HOUSTON -- The San Antonio Spurs experienced Game 1 Groundhog Day in succumbing to a blistering night from range on Sunday, as the Houston Rockets evened this Western Conference semifinals series 2-2 by virtue of a 125-104 triumph.
"They did a great job, and our defense was pretty defective," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "I thought they drove it with purpose, found people, and we started the game really without an edge and getting beat in transition again, like we did in Game 1."
But after that disastrous outing, in which the Rockets knocked down 22 of 50 shots from 3-point range to set an NBA postseason record for the most threes attempted and made against San Antonio, the Spurs switched up the way they defended the pick-and-roll.