“Not sure anybody really played well the last time we played the Pelicans,” co-commentator Sean Elliott said when Josh Primo had started the scoring for the Spurs from the charity stripe in Saturday’s game. Sean was putting it mildly. But what a difference a week makes!
That doesn’t mean the Spurs’ performance was the complete opposite of their non-performance eight days ago. In fact, they started slow, only scoring 22 points in the first quarter while conceding 32. But they picked things up with a very good second quarter, they kept things close in the third, and they scrambled to win the fourth quarter as well the game by four points.