I mean, at this point, what else is there really to say? If you are like me, you probably spend most of your time during the course of a Spurs basketball game watching through one eye, gritting your teeth, slamming the remote on the ground, yelling at the TV, checking Twitter to see if someone has a magic formula and, basically, pulling your hair out to match Manu’s. Needless to say, it’s rough being a Spurs fan right now.

The Spurs improved to a measly 24-16 with their road win against the Hornets. Finishing the week at 3-1 isn’t really that bad. In fact, it’s dangerously close to normal. Considering that the “team” showed some intestinal fortitude against the Phoenix Suns on Friday night, won another two they should have won, and lost to a team who is actually currently better than them, I would dare to call it a good week. If anything, that seems to be progress because the Spurs are showing, at least in 2015, that they can win the games they should win.

In the month of Dec… the Dark Ages… it didn’t matter who the Spurs played. We all kind of felt like they might lose. It was rough and ugly and scary. We still aren’t back to the place where we would like to be. You know, where Spurs fans irrationally think these guys will win every single night? Man, those were good times.

Instead, we are in a new phase of the season where we are sure that the Spurs will win games against teams of the Wolves and Hornets, pretty sure they will win against teams like the Suns, and pretty sure they will lose against teams like the Wizards. We just hope they don’t drop those “probably will wins” and we hope we sneak one in against the “probably will lose.”

Of course, as the Spurs rolled out there 419th different starting line-up in 40 games, one can’t be surprised that each game is a roll of the dice. At this rate, there’s a good chance we may see the Coyote suit up before long. In past years, we have seen a lot more Southwest flights home and “DNP-Old”s. But this year, it seems the shoulder surgeries, fingers in the eyes, calf strains, groin strains, back spasms, hamstring pulls and stomach bugs are the order of the day. Miraculously, this team is staying afloat and find themselves only four games out of first place in the South West Division behind the Memphis Grizzlies.

That’s insane.

As we near the midpoint of the season, I think it’s time that we all took a deep breath, stepped back from the ledge and regroup ourselves as the Spurs aim to make a second half push, complete with a Rodeo Road Trip. We have all talked about enough negative over the last month or so. Being that the team finished 3-1 and are 4-2 in 2015, let’s end on a positive note.

Austin Daye is currently our starting Small Forward.

Oops! I said positive. My bad.

Our starting Small Forward is a lot closer to returning than he is sitting out. Kawhi should be back in the very near future. He gives me hope that upon his return, everything will be ok. He should just be days away and then everything will be all better. I think…

Our starting Power Forward is really, really, REALLY, good at basketball. He will be 92…er…39 this April, but still.

Our backup guards are pretty much the most exciting back-ups in the NBA. Patty Mills has come back on a tear. He’s ripping off threes and causing havoc all around. With Parker limping around out there, I almost prefer CoJo or Mills to Parker at this point. Almost.

Matter of fact, our bench is probably the most exciting bench in the league. If I am being honest, sometimes I actually wish our starters didn’t even come back into the game. My current favorite lineup is Manu-Patty-Cojo-BoBo-Duncan, but only if Manu doesn’t shoot.

Boris Diaw is almost improving. Seriously, I think he is getting better at basketball. The dude isn’t getting any smaller. But I feel like each game he shows us something we didn’t know he could do.

Jeff Ayres has played admirably as of late. Washington’s game might have been the best of the season for him, at least in my book. He’s got bricks for hands, but the guy can finish if he ever gets his hands on it. He’s also shown that he is pretty much willing to do anything for minutes. He busts his butt on defensive and never stops moving. He’s a very limited player. But Boylen has really learned to maximize his abilities.

I guess I can’t really mention Jeff Ayres and not mention Austin Daye. Look, let’s just get this out in the open. Most Spurs fans, don’t really like Austin Daye. Personally, I don’t really think Pop likes him too much. But it’s sink or swim time for this young buck and my sense is that Coach Pop wants to figure him out and know what he has. Thus, the insertion into the starting line-up. The way to learn is by being tossed into the fire. After a miraculous performance against the Wolves, Daye returned to planet earth for the Wizards and Hornets game. It will be interesting to see what Pop does moving forward. For me, in my amatuer opinion, Daye is a bit too pretty for Spurs basketball. In high school, we referred to it as “too much honey, not enough bread.”

Spurs basketball is methodical, grinding and for all of the cliches, boring. This team doesn’t have time to be pretty. When this team is at their best, they go to work. They don’t think, they just do. It just bread. But bread sustains you, not the honey. Bread is what won this franchise 5 championships. Honey is what finds the Knicks, Lakers, and Cavs, you know, the teams with the 3 best players on the planet (arguably) currently at the bottom of the standings (or falling). We all like the honey, but the bread is where we get fed.

For the Spurs to be the Spurs, they have to get back to the “bread” of their game. They can have all the honey they want in June.