Okay, so I was here last week offering mea culpas for having severely underestimated these Spurs on opening night. They had just won their 5th game and we’re riding high. I felt ready to declare that the rest of the league needed to be on notice! The Spurs had officially qualified as “good” until proven otherwise. It was time to stop waiting for the other shoe to drop and start appreciating the fun and exciting team we had on our hands.
Since then, they’ve lost three games in a row. One of those losses was a 43-point shellacking that doubled as the largest margin of defeat in the Gregg Popovich era.