Coming off the extreme, emotional high of beating the Utah Jazz, making their first fourth quarter comeback of the season, and getting Gregg Popovich his NBA-record 1,336th regular season win the night before, it already wasn’t going to be surprising if they had a letdown game against the Indiana Pacers the next night. A loss became even more likely when Pop decided he would rest Dejounte Murray, Keldon Johnson and Jacob Poeltl for the SEGABABA, and that’s exactly what happened.
The Spurs started the game well enough, getting out to an 11-8 lead, but a 7-0 run by the Pacers forced a timeout after the Spurs turned it over under Indiana’s basket.