Blackjack
12-04-2009, 08:19 PM
Boston 90, San Antonio 83
by Timothy Varner
The Spurs beat the Celtics on the boards 55-32. A plus 23 rebounding edge is usually enough to secure a victory, but not last night, and not against the Celtics.
The Spurs may have won the rebounding battle, but they lost in every other phase of play. The Celtics controlled the game from the outset.
“It’s a 48 minute game and you have to play all 48 especially against a team like Boston. Tonight we played a quarter and that’s not good enough. We didn’t shoot well, but that’s really irrelevant. The turnovers and missed free throws those sorts of things really hurt us to start the first and the third quarters.” Or so said Popovich after the game.
Taking our talking points from Popovich, there is no doubt the Spurs played sloppy basketball against the Celtics. Consider that the Spurs committed 18 turnovers and shot a laughable 41% from the free throw line, and it’s easy to make Popovich’s case. But the most intriguing storyline of last night’s game is not about who was on the court and how they played, it’s about who wasn’t and why they didn’t.
Keep reading → (http://www.48minutesofhell.com/2009/12/04/boston-90-san-antonio-83/#more-5450)
by Timothy Varner
The Spurs beat the Celtics on the boards 55-32. A plus 23 rebounding edge is usually enough to secure a victory, but not last night, and not against the Celtics.
The Spurs may have won the rebounding battle, but they lost in every other phase of play. The Celtics controlled the game from the outset.
“It’s a 48 minute game and you have to play all 48 especially against a team like Boston. Tonight we played a quarter and that’s not good enough. We didn’t shoot well, but that’s really irrelevant. The turnovers and missed free throws those sorts of things really hurt us to start the first and the third quarters.” Or so said Popovich after the game.
Taking our talking points from Popovich, there is no doubt the Spurs played sloppy basketball against the Celtics. Consider that the Spurs committed 18 turnovers and shot a laughable 41% from the free throw line, and it’s easy to make Popovich’s case. But the most intriguing storyline of last night’s game is not about who was on the court and how they played, it’s about who wasn’t and why they didn’t.
Keep reading → (http://www.48minutesofhell.com/2009/12/04/boston-90-san-antonio-83/#more-5450)