The Spurs, who were sitting at home, after two days of rest, welcomed our old friend, Borrego, who visited the AT&T Center with the Hornets, thinking that he would also send warmth to the teacher like Bobo's other disciples.
At the beginning of the game, the Hornets made this place their home, Hayward and Martin kept wreaking havoc on the Spurs' backline, the two suddenly shot inside and outside, the first quarter of the joint 25 points, coupled with McDaniels and Oubre's icing on the cake of three-pointers, the Spurs were overwhelmed, only to fall behind by more than 20 points in the first quarter.
Generally, at this time, Bobo will arrange for my General Fu to come up and put out the fire, and sure enough, Forbes took the knife down and helped the Spurs stop the blood with three-pointers and Peltel's 2+1, and the Spurs trailed 15 points 31-46 into the second quarter.
Good guy, the first quarter let the opponent score a high score of 46 points, which is rare in the history of the Spurs, although he also scored 31 points, but the Hornets felt better.
In the second quarter, the red-eyed Hornets continued the fierce firepower in the first quarter, continued to bombard the Spurs, the Spurs side struggled to support, the point difference always remained above 15 points, the Spurs' defensive end was terrible, fortunately, the Hornets' firepower slowly came down, so that the game did not enter garbage time at halftime.
At halftime, the Hornets led the Spurs by 16 points at 73-57.
Spurs give people the feeling that within 20 points, the second half is still hoped to chase, after all, the opponent can not maintain a hot feel throughout the game, as long as the team has a heart, the second half is still promising.
Sure enough, at the beginning of the second half, McDermott and Murray hit three consecutive three-pointers, a wave of points, narrowing the point difference to 10 points, forcing the Hornets to call a timeout, and after returning, the Hornets made adjustments, facing the Spurs' front line, the killing god Hayward entered the performance time, he scored 21 points on 8-of-9 shooting in the quarter.
Under his leadership, the Hornets blasted another wave of 20-4 climax, once again widening the point difference, leading 28 points in the single quarter 37-25 to end the third quarter.
The 28-point difference made the game fall into garbage time early, although it was so far behind, but the Spurs crowd did not give up, and the fourth quarter began to continue to work hard to chase points, but it was too late, and the pit dug in the first three quarters was too big to fill.
At the last moment, seeing that the general trend was gone, the Spurs were powerless to return to the sky, and Bobo replaced a group of three-team players and announced that they would abandon the game.
The game, which ended in a crushing defeat, exposed several of the Spurs' problems.
First, when there is a height of the forward, the Spurs' front line can be said to be exploded, Johnson although there is momentum, but helpless height is insufficient, in the face of Hayward, the other side is the existence of giving, Hayward 15 shots in the whole game, 6 three-pointers 5, extremely efficient, Johnson in front of him less than half a bargain.
Second, the opponent's hand feels bursting, and our defense is not in place. This game, and the previous two games to lose to the Nuggets and the Knicks, there are similarities, the opponent raised his hand, and our players are hesitant defensively, facing this kind of team with ball-holding forwards, we are often in a dilemma, the opponent is often a block, you can get the space to easily shoot.
Three, the rebounds were exploded. Before we could win the Nuggets and Pelicans, by rebounding to explode the opponent, and this game, Sheng Sheng was exploded by the opponent 10 rebounds, the former board king Peltel this game is almost invisible, only grabbed 2 front boards a total of 4 rebounds, his play now largely determines the spurs ceiling.
Fourth, Murray was studied by his opponents. 4 of 11 shots, only 10 points, no way, the opposite coach is an old friend Borrego, he is too familiar with the Spurs, knows what the Spurs' life goal is, and then press the Spurs' seven inches to play, and we lack a person who can be unreasonable, to turn the tide, the game naturally falls into the rhythm of the opponent.
There is a barely calculatable - Forbes, who scored a new season high of 26 points, is a fig leaf for the Spurs, if there is no Afu's firepower, the Spurs should have disarmed very early, shooting 6 of 11, 3 of 6 of three-pointers, 10 of 10 free throws, Afu provided a full range of fire support, for this Spurs to force a continuation.
However, the real phenomenon is that Afu is the icing on the cake, his ability is not enough to lead the Spurs to launch a counterattack, if the team falls to the point of expecting him to turn the tide and save the team from fire, it is actually not a good sign, it must be a big score behind, and others can not open.
Very helpless, this phenomenon, this season is not the first time.