Spurs vs. Rockets Mar. 22 - Game Blog

[WalterBenitez]

did finley do anything today?

well, he kissed his wife, does this count?:wakeup

[Muser]

Hopefully this Ime Udoka is here to stay

[Indazone]

oh oh..Rockets looking bad here

[jag]

All right, Udoka has me screaming out loud in my living room. Nice to see him rise.

that's what she said

[Texas_Ranger]

udoka FOR PRESIDENT!!!

[Thomas82]

Time to put this one away Spurs!!

[Agloco]

Consistency......

Expect an 0-5 outing next time out.

[Spurs Brazil]

TP 16pts 12asts

[Manufan909]

Ime had 7 straight points, with two O boards sprinkled in, very nice. But Bowen playing 6mins in a defensive-minded games is baffling.

[DPG21920]

If he was playing with this energy and focus all year, he would probably have been the starting SF.

[mazerrackham]

All right, Udoka has me screaming out loud in my living room. Nice to see him rise.

I'm glad he's doing this at the right time again, I loved him last year but we've seen so little from him this year until the last 4 or 5 games...

[45 bank shot]

IMeeee!!
cant believe it

[The Franchise]

Yao is worthless. This bitch is letting everyone outjump him for rebounds,and is unwilling to put Kurt thomas on his ass on the offense. Max contract my ass.

[Mugen]

now get him off the floor before he remembers hes udoka!

[Muser]

Technically Fins half court shot beat the Rockets last week, so i'll let him off.

[Indazone]

We really do need Landry. He would give us just that little extra punch, rebounding and firepower off the bench.

[Agloco]

Who spiked ime's gatorade!?!?!?!?!?!?!


I love it!!!!!!!!!!1

[Texas_Ranger]

now get him off the floor before he remembers hes udoka!

I've got a feeling Pop will do just that..:lol

[Thomas82]

This was the Ime we saw last year against the Hornets in the PO's.


Hopefully this Ime Udoka is here to stay

It would definately help in the playoffs.

[quentin_compson]

wtf is "wrong" with Udoka? He is about to win us this game.

[Thomas82]

Bowen back in!!!

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

:lol Udoka outrebounding Yao

I backed off bashing Yao in recent years, but he definitely is embarrassing himself this game, he should learn from Timmy that you don't have to be insanely quick or aggressive to rebound. Scola the undersized PF is outrebounding him today, that's just sad.

[Muser]

Yao sucks balls on the boards.

[bbarry]

bowen in the game good things always happen with him in.

edit: minus that foul he just picked up :lol:

[Hemotivo]

tp makes one with no pressure

[45 bank shot]

Consistency......

Expect an 0-5 outing next time out.

Hope not

[Thomas82]

TP with the J!!

[Spurs Brazil]

Tp j!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vincent]

If he is hot , give him the ball and let him shoot till he miss it!

[Indazone]

Yao is a great mismatch against other 7 footers who are also slow. But against shorter quicker centers, I wouldn't mind getting a smaller 6-10" to 7 footer who has some speed and scoring ability.

[SpursFan67]

thomas is doing a superb job on Yao

[Hemotivo]

bavetta

[Agloco]

My man Bruce is on the floor......its over!!!!!

[boutons_]

Pop getting on Tim's ass for letting Artest get a layup

[Texas_Ranger]

Udoka!!!

[mazerrackham]

Wow, these refs can't make up their minds on most of these plays...they're making bad calls against rockets and bad calls against the spurs.

[Agloco]

Hope not

Same here, but sadly it's been the same song and dance the entire season. No one is consistently reliable off the bench.

[TDomination]

bogus calls

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

Our team is smarter than the Rockets. We got this.

[Spurs Brazil]

Shit call

[jag]

worst call of the game.

[Mugen]

wow with that call

[Hemotivo]

basket should count

[Muser]

Ball don't lie!

[Mugen]

ball dont lie kids

[DPG21920]

Keep grinding Spurs.

[DPG21920]

It looked like Udoka grabbed the net.

[Agloco]

Tony assists? 12? Wow

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

Yao defended Tim pretty well.

[Texas_Ranger]

Thomas!!

[Spurs Brazil]

Kurt fucking Thomas again

[rasho8]

<sound bite> BLOCK BLOCKED!!!!</sound bite>

[Texas_Ranger]

faq parker

[Thomas82]

It's so shocking to see Udoka with 16 points.

[bbarry]

bodies flying everywhere

[vincent]

Uh, offense??

[Spurs Brazil]

Thomas and Ime doing a fantastic job

[mazerrackham]

After all the ticky tack bogus calls I've seen in this game, then they run back and forth 3 times with either a rocket or a spur getting hammered and the refs finally become whistle shy...

[Mugen]

how about we get that call on our side bavetta??

cant afford to be stagnant now.

[ILoveOranges]

The Spurs' defense is really clicking :wow

[Agloco]

Getting down to money time.........

[Biggems]

if there was a foul when Landry went 1 on 4, even though there was no contact, there had to be a foul on that Parker drive......

come on refs, just be consistent. if you call a foul on one end, call the same foul on the other end.

[Indazone]

Kudos to the defense on both sides. Now nobody can score.

[rasho8]

friggin being at work... crappy cant stream nba games form local radio.

Thanks for the updates guys.

[jag]

This is like a WCF game 7.

[The Franchise]

:lol Udoka outrebounding Yao

I backed off bashing Yao in recent years, but he definitely is embarrassing himself this game, he should learn from Timmy that you don't have to be insanely quick or aggressive to rebound. Scola the undersized PF is outrebounding him today, that's just sad.

I want to defend him but he is a tender bitch. Everyone talking about giving him a max contract in 2010, need to rethink that shit. If this is the best we can get from him dump his ass now.

[ILoveOranges]

After all the ticky tack bogus calls I've seen in this game, then they run back and forth 3 times with either a rocket or a spur getting hammered and the refs finally become whistle shy...

Really. They're ignoring the blatant fouls and calling the tickytacky ones on both teams.

[Texas_Ranger]

we've got 11 off reb...wow

[Thomas82]

Why did we take Udoka out and put Mason back in?

[Spurs Brazil]

Tp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Texas_Ranger]

is that mason???? wtf??!!

[Thomas82]

We didn't need to give up that 3!!

[WalterBenitez]

wow Mason at PG sucks

[Texas_Ranger]

give udoka back!!

[Spurs Brazil]

Get Mason out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bbarry]

spurs usually suck at jump balls. .let see what happens here.

[Texas_Ranger]

fuck you roger mason!! you suck today...get the fuck out!

[DPG21920]

goal tending.

[Biggems]

nice of bavetta to throw the ball right to battier on the jump ball and then Yao with the clear goaltending and no call.

[Texas_Ranger]

duncan still can't jump

[Mal]

Great job Mason

[Muser]

Holy shit refs..

[vincent]

Mason sucks! Why is he always on

[mrcoon29]

Piece of shit missed call! aaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh!!!!!

[Spurs Brazil]

Mason will find a way to lose this game

[Indazone]

hahaha Battier outjumped duncan

[Biggems]

hey Spurs, way to go away from Udoka when he was burning the house down

[mrcoon29]

Back to playing from behind..Manu we need you!!

[Texas_Ranger]

udoka's back

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Spurs choking yet again

[Biggems]

hahaha Battier outjumped duncan

yeah cause bavetta tossed it right to battier

[Muser]

Tony WTF???

[Thomas82]

Looks like this one will come down to who wants it more.

[Texas_Ranger]

good job by Popo!! you've fucked this game!

[Capt Bringdown]

We suck

[Spurs Brazil]

Mason fucked us, 1st leave Battier open and the lost the ball and our lead is gone

[Amuseddaysleeper]

LOL @ the rockets announcers

[DPG21920]

KT great work sons.

[Biggems]

thomas got away with over the back, but ill take it

[bbarry]

kayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Thomas82]

Mason will find a way to lose this game

He just flat out sucks to day.

[itzsoweezee]

spurs need to take it to the hoop

[Texas_Ranger]

thomas

[Muser]

Kurt mfing thomas!

[The Franchise]

Scola!!!

[Spurs Brazil]

Thomas!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bbarry]

fuck

[Texas_Ranger]

he was all alone

[Artest_Is_Fearless]

Scolaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Spurs Brazil]

He just flat out sucks to day.

He sucks for a long time now

[Gutter92]

Parker...did we need those 2 3pt attempts by you? an airball, and a forced one at the end of the shotclock...nice...

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

wtf? Aghh Scollllaaaa! :pctoss

[Biggems]

we get the lead cause of Udoka.........but then what? Oh yea, Parker decides to try to ball hog or force feed Duncan.....and stop going to the hottest man on the court.

No wonder we are losing now.

[Texas_Ranger]

I think that Parker will shot a 3 for the win!

[Indazone]

Scola!!!!! Oh man that was pretty

[mazerrackham]

Wow, Scola got away with a travel on that layup I think, I want to see it again to be sure, but it looked like it.

[Mal]

obviously Spurs suck.... WTF with Mason on PG ? This guy can`t dribble .... And tons of stupid shots. Last play will go to Houston, which is not a good sign

[Thomas82]

I hate games like this. If we lose, you can say we gave this one away too.

[itzsoweezee]

what good is a two guard that can't do anything other shoot jumpshots when he can't even hit those?

mason has been shit for a while now.

[DPG21920]

Parker...did we need those 2 3pt attempts by you? an airball, and a forced one at the end of the shotclock...nice...

One he was wide open, the other one was not his fault. Tim gave him the ball with 4 seconds left on the shot clock.

[quentin_compson]

Rough second half for Timmy.

[Texas_Ranger]

I really don't know why the fuck was Udoka replaced by that fuck mason

[Hemotivo]

Wow, Scola got away with a travel on that layup I think, I want to see it again to be sure, but it looked like it.

nope, two steps

[DPG21920]

Let our d win it boys. This is the way it should be.

[Hemotivo]

easy layup by tp

[The Franchise]

Yao is fucking worthless.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Wow Yao didn't even move on that play wtf lol

[bbarry]

toh neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee parkerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Thomas82]

Well that doesnt boad well for us considering our past!

I guess not.

[vincent]

we are going to lose ,Mason is on:(

[Texas_Ranger]

tonyyyyyy

[Spurs Brazil]

Tp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hemotivo]

the rocket should foul TP

[quentin_compson]

Tony!

[Texas_Ranger]

we are good when the Rocky music plays

[Thomas82]

Can we get a stop now?

[Indazone]

last shot for Spurs..Comon Rockets D

[tlongII]

This should be a good finish.

[bbarry]

spurs smart play. get the switch on the screen and yao to the perimeter, and tony parker just smoked yao.

[mazerrackham]

nope, two steps

You're saying that because you think he had his back foot down when he caught the ball but look at the replay if you can, I'm not sure, but it looked like he might have caught it in the air, then put his back foot down, then took two steps, which would be a travel. I want to see it again cuz i'm not sure though.

[Spurs Brazil]

20 secs to go

Spurs up 1

Rockets ball

[Artest_Is_Fearless]

Big ToFU is worthless on D

[rasho8]

bruce back in? Good call.

[Indazone]

20 seconds left. Ok sorry guess it's the Rockets taking the last shot as it should be.

[The Franchise]

Scola!!!!

[Hemotivo]

:lol

:lmao

[Muser]

holy fuck..

[Thomas82]

We should sub out Bonner for KT. Other than that, I like this lineup.

[Biggems]

awesome defense by Duncan, way to leave Scola wide freakin open

[WalterBenitez]

holy shit

[Indazone]

Who is going to take the last shot for us?

[DPG21920]

Shit, nice play from Houston.

[Lars]

Wow, what a game!

[Texas_Ranger]

:lol

[tlongII]

Yao tricked them! Nice pass to Scola. Still plenty of time though...

[rasho8]

at leats finley sint in... 25 minutes 4 rebs 0 pts.

[Artest_Is_Fearless]

Scollllaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Spurs Brazil]

Terrible D

[boutons_]

great play by yao and luis

[Indazone]

You know what? I think the last shot should go to Mr. Consistant. Scola

[Texas_Ranger]

duncan's D sucks!

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

Yao was smart, faked the shot. assist to scola

[Tune-Up!]

Rick just got outcoached there. Rockets lose by 1.

[mazerrackham]

I still don't understand why the spurs have double teamed outside of the three point line in several crunch time games, it seems to always lead to a layup.

[Thomas82]

What in the world just happened?

[Gutter92]

Mason time...

[The Franchise]

Let's play some D baby.

[Manufan909]

Tim listening in at the huddle.:lol

[rasho8]

spoike too soon.

[Capt Bringdown]

Duncan blew that possession, he lost Scola.

[Indazone]

hah..beautiful. But too much time left on the clock

[Muser]

duncan's D sucks!

That wasn't his fault

[Lars]

!!!!!!!!

[Scola]

Game Over :|

[Muser]

Loss

[The Franchise]

Game over!!!!

[tlongII]

:lmao

[rasho8]

shitty.

[BlackSwordsMan]

parker chokes again

[Biggems]

Fuck you spurs......fuck you parker you ballhogging motherfucker

i hate that french piece of ballhogging shit

[Thomas82]

So, we give another one away!!

[arial]

Thx TP 2 losses in a row from you.

[WalterBenitez]

wow, what was that f..g play???

[Spurs Brazil]

fuk

[itzsoweezee]

this team is pretty bad

[boutons_]

Lakers, Cavs, Celts, Rockets beat the Spurs @home.

I figure these Spurs are not getting past the first round.

[Texas_Ranger]

:madrun

[Biggems]

Why cant we ever get the hot guy the ball when we need a shot?

[Indazone]

Oh yeah Baby!! Rockets take over the Southwest Lead.

[Spurs Brazil]

Thank you Mason

Won 3 games for us and lost 5 or 6

[justinandimcool]

Did Parker seriously keep that ball for himself? HOW THE HELL CAN POP ALLOW THIS.

[Biggems]

there should be 0.6 on the clock

[rasho8]

miracle tip?

[The Franchise]

Game over!!!!

Maybe not.

[Thomas82]

parker chokes again

2 games in a row for him.

[vincent]

Fuck

[Biggems]

oops i was wrong.........1.0 seconds should be left on the clock

[Texas_Ranger]

we need Fischer!!

[mfanatic]

we suck. it's so sad.

[Indazone]

Today Louis Scola happened! WHooooooo

Thank you again for the gift of Scola Spurs!!

[spursfan09]

sucks sucks sucks!

[The Franchise]

Game over.

[rasho8]

we need Fischer!!

:lol

[Crookshanks]

What is wrong with the Spurs - they look so awful lately. Missed rotations, cold shooting, and lots of missed free throws. It's getting so I can't watch the games because I end up screaming and cussing at the TV! :bang

[Mugen]

i want the rockets so badly in the playoffs with a healthy manu.

[WalterBenitez]

I can not believe it

[Artest_Is_Fearless]

My boy Scolaaaaaaaaaaa

[Biggems]

well the rockets win the game

good game Houston

we choked away yet another game, 3rd one this week.

[Texas_Ranger]

Bonner sucks :rollin

[Bob Lanier]

Scola's pretty good, eh?

[Amuseddaysleeper]

I am never making a game thread for the rest of the season

[WalterBenitez]

Is there any f..g explanation???

[tlongII]

Say Hello to the # 3 SEED!

[Artest_Is_Fearless]

thanks again for Luis Scola guys :)

[vincent]

Fuck Mason!!! Fuck POP!!!

[spursfan09]

2 games in a row for him.

Ugh did you see the horrible defense Tim played. Gave Scola an open lay up when we had the lead.

[GuerillaBlack]

Good game fellas.

[hitmanyr2k]

this team is pretty bad

To repeat the SpursTalk homer mantra "it's only the regular season, we won 4 titles" :lol

This team is suddenly going to turn into a bunch of supermen in a month. They just have to flip the switch.

[Agloco]

well the rockets win the game

good game Houston

we choked away yet another game, 3rd one this week.

That's a rather disturbing trend this late in the season.....

Pop fucked up by putting Mason in at the end.

[quentin_compson]

:depressed

[Biggems]

why is it when we finally find our defense, our offense goes into the shitcan?

why is it Parker feels the need to be the hero at the end of games, and rarely comes through? Pass you PG piece of shit.

[Mal]

FUCK YOU MASON. FUCK YOU SPURS. Another pathetic game. Fuck 2nd seed, this shitty team has no chances in post-season. They simply suck !!

[Gutter92]

Say Hello to the # 3 SEED!

You're saying it like its a bad thing...we get to avoid the Jazz and play the Blazers instead, which is a bonus for us :lol:lol

[Lars]

Great game San Antonio, see you in the second round (knock on wood)

Luis Scola 19 points, 17 rebounds, 3 steals (wow)

[spursfan09]

why is it when we finally find our defense, our offense goes into the shitcan?

why is it Parker feels the need to be the hero at the end of games, and rarely comes through? Pass you PG piece of shit.

to who??? You are a piece of shit

[Mal]

How this team can be so fuck up ?? 2 home games, lost by stupidness !!

[spursfan09]

FUCK YOU MASON. FUCK YOU SPURS. Another pathetic game. Fuck 2nd seed, this shitty team has no chances in post-season. They simply suck !!

:rollin

Damn

[Biggems]

this is the worst basketball weekend I have had in a long long time

Spurs go 0-2, losing both games they should have and could have won.

UT loses to Duke in a game they win if they make their FTs.

Houston takes over 1st in the Division, every other team behind the Spurs won as well.


FUCK THIS WEEKEND AND MAKE IT GO AWAY FROM MY BRAIN.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Good game fellas.

stfu

[Bob Lanier]

It's understandable - times are hard. In this economy you've got to economize, and $3 million for a second-banana big man is just not a justifiable expense, when you can pay $4 million for Kurt Thomas and $4 million for Fab Oberto and $3 million for Matt Bonner and $1.5 million for Drew Gooden instead.

[alchemist]

i want the rockets so badly in the playoffs with a healthy manu.
give that shit up already folks, Manu was not a key player in this game! The Spurs had a fuckin' 5+ point lead and they couldn't keep it in the final god damn moments.......:pctoss

[justinandimcool]

I still don't get why our franchise player never touches the ball late in the games.

[DPG21920]

Should there not have been 1 second left on the shot clock?

[Biggems]

Look at all those fat Spur chics in that crowd... WOW!!!

and those are just the ones that moved here from Cali

[Indazone]

Awesome line for Scola!

Good game guys! Spurs still a very tough playoff team.

[VI_Massive]

Ugh did you see the horrible defense Tim played. Gave Scola an open lay up when we had the lead.

It wasn't Tim's fault, when Thomas and Parker went to inexplicably double Brooks, Tim got caught in between Scola and Yao and couldn't play them both.

[Tune-Up!]

Scola sure did feel like making a point this game. Last 2 possessions Yao ->>>>>>> Scola, 2pts on both of them!

[DPG21920]

Should there not have been 1 second left on the shot clock?


Awesome line for Scola!

Good game guys! Spurs still a very tough playoff team.

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

Great game San Antonio, see you in the second round (knock on wood)

Luis Scola 19 points, 17 rebounds, 3 steals (wow)

17 Rebounds and two of them were clutch. :lol

and I don't even care about Scola anymore, but I gotta say I agree with Pop now, it pisses you off enough to make you spit when you see a statline like that for a big game.

[KenGee21]

I have no response after this one...what can you say, over the last few weeks I've gone from being a frustrated fan to just not giving a crap anymore.

You just can't judge this team the way its currently constituted, and with the injuries this year. But at the same time, both the Celtics and the Rockets have dealt with injuries, so its not an excuse.

[Mugen]

give that shit up already folks, Manu was not a key player in this game! The Spurs had a fuckin' 5+ point lead and they couldn't keep it in the final god damn moments.......:pctoss


which is were manu helps you dumbass, hes our fucking closer.

absolutely no excuse for the spurs to choke away a 6pt lead but theres a reason why we arent executing during the closing minutes.

[spursfan09]

It wasn't Tim's fault, when Thomas and Parker went to inexplicably double Brooks, Tim got caught in between Scola and Yao and couldn't play them both.

Wrong this game is on both the leaders of the Spurs. Tim played his best game point wise, but something is still off. As for Tony just couldn't come up with the big basket at the end

[VI_Massive]

we made some bad decisions at the end -- leaving Yao and Scola in the last possession. Very un-Spurs like.

In the bigger picture though, we lost this game because of our trademark ugly second quarter drought.

[Mal]

up by 6 with 3 min, and lost 6-15 to shitty Rockets !!

[The Franchise]

It's understandable - times are hard. In this economy you've got to economize, and $3 million for a second-banana big man is just not a justifiable expense, when you can pay $4 million for Kurt Thomas and $4 million for Fab Oberto and $3 million for Matt Bonner and $1.5 million for Drew Gooden instead.

:lol

[SpursDynasty]

The Rockets just made one more shot than we did. No big deal. Still ahead in the loss column, so don't get excited Rockets.

[Showtime24 LAKERS]

parker chokes again

hahaha did he choked at the freebie line again :wow

[Texas_Ranger]

I don't know why is Gooden not playing at least 15 minutes...Bonner is killing me.

[alchemist]

I still don't get why our franchise player never touches the ball late in the games.
Tim was fuckin' awful when he went back into the game for Kurt, Yao shut him down.....so why would he get the ball if he was cold? :bang

[VI_Massive]

Wrong this game is on both the leaders of the Spurs. Tim played his best game point wise, but something is still off. As for Tony just couldn't come up with the big basket at the end

i'm talking specifically about that last play when scola got the open lay up to take the lead for good.