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The Spurs never looked like they were playing full speed tonight, unlike the second half of Game 4 where they obliterated the Trail Blazers for 24 minutes, but it was good enough to defeat an outclassed Portland team. It was a dominant early effort from the Silver and Black with Julian Champanie hitting shots and the Spurs led by as much as 28 in the second half, but the Rip City team made thing interesting late as they took advantage of the Silver and Black’s lack of edge to cut the lead to single digits with 8 minutes left to play. De’Aaron Fox took control of the game late offensively with 13 timely points in the fourth, and Victor Wembanyama anchored the defense as the Spurs held off the Portland surge to win 114-95 to advance to the second round of the playoffs for the first time since 2017.
Observations
ESPN always schedules NBA game broadcasts 2.5 hours apart. When you factor in that the tipoff is generally about 12 minutes after the start of the broadcast, that means that the first game has to be done in 2 hours and 18 minutes to not cut into the broadcast of the second game. Or 2.5 hours for viewers to not miss any of the game 2 action. It’s really less than that, because the network always does a commercial break after the first game, and usually an on-court interview. The Spurs had 45 games that lasted 2:18 or longer and 8 that lasted 2:30 or longer. So there’s a 50% chance that the pregame intro will be shortened or truncated, and roughly 10% chance that fans will miss the start of the second game. Would it kill ESPN to start the second broadcast at 2:45 past the first one? Or at least delay the start of the second game if the first game runs long? That would suck for the fans in the arena, so you’d have to put a limit on it. I dunno, but I really hate missing the start of the game because the networks are bad at planning. Tonight’s lead-in game (Sixers/Celtics) was over at 8:34, and didn’t cut into the start of the Spurs game, but that was at least partly because it wasn’t close at the end and neither team was interested in extending the game.
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