Game Day: Spurs (1-2) @ Suns (2-1), Tues 10/31/23

[BlaCkAdDa]

yes too many turnovers.
and too many open looks missed instead of made .. though Grayson got his tonight, a couple of cluth open 3's missed in the dying minutes (including by KD)

[Cap]

They literally gave that one away. They came in averinging 18 turnoversa game (3rd in the league) and turned it over 19 times tonight.

It's almost like they don't even have a fucking point guard!

It’s almost like they don’t even have their starting backcourt.

[Flagrant Fowl]

I had to leave with 2 minutes left and I'm glad I missed whatever the hell happened.

This is one of those rare occasions that I wish we still had Chris Paul.

[Superbone]

There is no excuse for that.

[Gladiator]

It is 100% a game they should have won. Hopefully it lights a bit of a fire that they don’t sleepwalk their way through big stretches after building a lead, which gives the other team hope. some of the players tonight who are not guaranteed playing time - or as big a role- once Book and Beal are back should have been playing with much more intensity so not sure what was happening there.

[Superbone]

Waaaaayyyy too casual for that entire quarter. Spurs are just playing harder and hitting shots.

This is what happens when you think you have it in hand in the NBA and relax.

[Superbone]

Spurs look like they will zoom right past us

Good eye.

[Superbone]

Dbacks shit the bed, now this?

Dont do this to me

To add insult to injury.

[Flagrant Fowl]

I'm way angrier than I should be about a game played on Halloween. This team is too smart and experienced to let that shit happen.

[Superbone]

They literally gave that one away. They came in averinging 18 turnoversa game (3rd in the league) and turned it over 19 times tonight.

It's almost like they don't even have a fucking point guard!

It’s almost like they don’t even have their starting backcourt.

That is no excuse tonight.

[Nodack]

Their second fourth quarter collapse.

[Shabazz]

What a stupid game.

[ShelC]

Postgame Quotes and Videos

Spoiler: show/hide

[ShelC]

Turned this one off in the middle of the 3rd thinking we had it in hand, apparently so did the players. Can't believe we lost when we were playing so well in the first half. I don't think the clock stuff had anything to do with it and it doesn't look like KD was fouled so Vogel's kind of covering for himself and the players there IMO. Bottom line is it never should've gotten to that point. Silver linings are that it's the NBA and this happens and it's early in the year so we got it out of the system and can hopefully remember it the rest of the year to keep it from happening again.

The first half was great tho! EG and Allen were knocking down everything they looked at, Yuta was solid, KD was KD and the team defense seemed to really be in sync. Little hit a few 3s which was a good sign and our center duo was solid again, giving us a bit of everything and we took an 18pt lead into halftime. And the 2nd half never happened...

[Flagrant Fowl]

KD was fouled and it should’ve been called. The game also should’ve never gotten to that point, so I don’t have a ton of patience for scapegoating the refs when they made a mistake.

[Gladiator]

Credit to Durant for saying he still should have held onto the ball at the end, even if he was fouled. There’s a whole lot of what ifs and blame to go around though.

[Flagrant Fowl]

My only worry is the competitiveness of the Western Conference could result in a single game difference in the standings.

Thankfully it’s the 4th game of the season with 2 starters out, so that worry is putting the cart way in front of the horse. But still..ugh.

[ShelC]

Free Bol Bol

[Mori Chu]

Ugh. Sucks to give away a game like this. Let up our aggressiveness in the late 3rd and 4th and let them come all the way back. Stupid mistakes and lazy offense. A lot of guys just kind of standing around or lazily swinging the ball around outside the 3-point line. We need our starting backcourt back. But I did think a lot of guys played well. I really like Eubanks, and Eric Gordon has exceeded my expectations so far. And KD has been leading the team admirably. We just need Book and/or Beal back.

[Split T]

I was cool with the no call on Keldon Johnson, but the foul happened before. Tre Jones was all over KD, that should have been the foul