After winning the Jazz in a thrilling game, the Spurs embarked on a four-game back-to-back journey, the first stop of which was sacramento to challenge the Kings, who had lost the last five games.
The Kings have had bad luck lately, with the team short of major generals and morale a bit low. I thought that the Spurs guys who defeated the Jazz could easily take down the king by virtue of the hard fourth quarter the day before yesterday, and the remnant king was also an undead little strong.
It was also by virtue of the amazing performance in the fourth quarter that the Kings' boys scored consecutive points with one fairy ball after another, cutting the Spurs under the horse and avoiding three consecutive defeats.
In the first quarter, the Spurs took the lead in the ball, and Vassell's mid-range jump shot took the lead for the team.
However, the Kings seemed to be fully prepared, and they played a 9-0 small climax to take the lead, and the Spurs were obviously a bit of a light opponent, or did not expect the Kings to play so well today, like last time we played the Warriors.
Fortunately, the lads who gradually entered the state slowly exerted their strength at the end of the first quarter, looking like they were about to catch up with the score, but they could not withstand the Kings to play 8-2 to expand the point difference to double digits, and in the first quarter, the Spurs trailed by 10 points 27-37 to end the battle.
Entering the second quarter, the two teams came and went, each other had achievements, the Spurs failed to erase the score, and the Kings had no way to further open the point difference, until the end of the second quarter, the Spurs played a small wave of scoring, this quarter, the Spurs 29-26, the point difference was chased to less than 10 points, ending the first half.
In the second half, the Spurs scored consecutive points at the beginning, blew the horn of counterattack, and finally overtook the score in the middle of the third quarter, and then the two sides entered a tug-of-war, but the Kings still had a slight advantage, this quarter is still not divided, the Spurs 29-28, still with a 6-point disadvantage into the final quarter.
In the final decisive moment, the two sides are back and forth, using the timing of the Spurs to play iron, the Kings have scored one after another, all of a sudden, to re-open the point difference to double digits, especially in the last few minutes, the Kings' defenders have successively used the change of defense, against Peltel, either directly pull three points, or use the speed to rush in to score.
This move, tried and tested, several balls in succession, directly asked for the spurs' old life, just under the destruction of such continuous artillery fire, the spurs city pool was lost, failed to complete two consecutive wins.
This game, the Spurs are 11-18, firmly in the 12th position in the West, and still need 15 wins before Bobo breaks the record.
Murray, who had been down for several games, finally recovered this game, with a comprehensive statistic of 25 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists.
And Lonnie Walker is still stable, handing over 19 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, his play style of playing with a bit of magic ball, more and more manu flavor, I hope the young man continues to move forward, continue to be unreasonable.
In addition, Brin Forbes scored 18 points; Kelden Johnson had 16 points, 11 rebounds and two steals; and Devin Vassell had 11 points.
The last game was a heroic White, this game played abnormally, only 5 points on 2 of 8 shots, while only one rebound and two assists, Pelter did not play at a normal level, 4 points out of 10 shots, the play of these two guys directly affected the direction of the game.
To say that the shooting rate, it is really not low, the total shooting rate is 49.5%, the three-point shooting rate is also 48%, the free throws are also comparable, playing like this, in fact, there is not much to say, in the fourth quarter, we failed to give a strong response when the opponent scored like the last game, and many counterattacks ended in iron.
On the King's side, at a certain moment, he found that Peltel's point actually had a miraculous effect, so he concocted it, several in a row, using the change of defense, repeatedly playing Pelter near the three-point line, you pounced on me, you let me shoot, a few rounds down, Peltel is a mess, there is no way.
It has to be said that the Kings are quite well prepared, using their physical strength and enthusiasm many times, constantly running and interfering, they can always judge the Spurs' passing line, and complete the steals, and they have 11 steals in the whole game, giving the Spurs a fatal blow.
This defeat once again makes people unable to understand the Spurs, that is, they can win the Warriors and Jazz in the upper half of the zone, or they can lose to the King, and the gods are ghostly, which makes people scratch their heads.
In fact, it is very simple, the Spurs still lack a DeRozan who can throw a very unreasonable shot in front of the old man today, this White's aberration, let us have one less person who can fight with the opposite side in the counter-offensive stage, the last bayonet moment, almost Murray is fighting alone, two fists are difficult to fight with four hands, this failure is indeed not unjust.
Tomorrow, it's back-to-back again, facing the Clippers, they've also just experienced a wave of four-game losing streak and are eager to end the decline, so it will definitely be another vicious battle. But I still believe in our lads, come on!