After the 126-113 street win on the residence of the Golden State Warriors final week, I spent many of the two hour public transit trip residence flipping backwards and forwards between these two views of the standings:
ESPN’s total league standings:
ESPN Convention standings:
The perfect factor about this profitable season is that there aren’t any extra cases of Warriors-loving pals sending me smack-talk pregame or postgame. This was the kind of recreation that earlier Spurs squads might have simply accepted their destiny and brought the deflating loss. Nevertheless, San Antonio by no means appeared too far out of it this time — regardless of the sizable deficits — and was capable of pull even with and away from the Warriors.
A Warriors fan behind me stored asking the Spurs fan to my left why he stored recording all the things on his telephone, and the younger man rotated and easily stated “These guys don’t make it out our approach very a lot.” <dialog completed>
One of many advantages over the past decade-plus of dwelling within the Bay Space is with the ability to see San Antonio go to Golden State and Sacramento not less than twice a season for many years. Listed below are a few of the spotlight performs that I captured after the very sluggish begin (there was a bunch of people who had extra alcohol to drink throughout the recreation than I had consumed water that total day, so the angles of the movies obtained more and more increased and better to attenuate invasive scalp appearances):
Carter Bryant appears to have discovered his approach into the Bruce Bowen corners, like Keldon has, as a way to discover some offense:
The power for the Spurs to chase down free balls gifted Vassell free throws right here:
This Fox to Wemby lob that was volleyballed in makes me consider how laborious it was in earlier seasons for the guards to feed the massive man these kind of ‘rewards’ for his nice protection:
If Citadel can get 6-8 factors a recreation on this approach, it’ll be a fantastic halfcourt shot weight loss program to depend on:
Harper appears to have the ability to make the simpler passes – on this case, the pocket go to an keen Kornet:
Barnes appears match to be a checkdown shooter at this stage, and he got here by way of late within the clock right here:
Fox’s stepback jumper tied issues at 94 heading into the fourth.
Fox went deep within the paint to Wemby for a Nerf lob – hope to see this 2-3 instances a recreation going ahead:
Spurs milk the shotclock to seek out the very best shot doable within the second:
Devin Vassell asserted himself in a approach that he might be wanted within the playoffs (shot creation genius):
It was jarring to see Keldon do issues to Draymond that the Warrior used to do to different gamers in years previous:
Wembanyama, Vassell, and Fox ran a pleasant play right here to unlock Fox for a pull-up:
Keldon drove baseline for a floater to salt the sport away:
It enjoyable win to observe in a spot the place the Spurs don’t at all times get them, so hopefully they will repeat it after they go to once more on April 1 — and presumably even just a few weeks later if a factor or two modifications in these standings.
