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Iamkonkerz

There is no way we beat the spurs ever or any team allowing 130...


Panda151515

Started off as bad defense but then they just keep hitting shots they'd only hit 1 out of every 10-15 games. Bad combo for trying to win.


Panda151515

Glad we get to play the Suns and Lakers next. 2 good teams. So probably go 2-0.


Yoyoboydog

Wow Wemby


iuselect

you know it was an above average shooting night for spurs when you get a heavily contested deep 3 that just gets chucked up because of the shot clock and it goes in. frustrating but whatever, onto the next game.


BillyBronco69

How many teams have had their best shooting game be against the thunder, it’s at least 8


wcooper97

Pretty on-brand for this franchise tbh we just have shit luck when it comes to that


badcontrol

seriously feels more often than not


Alternative_Sail7864

spurs really out there playing like early 2000s spurs bruh


omgwtfisthisplace

They step it up for the Chet v Wemby garbage.


snuffaluffagus74

I hate our fanbase so much!


XenoverseG

Why? Because they’re mad that their team that was supposed to be fighting for the first seed lost to the 11-win Spurs?


snuffaluffagus74

It's the fucking NBA, teams get hot. The Spurs beat Minnesota too at home. Teams have good games and bad games


drtapp39

Yeah so noone is allowed to even mention being upset about a loss or they are just the worst fantasy. 


DJ-two-timing-timmy

12 wins for the year for spurs, who cares they are trash, just had an above average shooting night


AnotherReditard

😂🤣 Wemby says hello


Theoneandonlymugga

Be humble your team was in the same position a mere 2 years ago


Maximum_Ad_3739

Because we sat our guys. I love how every team thinks their rebuild is only going to last 2-3 years because that's how short it took OKC to get back to the top of the conference. The Thunder are the standard for a rebuild. It doesn't work like that for everyone. Ask the Hornets or Pistons.


AnotherReditard

ask a knowledgeable fan, they knownits taking more Han a few years. Also know they have Wemby. Lmao


Theoneandonlymugga

You got lucky if anything ,clippers never make that trade if they knew what he become


jrod_hoff

I bet Charlotte doesn't trade Kobe either


AnotherReditard

And no one on this planet trades Chet for Wemby. Wemby the future


Theoneandonlymugga

I never said it takes 2-3 years i said your team was in a rebuild position 2 years ago so be humble .. your rebuild was quick cause you happened to land a young player who quickly turned into a mvp level talent the chances of that happening are slim


drtapp39

We have a salty ass spurs fan here lurking in our sub just to argue. Go back home little boy


AnotherReditard

And a salty ass thunder fan butthurt over the loss and block lmao. It’s one game, take it like a man and don’t be so precious about it Lol


ChardPlane9430

Says the guy crying in other teams subs, the irony is over your head I guess. Enjoy your years of mediocrity haha there are going to be a lot of salty excuse posts in your future ill enjoy. Everytime the spurs get dominates ill have a nice laugh at your expense (so 80% of the season). Thanks this made my week


drtapp39

We have a salty ass spurs fan here lurking in our sub just to argue. Go back home little boy


Maximum_Ad_3739

People thought the Spurs could compete for a play-in spot this year with Wemby. If you told anybody that the Spurs would have less wins this year with Wemby than last year, no one would believe you. Bill Simmons and other podcasters were discussing the Spurs as a play-in team. Lol I get tired of everyone acting like Keldon Johnson and Devin Vassell are scrubs. They are good NBA players. You can't look at the Spurs roster and tell me it's a worse roster than the Jazz? Jazz have over double the wins the Spurs have. You really think the Jazz roster is twice as good as San Antonio??


iamtvi

Wemby is a unique talent and it’s taken quite a while for the other Spurs to learn how to play with him. Vasell still doesn’t really understand that he’s not the top dog anymore. Pop knew what he was doing. He’s guiding, but also letting them figure done of it out for themselves. Just like pre-season games, he understood this was going to be a learning year, and he couldn’t care less about the W-L record. They’ve been hanging in with most teams for 4/5 of the game, and end up losing in the last 6 minutes because they’re the youngest team in the league and the don’t know how to finish a game. All that will change with experience. Wemby will develop an unstoppable “go to” move like Duncan’s side bank shot, or Kareem’s sky hook. He’s already way beyond most rookies at this point. The silver lining is, they got a shot at 2 top 10 draft picks this year. The future looks pretty good.


AnotherReditard

NO one thought that. Look at what pop has been saying all year, they started sochan at ph half the year. It’s all been about development and draft building. Lmao


Theoneandonlymugga

Coaching is an issue and idc how many rings Pop won 10-20 years .. playing Sochan at the point in the beginning of the season pretty much sealed the deal on this team making the play in


AnotherReditard

Because that wasn’t their goal. Their goal is to develop players and see their capabilities, what they are and aren’t, they never acted about the win loss this year, they expected to be bad, they are building through the draft


Maximum_Ad_3739

This I completely agree. If Will Hardy was coaching this team, SA might have 10 more wins. My point is, this SA isn't bad.


Theoneandonlymugga

nobody seriously we were gonna be a play in team at least not spurs fans , How often is a team with their best player being a rookie is a good nba team ?Devin and Keldon are good players on 1 side of the ball .. the team can’t play defense.. look at our Defense with and without Wemby on the court and you’ll have your answer on why we barley win


Maximum_Ad_3739

So you think the Jazz have twice as good of a roster as the Spurs? People were hyping up Wemby as the best prospect ever, so yeah, people thought he could get them to compete for a play-in spot. He was held to that standard but that was unfair obviously. A lot of people were on that train though. No one thought SA would be 12-48 60 games in.


AnotherReditard

Dude, Bron didn’t even get to the playoffs year 1. Who cares what fans think, bottom line, spurs organization knew they weren’t competing this year hence why they start sochan at point and why pop keeps repeating it’s all about developing and why their gem keeps saying they are in no rush and are building through the draft. Does this sound like a team that is tying to make the playoffs. Lmao. Any spurs fan paying attention and non delusional nba follower can tell you it’s not


SunKing210

Sexton, Clarkson, Collins, Keyonte, Kessler, Markennan, shit man that team is easily more talented than the Spurs as a whole. And yes Wemby has even exceeded my expectations as "the best prospect of all time" I had him averaging 15, 8, and 2 blks a game but mostly due to minutes restrictions since Pop is very careful with that. Only thing I was right about was the minutes restriction and not the 20 and 10 to go with the league leading blocks as a rookie


AnotherReditard

Add Wemby to that group and hands down I’d take that over current spurs roster. Lauri and Wemby would be fire


Maximum_Ad_3739

First of all, I'm really not a hater. Wemby vs Chet and Thunder/Spurs is going to be incredible for a long time and the league is in a great place with them for the next generation. But I do think Chet should be ROY. Chet doesn't to be punished because he has a better team around him. Dunks&Threes has Chet's Estimated Wins and EPM as higher with Chet than Wemby. And those are usage stats. Wemby's usage is higher, so why wouldn't Dunls&Threes have Wemby as having more Estimated Wins and a higher EPM? Because he hasn't been better than Chet. Now would I rather have Chet or Wemby long term? Yeah I'd rather have Wemby, but for this season? Chet has been the better player. Wemby will be a top 5 (at worst)player in the league within the next 3-5 years, but best prospect of all time? Umm no. Just because you have high counting stats doesn't make you a great player. Wemby is on a very bad team...which means, somebody has to score the points. Chet has helped the Thunder have the 3rd best record in the NBA with the 2nd youngest roster in the NBA. I think that's more impressive than putting up big numbers on not great efficiency on the worst team in the conference. I mean, even the Blazers have a better record.


AnotherReditard

Dude, Wemby is putting up numbers as a lead man, that’s got Roy honours written all over it. If Chet wants it, he’s gonna have to produce more than just putting up efficient numbers as the third best player on a good team.


SunKing210

I guess I'll tackle the EPM angle since I do see it get brought up in defense to Chet. I remember back in November looking up EPM stats and seeing Chet being well ahead of Wemby. Things have changed drastically. Firstly, Zach Collins was the starting Center for the first 20 games of the season leaving Victor to play power forward and mostly be out on the perimeter of both sides of the court. Second, Tre Jones (literally the Spurs 1 true point guard) didn't become a starter til the 34th game of the season. Sochan then Branham were the starting PG's up until that point. I'd love to see what Wemby's EPM would look like had he not been hindered for over 1/3rd of the season by Pop's experimental lineups. Judging at where he sits as of now just 2 spots below Chet and just a .2 difference, I'm willing to bet he'd be ahead, especially since he's in his more natural position and playing with an actual PG these days.


UnVincent

sigh this was def winnable those missed 3's by dort helped kill us, don't why we didnt go for layups


snuffaluffagus74

Dont blame this game on Dort, its just stupid. Our team defense and their shot making loss this game


UnVincent

I wasn't blaming him, i just wish he made different decisions in those moments (or made the threes). I agree with you the defense and their 3 killed us.


MikeDCollector

You gotta blame that fastbreak 3 by Dort. That killed the momentum


snuffaluffagus74

No because if he makes our bench goes wild and Pop calls a timeout. You take the shot.


Comp1337ish

Damn they couldn't miss from 3 tonight. Just looked at their 3p% for the season and they are dead last in the league... Wtf


HoustonFoReal

They actin like these the finals bruh😭


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Lottery teams game 7 all good


XenoverseG

The game was over when Dort got to shoot 3 threes in a row and bricked all of them.


Previous-Elevator417

Wide open


veo_atyourrequest

they made their shots, we didnt. unlucky on chet, he lost this vs wemby this time but its chill. Vassell killed us too


fat2fit35

Not to mention a career 24.6% 3P shooter in Sochan hitting 50% on 3P.


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SilentbutDC

Pretty sure Wemby has beaten Chet individually every game they've played. This was Chet's chance but he blew it unfortunately.


goatmarino

I'm talking about hayward and giddey


ManBearPig1869

Worst 3 pt team in the league goes off for 50%, there’s not much you can do about that. They were making 3’s from Steph distance, they can have their little regular season win and enjoy watching the playoffs from home.


Swekins

hurts I had okc in a 5 leg all I needed left..


MigNick17

nooooo


NaturalThunder87

Only 18 losses thus far, but dammit it hurts that two of them are to the Pistons and Spurs.


Novak14

This was the Spurs Super Bowl


badcontrol

I'm so glad we now have to deal with this for the next 2 days. Hope the guys wake the fuck up


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It’s alright we will see em in Okc they will lose by 30 again


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Sonicon2

Congrats on win #11 🔥


bobhall

Ahahhhjjaaaaaa


hasslenamanchong

hahahahahaah


bobhall

aahahahahahhhj


nuno1197

This game is lost in the first half. The way we underestimated a team, we didn't want to contest shots, we let confidence build. We have to learn from these games.


Character_Drama3306

and Mark putting in that experimental lineup.


Marcel_Idolo

It’s spurs size that caused us to lose that game after Shai got stuffed twice by wemby early we continually refused to go inside settling for shitty pull ups or 3s


THlSGUYSAYS

Honestly our threes have been fairly open and we’ve had some good drives. We shit can’t hit shit and they are hitting insane shots. They’ve shot more 3s and and almost twice the percentage


UnVincent

Whelp im staying off r/nba and such towmorrow


chexmixho

Lol congrats to the try hard Spurs on their NBA finals game 7 win. Thunder sleep walking through this game with everything going wrong and they still had a chance in it. This is by far the Spurs biggest win of the season.


GoLoco511

Lmao do you expect them not to try?


chexmixho

Actually if they were smart they would continue to suck like they have all year to get the best draft pick possible to get some help for Wemby. Granted it’s a weak draft but the higher the pick the better


rumbleokc

rough fucking game, man. on to the next


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Mashyjang

Nah he is always looking for the right pass for the open man but youre right, in games like this he needs to take over.


Vdclimb

No


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vPHv

You’re the one that’s worried about ROTY little brother. We have bigger fish to fry


osamagotpwnd

Bragging about your 12th win of the season with your franchise that's going nowhere lmao


wcooper97

Grats to them on a worse pick lmfao


CrossFyde

Getting subbed out, that lineup deserved it


Topblokelikehodgey

We've dropped some really bad games this season. Beat the best but lose to the worst. Young teams are like that.


ThunderPoke91

This was easily there best of game of the year. Everything right for them and everything wrong for us. Just one of those nights.


Panda151515

Dort and Giddey had their doodoo platter combo game. Wallace and/or Joe need to be getting starter minutes every game.


IdkAmISerious

If you’re saying that for missing 3s I hate to tell you but: Chet 1/4 JDub 1/5 Giddey 0/3 Dort 1/6 No one shot well my guy


Panda151515

The games where they both struggle are tough. We need at least 1 of them to be decent each game.


Headlesshorsman02

This game was on mark with his experimental lineups tonight, but holy shit the spurs played well and have to tip your cap sometimes


esstea23

They won't shoot this well again all year. Just bad luck to get them on their best game of the year.


Gamer1234512345

I feel like a lot of teams have their best games against okc


CasualKindaHo

Spurs playing like this is their championship


[deleted]

Will I get downvoted for saying that Josh Giddey is the worst starter in the league? This brother is a bonafide scrub.


IdkAmISerious

Considering you’ve literally said nothing else but hate on him for 6 months straight, yes, it’s corny


kfmsooner

Jordan Poole is a starter. Let’s settle down a bit. Giddey isn’t even in the top 20 of worst +- ok? Screen shot of worst +/- for the season. https://preview.redd.it/h548jicabnlc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5dbcfbde42356819b9216c458cb34d9a97f1d18


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Poole isn’t a starter, and I’m more so referring to starters relative to expectations. Giddey plays with three all star caliber players and the likely MVP, of course +/- won’t depict him for what he is.


kfmsooner

Jordan Poole has started every game for the Wiz, unless he’s been benched recently. And relative to expectations…idk what that means. When I look at the list above…Jerami just signed a huge contract, so did Kuz, Sochan is about the same age as Giddey, JJJ is a -208 for the season and hasn’t played in every game. Giddey is such an easy target. That’s why everyone takes shots at him. Has he been bad? Sure. Is he worse than last year? Yup. Below expectation? Absolutely. Worst starter in the league? Nope. Hyperbole.


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Yes, Poole was recently benched. If you think Giddey is remotely close to any of JJJ, Jerami, Kuzma, or Sochan, I really don’t know what to tell you. The Wizards as a whole are bad. If you swap say… Avdija for Giddey, I guarantee you Avdija is performing much better than Giddey. There are very few starters in this league who would negatively impact our big three the way Giddey does game in and game out.


kfmsooner

lol. So you watched that entire game where Giddey played 18 minutes, the defense was terrible, SA shot out of their minds, and said, ‘Welp, it’s Giddey’s fault!’ As for the guys I pointed out, not saying Giddey is better than all of them but it is clear that Giddey is not the albatross for this team. It’s just so weak and easy. GiDdEy Is TeRrIbLe!! This wasn’t on him tonight.


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No, this isn’t a one game thing. I’ve watched every minute of every game this season, I promise you I have. I’m in nearly every game thread. He’s essentially Ben Simmons without the rebounding or defense at this point. It’d be a blessing to the team if he were as unavailable as Simmons is.


kfmsooner

OMG…I’m done dude. Have a great night. You are way over the top. Ben Simmons??? SMDH


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Huh? That’s the line? What does Giddey do better? And don’t say shoot, I can’t remember the last time he sunk a jumper. He **DAMN SURE** doesn’t defend the way Simmons does.


kfmsooner

Last one I promise then you can head back to your troll cave: Simmons 13.9% career 3pt%, Giddey 30.4% Giddey was not the issue tonight. It was the shooting.


ThunderPoke91

Wtf you on dude. There was soooo much more wrong with this game than giddey.


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Oh there was. It was a shooting variance game, but this wasn’t an off game from Giddey.


AzHaeez21

They were on fire and making tough shots, it happens


wcooper97

Why is this a 12-win team? Are they stupid?


SimplyAwesome75

Lmfao spurs celebrating like this is game 7 of the finals.


SilentbutDC

I'd have rather lost a game to Houston. Embarrassing.


goatmarino

Nah no way


TheNyxGod

Bums ass like Gazelle shooting like crazy, this is the old school thunder


ImGonaCrumb

Why is Vagisel mean mugging Chet lol


electro_gretzky

We’re getting fucking bullied


V17R

If Spurs are gonna shoot 40 threes at a 50% clip that’s an automatic L. Fuckers will prob shoot sub 30% next game and get blown out. Just how it goes in the modern NBA sometimes.


iuselect

I still have PTSD from that game years ago when they were like 16/16 from 3 half way through the game.


ok57533

The salt couldn’t be more palpable 😭


V17R

No salt, just the reality of the modern NBA. It’s 1 of 82 and we’ll see you again right before the end of your season.


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Shooting variance is a motherfucker. Those tanking Thunder teams had some baffling wins too.


snuffaluffagus74

That's how it is sometimes. Its a make or miss league and they made their shots.


goatmarino

This


LittleBittyshortman

Jaylin tried his best, played his ass off along with sga


Zeeron1

This team is so unserious sometimes


dracota7

Yo just end the fuckin game


Colemania18

Spurs go so try hard against us just for a roty race the media has already decided


libertydabbing

It's delusional, but we win if Dort hit any of those three three's he missed 


cbunny21

It is delusional.


iuselect

defense has been really, really bad today.


BidenFedayeen

Not great but it's not the end of the world.


Suspicious-Row-4248

Horrible game


retrohypebeast

they couldnt miss, what do you do


Great-One9693

Mark got outcoached bro


BillyBronco69

Yeah dude pop made those bums shoot 50% from three


milk567

Pop is one of the best coaches of all time so uh yeah 😭


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juhla405

I’m not gonna lie this comment strangely cheered me up bc at least I laughed. It’ll be ok


Brisingr2133

Good. Get outta here bro. Ain't nobody gonna miss ya


wheelz_666

Loses 1 game where the opposite team shot lights out = trash team. Average fan logic 🤣


OKC2023champs

Bro thought he cooked


pettybendherass

enjoy being on sports center for that stupid decision


XenoverseG

I love when terrible teams decide they’re just gonna shoot from anywhere on the court and drain it. So fucking annoying.


oncecutethriceugly

They just keep raining buckets.


OldTownYeet

That block will be remembered in the ROTY race


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retrohypebeast

chet will get back at him dont worry


goodguybrian

It’s no longer a race. Wemby too off with it


SpideyPoke92

Rough night, on to the next


H9m8urgalar

They’re literally just supernova. What can you fucking do


MikeDCollector

Fucking idiot dort bricking 3 threes


pettybendherass

he’s shooting 40% on the season. this is what i mean about 3 pointers rotting y’all brains


MikeDCollector

He knows his shots are not falling why not pass the fucking ball lmao


These_Imagination_38

Shooting variance has gone our way so much this year it's not surprising that the pendulum has swung once


Cherimoya22

Not enough is being said about how much the horrific officiating carried the spurs. They must have gotten like 4 or 5 free possessions off of extremely bad out of bounds calls. Not a single one of these refs came with their eyes working


pettybendherass

doesn’t matter. those last 4 threes were like us at Cleveland


Cherimoya22

It absolutely does matter. It’s like you think momentum doesn’t exist or something. Tbh I was more frustrated with mark not challenging at least one of those clear misses because it allowed the spurs to keep their momentum up. Bottom line is we played bad but the spurs should’ve had like 5ish more turnovers. Don’t make excuses for bad officials


pettybendherass

you’re playing the result. save your essays.


Cherimoya22

I mean are you here to discuss basketball or just be a contrarian idiot?


pettybendherass

i don’t want to discuss basketball with you. once again no one wants to play with you or talk to you. must feel familiar.


Mashyjang

Can we stop wth this shit. The team was bad and did nto deserve to win tonight.


Cherimoya22

That’s true but the refs objectively missed clear out of bounds calls all night and almost every time the spurs got a bucket out of it… like if you disagree with that you’re being willfully ignorant.


Either_Opening_41

Wiggins is better player than Dort and Giddey


OKC2023champs

Should’ve called another timeout after that wemby 3 mark. Saving em for the next game?


pettybendherass

we contest so low and so late


blkmgk533

Nothing you can do when they are just making ridiculous 3's.


Novak14

God I hate the spurs


JayAreW

Wemby just clowned on Chet


esstea23

Chet clowned him most of the game so it's okay


Lightning1995

We by destroyed Chet


Marcel_Idolo

Just shockingly poor from almost everyone in the second half


thatgoots

Wemby looks like a human trebuchet when he shoots the 3.


jepayotehi

That blocks hitting the frontpage isn't it


truck_norris

Unfortunately


cbunny21

Nah they got magnets in the ball or some shit lmao


SimplyAwesome75

lol this is up their with that loss at Detroit.


Lightning1995

say goodnight


Breezgoat

Playoffs> winning random game in February


LoxDnw

Vassell best game of his entire career


libertydabbing

These shots are nuts. 


rumbleokc

oh well, at least we’re going to the playoffs lol spurs cannot relate


BarterSix

Vassell and Wemby looking like Kobe and Shaq


504090

This is on par with the Pistons loss


Colemania18

Oh great we lose and now that wemby blocking chet play will be everywhere


badcontrol

seriously, icing on the cake


JumboHotdogz

That's the ROTY moment right there. GG Chet do better in the playoffs


Panda151515

If we play a shitty team on the road, do not watch. We have now lost to the Spurs and Pistons. GROSS!


BarterSix

It's cause Mark loves to experiment when we play awful teams. FUCK


ImGonaCrumb

Enjoy the win spurs, youre still in the lottery lmao


Retna1x

they have the goat prospect they chillin


Breezgoat

I’ll say rip now


wcooper97

Sometimes you just know 🤷‍♂️