San Antonio vs Golden State, Final Score: Spurs punish the Warriors 123-85 for their 11th straight win

The Spurs blew out the Warriors in the most lopsided game of the year. Without the services of Steph Curry, Golden State had to depend on super rookie Yaxel Lendeborg to provide firepower, and Spurs defense simply shut him down, holding him to 3 points on 1-13 shooting. Two way player LJ Cryer led the scoring for the visitors with 20.

The entire roster got into the action as Luke Kornet had one of his best defensive efforts of the season with a couple of blocks and most importantly, giving Victor Wembanyama plenty of comfortable minutes on the bench resting, playing 20 minutes. Stephon Castle broke out of his mini-slump with 32 points in 25 minutes. Carter Bryant continued his progression to becoming a rotation player with a solid effort on both ends of the court. Tarris Reed played almost the entire fourth quarter. I can’t find anything to complain about the Spurs’ performance in this game. It was just about perfect. And the team keeps getting better. It’s good to be a Spurs fan.

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Observations:

Blake Griffin really seemed kind of like a conceited jerk when he was a player, but as an announcer, he’s insightful and has a good connection to his colleagues in the studio and asks really good questions of the guests and players. I don’t know if I was wrong in my initial assessment of his character, but I kind of like this Blake.

Draymond is the career leader for the NBA in technical fouls with 166. However many he’s had, he’s earned a lot more. He has a real talent for getting away with an incredible amount of complaining and questionable plays, and he only gets called for a small fraction of them.

It annoys me when the announcers called the Warriors’ rookie Yaxel LendeNborg. Where did the extra ‘N’ come from? It’s Lendeborg, thank you.

Congratulations to the Pacers who held off a furious last minute rally from the Knicks to win 106-104 in the lead-game on Prime. I thought that game was going to go to overtime.

The Spurs started the game on a red-hot 12-0 run, causing an early Steve Kerr timeout. That didn’t help as the Silver and Black kept pouring it on and the Warriors were colder than interstellar space….

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Publish date : 2026-11-14 05:05:00

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