At some point, the Spurs are going to need to prove they can win against a quality opponent on the road.
The defeat at the hands of the Rockets on Friday night doesn’t have to mean anything more than a notch in the loss column, but it’s going to continue to feed the narrative that the Spurs simply can’t get it done outside the friendly confines of the AT&T Center. I know that they can. You know that they can. We all know that they can. Still, you can only talk your way around the facts for so long and their record on the road is starting to yowl in the background of this campaign like some sort of alarm bell and it’s getting harder and harder to keep saying, “It’ll shut off in a minute, stop worrying.