Duncan or Manu..

[apalisoc_9]

Who was the best spur today?

Manu

16 Pts 11 Assist

Timmy

21 Points 10 Rebounds

[DAF86]

It's hard to go against 20-10 on 90% shooting but Manu was huge also.

[Snaq O'Meal]

Easily Manu, with a +22 (ironically by keeping his turnovers down).

[KL2]

TD, Manu didn't play defense tbh.

[100%duncan]

Timmy.

[DAF86]

TD, Manu didn't play defense tbh.

You must not seen the 4th quarter, tbh.

[Tim_duncan21]

Timmy

[Jenks]

The A/C

[KL2]

You must not seen the 4th quarter, tbh.


I watched the entire game, watched him get burned quite a bit while he had easy matchups on defense.

[Baam]

Tim was the turnover leader so Manu.

[Cry Havoc]

Tim. His inside presence was great.

Manu did have some REALLY nice plays on defense though.

[DAF86]

I watched the entire game, watched him get burned quite a bit while he had easy matchups on defense.

Easy matchups? :lol When he wasn't running Allen around he was guarding Wade. He was burnt a bit at the begginig but on the 4th he did a terrific job. Got 3 steals too.

[Brazil]

Great game by Manu but this one goes to Timmy

[spursparker9]

Diaw.....

[TheGoldStandard]

Timmy Legend but Manu was a balla

[Skull-1]

Who was the best spur today?

Manu

16 Pts 11 Assist

Timmy

21 Points 10 Rebounds

Tim.

Manu was turning it over at the most critical point. Did well otherwise.

[Manutrix]

Manu, of course. Also add 3 steals to his stat sheet.

[emanueldavidginobili]

A?Tim made all the shots he needed too all in the paint, manu 16-11 assist 5 rebounds 3 steals

[DAF86]

Tim.

Manu was turning it over at the most critical point. Did well otherwise.

What are these TO's you are talking about? He only have 2 and I remember one that was more Boris' fault on the 3rd.

[KL2]

Easy matchups? :lol When he wasn't running Allen around he was guarding Wade. He was burnt a bit at the begginig but on the 4th he did a terrific job. Got 3 steals too.


Allen is a role player these days, he's that not good, not even close to an all star level, Wade pretty much tore it up today. SA was fortunate MIA missed so many 3's as they were almost all wide open, the Spurs got away with it one game. And let's be real, LBJ's injury was huge, he's their best transition defender/post defender/perimeter defender etc. plus he makes scrubs better on offense.

[OldSilentHill]

The better overall today was Manu.

Tim really close, but Manu had a good amount of rebounds too and just 5 pts less, plus 11 AST and 3 For .

For me is clearly Manu.

[Prose]

Timmy! Timmy and many played all but 1 min in the 4th!

[Mugen]

That giant headband tbh. Really dehydrated the King.

[Pocho La Pantera]

Who cares, 3 more.

[mercos]

Normally with those stats I'd go Duncan, but Manu was brilliant in the P&R. His early three's were big too, as Miami came out very hot. Tough choice really.

[spurspokesman]

Timmy

[OldSilentHill]

Tough choice really.

Not if you read my points.

[hitmanyr2k]

I'd give it to Ginobili tonight. He gave the team a spark when the starting unit came out tight and sloppy. His playmaking was also great getting everyone involved. Splitter seems to only be effective offensively when he and Ginobili can run that screen and roll. A lot of Duncan's easy buckets were the result of Ginobili's passes leading him to the rim. His defense was sub-par in the first half but much better in the 2nd half. He locked into Wade and played him damn good down the stretch contesting all of his shots.

[RD2191]

Manu, of course. Also add 3 steals to his stat sheet.
:lmao

[RD2191]

Easily Manu, with a +22 (ironically by keeping his turnovers down).
:lmao

[RD2191]

Manu fans giving kobetards a run for their money, tbh,

[Aztecfan03]

Who was the best spur today?

Manu

16 Pts 11 Assist

Timmy

21 Points 10 Rebounds

I didn't get to see the game, but going by stats I would say Manu. Manu only had 2 turnovers to Duncan's 5. 11 assists to duncan's 3. also had 5 rebounds, 3 steals and a block.

[Hemotivo]

I'd give it to Ginobili tonight. He gave the team a spark when the starting unit came out tight and sloppy. His playmaking was also great getting everyone involved. Splitter seems to only be effective offensively when he and Ginobili can run that screen and roll. A lot of Duncan's easy buckets were the result of Ginobili's passes leading him to the rim. His defense was sub-par in the first half but much better in the 2nd half. He locked into Wade and played him damn good down the stretch contesting all of his shots.
This

[RD2191]

Manu fans giving kobetards a run for their money, tbh,

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Manu fans giving kobetards a run for their money, tbh,

:lol he was our best player tonight while you were going emo in a corner

[Aztecfan03]

Allen is a role player these days, he's that not good, not even close to an all star level, Wade pretty much tore it up today. SA was fortunate MIA missed so many 3's as they were almost all wide open, the Spurs got away with it one game. And let's be real, LBJ's injury was huge, he's their best transition defender/post defender/perimeter defender etc. plus he makes scrubs better on offense.

19 points on 18 shots is tearing it up?

[DAF86]

Manu fans giving kobetards a run for their money, tbh,

Dude I went with Timmy but how can you laugh at people saying Manu? It was very close, imho.

[RD2191]

:lol he was our best player tonight while you were going emo in a corner
:lolBest player

[ElNono]

don't care... loving the win... we're going to need to play better Sunday...

[hitmanyr2k]

19 points on 18 shots is tearing it up?

Wade tore it up in the first half. Only scored one bucket in the 2nd half.

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

:lolBest player

:lol Heat in 5

yep, best player. Timmy is up there too.. but 5 TO's

[servalli]

Duncan 5TO

[KL2]

19 points on 18 shots is tearing it up?

He started off well, after LBJ slowed down it was all down hill. Miami is surprisingly bad without LBJ, that's to be expected as he is the true MVP of the league, after he goes out it's easy pickings, he is their defense, their offense, everything.

I'm taking game 1 with a grain of salt, things lined up very nicely for SA this game. Miami didn't play too bad but they could've played much better.

[Arcadian]

Duncan was the third player his age in history to go 20/10/90% along with Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell.

[johnpaulwall21]

manu fans dying for him to get a finals mvp. I say this game was Duncans. They crowded the paint. They were doubling him at times also. He anchored the defense and grabbed key rebounds down the stretch. 9 for 10 shooting. Both players did good tho.

[DAF86]

manu fans dying for him to get a finals mvp. I say this game was Duncans. They crowded the paint. They were doubling him at times also. He anchored the defense and grabbed key rebounds down the stretch. 9 for 10 shooting. Both players did good tho.

Timmy was huge but he benefited from the way Miami defends (same as last year), which basically is trapping the ballhandler with a bigman and leaving him all alone in the paint against a smaller player. Most of Tim's baskets came from other making a play for him (that's why Tiago had a huge game too), he very rarely went one on one on the post.

[Malik Hairston]

Manu was the best player tonight, tbh..

If the rest of the series goes the same way, Duncan would get the MVP, though, it would be a bigger story..

[johnpaulwall21]

Timmy was huge but he benefited from the way Miami defends (same as last year), which basically is trapping the ballhandler with a bigman and leaving him all alone in the paint against a smaller player. Most of Tim's baskets came from other making a play for him (that's why Tiago had a huge game too), he very rarely went one on one on the post.

Bosh hardly left him. Most of his baskets were over bosh. I noticed on several occasions once tim put the ball on the floor, the double teams came. Thats why he rarely went one on one. He was getting most of his points from sealing bosh or lewis deep in the paint. The guards/boris dumped the ball into him from the three point line and he made the lay in. I wouldnt say they were creating plays for him. They basically made the easy pass. tim did the positioning work. I would say tim made 6 or 7 baskets this way. the other 2 were created by parkers penetration and hand off.

[Prime Time]

Both of them were damn valuable. Duncan took full advantage of Miami slacking on him, shooting 90% for the night. He also had a handful of huge rebounds at the end of the game.

Manu gave the team a much needed spark when no one on the perimeter was clicking. I don't expect for him to play this good every game, but hopefully he won't have to - Leonard and Diaw NEED to step it up.

But if we're discussing timely MVP's, Green should win by a landslide. Dude scored 11 points in 2 minutes and 18 seconds, making the 88-84 deposit turn into the 97-92 lead. If Ginobili or Duncan did this, everyone would be ejaculating themselves.

[MI21]

I'm not sure I could split them, tbh.

[DAF86]

Bosh hardly left him. Most of his baskets were over bosh. I noticed on several occasions once tim put the ball on the floor, the double teams came. Thats why he rarely went one on one. He was getting most of his points from sealing bosh or lewis deep in the paint. The guards/boris dumped the ball into him from the three point line and he made the lay in. I wouldnt say they were creating plays for him. They basically made the easy pass. tim did the positioning work. I would say tim made 6 or 7 baskets this way. the other 2 were created by parkers penetration and hand off.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZHm6n6MdTo

There you go, 9 out of 9 baskets off great assists where Duncan doesn't have to do a lot more than just lay it up. Don't get wrong Duncan still positioned and finished at elite levels but there was non of that post up action you are talking about.

[100%duncan]

Btw who gives a shit who gets mvp. Norris Cole can get it as long as Duncan rings.

[oski1000]

Both....and the team.:flag:

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

Manu. +22 saids it all. Duncan had 3-4 of those baskets from great passes from Manu. Manu was the reason the Spurs won tonight.

[itsamanuthree]

Manu. +22 saids it all. Duncan had 3-4 of those baskets from great passes from Manu. Manu was the reason the Spurs won tonight.

Intelligent kid. Have read other posts from you before, good takes.

Duncan was great too, of course, but Manu just changed the game.

[RD2191]

Duncan, end of story. Anyone who says Manu is a faggot.

[Mr. Body]

Manu kept the offense going with early threes and was able to find gaps in Miami's exceptional defense. In the second half he played better defense on Wade.

[100%duncan]

Duncan, end of story. Anyone who says Manu is a faggot.

Cmon Rob, I agree TD was the 1st game's mvp but Manu did really well tbh.

[Rummpd]

co-mvps

[Johnny RIngo]

Manu. Would have said Duncan if he didn't have the 5 TOs

[cd98]

They way Spurs play, it's almost impossible to say who was the best. When they win, it's because they got contributions from 6 to 7 guys. When they lose, there is usually one or two players that stand out.

[kaji157]

I would say it´s a tie but Ginobili had two stretches that allowed the Spurs to stay in the game despite poor performances in the first quarter and the third quarter scoring most of his points when no one seemed to be able to throw it into the ocean.

[Baam]

They way Spurs play, it's almost impossible to say who was the best. When they win, it's because they got contributions from 6 to 7 guys. When they lose, there is usually one or two players that stand out.

I think it's hard when you look at the stat sheet but when you look at the game you see that the guys that have the greater impact are the playmakers, Tiago and Tim did good catching and scoring point blank shots but imo the assists are just much more difficult to make, especially against a small team playing the passing lane with no real defensive minded big...

I think Tim will be voted FMVP tho but I think Manu was the clear cut best player of game 1...

[RD2191]

Cmon Rob, I agree TD was the 1st game's mvp but Manu did really well tbh.
:lolI know, I just like to talk shit.

[Capster]

Both Timmy and Ginobili played well. I vote for both....LOL!!! I like this photo!!!


http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/dam/assets/140606024533-ginobili-story-cut-single-image-cut.jpg

[Jimcs50]

Who was the best spur today?

Manu

16 Pts 11 Assist

Timmy



21 Points 10 Rebounds


Historically speaking. TD is in good company. Only other players to have a 20/10 game with 90% shooting in history is Bill Russel first then Wilt Chamberlain.

Therefore TD's performance was bigger.

[Mugen]

I personally thought Manu was the best player in this game. Tim was great converting his looks but a lot of that was set up w/ some great passing ( a lot by Gino).

[smeagol]

Roberto being a dick . . . as usual . . .

I could care less who played better as long as the end result is a ring . . .

[kaji157]

Historically speaking. TD is in good company. Only other players to have a 20/10 game with 90% shooting in history is Bill Russel first then Wilt Chamberlain.

Therefore TD's performance was bigger.

Ginobili is the first player in NBA hstory since they track stats to record 15+pts 10+ assists of the bench in an NBA Finals game.

[itsamanuthree]

Duncan, end of story. Anyone who says Manu is a faggot.

Sound reasoning...

[itsamanuthree]

:lolI know, I just like to talk shit.

Haha, you just trolling then, fine

[Beaverfuzz]

Diaw at +30.

[EVAY]

Wade tore it up in the first half. Only scored one bucket in the 2nd half.

I think this is key to remember going forward…Don't think he has the stamina to play hard and well for 4 quarters. If we can contain him in the first half, I think he will contain himself in the second half.

[EVAY]

I was about to say how cool it would be for Manu to be the MVP of the 2014 finals so that each of our big three would have at least one Finals MVP per.

But I decided against it because I didn't want to jinx him or the team.

So i erased it all.

[Jimcs50]

Ginobili is the first player in NBA hstory since they track stats to record 15+pts 10+ assists of the bench in an NBA Finals game.


We are not having a pissing contest. We are lucky to have two players in their later 30s playing at such a high level still. Enjoy it, while we can.

[IrisHockey]

Scott Foster..

[baseline bum]

Diaw at +30.

Probably the best game I have ever seen out of someone who scored two points. :lol

[DarrinS]

Tim.

Manu was turning it over at the most critical point. Did well otherwise.


Dude had two turnovers

[jARS mEsH sEt]

We are not having a pissing contest. We are lucky to have two players in their later 30s playing at such a high level still. Enjoy it, while we can.

kaji is a known Manutard. It's par the course.

[SpurOutofTownFan]

This game it was Manu, specially because he was able to keep the team close when Miami had a real chance to get away. Stats are sometimes deceiving - I could say Diaw also had a great game along with Timmy but Manu pretty much kept the Spurs afloat when the game was on the line earlier.

[Raven]

i'm going with manu

[TMTTRIO]

not going to see many games like this out of Manu anymore but I'm hopeful he'll still be able to contribute someway and hopefully cut down on those turnovers.

[DAF86]

Insider request: Thorpe's playoffs MVP's http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2014/story/_/page/PostseasonMVPs-140606-1/postseason-mvp-rankings

I'm sure these two are in there.

[Aztecfan03]

Historically speaking. TD is in good company. Only other players to have a 20/10 game with 90% shooting in history is Bill Russel first then Wilt Chamberlain.

Therefore TD's performance was bigger.

That is only using limited stats though. 5 TO's brings the performance down some.

[Kidd K]

It was Duncan. Duncan has some turnovers but at least two of those were due to horrendous passes. You get called for the turnover if you touch it last, even if you're diving for a terrible pass and it goes off your fingertips, they still call it a TO on you. Another one was also a foul that wasn't called (the play where Timmy got knocked down twice). So in fairness, he wasn't actually sloppy with the ball. Meanwhile he shot 90%, led us in scoring, and ripped 10 boards while playing some good D'.

Timmy gets it tonight, but Manu was clearly 2nd. I would put Boris 3rd too, he was great. TP was also nice.

[Manudona]

Insider request: Thorpe's playoffs MVP's http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2014/story/_/page/PostseasonMVPs-140606-1/postseason-mvp-rankings

I'm sure these two are in there.

Sure! I can sell you a Yacht I have in the Riachuelo, contact me.

[Gino-Step]

Insider request: Thorpe's playoffs MVP's http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2014/story/_/page/PostseasonMVPs-140606-1/postseason-mvp-rankings

I'm sure these two are in there.

Manu is not. LOL