Coach Gregg Popovich and the Spurs almost pulled off another magic trick on Sunday night against the Lakers. Sure, they came close to earning a victory, but that’s not the impressive part. The impressive part is that they were close in a game where they purposefully and repeatedly put DeMar DeRozan on Anthony Davis.
It is not an exaggeration to say that there is nobody who believes that’s a good matchup for DeMar. If you were counting out which Spurs defenders you’d rather have on Davis, how many would you get to before him?