Simply try to take into consideration how not mad you’d be if this wasn’t the millionth loss in a row. Do it with me proper now. Shut your eyes. Breathe. Take into consideration a world the place the Spurs had been, I dunno, round .500 within the month of November. Feels good, proper? Now, in that specific actuality, if I advised you the Spurs performed fairly properly towards the Hawks and simply couldn’t fairly overcome Trae Younger going supernova within the 2nd half you’d in all probability say, “eh…that’s in all probability effective.”
Which is what we should always say anyway! Actually we should always all simply be okay with this one. Context issues and all that, positive, and the context for this one isn’t nice. The Spurs have a misplaced loads of video games, and everybody round these elements are fairly determined to see one go our manner. In that gentle, sure, watching one other lead slip by their fingers is a kind of issues that’s exhausting to shrug off. I get it.
I’m begging you to shrug although. Simply give this one an itsy bitsy little shrug as a result of there was loads to love. Victor Wembanyama continues to have 7 or 8 performs a sport the place you must rise up and stroll round your home for a bit simply to even course of what you’re watching. Jeremy Sochan had THIRTY THREE factors! Devin Vassell was cooking, and Keldon Johnson had a double double. Julian Champagne was hitting large photographs! The Frost Financial institution Middle felt alive and everybody was rocking!
My level is that this was a fairly enjoyable one. They boys regarded like they had been having enjoyable enjoying in it, and I had a enjoyable time watching them do it. I didn’t spend your complete time soaked in existential dread, and I didn’t take into consideration the huge dropping streak this sport was contributing to a lot that it ruined all the pieces else. It was only a younger workforce going on the market and giving it a run. That’s….that’s type of simply gotta be what we’re available in the market for proper now.
It’s not like we’re mired in some hopeless state of affairs down right here. They’re getting higher, I promise. While you grit your tooth and ignore all of the noise, you’ll be able to see them beginning to gel and determine issues out. They don’t look hapless and unmotivated or something like that. They simply look uncooked. They appear new. They appear like they don’t know what they’re doing. We will work with that, proper? We will work out methods to get behind these children whereas morph into one thing the league has to take critically. That is all going to be good for them and, frankly, I believe it’s going to be good for us too,
The ball goes to bounce our manner quickly sufficient. For now? Shrugging a couple of extra of those off received’t kill us.
Takeaways
We now have to provide you with a cool nickname for the Frost Financial institution Middle. I’m positive the great folks at Frost Financial institution would favor we simply name it, you understand, “the Frost Financial institution Middle”, however I believe we’ve obtained to spice it up a bit bit greater than that. Sorry. However give it some thought. This franchise has a wealthy historical past of enjoying in cool sounding locations like HemisFair Area and the Alamadome, however then we spent our glory years within the AT&T Middle, which is perhaps essentially the most boring, company sounding constructing doable (apologies to AT&T, if you happen to’d wish to sponsor future WWLs please attain out and we’d be blissful to revise this take). My level is, let’s get this new period off to a great begin with a enjoyable nickname. What if we simply shortened it to Frosties? Or The Financial institution? Or how concerning the The Ice Palace? I’m really open to something, I simply don’t assume I can hold saying Frost Financial institution Middle again and again. (Apologies, once more, to the great folks at Frost Financial institution, if you need to sponsor future WWLs please attain out and we’d be blissful to revise this take.)
Everybody retains saying that the Spurs have to get an actual level guard on the roster, and what they’re aren’t getting is that what the Spurs really have to do is get Patty Mills again within the constructing in any doable capability. He’s the reply. He’s the turnkey. He’s the man that may flip the swap for these guys and construct the bridge between the Spurs of the previous and the Spurs of the longer term. It’s by no means been extra apparent to me that that is the reply to all our issues. He walked into The Ice Palace palace final night time holding a cup of espresso with “get shit finished” written on it. You’ll be able to’t simply inform folks about swag like that and anticipate them to choose up on it. They must stay it and really feel it and breathe it day-after-day. Deliver again Patty ASAP!
Okay, I attempted out Ice Palace up there simply to see the way it felt, what’d you assume?
I lastly noticed one in every of our gamers throw a lob cross into Wembanyama that was too excessive final night time! Jeremy drove into the lane and tried to flick one over his head to Vic and it sailed proper previous his fingertips. It was superb! That needs to be unimaginable! Persons are going to take a look at this and shake their heads however, critically, that needs to be seen as progress. The boys have been spending all season throwing ‘em too low they usually’re lastly beginning to calibrate. They’re setting their sights larger. They’re dreaming a bit greater. That is excellent news, I’m telling you.
This block was legitimately disrespectful. In all actually, it perhaps misplaced the sport for us as a result of Trae had no selection however to go on the market and ferociously defend his honor simply so he might look himself within the mirror at the moment.
WWL Put up Recreation Press Convention
– Is there quite a few losses in a row that the Spurs might hit the place one thing may break internally with you?
– Yea, there’s a quantity on the market, however I’m not going to say what it’s as a result of I can’t give my haters that type of data over me.
– What would breaking appear like? You understand, simply so we will concentrate on the indicators?
– Oh, it wouldn’t be something particular, simply your normal subject derangement. This stuff can be a bit extra free on the appears and the takes would change into unhinged, however in a manner the place you couldn’t actually inform if there was a twinkle in my eye anymore.
– Do you assume we will inform in case your eyes are twinkling after we’re studying one thing you wrote on-line?
– Brother, not solely do I believe it, I KNOW it. Don’t attempt to child a kidder. You’ll be able to see the twinkle proper now, can’t you?
– Ha. You understand what? Now that you simply point out it, I actually can see the twinkle.
– Twinkle, twinkle child.
