It all the time feels odd to write down a preview for a recreation that has basically simply occurred. And but, nearly each season since these home-home mini-series have been instituted, I’ve ended up doing simply that. I’m undecided how I handle to do it so constantly. More often than not, I’m simply seeking to cowl video games that match my schedule, fairly than looking for out particular contests for leisure functions. And right here I’m once more, looking for one thing new to say a few match-up so current that I can nonetheless faintly odor Scott Foster’s BENGAY® from the final one.
The factor is, the Spurs *ought to* win this one. They’ve a greater offensive and defensive score (ninth and sixth) than Golden State (twenty second and tenth). Their web score is 11 locations higher (eleventh vs. seventeenth), their rebounding and rebounding percentages are higher (4th and tenth vs. twenty first and twenty third), even their efficient field-goal proportion and true capturing proportion (4th and fifth vs. fifteenth and 14th) are higher.
So far as I can inform, the one issues that the Golden State Warriors do really higher than the Spurs are ball motion (4th in help proportion vs. twenty second) and never getting known as for fouling the opposition (third in opponent foul charge vs. 18th).
Even then, their turnover points are nearly an identical (twenty fourth in turnover proportion and twenty first in assist-to-turnover ratio vs. twenty second and 18th), basically nullifying a kind of factors.
The Spurs are higher at scoring 2nd probability factors (2nd vs. nineteenth), fast-break factors (sixth vs twentieth), and factors within the paint (tenth vs. thirtieth). They’re higher at limiting fast-break factors (third vs. eighth), limiting factors within the paint (2nd vs. nineteenth), and limiting photographs made total (sixth in opponent field-goal proportion and 4th in opponent discipline targets made vs. nineteenth and 18th).
The one different seen benefit is in three-point capturing, the place the Spurs fall brief in each three-pointers made (twenty second vs. 4th) and made in opposition to them (twenty seventh vs. eleventh). As everyone knows, that’s not a small factor.
Nevertheless, what this mainly confirms is that the Warriors performed their model of an ideal recreation in San Antonio’s final loss. In a vacuum, they’re worse defenders, simply as turnover-prone, and considerably deprived within the submit and on the boards.
They took 57 three-pointers in opposition to the Spurs, received the turnover battle, and took 20 extra free throws, they usually nonetheless solely received by 5 factors. They *ought to* have misplaced to the Spurs, and with out the benefit in even a kind of areas, they nearly definitely would have.
That’s the form of factor that the younger Spurs ought to have seen watching the tape. They’ll know they might and will win this recreation in the event that they tighten issues up just a bit. The Warriors are a workforce of proud vets, although, and the Spurs can’t take that with no consideration.
Nonetheless, the benefits must be theirs. Absolutely the circumstances of the final recreation received’t repeat themselves. Proper? Proper?!
November 14th, 2025 | 8:30 PM CT
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Spurs Accidents: Dylan Harper – Out (Calf)
Warriors Accidents: Jonathan Kuminga — Questionable (Knee), Alex Toohey — Out (Knee), De’Anthony Melton — Out (Knee)
