In the minutes of Monday’s meeting at the Toyota Center in Houston, the Spurs coaches, led by award-winning 73-year-old Gregg Popovich, were listed as 17 of the 20 players on Monday’s pre-season roster. fifteen.
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The Spurs started the game with five men: Josh Richardson, Keita Bates-Diop, Austrian Jakob Pöltl, Devin Vassell and Tre Jones. The youngest of the team, 19-year-old Sochan, entered the court with a 30:17 start to the second quarter for Houston. Replacing Blake Wesley, he became the eleventh player in the team’s rotation.
Spurs fans, looking at the Pole’s exit, could feel deja vu. “Number 10, Spurs, dyed hair, but that’s not Dennis Rodman,” one Houston local television commentator said after Sochan walked in. There is no doubt in the US. Sochan is very similar to the NBA legend. Now the 19-year-old player on the court will have to prove that he can play just as well, if not better.
His first recorded action was a missed three-point shot after two minutes and 49 seconds of play. In his first run in less than 5.5 minutes, he also recorded a loss (his pass was intercepted by Josh Christopher). The area in which he was on the field, the team lost by five points.
Before the break, the young visiting team, in which only Doug McDermott is 30 years old, lost 37:62 on Monday.
In the second half, Sochan got another chance from the start of the third quarter when he came on as a substitute for Richardson. In this almost five-minute run, he had a defensive rebound and a foul.
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At the turn of the third and fourth parts, he achieved more success. First, he committed his second foul, but then blocked Christopher’s shot and intercepted the pass of the Turk Alperen Sengun.
He showed his versatility and ability early in the last quarter when he scored his first points in the NBA with a three-piece shot, then collected the ball on defense, blocked Christopher a second time, missed a three-point shot. , and ten seconds later, in the next action of the team, he collected the ball in attack and scored points from Dunek. His last actions in the match were an offensive attack and a loss, a defensive rebound and a fourth foul. He left the field at 7.13 am before the end of the game.
Promising performance from a Pole
In total, in 17 minutes of the match, while he was on the court, the team lost this fragment by nine points. The debut of the Polish winger in the NBA team can be considered promising.
San Antonio’s top scorers were Vassell with 13, Isaiah Robie off the bench with 12, and Zach Collins with 11. Jabari Smith Jr. led the Houston team. and Tari Eason - 21 points each, and Christopher - 15 points each.
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The Spurs will play the following preseason games at home against the Orlando Magic and New Orleans Pelicans (Oct. 7-10), away against the Utah Jazz (Oct. 12), and late in the preseason against the Oklahoma City Thunder ( October). 14) at their site.
They will start the main season on Thursday, October 20, also at home against the Charlotte Hornets. During regular play, one of the Spurs’ games will be played in Mexico City, where they will play the Miami Heat on December 17.
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The United States has no doubts. Sochan is very similar to Dennis Rodman.
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