Recently, the San Antonio Spurs played at home against the Phoenix Suns.
Prior to this campaign, the Phoenix Suns had a record of 33 wins and 9 losses, ranking first in the West and having widened the win gap with second-place Golden State Warriors to 2.5 games.
This is the fourth of the Suns' five-game road trip, and even on the road, the Suns have maintained a solid trend, winning six of their last seven games and losing only to the Miami Heat.
The San Antonio Spurs' record before this campaign was 16 wins and 27 losses, ranking 12th in the West, and it was five wins away from the top eight.
In recent days, even with the blessing of consecutive home games, the Spurs' record has not improved significantly with the return of core players. The Clippers, who defeated the missing major general 101-94, ended the five-game losing streak.
Due to the lack of hardcore stars, the Spurs can't stand up to the slightest touch of toughness. And the offensive end lacks absolute strength points, and although the multi-point blossom man scores in double figures, the highest is only White's 19 points.
The core problem with the Spurs is still being carried away by a wave of opponents in the fourth quarter, unable to resist the opponent's score, and unable to put the ball into the basket due to the sharp increase in defensive intensity.
This boils down to the Spurs' lack of hardcore stars, a lack of several absolute strong points on the offensive end, and although they can blossom more than a few points to score double figures, there are very few players who score more than 20 points, and even no one gets a 20+ performance in a game.
In today's game against the Phoenix Suns, the San Antonio Spurs once again suffered a final collapse.
In the first three quarters of the game, the Spurs kept clinging to the score in the absence of starting center DeAndre Ayton, and the Spurs led 91-87 at the end of the third quarter.
But the Suns wiped out the Spurs in the fourth quarter with a wave of 16-7 and a wave of 12-2, and even Popovich's timely timely timely suspension did not help.
In the end, the Spurs ended the game in a final-quarter collapse, losing to the Suns 121-107.
In this campaign, Jacob Peltel played efficiently, scoring 23 points, 14 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks on 9-of-12 shooting. Devin Vassell's 4-of-12 shooting and Jock Randell's three turnovers were bleak compared to the steady play of Dexa Murray, Derek White and Kelden Johnson, which may be a big reason for the loss in this game.
But for the low-paid Landai and the second-year Wow, we don't have to be too harsh, which should also be counted as tuition for Spurs newcomers.
In addition, in today's Austin Spurs' game against the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Zach Collins returned to start the game. It was his debut since joining the Spurs last summer.
In this campaign, the Austin Spurs played a wonderful game, winning 127-124.
Among them, Primo had 21 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 steals, and Zach Collins played 19 minutes, shooting 4 of 11 from the field, scoring 8 points, 2 assists and 3 steals.
I believe that in the near future, we will see this big man on the court of the AT&T Center.