OffRtg: 116.5 (9) DefRtg: 111.5 (3) NetRtg: +5.0 (5) Tempo: 100.6 (16)
The Spurs are simply 8-8 since they beat the Thunder for the third time on Christmas Day, a stretch that features losses to the Jazz, Grizzlies and Pelicans. However they’re nonetheless in second place within the West and one in all 4 groups (all within the Western Convention) that rank within the prime 10 on each ends of the ground.
Three takeaways
1. The Spurs have scored greater than 124 factors per 100 possessions over their final 4 wins, however they nonetheless rank simply twenty fourth offensively (111.8 scored per 100) since Christmas. Stephon Citadel and Dylan Harper have mixed for an efficient subject aim proportion of simply 40.4% over the 16 video games, and Harrison Barnes has gone quiet, averaging simply 6.2 factors, down from 12.9 by the Christmas win in Oklahoma Metropolis.
2. Keldon Johnson has picked up a few of the slack. His 20.2 factors per 36 minutes could be the second-highest mark of his profession, and he’s having his best season (true taking pictures proportion of 65.2%) since his rookie 12 months, when he tried solely 89 photographs. He’s been the one Spur who’s performed in clutch time in all 10 of their video games since Christmas which have been inside 5 factors within the final 5 minutes.
3. The Spurs did get Devin Vassell again from a 13-game absence on Sunday, and so they’ve outscored their opponents by 12.9 factors per 100 possessions with Vassell, De’Aaron Fox and Victor Wembanyama on the ground collectively, although that pattern measurement (137 minutes) remains to be fairly small.
Developing: The Spurs could have an opportunity to avenge final week’s loss in Houston once they return to the Toyota Middle on Wednesday. They’re 8-7 (5-0 at residence or on a impartial court docket, 3-7 on the street) in video games performed between the highest seven groups within the West.
