Oberto got a season high, we finally played some defense, and won by double digits basically without Martin. We can go back and forth like this, but the initial point was, this team CAN play like this. All it takes is some real effort and team defense
No, no we really can't. Nor can it remotely hold Tim Duncans to 15 and 5 and shoot 55% against the Spurs. Not remotely.
People are just...immature about this at some point, and ironically the people who are immature about it often burn out the fastest. I use the perjorative "immature" here not for pure insult so much as to describe a set of characteristics -- to mean desperate to live in the moment, prone to wildly exaggerated highs and lows, placing desperate oversignificance on everything. Constant self created highs and disappointing lows are just exhausting. And its really not necessary, even for the younger ones. This franchise will survive and be fine, and it doesn't require delusion to do it. In fact delusion is an active impediment. Just focus on the little things -- development of kids. Learning curve of the rookie coach. Trades. Just takes time. Even if you suck for a very long time, you will eventually recover in spite of yourself -- nature of the draft. If you help it along, it does not even have to be that long. One day we WILL be better than the Spurs. Five years form now. Ten. Whenever. It will happen inevitably, the same way so many teams we used to look down upon now do so to us. But beating the Spurs for us
tongiht means no more than what the Eagles did against the Patriots yesterday. They go home, they are still a 5-6 team. Played an inspired game, came ready to play etc. etc. Play them again, would get spanked. Play the next team on their schedule, will be hard pressed to win. We're still the same team. Just played a good game -- and they played a bad one. Better for a night does not = better, or even in the same league. And it doesn't have to. It can be a fun game for us, and a good win, without all the silliness beyond it.