Game Thread Spurs (9-4) vs Grizzlies (4-10) (Tue 11/18/25) [7:00PM CDT]

[LeBowen]

Mr Body changing his name and hiding his identity only to out himself with his atrocious takes and Fox hate is hilarious

What was his expert analysis when we got Fox?
Iirc something along the lines of undersized, selfish scorer with no range and terrible defense.

 

[Valparaiso]

Cedric Coward with 11 rebounds in 26 minutes, and JJJ with 6 rebounds in 33 minutes. I never fully trust a 6'10" guy who can't rebound. For me, there's always a BBIQ element involved. Coach Iisalo is either having a difficult time acknowledging that his most impactful player is a rookie, or he's bringing him along slowly, or maybe this is lowkey tanking. Coward was +3 while the five bench guys and their 101 minutes were at a combined -63.

 

[DAF86]

Coward is nice man. Thought it was questionable trading up to 10 to get him but looking like he's worth it.

I wanted him so bad. I was raging mad when the Grizzlies got him before our 2nd pick. He can be Nephew 2.0.

 

[Mugen]

Will take any win we can get right now tbh. Memphis has owned us too.

 

[LeBowen]

Cedric Coward with 11 rebounds in 26 minutes, and JJJ with 6 rebounds in 33 minutes. I never fully trust a 6'10" guy who can't rebound. For me, there's always a BBIQ element involved. Coach Iisalo is either having a difficult time acknowledging that his most impactful player is a rookie, or he's bringing him along slowly, or maybe this is lowkey tanking. Coward was +3 while the five bench guys and their 101 minutes were at a combined -63.

JJJ is probably the worst contract in the league if we exclude injured and players over 30.
He's just an elite role player in a good system.
Without it, I'm not sure he's worth more than 20 a year.

 

[ffadicted]

God this is electric to rewatch, didn’t quite catch Fox caused that TO at the end, thought he played pretty stellar defense today.

 

[DaSlicer]

This was the Spurs first win on NBC since April 27, 2002 which was game 3 of the first round in which the Spurs defeated the Sonics 102-75. In that game Duncan had 27 points and Parker had 23 points. I remember watching that game as a Freshman in college and being amazed at seeing Parker light up Gary Payton.

By winning this game the Spurs also ended a 2 game losing streak they had on NBC going back to the playoffs when they lost game 1 and 4 on NBC to the Lakers. Game 4 vs the Lakers in which they lost 87-85 was the last game they played on NBC prior to tonight.

 

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Barnes is unreal. Nice win and close out

 

[scott]

10 - 4. 3 of our losses are by a combined 8 points. 1 loss was just a no show against the suns. 2 losses took 40 pointers by an all time player.

Spurs a few lucky bounces from being the 2nd seed in the west and I think we only had our entire roster 1 or 2 games.

Optimistic poopbox is weird but I love it

 

[spurraider21]

Nah, that was the 3 way that sent DeRozan to Sacto FROM Chicago.

We got a 2025 bulls pick from sending Derozan there in s&t

We got the 2031 kings pick swap from Sacto in addition to Harrison Barnes in the first 3 way deal with Chicago

We then sent the 2025 pick back to Chicago in the second 3-way trade where we landed Fox

 

[Amuseddaysleeper]

This was the Spurs first win on NBC since April 27, 2002 which was game 3 of the first round in which the Spurs defeated the Sonics 102-75. In that game Duncan had 27 points and Parker had 23 points. I remember watching that game as a Freshman in college and being amazed at seeing Parker light up Gary Payton.

By winning this game the Spurs also ended a 2 game losing streak they had on NBC going back to the playoffs when they lost game 1 and 4 on NBC to the Lakers. Game 4 vs the Lakers in which they lost 87-85 was the last game they played on NBC prior to tonight.

Man, I remember being so hyped during that round. Sonics were tough in that 2005 series as well.

 

[KDKSpurs24]

I don’t think it was a good win. But it was a win. This was a loss against about 20 teams. We survived because Memphis was simply more inept than we were and didn’t have a clutch scorer like we did with Barnes.

Foxs first half was awful and we aren’t surviving that against most

This was a great win for us! We don’t have a backup point guard or a true backup center and we have guys trying to figure out new roles. We had a huge size disadvantage, lost the rebound battle and still played hard and got the win!! You should rethink what you’re saying imo. This was good. Next game they will be more comfortable with each other after seeing what their role is supposed to be with this specific group.

 

[Robz4000]

Optimistic poopbox is weird but I love it

Bend over, I'll show you an optimistic poopbox.

 

[DaSlicer]

Man, I remember being so hyped during that round. Sonics were tough in that 2005 series as well.

Early '00s Spurs playoff games were fun to watch outside of playing the Lakers. Seeing a young prime Duncan play was exciting since Duncan always upped his game in the playoffs.

 

[scott]

Bend over, I'll show you an optimistic poopbox.

lol also ew

 

[Mugen]

I thought Jones-Garcia was pretty solid in his limited minutes. I'd frankly rather him out there than the Sochan/Devin/Keldon lineup without a PG if Castle/Harp are gonna be out for more games tbh

 

[SanAnSpursFan21]

These are the games our guys have gotta win if they’re gonna stay afloat during injurypocalypse of 25. Glad they got it. Work on ball movement next time and don’t count on another team pointing the barrel at themselves in the last two minutes like that again.

 

[Paramore]

 

[Paramore]

Fox and Keldon with good chemistry out there

 

[Kick-Stand]

He looks like the type of rook that’s already reached his ceiling though. Maybe it’s just me.

He also looks like a high quality glue guy who would fit in anywhere. Doesn't need to be an allstar to be a great pick at 11.

 

[Paramore]

 

[Kick-Stand]

My ideal draft going into the last two were:

Castle/Buzelis/Ajay

Harper/Coward/Penda

Other teams beat us to the punch this year, but I'm feeling good about my half-ass amateur scouting (we'll see about Penda)

24 draft was fun, I was Dillingham all the way that season until the draft lottery show when ESPN did an interview with Dillingham and Sheppard on one side and Castle and Clingan on the other and Steph and Donovan looked like Rob's and Reed's dads. At that point I started thinking yeah let's go Steph. And then the 164lb Dillingham measurement at the combine killed it for me and I was Castle 100%. Especially given Houston was obviously going to take Sheppard. Wanted the high upside pick of Holland at #8 with Buzelis my second choice and anybody but Topic my third and was livid they didn't draft Buzelis when he was still on the board at #8 but I'll happily take Fox instead, same way I was pissed the Spurs took Bill Curley instead of Charlie Ward not knowing they were about to get Sean back.

I liked Coward and kind of figured he'd be the Spurs pick, probably why Memphis traded up. Didn't really expect Bryant to be there so can't complain, as it's hard to see him not become a very good defensive player who can hit the wide open three. Come on though, I know we were both riding hard on the Fleming bandwagon too.

 

[twodeep]

I missed the last qtrit was nice to see Fox's defense get better in the 3rd he was actually being physical at the point of attack and moving his feet better did Mitch get on the guys to step up. They will need more improvement on the defense against better teams the first half looked terrible the third qtr looked better. Fox's first half offense was terrible but he single handily kept them in the game in the 3rd qtr.

 

[Fabbs]

Fabulous 4th qtr for Spurs.
WWW is a Win Without Wemby. Always good.

I only saw highlights. Harry Barnes rocked in the clutch.

 

[100%Duncan]

Missed the last 5 mins. Wow Unc, wow.