Michael Erler: Both, really. The wins were impressive in that it’s not like the Spurs had their full squad either, or did we forget about LMA already? I’m not overly bothered by the bad defense for two reasons. 1) It was bound to happen with a squad full of inexperienced youngsters and more importantly 2) the league has basically legislated defense out of existence. The nerds have broken the game. The combination of pace, spacing and the proliferation of all the good shooters in the league make it nearly impossible to defend. It seems like every squad has three or four guys who knock threes down at a 40 percent clip.
The Spurs are out of the NBA playoffs. Long live the NBA playoffs
