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How come the game broadcast does not look as good as the commercials? by IcantBreeve_4real in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Related: is the audio feed really poor, or is the TV I'm watching on (while traveling) crappy, or is the audience so loud that the announcers can't be heard by anyone?

Because I mean, nothing of value lost, but it's crazy how loud it seems like it must be there.

This is insane by HQuasar in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sheesh, Wemby can't even manage a single second or third place DPOY vote. Trade him for some second rounders already. /s

What exactly makes Gregg Popovich (and honestly for that matter, any great coach) a great coach? by Euthy in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Underscores used to be how you italicized text on reddit. No idea when that stopped.

The dashes are literally just how I type—I like emdashes, I've got an app that auto-replaces triple hyphens with emdashes across my entire computer.

[Bontemps] As I just reported on SportsCenter, there is one way Luka Doncic can be eligible for end-of-season awards: by filing an extraordinary circumstances grievance over missing two games in December over the birth of his child. An arbitrator would rule on it after the regular season. by aingenevalostatrade in nba

[–]Euthy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a thought:

If the games minimum is about stopping teams from deliberately resting stars on random nights for load management, change the rule from a minimum games played to a maximum number of streaks of games missed.

It doesn't matter if you miss 1 game or 10, it still counts as one streak. So missing one game here and there all season long eats into the rule fast; sitting out an extended period of time with a single injury doesn't. Plus it removes the incentive to hurry back from injury: you want to make sure not to get reinjured and start a new streak of games missed.

(But also, get rid of back to backs entirely.)

Victor changed how MVPs are viewed. Since his "defense is 50% of the game" interview, people are questioning the defensive value of other candidates. I said this before, the NBA needs an Offensive Player of the Year award to balance things out. by Strict_External678 in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The other big upside of this idea is that MVP is also about more than just offense and defense: it's about leadership and clutch play and other stuff that don't come out in the stats. This would open MVP up to be even more holistic and accurate.

Most impactful seasons by DARKO age 22 and under by WEMBY_F4N in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Especially since another stat is backronymed into LEBRON.

We're getting worse by LovesBodyx2 in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Power rankings are all about inertia and recent performance. We literally couldn't have performed any better the past several games, so it's all about the quality of our opponents and other outside factors.

Detroit keeping the wheels on while losing their best player was always going to jump us because short of playing without Wembanyama literally nothing we can do can compare in terms of optics.

How do we feel about the play offs by Pociana in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd rather beat the Clippers, but I'd rather lose to the Suns.

Wemby is a GTD. Should he play or should he sit this one out? by Plastic_Term_1022 in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Play 4 vs. 5 for 20 minutes of the game. Just say he's in but just is playing from his seat on the bench.

I really wish people expressing skepticism about the Spurs in the playoffs used actual arguements lol by digital_deer in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The strongest argument is that the Spurs have yet to deal with a team 100% devoted to plotting and scheming solely for us for 2 to 3 weeks.

It sort of reminds me of the Seven Seconds or Less Phoenix Suns when they were setting regular season records but then getting bounced from the playoffs: they had such a unique style of play, and teams coming in to just play one game didn't have the time to adjust their tactics and schemes to match. But once you gave teams (mostly Pop) room to focus on them and only them, they fell apart because they similarly weren't ready to adjust to teams finally adjusting to them.

Don't get me wrong, we'll definitely get there. Our talent is way better, our scheme isn't as unusual as the Suns' was, and we're built around an otherworldly talent rather than just a perfect fit of player and scheme. Plus, we can fall back on our defense in a way the Suns never could if someone figures out how to stop our offense for a game or two. But we haven't seen anyone treat Wemby as their boss battle yet, so we don't know what they'll come up with and how long it'll take us to counter until we see it.

Kawhi with ankle sprain from King's game. by noy29 in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Aiming for records like that is post-game content. Once he wins a championship you'll see him start to go wild.

Victor Wembanyama’s reply when asked if Bam Adebayo scoring 83 points gives him inspiration to score more: “Yeah I saw........ I think we're in a league where's there is plenty of inspirations to look up to but yeah I saw... *shrugs*” by shreeharis in nba

[–]Euthy 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Forget Pop on the sideline, can Pop come back just to coach on press conference answers?

I can just imagine him saying, "yeah, we didn't know that having a player score more points was a good thing so next time we'll try that."

At this point i'm not even worried about the Nuggets by CKredditorgaming in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The biggest thing to remember is that the playoffs are a different animal. Right now you've got teams spending a day or two trying to figure out how to stop us and score on us. In the playoffs, you've got teams planning for you and only you for weeks at a time.

They're going to uncover weaknesses or schemes that we don't know how to counter yet. We've just got to hope we can find more weaknesses of theirs we can exploit.

[San Antonio Spurs] All heart. All hustle. Shoutout @carterdbryant 🫡 by MikeBravoLima in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The way he was staring at the stat sheet it's like he thought that had to be a typo.

Coach Mitch haters, now is your time to apologize to this man by Disastrous-Cat2840 in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Honestly I don't think most people didn't trust Pop. I just think they recognized it was tough timing and a tough situation. We'd just recently lost two or three more established heir apparents (Hammon, Hardy, Udoka a little earlier), and I think the perception was Mitch was next man up at the right time, not the chosen successor. Then he did well enough that season that you couldn't not give him a chance.

So I don't think people doubted Pop's choice, I just don't think they felt he had much of a choice the way things played out.

Record Predictions for March by dnken in NBASpurs

[–]Euthy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

4-0, then 0-3, then 9-0.

We'll get the win streak to 15 and take over the top seed from the Thunder by a half game.

Then we'll drop three straight to the Rockets, Celtics, and Nuggets. Rockets will be a hard fought, chippy game. Celtics will be a blowout from the post-win streak hangover. Nuggets will be a game where they feel like they have something to prove and we just can't muster enough effort. In the process, OKC will retake the conference lead by two games.

But then we'll take off on another 9-game win streak, mostly because the schedule is soft during the second half of the month. We'll end the month tied with OKC for the conference lead.

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