12-14-2025, 06:59 PM
(12-14-2025, 03:28 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Spurs are positioned so well. Really good sign that they were winning games without Wemby. He may not be a guy who plays 70 plus game often. We will see though.
I don’t know who you can be so impressed with San Antonio. Although I liked how OkC handled defeat. There were a couple of plays that is they went a different way, OKC might have pulled it out. But they shook the spurs hands and looked in good spirits. Behind that though you know they will remember this defeat and some of the talk. SA better get ready for it.
I love Brunson and he is so darn good. Still though I feel like the Knicks offense is too dependent on him. I think they have parts to take some load off of him. He is so efficient though. I do like that backup point too. He was real good in college too. A
Little bigger than Nembhard but they play similar.
I was not trying to say SA is a title favorite now, OKC is still by far the frontrunner, imho. But SA is legit good. I was also surprised they kept winning without Wemby. While SA had a bad shooting night, OKC was even worse. If they would shoot closer to 40 %, they could have blown SA away by half. SA has many suspect shooters and time will tell if they can be good. Other than Barnes, no other of their players could be considered as a great shooter. But many of their players are currently shooting above their career averages. Fox for example significantly above.
Brunson is in many regards very similar player to Luka and New York managed to build an ideal team around him with elite two way wings in Anunoby, Bridges and Hart. Their bench is their weakness and in past couple of seasons Thibs was running starters to the ground in regular season. We will see if the new coach can bring them fresher to playoffs. Early results are positive as last year the starters were all playing over 35 mpg. This season Brunson is playing most with 35.1 mpg, rest of key players is between 29 and 35 mpg. It might cost them a couple of losses in the regular season, but should be a factor in playoffs.