After a nearly unprecedented four-day hiatus, the Spurs returned to action tonight, opening the 2022 Rodeo Road Trip in the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers: the most improved team in the league and contender for the top spot in the East. The Spurs started the game well, but a bad offensive stretch spanning the second and first half of the third quarter put the Spurs in a 23-point hole they wouldn’t be able to dig out of on the way to a 105-92 loss.
Devin Vassell led the comeback attempt with 18 points, including his own 7-0 run in the third, on 8-16 shooting, and Keldon Johnson also contributed 18 points and 3 threes on a night when the Spurs just didn’t have it going from beyond the arc.