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A few scattered thoughts on the Spurs

1) The Spurs will not be the 3rd seed. I would be happiest with whatever seed gets them a matchup with Denver in Round 1. If you squint at the standings you would think it’s possible for the Spurs to catch the Rockets in the standings. It is POSSIBLE and home field advantage in the first round plus a probably round 2 matchup versus Denver does sound tantalizing. But consider that even if the Spurs finish the season on a 9-3 run, the Rockets would have to go 6-6 just to be tied. It would also require OKC and Portland losing more 4-5 more times each. Teams are beating each other up, but I doubt this will happen.

2) I hope the Spurs avoid the 4 or 5 seed like the plague. The logic behind this may seem silly. But I believe Golden State is the hands on favorite in the West. Look closely at the standings, there is only one team in the West who is dominant home and away: the Warriors! You know what this tells me? It doesn’t matter who or where they play, they can turn up the intensity and win on any given night. Next, true or not, I measure a season’s success based on how deep the Spurs get in the playoffs. Additionally, the deeper you go the more chance another team might be affected by a freak injury (see 2016-2017 San Antonio Spurs). So I hope we can avoid the Warriors for as long as possible because we have a puncher’s chance against pretty much all the other Western Conference teams (some more than others).

3) Don’t look now, but had the Spurs played at least respectably on the rodeo road trip, they’d likely be in pole position for the 3rd seed right now. But alas, that’s not how the cookie crumbled.

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