The AT&T Center crowd is used to watching a contender let a young team hand around only to step on the gas late to put them away, but this time they got to experience the other side of it. The Spurs played the Suns tough for most of the game, looking impressive for long stretches, but couldn’t hang around in the fourth and lost 121-107.
Despite the final result, the game was fun from the start. It was a hectic, high octane affair early on, with both teams trading buckets. Devin Booker was scorching hot in the first quarter, scoring 18 of the Suns’ first 22 points, but the Spurs were not only finding ways to hang around, but actually took control for a stretch.