Game Thread Spurs (8-3) vs Warriors (7-6) (Fri 11/14/25) [8:30PM CDT]

[CGD]

Curry is so ridiculous lol. Gonna miss Steph heater games more than anybody from this generation. But spurstalk people hated him because he wiggles his shoulders

Steph is amazing. All love for that guys. Never understood the hate, but maybe that's because I grew up with Duncan and the big three doing the same to young teams and making their fanbases grown for over a decade.

 

[Timdunkem]

Boils down to this:: combined 45 millions in salary to get this kind production from the wing spot is not gonna cut it..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1989566743203783129

They have such glaring flaws. KJ is nearly unplayable on offense, and Vassell is too when his shot isn't falling. Like I said last night, I wish we could fuse Devin and his raw talents with KJ and his competitive fire to win so that we could have at least one complete wing player. Smfh

 

[Amuseddaysleeper]

We need a stretch 4 so badly (not Barnes) that can also defend

 

[OK Computer]

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Barnes defended well.

I guess I’m not as pessimistic about this loss vs the loss on Wednesday night. If it was flipped, I’d be as doomer as everyone else. They were in the game most of the way and were fighting Curry in god mode. Nobody’s play tonight felt indicative of how they would play the rest of the season. After the Wednesday game, i was mad the next morning. This morning, I feel good about how they fought.

 

[ginobilized]

We struggle with small ball lineups that pressure and create a lot of chaos. Last night reminded me of the Warriors series with the Rockets. Crafty chaos and some young team mistakes in clutch time. Basically 2 charges in a row within 24 seconds on Vassell, one offensive and the next defensive denied us 2 chances to win. Our deficiencies defending the 3 reared their ugly head again.
Wemby was strong down the stretch and Castle found some ways to contribute. Mitch seemed like he was in over his head and coached accordingly. I wish we could run some schemes with pin downs, back screens and circular movement around Wemby. Nobody does that better than GS.

 

[Dbreiden83080]

This. And don't get me wrong. I don't want Mitch to fail but, under normal non-Spurs Family circumstances, Mitch would have been picked off the Spurs with an opportunity to be a head coach for a team without playoff aspirations. Maybe a Hornets or Wizards type of situation where he could cut his teeth and the league would find it whether he has it or not to coach a playoff bound team. Instead, Pop put his name on the list and he got past the velvet rope and we have, in effect since he used Pop's system last year, a rookie coach trying to manage a generational player and overall young squad. Growing together is great when you don't have potential playoff talent but when you have a Wemby, who wants to win now, maybe you shouldn't take the keys to the car from grandpa and hand them to a sixteen year old.

The emotions of a couple of tough losses are really shining through here. Everybody take a deep breath and calm the hell down. It’s so early in the season.

 

[ginobilized]

One other aspect of this team right now, we have to learn how to win together. It's a painful process because losing is the ultimate teacher. In that way, we are right where we should be. I don't see a 40-something win season as a disgrace. We still have a long way to go to get to the top. When we get there, 4-5 of this team will still be Spurs. Wemby/Castle/Harper and maybe CB/?.

 

[SupremeGuy]

Watching Unc Steph play like it was 2013 was some saggot fit.

That bitch white dude was killing us too.

I wonder if Wemby will ever learn to get position in the post before asking for a pass.

 

[jeebus]

Steph is amazing. All love for that guys. Never understood the hate, but maybe that's because I grew up with Duncan and the big three doing the same to young teams and making their fanbases grown for over a decade.

He can eat a dick. Everyone fell in love with the 3 chucking style after the Fag Brothers became a thing, and made the game a snoozefest. I can't stand watching him play or his bullshit flopping tendencies, acting as if he survived D-Day after every play. The way golden state gets away with moving screens and holding is the NBAs version of the tush push. Should be a foul called every time but the refs don't give a shit because the warriors = revenue.

 

[elpimpo4cc]

Warriors "dynasty" is a disgrace that will be written off by history as a gimmicky scheme

This season will be a success for me if spurs finish above 500. At this point wemby is a great dominant talent but not a winner yet

 

[Area 51.247]

About Curry ... he had only one 40 and a 50+ point game last season. His last time with 40+ points in two consecutive regular season games was in November 2022.

so props to the Spurs for whatever they did to him to make this shit happen.

It was an existential threat moment for the Warriors after OKC pummeled them like a pinata. Kerr, Curry, Green, and Butler accepted it for that, and pulled their team along.

They were 1-6 on the road, iirc, 6-6 overall, and facing significantly more road games this month. If they lost these two to SAS, it would have extremely difficult to work back into playoff relevance with an old, injury prone team.

These were must win games for GSW and they played like it, just like in a playoff series. Their deep knowledge, experience, and craft showed up. That the Spurs played them so well with obvious lineup and experience mismatches is encouraging to me.

 

[LeBowen]

It was an existential threat moment for the Warriors after OKC pummeled them like a pinata. Kerr, Curry, Green, and Butler accepted it for that, and pulled their team along.

They were 1-6 on the road, iirc, 6-6 overall, and facing significantly more road games this month. If they lost these two to SAS, it would have extremely difficult to work back into playoff relevance with an old, injury prone team.

These were must win games for GSW and they played like it, just like in a playoff series. Their deep knowledge, experience, and craft showed up. That the Spurs played them so well with obvious lineup and experience mismatches is encouraging to me.

And why wasn't it a must game for our guys? We got nothing to prove?
Once again, we can't afford to have slow starts with a bunch of turnovers against experienced teams. We could've and should've beaten these Warriors early on.

 

[BatManu20]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1989730357755740496

 

[Area 51.247]

Except they lost the game in the last 6:51 minutes, giving up a ten point lead with VW, Swipa, Castle, Barnes, and Vassel on the floor the entire time.

Part of that lead loss was a 9-0 run by GSW fueled by two threes from GPII and one from Podz. Their role players delivered in the crunch.

Big leads for these Spurs are like Halloween candy for impulsive children: in the bag one moment, gone before they get home.

 

[NotoriousHOP]

The emotions of a couple of tough losses are really shining through here. Everybody take a deep breath and calm the hell down. It’s so early in the season.

Understandable that some people might be emotionally on the edge but this has been my opinion since the day Mitch took the reins to the team and I have multiple posts prior to these losses stating the same thought. I've gone through the highs of the dynasty period and been through the lows of watching Uwe Blab, Zarko Paspalj, and Lloyd Daniels on the team. Does that qualify my opinion above others? No but I call it like I see it without homer glasses even if I deeply consider this "my team". I want success for this team more than any individual coach or player and it manifests itself as cold, calculated thoughts that inform my conversations and forum posts. In the end, they are just opinions and I enjoy hearing the thoughts of others and even getting my own challenged. Debate and screaming irrationally about sports is the spice of life!

 

[O_V]

I know Champ has stepped on the sideline a lot, but the one on the baseline last night wasn't on him, IMO. Someone swatted the ball to him in a crowd. He's so much better on both ends than Vassell, and is far better at knowing his role and staying in it.

The difference in this team with and without Harper is so drastic that its hard to believe. How TF was Rutgers so bad?

 

[dn0774]

Actually I just rewatch the last shot by Fox and actually Wemby had a chance for a lob. Only Raymond was in front of him but Wemby had good position and he is a foot taller

Draymond has made an entire career out of playing way bigger than he has any right to. He was absolutely trying to bait the lob pass imo. The window for that pass to be successful was there, but it was incredibly small, probably even smaller than the shot just going down.

 

[dn0774]

So quick question i'm pretty sure I know the answer to but want to make sure.

On the Draymond foul on Wemby's oop dunk, Kerr fought (successfully) for the basket to not count and say it was on the floor...would it not just be a foul before inbounds then? Isn't that a free throw and then possession back? Or is that only in the last 2 minutes of a quarter or something?

 

[PanameSpur]

We are the worst team at defending the 3 he is the best 3 pts shooter of the league.. no surprise he goes for 40

The surprise is the absence of a counter from the Spurs for predicatable game plan by the Dubs.

Even after game 1 that wasn't enough for Mitch to prepare something it seems smh

 

[Shmurs]

Curry jumping into Fox and getting rewarded for not trying to score flat out sucks. That’s a foul because you can extrapolate it out into a real actual foul if the context was different. But it’s also not a foul because it’s a shitty gutless play that shouldn’t be an NBA staple.

They need to address that specific play. And guys just generally going into an action with the intention of getting free throws. Too much horse shit around the league with this.

 

[LeBowen]

So quick question i'm pretty sure I know the answer to but want to make sure.

On the Draymond foul on Wemby's oop dunk, Kerr fought (successfully) for the basket to not count and say it was on the floor...would it not just be a foul before inbounds then? Isn't that a free throw and then possession back? Or is that only in the last 2 minutes of a quarter or something?

They called a foul after the ball was already in the air, but before Wemby got it.
The usual off the ball foul when the fouled player doesn't have possession.

 

[CrustyCoastBendFan]

It was an existential threat moment for the Warriors after OKC pummeled them like a pinata. Kerr, Curry, Green, and Butler accepted it for that, and pulled their team along.

They were 1-6 on the road, iirc, 6-6 overall, and facing significantly more road games this month. If they lost these two to SAS, it would have extremely difficult to work back into playoff relevance with an old, injury prone team.

These were must win games for GSW and they played like it, just like in a playoff series. Their deep knowledge, experience, and craft showed up. That the Spurs played them so well with obvious lineup and experience mismatches is encouraging to me.

And why wasn't it a must game for our guys? We got nothing to prove?
Once again, we can't afford to have slow starts with a bunch of turnovers against experienced teams. We could've and should've beaten these Warriors early on.

These aren’t MUST-WIN games for the Spurs right now—they’re still on the COME UP. This is a team projected to take a step into the play-in, and we’ve all been a little fooled by their early-season masquerade as a top-three squad. Sure, they could pull it off if everything goes WRIGHT and not MITCH. It all comes down to whether MITCH is the real deal or just FOOL’S GOLD, as y’all like to say.

For the Warriors, this was a MUST-WIN—just as Area 51.247 proclaimed. They’re in a frantic race against Father Time, clinging to relevance like it’s the last lifeboat on the Titanic. Watching Curry nurse a shoulder tweak, Butler roll an ankle, and Draymond finally—after a “dynasty”—get whistled for his slapstick routine of MOVING screens (as if auditioning for the NFL as a pulling guard) only hammers home the truth: they might be destined for another season as a bottom-seed, play-in hopeful. That is, unless Draymond and Butler decide to settle matters WWE-style in a backstage brawl.

 

[Navigator72]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1989730357755740496

Man he sounds like the Big Fundamental when he talks.

 

[spurs10]

I agree that Fox is just coming back and we can give him some time before expecting him to be at his best.

But then maybe we shouldn't give him the ball with the game on the line then, right now. He had a realistic window into a Wemby halley-oop on that play.

Yes getting it into Wemby would have great, but that last play wasn't what bothered me. I haven't rewatched the game, but we were up 1 with possession of the ball with about 26 seconds left and instead of running the clock down, Fox took a fade-away jumper he missed giving GSW ample time to score. They missed , but Curry went to the line and that was game. Fox's last shot was understandable comparably.

 

[Robz4000]

So quick question i'm pretty sure I know the answer to but want to make sure.

On the Draymond foul on Wemby's oop dunk, Kerr fought (successfully) for the basket to not count and say it was on the floor...would it not just be a foul before inbounds then? Isn't that a free throw and then possession back? Or is that only in the last 2 minutes of a quarter or something?

Thought the same thing during the game tbh.