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Pounding The Rock Mar 24, 2024
The best plays of the Spurs’ loss to the Suns

The best plays of the Spurs’ loss to the Suns

Photo by Ronald Cortes/ This too shall pass—it may pass like a kidney stone, but it will pass. It was over early for the Spurs in their loss to the Phoenix Suns. Keldon Johnson led the team with 14 points, and Victor Wembanyama had 13 points. Despite the blowout, several nuggets from the game stood out. Tre Jones executed this play perfectly as he took it half coast to coast right before the buzzer at halftime. Jones continues to enjoy a career year in shooting, notching highs in field goal percentage and three-point percentage. Tre at the buzzer! ...
Pounding The Rock Mar 24, 2024
Open Thread: Coming down with a case of March Madness

Open Thread: Coming down with a case of March Madness

Photo by Justin K. Aller/NCAA Photos via NCAA Men’s Basketball is slowly taking over my life For longtime readers of the Open Thread, I have not been shy about my unabashed Spurs dedication. I have often said that I do not watch the other twenty-nine teams unless they are playing the Spurs. And watching college ball...well, my head explodes with the number of teams snd players to follow. It is quite overwhelming. But since the Spurs drafted Victor Wembanyama, I have paid more attention to the NBA on days when the Spurs aren’t playing. Catching a game with young...
Pounding The Rock Mar 23, 2024
Ice-cold Spurs get scorched by the Suns in wire-to-wire blowout loss

Ice-cold Spurs get scorched by the Suns in wire-to-wire blowout loss

Daniel Dunn-USA TODAY Sports Combine offensive struggles with the second night of a back-to-back, and you As a team long-since eliminated from playoff contention with 11 games left in the season, we’re approaching that point in the season where you’re about ready for it to end, especially if the team isn’t going to show you anything new. The post-All Star stretch started well enough for the Spurs, with them showing improvement on both ends and getting some exciting wins against good teams, but the last couple of weeks have been disappointing, with blowout losses...

Booker scores 32 points and Suns never trail in steamrolling Spurs 131-106

Devin Booker scored 32 points before sitting out the fourth quarter and the Phoenix Suns never trailed in steamrolling the San Antonio Spurs 131-106 on Saturday night to help their playoff positioning.
Pounding The Rock Mar 23, 2024
San Antonio vs. Phoenix, Final Score: Spurs get scorched by Suns in 131-106 loss

San Antonio vs. Phoenix, Final Score: Spurs get scorched by Suns in 131-106 loss

Photos by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via San Antonio’s offense struggles in a blowout loss to the Suns. On the second game of a back-to-back, the San Antonio Spurs couldn’t keep up with a red hot Phoenix Suns team. The Suns got pretty much anything they wanted offensively on their way to a 131-106 win over the Spurs. To make matters worse, San Antonio’s offense struggled for long stretches of the game. The Suns shot 59.6% from the field and 45.8% from deep in the blowout. They outscored the Spurs in the paint 68-56 and got 19 easy points off San Antonio’s 15...
Pounding The Rock Mar 23, 2024
Game Thread: San Antonio Spurs vs Phoenix Suns

Game Thread: San Antonio Spurs vs Phoenix Suns

Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via The Spurs open a miniseries with the Suns to bookend the early season sweep in Phoenix Welcome to the Game Thread. Veterans of the Game Thread know how we do things around here, but for all you newbies we have a few rules. Our community guidelines apply and basically say be cool, no personal attacks, don’t troll and don’t swear too much. Last night’s game might have been the most disappointing effort of the season, as the Spurs took it easy on a decimated Grizzlies squad and let them dictate the terms of the game as they...
Bright Side Of The Sun Mar 23, 2024
Game Preview: Suns head to San Antonio to avenge a pair of early season losses to the Spurs

Game Preview: Suns head to San Antonio to avenge a pair of early season losses to the Spurs

Photo by Christian Petersen/ Phoenix is 0-2 to a team that has won 15 this season. Zoinks, Scubby! Who: Phoenix Suns (41-29) @ San Antonio Spurs (15-55) When: 5:00pm AZ Time Where: Frost Bank Center, San Antonio, Texas Watch: Arizona’s Family 3TV / Arizona’s Family Sports Listen: KMVP 98.7 Every game counts. When you go back in time to the fourth and fifth games of the 2023-24 season, the 2-1 Suns hosted the Spurs for back-to-back games. Entering the game, knowing that San Antonio had the rookie sensation Victor Wembanyama playing in the first games of his career...
Pounding The Rock Mar 23, 2024
What we learned from the Spurs’ loss to the Grizzlies

What we learned from the Spurs’ loss to the Grizzlies

Daniel Dunn-USA TODAY Sports It’s the garbage time of the season, and the Spurs had a garbage game against a garbage team. Soccer play-by-play announcers on television in my native Germany are far and away the worst sports announcers I’m familiar with. They were poor in the nineties, and it’s been downhill ever since. It’s vocal accompaniment rather than actual commentary, unintentionally comical most of the time. They can hardly get an idiom, metaphor, or proverb right, in fact, they’re sometimes misusing them to the extent that wrong becomes right. One of...
Pounding The Rock Mar 23, 2024
Spurs roar back, but fall short against Grizzlies

Spurs roar back, but fall short against Grizzlies

Photo by Ronald Cortes/ Highlights from a wild finish in San Antonio. Is it just me, or have we been here before? Once again the San Antonio Spurs gave up a double-digit lead to a shorthanded Memphis Grizzlies team in a 99-97 loss. This time, the Spurs fought back late and nearly stole the win away from Memphis. A clutch shot from Jaren Jackson Jr. sealed the game, but for a moment, it looked like the Spurs would force overtime. Both teams struggled offensively, as the Spurs shot just 38.9% from the field while Memphis made just 40.2% of their shots. San Antonio...
Pounding The Rock Mar 23, 2024
Spurs draft targets to watch in the NCAA Tournament’s round of 32

Spurs draft targets to watch in the NCAA Tournament’s round of 32

Photo by Sarah Stier/ NBA draft prospects Spurs fans should watch in the second round of March Madness. Well, that was certainly madness. The first round of the NCAA Tournament was not kind to the NBA Draft hopefuls. The Kentucky duo of Reed Sheppard and Rob Dillingham were disappointing in their early bounce to Oakland, and Cody Williams has struggled to make an impact in his first two games. As the tournament moves onto the round of 32, other lottery prospects and second rounders with something to prove will have a chance to wow scouts in their quest for the title....
Pounding The Rock Mar 23, 2024
Open Thread: Pop’s ‘Rock & Hammer’ wine collection to be auctioned

Open Thread: Pop’s ‘Rock & Hammer’ wine collection to be auctioned

The hard to find wines will benefit a museum in Kansas City For years, San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich has generously shared hard-to-find wines with friends, but his coveted Rock & Hammer pinot noir isn’t available to the public. “If you don’t like it, I don’t give a damn — because we don’t sell it,” Popovich told a group in 2008 at a San Antonio wine event. Popovich donates it to charitable causes, and shares it with close friends. Only 45 cases of the wine are produced per year. Rick Carlisle, Larry Brown, Steve Kerr, Doc Rivers, Jerry Colangelo, and...
Pounding The Rock Mar 22, 2024
San Antonio vs. Memphis, Final Score: Spurs struggle from deep in 99-97 loss to Grizzlies

San Antonio vs. Memphis, Final Score: Spurs struggle from deep in 99-97 loss to Grizzlies

Daniel Dunn-USA TODAY Sports Looking ahead can be dangerous. When hope roars back to life, Jaren Jackson is there to ruin things. San Antonio fell to Memphis 99-97 after an impressive late-game flurry was foiled by Jackson’s game-winner with just under two seconds left. We knew Memphis would be without Ja Morant after his season-ending injury earlier this season, but Desmond Bane was also unavailable due to a back injury. That left Jaren Jackson with a massive load to carry against the Spurs, and carry it he did. It was just one of those nights for the Spurs, who...
Pounding The Rock Mar 22, 2024
Appreciating the other side of the Wemby-Tre two-man game

Appreciating the other side of the Wemby-Tre two-man game

Photos by Michael Gonzales/NBAE via The Spurs’ most productive connection this season isn’t all alley oops. Victor Wembanyama’s NBA highlight reel already has something for everyone. It’s a montage that’s as expansive as anyone’s, spanning every inch of space from high above the rim to between opponents’ legs, on both ends of the floor; a menu from which each fan can pick their own favorite display of alienball. Many of those have come via the Tre Jones to Wembanyama connection. Gaudy lob attempts, pinpoint hit-aheads and all the benefits of having a...
Pounding The Rock Mar 22, 2024
The Spurs lineup that provides hope for the future

The Spurs lineup that provides hope for the future

Photos by Michael Gonzales/NBAE via There’s a foundation the Spurs can build on — it just needs some time Whenever a team has a winning percentage of .217 with 13 games remaining in the season, it can be hard to think happy thoughts. Let’s be honest, Peter Pan would have a hard time flying if he was a San Antonio Spurs fan this year. Luckily, Spurs fans have been able to hang their hats on the fact Victor Wembanyama has been everything scouts and analysts said he’d be. But he isn’t the only reason Spurs fans should be excited about going forward. There’s...
Pounding The Rock Mar 22, 2024
Open Thread: Looking back at Pop’s opposing head coaches- Suns edition

Open Thread: Looking back at Pop’s opposing head coaches- Suns edition

Photo by Chris Birck/NBAE via Thirteen different coaches consisting of eight midseason replacements, the Suns are not of the patient kind As mentioned previously, an article entitled “Pop’s Incredible Longevity” revealed that San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich has coached against 307 different NBA coaches during his twenty-eight year tenure at the helm. Since December 1996, Pop has consistently coached the Spurs, give or take an ejection or two. Tonight the Spurs play the Phoenix Suns. In the days leading up to Pop taking over as head coach of the San...

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