Game Thread Playoffs Round 1, Game 4: Spurs @ Blazers (2-1) (Sun 04/26/2026) [2:30 CDT]

[Ice009]

Man, Doris Burke fucking sucks. Why hasn't ESPN fired her? I wish I could switch to Sean and Jacob. I don't want to listen to this ESPN crap anymore.

 

[Spurminator]

Not giving up on Kornet but I'd like to see the CB5 lineup out there when Wemby sits this quarter.

 

[BatManu20]

On pace for 8* now but yea.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2048501633131155963

 

[poopbox]

What usually causes it? Just running too much, or running while in pain and not stopping to rest it?

For me it was over training. I had hurt my knee playing basketball and instead of letting it rest and heal I just right into a training for a city marathon that I never even ran in. .

One of those "I'm going to push through" type of things where I clearly should have just let my body heal in the beginning.

 

[Raven_]

Fox is not the problem...but he also isn't the solution. And when you get paid 50 million a year you should be the solution.

Maybe by not being the solution he is actually the problem?

I have to say, with all the small injuries fox, castle and harper seem to be having, i'm happy that there's 3 of them rather than 2

 

[Spurminator]

Man, Doris Burke fucking sucks. Why hasn't ESPN fired her? I wish I could switch to Sean and Jacob. I don't want to listen to this ESPN crap anymore.

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[scott]

Fox is not the problem...but he also isn't the solution. And when you get paid 50 million a year you should be the solution.

Maybe by not being the solution he is actually the problem?

Now this is a fair point. But I’d also say that our team isn’t built on this premise (and it’s hard to argue it should have been given the results of the season). I don’t see how we could expect to just completely change the team’s DNA come playoff time. The team’s success is built around a dispersed load that only his peak load on Victor. I don’t think we have a backup playbook that would even facilitate a Fox centric approach… maybe we should have had one?

 

[Mal]

Shaq was right for once about Wemby deciding to take a jumper on Jrue instead of taking his ass to to the paint.

Jrue is strong as fuck

 

[SanAnSpursFan21]

Man, Doris Burke fucking sucks. Why hasn't ESPN fired her? I wish I could switch to Sean and Jacob. I don't want to listen to this ESPN crap anymore.

For a professional commentator, she legitimately sounds clueless about basketball

 

[Trifecta]

He has to play to get the rust off. He would have still had rust had the Spurs waited to play him for game 5.

As another poster said - too bad can’t play the other centers because Luke is the offense for Portland - once he is in, they drive or slam over him and he cannot grab a rebound today but plays volleyball and tries to tap out

 

[The Ballsbreakers]

Secure the rebound. Dios mio

 

[mikec]

comedy of errors at this point lol

 

[benefactor]

Grabbed one of the old hats off the shelf. Time to do what's necessary

 

[NotRobDiaz21]

 

[LeBowen]

I don't think any other playoff team fumbles the ball as much as we do, it's infuriating.

 

[SpursFan86]

Oh for fucks sake, we can’t afford to give them 2nd chances right now

 

[Ice009]

For me it was over training. I had hurt my knee playing basketball and instead of letting it rest and heal I just right into a training for a city marathon that I never even ran in. .

One of those "I'm going to push through" type of things where I clearly should have just let my body heal in the beginning.

Thanks for the explanation. You're like me when I was younger. Me, I grew up watching the guys I watched and thought it's soft to sit out and just push through it when injured.

Geez Vassell is terrible driving to the rim and fast breaks.

 

[Neuromancer]

God dammit this team still doesn't know how to run a fucking fast break correctly

 

[scott]

Good defense… fumble out of bounds… fast break… fumble out of bounds… c’mon guys

 

[poopbox]

The Spurs' talent doesn't fit as well and the Trail Blazers are well suited to defend them.

Still, for a team that talked a big game this season they've been mostly pathetic in this series.

I mean it fit well enough to win 60 games and be the only team in the league to put a beatdown or 2 on the defending champs...

Problem is half our team is shook, which was to be expected. If we don't do anything but come out in the 3rd and just play how we played in the regular season this won't be a 10 point game going into the 4th. We've proven multiple times this series we can make the blazers go on prolonged droughts. No reason we can't do it again.

Also the team down is the team that always plays with more desperation. Rockets shitting the bed and the Nuggets pussying out isn't the norm. Portland knows if they lose this game this series is done in 5 and they are playing like it.

 

[SpursFan86]

So did our team just put butter on their hands for the entire 15 minute halftime?

 

[SanAnSpursFan21]

Please Spurs, give us some more

 

[BatManu20]

Castle has to shoot that with confidence.

 

[Rafa]

Can’t be making mistakes like that when you got a mountain to climb man

 

[timtonymanu]

Champ needs more 3s