Towards the end of the 1st quarter on Saturday, the Spurs mishandled an uncontested defensive board and returned the ball to a team they had no business handing additional possessions. To be more specific, it was Charles Bassey and Isaiah Roby appearing to have slightly different ideas over a free defensive rebound, leading to the ball pinging out of bounds.
There’s likely a common response to seeing both names as part of a team’s early-game rotation — that somewhere leading up to the night, things hadn’t gone to plan for San Antonio — and the cynical one: maybe things are kinda going as planned?