Following the San Antonio Spurs' 95-91 loss to the Chicago Bulls Thursday, Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich was blunt in his assessment of how his team performed.
According to ESPN.com's Michael C. Wright, Popovich lamented the notion that the Spurs failed to turn in a full, 48-minute effort:
We played 24 minutes again, as we have for about the last 10 games. We go through the motions in the first half. I think we shot one free throw in the first half. We shot four or so the second half. But we played harder in the second half. I don't know if we played much smarter. Our opponents have outplayed us physically and execution-wise in most first halves for most of the season. So now we pull it together in the second half, and played harder and smarter and got it to (a) four (-point deficit). That's the disappointing part: We're not a very consistent team, and we haven't learned as a group that the game is 48 minutes. We also have some people playing very poorly. You have to participate in your own recovery. Some players have to play better.
San Antonio struggled in nearly all aspects Thursday, as it shot just 40.2 perce ...
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Gregg Popovich Comments on Spurs’ Poor Play After Loss to Bulls
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