Damian Lillard shredded the NBA’s most shreddable defense, sending San Antonio to its...
PORTLAND, Ore. - It doesn’t take a genius, or a Hall of Fame-bound basketball coach, to determine why the Spurs are losing games.It’s just that the Spurs are also giving them up at a rate that is historically astronomical.
Monday’s great basket giveaway also surpassed that Warriors game for the second-most points a Popovich-coached team had surrendered in regulation.Damian Lillard led Portland with 37 points — 35 of which came after the first quarter — to go with 12 assists. With a league-worst defensive rating of 120.4 heading into Monday, the Spurs were vying with this year’s Detroit and Houston squads for that honor.
Here are three takeaways from the Spurs’ latest loss at the Moda Center, their 10th in the past 12 games:The Lakers star needs 224 points to unseat Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA’s all-time scoring leader. He spent the rest of the third quarter on the bench. Perhaps not coincidentally, that is the quarter Portland reeled of 45 points.
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