Game Thread Spurs (23-9) vs Knicks (23-9) (Wed 12/31/25) [6:00 PM CDT]

spurraider21 said:
not really. losing on the road to a good cavs team then dropping to a good knicks team is not really cause for panic. while you'd obviously rather win, those are the losses you'd expect to see along the way. its losing to bad/mid teams (jazz game) that are cause for concern. we've already shown we can hang with okc, denver, lakers, rockets. our loss to the knicks in the cup final was a hard contested game until they pulled away a bit in the 4th.

if we were getting constantly routed every time we played a good team, then i'd be concerned (like the first suns game)
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The last loss to the Cavs was a home game.
 
STAT88 said:
You can still do that.

Sub Harper out at 6 minutes left in the 1st. Leave Fox in.

Sub in Harper for Fox with 3 minutes left in 1st.

Sub in Fox for Harper with 9 minutes left in 2nd.

Sub Harper back in with 6 mins to go in 2nd. Leave Fox in.

Repeat second half.

36 minutes each. They can handle that on a shorthanded night. Both start and finish the games.
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Yeah when Fox was out the other night they staggered Castle and Harper but they overlapped them at least once.
 
spurraider21 said:
losing on the road to a good cavs team
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It was a home game.
Can't lose 3 straight at home.

As I wrote after the Cavs game, it's a way bigger concern than the Jazz game for me.
Jazz couldn't miss from 3 and even against bad teams there's only so much you can do in the modern NBA.
Cavs were supposed to be a statement game which was supposed to show Jazz game was a bad day in the office, but despite Cavs also being really bad for 3 quarters, Spurs couldn't sort their offense out and every time an important possession was happening, they fucked up and didn't get a good look.
 
I'm hoping Castle goes tonight, because I'm curious how our offense looks without Vassell in the lineup. Nothing against Devin, but we do tend to run a lot of early sets for him to "get him into the game" and sometimes it almost seems a little forced. Champ (assuming he starts for Dev) and Barnes are low usage shooters and I want to see how that works with our 3-usage stars.

Fox/Castle/Champ/Barnes/Wemby have only played 7 minutes together this season so I won't put too much stock in their +84.6 NETRTG (:st-lol: ) [note Fox/Castle/Champ/Barnes/Kornet also has a +53.8 NETRTG in 6 minutes].

Fox/Castle/Vassell/Barnes/Wemby has a +12.5 NETRTG in 75 minutes (and subbing Wemby out for Luke has a +10.3).
 
Looks like Knicks found themselves a potentially solid player.


51st pick, 6'9 with huge wingspan, French.
Born in '05, so it's not like he's an old rookie.
 
Sugus said:
It really is boomer talk, and your Fox example goes to show how flawed the logic is - the same Spurs' medical team which gave Fox the green-light last season, is also handling Castle's thumb case here and possibly holding him out over it.

At this point it really should be wide and common sense that a three-word description of any given injury is far too little for outsider fans to make judgements on. Literally no medical professional would ever make a diagnosis based on only the injury name/type, yet many fans feel entitled to judge whether a given injury "should" keep a player out or not, or how long to be sat based on a Google search of "[X injury] recovery timeline".......... It's ridiculous, beyond narcissistic, and certainly boomer-esque.
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Big difference in grip and usability between an opposing thumb and a finger that can be taped up to its neighbors.🖐️
 
spurraider21 said:
not really. losing on the road to a good cavs team then dropping to a good knicks team is not really cause for panic. while you'd obviously rather win, those are the losses you'd expect to see along the way. its losing to bad/mid teams (jazz game) that are cause for concern. we've already shown we can hang with okc, denver, lakers, rockets. our loss to the knicks in the cup final was a hard contested game until they pulled away a bit in the 4th.

if we were getting constantly routed every time we played a good team, then i'd be concerned (like the first suns game)
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The Cavs game was at home, not on the road.
 
Looking forward to this.

Undoubtedly Spurs created this challenge by upending OKC three straight.
Reading some of the posts though makes it sound like this is a “must win”.

I thought the Jazz and Cavs played terrific team ball to beat us yet we were in both games for the majority of the contests.

Developing the Fox-Castle-Harper triumphant still has to be a key.
I don’t want to stagger rotations purely based on shooting misgivings or overlapping play styles given the end game results of recent contests.

They’re well ahead of where ALL pundits had them at this part of the season.
Let’s keep pounding the rock.

GSG!
 
Keldon says that the llama is on the way and TJ Ford says he's got no clue what a llama is. :st-lmao:
 
I understand that it’s tough to get up like this for every single game, but they showed a montage on League Pass where Wemby was mic’d up during the first OKC game in Vegas… and that’s the Wemby I want to see more of. During timeouts he was encouraging the team to get every rebound, he was calling out assignments on defense, coming into timeouts while he was on a rest he was saying “Luke, that’s it, every rebound!” It was a beautiful sight.

We already knew he wanted those OKC games badly, but that was a side of it we don’t always see. I want to see him leading and pushing our guys like that more often. Tonight is a good night to start.

We’re on a 4-game losing streak (and all at home) with Wemby starting. Let’s end that tonight.
 
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