Beijing time on October 27, the NBA regular season continues, the Spurs host the Wizards.
Against the weaker Wizards, the Spurs played extremely hard, and the game was not won until the last quarter, and finally deRozan resisted the pressure in the last moment to score the winning goal, helping the team to beat the Wizards 124-122 at home to usher in a two-game winning streak in the regular season!
It is worth mentioning that the Spurs have won 20 consecutive games against the Wizards at home. The Spurs have never lost to the Wizards at at the AT&T Center since 2002.
Player stats from both sides:
On the Spurs side, Ader had 27 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists, DeRozan had 26 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Forbes had 16 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Murray had 19 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists, and substitute White also had 10 points.
On the Wizards' side, Hachimura 16 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, Bryant 10 points and 7 rebounds, Beal 25 points and 11 assists, Thomas Jr. 16 points and 5 assists, Bertans 7 of 7, including 5 of 5 three-pointers for 23 points, 2 rebounds and 1 block!
The two sides played very anxiously in this battle, and neither team could completely pull the score apart, which is why the game did not lack points of view!
Among them, the Wizards have two major points of interest, first, this campaign is Thomas Jr.'s season debut, and second, this campaign is the first time that Bertans has faced his old club since being traded.
To say, this summer, in order to free up salary space, the Spurs have to make a three-party deal to free up salary space in order to sign DeMare Carroll's three-year, $21 million contract, as well as a 2-year, $20 million verbal agreement with Marcus Morris!
In the end, the Wizards got forward Davis Bertans from the Spurs, and the Wizards sent the signing rights of forward Aaron White to the Nets, and the Spurs got DeMare Carroll from the Nets.
But no one expected that Morris repented, and finally he joined the Knicks for $15 million a year, for which the Spurs lost Bertans for an uncertain verbal agreement, which was really a bit of remorse!
Nowadays, all this is useless!
The campaign is the first time Spurs veteran Bertans has faced his old owner since being traded. Through the course of the game, it can be said that Bertans adapted well to the role positioning of the new team, coming off the bench for 7 of 7 of 32 minutes, 5 of 5 three-pointers, 23 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist, and there were no mistakes plus 1 block!
In the life-and-death moments of this game, Coach Brooks kept him on the court, and Bertans did not live up to the trust of the coach, and the final quarter broke out completely, scoring 15 points in a single quarter.
Of course, for Coach Brooks' arrangement, on the one hand, Bertans is very familiar with the Spurs' lineup system and can have a solution for the team, and the other point is that he feels good in this campaign, and Coach Brooks gives him enough time for this
Perhaps all of this is to complete the Spurs' old friendship with Bertans, and Bertans' all-out effort is the best way to pay tribute to the Spurs.
Before the game, the former owner Spurs played a tribute video for Bertans.
To this, Bertans said: "They are very good, of course you will have some feelings. Now it's in another team, and there's something weird about it. But when you're on the pitch, that's forgotten. ”
Of course, the business model of the alliance is like this, and now that each of them is its master, it is time to return to dust and earth!
As the No. 42 rookie in the second round of the 2011 draft, Bertans played for the Spurs for three seasons and gradually grew into a cannon pitcher on the Spurs' outside line, of which last season, Bertans averaged 21.5 minutes per game, he was able to get 8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists, averaging 1.9 three-pointers per game, and the three-point shooting rate was as high as 42.9%, ranking 6th in the league.
This season, Bertans averaged 14.3 points per game in 29 minutes, shooting 51.9% from the field, shooting as high as 50% from three-point range, and averaging 3.3 three-pointers per game, which is a heavy cannon on the Wizards' outside line.
I have to say that although Bertans has the ability to open up the space, it is very suitable for the current small ball era, and I believe he can also find his own position in the Wizards!