steph’s consistency on offense, and going from having 6’6” Draymond playing mostly center rather than PF for years to a 7’6” Wemby who should be a center but is actually a power forward who also usually functions as either the best or second best guard, Steve would be losing his mind trying to manage everything they have going on from day to day and I think he has earned peace lol. Unless he really misses Harrison Barnes and Lindy Waters.

Mitch is a better systems guy than adjustments guy at present time. I honestly don’t think he’s sweating the game to game stuff – Pop never did and the Spurs had some horrible losses to bad teams even in title winning seasons because of it (and because it’s the NBA).

Keep in mind the Spurs are a crazy young team, building a new scheme with a new coach. The Jazz were red hot from 3 in the first half and I think Mitch correctly told guys to aggressively cover the corner passes to take it away leading to a lot of backdoor jams. The Jazz have some crazy athleticism and we were just getting honestly beat by a pick your poison.

Team also looks pretty run down. Not sure what that’s about, if it’s because of depleted depth through the injuries we’ve had or what, but we’ve been really sluggish in the 4th quarters of games lately.