San Antonio in Boston, End result: Half-course violation pulled the team down and lost 116-103

The spurs could not make a 24-point comeback against defense champion Celtics on Prime Time TV. Kristaps Porziņģis outplayed Victor Wembanyama, and coach Mitch Johnson was considering telling the equipment manager about loading everyone’s things on the bus early in the second quarter.

The spurs, which are not stranger to slowly start, were put on the ropes early due to the length of Porziņģis, covering the back line and Celtics’ attacks that got what it would. Wembanyama’s shot was off-target and the rest of his team made 35 percent of the trials in the first quarter. Their three revenue also did not help their defense to be created.

Then the spurs still fought despite pulling up the RPMs. Defenders couldn’t stand down against shooters and gave up six extra 3-Pointers.

At the break, the spurs were below 66-47. The team was also down on the glass with eight and was kept at 14.3 percent 3-point shooting. In addition, Tatum hung 21 points on them and created shots for the other Celtics.

In the third quarter, Porziņģis puts more pressure on the defense because he was protected by the Harrison Barnes and Jeremy Sochan, where he scored on them and grabbed rebounds over their heads. Still, a break from Barnes, Devin Vassell, De’Aaron Fox and Wemby broke the deficit of 10. Chris Paul also gave the team a boost as the quarter went on.

Then, spurs in single digits broke after a basket from Keldon Johnson and Stephon Castle’s free throw. But Celtics quickly put his feet on the accelerator and immediately opposed several 3-points and successful paint attacks. Boston’s physical and paint actions were the difference late.

Observations

• Boston’s circumference defense was missing JRUE Holiday and Jaylen Brown, but they still destroyed Spurs, which was starving Piranhas, which was detached on prey. The team made only nine Treys in 39 attempts.
• Celtics takes the most triangles with a wide margin and makes 17.7 per day. Fight, which is also first in the league. But their efficiency of 36.8 percent is 10. Best. Nevertheless, many of their actions were screen rolling attacks on the perimeter, which the spurs were slow with competing. They also put a wounded on the sprouts from deep on drive-and-kicking. The spurs ended the game by giving up 32.7 percent of 3-Pointers, which could be a bit misleading. A good part of Boston’s unanswered triangles had nothing to do with the spurs.
• Celtics targeted Wembanyama on screen rolls. He had a hard time getting to the shooters and his worst defensive sequence was cooked by Tatum in this set in the first quarter. By offense, Wemby could not overman Celtics close to his size and was useless from the outside.
• Fox was the team’s best player. His speed created overreactions and was too much for Derek White when he came to his spots for pull-up jumpers. His first quarter flurry scoring of five baskets on the catch and dribbling plus to establish the two teammates- was a big reason why Spurs hung in the game that went into the fourth quarter.
• Tatum destroyed switches and didn’t need too much space to go down his bouncer in all areas. Julian Champagnie Bit also on her pump fake several times.
• The team scored 93.3 points per 100 half -court games, good enough for the 39th percentile, per. Cleaning the glass.