A huge reptile was discovered in the guests' locker space, Rodeo of the Season banner ads block the rafters, the Coyote pet has a gatling gun to capture 100 % free t-shirts from, a man clothed as Christ rests near the three-point range advantage every ownership, the courtside audience uses each referee's first name while shouting problems and the higher patios are complete of waving banner ads and jumping "Ole! Ole! Ole!" chants. This is the AT&T Middle, the 2014 playoffs' most dreadful home of disasters, a huge tangible egg in which the Spur just completed an ideal 7-0 May, establishing an NBA history by successful each activity by at least 17 factors.

The Spurs Goes undefeat at home & won each game :

 

The two-time protecting champ Warm have yet to reduce at home during the postseason, and yet the Spurs' home-court popularity has still been the league's best. San Antonio has accepted three of the league's 12 best groups by factor differential -- Facilities, Beaverton and Ok Town -- to the center of Florida over the last six several weeks and tallied up a 9-1 history, sweltering three high-powered violations while choosing apart protection apparently at will. The common ranking of those 10 activities -- the one reduction to Facilities involved -- has been Spur 110, Challenger 94, and that league-best 16-point distribute is actually nice to their sufferers. Remaining within stunning range at halftime in this developing has been a actual task, and San Antonio were seriously forced into it all one fourth in several weeks.

San Antonio's newest shellacking -- a 117-89 achievements over Ok Town in Game 5 that provided the Spur a 3-2 sequence cause in the European Meeting finals -- was another wonderful, finish activity. This was high-level golf football against a high-caliber opponent, the kind of activity in which the Spur, who were trucked by the Magic just two times ago, look irresistible. And yet this was not even their biggest achievements at home in the sequence, and it was the fifth period of time in their last seven home activities that they've won by at least 22 factors. The drumbeat of remarkable performs is so stable that it surprisingly has become unexceptional. The Spur are in that strange position again, all by themselves at the wasteland 4 way stop of spectacular and ho-hum. Pay interest, though, because Manu Ginobili is responsible to beat a no-look tumbleweed to Tim Duncan through visitors at any time.

Six or seven time up Interstate-35 and the Chesapeake Power Area judge was crumbling in on the Spur, the photographers were cool, the dribblers were worrying and an irresistible Russell Westbrook was exploding into the "Best NBA gamer not known as LeBron Wayne or Kevin Durant" discussion. Returning in San Antonio, the football shifted easily, Danny Natural, Ginobili and Patty Generators were getting changes burying threes again, and Westbrook was slamming a tube of chalk off the part time desk in disappointment and bowing his go while spitting out one-word reactions during his press period. In Ok, the Magic have won by a normal of 11 factors. In San Antonio, the Magic have been offered out by a normal of 27.

"This is the craziest sequence I've ever been engaged in," Duncan said, and he's been engaged in a few.

Watch: Westbrook's emphatic soak vs. Spurs

Up in Ok, there was no response to Serge Ibaka. Down in Florida, he was essentially unseen, publishing just six factors (on 3-of-10 shooting) and two returns. Up northern, Duncan fought to keep his indicate on the activity and discovered himself relaxing during an prolonged expand of Game 4 rubbish time. Down here, he published 22 factors (on 8-of-13 shooting), 12 returns and two prevents, once again looking like the best big man on the judge.

"I have no idea, genuinely," Spur trainer Gregg Popovich said, when requested to describe why the two groups have performed such different activities when the location changes. "Both [teams] look like they experience fairly relaxed enjoying at home. So that's why we've decided not to go to OKC [for Game 6]."

You can't fault him for seeking to remain put. When it comes to home activities during the 2010 playoffs, San Antonio now positions No. 1 in the group in unpleasant performance, field objective amount, three-point amount, protecting returns, opponent factors in the colour, and opponent fast-break factors, among other groups. They position a meager second in protecting performance and assist-to-turnover rate, among others.

Popovich created some modifications, beginning He Bonner in the first 50 percent and Boris Diaw in the second 50 percent in position of his regular beginner Tiago Splitter, in an attempt to cut into Ibaka's internal efficiency by including a capturing existence. The 2014 Coach of the Season also used Kawhi Leonard on Westbrook for much of the experience, expecting that the best sportsman in his beginning five might discover some achievements in reducing down the league's most intense factor secure. Both goes compensated off just excellent, and certainly neither backfired, even though Bonner did not ranking or get a recovery in 17 moments and Westbrook still completed 21 factors, seven helps, four returns and three takes.