Coach Popovich was asked if there were any positives to take away from last night’s game.
“No.”
Well, challenge accepted. The Spurs lost by 35 points on Sunday. It was their largest margin of defeat this season and, probably their largest margin of defeat in decades, although the Pounding the Rock Stats department has been curiously slow in getting back to me about that. Regardless, from here through the rest of this article there will be nothing but overly positive takeaways and irrational exuberance. Popovich said it couldn’t be done, but he didn’t count on how hard it is to find a hook when you’re writing about a blowout loss.