What we Learned from the Spurs win over the Jazz

It’s probably too soon to tell, but I don’t think we can rule it out just yet. I mean, they’ve now won two whole games in a row. That’s absolutely all the evidence I need to start wildly jumping to conclusions, right?

When they lost two in a row last week (against the Lakers and the Jazz), it felt like a sure sign that the Spurs had finally succumbed to their shortcomings. They couldn’t play defense and they couldn’t score, two of main pillars of successful basketball I’m told, and they looked completely dead in the water. I was down. I was attempting to weave multiple tanking jokes into my recaps because gallows humor felt like the only natural reaction to the sudden onrush of darkness.

Now…