The Spurs\u2019 West Coast trips have afforded me anywhere from 3-4 opportunities most seasons to see them in both Sacramento and San Francisco. With my dad \u2014 while bravely fighting his battle against cancer \u2014 unable to attend the game as had originally planned, the outing became a chance for my sister to see her first Spurs game in-person since the late 80s (HemisFair Arena!) and for my niece (Wemby is her favorite of course) and my nephew (Wemby\u2019s not even his fifth favorite Spur???) to see the 50-win juggernaut live. While all of us were too busy taking videos of the action to remember to take family photos, it was a wonderful night on the town and with a victory securely in hand by midway through the third.<\/p>\n
This was my first time seeing Wemby\u2019s pregame preparation for the physicality that tends to ensue after tipoff:<\/p>\n
This footwork also seems to explain how Wemby is able to turn his ankle so often and not (knock on wood) suffer worse injuries.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a ton of glee watching a 7\u20194\u201d human dunk a ball with ease into a 10\u2019 tall hole in the sky:<\/p>\n
Sean Elliott seemed to demonstrate the \u201cappropriate\u201d fear concept that Pop insialled into him:<\/p>\n
These two walkdowns by Keldon Johnson may have been the easiest buckets he\u2019s had all season.<\/p>\n
Definitely looking forward to the 1-2 \u2018Passenger 57\u2019 lobs that Castle and Kornet will use to break up or start a Spurs run in the playoff rounds:<\/p>\n
These easier games have been good for Dylan Harper to try out figure out his shooting stroke, too.<\/p>\n
It will be very nice to get 1 or 2 Bruce Bowen corner threes from Carter Bryant in the games that count:<\/p>\n
Wembanyama did what he was supposed to do against a fellow agile big – take him right to the rack:<\/p>\n
Julian Champagnie\u2019s splashes – particularly above the break – were something to behold:<\/p>\n
2nd Half – Extended Bench Time<\/p>\n
This Fox to Wembanyama lob was aided by the threat of a dumpoff to Castle or him diving to the other side of the rim:<\/p>\n
Fox had an inordinate amount of time to size up this wing three:<\/p>\n
This was nice perimeter action between Lindy Waters III and Jordan McLaughlin (made easier due to the attention on the diving Spur):<\/p>\n
Though helped by a very \u2018ole\u2019 defense most of the evening, it was nice for Keldon to see some of his outside shots go down:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spurs\u2019 West Coast trips have afforded me anywhere from 3-4 opportunities most seasons to see them in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1613,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-229271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-general","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229271","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=229271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}