Game Blog: Spurs @ Blazers - March 25

[OoOoOoOoOoO]

again: stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid

[Budkin]

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[milkyway21]

tlong should be here any minute.

I'm sure he's around already :)

[Cant_Be_Faded]

(levelheadedness says we won a few fluke games in mid-season, this just balances it out)

[spurastic]

Opps! Play and learn. Just another game.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

FUCK THIS FAGGOT TEAm

[timmike2]

fuck pop relying on blair in the 4th and not putting splitter!! damn!

[boutons_deux]

Spurs soft-headed fuckups heading to the playoffs. They ain't ready at all.

[Borosai]

It doesn't seem like Pop takes this shit seriously anymore. Oh, and good job Tony and Manu. Really.

[Splits]

3 turnovers in 36 seconds and the reward is to these fucktarded blazer announcers laughing and giggling. Good job TP, Manu, and Novak.

[Barfunk]

Splitter could have a 50-50 game and that just might be enough for coach Prop to put him in the doghouse.

[KaiRMD1]

Well that's it, as far as I'm concerned, we DO NOT look like championship material. I'm not being a fan who is going crazy over just one loss, this was absolutely pathetic. At this rate, we will lose home court advantage.

[Capt Bringdown]

This one hurts...a lot.

Pop is not a championship-caliber coach anymore. END OF STORY.

Sure, small ball got us the lead. But then Pop WAS NOT ABLE TO RECOGNIZE.

Fuck you, POP

[Cessation]

spurstalk meltdown

[The Truth #6]

What the fuck. Just stick Tiago under the rim. What the fuck else are they going to do?

[tmtcsc]

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[L.I.T]

The ball was in the hands of the Spurs two best remaining players at the end of the game.

Both blew it with just pathetic play. How that is on Pop I have no idea. The hate should be addressed to TP and Manu right now. And mostly TP. 40 seconds left and he lazily handles the ball allowing Miller to pick his pocket?

Just pathetic.

[Spurs Brazil]

I can't believe

FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk

[baseline bum]

Fucking shit. This team is going to be embarrassed in the playoffs again. :pctoss

[WeNeedLength]

I can't believe I am not shitfaced by now because I actually wanted to watch the game. Looks like I'm going to be SHIIIIIIITfaced for sure now. So long suckers and Fuck you Spurs for making watch this shit.

[bigdog]

I don't see reason for the meltdown, tbh. Sure, there were a couple of stupid mistakes, but give credit to a good, solid Portland team.

[fotan2]

i just don't get why they should put in Novek to throw that ball.

[DesignatedT]

Now I know what Mavs fans feel like

[TE]

Fuck. Fuck Fuck.......................





OMFG.


Fuck.

[DPG21920]

Getting harder and harder to see this team winning a title. They have been playing poorly overall and their record is inflated. They are a very good team, but they have been going the wrong direction in level of play for too long to say it's a slump. They aren't ready for the playoffs at this point IMO. It will take something drastic.

[tdunk21]

2 losses on manu screwin up the last seconds of the games with turnovers

[spursbird]

Nice job tp,manu and novak. Thank you Pop.

[hommeaetage]

The last 2 games have been chokejob material

[tmtcsc]

Loud noises !!!!!!

[Death In June]

fuck pop relying on blair in the 4th and not putting splitter!! damn!Dude was shooting a high percentage, playing good defense, and rebounding well. Still couldn't break 21 minutes.

[tmtcsc]

Novack is a dipshit.

[BRs.Ganso]

fuck manu and tony and pop

fuck you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stupid

fuck you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fuck you pop

we want splitter on the court!!!!! Dumbass!!!!!

[siraulo23]

The only game I got to watch this week

and a fucking chokejob in the final minute

what the fuck, tony TO, wtf manu TO

novak inbounding, fuck you

[rayray2k8]

This loss is soo bad it's almost laughable. :lol

[timmike2]

damn fucking game! not going to watch spurs games until timmy returns! fucking shit men!

[KaiRMD1]

First .4 now .9? Seriously, why would you leave the rim if the ball is headed that way?

[tmtcsc]

Novack is a dipshit. How does Tony get stuck with Batum ?

[PÒÓCH]

I'm officially off the Novak wagon!

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[DesignatedT]

It was a collective meltdown by the guys tonight. Tony, Manu and Pop with bonehead fucking plays. Way uncharacteristic of them.

[baseline bum]

The Spurs are the fucking 2007 Mavs.

[Barfunk]

I'm officially off the Novak wagon!

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:lol

[DPG21920]

It was a collective meltdown by the guys tonight. Tony, Manu and Pop with bonehead fucking plays. Way uncharacteristic of them.

To this extent, yes. But they have been playing sub par ball for a while. Especially defensively.

They are in trouble and I called it before Tim went down. Not only have they not corrected the major flaws that were there when they were playing great, almost every area has declined to a certain degree.

Like I said, they are a very good team. But they seem to be too flawed and it appears they peaked too early. Hopefully I am wrong.

[Arc]

this loss is on pop. playing small ball with blair. fuck you pop. seriously, fuck you.

[MeesterMarcus]

Fuckkkk I was worriied something like this would happen. They've been alley-ooping all over the damn place. This suckssss. This game should have been ours. And that guy travelled.. But still no excuse for those turnovers. Parker was just calmy cruising to the other side of the court.

[InRareForm]

2 pt game. GO CLIPPERS!

[Splits]

I can't believe this site is still up. Spursfan in meltdown mode. One loss, big deal. Still own 5 1/2 game over LAL and they are struggling against the Clippers. It's not like this was Cleveland. We were competitive, had the game locked up, and TP & Manu have inexplicable turnovers combined with Pop putting Novak on ball handling duties. -1. 1 game. who cares.

[lil_penny]

good game spurs fans.. tough loss for you guys. unbelievable win for us.

[Splits]

this loss is on pop. playing small ball with blair. fuck you pop. seriously, fuck you.

Small ball had us up 10 with 3 to play. Player choke job, not coaching.

[roycrikside]

A bunch of guys had a hand in blowing the loss, Tony most of all, but I don't understand what Novak was thinking throwing a prayer of a pass on the baseline. With .9 left you gotta do what Portland did and lob it at the basket. Even if your guy doesn't catch it the other team doesn't have the time to do anything.

I still have no idea what Tony was thinking on that turnover. Did he think Miller was just gonna foul him?

[chazley]

Spurstalk is too funny. This was a good loss for us.

[Pauleta14]

Novack is a dipshit. How does Tony get stuck with Batum ?


How is Tony not on the offensive play, but on the defensive one with 0.9sec (only a lob pass can work)????

Even smart guys like Pop can be dumb sometime I guess...

[KuntryDude]

WHAT A FUCKIN' BUNCH OF PUSSIES!!!!!! If would rather lose 1st round than get my hopes up and play like shit in the WCF and get blown. Anyone thinks this team, with an aging TD is gonna win the championship this year, then you're just as dumb as that faggot ass Pop.

[Creation88]

i'm so fucking angry right now.aaaaaaaaaaargh.

[Budkin]

Worst loss of the season... BY FAR

[Arc]

Small ball had us up 10 with 3 to play. Player choke job, not coaching.

did it win us the game?

[hommeaetage]

Now I really wanna see some reporters grow a pair and call these guys out. No more spurs game for me 'til Timmy is back

[DPG21920]

Spurs look out of gas sadly. They have little moments of quality play, but they can't sustain it. People shrugged off all the blowouts and every loss they said "burn the tape". Spurs made no progress.

Lets hope they can hang onto the 1st seed. That is the first goal and should be their only focus now.

[TE]

Damn how disappointing. Now I'm gonna get drunked while being pist off. Fuck MAN, FML.

[baseline bum]

Spurstalk is too funny. This was a good loss for us.

Yeah, great loss with Tim out at least a couple more games, LA on fire, and with Memphis, Portland, and Boston the next 3 games and then a game against LA.

[Splits]

did it win us the game?

We were up 2 at the break. Small ball commenced with 3 to play in the 3rd and we were down 6. 12 min later we are up 10, a 16pt tournaround. Why change it? Stupid turnovers, 3 in the last 36 seconds which led to 6 straight points, cost us this game. Plus the retard foul call with .9 when the refs interfered with the end of the game.

[DieHardSpursFan1537]

While I kinda suspected this loss, Spurs must hold onto the first seed. Gotta beat Grizzlies on Sunday, and then we can get some sweet revenge on Blazers on Monday when they come to San Antonio.

[TE]

Spurstalk is too funny. This was a good loss for us.

Dude are you kidding? GTFO.

[rick1991]

EVERYONE CALM THE FUCK DOWN! Yes we fucked up big time. Yes Tiago should have been in the entire fourth quarter. This shit will help us in the playoffs. Manu and TP will not fuck up again. This makes us hungry and opens our eyes. We can fucking beat legit teams in Denver and Portland without TD, so with TD we will be fine. Yes this lost hurts like a mother fucker, but its a learning lesson. This kind of shit doesn't happen a lot kind of like T-Mac going ape shit on us in the last minute. We are preparing for the playoffs, so calm down and keep the negative bullshit away. GO SPURS GO!

[TE]

Pop talking. Looks like he doesn't give a fuck. Fuck, c'mon man. Show that you are pist off.

[Obstructed_View]

Small ball had us up 10 with 3 to play. Player choke job, not coaching.

Spurs were up by 1 when Splitter came out of the game. Novak sat for 47 minutes, 59.1 seconds and then was asked to make a lob inbounds pass on the road in a tie game.

Smallball and coaching. Sorry. Same reason the Spurs have four rings and not five.

[baseline bum]

Fucking shit, blowing these last two games is basically losing 4 days of rest the vets could have gotten heading into the playoffs. The Spurs have to have the #1 seed to have an outside shot vs LA. Without homecourt, their chance vs LA is zero.

[Borosai]

The end-of-game plays that have been drawn up these past two games have been laughable at best. Amateur junk.

[DPG21920]

I also find it funny how the "burn the tape" crew will respond. Every loss they say "this will fire the Spurs up! They will learn and improve!". They haven't.

They have serious, serious problems. It's not that they don't want to, but they physically seem unable too. They look like they reached the top of their mountain and have started downhill.

I can still see them getting to the WCF, but beyond that, I just don't see anything. I see a very short series vs LA, if SA can make it that far.

[PÒÓCH]

How many times have the Spurs lost in such a fashion?
Last second lob w/ no time left for an easy layup and a loss?
I remember the lob to Dwight Howard sometime back, similar play.
Why didn't pop get taller guys on the floor? Something they need to work on for the playoffs.
Good thing we have a 6 game cushion or otherwise we'd be up $%&! creek!.


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[ShoogarBear]

The Howard play was what immediately sprung to mind, although at least the Spurs defended that play somewhat appropriately. This was just bad.

[DesignatedT]

Spurs look out of gas sadly. They have little moments of quality play, but they can't sustain it. People shrugged off all the blowouts and every loss they said "burn the tape". Spurs made no progress.

Lets hope they can hang onto the 1st seed. That is the first goal and should be their only focus now.

They looked great and full of energy against Dallas.

[Splits]

At least we didn't lose at home to Charlotte at full strength.

[DPG21920]

They looked great and full of energy against Dallas.

Cool. I never said they have 0 good games. I said that since the hot start, they have played more poor games of late than good ones. One good game doesn't erase the constant problems that have persisted. One good game doesn't mean all is better.

Spurs have legit problems and have had them for a while now. Problems title teams don't have.

[KaiRMD1]

Only thing left to say is SPAM?

[DesignatedT]

Cool. I never said they have 0 good games. I said that since the hot start, they have played more poor games of late than good ones. One good game doesn't erase the constant problems that have persisted. One good game doesn't mean all is better.

Spurs have legit problems and have had them for a while now. Problems title teams don't have.

You didn't say any of that :lol . You said "They look out of gas, sadly" and I was just pointing out that they didn't last week against dallas, so I don't think that they are.

[DPG21920]

You didn't say any of that :lol . You said "They look out of gas, sadly" and I was just pointing out that they didn't last week against dallas, so I don't think that they are.



Cool. I never said they have 0 good games. I said that since the hot start, they have played more poor games of late than good ones. One good game doesn't erase the constant problems that have persisted. One good game doesn't mean all is better.

Spurs have legit problems and have had them for a while now. Problems title teams don't have.


Spurs look out of gas sadly. They have little moments of quality play, but they can't sustain it. People shrugged off all the blowouts and every loss they said "burn the tape". Spurs made no progress.

Lets hope they can hang onto the 1st seed. That is the first goal and should be their only focus now.


They looked great and full of energy against Dallas.


Cool story bro. What I said was exactly that. One good game doesn't mean they aren't out of gas. One good game doesn't mean they don't have problems. Big problems.

That one game is the random outlier lately. That one good game is because the Spurs still are very good.

[TE]

LOL a rerun of the game on FSNSW

Screw that I'll play 2k.

[DPG21920]

yo dpg dt is a fag he thinks bonner is the best big crofl bandwagon spur fan

Shut up. DT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>You and it's not even close.

[Obstructed_View]

Well, this has been fun. I'm so glad that shit like this blows up in Pop's face when the games don't matter. Wonder if he'll learn his lesson at some point. I wonder if anyone in the organization has the balls to tell him the truth.

Night everyone. This is still the best possible thing that could happen to the Spurs at this point. When they win the title, we'll point back at this stretch as the turning point in the season.

[ploto]

Was watching the VCU game, switched over, and the Spurs game was over. I started to read the crawl and thought I had read it wrong until I saw all the replays!

[DPG21920]

How did I know Ploto would show up :lol

[crc21209]

Well, this has been fun. I'm so glad that shit like this blows up in Pop's face when the games don't matter. Wonder if he'll learn his lesson at some point. I wonder if anyone in the organization has the balls to tell him the truth.

Night everyone. This is still the best possible thing that could happen to the Spurs at this point. When they win the title, we'll point back at this stretch as the turning point in the season.

:lol Gotta make things interesting for the Championship DVD....

[ElNono]

Post Game Quotes:

Pop: "They made shots"

[spursince#99]

Man we fucking sorry and I'm tired of this losing shit...OLE SORRY FUCKS!!!

[duncan228]

Hit the link for the whole piece.


Batum tap silences Spurs in Portland (http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2011/03/25/spurs-undone-by-critical-gaffes/)
Jeff McDonald

The doors swung open to the visiting locker room at the Rose Garden late Friday night, revealing a scene somber even for a wake.


...“It was ridiculous,” a subdued Manu Ginobili said. “One of the craziest games I’ve lost in the NBA.”


...The ball went out of bounds untouched.

“I just couldn’t reach it,” said Ginobili, who had 10 of his 21 points in the fourth.


...“We knew they were going to the rim,” Popovich said. “We were switching it, and we did a poor job switching it.”


...Later, in the locker room, while his teammates still wondered what went wrong on the Batum tap, Ginobili still fumed about the turnovers that came all before.

“Three in 40 seconds,” he said. “Unacceptable.”


...This is the kind of loss that sticks with a team, even though it shouldn’t. There is another game Sunday in Memphis, against another tough team on the road.

“We just have to move on,” Parker said.

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2011/03/25/spurs-undone-by-critical-gaffes/

[SplitterHook]

I couldn't watch the game but I see in the boxscore we held LA to only 5 FGM on 12 attempted and only 3 fouls on him...

how did we lost to this team if we stopped the guy that basically keeps them alive by himself?

[SplitterHook]

seriously, portland have basically 7 players healthy in their rotation... how did we lose? damn.

[duncan228]

Batum hits at the buzzer for 98-96 win over Spurs (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011032522)
By Anne M. Peterson

Too far away to dunk, Nicolas Batum just had to pop the ball over Tony Parker and hope for the best.

Batum had never hit a game-winner until Friday night when he scored at the buzzer to give the Portland Trail Blazers a 98-96 victory over the league-leading San Antonio Spurs.

"I couldn't dunk it," Batum said. "I tried to dunk it, but I was too far out so I just had to push it, and the ball just turned around and in. I was scared to miss it."

Batum finished with 21 points for the Blazers, who won their sixth straight game at the Rose Garden, and their sixth in a row at home against the Spurs.

San Antonio led by as many as 10 in the fourth quarter but Portland pulled within one at 91-90 after a pair of free throws from Batum. Parker answered with a layup and Manu Ginobili made a 3-pointer to put San Antonio in front 96-90 with 1:21 left.

But the Spurs stumbled with turnovers and Andre Miller made two straight layups before Batum added a pair of free throws to tie it for Portland with 0.9 seconds left.

After Steve Novak's inbound pass sailed out of bounds past Ginobili, Andre Miller lobbed his to Batum under the basket for the winner over Parker.

"It was just me and the rim," Batum said.

Miller called it the best pass he's ever made, and Brandon Roy was dazzled.

"The ball went right over my head and I looked over at Nic and he was right under the rim," said Roy, who was acting as a decoy on the play. "And I thought, 'Whoa! We can win!"

Ginobili finished with 21 points and seven assists for the Western Conference-leading Spurs, who were coming off a 122-115 loss at Denver on Wednesday that opened a three-game road trip. The loss snapped a three-game winning streak.

Ginobili said a victory against the Blazers would have been sealed had the Spurs not had three turnovers in the final 40 seconds.

"It was ridiculous," he said. "One of the craziest games I've ever lost in the NBA."

Portland finished the game on a 20-8 run, including an 8-0 run over the final 1:12.

The Blazers were jockeying for playoff position at 1 1/2 games in front of Denver for sixth place. Portland heads out on the road for the next three games -- against Oklahoma City, San Antonio and New Orleans.

"That was a big game. It was a really big game before we go back out there and play them again," said Miller, who had 21 points and eight assists. "You don't want to go out on a road trip losing a home game to a team that you're going to play again in a couple of days."

The Spurs were without Tim Duncan, who sprained his left ankle Monday night in a win over Golden State. He landed awkwardly after making a short jumper just 4 minutes in.

The two-time MVP, averaging 13 points and nine rebounds, did not travel on the road trip with the Spurs and there is no timetable for his return. The Spurs started Brazilian forward Tiago Splitter in Duncan's place.

The Blazers saw the return of veteran center Marcus Camby, who missed a game after tweaking his right ankle in a los to the Los Angeles Lakers last Sunday night.

The Spurs led by as many as 11 in the first quarter, but Portland narrowed it to 28-24 after Gerald Wallace's 3-pointer. Wallace hit another one to make it 28-27 at the start of the second.

Portland kept it close, but was unable to pull ahead until Miller's fast-break layup on a bounce pass from Wallace made it 47-46. The Spurs quickly reclaimed the lead on Matt Bonner's 3-pointer.

Both teams were streaky in the second half. Batum hit a 3-pointer midway through the third quarter that put Portland up 62-56. But the Spurs scored the next seven straight to pull back ahead 63-62.

The Blazers rallied again to go up 73-66 on LaMarcus Aldridge's dunk.

It appeared that Ginobili fouled Camby under San Antonio's basket, but it wasn't called and Ginobili hit a 3-pointer when Camby was appealing to officials to tie it at 75 with 10:25 to go. The Spurs went ahead on layups from Gary Neal, Bonner and Grant Hill to make it 81-75.

San Antonio extended the lead to 88-78 on Neal's running jumper.

"Tonight, we hung in there," Blazers coach Nate McMillan said. "We didn't panic late. We had to make stops and make plays. We didn't drop our heads, we continued to play."

NOTES: Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said he wouldn't change much because of Duncan's absence: "It's so late in the season, it's hard to change what you've been doing all year." ... It was just San Antonio's second two-game losing streak this season. ... Miller scored 13 of his 21 points in the second half. ... All five Portland starters were in double figures for the fifth time this season.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011032522

[timtonymanu]

Just got back from the game. Holy shit was that last minute and a half painful. Spurs had this game on lock and Manu and TP decided to act unclutch. Terrible from them. The one night where RJ and Hill actually played well and we lose again.

[Killakobe81]

Anyone seen tlongII? :wakeup

Blame for the meltdown can be placed here ...sounds like "chickens were counted" ...TBH

[timtonymanu]

On a lighter note, I got an autograph from Bonner. Neal just walked right by me.

[duncan228]

Blame for the meltdown can be placed here ...sounds like "chickens were counted" ...TBH

:lol

[duncan228]

On a lighter note, I got an autograph from Bonner. Neal just walked right by me.

Sorry they didn't get the win but an autograph is always cool.

[timtonymanu]

Sorry they didn't get the win but an autograph is always cool.

Yep and I also got to meet some Spurs fans. I bet their heads were down just like mine after the game.

It doesn't beat a Timmy autograph, that's for sure. Lucky you. :toast

[duncan228]

Yep and I also got to meet some Spurs fans. I bet their heads were down just like mine after the game.

It doesn't beat a Timmy autograph, that's for sure. Lucky you. :toast

I was lucky. Sometimes I still can't believe it. :lol Hope you had a good time even with the loss. :toast

[DesignatedT]

At least you got to see an exciting game. Sucks we choked it at the end though for you.

[timtonymanu]

I was lucky. Sometimes I still can't believe it. :lol Hope you had a good time even with the loss. :toast

Definitely. I think if I had been home watching the game, my meltdown would be a lot worse right now. But i got to see everyone minus Timmy close up. That was worth it, for sure.

[crc21209]

At least you got to see an exciting game. Sucks we choked it at the end though for you.

+1. timtonymanu deserved the W....

[crc21209]

On a lighter note, I got an autograph from Bonner. Neal just walked right by me.

Cool that you got an autograph. :tu I got TD to sign my Authentic Home jersey back in December, and I framed that thing right away. :lol I also got Manu, Hill, James Anderson, Dice, and Splitter to sign my Spurs flag...

[timtonymanu]

+1. timtonymanu deserved the W....

We all did. I cheered my ass off for the team that even my buddy got slapped in the back by some douchebag kid after Batum's basket.

[timtonymanu]

At least you got to see an exciting game. Sucks we choked it at the end though for you.

It was. I'm upset about the loss. But if I had the chance, I would go through that experience again. I will just tune out after Novak failed to inbound. :lol

[crc21209]

We all did. I cheered my ass off for the team that even my buddy got slapped in the back by some douchebag kid after Batum's basket.

So were you laughing when the crowd was booing and bitching for every foul call in the 2nd half? :lol Cuz I would have been....

[timtonymanu]

So were you laughing when the crowd was booing and bitching for every foul call in the 2nd half? :lol Cuz I would have been....

Yep. Some Blazer fan took the Phoenix route and kept calling the Spurs "cheaters" when the refs didn't call a foul. Sucks they had the last laugh.

[crc21209]

Yep. Some Blazer fan took the Phoenix route and kept calling the Spurs "cheaters" when the refs didn't call a foul. Sucks they had the last laugh.

:lol If anything you could have pulled out the "4 rings faggot!" comment. :rollin

[timtonymanu]

:lol If anything you could have pulled out the "4 rings faggot!" comment. :rollin

:lol yeah. After that, I just stood up every time the Spurs made a basket and cheered. It was my first Spurs game so I couldn't talk trash like I do in game blogs. I was trying to take it all in. I definitely want to do it again.

[Fireball]

I watched the whole game on replay with League Pass where the made shots are always shown on the timeline. I always push the button to hide that, but before I did I saw the blue "D" at the end of the timeline (after minutes of no made shots).

Then it was 0.9 seconds to go and I was in joy ... wow, we will this game by an alley oop dunk ... and then Novak throws the ball away. Fuckin unbelievable.

I blame this one on Pop (just because small ball gives you the lead, should not mean to bench Splitter and Dice for the whole 4th quarter) and on Manu/TP for getting their pocket picked so often in the 4th ... should not happen to veterans!

[Ice009]

I just watched the game as I had to work and I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it. Cannot believe we lost that game.

I guess this has already been discussed but POP IT A TOTAL FUCKING RETARD for not playing Splitter good minutes in the 4th quarter. Fucking choker of a coach.

LOL anyone want to go to the chatroom????? U got time to chat Fireball? Anyone else? I'll be in the chatroom.

I have never been this mad after a game for a LONG, LONG TIME.

[Creation88]

i usually get pissed off when we lose but i was besides myself last night. never felt that angry (that i can remember).

Spurs now 2-8 in last 10 meetings with Portland. they own us.

[Creation88]

game was lost on giving Portland 24 points off of 19 turnovers.

[duncan228]

Portland Trailblazers 98, San Antonio Spurs 96: A perfect storm of errors (http://www.48minutesofhell.com/)
by Jesse Blanchard
48 Minutes of Hell

You know how Kobe Bryant can take so many bad shots at the end of games, but the ones he hits are so spectacular people tend to forget the many more he misses, while the heroics are forever etched in their minds? Well this was the complete opposite of that.

There was quite a bit of positive to take from this Spurs game, especially in the fourth quarter, that no one will remember because the San Antonio Spurs botched things so spectacularly bad down the stretch.

Call it the anti-Kobe clutch theory. Sean Elliott called it a perfect storm of errors. That’s what it took for the Spurs string of misery to continue in Portland even after outshooting the Blazers, almost drawing even on the boards, and holding LaMarcus Aldridge to 14 points.

Three turnovers in the last minute, all leading to points quick points for the Blazers. The final one with less than a second left on a botched inbounds pass that setup a brilliant alley-oop pass from Andre Miller to Nicolas Batum that, again, displayed terrible execution from the Spurs.

Keep reading → (http://www.48minutesofhell.com/portland-trailblazers-98-san-antonio-spurs-96-a-perfect-storm-of-errors#more-13397)

[DieHardSpursFan1537]

This should've been a Spurs win, but a series of turnovers in the last seconds just ruined the game.

[duncan228]

Loss in Portland was a bait and switch (http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2011/03/26/loss-in-portland-was-a-bait-and-switch/)
Jeff McDonald

...“We said we were going to switch everything, but there was not really a pick,” Parker said. “You can say ‘if’ until the end of the world. It was just a great play for Portland.”

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2011/03/26/loss-in-portland-was-a-bait-and-switch/

[Slippy]

“We just have to move on,” Parker said.

As a fan im struggling to let it go. Awful way to lose. Saw glimpses of this in the Dallas game. Teams leaders in Manu and Tony thought they already had it sewn up and got complacent. For an exprienced team and the coach, you can only hope it's a wake-up call.

Pop's lack of faith in Splitter for second halfs of games after playing great first halfs is getting ridiculous. Finishing off with Novak on the in-bounds play is over-coaching.

[Mugen]

man up, SpurFan.

we're only going to lose by 2.

crofl what a shitty prediction.