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The San Antonio Spurs are expected to take a step back without a top-five player like Kawhi Leonard in their lineup, but the newly re-signed Rudy Gay is puzzled by the sheer disrespect oddsmakers in Las Vegas are giving his team.
The Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas has gone as far as predicting the Spurs won't crack the playoffs in a loaded Western Conference, giving them an over/under of 43.5 wins, which would surely leave them out of the playoffs for the first time since the 1996-97 season.
“How is that?” Gay said, when informed of the prediction, according to Tom Orsborn of the San Antonio Express-News. “Why were we expected to be so much better last year? Because Kawhi may have come back? He didn't, and we were still a playoff team, really a couple of wins away from being a third or fourth seed in the West.”
“Nobody expects us to be good. I don't know why.”
Gay offered that this time around, the team will have a much more streamlined approach to the season, not having to deal with the seed of doubt planted in them for the entire campaign.
“This year is going to be different, just knowing who we got and continuing to just grow and become a better team together,” Gay said. “When you have situations like we had last year, there is always something lingering like, ‘Are you going to trade him?' Who is going to be packaged in?' We don't have that this year.”
The Spurs are expected to go back to a mum level at the national stage, something they have been known for throughout the last two decades under coach Gregg Popovich, making the 2017-18 season the lone anomaly of what has been known as a sanctuary safe of rumors and hearsay.
