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The Warriors were without two of their best players, however that didn't make the win any less sweet as the Spurs, driven by LaMarcus Aldridge's extreme and lumpy execution beat them in the AT&T Center. They had an incredible guarded execution, and restricted the harm from Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson while nobody else on the Warriors group aside from Quinn Cook could do much on offense. Rudy Gay looked solid and gave a scoring punch to the Silver and Black and the group played one of their best diversions of the year as the Warriors battled their way once again into the amusement late, yet the Spurs repulsed the flood with shutdown guard over the most recent two minutes.

Amusement Flow

The Spurs won the opening tip and sustained the ball to Aldridge in the post for a simple post-up and he got the initial two points of the amusement. The Spurs hostile development appeared somewhat enhanced with Derrick White out of the beginning lineup, and Gay got an open shot at the edge to put the heroes up 5-0. They proceeded with the free-streaming offense as they assembled a 10-6 lead ahead of schedule with Dante Cunningham getting into the demonstration with a profound three and a piece of Kevon Looney to drive a turnover. Marco Belinelli drew the consideration of the refs with a hard foul on Kevin Durant on a drive to the bushel, however it was controlled as a typical foul, and Durant missed one of his two free tosses. The seat unit give some great vitality off the seat, however they couldn't contain the Warriors, and they tied it up at 21 each on a couple of dunks from Andre Iguodala, Damian Jones, and a jumper from Shaun Livingston. Marco Belinelli scored continuous inclining triples to give the Spurs an important lead. Rudy Gay encouraged the hostile blast with a jumper and a driving dunk to put the Spurs up 31-23. Durant did his best to keep the Warriors significant, yet the primary quarter wound up 33-27 with the Silver and Black in the number one spot.

The beginning of the second quarter was pretty herky-jerky, as neither one of the teams appeared in a state of harmony. After a timeout, Bryn Forbes returned with a triple to put the Spurs up 37-29. A nine point keep running from the Warriors made them recapture the lead with barely 7 minutes left. Derrick White, off the seat, demonstrated that he could play with a drive to the bushel and a help to a totally open Aldridge on the elbow as the Spurs recovered the lead part of the way through the second. The Warriors battled back, yet LMA tidied up the junk in the paint and set the Spurs back up with just shy of three minutes left in the half. The Spurs completed on a 10-2 run and drove 56-48 at the half.

The Spurs started the second half with defense, blocking a shot from Kevin Durant, which led to a technical called on Durant when he complained on a call against him on the next play. Unfortunately, DeMar DeRozan didn’t cash in, he missed the free throw, but he made up for that on the next play with a drive to the basket to give the Spurs their first double digit lead of the game. After an Aldridge paint jumper, Durant started to get hot, using his length get mid range jumpers, while Aldridge got to the rim to score baskets for the Silver and Black, keeping the margin at around 10. The Spurs turned defense into offense, and a steal from Patty Mills led to an open three from him to extend the lead to 16. Durant was able to hit a triple, but the Warriors offense was reduced to isolation plays for Durant of Thompson as they fell behind by 17. But the Warriors went on a late run scoring nine straight with Quinn Cook doing most of the damage to bring them to 70-78 with 30 seconds left. A free throw from Rudy Gay had the Spurs leading 79-70 with the final quarter still to play.

Quinn Cook, who had been cooking the Spurs, started off the fourth quarter scoring with a free throw. Belinelli hit a layup, then Jakob Poeltl happened, stealing the ball from Kevon Looney and making a layup to put the Spurs up 12. The Warriors, with a spark provided by Cook, brought the lead back down to five with Klay Thompson finally hitting his outside shots. DeRozan answered with a mid-range shot in the lane, but Thompson answered right back. They traded baskets for a while, and the Spurs kept it up to lead 89-82 with 5:24 left. Thompson and Durant got free and they cut the lead to a single point at 91-90. Aldridge wasn’t going to let them take over, and got offensive rebounds and turned the extra possessions into points. They scored six straight to lead 97-90 with just under 2 minutes left. The Spurs defense stiffened, but a foul on Looney got them back to within 5 with a pair of free throws from the Warriors big man. A turnover from Aldridge made Spurs fans a little nervous, but Durant lost the ball and couldn’t take advantage, and a triple from Mills with 38 seconds left put the Spurs up 101-92 with 30 seconds left. Bryn Forbes capped the scoring with a triple as the Spurs won 104-92.

Random Thoughts

• The Spurs have had 48 days with a losing record since the 1997 season. Tomorrow, that number will be 48 for at least a couple more days.
• Derrick White was moved to the bench tonight, and the offense was more fluid with DeMar DeRozan as the de facto point guard. I think Derrick is a good player, but the Spurs offense is just better when DeMar initiates the offense. I like White playing with the bench unit, and he seemed more comfortable with that role.
• Without Steph Curry and Draymond Green, the Warriors are centered around Kevin Durant. There really isn’t anyone else on the team who can create offense. This team’s offense is centered around Steph, and without him, it’s just Kevin hero ball. Which is pretty good, but is limited since it has a single point of failure. With Steph, every player is involved.
• Poeltl has been really good, getting to loose balls and establishing position in the paint, even playing credible defense when switched onto a guard. He’s starting to get comfortable in his role as a Spur.
• I like aggressive LaMarcus Aldridge a lot more than passive LaMarcus Aldridge. The first guy showed up tonight. I don’t know where that other guy is, he sometimes just disappears. Aggressive LaMarcus gets buckets or draws fouls almost every time he gets the ball in the paint.
• For most of the season, the Spurs fast break has been abysmal. Tonight, it was . . . OK. The outlet passes were crisp and drivers hit their layups.
• Pop has been putting Cunningham on the other team’s best player, and he’s been amazingly good. Nobody can stop Durant, but he did a great job of slowing him down.
• Jonas Jerebko got some easy points by following Durant’s misses. The Spurs bigs weren’t doing a very good job of keeping him off the glass.
• The Spurs outscored the Warriors in each quarter. That’s a stat that has a very high correlation with wins.