San Antonio Spurs Lonnie Walker (Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images)
It looks like the San Antonio Spurs struggling without Lonnie Walker wasn’t a coincidence. In the nine games he was out with a wrist injury, San Antonio lost seven and fell back to below .500 despite eight of those games being at the AT&T Center.
Just going by the eye test and following the Spurs all season long, I was skeptical that the loss of Walker could be that impactful to the teams’ recent woes. I mean, they went from a 22-16 team to one that was repeatedly getting blown out in front of their fans to subpar opponents.