“We now have to execute our sport plan all through, not simply the primary half,” Devin Vassell mentioned after the Spurs’ loss to the Grizzlies.
SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs misplaced at dwelling to the Memphis Grizzlies 129-115 on Wednesday evening. San Antonio was outscored 43-25 within the third quarter en path to dropping to Memphis.
Victor Wembanyama completed with 13 factors and 12 rebounds. Harrison Barnes had 10 and Chris Paul had eight and 5 assists.
Devin Vassell recorded 21 and 5 rebounds, Keldon Johnson 17 and 4 rebounds. Stephon Citadel had 26, which was a brand new profession excessive in scoring. Julian Champagnie added 9.
Head coach Gregg Popovich was additionally out resulting from sickness, and Jeremy Sochan was out resulting from again points. Assistant coach Mitch Johnson continues to function head coach for the sport.
The Spurs are 19-20 this season and can host the Grizzlies on Friday evening.
Here is a pattern of what the groups mentioned after the sport.
“Transition protection is the place it begins. They’re (Memphis) who they’re, and that is a giant a part of it. After which I believed we did a poor job guarding and whenever you get the bonus early, once more, as rapidly as attainable.”
“I am tremendous excited. I am excited to play them once more. I am excited to tackle that problem. They are a good staff. Give credit score the place credit score is due, they seem to be a good staff, however I believe that we’ll have the reply subsequent time.
“I simply assume we simply should be higher. We now have to execute our sport plan all through, not simply the primary half.”
“We strayed from our sport plan a little bit bit. Let the blokes get in good arms. That is one thing we had been fairly targeted on, particularly earlier than the sport. I believed we did a superb job of first half, however I really feel like we form of allow them to (Memphis) contact the paint an excessive amount of and open up threes, particularly in transition, and I really feel like that form of sparked began a sure race for them.
