Saturday night’s Warriors-Spurs game was supposed to be a showdown between the NBA’s two best teams. Instead, it ended up being a chance for both teams to rest star players while Patty Mills and Ian Clark put on a show.

Without Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, the Warriors lost to the Spurs who were also missing Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge due to injury. Before Monday night’s Hawks-Spurs game on TNT, analyst Isiah Thomas asked Green about the decision to rest against San Antonio — a move that Thomas called a “forfeit.”

"I've never been one to be scared of anything."@Money23Green on Golden State resting players vs San Antonio. #PlayersOnly pic.twitter.com/WAbK5bQnTT — Players Only on TNT (@NBAonTNT) March 14, 2017

Green responded:

“I’ve never been one to be scared of anything. I don’t really know if being scared of another team is the right choice of words. And even if we were scared, they were without LaMarcus. They were without Kawhi. So, if there were any type of scariness in that situation, we would have looked and said, ‘Oh man, they ain’t playing. Let’s just go win the game.’ But being that it has nothing to do with that, we said we were going to rest this game … That’s really all it was. If we could get a better scheduling, then maybe we can go out there and play.”

The Warriors’ loss brought the Spurs within a half game of the top spot in the West.