Spurs hosts Jazz tonight

The San Antonio Spurs will attempt to keep their undefeated streak going tonight as they welcome the Utah Jazz into AT&T Stadium for a Western Conference match up.  The Spurs are coming off a 103-78 throttling of the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night with stifling defense.  The Spurs forced 17 Hawks turnovers and have forced 54 in their last three games.

Of course all of this is nothing to the Head Coach who will never be satisfied with his team’s play, good or bad.

“We had a good night, they had a poor night,” Popovich said after the game. “That’s all it is.”

The Jazz are coming off two straight losses to the Oklahoma City Thunder, 94-90 on Friday and 104-98 yesterday in OKC.

“It hurts,” Utah coach Quin Snyder said. “We were really, really good and we got really tired. It really came down, if we could have gotten a couple of defensive rebounds at the end of the game. We were clearly fatigued in overtime. We’d been able to attack most of the game and just ran out of steam.”

The Jazz will get themselves in trouble if they run out of steam against this Spurs team…ask the Hawks.

Plenty of great seats and affordable tickets are still available so be sure to get yours today and help cheer on your San Antonio Spurs!

 

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Spurs fall to Jazz

The San Antonio Spurs, in the midst of their annual Rodeo Road Trip, are also in the midst of a three game losing streak that threatens to derail the normally useful Road Trip and turn it into the first losing Rodeo Road Trip ever.

In the game against the Utah Jazz last night, the Spurs (2-4 on the RRT) committed 22 turnovers in  90-81 loss.   Jazz fans, who are beginning to believe in their own French phenom, Rudy Gobert, watched as their club jumped out to a 13-8 lead which quickly ballooned to 11 points highlighted by three Trey Burke buckets and a Gobert alley-oop.

“He’s a long drink of water. He changes shots, blocks shots he does a good job,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said of the 7″1″ Gobert.

Between today and Saturday, the Spurs still must face the Trailblazers, the Kings and the Suns.

Popovich inches closer to 1000 wins

In a night that the Spurs won their 6th game in a row, the celebration was not centered on the players. No, the players celebrated the 66th birthday of their head coach, Gregg Popovich after the game.

“He doesn’t like it (celebration); you’re going to get me in trouble,” PG Tony Parker said. “We sang for him, but yeah, he hates it. Yeah, it was after the game, the whole team sang to him.”

Parker sang during the game as well and helped the Spurs past a sluggish third quarter, scoring 17 points to get the Spurs past the Charlotte Hornets in a 95-86 victory.

“We went through a little dry spell in the third quarter,” Guard Danny Green said. “It seemed like there was a lid on the basket, but we kept moving, kept finding each other, and kept penetrating. Our defense is what kept us in the lead.”

The Spurs opponent talent level increases significantly as they prepare to host the Los Angeles Clippers this Saturday at 8.  The Clippers are coming off a 94-89 victory over the Utah Jazz.

Plenty of Great Seats and affordable tickets are still available so be sure to get yours today and help cheer on your defending NBA Champion Spurs  beat the Los Angeles Clippers.

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