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The Spurs face the Rockets for the third time this season, a 121-110 Spurs victory on November 7 and a 111-106 loss the place the Rockets shut down the Spurs within the fourth quarter, outscoring them 29-14 within the ultimate body. The Spurs’ offensive collapse within the fourth quarter of that second sport has brought on fairly a little bit of concern for followers of the Silver and Black, because it confirmed how the crew may be disrupted by bodily play, particularly within the paint. The Spurs should give you a response tonight, as a result of if the fourth quarter is was a wrestling match between Alperen Sengun and Victor Wembanyama, it’s probably that Houston might come out on prime once more.
The Spurs should play extra of an area and tempo sport to counter the seize and grind protection of the Area Metropolis gladiators tonight, and never go away Victor one on one in opposition to Sengun with out assist from his teammates. The Rockets are actually clicking on offense, with each Alperen Sengun and Kevin Durant scoring 33 of their 108-99 victory over the Grizzlies on Monday evening, so the Spurs protection can even be examined tonight. They’ll’t neglect about Reed Sheppard, who burned the Spurs for 21 factors within the earlier contest coming off the bench.
The entire crew regarded slightly off within the loss to the Pelicans a couple of days in the past, the place they forgot to play till late within the sport and burned all their power in catching up and had nothing left to complete. They’ll’t beat the Rockets by enjoying 1/third of a sport, as they tried to do to the Pelicans. Let’s see if the Spurs can get on a roll going into the All Star Break, just a bit over two weeks and eight video games away. After tonight, the Spurs have a couple of days of earlier than they face the Hornets in Charlotte, who’ve been very harmful currently. Let’s GO SPURS!!
Mitch Johnson is fired at halftime by a Pounding the Rock fan ballot and is changed within the second half with player-coach Jeremy Sochan. That is reversed on the finish of the third quarter when it’s decided that 75% of the votes have been solid by 4 customers utilizing a number of aliases.
San Antonio Spurs at Houston RocketsJanuary 28, 2026 | 8:30 PM CT Streaming: ESPN appTV: ESPNReminder: It’s in opposition to web site coverage to put up hyperlinks to unlawful streams within the feedback.
