It wasn’t the fun, exciting, offensive masterpiece the Spurs put on the night before against the Magic. In fact, their OT loss to the Dallas Mavericks was an ugly overall game for both teams, with Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving out for the Mavs and Zach Collins, Devin Vassell and Jeremy Sochan sitting for the Spurs. However, sometimes beauty can be found in the least expected places.
While it wasn’t a pretty game, it was an emotional one with plenty of fringe Spurs looking to make a case for both the rest of the season and beyond, and Dallas in desperate need of the win as they linger in the middle of the Wild Wild Western Conference, where they could still plausibly finish as high as 4th but also as low as 13th.