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Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs (right) against Jeff Green of the Houston Rockets, at the Toyota Center, in Houston, Texas, December 11, 2023. TROY TAORMINA / USA TODAY SPORTS / REUTERS CONNECT
Victor Wembanyama’s San Antonio Spurs lost their seventeenth meeting in a row, in Houston (93-82), Monday December 11 in the NBA, a sad record for the franchise. The team thus managed to do worse than the sixteen losses in a row suffered last season, when they finished last in the Western Conference (twenty-two victories and sixty defeats). In the meantime, they drafted French prodigy Victor Wembanyama as their first choice in June.
The latter scored fifteen points, took eighteen rebounds and managed five blocks against Houston, without avoiding the defeat of his team, and showing himself to be quite clumsy elsewhere (one in six at three points, five turnovers). “Our defense was solid, we have to keep that. We have no choice but to continue moving forward. No one on the team doubts that, in the long term, we will be winners. I hate losing, but I stay focused on the long term”whispered the Frenchman.
The giant (2.24 meters) will be able to console himself with a poster dunk smashing during the third quarter, one-handed, in the duel with opposing pivot Alperen Sengun. A small ray of sunshine in a new evening of misery for the Spurs, catastrophic in shooting (35.6%, including five out of forty-one, for 12.2% from distance).
“They were very good in defense, they fought, but you have to be able to take the shots”, asserted their coach, Gregg Popovich. The San Antonio players, last in the West (three victories and nineteen defeats), have not won since November 2 in Phoenix.
On Wednesday and Friday, they will twice host LeBron James’ Los Angeles Lakers, who just won the NBA Cup last week.
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