Game Blog: Spurs vs Heat 3-16-2010

[benefactor]

what happened?


Stern just make a phone call.

[Muser]

Damn sick block by Bron.

[DesignatedT]

what a move by the savior ian lmao

[SpursRulez4eVeR]

mason and bogans need to http://i42.tinypic.com/2myyanm.jpg...
and oh f u nbatv

[Muser]

Was a goaltend though.

GIVE US THE FUCKING SPURS GAME.

[Charles Sappa]

How tall are the Davalos twins?

There is nothing in Wikipedia, but should not be very high.

What happened to the game? I'm watching Cleveland - Detroit?

[FeZZy]

dude this sucks

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

It's great to see the Spurs fight and win instead of fold. That gives me a glimpse of hope that this team is not the team from earlier in the year.

We allowed a 20-2 run. Without that 26pt cushion we would've lost the lead and folded.

I don't see much difference here except that for once we built a huge lead.

[alchemist]

What's sad is the Spurs needed a really long miracle 3 from Manu to stop the Heat.
:lol would you rather they lose in overtime like the HOFer 2010 Laker team with the GOAT Kobe?

[benefactor]

And now they go back. Priceless.

[FeZZy]

we areeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee back

[DPG21920]

Heat had only one run the entire game. It had more to do with turnovers than anything else. If not for the TO's and that one run, Spurs crush the Heat. Holding them to only 76 points?

[Charles Sappa]

Garbage time, Game Over

[Spurs Brazil]

Mason with a great 5 minutes -16 job

:tu

[FeZZy]

Cedric jackson sighting

[TDomination]

They switched to the fucking Cavs game.

why? so that they make sure they catch lebron throwing the powder in the air?

[DesignatedT]

mason and bogans need to http://i42.tinypic.com/2myyanm.jpg...
and oh f u nbatv

bogans played a solid game. he is clearly better than mason.

[TIMMYD!]

Is this our best defensive effort of the season?

[OrEmuN]

Mason suck so so bad

[Spurs Brazil]

Good win

Very tough game tomorrow

[DPG21920]

We allowed a 20-2 run. Without that 26pt cushion we would've lost the lead and folded.

I don't see much difference here except that for once we built a huge lead.

:lol They got the 26 point cushion because they dominated. You could easily say that if they weren't up so much they would have played more focused.

To hold a team to only one run in a game and hold them to 76 points is impressive.

[Death In June]

Glad for the win. Sucks that pop mismanaged minutes on a back to back. No Hariston, 40 minutes for hill, and 35 for Gino? Kind of retarded.

[TDomination]

Is this our best defensive effort of the season?
Point wise...yes holding the Heat to 76 points.

The previous low this season for a Spurs opponent was 78......by the Heat.

[TIMMYD!]

I guess this means SPAM has arrived?

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

I could watch Camila Davalos walk back and forth all day... :wow

[boutons_deux]

Spurs can't score 18 pts in 3rd or in 4th, lose the 2nd half.

I cringe when the ball goes to Tim.

[DPG21920]

Why is Mason ahead of Malik on the depth chart?

[deadpool]

Good win

Very tough game tomorrow
yeah that

[easy7]

Tomorrow will tell if Spurs are back.

[Chieflion]

why? so that they make sure they catch lebron throwing the powder in the air?

They did make sure I saw an extremely clutch LeBron James. He hits a 3 right there.

[FeZZy]

Good game guys

[Muser]

Why is Mason ahead of Malik on the depth chart?

Why is Mason ahead of Cedric Jackson?

[DPG21920]

Spurs went dry in the second half, but a lot of that was a lack of shots because of turnovers.

They dominated every other aspect of the game and it is good to see a win where they don't shoot well and still clamp down.

[SpursRulez4eVeR]

Tomorrow will tell if Spurs are back.

back to la la land?

[Libri]

Is this our best defensive effort of the season?

During this win streak, opponents have failed to reach 90 pts.

[TDomination]

Why is Mason ahead of Cedric Jackson?
Vaughn should come in before Mason

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

:lol They got the 26 point cushion because they dominated. You could easily say that if they weren't up so much they would have played more focused.

To hold a team to only one run in a game and hold them to 76 points is impressive.

My point was, has naything changed in the big picture? Not really. We still allow 20-2 runs, and contenders don't do that.

Nice to see us build a big lead, and nice to see us gut it out though, no doubt. I just don't think it's an indication that the team has suddenly jumped into contender status.

[Charles Sappa]

Very good game, I go to sleep I wake up early tomorrow!

[Libri]

Spurs went dry in the second half, but a lot of that was a lack of shots because of turnovers.

They dominated every other aspect of the game and it is good to see a win where they don't shoot well and still clamp down.

Manu and Sean mentioned the same thing.

[crc21209]

My point was, has naything changed in the big picture? Not really. We still allow 20-2 runs, and contenders don't do that.

Nice to see us build a big lead, and nice to see us gut it out though, no doubt. I just don't think it's an indication that the team has suddenly jumped into contender status.

Actually I've seen a game earlier this year where the Lakers allowed a 20-4 run or so and Cleveland as well...every team has dry spells at times..it happens...

[DPG21920]

My point was, has naything changed in the big picture? Not really. We still allow 20-2 runs, and contenders don't do that.

Nice to see us build a big lead, and nice to see us gut it out though, no doubt. I just don't think it's an indication that the team has suddenly jumped into contender status.

They are not a contender, but that does not mean things have changed? They went on a 20-2 run and still held them to a 20 point quarter.

All the contenders have had runs like that. Their 20-2 run was caused by TO's, nothing Miami did. Miami gets some credit for forcing some, but a lot was just sloppy play.

[ElNono]

Good win. We can afford to lose tomorrow now. I even suspect Pop might sit Tim and Manu if we don't get to a fast start...

[raspsa]

I think Pop gives Timmy the day off vs. Magic.

[alchemist]

:lol spurfags mad because the Spurs dominated one of the hottest teams coming in.

[NRHector]

Manuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu motherf@#$%^&*!%

[SpursRulez4eVeR]

I think Pop gives Timmy the day off vs. Magic.

agreed, manu possibly too?

[duncan228]

Updated.

Ginobili gets 22, Spurs hang on to beat Heat 88-76 (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2010031614&prov=ap)
By Tim Reynolds

San Antonio’s huge lead was almost gone, Miami’s building was roaring and the Heat were clicking better than they had at any point all night.

With one shot, Manu Ginobili changed everything.

Ginobili scored 22 points, none bigger than a tide-turning 3-pointer with 7:58 left, and the surging Spurs wasted most of a 25-point, third-quarter lead before beating the Heat 88-76 on Tuesday night, San Antonio’s eighth win in its last nine games.

“He makes everybody better,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said of Ginobili, who’s shot at least 50 percent in his last seven games. “He is one of the finest competitors we have in the league, one of the finest competitors in the world. He’s a hell of a player. When he’s Manu Ginobili, we’re a significantly better basketball team and he’s been Manu for the last month.”

Richard Jefferson added 15 points and Tim Duncan had 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Spurs, who are 4-1 since point guard Tony Parker broke his right hand. The win ensured San Antonio would end the night no worse than No. 7 in the Western Conference standings.

“It’s as good as it gets,” Ginobili said. “We played a really good defensive game.”

Dwyane Wade scored 28 points for Miami, which lost for the first time in its last seven home games. Jermaine O’Neal added 13 points and Udonis Haslem finished with 10 points and 12 rebounds for the Heat, who missed a chance to move past Charlotte for the No. 6 spot in the East race. Charlotte lost at Indiana.

“They came out and played very, very well, ideally how you want to play like on the road,” Wade said. “They came out and played as a team. All of them. … They came out and jumped on us early, and we didn’t have it.”

By the time Miami found it, it was just too late.

The Spurs never trailed, and used a 26-6 run in the first half to take what seemed like total control. San Antonio made seven of its first nine shots during the run, and by the time George Hill made jumpers on consecutive possessions midway through the second quarter, the Spurs’ lead had ballooned to 46-20.

“That was an example of a team that was very sharp and ready for this moment, first game of their road trip and they seized it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “There in the first quarter, they set the tone and it carried through the rest of the game. We got beat in two departments—one, any kind of energy, effort, toughness type play … and simply at the end of the possessions, they were brilliant.”

Miami was stunned, probably for a lot of reasons.

The Heat hadn’t trailed by more than one point in any of their three previous games, and hadn’t faced anything more than a 12-point deficit during the run of six straight wins on their home floor. The Spurs’ 26-point lead matched the sixth-biggest deficit Miami faced in any game this season, including the 34-point hole they dug at San Antonio on Dec. 31.

Unlike that night, the Heat didn’t totally stop in the second half.

Quite the contrary.

San Antonio was still leading 69-44 after Duncan’s 10th point of the third quarter with 2:24 left, when somehow, the Heat mustered up a rally try. Back-to-back layups by Wade got it started, and his 3-pointer with 5.4 seconds left in the quarter trimmed San Antonio’s lead to 71-54 entering the fourth.

That 3-pointer started a 14-0 run by Miami, helped by Haslem—who played through stomach flu—getting three baskets within a 1 1/2 -minute stretch, as the Heat got within 71-65 with 8:23 left.

“We gave them too much of a lead, too much of a spot to try to make up,” Heat forward James Jones said. “When you’re playing a good team like that, you don’t get very many chances to put them away. They showed it tonight.”

Ginobili was best at the end.

The long 3-pointer from the left side pushed the lead back to nine, and he added another 3 about a minute later—essentially ending any Miami comeback hopes right there.

“Manu’s been unbelievable,” Duncan said. “Obviously with Tony down, he’s got the ball in his hands a little more and he’s a playmaker. He always has been — at every level he’s played at. You can see it in his eyes. He wants the ball, he wants to make the plays, and he can do it.”

NOTES: Heat F Quentin Richardson went 0 for 3 in both games against San Antonio this season, all but one of the five misses from 3-point range. … It was “Noche Latina” in Miami, meaning the home team wore black “El Heat” uniforms and San Antonio donned white “Los Spurs” jerseys. … After going scoreless against the Knicks four games ago, Jefferson has scored at least 15 points in every outing since. … Heat G Kenny Hasbrouck was inactive, hours after signing a 10-day contract with Miami.

[silverblk mystix]

Manu willed the team to a W in front of D.Wades home crowd...

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Nice win, but was hoping the starters would get some rest for tomorrow.

Oh well, at this point of the season I'll take any Win we can get

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Nice win, but was hoping the starters would get some rest for tomorrow.

Oh well, at this point of the season I'll take any Win we can get

[raspsa]

agreed, manu possibly too?
Sure, why not? He definitely earned a rest. The guy is all heart.. when the rest of the guys seemed jittery and discouraged, he asserted his will on the game.

[Blackjack]

THC has a bone to pick with Pop and his mismanagement of minutes, but it's hard not to be satisfied with the win (even if they get curbstomped tomorrow).

Sure it would've been nice had they not got 'lax and put together a more concentrated effort to put the Heat away, allowing them to rest their guys for tomorrow, but when you consider this little tidbit:

The Heat hadn’t trailed by more than one point in any of their three previous games, and hadn’t faced anything more than a 12-point deficit during the run of six straight wins on their home floor. The Spurs’ 26-point lead matched the sixth-biggest deficit Miami faced in any game this season, including the 34-point hole they dug at San Antonio on Dec. 31.
It's hard to complain too much.

That first half was some of the best team ball they've played on the road and the individual performances of Hill and RJ, to say nothing of Manu's continued brilliance, were great to see under the circumstance.

The boys played some solid D for all but a stretch late in the third and dominated the Heat thoroughly enough that they decided to beat them twice; those turnovers were intentional.;)

[santymrc]

We've lost a big lead today, ok, but i'd rather lose a big lead, instead of playing catch up the entire game (like earlier in the season).
I'm glad we could finally pull them out of the gym -Manu's 3 was incredible loong-.
In the Championship era, we lost big leads and closed out the game late in the 4th. So, like I said, I'd rather lose a big lead than be 20 pts down at half.

[raspsa]

Starting 5 vs, Magic :

Jackson
Temple
Hairston
Mahinmi
Blair

[mytespurs]

Manu is the man.....AGAIN!

The better he plays as the season ends & the playoffs start....it will be harder for the Spurs not to keep him. Where would the Spurs be w/o his effort w/Tony down, RJ sucking like the wind........

[mytespurs]

Nice win, but was hoping the starters would get some rest for tomorrow.

Oh well, at this point of the season I'll take any Win we can get

Ditto!


I don't expect the Spurs to beat the Magic tomorrow......hope I'm wrong.

[Bukefal]

Good job, even though we lost the huge lead. Manu was great!

[Bukefal]

Ditto!


I don't expect the Spurs to beat the Magic tomorrow......hope I'm wrong.

They'll beat em :flag:

[Solid D]

The team defense was just about the best I've seen from the Spurs this season.