NBA: bad luck for Wembanyama and the Spurs, still beaten before their tour in Paris

The Spurs must play one last meeting in Miami, this Sunday evening (9 p.m. French time), before taking off for Paris and playing two matches against Indiana next week, Thursday January 23 and Saturday January 25. Will they have found shape? Like two days before against the same opponent, San Antonio was dominated in the paint and by the contribution of the bench.

The Spurs were also weighed down by a catastrophic end to the third quarter. So far in the match despite a far from perfect three-point efficiency, the Texans conceded a crippling 16-0 in the last 4 minutes of the third act, for once at the very moment when… Victor Wembanyama returned to the parquet. A gap too big to be filled by a San Antonio team that is still a little green.

Opposite, even deprived of a physically diminished Ja Morant, the Grizzlies performed, notably thanks to the contribution of the Spaniard Santi Aldama, author of 29 points as a substitute! Memphis, third in a very tough Western Conference, constitutes an opponent of another caliber for the Spurs who can see up close what they are still missing to compete at the highest level. Next stop in Miami, Sunday, where the Texans, now 12th in the Western Conference, will try to rebalance a record which is turning red (19 victories, 21 defeats) under penalty of seeing qualification for the play-ins gradually move away. little.