Game Thread: Spurs @ Hornets - Jan. 7 @ 7 PM CST

[Mugen]

Sub Kawhi back in for Green.

[ace3g]

that would have been a big shot...

[DPG21920]

Spurs just not capitalizing on the momentum plays and NO making them pay immediately

[Cry Havoc]

Just one of those nights.

[Darth_Pelican]

84-77. I never understood how people posting on ST can't look at the score :lol

ST works but nba.com, espn.com, and si.com don't work :lol

[Brazil]

Hornets with 14 off reb

[spurraider21]

84-77. I never understood how people posting on ST can't look at the score :lol
Lol I'm typically good with that but I'm on my phone and none of my nba apps nor nba.com are updating the score. Some kind of bug or tech issue. Maybe it's just my phone too

[Em-City]

scores plzzzz

[Juggity]

Put Tim in there, see if he can make anything happen

[Reck]

84-77. I never understood how people posting on ST can't look at the score :lol

NBA.COM scores are seriously behind. Almost a quarter and a half.

[TDMVPDPOY]

lol whats with the rushed shots...

[Bill_Brasky]

Just launching 3s :lol

[ElNono]

game

[TheSkeptic]

If Pop's not closing out with TD he might as well put KL in for Green.

[Richie]

Game. Fuck it.

[Cry Havoc]

Ball game.

[DPG21920]

Que the burn the tape comments...

[Boomersgold]

Down 9 points and we've resorted to jackin' up threes?

[Texas_Ranger]

pop gave up...

[timtonymanu]

lol Spurs

Seriously I'm very disappointed and disgusted right now.

[Warlord23]

Great job by Pop on resting Duncan late. That's the only thing he's done right today

[TE]

lol Vasquez
lol getting hyped up to play against the Spurs as if you have something to prove

[SanDiegoSpursFan]

it sucks to lose to a shitty team but seriously wtf happened to timmy

[Brazil]

Fucking Gordon he plays in 10 games in the year and one of them is of course against the spurs

[Richie]

If we play like this we could lose to the Lakers too

[Cry Havoc]

lol Spurs

Seriously I'm very disappointed and disgusted right now.

These losses happen. Some nights you can't hit the broad side of a barn. OKC lost. The Clippers will have bad games in the near future too.

[Mugen]

GG Pelicans. Pop with easily his worst game of the season.

[timtonymanu]

Notable grades:

Manu - A

Pop, Green, Bonner - F

[Juggity]

Had a great chance to gain a game on OKC tonight

[Manu-20]

Don't have any idea what the hell pop was thinking tonight this game was over as green came in without duncan when we were down what 5 only reason I can think of pop doing this is he wanted to lose this game on purpose.

[Libri]

Crap game is crap.

[Johnny RIngo]

This is the Knicks game all over again - destroyed on the boards, missing threes, layups not going down

[TheSkeptic]

Notable grades:

Manu - A

Pop, Green, Bonner - F

And Bonner?

The Spurs are better than this though. I'm not sure what's going on but they need to fix it before the Laker game. Winning LAL actually means more to me than losing this one. Although it sucks.

[timtonymanu]

These losses happen. Some nights you can't hit the broad side of a barn. OKC lost. The Clippers will have bad games in the near future too.

True. But I'm more about the effort we displayed. Truthfully, the Hornets weren't playing that great that the Spurs couldn't capitalize.

[Floyd Pacquiao]

game over...their just on fire tbh nothing you can do when they make 20 ft fadeaways

[Darius Bieber]

I swear to God sometimes this League feels rigged. Think about it, it feels like it all goes towards satisfying the Betting industry. Who in there right mind would bet that the OKC Thunder would lose to Washington? Or that the Spurs would lose to the Pelicans?

[DPG21920]

No matter how you slice it, putting up sub 90 on the Hornets with a days rest is pretty bad.

[SanDiegoSpursFan]

parker getting abused

[Brazil]

Noh killed us on reb and tos not gonna win like that

[ElNono]

whiteflag

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Strange loss. Only Manu turned up. Meh, just don't do it again, Spurs.

[Richie]

Horrible, horrible game

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

BTW, cue the cliff-jumping threads on ST! :lmao

[DPG21920]

Sean echoing the comments. Tired is no excuse so what is it? LOL now putting Mills in.

[Brazil]

Time for pop to play the soft card :lol

[Darth_Pelican]

gg Spurs...Hornets shot well and wanted to win. Spurs looked uninterested from the start and thought they would get an easy a W tonight. At the end of the day it's a meaningless January regular season NBA game and it's not going to change the Spurs goals.

[timtonymanu]

Time to throw this game away. Spurs will regroup.

Simply put, they just didn't respect the Hornets tonight which is dumb since the Hornets kept it close both games this season.

Hate giving a game like this away though.

[DPG21920]

BTW, cue the cliff-jumping threads on ST! :lmao

TBH - people have a right to be pissed with this effort. There were no built in excuses. Fully healthy, rested and just didn't compete or play hard. They deserved to be absolutely shredded for this performance and it's inexcusable.

[Juggity]

Why didn't Pop play Duncan in the 4th? We had a legitimate shot to win this game

[Mugen]

Pop over managing minutes horribly this game.

[ace3g]

not exactly the team you want represented as your 10th loss of the season...

[TheSkeptic]

gg Spurs...Hornets shot well and wanted to win. Spurs looked uninterested from the start and thought they would get an easy a W tonight. At the end of the day it's a meaningless December regular season NBA game and it's not going to change the Spurs goals.

Hornets played hard. They definitely deserved to win this one. :toast

[Captivus]

Didn't like the rotations...

[Boomersgold]

Neal with the final seconds hero ball.

[HI-FI]

shitty ass game. least Kawhi's dunk was sweet.

[Arcadian]

The Lakers are fucked. The Spurs always play well after a loss.

[Mugen]

Vasquez coked out of his mind in the postgame interview. :lol

[Johnny RIngo]

At least the upside to this is that they'll come out motivated to destroy the Lakers

[ace3g]

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[Brunodf]

Time for pop to play the soft card :lol

This

[Budkin]

Didn't watch the game but no way did I expect them to lose. WTF

[timtonymanu]

TBH - people have a right to be pissed with this effort. There were no built in excuses. Fully healthy, rested and just didn't compete or play hard. They deserved to be absolutely shredded for this performance and it's inexcusable.

Agreed.

[TheSkeptic]

The Lakers are fucked. The Spurs always play well after a loss.

I don't know. I have an issue with the Spurs dropping this one. The team didn't look tired or anything. Lack of focus, terrible rotations, and poor execution were what did it. I don't have a boxscore in front of me so I can't say for sure but I thought that all the guards except Ginobili and maybe Kawhi shot terribly as well. Green and Jax in particular.

[TE]

Vasquez coked out of his mind in the postgame interview. :lol
TBH the "I'm better than Manu Ginobili" scrub plays out of his mind against the Spurs.

[ffadicted]

Missed the game tbh, wtf happened out there?

[timtonymanu]

Missed the game tbh, wtf happened out there?

The Spurs simply didn't bother showing up mentally. Pop didn't play Duncan at all in the 4th. Strange game.

[Mugen]

So Pop has no problem playing Tim in 3 straight b2bs but benches him in a winnable game cuz he had a bad 3rd quarter? Hmm.....

[RD2191]

i dont know what to say or think

[Brunodf]

Just Manu came to play tonight, Tony/Timmy/Green/Pop were off.

[justinandimcool]

Everyone seemed like something else was on their mind. The BCS game perhaps? :lol Really weird game. If they were trying their hardest I'd be upset, but it felt like a preseason game out there. If they don't give a fuck, I don't give a fuck.

Would suck if we missed the 1 seed by one game though.

[ace3g]

well I'm done with game threads for a while, first the NYK Sjax injury game now this poor performance...

[Splits]

Is this the first game all season we lost where we were "supposed to" win?

[DapDaGenius]

On the bright side of things Kawhi scored in double digits. :downspin:

[Brunodf]

Is this the first game all season we lost where we were "supposed to" win?

No, there is 9 others

[TDMVPDPOY]

spurs dont have a turn it on switch when playin from behind....only switch is the kill switch...

[therealtruth]

spurs dont have a turn it on switch when playin from behind....only switch is the kill switch...

That's dangerous. What happens when you're losing an important playoff game you need to win? That defeatist mentality will take over.

[TDMVPDPOY]

That's dangerous. What happens when you're losing an important playoff game you need to win? That defeatist mentality will take over.

losing series, we have seen it...pop has no issue pulling out the white flag, heroes on the team have no problem padding individual stats b4 team success...that winning mentality, spurs dont have that schtick anymore....

[Johnny RIngo]

spurs dont have a turn it on switch when playin from behind....only switch is the kill switch...

SA had a huge comeback game against the Clippers in last year's playoffs

[tmtcsc]

They stunk it up tonight. Nothing positive to take from this one. No excuses, just poor play by everyone.

[SpurPadre]

Everyone seemed like something else was on their mind. The BCS game perhaps? :lol Really weird game. If they were trying their hardest I'd be upset, but it felt like a preseason game out there. If they don't give a fuck, I don't give a fuck.

Would suck if we missed the 1 seed by one game though.

But what makes it more frustrating than anything is the fact that the Thunder also lost to a scrub tonight and we couldn't take advantage in the standings. I fucking hate losing games to fucking scrubs that don't belong to be on the same floor yet pull out a fluke win out of their asses. Oh well, it happens to every elite team each and every year.

[spurs1990]

Is this the first game all season we lost where we were "supposed to" win?

First loss this season to a team outside the top 16 records (not including Portland)

[Capt Bringdown]

Rough patch. You'd like to see continual improvement, but it's a long season.

[TDMVPDPOY]

SA had a huge comeback game against the Clippers in last year's playoffs

only interested in the present and future, whatever happen last season is just vague memories....let it go man, just like that bullshit living on 4 rings reputation

[therealtruth]

SA had a huge comeback game against the Clippers in last year's playoffs

With the exception of that game, the Spurs haven't really had a quality come from behind win in the playoffs or a series since probably '07.

[SpurPadre]

only interested in the present and future, whatever happen last season is just vague memories....let it go man, just like that bullshit living on 4 rings reputation

You can complain all you want but winning 4 rings is NOT bullshit and many other teams would love to have that "reputation" er, REALITY.

[TDMVPDPOY]

You can complain all you want but winning 4 rings is NOT bullshit and many other teams would love to have that "reputation" er, REALITY.

so ur happy with 4 rings and last 6 seasons of utter bullshit? still living in the past with those 4 rings and giving everyone a free pass each failed campaigns since 07

that 5th ring we all chasing.....is quickly moving further away into the distance with the same old shit smallball roster

[SpurPadre]

so ur happy with 4 rings and last 6 seasons of utter bullshit? still living in the past with those 4 rings and giving everyone a free pass each failed campaigns since 07

that 5th ring we all chasing.....is quickly moving further away into the distance with the same old shit smallball roster

No, I'm with you that it's been disappointing as hell to come away empty handed since '07, especially last season and it sucks knowing we should easily have 6 titles if not for some bad breaks here and there (Manu's foul on Nowitzki is our Bill Buckner moment) and it looks like we're still one trade away from having a real shot at winning it all this year. But no one can ever take away our 4 titles is all I'm saying.

[Arcadian]

I don't know. I have an issue with the Spurs dropping this one. The team didn't look tired or anything. Lack of focus, terrible rotations, and poor execution were what did it. I don't have a boxscore in front of me so I can't say for sure but I thought that all the guards except Ginobili and maybe Kawhi shot terribly as well. Green and Jax in particular.

Well...sometimes it just "happens." Not every loss needs to have a built-in excuse. They just lost. Move on.

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

:lmao the fucking Pelicans? Really???

[Fuzzy Dunlop]

But what makes it more frustrating than anything is the fact that the Thunder also lost to a scrub tonight and we couldn't take advantage in the standings. I fucking hate losing games to fucking scrubs that don't belong to be on the same floor yet pull out a fluke win out of their asses. Oh well, it happens to every elite team each and every year.

:cry

your team just sucked tonight. those "scrubs" destroyed you.

[TampaDude]

OKC lost to the Wizards...so...