SPURS SQUAD SHOW: Are late game lapses DOOMING title dream? | Spurs in on Karl-Anthony Towns?!
Casey Viera, NBA champion Devin Brown and “Locked On Spurs” daily podcast host Jeff Garcia discuss San Antonio’s latest clunch time collapse Tuesday in Houston against the Rockets, and whether it’s concerning with the playoffs rapidly approaching.
The trio also gives a midseason grade to the Spurs’ backcourt core of De’Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper and explore the idea of potentially trading for New York Knicks big man Karl-Anthony Towns.
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lol you guys are way to reactionary. Oh my goodness they lost a game and y'all act like the world is ending! The team is going to go through growing pains cause are key players are new to these situations. They will win 50+ games and y'all will complain at every single loss like bro just enjoy the fact the team is ahead of schedule. In three years none of this will be happening cause are key players will have had seasoning in the NBA. And for goodness sake Casey, bro calm down the team needs experience and stop whining. Dynasties are not built in one season.
Idk what games you guys are watching. Castle is a ahot hunter and turnover machine. Castle needs to play off ball and not as the primary ball handler. Please name something besides defense that Castle does better than Harper?
This isn’t a knock on the team. Everyone is aware of how well they are doing and how many games they will win. This is about recurring defects that have costs them games and will cost them in the playoffs if not corrected. The collapses are pretty glaring and we’ve yet to see lasting adjustments. And THATS the main issue. That neither the players or coach are able to recognize and respond accordingly.
i was begging castle to have a solid possession and in turn what I got was a deep drive in the paint for a turnover
i think we're the best team in the nba fully healthy, but we still needing more shooting
First, I love your show and watch it every day.
You make good points while forgetting, knowingly and willingly, one key point. Let me explain: I loved the 2018 Warriors, all their smooth prime fantastic shooters crushing the entire NBA; I loved their 3 pts frenzy, beautiful, mesmerizing, unbeatable.
But you know what? The legacy of the 2018 Warriors affects teams like the Spurs today. This legacy can be a blessing and a curse. It’s a curse when you believe, and it’s pure belief, that teams "must live or die by the 3s".
At least the Nuggets in the 2023 finals and their coach understood that the 3 pts religion was just… a cult: you guys need to watch again how the Nuggets beat and crushed the Heat 4-1 by shooting less than 25 3s per game.
So the three of you, Casey, Jeff and Devin, just like about 80 percent of people it seems, look spellbound by the 2018 Warriors which turned the NBA and most of its followers into 3 points cultists: "live or die by the 3s" is your motto, isn’t it? Please prove me wrong if you aren’t 3 pts cultists.
The problem is that the Spurs look spellbound too. They believe in the 3 pts cult and forget a key part of their identity in the process: the Spurs are not humble enough to recognize that they are an average or below average 3 pts shooting team. Instead, they believe that they can shoot an average of 36-40 3s per game and win most of the hardest games (against Houston, Minnesota, Detroit, OKC) by inspiring from the 2018 Warriors.
What happens when you believe in an illusion like this? You forget your real identity and you do not respect your key strengths anymore.
The Spurs do not want to see how incredible they could be by relying more on their fantastic skills as 2 pts shooters. It’s not about eliminating 3s at all. It’s about respecting your offensive identity (e.g., pick and roll, midrange, layups) by relying less on 3s, especially by shooting less 3s in the 3rd and the 4th quarters when you know that tiredness makes you shoot less efficiently.
Right now the Spurs rarely respect their key offensive strengths during the 2nd half of games.
The Spurs first need to be humble and recognize their weakness at 3s.
Greatness has a price and, in the case of the Spurs, this price is humility. They are intelligent enough to get there.
No it just proving theyre not there yet gotta fix the players inconsistency & rotations too many injuries better coaching maybe need 1 or 2 better small & power forwards to complete the team
about Carter Dayne Bryant.
We will go as far as Fox and castle will take us and at the moment castle isn’t there. Long term I much rather hold onto Harper, if castle wasn’t on the team his numbers would look better. I would like to see Ja play in San Antonio. Trade away Fox and castle. Ja is what we want castle to be and still a lot more time on his clock then Fox. Outside of that the only players I want to see shopped are champagnie, sochan, and a first.
Everybody here can say a player needs to do this or dont do that, but this all falls on the coaching to make those changes for the players. I hope its not time to worry about coaching already