After completing the core player of the team, James Harden, the Rockets chose to accept reality and embarked on the road to rebuilding the team. But spurs, who also sent away the team's star DeRozan, refused to compromise and always wanted to regain their former glory. The reality is very cruel, the Spurs who are struggling to support have not played results, and at this stage, they have only achieved a record of 17 wins and 30 losses, ranking 13th in the West, and there is basically no possibility of reaching the playoffs. However, Popovich's paranoia and spurs' last stubbornness have brought us a lot of wonderful games.
Finding deficiencies for strong teams and sending warmth to weak teams seems to have become synonymous with the Spurs at the moment. And this away challenge to the Houston Rockets, what kind of posture should the Spurs face? At the start of the game, the away Spurs did not give the Rockets a chance to get into form. With the team's starters playing in a state of full force, they soared all the way, playing a single quarter 34-23 score. The start of the game achieved a feat of domination, with an 11-point lead, and the Spurs, who entered the second quarter of the showdown, were able to follow the trend and continue to widen the point difference.
Poulter shot 4-of-6 in the second quarter and delivered 8 points, 4 rebounds and 1 block to help the team play 32-28 and take a 4-point lead. By the end of the first half, the Spurs had a 15-point lead at 66-51. The point difference between the two teams has been widened one after another, the Rockets have been almost beaten to no avail, and the Spurs have won the game. That's right, after Yibian fought again, the Spurs, who had a lead in the score, continued to threaten, playing a 39-23 score to get a 16-point lead.
That is to say, by the time it came to the crucial final quarter of the showdown, the point difference between the two sides had been widened to 31 points, and there was basically no suspense in this game. The Spurs' starters clocked in three quarters and were able to stabilize the situation in the fourth quarter of the regular game, only allowing the Rockets to play a 30-29 score and recover the previous one point behind. In the end, the fourth quarter was over regular time, and the Spurs scored a 134-104 score and completed a 30-point victory! The starters clocked in for three quarters, and four players on the Spurs' bench scored double digits.
With eight players in a single game scoring in double figures and completing a 30-point victory, the Spurs once again proved their strength and played the prestige of a playoff team. In fact, not only that, although the Spurs only got 6 free throw opportunities in this game, compared to the Rockets' output of 25 shots and 17 in a single game, it was still slightly chicken, but the final result was still very gratifying, achieving a 30-point victory! It seems that from this moment on, the familiar Holy City Spurs are back.