Is this the most talented 5-28 team ever?

The Spurs when they tanked for Duncan when Robinson got injured. They may not have been 5-29 but they only won 20 games that year.

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The players have flat quit.

Last year we won games without Zion and Ingram. We beat the Mavs twice that way.

No way this team should be this bad

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I've noticed that EVEN Herb has turned the intensity level down a notch or two. Vicious rumor that everybody knows we are tanking...I'm stunned...absolutely stunned.

No, part of talent is health and want to. It’s not all about running and jumping. We have low talent character on our team and our current record reflects that quite accurately.

I’ve spent time and money traveling to see those guys. It’s hard not to feel like a fool.

There was a slight period there where the team was legitimately 5-28 bad, but the vast majority of the season, even with the injuries, they should be considerably better than that.

I mean Murray and CJ have been back going on 6 weeks, Trey has been back going on 8 weeks, Herb has been back for a month.

Yet in the past five weeks they are 1-16, being outscored by an average of 11 points a night. They're giving up 121 points a game in that timespan.

It's not an injury thing at this point. They're more than healthy enough to be competitive.

Just bodies out there going through the motions with a lame duck head coach who knows he’s gone by season’s end.

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It tells us a lot of things doesn't it

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I admittedly haven’t watched much lately, but I’ve been thinking a lot about the hard fall on defense. I think a big part of that defensive success the past 2 years was having a critical mass of dawgs, for lack of a better term. Herb, Jose, Naji, and Dyson all got steady minutes and all brought defensive hustle which pushed teammates to hustle.

We’ve seen many times people hoping a new coach would fix mentality issues like low motor or low BBIQ. Those intangibles are talents/skills and you can only coach them up so much. You need players to have them to see it on the court.

I also think the lack of success is likely showing how important gravity is, and how you can’t just get addition by subtraction with BI and Zion. If those 2 are moved with minimal return, you might as well blow it up.

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I also think the lack of success is likely showing how important gravity is, and how you can’t just get addition by subtraction with BI and Zion. If those 2 are moved with minimal return, you might as well blow it up.

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I have said this multiple times, starting in the offseason when talking about moving BI.
Trey has been really great these last few games, but he's not BI and he's not Zion. I heard someone say it recently, we have Trey scoring 30, and we aren't even competitive.

If we move both of them, you have to get back at least 1 guy back with that same all-star level skill set.

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you can’t just get addition by subtraction with BI and Zion. If those 2 are moved with minimal return, you might as well blow it up.

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Who could have seen this coming?

They weren't winning with BI and Z in the game either. So it's not as simple as having those guys available. This goes beyond the players.