Spurs outlast Pelicans, Suns offset Westbrook
INDIA FIRST INNINGS: L Rahul c Renshaw b Lyon....................... 90 A Mukund lbw Starc.................................. 0 C Pujara c Handscomb b Lyon ................ 17 V Kohli lbw Lyon ..................................... 12 A Rahane st Wade b Lyon ....................... 17 K Nair st Wade b O’Keefe ........................ 26 R Ashwin c Warner b Lyon ........................ 7 W Saha c Smith b Lyon ............................. 1 R Jadeja c Smith b Lyon ............................ 3 U Yadav (not out) ...................................... 0 I Sharma c Handscomb b Lyon ................. 0 Extras (B-12, LB-4) ................................. 16 Total (all out, 71.2 overs) ............. 189 Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-72, 3-88, 4-118, 5-156, 6-174, 7-178, 8-188, 9-189. Bowling: Starc 15-5-39-1, Hazlewood 11-2-42-0, O’Keefe 21-5-40-1, M Marsh 2-0-2-0, Lyon 22.2-4-50-8. AUSTRALIA FIRST INNINGS: D Warner (not out) .................................. 23 M Renshaw (not out) .............................. 15 Extras (NB-2)............................................ 2 Total (no loss, 16 overs) ................. 40 Bowling: Sharma 5-0-8-0, Yadav 4-1-16-0, Ashwin 6-0-11-0, Jadeja 1-0-5-0. LOS ANGELES: Kawhi Leonard did in the Most Valuable Player discussion the early damage and Patty Mills had this season. a pair of clutch shots in overtime as “If my hand hits the ball, you don’t the San Antonio Spurs notched a sixth have to guess where it’s going to go,” straight NBA win, 101-98 over the he said. In Phoenix, the Suns used a New Orleans Pelicans on Friday. balanced attack to beat the Oklahoma
Leonard scored a team-high 31 City Thunder 118-111, withstanding points as he became the first Spurs another one-man show from Russell player with 21 30-point game in a Westbrook. season since David Robinson in the Thunder guard Westbrook had 48 1995-96 campaign. points, 17 rebounds and nine assists
The Pelicans scored the first five in a losing cause, becoming the first to points of overtime to lead 94-89, but score 40 points in four straight games the Spurs answered with eight points since Kobe Bryant in 2012. in the next 58 seconds to take the lead Eric Bledsoe led the Suns with for good. 18 points. Six Suns scored in double
“All these guys are pros,” said Spurs figures and the bench contributed 55 coach Gregg Popovich. “Nobody’s points for the second home win in as going to panic. We shot horribly many nights. tonight (40 of 95) but made two when Westbrook had 20 points in the it counted in overtime, fortunately. fourth quarter, posting his first game The defence kept us in the game.” with at least 40 points and 15 rebounds
With San Antonio in front 101-98, this season. Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge He was one assist shy of his 31st had a chance to ice the game with triple-double, which would have eight seconds left, but he missed two tied Wilt Chamberlain (1967-68) for free throws. Thesaid.Pelicanshadonelastthesecond-mosttripledoublesinahistorytoscore40pointsinfour“Wejustputourselvesinahole, chance,Rbut DeMarcus Cousins missed season. Oscar Robertson holds the consecutive games in a season, joining man, not getting stops when we needed aptors win rematch a three-pointer from the top of the key. NBA record with 41 in 1961-62. superstars such as Chamberlain and to, and obviously not finishing the In Washington, DeMar DeRozan
Leonard showed why he should be He is also the ninth player in NBA Michael Jordan. game like we wanted to,” Westbrook scored 32 points as the visiting Toronto Raptors reclaimed third place in the Eastern Conference with a 114106 win over the Wizards.
This was the second game in three nights between the two teams as the Wizards grabbed third place with a 105-96 victory in Toronto on Wednesday. DeRozan scored 15 of his points in the fourth quarter and added 13 rebounds for the Raptors who improved to 37-25.
“We needed it,” DeRozan said. “They beat us pretty bad at our place.”
John Wall had 30 points, eight rebounds, seven assists, four threepointers and three blocks for the Wizards, who shot just 37 per cent from the field and fell to 36-24.
Toronto opened its five-game road trip by letting a 19-point lead slip away and briefly trailed in the third quarter before fending off Washington in the final period.
“It was huge for us,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. “You’re going to lose in this league. How you’re going to lose in this league is what it comes down to. The way we lost the last game in our place wasn’t us. We had to respond from that.”