Game Thread Spurs (48-17) vs Nuggets (40-26) (Thu 3/12/2026) [8:00PM CDT]

[pope]

Jokic and Murray played 40 minutes on the second night of a back to back. I’m not too worried

 

[CrustyCoastBendFan]

The best part of this was when Mitch Johnson got his technical and Sean the Sacred Cow of the company Propaganda had to say well, this is now Mitch's team. No dummy, this team is Wimby's team. Mitch is just on there for the ride, and he fucked up this entire second half play this mall ball, which you failed to call out. You and your little boyfriend on the sideline.

 

[spursistan]

Anyone who still thinks Wemby is not the DPOY

 

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Wouldn’t be such a problem if we didn’t waste roster spots on culture guys like Biyombo and Plumlee.

For sure, so frustrating. But as you said earlier, not worried, we win Rho comfortably with wemby. But really need Kornet to be serviceable come playoff time.

 

[WembyFan]

Kornet spending late nights writing his blog, he needs to get back to his game.

 

[ginobilized]

16-2 is acceptable in last 18 games

 

[rogcl1]

Close by Steph tbh, not the person ya want shooting a game saving shot but it is what it is

Not true, he has hit some big 3s.

 

[spurraider21]

Not that everybody was playing great (Kornet/keldon), but this one falls on Mitch for those 4th quarter rotations.

And i rarely come away from games blaming sub patterns. I barely ever assign grades to Mitch at all tbh, but this was a choke job all quarter long

 

[goprimogo]

4th quarter was dog****

 

[Trifecta]

This is exclusively on Mitch.
I can't believe he played Plumlee against their small lineup.

And we're in trouble with current big situation.
Kornet, Olynyk, Biyombo, Plumlee and we can't get 15 combined solid minutes from them.

Let alone any solid minimal offensive output

 

[LeBowen]

Don't forget that they didn't have Gordon.
Not Wemby, but he completely changes their defense.

 

[scott]

Close by Steph tbh, not the person ya want shooting a game saving shot but it is what it is

It was a good look and just missed, I like that Castle wasn’t afraid to step up and take that.

Walk this one off and come ready to play Saturday.

 

[Correct Crusader]

You're just not gonna beat Jokic without wemby. Insane that it was this close.

 

[Kick-Stand]

Close by Steph tbh, not the person ya want shooting a game saving shot but it is what it is

Disagree, Steph has become pretty decent on catch and shoot threes the last month or so and he was open. Take that shit every time Steph.

 

[Kick-Stand]

You're just not gonna beat Jokic without wemby. Insane that it was this close.

They did it in Denver. Just can't expect Keldon to be able to guard Jokic.

 

[Spursgenius]

Man without Wemby this team is so average. Poor coaching also shows up. Wemby covers up a lot.

 

[scott]

This is exclusively on Mitch.
I can't believe he played Plumlee against their small lineup.

And we're in trouble with current big situation.
Kornet, Olynyk, Biyombo, Plumlee and we can't get 15 combined solid minutes from them.

Mitch and Keldon lost this one.

 

[ChrisC21209]

Playing Plumlee meaningful minutes in the 4th cost them smh. Oh well. Didn’t expect to be up a ton and get the W against Denver

 

[spursistan]

Kornet is such trash, playing like a fourth stringer wtf

I said it in his player thread, don't be surprised if this is it for him : a mostly career journeyman who just fell off inexplicably. Not the first time it happened in this league.

 

[benefactor]

You guys need to stop being a bunch of ball lickers.

They basically planned to lose this game. How did you think it was going to go without your seven and a half foot defensive anchor not playing. I mean don't blame the other players blame Mitch if you want to blame anyone

 

[Kick-Stand]

It was quite a sight to see what our defense down low looks like without Wemby. I swear earlier in the year Kornet could provide good coverage down there, am I just remembering wrong? Or was Denver just finishing well. Felt like every drive was an easy 2

You're not remembering wrong; Luke was pretty outstanding defensively until the last couple of weeks. He definitely doesn't look right, wonder if it's fatigue from a long season or if he has some nagging injury.

 

[WembyFan]

Keldon was trash

 

[Trifecta]

KJ also ran his own offense and took away some momentum with his “bull in the china shop” offense

 

[LeBowen]

Mitch and Keldon lost this one.

Yeah, Keldon thought it was his time, tbh.

Spencer Jones is a 39% 3pt shooter this season and Mitch decided to match him up with Plumlee.

 

[Robz4000]

With the emergence of CB the backup C spot is now clearly the Spurs' biggest need tbh.