November 5, 20187 yr On paper, it looks like a bad loss cuz the Magic were merely 2-6 entering the contest, but the fact that Bamba went for 12 and 11 with an assist and a block and Augustin chipped in with 18 points, 5 boards, and 7 assists with just one turnover ... that's an 'L' I don't mind so much.
November 5, 20187 yr That was a tough back to back. Most of the players had to go all the way out to 1604 and back, not to mention the time change. Chalk that one up to being a schedule loss.
November 5, 20187 yr Watching live our starters looked gassed. Back to backs suck. There were three longhorn legends on the court st the same time tonight. Edited November 5, 20187 yr by NoRagrets
November 5, 20187 yr Author 5 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said: Augustin a legend? Dude went 1-10 vs usc. He lead us to an elite 8 bro
November 5, 20187 yr He also won the Cousy award and was 1st team Academic All American. Dude is definitely a UT legend.
November 5, 20187 yr DJ played his ass off last night. Probably helped that they had a lot of wide open three pointers. A lot.
November 6, 20187 yr Just saw Derozan, and Aldridge played 38 and 40 minutes on saturday. Not surprised if they were gassed Sunday. I'm actually surprised pop played them thst much.
November 6, 20187 yr So.... just for fun. Now that we're about 10-12% through the season, thought I would check in on some of our former Spurs from last season. Kawhi: To our dismay, he's playing well. Shooting %'s probably a little high and unsustainable but his metrics are strong and sadly, he's a great player. Big deal is he's missed 4 out of 11 games for maintenance and ankle injuries. Something to watch. The Dinosaurs are also very good so if he can stand the winters, he may end up extending there. Tony: Playing as veteran backup (18 mpg), Tony's actually having a little bit of a bounce. I don't think it's surprising as he's now 18 months off of his injury. He's shooting really well with a PER over 18. Averaging over 21 ppg per 36 minutes and over 40% AST%. Playing really well. Danny: Another guy having a strong start to the season. A lot is based on unsustainable 3pt% of 47%. Defense is still strong although still in slight decline. Danny probably will never shoot over 40% from distance again but he's been a big addition to Toronto and obviously is missed here. Not insisting Toronto take Patty instead of Danny was a big mistake IMO. Kyle: Really struggling. He's sort of a mess right now. Not only is his shooting down (39%) but all his metrics are down across the board (shooting, rebound, ast, etc). I think he'll rebound somewhat, it's doubtful he continues to shoot so poorly especially at the line (53%). He hasn't hit a 3 all season. Only attempted 2. I'm of the opinion that Kyle is one of those guys who needs the Spurs way more than the Spurs ever needed Kyle. Thus far, this appears the case but very early. Manu: Still retired. Way too early to really understand how any of their seasons will really end up but it is nice to see Tony and Danny get off to fast starts. Be interested to see how many games Kawhi plays. Right now he's on pace for 52. I would assume with good health, it increase to about 60-65 games for the season but for someone who's built like a runaway freight train, he's a bit brittle.
November 6, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said: Kawhi: To our dismay, he's playing well. Shooting %'s probably a little high and unsustainable but his metrics are strong and sadly, he's a great player. Big deal is he's missed 4 out of 11 games for maintenance and ankle injuries. Something to watch. The Dinosaurs are also very good so if he can stand the winters, he may end up extending there. The Spurs were very good and south Texas has mild winters and he didn't extend here. If winning were actually important to him, he would have never left San Antonio. But who the hell knows? The guy is a headcase with an injury history that goes beyond just his quad. But yeah, he's no doubt a great player. The difference in talent/skill between he and Derozan (who has been everything you could have asked for and more so far) is sadly the difference between being a very good team and being a championship team. Edited November 6, 20187 yr by Mitch Cumsteen
November 8, 20187 yr This has got to be one of the worst defensive teams I’ve ever seen. They try, but they suck.
November 8, 20187 yr Patty may have put up 20 points, but he was extremely inefficient. 22 shot attempts, 12 of which were 3s......yikes. LMA was awful and DD was inefficient as well. It'll be tough for the Spurs to win when LMA and DD both struggle. Nice game by Bertans.
November 8, 20187 yr 7 minutes ago, miguelito said: There seems to be a lot of confusion on defense. Like what is defense? How do you spell defense? Who is responsible for defense? That type of thing? Defense wasn't horrible tonight, but the larger issue exists. 33% from the field.... you're going to lose 98% of the time shooting that poorly. LMA and DD were 8-29 with no Rudy Gay. Horrible. 6-4 the first 10. Frankly, I think Pop would be ecstatic if we could replicate that win percentage the rest of the way......
November 8, 20187 yr Metu coming to ATX..... He needs minutes so I like it. Edited November 8, 20187 yr by Patrick Bateman
November 11, 20187 yr I was flipping to this during football commmericals. Good win over an alleged contender.
November 11, 20187 yr It would be nice if White and Murray could stay healthy. I think these two are good but we've hardly even seen them play together.
November 13, 20187 yr 24 minutes ago, Radical Larry said: Late game against the Kings tonight, and Rudy is back. So Gay.
November 15, 20187 yr 8:00 tip. Suns have lost 11 of 12 since blowing out the Mavs in their season opener. Let's make 12 of 13.
November 15, 20187 yr I’d feel so much better if this was a young team trying to figure it out. But this team is bound for 43 or 45 wins and a first round exit. That’s not very fun. I’d rather them completely blow it up and build something new. That would be more fun than this.
November 15, 20187 yr This team will finish below .500. The decent start appears to have been fools gold. Pretty, pretty, pretty bad.
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