Game Thread Spurs (43-17) @ Sixers (33-27) (Tue 03/03/26) [7:00 PM CST]

[Paramore]

 

[Millennial_Messiah]

Miss Bob Costas.

"Sprewell... no!! The Spurs, have won their first ever, NBA Championship!"

 

[Paramore]

The Return of the Beautiful Game!

what a tremendous win by the Spurs!

 

[BatManu20]

Miss Bob Costas.

"Sprewell... no!! The Spurs, have won their first ever, NBA Championship!"

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028944386944385244

 

[Paramore]

 

[spurraider21]

the throwback sixers court and jerseys were sick

 

[Ice009]

I don't think he's ready to start...... Which is all the more reason to give him a start now.

Where the hell did "trial by fire" coaching go to, tbh? You used to see a kid with that level of fire - throw him for a round or two with the big boys, make his day. See what he's made of in the process.

He's shown enough to give Barnes a designated breather

Absolutely. This is what I wanted, just throw him into the fire so to speak and see what happens. If they don't want to start him in the 1st and 3rd quarter, fine, start him in the second and 4th quarter (I'll settle for that). In any case, he should be getting more minutes. It's criminal the lack of minutes Dylan gets even when he plays well. I don't care if they're rookies. Give both more minutes. If the vets can't hang, that's on them. Dylan for sure should be getting more minutes. Being a rookie shouldn't matter if you're playing that well.

He starts giving us some seriously productive minutes and we go to another level

Exactly why I wanted to give him a chance. The potential is for the Spurs to go to another level, and that's what I've been saying.

Hope he's alright. That was a nasty fall (though I don't think CB was making a dirty play by any means).

No dirty play there at all. He was going for the block. I didn't watch the game live, so that's why I'm replying to some of the posts after the fact.

Always hated him. One of those Jeremy sochan type of scrubs. Hated him even more when he refused to be part of this team.

I had no time for him after he didn’t want to report here after a trade during the rebuild. Fuck that clown.

I thought the Spurs didn't want him? So he refused to report to the team? Oh well, too bad for him. He could have been in the J-Mac role if he built some goodwill with the team .

Dude was recovering from a meniscus repair. Looked like the ROTY before he went down. No idea wtf morey was thinking. Seems like a great locker room guy too

I've seen Steph chatting it up with him after games too, so it seems they're on friendly terms. Same as you guys, I really don't get why Morey traded him, and also, why he traded him to the Thunder of all teams he could have traded him to, why send him to OKC. What a stupid decision yet again from Darryl Morey.

Wemby just said “i think we’re the best team in the world”

Great that he said that, but, they've never played in the playoffs to know what the pressure and intensity is going to be like. I hope they're not overconfident and are ready for that.

Victor with the self awareness about dribbling into traffic

What did he say? Did he acknowledge that he shouldn't be doing it? If so, that's encouraging to hear he's trying to not do it.

 

[Arcadian]

Spurs have the kind of depth that their 5th and 6th best players can carry on some nights

 

[Ice009]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028944386944385244

At the time, you think it'd be great to go back and watch that, but the resolution and video quality is likely going to make it unwatchable these days .

 

[heyheymymy]

mccain a steal for them

yeah mccain could be a problem on okc

 

[siraulo22]

8-1 rrt is very very impressive

rounding into form, bring back spam vibes

 

[dn0774]

The reason Morey traded McCain is simple, he all but said that he thinks McCain is damaged goods with his “sold high” quote. The kid hadn’t gotten to play competitive basketball in nearly a year after 2 injuries, maybe give him more than 60 days to get his footing back Daryl. Instead he just handed another guy to OKC who can break open a game.

 

[Ice009]

8-1 rrt is very very impressive

rounding into form, bring back spam vibes

It's impressive, but you gotta take it for what it is. Spurs are a very good team and a lot of the teams they played were either tanking teams (Sacramento, Brooklyn, Dallas x 2), or teams missing key players (Thunder, Lakers, Warriors, Suns, 76ers and to a lesser extent Detroit with Stewart out, but this was still a very impressive win as it was on the road), and I'm not sure if these other teams were full strength or not (Orlando, Toronto, New York - I think NY was, correct me if I am wrong?). Great that they kept focus playing all these teams, and winning on the road is always impressive/great, so that holds weight. but I'm saying the Spurs have shown they're now a top team, so these are games they should be winning if they are to be a title contender like OKC.

They have some tougher coming up now against good/great teams, so I am more interested in seeing how they do against teams like the Nuggets. I don't care about winning every single game of these games (of course I'd love it if they did), but if they do well and compete well against this stretch of teams coming up, it'll help solidify them as being truly legit title contenders.

 

[Ice009]

The reason Morey traded McCain is simple, he all but said that he thinks McCain is damaged goods with his “sold high” quote. The kid hadn’t gotten to play competitive basketball in nearly a year after 2 injuries, maybe give him more than 60 days to get his footing back Daryl. Instead he just handed another guy to OKC who can break open a game.

Sounds like Morey is a retard if that is all the chance he gave him to get back into playing shape and form.

 

[Sugus]

Fair enough, clown on me if you want, BUT A lot of people here the whole season have been talking about the big hole the Spurs have is at PF and they didn't address it at the trade deadline (they probably thought it was too early to try for a big move like that). So you don't think that is still a problem? (...)

And also, who cares how the Spurs start games (they're not very good in the third quarters or starting the third quarters usually, so you only answered 50% of the equation saying they start well) when they're letting teams go on huge runs in the second quarter and third quarters usually giving up those leads most of the season

Lol this was my exact reaction as well, like how does being a good 1st quarter team mean the team doesn't have issues to address in the other 3, by far more important quarters?

At this point we can only hope for CB to play every game like he did last night; his presence was palpable on the court. Gimme that swarming defense, physicality, and shot-making over Mr 10%'s sorry ass every night.

I don't need CB to be starting necessarily but he's so visibly a great contribution to the team that it's getting harder to justify the "vet deference" just for the sake of it