The Spurs’ much-needed win Sunday against the Rockets allows the team to relax heading into the final five games of the season.
Except that’s 100 percent wrong. It doesn’t at all, because even after toppling the team with the best record in the league by 17 points, the Western Conference continues to be a violent medieval battleground. Only one a half games separate the Spurs from eighth-seeded Pelicans, who lost to the Thunder on Sunday afternoon.
If there is one thing the win against a lackadaisical Rockets team provided, it was more evidence the Spurs are hitting some kind of stride for the first time this season.