The Spurs couldn’t ever find their shot from distance and the team’s rocky start never got better, ultimately ending in a 134-96 drubbing by the Houston Rockets.
San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, right, talks with Devin Vassell by the bench during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022, in Houston. The Spurs couldn’t ever find their shot from distance and the team’s rocky start never got better, ultimately ending in a 134-96 drubbing by the Houston Rockets on Sunday night.
“Shooting was pretty poor. And when you’re going back in transition defense all the time, all kinds of bad things are going to happen. You just can’t do it. Over and over and over again, with the missed shots. That was the worst part of the game,” Popovich said. “The second thing was physicality, we let them go where they wanted to go, and they were much more physical.”
“Houston was much more physical, was more aggressive, that kind of thing. They got into the paint, we didn’t keep ‘em out of the paint. So, a lot of things we can do better and just work on,” Popovich said. “It’s a first preseason game, we’re young, I don’t think we hit many shots to start the game off. I think what we can take away, though, is if we’re not hitting shots, we still got to play on the defensive end,” Vassell said.
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