[Post Game Thread] The San Antonio Spurs (8-2) defeat the Portland Trail Blazers (6-3), 125-103.

Post Game Thread

125 - 103

Box Score: ESPN

Location: Moda Center, Portland, OR

Officials: Bill Kennedy, Tre Maddox, Dannica Baroody

Line Score

Team

Total

San Antonio Spurs

125

Portland Trail Blazers

103

Team Stats

Statistics

San Antonio Spurs

Portland Trail Blazers

40-90

35-84

Field Goal %

3PT

17-44

9-35

Three Point %

28-30

24-30

Free Throw %

Rebounds

Offensive Rebounds

Defensive Rebounds

Assists

Steals

Blocks

Total Turnovers

Points Conceded Off Turnovers

Fast Break Points

Points in Paint

Fouls

Technical Fouls

Flagrant Fouls

Largest Lead

Percent Led

Box Score

San Antonio Spurs

Player

MIN

PTS

3PT

REB

AST

STL

BLK

OREB

DREB

+/-

Victor Wembanyama

9-13

3-6

8-9

+23

De’Aaron Fox

1-3

1-2

5-6

+23

Devin Vassell

4-8

2-4

5-5

+26

Stephon Castle

5-12

2-5

2-2

+19

Dylan Harper

6-13

1-5

0-0

+29

Harrison Barnes

2-8

1-5

0-0

-8

Keldon Johnson

3-10

0-3

4-4

Julian Champagnie

4-7

2-2

+15

Carter Bryant

2-6

2-5

0-0

-9

Luke Kornet

2-5

0-0

2-2

Tarris Reed Jr.

1-3

0-0

-10

Jordan McLaughlin

1-2

0-0

-11

Portland Trail Blazers

Player

MIN

PTS

3PT

REB

AST

STL

BLK

OREB

DREB

+/-

Toumani Camara

2-7

0-3

0-0

-28

Deni Avdija

5-13

2-3

3-4

-19

Donovan Clingan

3-6

0-2

0-0

-18

Damian Lillard

4-8

2-3

-15

Scoot Henderson

4-10

0-5

5-6

-23

Micah Potter

3-5

1-2

0-0

Branden Carlson

2-3

0-1

0-0

+11

Yang Hansen

3-7

1-3

5-6

-4

Jrue Holiday

3-8

1-3

4-4

-15

Jayson Kent

2-6

0-2

0-0

+11

Chris Youngblood

3-8

2-6

3-4

-4

Sidy Cissoko

1-3

0-2

2-3

-14

MrBuckBuck [OP]

25 | 10 hours ago

There you go u/toadtruck

By the way, if you guys want to create a post-game thread of your own, then you can always use

https://nba-pgt.vercel.app/

or something similar.

Just be careful; each user (except for mods) can post up to 1 Post Game Thread post per day, so if you post twice, you get auto-banned

GetOffMyGradey

32 | 10 hours ago

if you post twice, you get auto-banned

Dafuq? So if the mods don’t do their jobs (and they don’t a lot of the time) they punish people for picking up the slack?

MrBuckBuck [OP]

4 | 9 hours ago

I don’t know, it’s been like that for years, and I think it is a temp ban (a few days IIRC, but not sure).

Burgerkiller69

73 | 10 hours ago

This is our best game yet! Good defense and good OFFENSE! Wemby being efficient and we hit our 3s!

TallCan_Specialist

24 | 10 hours ago

Wow

Luka needs to win MVP and the chip this year because the way the spurs are playing there may not be another chance in future years

siphillis

31 | 10 hours ago

Luka can’t afford to cool off one bit if he wants the award. The Spurs will most likely finish ahead of the Lakers in the standings, and impact metrics already favor Wemby, so Luka needs to achieve something singular and historic

DrMarvMonror

18 | 10 hours ago

Then there’s also the risk of getting injured because of the historic load he’s carrying. Would be pleasantly surprised if he makes it through the regular season unscathed

imperabo

2 | 9 hours ago

He might have to ease up on the defense effort but I think what he’s doing offensively is mostly easy for him. Almost half his points are coming from 3s and he can get those just from popping off a screen. He’s also 27 which dead peak age.

SpiritFantastic4835

0 | 10 hours ago

I’m confident he can average 38 ppg throughout the season. But the teams so trash that it might not matter which is unfortunate

VastTelevision4473

4 | 9 hours ago

I love Luka but give him some ducking good bench creator or something. Reaves seems out of control sometimes.

eexxiitt

0 | 7 hours ago

Luka probably wins this year even if he cools off a bit and Wemby continues his current pace. It’s similar to the narrative around embiid’s mvp win - whereby if one were to look back at the careers of embiid/jokic/giannis, it would almost seem “wrong” if embiid didn’t have a mvp.

The_Guerrilla

3 | 9 hours ago

Don’t know when the first matchup is between us but I already know Luka’s putting up at least 15 three attempts that game.

Chessh2036

102 | 10 hours ago

You guys remember the first two games of the season when people were saying something crazy things about the Spurs lol

carelesssportsfan89

38 | 10 hours ago

the overreactions in this sub was insane. people don’t realise that the spurs historically start the regular slowly. that and our coaches experimenting with different lineups as well haha

Queue-t

16 | 10 hours ago

Sure but lets not get ahead of ourselves too. The Spurs still haven’t beaten a good team that was healthy. Plus you imagine there will be some growing pains whenever TH gets back.

JoseAltuveIsInnocent

18 | 9 hours ago

You can only play the team in front of you, an 8 game win streak is not ordinary especially when you haven’t had more than a day or rest for the whole run.

erikplayer

2 | 7 hours ago

I think some of the wins have looked a bit concerning. But winning 8 in a row while having some problems is a good sign, I agree.

The_Guerrilla

8 | 9 hours ago

Interested to see the next game against PHX. They’re 3-5 (won their last 2) but they always seem to be a tough matchup for us.

SunKing210

5 | 9 hours ago

Don’t wanna jinx it, but a few of the Suns players that have been giving the Spurs fits for the past few seasons are gone. Grayson Allen, Josh Okogie, and Royce O’neal, these dudes would seemingly light up the Spurs from 3pt land haha

carelesssportsfan89

19 | 10 hours ago

Portland are pretty good team though. even though Morant was out. I thought this game was going to be much closer.

PSi_Terran

1 | 5 hours ago

Not all b2bs are equal. I watched the Blazers - Lakers and it was a bloodbath. Meanwhile the Spurs walked it in against the Kings with none of the starters playing more than 28mins.

_Jetto_

3 | 9 hours ago

Still think they need to run more actions or sets in the halfcourt their dribble drive will not be as good as it can be if castle and harp aren’t shown to be constant 35%+ 3pt shooters with volume

carelesssportsfan89

3 | 9 hours ago

agreed

TheLetterOh

69 | 10 hours ago

You just cant play bad against the Spurs and not expect to get blown out.

Queue-t

20 | 10 hours ago

I really wanted to see the Blazers with Timelord and Ja.. Blazers were scrappy last playoffs and they seem to have only gotten better.

TheLetterOh

15 | 10 hours ago

We have definitely looked better so far this year, especially with Ja and Rob, but tonight we just didnt have it.

When ya’ll started extending the lead with Wemby out I knew it was gonna get bad.

MrShonen

8 | 10 hours ago

Lazy turnovers by the Blazers and their 3pt shooting disappeared in the 1H

TB_016

7 | 9 hours ago

Coming off the trip with the team getting back to Portland at 5am just to have to play the tail of a B2B was a recipe for a shit game.

heresyforfunnprofit

1 | 5 hours ago

Spurs were also on a B2B from Sacramento that got delayed. They didn’t much more rest than the Blazers

GarageDoorGuyy

1 | 5 hours ago

Comparing kings amd lakers is crazy work

VastTelevision4473

2 | 9 hours ago

It was weird not seeing Dame dominant and not attacking.

75Centz

30 | 10 hours ago

Funniest game I’ve watched man. That 2nd quarter is one of the quarters of all time

RealGertle627

17 | 10 hours ago

I think it lasted 45 min

2soltee

10 | 10 hours ago

close. 37 minutes according to spurs broadcast.

VastTelevision4473

5 | 9 hours ago

It was whistle after a whistle after a whistle.

PretendMethod7

25 | 10 hours ago

interesting seeing Yang Hansen enter the game in the first quarter, and Chris Youngblood get so many minutes tonight (leading all Blazers tonight).. kinda looked like a completely different Blazer team out there than we’d been seeing

JoseAltuveIsInnocent

5 | 9 hours ago

Genuinely shocked seeing him play real minutes because from what I remember seeing, he was two years away from being two years away last season. Good for Yang!

TB_016

2 | 9 hours ago

No Timelord or Ja or Vit plus the B2B so the rotation looks different.

siphillis

17 | 10 hours ago

I think Wemby wasn’t kidding about being sick earlier. He’s playing much better lately

TB_016

20 | 9 hours ago

For the sake of the game the NBA needs to get B2Bs coming off a long road trip out of the schedule. Blazers played LA last night at the end of a 4 game road trip then got back to Portland at 5am to play the game tonight. No teams should have to deal with that kind of turnaround in the modern NBA.

carelesssportsfan89

6 | 9 hours ago

I totally agree with you I could telll the blazers were cooked by half time. back to back games are the worst lol

WolverineLong1430

1 | 6 hours ago

That’s how it’s been (aside from the bubble). It’s a gruesome grind.

Lickmytitsorwe

-5 | 9 hours ago

This whining is so old. Spurs were also on a B2B. It’s impossible to make scheduling over 1000 games each year perfect. These comments need to go away. It’s boring

asifibro

1 | 8 hours ago

Maybe increase the weeks for the season so there is more possible days between games.

Repulsive-View-7317

-5 | 9 hours ago

Literally the Nuggets all of last season. It was crazy

WaterGlassPuncherMan

1 | 7 hours ago

Its all teams, bro

Malemansam

17 | 10 hours ago

Pretty bad game in all honesty, horrible watch. Both teams coming off a B2B, we got in portland late at night, this is Portland’s 3rd B2B already this season.

Portland especially looked done by the 2nd quarter, they had nothing to give. The entire first half was being carried by the refs calling everything to give both teams rest by stretching out the game. Both teams were flopping like mad.

So many unforced errors by Portland in the 2nd half, they were sleepwalking on both sides of the ball.

This is what this brutal schedule does for the NBA in the modern era, we used to have teams run out of gas by the end of the 3rd after multiple B2Bs or 5 in 7’s but now these pro atheletes are done by the end of the 1st because of how hard it is to play the modern game.

The NBA has to do something about this. Either start calling travelling, carries and palming to slow the fucking game down and force properly dribbling instead of the bullshit every player gets away with these days (Calling out my own favourite player; I love Castle but he straight up palms the ball from underneath every single time he dribble down court).

Maybe implement deeper teams, a 16 or 17 man roster, shorten star players minutes? Or god forbid reduce the number of games.

Anything, anything to not have so many injuries from negative step dribble moves, bullshit travelling hopstep double jump shots that guys do a lot these days.

The game first and foremost needs to slow down imo. We’re going to see teams burn out earlier in a season, star players with shortened careers otherwise, cause this game stunk.

VastTelevision4473

7 | 9 hours ago

Treat back to back games with limit restriction on the starters and develop the bench, but it might tank our record.

Malemansam

6 | 9 hours ago

Anything at this point, anything is better than where this is all trending too. Modern sciences should’ve been used to lengthen guys careers but the overall majority (Sans KD, Curry and LeBron) are seemingly burning out faster and faster.

Like we saw Barnes burn out by mid season last year, he was lights out until then when his legs couldn’t handle all the miles he had to cover in our kind of run out defence with Vic staying home in the paint. He’s only 34 yet he literally can’t handle the all that extra movement anymore.

VastTelevision4473

3 | 9 hours ago

True. And because there were too many fouls, Mitch was forced to used CB early. Boy, he got fresh legs. He was zooming like an energizer bunny and I love it. He was so excitable and aggressive it was used against him lol.

PressureMiserable

1 | 4 hours ago

I mean to be fair that’s been Barnes even when he was younger he had seasons like that. He’s almost always good to great for whatever team he’s been on for the first season, since leaving the warriors, and then becomes inconsistent afterwards

HenneseyConnoisseur

2 | 6 hours ago

They have another b2b coming up this week too against okc

carelesssportsfan89

11 | 10 hours ago

best win of our season so far. our three guard lineup looks better every we game we play. even if I am not a fan of it long term. plus it looks like wemby is finally making the offensive leap we spurs fans have been waiting for. still would like to see more tarris reed jr minutes because again he looked fantastic. in the the 8 minutes he played tonight. good game blazers bros

fuzzythinker

5 | 10 hours ago

Wow, likely for developing players and minimizing injuries, are spreading good minutes across all 12 players, keeping players under 25 mins with only few exceptions.

Spurs > 24 mins: Harper:28, Johnson:27Blazers > 24 min: Hansen:26, Youngblood:30

Plenty of play time to all players

saylab_the_bigkat

9 | 10 hours ago

It was a 30 point game for a lot of the second half

VastTelevision4473

2 | 9 hours ago

Even though Kornet’s plus and minus tanked in the previous games, I hope he practice that free-throw line floater. He attempted one today, and one horrendous jumpshot there.

I think it might open up our game a bit and help his plus and minus. 1 or 2 shot might not hurt.

LateGreat_MalikSealy

2 | 10 hours ago

Luka took the Blazers soul last night…

AND the Spurs look back on track…

butterflyhole

2 | 10 hours ago

Watching this and the Beaver game at the same time was torture. I’m sure there were plenty of Texas State Spurs fans doing the same.

Phillipe1988

2 | 6 hours ago

San Marvelous is only an hour from SA so for sure.

itzchocotime9

1 | 9 hours ago

toumani bro i love your game but wtf was that

toadtruck

-24 | 10 hours ago

our chain fake but wemby gotta get up off the floor man…shits embarrassing

210pinchespurs

16 | 10 hours ago

You got Deni on your team LMFAO

Objective-Product361

-2 | 9 hours ago

Your cissoko kid is a natural flopper. Dame also still has it (flopping)

Busy_Project_7229

-2 | 9 hours ago

What is up with Fox lately? Is he regressing or what the fuck?

VastTelevision4473

8 | 9 hours ago

He playmakes a lot, and doesn’t really attack unless we need to slow things down and we need some points because nobody makes any. He takes a backseat maybe to conserve legs in the season.

Busy_Project_7229

4 | 9 hours ago

Gotcha, I have him in fantasy and I’m just disgusted

VastTelevision4473

10 | 9 hours ago

It’s the nature of the 4 guard lineup. It sucks. But Fox have been incredible when we need him.

4719837

2 | 7 hours ago

He has been having a good season but the new lineup is bad for his stats. In the 2 games they lost he was one of the only guys to show up in both