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| Manu Ginobili (AP Photo). |
The New Orleans Hornets learned their lesson the hard way in a 109-95 home defeat to the San Antonio Spurs. The loss was the Bees’ first this season at Ford Center. The crowd were on their feet the whole of the first half as the Hornets surged to a 17-point lead at halftime. Then it was an all-Spurs show in the next 24 minutes as they outscored the Hornets by 31 points. That’s is what champions are made of. Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich credited their defensive adjustments and aggressiveness for the big turn-around for the league-leading Spurs in the final half. First-year Hornets head coach Monty Williams on the other hand, says he was simply out-coached by this former mentor, the veteran Spurs drill master, according to Yahoo! Sports.
Gregg Popovich: “I saw a 17-point deficit, so we changed up the defense and it helped us. We made shots and got more aggressive, got a little more physical and just competed better in the second half.”
Monty Williams: “The bottom line is I got outcoached. Coach Popovich made a great move, going small, and I didn’t make the immediate adjustments to put us in position to hang on. … It was just an old-school whipping from a coaching standpoint.”
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