It was only a matter of time, I suppose. Riding a rare (for this season) wave of victories over teams still adjusting to a number of absences and the effects of a significant layoff, the San Antonio Spurs were bound to come back down to earth a bit.
It was an all but foregone conclusion that deeper, more talented teams would eventually acclimate and pull away from the frightfully fresh-faced lineups that the Silver and Black have been rolling out. Down a number of veteran players, the Spurs that remained bulldozed their way into NBA Bubble relevance powered by some bizarre combination of tameless youth and restless will, but that kind of momentum is a hard thing to harness, much less guide and maintain.