Game 56: Spurs (34-21) at Suns (18-37), Wednesday, Feb 7th, 8:30PM MST

[RunDogGun]

The Spurs weren't on a back-to-back. They didn't play since Saturday. The Suns did't play at home yesterday. Our game finished late last night, on the road. We started a bunch of 20-year-olds. We played 8 1st or 2nd year players. We have 3 starting caliber players on the roster and 2 of them were out tonight. Our only healthy PG (who is pretty bad himself) got injured early in the game and we had play a rookie on a 10-day contract for 30+ minutes and with no PG at all for some stretches.

What did you expect?

A loss but not a 48 pt loss. You expected that?

I don't think any professional basketball team should get beat that bad. I get losing by that much in grade school or high school or even college but not in the professional league when your getting paid to show up and perform.

We could play the Warriors having them on our schedule for our 3rd game in 4 nights and the Warriors had the whole week off and we could even be playing AT ORACLE, and no, I still would not expect a 48 pt loss neither should anyone else.

10 pt loss sure, 20 pt loss fine but 48??!!

Even in a tanking season, us fans should not be content with 48 pt beatdowns and "expect" that. It doesn't send the right message to the awful ownership this franchise has to get it turned around.

Agree ... last year we watched them sit Chandler and Bledsoe. They played Warren, Ulis, Williams, Booker, Chriss, DJJ, and Bender a lot of minutes with just Duds. Never had a loss like this and competed against some good teams.

Anytime we shoot 34% and the opposing team shoots 50%, we will most likely lose badly. Now add in that both teams shot 32 threes, we made three, they made 16. Ulis was guarding a player almost a foot taller and then got injured, and Chriss was coming off a team suspension. We couldn’t make a basket early, and we just never recovered. I’m not shocked we lost this badly. The Spurs have a solid system, and are incredibly coached.

[JMac1]

Why are people getting so upset at this point and time? The guys are throwing the season at this point, if we know it, they definitely know it, so there are going to be nights like this, however, come June, if we are in the top 7, we won’t remember nights like last night.

[hollywood6964]

A loss but not a 48 pt loss. You expected that?

I don't think any professional basketball team should get beat that bad. I get losing by that much in grade school or high school or even college but not in the professional league when your getting paid to show up and perform.

We could play the Warriors having them on our schedule for our 3rd game in 4 nights and the Warriors had the whole week off and we could even be playing AT ORACLE, and no, I still would not expect a 48 pt loss neither should anyone else.

10 pt loss sure, 20 pt loss fine but 48??!!

Even in a tanking season, us fans should not be content with 48 pt beatdowns and "expect" that. It doesn't send the right message to the awful ownership this franchise has to get it turned around.

Agree ... last year we watched them sit Chandler and Bledsoe. They played Warren, Ulis, Williams, Booker, Chriss, DJJ, and Bender a lot of minutes with just Duds. Never had a loss like this and competed against some good teams.

Anytime we shoot 34% and the opposing team shoots 50%, we will most likely lose badly. Now add in that both teams shot 32 threes, we made three, they made 16. Ulis was guarding a player almost a foot taller and then got injured, and Chriss was coming off a team suspension. We couldn’t make a basket early, and we just never recovered. I’m not shocked we lost this badly. The Spurs have a solid system, and are incredibly coached.

Who is surprised.... It's more of the lack of being surprised that's probably got some ppl upset.

I'm not though, I figured we'd get spanked, I'm just into seeing the off season n what we can do.

[bwgood77]

Why are people getting so upset at this point and time? The guys are throwing the season at this point, if we know it, they definitely know it, so there are going to be nights like this, however, come June, if we are in the top 7, we won’t remember nights like last night.

Yeah, losing by 48 on opening night of the season with Bledsoe AND Booker AND Chandler in the lineup was far more embarrassing. Playing mostly a G league PG or a few minutes of Ulis, and starting all first and second year players except for Warren, I didn't expect a competitive game on a b2b against a well rested veteran team with guys who had won championships.

[sunsbum]

holy **** i just saw the score of last nights game.