Despite playing a second game within a 24-hour span, the Spurs weren’t talking fatigue following Sunday’s 117-110 loss to the Orlando Magic. They didn’t boil the result down to the misfortune of catching one of the league’s worst offensive teams on an uncharacteristically hot night. No one pointed at the absence of third banana Rudy Gay, who sat with a sore heel, or the team’s own shooting woes. Nor, for that matter, did they moan over a couple of questionable whistles that helped short-circuit their last-ditch comeback.
Instead, the conversation reverted, as it usually does in San Antonio, to defense.