The San Antonio Spurs got their 50th win of the season against the Clippers in Los Angeles. They dominated the glass and got significant contributions from Area 51 plus more. It\u2019s their first time reaching that many wins since 2016-17, and they still have 14 games left.<\/p>\n
They came out stumbling like they had the Venice Beach flu, missing their first seven shots and were behind 14 points in fewer than five minutes. Their offense was getting out of the mud by the end of the first quarter, in part because of De\u2019Aaron Fox\u2019s rim pressure and Carter Bryant\u2019s hustle, but they were slow to get back in transition and cover the 3-point line.<\/p>\n
The Spurs\u2019 ball movement and persistence to break into the lane closed the distance quickly in the second quarter. The other factor was that the Clippers\u2019 half-court offense couldn\u2019t sustain its production, and they weren\u2019t allowed to advance on the break anymore. It was turning into a massacre going into halftime as the Spurs outscored them by 22 in the period.<\/p>\n
They subsequently returned to blasting the paint like a wild ball and chain leveling a building. On top of that, Devin Vassell made sure to sprinkle in two 3-pointers, and they led by as much as 24 points.<\/p>\n
Naturally, they got comfortable, and a Clippers surge followed when Castle checked out. By the fourth, Wemby\u2019s length wasn\u2019t the same intimidation factor since the Clippers were getting inside, and the frustration on the Spurs was palpable. They were hanging on for much of the period and even when they were about to pull away, Darius Garland nailed a four-point play to keep LAC in it.<\/p>\n
The Spurs had to play the free-throw game in the last minute, and Vassell plus Fox delivered. They also got some help by the Clippers taking too long to shoot before fouling, and they weren\u2019t 3-pointers, which played into the Spurs\u2019 hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Spurs got their 50th win of the season against the Clippers in Los Angeles. They…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":661290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,145911,145912,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-661289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-spurs-game-recaps","12":"tag-spurs-scores","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116242766004344244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}