The Spurs have made a habit of improving as games go along, a trend that continued on Thursday in a 119-107 win over the visiting New York Knicks.
Sometimes the recipe for success has been buried in an unlikely rotation Pop unearths, or at the bottom of another bottle of Grandpa Juice; against the Knicks it was simpler, with the starters doing much of the heavy lifting and providing stability on a night when the team was without two of their best bucket-getters. The five-man group combined for 87 points and posted a net rating of +35.