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The Portland Trailblazers got off to a scary start of game two and that was before they even stepped foot on the court.
“We get in the locker room [and] it’s a damn snake,” guard Mo Williams wrote on Instagram. “A snake in the locker room. Man, we was scared as hell.”
The scare was not enough to combat the Spurs who again flummoxed the Blazers in the first half jumping out to a 51-70 lead. The Spurs never looked back and the Blazers never got closer than eight points.
The San Antonio Spurs fought off what little momentum the New York Knicks had coming into the game marking the return of shooter JR Smith to run away with a 120-89 whipping of the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
“It was embarrassing for us to come here on our home court and lose a game like this,” Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony said. “It wasn’t about losing the game, it was just how we lost the game. We didn’t compete today and it showed out there on the court.”
The 76ers are coming off a 125-127 Overtime loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Tickets for the Wells Fargo Center game are still available.
The San Antonio Spurs said all the right things before Monday nights game at the New Orleans Arena; IE that this is a dangerous team and you must play a complete game against them. Well, the Spurs seemed to have forgotten that as the 4th quarter rolled around.
Head Coach Monty Williams praised his team and especially their defense after the game.
“To hold this team to 88 points is a great sign for our defense,” coach Williams said. “Confidence, to me, comes when you defend the right way, and I thought we did that tonight.”
Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich could do nothing but agree with his former player turned head coach.
“We played a well-coached aggressive, well-executing team,” San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said. “They did a great job at both ends of the court. They just whipped us.”
The Spurs next face the slumping LA Lakers Wednesday at 8 pm.