San Antonio De Bexar Forever Against The World

[SPARKY]

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May 13, 1999

Spurred on
San Antonio recovers from Game 2 debacle to top Wolves

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The crowd was tardy for the early tipoff at Target Center and the Minnesota Timberwolves' offense was absent the whole night.

The San Antonio Spurs held the Wolves to 28 first-half points on their way to an 85-71 rout Thursday night that gave them a 2-1 lead in the best-of-5 series.

It marked the Timberwolves' lowest point production ever in a playoff game, set just Tuesday night in their 80-71 upset at San Antonio that had them dreaming of actually being able to fulfill Kevin Garnett's "shock the world" promise.

Avery Johnson continued to take advantage of double-teams on the big men by scoring 24 points, 15 above his average. And David Robinson, held to six shots and 11 points Tuesday night, had 17 points and 18 rebounds. Tim Duncan added 15 points, seven rebounds and seven assists.

"Avery Johnson was the difference, period," Garnett said. Johnson sank 12 of his 15 shots.

"Like I say, year after year, you've got Sean Elliott, Mario Elie and two great posts, you've got to cover them," Johnson said. "If I was the other coach, I'd leave me open, too."



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April 21, 2003

Danny Ferry, starting in place of the injured David Robinson, had 10 rebounds.


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May 3, 2002

Rose tried to step it up in Duncan's absence in Game Four and poured in playoff career highs of 28 points and 13 rebounds. He responded with another strong game with Robinson out and made 8-of-14 shots and grabbed 13 rebounds.


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June 15, 2003

Game 6 and Championship 2 was the end for Robinson, an officer and a gentleman and a 37-year-old man who played 15 years younger Sunday night, scoring 13 points and grabbing 17 rebounds and pumping his fists after crashing hard to the floor for the sake of taking a charge. Somehow, some way, Duncan was much, much better. The regular season and Finals MVP beat the Nets with 21 points, 20 rebounds, 10 assists and 8 blocks, a forever performance...


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June 15, 2003

SAN ANTONIO -- Here's to you, Mr. Robinson, the ultimate retirement gift: an NBA championship.

David Robinson didn't just end his long, special career with his second title Sunday night. He also was a big reason for it, scoring 13 points and grabbing 17 rebounds to help carry the San Antonio Spurs past the New Jersey Nets 88-77 on Sunday night in Game 6 of the NBA Finals



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June 8, 2003

Rose's dunk resonates over Finals

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- A day later, the San Antonio Spurs still couldn't stop talking about Malik Rose's dunk over Dikembe Mutombo.

"It was thunderous," Spurs forward Bruce Bowen said. "I didn't see Mutombo shaking his finger at that. I was really happy for Malik. When you go at a somebody like that who can change the game, it makes a big statement."

In case you missed the game and the highlights, Rose sparked the Spurs' 84-79 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Sunday night when he threw down a one-handed slam right in the face of Mutombo, the four-time defensive player of the year.

The basket shook up Mutombo, who was knocked back a few steps, and it started a decisive 14-3 run by San Antonio early in the fourth quarter of Game 3 of the NBA Finals. With one opportunistic dunk, Rose energized the Spurs to a strong finish in an otherwise dismal game.

"I don't know if it has a carry-over effect (to Game 4), but it had an effect in that game," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "I think it elevated our aggressiveness and confidence, and that was a big play."

It also was a rare moment of glamour for Rose, the Spurs' top reserve forward. Rose specializes in doing San Antonio's dirty work, but he relished a moment in the spotlight.

"I saw it on 'SportsCenter,' but I haven't seen the (game) tape," Rose said. "I want to slow-mo it. I probably won't get another one like that ever, so I'm going to relish this one."



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June 25, 1999

But with 47 seconds remaining and the Spurs down 77-76, Johnson spilled down to the left sideline to give teammate Sean Elliott some room to work. But when Latrell Sprewell, who was guarding Johnson, ran across the court to cover another open shooter, and Elliott found his way blocked, he got the ball to Johnson, who didn’t hesitate with the shot.

Nothing, as they say in the basketball biz, but net.


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June 15, 2003

San Antonio scored seven more unanswered points -- including another three by Jackson -- to complete a 19-0 run.


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May 29, 2003

The 37-year-old Kerr nailed three three-pointers as the Spurs scored 23 straight points in the fourth quarter to defeat the Dallas Mavericks, 90-78, and advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999.


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May 28, 1999

Elliott, coming off a screen in the low post, took a pass that was nearly picked off by Portland's Stacey Augmon. Elliott's momentum carried him to the sideline, where he pirouetted to avoid stepping out of bounds. On his toes and with little time to set himself, Elliott let fly from the corner. After the ball dropped through the bottom of the net, the Spurs were ahead 86-85, their first lead of the game. Moments later, they led the series 2-0 and never looked back. The Spurs used Elliott's Memorial Day Miracle as a springboard to the NBA Finals, where they defeated the Knicks in five for San Antonio's first NBA title.


May 17, 2005

WHO YOU WITH?

[bonesinaz]

I am with the Spurs.

It is over for the Sonics, they will win no more games.

GO SPURS GO!

[SPARKY]

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April 27, 2005

San Antonio 104, Denver 76
Spurs Sprint Past Nuggets, Pull Even in Series

SAN ANTONIO (Ticker) -- Tim Duncan looked a lot better. So did the rest of the San Antonio Spurs.

Duncan scored 18 of his 24 points in a huge first half as the Spurs cruised to a 104-76 victory over the Denver Nuggets that evened their Western Conference first-round series at one game each.

The second-seeded Spurs changed their starting lineup and got a much better effort from Tony Parker as they overwhelmed the seventh-seeded Nuggets, who stole home-court advantage with a stunning win in Game One.

Duncan clearly was not himself in the opener. Still recovering from a sprained ankle, he made just 7-of 22 shots. His elevation and explosion were limited as he missed all seven of his shots in the final period.

This one was a different story. Duncan scored six points in the first period, when all of the Spurs displayed a crispness that had not been evident in Game One and raced to a 29-18 lead.

There were dramatic differences other than Duncan. Parker, who was severely outplayed by Andre Miller in Game One, began with more purpose scored 12 of his 19 points in the opening period.

And Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, looking for more energy from his bench, sat down All-Star guard Manu Ginobili in favor of Brent Barry.

The move worked to perfection as Barry scored eight of his 16 points in the first quarter and Ginobili had 12 of his 17 points in the second period, when San Antonio turned it into a rout.

Rookie Beno Udrih added 10 points off the bench for the Spurs, who dominated in every category, shooting 48 percent (34-of-71) from the field, holding a 46-39 advantage on the glass and leading by as many as 33 points.

The series shifts to Denver for Games Three and Four on Saturday and Monday.




May 17, 2005

WHO YOU WITH?

[GrandeDavid]

Terrific walk down memory lane, thanks!

[Ishta]

The Silver and Black all the way....There will be no loss for the Spurs tonight!!!!!


GO SPURS GO

[SPARKY]

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May 28, 1999

On a team with Tim Duncan and David Robinson, Sean Elliott was often option No. 3. On this day, the number three would be very important. Trailing the Blazers all game and by as many as 18 points as late as the third quarter, the Spurs found themselves down 85-83 with 12 seconds remaining.

Elliott, coming off a screen in the low post, took a pass that was nearly picked off by Portland's Stacey Augmon. Elliott's momentum carried him to the sideline, where he pirouetted to avoid stepping out of bounds. On his toes and with little time to set himself, Elliott let fly from the corner. After the ball dropped through the bottom of the net, the Spurs were ahead 86-85, their first lead of the game. Moments later, they led the series 2-0 and never looked back. The Spurs used Elliott's Memorial Day Miracle as a springboard to the NBA Finals, where they defeated the Knicks in five for San Antonio's first NBA title.


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May 17, 2005

WHO YOU WITH?

[Samr]

The Spurs need something worth fighting for. In 1999, it was for their first championship. In 2003, it was to send David out with his second.

This year? I say we do it for the good guys.

[SpursWoman]

The Spurs need something worth fighting for.



TMass needs a ring! :elephant :lol

[SPARKY]

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May 29, 2003

The 37-year-old Kerr nailed three three-pointers as the Spurs scored 23 straight points in the fourth quarter to defeat the Dallas Mavericks, 90-78, and advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999.

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May 17, 2005

WHO YOU WITH?

[Ishta]

This thread is just making me wish I could fast forward the day....Too bad I can't use my dvr on it!!:lol


GO SPURS GO

[Extra Stout]

We must not underrate the gravity of the task which lies before us or the temerity of the ordeal, to which we shall not be found unequal. We must expect many disappointments, and many unpleasant surprises, but we may be sure that the task which we have freely accepted is one not beyond the compass and the strength of the San Antonio Spurs. Coach Popovich said it was a sad day when the Spurs threw away Game 4, and that is indeed true, but at the present time there is another note which may be present, and that is a feeling of thankfulness that, if these great trials were to come upon our Team, there is a generation of French, Argentines, Solvenians, Virgin Islanders, and also a few Americans, here now ready to prove itself not unworthy of the days of yore and not unworthy of those great men, the fathers of our franchise, who laid the foundations of our system and shaped the greatness of our team.

This is not a question of fighting for Game 5 or fighting for the next round. We are fighting to save the whole world from the pestilence of Ray Allen's whiny pussitude and in defense of all that is most sacred to basketball. This is no war of domination or imperial aggrandizement or material gain; no war to shut any other team out of its sunlight and means of progress. It is a war, viewed in its inherent quality, to establish, on impregnable rocks, the integrity of the game, and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of our testicular fortitude. Perhaps it might seem a paradox that a war undertaken in the name of fair play and right should require, as a necessary part of its processes, the surrender for the time being of so many of the dearly valued principles of fair play and rights. In these last few days the Coaching staff has been developing several strategies which hand over to the team a license to open up a can of whoop-ass. We are sure that these liberties will be in hands which will not abuse them, which will use them for no class or party interests, which will cherish and guard them, and we look forward to the day, surely and confidently we look forward to the day, when we again can play the game of basketball rather than simply beat the shit out of people until they cry, and when we shall be able to share them with the peoples to whom such blessings are unknown.

[Extra Stout]

We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long weeks of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, in the paint, on the baseline, and along the perimeter, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous wussity, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human weakness. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realised; no survival for the San Antonio Spurs, no survival for all that the San Antonio Spurs have stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, "come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."

[GrandeDavid]

TMass needs a ring! :elephant :lol

SpursWoman, especially after he throws a couple of tree trunks at Fortson, Evans and James tonight! He'll definitely have earned it, at least during this series!

[Ishta]

Holy shit... That is beyond beautiful..

[Extra Stout]

I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our SBC Center home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of Seattle, if necessary for many hours, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of the San Antonio Spurs-every man of them. That is the will of Tim Duncan and the franchise. The Argentines and the French, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their adopted team, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of San Antonio and many old and famous fans have fallen or may fall into the grip of fickle fair-weather fandom and all the odious apparatus of bandwagon jumping, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in Seattle, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our City, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the baselines, we shall fight in the aisles, we shall fight in the concourses and concession stands, we shall fight in the parking lot; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this TEAM or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Franchise in the post, armed and guarded by all the skill and tenacity of Timothy Theodore Duncan, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the Supporting Cast, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Franchise Player.

[Extra Stout]

Apologies to the estate of Winston Churchill.

[SPARKY]

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May 22, 2003

SAN ANTONIO -- Spurs reserve forward Malik Rose didn’t have time to think. He saw 7-foot-6 Mavs center Shawn Bradley unfolding like a ladder, getting ready to slam dunk the ball in the second quarter of Wednesday’s Game 2, and he just reacted.

"My instinct was to go for it," Rose said. "But then reality set in and I was like, ‘What the heck am I doing?’"

Turns out, Bradley is the one who should have been asking that question. In a flash, Rose extended every inch of his 6-foot-7 frame and somehow redirected Bradley’s dunk attempt right back in his face, leaving the giant in disbelief and sending the SBC Center crowd into a frenzy.

It was just one of many highlights for Rose, who bounced back from a miserable Game 1 to become a major thorn in the Mavs’ side.

It wasn’t just his 25 points, six rebounds and two assists in 27 minutes. It wasn’t even his 15-of-18 performance from the foul line, a much-needed boost for a San Antonio team that lost Game 1 at least in part because of its inability to make free throws. Like he’s done all season, Rose also provided the Spurs with an energy jolt that helped vault them on their way.

Consider the fragrant selection of Rose’s Game 2 bouquet:

He drew Dirk Nowitzki’s third foul, sending the Mavs star to the bench in the first quarter.
He swatted Bradley to fire up the crowd.
He hit his first 12 foul shots to help the Spurs get off to a 24-of-24 start from the line.
He stole a Nash pass then beat Nowitzki to the loose ball for a key layup and foul late in the third.
He spun baseline on Mavs forward Walt Williams for a nasty jam in the fourth to again squelch a Dallas rally...


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May 17, 2005

WHO YOU WITH?

[SpursWoman]

We are fighting to save the whole world from the pestilence of Ray Allen's whiny pussitude and in defense of all that is most sacred to basketball


:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

Beautiful.

[SPARKY]

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April 25, 2003

PHOENIX (AP) -- Tony Parker found his shot, and the San Antonio Spurs find themselves back in control of their first-round playoff series against the Phoenix Suns.

Parker, Stephen Jackson and others on Tim Duncan's supporting cast made the Suns pay for their defensive strategy in a 99-86 victory Friday night.

Parker, 3-for-20 in the first two games of the series, made 12 of 21 shots -- most of them from long range -- for a career playoff-high 29 points.

"Tony Parker's been important to us all year,'' Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "When he scores, we're really tough.''

The Suns' only lead was 2-0 as San Antonio turned up the physical intensity to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Game 4 is Sunday night in Phoenix.

"It's very frustrating to lose the game period, let alone the homecourt advantage,'' the Suns' Stephon Marbury said. "But we've been in this situation, so it's back to the drawing board. We've been giving those guys a steady diet. We have to come up with something different.''

Parker came out shooting, slump or no slump.

"I took the same shots the first two games, it's just today it went in,'' he said. "I found a good rhythm. When you make your first couple of shots, you feel pretty good.''



May 17, 2005

WHO YOU WITH?

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Lace 'em up.

[tlongII]

Enough of the Memorial Day Miracle crap already. Sheesh.

[timvp]

Must win.

Must Believe.

:smokin

[SPARKY]

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April 23, 1998

PHOENIX (AP) -- The Phoenix Suns feared Tim Duncan more than they feared David Robinson, and Duncan showed they were right.

Duncan scored 28 of his 32 points in the second half, including 18 in the fourth quarter, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Suns 102-96 in the opener of their first-round playoff series Thursday night.

The Spurs came back from two seven-point deficits in the final quarter, and Duncan was the catalyst as San Antonio went ahead for good.

"I started feeling good down the stretch there," said Duncan...



May 17, 2005

WHO YOU WITH?

[Ishta]

Enough of the Memorial Day Miracle crap already. Sheesh.

You just wish you had one....Oh wait that was against Portland...Sorry...NOT

[Vashner]

1 win and you'll see the San Antonio "Reverse Gravy Train"...

Like flea's jumping on a Pit Bull on the west side...

[Extra Stout]

Enough of the Memorial Day Miracle crap already. Sheesh.Would you prefer we talk about the fourth quarter of the 2000 WCF Game 7 instead?

How about when the Blazers thought Clyde Drexler was finished, and sent him to Houston, where he won the title that eluded Portland?

How about when Jordan busted out all those 3's in the 1992 Finals?

How about 1977-78? Can we talk about 1977-78? Oh CRACK goes the foot-bone.

You pick the topic.

[Spurminator]

Sam Bowie.

Nuff said.

[Extra Stout]

Trader Bob was awesome.

[Slomo]

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[Xolotl]

Enough of the Memorial Day Miracle crap already. Sheesh.

Do you still see the Memorial Day Miracle in your sleep and then wake up in a cold sweat? Kind of like how I'm sure Craig Ehlo still does when Jordan busted a few game winners on him.

[SPARKY]

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May 17, 2005

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Manu Ginobili and Nazr Mohammed made sure the San Antonio Spurs didn't have to sweat it out in the closing seconds of this Game 5.

Ginobili celebrated his return to the starting lineup with a career playoff-best 39 points and Mohammed scored nine of his 19 points during a 17-3 third-quarter run, sending the Spurs past the Seattle SuperSonics 103-90 Tuesday night and putting them within a victory of the Western Conference finals.

The cozy win was a relief to San Antonio fans, who remembered the Spurs' last two second-round Game 5s. Playing the Lakers both times, San Antonio won on a Los Angeles miss in the closing seconds two years ago, then lost last year on Derek Fisher's amazing buzzer-beater.

The Spurs never even trailed this time. The only tie was 50-50 at halftime and it was smashed by the huge spurt that opened the second half.

``I don't know if it was pivotal, but it was important for our team,'' San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said.

Ray Allen led Seattle with 19 points, but he was practically invisible in the first and third quarters -- the ones coach Nate McMillan called ``the most important quarters of our season'' prior to tipoff.

Pestered by nemesis Bruce Bowen, Allen was scoreless in the opening period and his only point in the third was a free throw with 4.2 seconds left. He missed three foul shots that quarter after being 55-of-59 from the line in the postseason.

[SPARKY]

bump.

[DAF86]

Ginobili celebrated his return to the starting lineup with a career playoff-best 39 points

[gospursgojas]

We've been here before.

[timvp]

This is doable.

[Holt's Cat]

Bump.