The Spurs’ season has been over for a few days now, but time has not made summarizing it in any easier. Were the Spurs better than expected and ready for a leap, or were they just overachievers that benefited from an uncharacteristically shallow West? There’s a case to be made either way. Do they finally have a core? It’s too early to say.
The season just doesn’t allow for definitive conclusions or tidy narratives in the way others have. Too much happened. That’s just the reality of rebuilding, with its unpredictable ups and downs determined by hundreds of factors.