dissatisfaction<\/a>) catching up with LeBron, and Reaves dealing with injuries, it has been an up-and-down season for the Lakers. They tried to address some weaknesses by adding Luke Kennard at the trade deadline, but they still dropped one to a shorthanded Thunder team last night to fall four games behind the second place Spurs.<\/p>\nFor the Spurs, who have won four straight while finding an offensive rhythm that eluded them for much of January, this will be their third visit to the Staples Center this season thanks to the quirks of the NBA Cup Tournament, which sent them to LA for an extra game in the quarterfinals. While the Spurs split those two outings, losing the first match-up on the final shot way back in the second week of the season, they owned the next two, including the Cup quarterfinals and in San Antonio last month.<\/p>\n
While Doncic has always been a thorn in the Spurs side \u2014 even Victor Wembanyama admitted he was hard to beat earlier in the season \u2014 the Spurs\u2019 solution in previous games was to let him do his thing with his difficult shot selection while limiting everyone else\u2019s offensive impact. Doncic is just as good of a creator as he is scorer, so if you can take away one aspect of his offense, you have him beat.<\/p>\n
With all that being said, Doncic may be out tonight after missing last night\u2019s game with a sore hamstring, and who knows with LeBron on back-to-backs. If that is the case, the Spurs will have to make a mental adjustment that they have sometimes struggled with but overcame twice last week, and that\u2019s not getting complacent and playing down to injured or inferior opponents. If the Spurs stay focused and play their best version of ball, they may be able to make quick work of this game and save some legs for the next night against a similary shorthanded Warriors team.<\/p>\n
San Antonio Spurs (36-16) at Los Angeles Lakers (32-20)<\/p>\n
February 10, 2015 | 9:30 PM CT<\/p>\n
Watch: FanDuel Sports, NBATV | Listen: WOAI (1200 AM)<\/p>\n
Spurs injuries: Lindy Waters III (out \u2014 knee)<\/p>\n
Lakers injuries: not due until 1:00 PM CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s that time of year: the time that in the past saw the Spurs getting past the January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,26732],"class_list":["post-172253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-spurs-game-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}