I do agree with the link that says spurs are playing worse than expected but not because they are better than they look on paper, but because they have Pop and every year even when they were expected to be bad they were good. So this season, if it was any other team with any other coach and they were the same exact roster, I would say the current ranking is expected and definitely understandable. Who do they have?
Dejounte Murray who is a third year player that is unproven, derrick white which became decent just last year, Derozan who plays a way nobody plays anymore, LMA that is exactly same, and Poeltl or Lyes that are new guns. Normally this team doesn't even deserve 8-14, they just happen to have coach Pop so everyone was thinking they would overachieve yet again but this year for the first time in 20 something years they actually play like they are expected to play.
Thanks for the good analysis. Just keeping it real. That is the truth.
It is DeRozan which is really having problems. It is like he suddenly became a rookie. That guy was really something else back in Toronto, I don't really know what suddenly happened.
Is he having problems with the team or the management just like how Kawhi felt before?
Or is it just he cannot do the normal things he did when he was in Toronto which is mostly isolation.
LaMarcus Aldridge though is 34 by now and his body might already be slowing down. We might see him just shooting the ball outside in a few more years.
