There are only so many silver linings in a 4-10 start. The losses start to mount; struggles become themes; a statistically prolific Dejounte Murray sits in front of a Zoom broadcast and a handful of reporters after a game, stony and baby-faced, increasingly deflective of talk around the individual efforts and numbers that once again came short.
This is your protagonist for the 2021-22 Spurs season: the sporadically anointed point guard of the future-turned lead guard of the present, self-effacing nearly to the point of cliche, tasked with bringing order and punch to the offense and helping set a disruptive tone to the defense.