If there was ever a week for the Spurs to start working on setting rotations for the marathon that is the second half of the season, this was not it. With the team and LaMarcus Aldridge mutually agreeing to part ways as they shop him on the trade market, DeMar DeRozan missing two games for his father’s funeral, and three main rotation players returning from COVID protocols, nothing about this team was normal this week, and it showed in the wild levels of inconsistency from game to game.
Week 12: The win-loss record from this week — losses at Dallas and Philadelphia and a win at home over lowly Orlando — isn’t that surprising given the circumstances, but the wild swings from game to game were something to behold.