dwrek24 | Spurs

175 | 13 hours ago

I did not wish to be humbled quite so soon 🤣🤣🤣

Pobbes3o | Spurs

56 | 12 hours ago

i knew it was inevitable but they didn’t even let me celebrate for too long lol

dwrek24 | Spurs

12 | 12 hours ago

Thats what Im saying. Give us at least a couple more 🤣

Ambitious-Visual207 | Pistons

39 | 12 hours ago

If it makes you feel any better those fuckers in Utah got us just last night too.

dwrek24 | Spurs

18 | 12 hours ago

I saw. Honestly made me relax for tonight and turns out that was a mistake lol

Theyre playing pretty good ball it seems.

OJuice100

7 | 11 hours ago

Shooting way too many 3s smh, it’s ok the letdown was inevitable. We are just a young team but the film should be burned

PanthalassaRo | Knicks

1 | an hour ago

Never would have guessed that the Jazz out of all teams were the losing matchup against the Spurs.

Connect-Pressure3336 | Suns

80 | 13 hours ago

The NBA isn’t used to parity, so theres this constant feeling that a new dynasty is emerging. We’ve been doing this shit every year since the Warriors broke up.

Lucaa4229 | Knicks

66 | 14 hours ago

Two big games coming up for the Spurs. Monday against the Cavs who are trying hard to find their groove and then NYE against the Knicks who are on a roll and who beat them in the Cup final.

Suspicious_Orange_99 | Spurs

25 | 14 hours ago

Wouldn’t call those 2 big games, we’ve played 2 straight bigger games in less than a week.

Lucaa4229 | Knicks

17 | 14 hours ago

Fair, the OKC games were huge. But those wins also set up the narrative that the Spurs might be the “best” team in the league. This Jazz loss brings things down to Earth a bit. So my point is just that the next two games for the Spurs are goinh to continue to shape the narrative.

aquintana | Spurs

33 | 13 hours ago

Also important to note that Fox was out tonight.

2008and1 | Spurs

1 | an hour ago

Knicks is a big game for sure.

Objective-Product361

61 | 13 hours ago

AKA the trap game. Gotta lose every once in a while to keep that hunger.

AnkitPancakes | Thunder

4 | 9 hours ago

Noted!

MikeBravoLima | Spurs

51 | 14 hours ago

Mitch “Magic” Johnson

walkingbicycles | Spurs

19 | 13 hours ago

There were other issues but mostly just a bad shooting night. 23% from 3 vs their 46% is not gonna get the win

EstarriolOfTheEast

4 | 5 hours ago

Bad shooting at 23% is so rare, it’s unlikely to be down to luck alone. Spurs also had plenty of extra possessions that they failed to convert efficiently. And the second quarter turnovers ended up being too much to recover from. I think at this point in time, Spurs need Fox to stabilize the offense as much as they need Victor on defense. Jazz were better at collapsing the defense than Spurs are without Fox. Without Fox, the best Point of Attack defender is deskilled due not just to having to run an offense, but one without the gravity of Fox+Vic to break things. Putting aside psychological effects and shooting pressured 3s instead of driving on the Spurs end, Jazz shots were higher quality open looks compared to Spurs. The defense is now good yet still vulnerable to threes, coaching staff need to look at this.

tj1721

3 | 4 hours ago

I mean there were other issues as you point out, but honestly specifically with the 3 point shooting, a lot of it was just missing good looks, Champagnie in particular comes to mind as just missing several good 3s

EstarriolOfTheEast

2 | 3 hours ago

I disagreed when OKC used shot variance as an excuse, as if it was independent of wearing down of OKC players and defensive pressure Spurs were applying, and I disagree here too. Open looks also differ in quality, if they happen later in the shot clock because Castle is not as fluent in offense as Fox, they won’t be the highest quality open looks. On the flip side, a lot of the Jazz 3s were assisted, they were high quality in rhythm shots the defense gave up.

Sohan and Castle had costly turnovers in the second quarter, a bit of psychological pressure from playing from behind and a bit of shooting luck for Jazz helped for sure, but it wasn’t why they won. Jazz could shoot so well because drop coverage amplifies shooting variance at the perimeter.

tj1721

3 | 3 hours ago

So I agree and disagree, people are too eager to point to shooting variance as an excuse. There are often reasons why people shoot poorly, like you say, how looks are being generated, quality of looks, pressure on the shots, pace of play etc.

But it’s also possible to be too dismissive of shooting variance. In this game I saw a few spurs miss shots that they would normally make. And whilst I thought the Jazz did a good job not making the spurs life hard, I’m hesitant to give them all the credit.

thy_armageddon | Knicks

12 | 14 hours ago

Centrist Andy.

BlackishMirrors

8 | 11 hours ago

I had a feeling when I saw Utah. Classic trap game especially after the high of smashing OKC 3 times in a row.

Blutz101 | Spurs

6 | 8 hours ago

We needed to get humble. We could have won this game but this team hasn’t learned how to win these games yet. Years from now this group will take care of games like this but first they got to learn how to win games like this. Timmy would have beat the jazz himself tonight, Vic just isn’t at that true level yet he’s still 21.

Jazz might have shot the shit out of the rock but that’s not why we lost. The team wasn’t locked in tonight and showed bad effort through out the game.

Jazz showed up and balled out spurs only did in spurts while the jazz kept the same energy through the game. I thought the jazz played a great team game tonight. Respect to them, hardy had them boys dialed while the spurs looked like they were hungover

Jazz really an elite wing away from being scary. Glad I got to watch them tonight. They came to play and the sperms didn’t.

Maybe it’s a hot take but the jazz are the ping pong balls falling there way away from being an elite team

waffle-winner | Spurs

3 | 6 hours ago

Felt like they played w/ their food in the second, subbing in Jeremy, lindy, Carter all at once. The offense sputtered, the jazz found their groove and never looked back (+/- a spurs run early in the 4th). If you treat the second ¹⁄₄ like borderline garbage time, you make it harder on yourself.

Blutz101 | Spurs

2 | an hour ago

It was a close game and Mitch went like 12 deep so ya I agree that was odd

deneuvig

3 | 6 hours ago

Tbf it’s the first defeat for this team against a sub .500 team, but some of your points remain accurate

FormerlyCinnamonCash | Heat

4 | 9 hours ago

Jazz just beat the kings of the west and the east

DDBull | Spurs

4 | 8 hours ago

OKC are still the kings

TxBobcat67 | Thunder

4 | 4 hours ago

The Kings are Kings of the West, the Bulls are the Kings of the East

Netty_Pot

3 | 8 hours ago

Thunder merchants

SpursExpanse | Spurs

1 | 12 hours ago

Spurs leveled out

Wooden-Case-55

1 | 11 hours ago

This game is a basketball memento mori

Glad-Illustrator3953

-5 | 14 hours ago

aying Julian Champagnie for more than 2 seconds was the biggest mistake

Jec1027 | Warriors

-13 | 14 hours ago

Ok

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coolmentalgymnast | Spurs

22 | 13 hours ago

Here comes the armchair coaches lol.

Castle was -30. Carter Bryant was in the plus. Also he had to take Wemby out because of minutes restriction.

Also most of our defensive schemes are overseen by Sean Sweeney not Mitch.

YeaMits | Spurs

7 | 12 hours ago

i was so disappointed when he took carter bryant out the second time i wanted bro to stay in

WEMBY_F4N | Spurs

3 | 14 hours ago

Outside of Castle the Spurs just don’t have the perimeter defenders to play straight up all game. It’s probably our biggest weakness at the moment

Keeping on developing Carter Bryant and drafting more 3&D wings will help a lot

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2 | 14 hours ago

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PetrParker1960s

1 | 13 hours ago

This is the problem I had when we played the Knicks. Why is Mitch playing Julian and Barnes so much together. At the beginning of the year I get it because we had injuries. But Julian has been blatantly terrible shooting for like 2 plus weeks now.

Mitch Johnson on reflecting after the loss tonight: We weren’t as good as they said after Christmas and we aren’t as bad as they will say tonight