Game Thread Spurs (62-19) vs Nuggets (53-28) (Sunday 4/12/26) [7:30PM CDT]

Even if we make it to the WCF (far from guaranteed obv), we're going to be facing a well-rested OKC team cause they're about to cake-walk to the Conference Finals now thanks to us.

Oh well. Nothing we can do now. We made our bed, time to lie in it. The Playoffs are officially upon us boys.
 
I’m not gonna put the nail in the coffin that we can’t beat Denver in a series. 3 games we played them without Wemby and the one game we had him, we were in control for basically most of it.

They would be our toughest matchup for sure, but fuck all the defeatist attitudes. It’s not like a lot of you believe in our guys to begin with due to their lack of playoff experience.
Dude, it’s not about thinking that we can’t beat Denver. I absolutely think we have a decent shot at beating Denver in the playoffs, and would even say we’re favorites.

Why would you not want to play LA or Houston though? Why would you not want to make OKC deal with Denver rather than getting a free trip to the WCF? Why would you want Wemby to have to have a tough physical series dealing with Jokic and Valunciunas instead of Sengun or Ayton?

There are just so many reasons why it was CLEARLY in the Spurs’ best interest to win this game and knock Denver down to the 4 seed. They shat the bed and blew the opportunity.

I’m not saying the season is done and there’s no hope…but I think anyone acting like this loss is meaningless or has no bearing on our title chances is delusional. I’ll be over it once the playoffs start but for now it’s just very annoying. The icing on the cake is that it also helps Houston and I fucking hate the Rockets :st-lol: Would’ve loved to see them get 4-1d by Denver in the first round, but now they probably make it to the 2nd.
 
Mitch with the dumbass decision to play small ball against the Nuggets. It just won't work against them because both Jokic and Valanciunas are both great post up players. Both abused it whenever they faced it on the court. That's really when the game was lost granted the Spurs didn't have much options with Plumlee and Bismack but I would have rolled the dice and played Plumlee. Plumlee could have atleast prevented some offensive rebounds.
 
Welp Minny gets Denver, which could be a 6-7 game series. Denver won the season series 3-1 but Denver’s wins all came in October, November, & December. The last meeting (in March) was won by Minnesota.
 
What happened to Julian off late?

His shot completely fell off. His rebounding was not great either.

Its less better to talk about Fox. He is very good going to rim and taking made ranger… still just want to shoot 3’s….
 
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