Portland 111 - 130 San Antonio: Final | 2022-04-02 | National Basketball Association | Yahoo! SportsSpurs maintain 10th place in West with big win over BlazersThe Associated PressSAN ANTONIO (AP) Devin Vassell had 22 points, Keldon Johnson added 21 points and the San Antonio Spurs maintained their hold on 10th place in the Western Conference by defeating the Portland Trail Blazers 130-111 on Friday night. ''We're locking in, '' said Spurs center Zach Collins, who was a rebound shy of his first career double-double.
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“We can’t have those lulls, ” he said to reporters in the postgame locker room. “We gotta be sharp and we don’t have the luxury to be that team to turn it on and off. We gotta be on all the time and we gotta make sure we do those things that make us who we are and [that give] us a chance to be successful.... Tonight we weren’t consistent enough. ” Portland came out the gate sluggish, as San Antonio leapt out to a 16-4 lead in the opening four minutes. The Spurs were executing like a Gregg Popovich team does, hitting six of their first seven shots and assisting on all of them (21 assists on 23 made baskets for the first half). Jusuf Nurkic appeared out of sorts in his first game back from injury after missing over a week, getting torched relentlessly by Jakob Poeltl who finished with a career night: 31 points (14-17 FG), 14 rebounds (5 offensive), 5 assists.
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Less than a year after that transaction drama, Eubanks closed with the starters last night and kickstarted the game-saving run. First, he scored two off a pick-and-roll pass from Lillard. Then, he snatched the lead right back from his former team with a strong finish through contact. His box score of 9 points (4-5 FG) and 7 rebounds impacted the game in ways beyond timely scoring, as he finished with a team-high plus-28 on the night and played 17 more minutes than Nurkic.
The home crowd grew restless. Portland threw away eight turnovers, many of them ugly and unforced — lost dribbles, passes to nobody, what-are-you-thinking? passes to the third row. Portland actually won the turnover battle 19-17, but that horrendous third quarter mucked up the perception, along with San Antonio’s 31 deflections to Portland’s 14. “We gave a few souvenirs this game to some fans, ” Billups quipped afterward. “... I just felt like [they deflected a lot of balls] which threw off the timing of our passes on some of the plays. It was just a funky game. ” Eventually, San Antonio retook the lead at 94-93 and pushed it to 106-100 with under seven minutes left.
Blazers Don’t Have to Learn Lesson the Hard Way Against SpursLast night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs wasn’t a loss the Portland Trail Blazers could’ve live with. Not because of a lack of fight or hustle, but because Portland played down to its competition — sure, hard-playing, well-coached competition, but inferior nonetheless. Because Portland executed so poorly it almost threw a bankable win out the window. Because Portland, who surrendered 68 points in the paint and couldn’t extend a lead all night, didn’t play up to the early standards that had earned the Blazers first place in the Western Conference standings. So against San Antonio last night, in contrast to a valiant loss against Memphis without Damian Lillard or a road trip-ending heartbreaker in Dallas, moral victories would’ve been hard to conjure — until Portland buckled down late to get the only victory that matters: A 117-110 win on the scoreboard.
“I’m happy to come out of that game with a W because I don’t think we played great, ” head coach Chauncey Billups said, “but good enough to win. ” In the end, the Blazers know they must play better, but they don’t have to take in that lesson with the painful, infuriating consequence of a loss. Instead, other storylines can take center stage — storylines like the heart of Drew Eubanks and a momentous late rally that displayed this unit’s resilience once again. Lillard sees the lesson through the confetti.
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