Minutes before the Spurs’ Wednesday tip-off, a promo on the AT&T Center jumbotron showed players talking up the energy and positive impact that the San Antonio crowd brings to games, followed a short while later by an extended sample of Thin Lizzy’s The Boys Are Back In Town that blared through the opening tip. The message, depending on how you want to look at it: We’re home!, or, Thank God we’re not on the road anymore.
That sentiment carried on through to the final horn, as the Spurs snapped their three-game losing skid and defeated the visiting Pistons, 105-93, the fewest total they’ve allowed since the beginning of January.