#San Antonio Spurs at LA Clippers
Crypto.com Arena- Los Angeles, CA
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401584727)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/NBASpurs/comments/17jgdjm/game_thread_san_antonio_spurs_11_at_la_clippers/k70w0d8/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|SAS |17|20|23|23|83|
|LAC |23|33|37|30|123|
###Player Stats
**San Antonio Spurs**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|K. Johnson|24:18|5|1-9|1-5|2-2|0|5|5|1|1|0|0|4|-27
|V. Wembanyama|26:16|11|4-10|0-2|3-6|1|4|5|2|1|1|5|1|-14
|Z. Collins|24:50|9|4-11|1-4|0-0|1|5|6|4|0|0|5|2|-36
|D. Vassell|27:49|14|6-10|1-3|1-1|0|1|1|0|1|0|2|2|-30
|J. Sochan|22:29|0|0-2|0-2|0-0|2|2|4|3|1|1|4|3|-30
|C. Osman|16:41|12|4-7|2-4|2-2|0|1|1|1|1|1|0|1|-5
|M. Branham|21:02|9|3-12|2-4|1-1|0|1|1|2|1|0|3|1|-10
|C. Bassey|16:15|6|3-4|0-0|0-0|1|4|5|1|1|1|0|2|9
|T. Jones|20:02|5|1-4|1-2|2-2|0|2|2|4|1|0|4|3|0
|D. McDermott|14:43|8|3-6|2-4|0-0|0|3|3|2|0|0|0|3|-8
|B. Wesley|6:55|1|0-1|0-1|1-2|0|0|0|1|0|1|1|0|-13
|J. Champagnie|6:55|3|1-4|1-2|0-0|0|2|2|0|0|1|1|0|-13
|S. Mamukelashvili|6:55|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|1|1|2|0|1|0|0|1|-13
|D. Barlow|4:50|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|-10
**LA Clippers**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|R. Covington|26:29|0|0-1|0-1|0-0|1|2|3|3|1|1|0|1|25
|K. Leonard|27:48|21|6-13|3-7|6-7|0|3|3|4|2|0|3|2|24
|I. Zubac|22:29|16|6-7|0-0|4-6|2|6|8|0|0|1|1|4|23
|P. George|27:48|19|8-17|2-7|1-1|1|3|4|5|5|0|1|1|24
|R. Westbrook|26:40|19|8-13|3-5|0-3|1|7|8|3|1|1|2|3|30
|B. Hyland|21:19|18|7-14|4-8|0-0|0|3|3|1|1|0|4|1|10
|N. Powell|19:06|13|5-11|2-5|1-2|1|2|3|1|2|1|0|1|8
|M. Plumlee|20:41|4|2-3|0-0|0-0|2|4|6|1|0|0|0|0|7
|K. Martin Jr.|17:47|10|4-6|1-3|1-2|0|2|2|0|1|1|2|1|13
|N. Batum|14:42|0|0-4|0-4|0-0|0|2|2|1|1|0|1|1|6
|A. Coffey|5:30|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|1|0|0|1|0|10
|K. Brown|4:50|3|1-2|1-2|0-0|0|4|4|1|1|0|0|1|10
|M. Diabate|4:50|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|1|0|1|2|0|0|1|0|10
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|SAS|30-80|11-33|12-16|21|23|9|25|6|6|31|44|
|LAC|47-91|16-42|13-21|23|16|15|16|5|9|39|62|
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I guess we can only improve from here
There’s gonna be nights like this too for this young team. On to the next…
Is there a low cost veteran point guard the spurs could trade for to help wemby’s development? You can do a lot off the court but doesn’t help if you can’t get the ball on the court
IT’s analysis at halftime – “they’re gonna need to turnover less and shoot better”
I ain’t seen an ass pounding that bad since that Riley Reid pizza delivery video.
*opens bookmarks*
*loads up The Beautiful Game*
growing pains…. growing pains…
30 points allowed off 25 turnovers, while shooting 38% from the field. Yea, that’ll do it.
On the bright side, it’s still very early in the season.
Lots of tape to watch! Just, the whole game lol. They’ll be alright.
How do y’all think they do at Arizona? Bounce back game or another spanking?
Welp, Tre had a neutral (0) +/- and Bassey had a +9. That’s something!
That was a prime time spanking. Onto the next one. We are gonna to have nights like this
From the opening tip, the Spurs were sloppy with the basketball and committed lots of turnovers. Many possessions were either marked by indecisiveness or one-on-one play making. Easy buckets for them were far and in-between.
The Clippers set the tone early with their physicality (crashing the glass) and securing 50-50 balls. Paul George spear-headed the effort, on both ends, in the first quarter as the Clippers jumped out to an early lead… a lead they added to and never gave up.
All around bummer. Tank 4 point guard of the future?
I agree that Sochan as PG is not looking good so far
But even when he’s not doing PG stuff, he still didnt look good.
Im still very optimistic about him tho. He got the physical tools to be good
these are called growing pains my friends GSG!
Boys I didn’t get to watch tonight. What HAPPENED?!
Those desolate wasteland game threads last year that could barely reach 100 comments seem like an oasis compared to this year’s with all the new nephews around
you win some you lose some
Let’s not forget that the Clippers with George and Leonard are legit title contenders, and this Spurs team is young, raw, and inexperienced. These type of games will happen a lot this season, so expectations need to be tempered this year.
I hate losing to fucking Kawhi Leonard
That was a good reminder of just how far we need to go to get back to the top.
A proper lesson that the boys need.
Someone clip Sochan ignoring Wembys hand ASAP
Wemby’s first game with a negative +/- since joining the Spurs. He can take consolation in the fact that he was far less negative than any of the other starters. As I said in the previous thread, it’s pretty clear that Tre Jones (the only non-negative player with at least 20 minutes) should be in the starting rotation.
This always felt like it would be a tough game on the schedule, but giving all those points away on turnovers in the 1st quarter certainly didn’t help and jump-started the Clips even more.
Tough to play catch up from that point especially the way they were shooting.
I called in the 1st we would get clapped by 40. It was 41.
The only way to go is up at this point
Imo the lineup should look like this
PG Jones
SG Vassell
SF Osman
PF Collins
C wembanyama
Bench.
SG Johnson
SF McDermott
PF Sochan
C Bassey
A few thoughts. Sochan at the point guard really isn’t working, and we just need to stop doing it before it gets worse. Doug should come off the bench. Last year, when he came off the the bench was nice. I am not a fan of these line-ups they need to change who’s ever idea this was needs to be fired.
Sochan looks uncomfortable and indecisive out there. I understand it’s only game 3 and there are other issues but “the experiment” so far is clearly not working.
three games into the season… ofc sochan isn’t going to look amazing right away. give him some time
I thought about going to the game. Get in price was like $30 or less. Decided to be lazy instead. Super happy with my decision. 🙁
In case you were wondering that’s the most turnovers by a team this season
Youngest team in the league versus a team with championship aspirations. Keep the tapes for the film room sessions and move on.
This is gonna be a long season, especially with no PG out there to run the show. Every game so far feels like they’re running out there like a headless chicken.
It’s still only one loss 😅. We’ll grow and learn from this. It’s interesting how Pop will limit Wemby’s time and let the rest of the team “figure it out” while they are behind on the scoreboard . It makes sense to me, Wemby is amazing. I wonder when they will pull the lever and get a seasoned veteran or All-Star player – we can definitely afford it. Either way, this will be a fun journey to watch. Go Spurs Go!!!!!!
Young team on the road and all, but yeah that’s a pretty awful performance on both ends for the guys. Pop’s gonna need some throat lozenges for the upcoming film session. lol
I saw lots of Wemby passing to Zach down low. I feel like it should be the other way around. Won’t be effective until Zach starts hitting 3s I guess. Spacing was horrible tonight. Good learning experience though.
Expected this. I mean, we’re playing against Kawhi, PG, and Westbrook.
Fuck me i was at the game
Idk how it looked on tv but beyond the sloppiness and terrible shooting, there was a glaring lack of effort + intensity from the jump. Collins and Sochan in particular were awful
Gotta think it was a let down after the Houston OT thriller and then maybe having too much fun in LA but I am really bummed cause that’s the only game I’m gonna catch this year