SPURS GAME DAY! GAME 20: SPURS AT WOLVES, 6-12-2023, 6:30PM (CT)

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After a weird schedule blessing, we've rested, practiced, coalesced, and now have to show how well we've put it all together.

WHERE: Target Center, Minneapolis, MN

WHEN: Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 6:30pm (CT)

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GO SPURS GO!!!

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About a quarter of the season in, another starting line-up change, this time Sochan available but coming off the bench. Interesting:

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So 3-4-5 are the same, experienced Cedi replaces Sochan, Dev moves to the 1:

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Good O board work early. O a bti deliberate but we are new together and facing the best D in the league so far.

And D to O!

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I mean we're getting good looks after a slower start, but just missing wide open shots. Would prefer we don't settle for 3s so much though I get why we're not necessarily driving into their paint. Their strength there is like ours.

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Soon as I type that, KJ drives down the middle and scores.

We then give up a TO leading to a 3 against grrr...

The KJ P&R bounce pass to Zach push 2.

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TO leading to a 3 against.

Then KJ drives and gets a body bump and gets a foul. Valuable physicality.

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Was just going to say what Hubie did - we are not pressuring the 3 enough. Too much space on hand up contests.

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Tre finding seams with change of pace after a stutter step. Zach with O board putback. Well done.

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Branyam's laissez faire approach to the game is uninspiring. TRY HARDER.

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Sochan patient, pretty move in the paint J.

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Followed by a slow Sochan move that is a bad choice and gets blocked.

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Dev misses an end of Q open 3; Sochan good D to contest their end of Q heave miss.

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1ST Q: SPURS 22 WOLVES 25

0-6 from 3 by us is basically the difference for us right now. Lots of missed open shots. Just have to hope they start falling. In the meantime, we have to close the gap on our 3s contests.

Great PITP scoring by us - 20-14. Collins leads us with 8, very workmanlike points around the basket. Rest of the starters have to get more efficient and hungry for it.

We have to keep up the physicality on both ends but pick up the pace. This is the first time this starting five has been together but there's also more experience in each more natural position. We were a bit too deliberate on O, better D but for the 3s contesting. Have to keep finding seams, keep pushing, keep our heads up.

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Don't love our 'it's so cold getting out of bed in the winter' energy.

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Sochan has the right idea but then too often finishes erratically at the rim. Too much energy to get the point without the requisite skill of right angles when he gets close. Just **** tossing it up wherever. USE THE GLASS. Use fakes. GLASS.

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Tre stepping up to take a charge from -- KAT! Guts.

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Wemby seal, hand up, Deb zip pass inside, Wemby quick spin off glass 2. Great.

We need to put together more good sequences on both ends.

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Dev uses Zach screen twice to get his pet left 3.

Then drives on their big, uses glass as ball protector for the reverse 2. And a lead.

Cedi post up, Zach under basket movement, zip pass for OFF GLASS finish.

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Zach how do you miss that?! DUNK IT!