Let’s take a second and savor this crucial win by the Spurs. Certain, it’s simply the ninth sport of the common season in yr two of the Victor Wembanyama Expertise. Nevertheless it’s a uncommon, serendipitous win that occurs to coincide with my title being assigned to the Google shared sheet for this sport. I actually don’t keep in mind the final time I wrote an article for a Spurs win.
And boy, what a win. Everybody contributed, and everybody bought a bucket. You get a bucket, Zach Collins will get a bucket, in case your final title begins with a “w” and ends with a “y,” you get a bucket. OK, in case your final title begins with a “w” and rhymes with jambalaya, you get a bucket too! Eight Spurs scored within the double digits with a season-high 35 whole assists within the sport. Sharing is caring.
The bench, specifically, supplied an offensive spark and stored the Spurs in management for many of the sport. Keldon Johnson and Malaki Branham led the crew with 17 factors apiece, whereas Blake Wesley racked up a team-high 8 assists. Wembanyama continued to bully the offense with 4 steals and three blocks for the night time.
Rookie Stephon Citadel additionally had an enormous night time, scoring a career-high 14 factors (for now) in his second begin of the season. Citadel ran the offense alongside Chris Paul and was capable of finding factors and teammates (6 assists) on the rim. The primary-year participant positively passes the attention check as he performs massive, particularly down low towards different guards.
I’m sorry, however I’m nonetheless making an attempt to get used to “FanDuel Sports activities Community Southwest.” What a world we reside in now. What’s subsequent? ESPN has its personal sportsboo . . . ah by no means thoughts.
This Stephon Citadel child although. I’m excited to see his progress. The threes aren’t fairly falling in but, however his sport is enjoyable to look at. I’m additionally satisfied Tim Duncan was in PATFO’s ear about drafting the younger Husky.
Timmay: “OK OK we now have to draft this child from Connecticut.”
Pop: “Oh yeah? What do you want about his draft profile?”
Timmay: (wanting aghast at Pop the best way he used to have a look at Joey Crawford) “His final title is Citadel. Which means we are able to draft him. Persuade him to vary his title to Frank, make Sean Elliott scream, ‘Right here comes the Punisher barreling down the lane!’ each time he has the ball. Win. Win.”
Pop: “How a lot espresso did you drink this morning?”
Timmay (distracted): “Hey, you suppose the NBA will allow us to put an enormous cranium on the entrance of the jerseys for town editions subsequent yr? We have already got the black and white colour scheme.”
Shot choice schmot schelection. Give me certainly one of these deep daggers by Wembanyama any day of the week. So long as they go in in fact. The sumptuous sophomore is barely taking pictures 22.6% from three this season, however one thing tells me the Spurs are letting him really feel it out and naturally study his spots or when to take threes. What do you name it? It’s the other of purple gentle, however not yellow gentle. I can’t consider it proper now, however I’ll get again to you.
Inexperienced gentle! Oh mama what a dunk! What have been we speaking about once more? The election? (audible groan from the viewers) I’m kidding. We have been speaking about whether or not Disney can recapture the magic of the Daredevil collection beforehand made by Netflix. However if you happen to’re not a fan of Vincent D’Onofrio then I can’t assist you, and I suppose we’ll return to speaking about basketball.
The nice factor is that the Spurs received a sport with out an enormous night time from Wembanyama. He actually impacts the sport simply by stepping a foot on the ground, however getting contributions from everybody was an amazing boon.
Blake Wesley and Zach Collins made their mark on this sport, notably on this play the place Wesley discovered Collins for a simple dunk. Wesley was close to good for the night time, going 4 – 4 from the sector, 2 -2 from the charity stripe, whereas including 8 dimes and a couple of swipes.
Collins instantly reciprocated Wesley’s kindness and located quantity 14 for the crowd-pleasing dunk. Collins had his greatest sport of the season, chipping in 14 factors and garnering a +/- of 20 in his very transient quarter-hour on the court docket.
Wesley being a pest as soon as once more with 1 out of his 2 steals for the night time right here as he takes the decide the opposite manner for a fast two. Quantity 14 supplied boundless vitality all night time, setting the tone for the bench mob and an appropriately balanced move for your entire sport.
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This dish by Citadel to a reducing Harrison Barnes was savvy play by a rookie exhibiting off his court docket imaginative and prescient. Very thrilling to see him proceed to run this offense. Signing Chris Paul to mentor Citadel is such transfer within the readability of hindsight. Simply don’t present the child any clips from the 2015 playoffs towards the Clippers. The scars are nonetheless contemporary.
In case you missed the sport since you have been too busy placing up Christmas decorations (manner too early IMO), listed below are the full-game highlights:
Subsequent up, the Spurs host the Utah Jazz on Saturday, November 9, 2024.
