Spurs hold off Clippers, improve to 15-0 at home

San Antonio Spurs’ Boban Marjanovic dunks between Los Angeles… Yet, after a few months apart since their thrilling meeting, a lot has changed for both teams.

It was the third time this season, the Spurs have connected on 10 or more 3-pointers in a game.

At least that’s what they’re saying.

San Antonio also was helped by reserves who were led by guards Manu Ginobili and Patty Mills who scored 11 points each. As a team it was disappointing, but now we have a whole new team. During this time, Leonard has developed into a defensive stalwart, standing at just 6-foot-7 with a 7-foot-3 wingspan and massive, 9.8-inch hands. “But they’re a team that’s always a good test for anybody because they’re not going to beat themselves, you have to beat them”.

“But at the end of the day, we’ll find energy from somewhere and we’ll be ready and I really believe that”. Their 14-0 start at home this season is the best in franchise history. The San Antonio Spurs couldn’t have been a much tougher sixth seed to go up against, and if it wasn’t for Paul’s late heroics, who knows what the outcome of that series could have been. They also handed their Spurs their worst home loss (105-85) of the season.

“I think our guys just stuck with it, stayed physical, and tried to make them uncomfortable”, Aldridge said. “You have to give them credit”.

The San Antonio Spurs just keep on ticking. At both ends of the court, he is really a special player.

Guard Chris Paul had 27 points and 10 assists to lead the Clippers.

“It was huge, it was huge”, Parker said.

After playing all the way to mid-June in their march to a fifth league title in 2014, the Spurs were bounced out of the playoffs on May 2.

The Clippers posted a 103-90 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday for their ninth victory in 11 games. They are 5-1 in their last six road games.

Fourth quarter “Hack-A-Jordan.” Once the Spurs took the lead earlier in the fourth quarter, Popovich sent the Clippers big man to the line repeatedly, stretching the lead to as many as ten points before Doc Rivers was forced to remove him from the game. “Very big and athletic”. A very experienced and very challenging team.

The Spurs dealt away another draft find, George Hill, in exchange for a promising prospect in Leonard, and the move has more than worked out for them.

Speaking of differentials, the Clippers’ is 2.1. Griffin couldn’t seem to miss while Paul and JJ Redick were having good shooting nights as well.

The Spurs leads the league in several defensive categories, but offense dominated the first matchup between the teams since the Clippers eliminated the then-defending champions in the first round of last season’s playoffs. The Silver and Black are also holding opponents to 41.8 percent shooting, which ranks near the top.