Game Thread Spurs (5-2) vs Rockets (6-2) (Fri 11/07/25) [6:30PM CDT] on Prime Video

[Limguoguolo]

The first foul Victor had (an offensive foul), did he actually hit Sengun in the face? Sengun was holding his face, but I didn't see any contact to his face in the replay. Did I see it wrong?

Both the advantage and disadvantage of never complaining to the referees. It was early in the game, but it should have been challenged given Victor's propensity for foul trouble in recent games. Sochan and Sengun are true European players raised on the comedy of soccer divas. The Pole and the Turk both played on the stage admirably.

On the other hand, Sengun is a true offensive genius. He was already the best player at the Euro, what a player… The way he pumped Victor with his elbow was magic: not violent enough to warrant a whistle, but enough to annoy Victor. He has a way of wriggling like a worm coming out of an apple or fidgeting like Mrs. Doubtfire imitating the first few minutes of a little girl on the beach that is worth seeing, and it's effective.

Duncan and Diaw were eels, able to avoid contact or use their opponent's power to destabilize them, as in judo. Sengun is a worm from the commedia dell'arte; Victor should learn from them. There's no point in struggling to reach the paint: there are alternative methods. I would love to see him spin like a spinning top dipped in peanut butter. Don't struggle: spin and slide. Sengun is an actor in the commedia dell'arte, Victor must become a prima ballerina in The Nutcracker.

 

[Corso]

I hope mitch does not sit wemby out tonite...but i would not be pissed if wemby played a max 30 mins- depending on the situation tonite.

I see what you did there.

 

[bozhemoi]

Houston are a good team but I honestly feel like they were a significantly tougher team last season. Against them, I felt like the players who were really bothering us were FVV, Dillon Brooks on Wemby, and also Jalen Green when he caught on fire.
Sure Amen is athletic, Sengun's a good player (who's never gonna be a great player), KD is starting to show his age (I mean Harrison Barnes is having success defending you bro).

Honestly when they traded for KD I didn't really agree with the overly optimistic reaction they got, like they were gonna turn into this unbeatable team to rival OKC or something. I think people have a hard time realizing that the "idea of KD" really isn't the reality of what you're getting from his 37yo current self anymore. That dude right now is fool's gold, just as much as Sengun is.

They're more one-note this year, I agree. Teams may figure them out and they could struggle finding other ways to get points. Their defense is going to be stellar, but they had so many other options offensively last year. Green or another guy could pop off. They had to shed a player like Cam Whitmore who isn't very good but could provide a punch off the bench. And I find it hard to believe KD can keep any of this up for another season or two. Finally, hell yeah, it's terrible going against Brooks, another guy who could deliver on offense but was always an injury threat.

 

[heyheymymy]

LAL vs ATL today as well. Lakers Hawks, some one has gotta lose! love those types of win-win games.

 

[inagra]

Need Hawks to continue losing.

 

[scott]

Sounds like Victor helped AwfulCoaching get his joy back

 

[Knoxxx]

Jumping on the end here. So who else doesn’t understand why Sengun is allowed to throw elbows and hook with his elbow too. In particular, when he does it in such blatant fashion?

 

[frenchfred]

1. Victor played like shit the first quarter and a half, Charmin soft setting up at the three point line and in the corner. Rockets were getting away with guarding him with Sheppard FFS. Most frustrating quarter and a half of Spurs basketball I have seen in a long time.
2. Mitch must have gotten in Victor's ass because he spent the rest of the game setting up on the low block or the high post.
3. Once Victor got on the block it opened up a ton of open threes plus easy second chance points off misses. Champ and Unc capitalized from distance and Keldon was a terror on the offensive glass.
4. In the second half Victor would setup on the low block and then run to catch the pass a little past the FT line and started really scoring. They were forced to guard him with bigs since he went on the block and it opened up lots of midrange and driving opportunities for Victor on those high post catches.

Seemed like a very Duncan-esque performance from Victor in the final 2.5 quarters where the statline doesn't jump off the page but where everything was created by him. Very impressive game all in all even after that hideous first quarter and a half where his soft play completely destroyed the offense (Spurs would go on runs when Victor went to the bench).

if he plays the entire game like the second half, his stats for the game would be back to his annual average. We don't need him to score 30 points a game, especially with Fox coming back, if he scores 25 points on a high FG%, grabs 12 rebounds and 4 blocks a game; we'll be fine. Fox and Castle (Harper when he gets back) will carry the rest of the offensive load.

 

[scott]

Jumping on the end here. So who else doesn’t understand why Sengun is allowed to throw elbows and hook with his elbow too. In particular, when he does it in such blatant fashion?

Yeah, I would like to see Mitch advocating a little more on Wemby's behalf to the refs in game. Because of Wemby's height, he gets called for a lot of the same motions every other player does. Mitch should have been up the refs ass after Sengun's flops and then him repeatedly elbowing Wemby in the ribs.

 

[Dex]

Yeah, I would like to see Mitch advocating a little more on Wemby's behalf to the refs in game. Because of Wemby's height, he gets called for a lot of the same motions every other player does. Mitch should have been up the refs ass after Sengun's flops and then him repeatedly elbowing Wemby in the ribs.

Glad someone else noticed this. Sengun was dislodging Wemby with his shoulders and chicken-wings all night and never got called out on it.

He also body-checked Wemby on a free-throw rebound and still no whistle.

I also liked the play where Wemby and Adams got tangled up, both fell down and...play just kept going. That has to be a foul somewhere lol

 

[scott]

Glad someone else noticed this. Sengun was dislodging Wemby with his shoulders and chicken-wings all night and never got called out on it.

He also body-checked Wemby on a free-throw rebound and still no whistle.

I also liked the play where Wemby and Adams got tangled up, both fell down and...play just kept going. That has to be a foul somewhere lol

Yeah I made a comment on that one play when Sengun elbowed him like 4 times (and should have been called for 3-seconds to boot) that Wemby would have 6 fouls in the first quarter if he tried to do the shit the let Sengun get away with.

 

[Kick-Stand]

if he plays the entire game like the second half, his stats for the game would be back to his annual average. We don't need him to score 30 points a game, especially with Fox coming back, if he scores 25 points on a high FG%, grabs 12 rebounds and 4 blocks a game; we'll be fine. Fox and Castle (Harper when he gets back) will carry the rest of the offensive load.

I loved the way Victor played in the second half of the second quarter where he didn't score a point too.

 

[Shmurs]

Tony Brothers for some reason decides he has a specific enemy among the players pretty often. He decides he will be adversarial to a star from the jump and then plays a game with himself to see how far he can take it.

He’s an incompetent fool who should be reffing in lower leagues. why he still gets to work on the big stage, make your own guesses. Seems like the officiating pool is a little bit of a social experiment.

 

[dn0774]

The amount of uncalled offensive 3 seconds on Adams was comical.

 

[ace3g]

Didn't see this live.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987287564555018433

 

[Ice009]

Didn't see this live.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987287564555018433

Whoa. I didn't see that either. This is why we need an enforcer. He should be leveled after that.

 

[O_V]

This team is really amazing at getting transition baskets. That's a nice thing to hang your hat on while you try to figure out your offense. One of these days they're going to rattle off a 45 point quarter.

 

[scott]

Should be a fine incoming if the league has balls and actually wants to protects its stars

 

[scott]

This team is really amazing at getting transition baskets. That's a nice thing to hang your hat on while you try to figure out your offense. One of these days they're going to rattle off a 45 point quarter.

Today might be the day!

 

[BatManu20]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987290282719592823

 

[TAPS]

That little hype video they had at the beginning of the game with the guys in the M.C. Esther painting was cool.