Momentum is a fickle deity. It blesses with out warning, abandons with out apology, and infrequently publicizes its intentions till it’s already midway out the door. San Antonio enters tonight’s match-up in Phoenix nonetheless making an attempt to persuade the remainder of the league (and maybe themselves) that their latest stretch of competent basketball is one thing sturdier than a passing breeze.
Up to now, these Suns aren’t the kind of workforce you wish to face once you’re uncertain of your footing. In a stunning flip of occasions, they’ve constructed themselves right into a balanced machine of half-court cruelty: exact, slow-bleeding, and methodical. They’re tenth in internet score (eleventh in offensive score, twelfth in defensive) and ninth in each Efficient Subject-Aim Share and True Taking pictures Share.
The Spurs, in the meantime, not live on in that unusual liminal zone the place potential and efficiency glare at one another throughout a chasm they haven’t but realized to cross. De’Aaron Fox’s return has given the offense a head, a backbone, and (most nights) a pulse. Even over the past three video games, the Spurs have nonetheless been prime 5 within the NBA in each offensive and internet scores.
His downhill stress forces groups into rotations they’d somewhat not make, particularly late within the sport. But Fox’s affect has a approach of showing the remainder of the roster’s inconsistencies. When he’s blazing, all the pieces hums. When he’s not, all the pieces strikes in matches and begins.
This Phoenix workforce will take a look at that cohesion, having soundly thumped them of their final match-up. They’ll power San Antonio to execute, to defend a number of actions deep into the shot clock, and to outlive lengthy stretches the place nothing comes straightforward. Then again, the Spurs have been proving they’ll win the ugly video games, even with out Wembanyama, Fort, and Harper.
You may nearly sense the Spurs teetering on the sting of perpetual coherence. The rotations have tightened. The spacing isn’t as tragic because it was in October. Even the defensive miscues really feel extra like rising pains than baked-in liabilities. It is a workforce starting to determine what it needs to be. What it may be.
Whether or not that counts for something in Phoenix is one other matter solely.
November twenty third, 2025 | 7 PM CT
Watch: FanDuel SW | Hear: WOAI (1200 AM)
Spurs Accidents: Dylan Harper – Out (calf), Stephon Fort – Out (hip), Jordan McLaughlin – Out (hamstring), Victor Wembanyama – Out (calf)
Suns Accidents: Grayson Allen – Out (quad), Rasheer Fleming – Questionable (ankle), Ryan Dunn – Questionable (wrist), Jalen Inexperienced – Out (hamsting)
