“I believed we fought. I believed we had good vitality,” coach Mitch Johnson stated.
SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Atlanta Hawks at house 133-126 in time beyond regulation on Thursday. They’re now 1-0 in opposition to the Hawks this season.
Victor Wembanyama led the crew with 42 factors, six rebounds and 5 assists. Harrison Barnes had six factors and two assists, and Chris Paul had 12 and eight assists.
Jeremy Sochan added 20 factors, Devin Vassell recorded 23 and Julian Champagnie completed with eight factors and 4 rebounds.
Head coach Gregg Popovich was absent resulting from sickness. Assistant coach Mitch Johnson assumed head teaching duties for the sport.
The Spurs are 14-13 this season and can host the Path Blazers on Saturday night time.
Here is a pattern of what the groups stated after the sport.
“I believed we fought. I believed we had good vitality. I believed the hassle was nice. I believed the low lights or robust moments have been extra decision-based and never effort-based. We are able to dwell with a few of these issues. We had some new combos and new lineups tonight. It may be distinctive if you’re nearly a 3rd of the way in which by the season. I believed our efforts bought us by a few of these intervals.
“It is the most effective feeling earlier than the sport. It was like an enormous – an enormous aid, actually. I feel we have been actually completely satisfied as a result of even earlier than the sport, I feel a few of my teammates have been so uncertain, you recognize, so, like, is it lastly the day it is nice to see everybody like this as a result of we all know everybody’s going to get an opportunity, and there isn’t any egocentric participant, so we? Let’s have some enjoyable collectively.”
“I feel Mitch stated one thing nice within the locker room about how we do not have to say something. We’ve got so many our bodies. We are able to simply rotate guys or no matter. So it is nice to have Tre (Jones) there, for We’ve got a very good crew, and I simply hope we perceive that we might be actually good till subsequent yr or the yr after that, like we now have to attempt. to win now.”
“Everybody contributed to this sport; whether or not you performed two minutes or 48 minutes, it did not matter. Everybody contributed. It was an enormous win. Each play we construct, each play that we study.”
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