This is what Jeremy Sochan, Victor Wembanyama and the remainder of the Spurs needed to say after selecting up a win in Brooklyn.
SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Brooklyn Nets on the street 96-87 Friday night time. This victory ends their two-loss skid.
Victor Wembanyama led the crew with 19 factors and 6 blocks. Stephon Fort had six factors and two rebounds, and Chris Paul had 5 and 5 assists.
Jeremy Sochan added 12 factors and 14 rebounds, Devin Vassell recorded 10, Keldon Johnson had 15 and an help and Julian Champagnie completed with 18 and two rebounds.
Head coach Gregg Popovich was additionally absent attributable to sickness. Assistant coach Mitch Johnson assumed head teaching duties for the sport.
The Spurs are 16-15 this season and can go to the Timberwolves on Sunday.
This is a pattern of what the groups mentioned after the sport.
“I believed the gradual begin on either side was disappointing. I believed Julian [Champagnie]with Tre [Jones] and Keldon [Johnson]introduced some vitality to the bench, and a few guys adopted. Julian was nice on each ends of the court docket. It is humorous, typically while you put your self into the sport with effort and vitality, the ball finds you, you shoot, you whistle.”
“Guys all the time inform me to shoot the basketball. So any time I really feel like I’ve an open shot or I can get the ball away, I’ll shoot it. However the pictures fell. I obtained the primary one and had a bit little bit of rhythm.”
“I assume, maturity. With the ability to put together mentally earlier than the sport. Placing in the identical form of effort. Talking about myself, my household right here, most of us had our household and we had a whole lot of issues on thoughts with Christmas Possibly it is a query of maturity, with the ability to consider the sport and reply to the sport plan on any given night time.
“We have now to be higher than that. Defensively, simply all the pieces. Even speeding. They [Nets] had been extra bodily [in the first half]. I believe within the second half we centered on staying on our toes and respecting the opponent. Simply doing what we have to do to succeed. Obey the basketball gods. »
Try what Nets head coach Jordi Fernández, Keon Johnson and Shake Milton needed to say:
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