Game Thread: Rockets at Spurs 8:30 EST (7:30 CST, 5:30 Vegas time) April 8th!

[Silver&Black]

Typical Manu....

No...no....no....no.....YESSSSS

[weeks]

holy shit. manu with the statement three from DEEEEEP

[Horry Hipcheck]

Kawhi fighting through his slow start like a god damn champion.

[RD2191]

:lmao:lmao:lmao3 point defense

[Cry Havoc]

Holy wa, Manu. O_O

[Horry Hipcheck]

Oh shit Manu.

[Southwest Texas Fan]

I miss Tiago.

[ElNono]

transition D, niggas... I need to coach this team, tbh

[BatManu20]

:lol holy shit Baynes

[Budkin]

Josh Smith hitting 3s is not a good sign.

[TXstbobcat]

Tony!!!!!!!!

[TDfan2007]

Houston hitting everything.

[TXstbobcat]

Tony!!!!!

[Horry Hipcheck]

God damn this transition game.

[Silver&Black]

Trading baskets....

[RD2191]

harden skullfucking the kawhi. trading baskets ain't gonna cut it.

[Raven]

manu is so fuckin smart..

[Texas_Ranger]

spurs defense is just bad

[BatManu20]

Kawhi's DPOY chances disappearing right before our eyes tbh :lol

[Horry Hipcheck]

MVParker deciding to show up.

[Southwest Texas Fan]

Did they implant a bionic achielles tendon on Tony.

[ElNono]

good foul, Gino

[Silver&Black]

Hack a Dorsey?

[TDfan2007]

This is the worst defense I've seen since February

[ducks]

d up!

[ironman2886]

Spurs get to foul Dorsey and Dwight? Awesome.

[Silver&Black]

J:lolsh Smith

[Horry Hipcheck]

Second half hack-a-Howard incoming.

[RD2191]

that was a terrible shot manu

[01Snake]

This looks like it's going to get ugly

[Horry Hipcheck]

They're doing a great job of boxing Duncan out.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Love Manu

[pgardn]

Defense absolutely in shambles.

[Silver&Black]

Manu tres....

My nigga.

[TXstbobcat]

Manu3333333333333

[ironman2886]

Not moving the ball. Blowing by us on defense.

[Southwest Texas Fan]

Manu for the three!

[ElNono]

Gino

[K...]

manu gonna save us

[ElNono]

Hack a Dorsey... :tu

[BatManu20]

Our old fucks are keeping us in this. Need the young guns to step up.

[siraulo23]

no boris mismatch to exploit, josh smith can guard him

[Raven]

manu taking his sweet time with 1 sec on the shotlock like the biggest boss ever that he is

[Silver&Black]

:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

D:lolrsey

[r0drig0lac]

wow

[Southwest Texas Fan]

Dorsey looks like a football player.

[Ron Swanson]

Whoa. That FT.

[Pound the rock]

We're giving up too many points

[TXstbobcat]

Manu!!!!!!!

[Horry Hipcheck]

Just keep it close until halftime tbh.

[Cry Havoc]

:lmao DET AIRBALL DOEEEEEEEEEEE

[Southwest Texas Fan]

Manu making shit happen.

[313]

Just turned on the game, sum off first Q?

[Horry Hipcheck]

Hahahaha Dorsey's in for a rough fucking night.

[ducks]

spurs are going to win

[TXstbobcat]

Bobo3333333333333

[BatManu20]

Bobo!

[ElNono]

Bobo 2.0

[Ron Swanson]

Bobo!

[Silver&Black]

San Antonio Spurs.....

My niggas.

[Horry Hipcheck]

Just turned on the game, sum off first Q?

MVParker with all the offense, Kawhi off to a slow start, Spurs playing garbage defense, Harden getting his.

[Southwest Texas Fan]

Shit I thought he was making it.

[RD2191]

cojo defense over parker offense any day imo

[r0drig0lac]

oh mama!!!

[Uriel]

Terrific end to a horrible quarter. :tu :tu :tu

[SanDiegoSpursFan]

Offense somehow looks pretty solid. Just gotta work on containing Harden, the guy is killing it out there.

[Raven]

hack a dorsey done to the absolute best

[TheGreatYacht]

Great find by Joseph :tu

[ElNono]

well, that was a terrible defensive quarter... only down 1 though

[BatManu20]

Wow after that onslaught of a quarter, we're only down by 1. Unreal.

Great response by our guys, tbh. Tony and Manu especially.

[K...]

paging kawhimvp.......the second quarter is starting now......please be ready

[Cry Havoc]

DIAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[01Snake]

Damn. Dug ourselves out of a major hole there.

[Southwest Texas Fan]

Let's see in Kawhi can recover.

[ironman2886]

Shitty defense and offensive ball movement, only down 1.

[ducks]

great shooting by rockets and only up 1 at end of quarter

[Nathan89]

If someone regularly air balls fts then hacking them is going to work.

[spursparker9]

Harden over Curry for MVP tbh.

Harden is just unstoppable. Curry may go cold but Harden with that ridiculous foul drawing drive is absolute.

[Cry Havoc]

That was the best punch the Rockets could possibly give us. We're standing and down just one even though we missed open shots.

Lock down on D, hit your open 3s, and blow them apart.

[Horry Hipcheck]

Just turned on the game, sum off first Q?

And then Manu and Diaw personally saved a hideous quarter in the final minute to make it a 1 point game going into 2.

[r0drig0lac]

Watch Kawhi go MVP mode in the second period

[Silver&Black]

Just turned on the game, sum off first Q?

Defense is awful....PNR especially.
Harden living at the line...
Hack a Dorsey is working....
MVParker is en fuego....
Been down by as much as 9.....
Manu and Bobo hitting 3s to cut it to 1....

[TheGreatYacht]

And ST was saying Montejiunas was their Jeff Ayres :lmao

Now we get to hack a Dorsey

[ElNono]

Spurs need to pick their poison, and it can't be Harden... let him get his, don't foul... cover the rest...

[RD2191]

That was the best punch the Rockets could possibly give us. We're standing and down just one even though we missed open shots.

Lock down on D, hit your open 3s, and blow them apart.
That was sustainable offense by the rockets. it's what they do.

[Horry Hipcheck]

Shades of Manu's hero days of yore, tbh

[Raven]

duncan credited with 3 blocks, wtf :lol

[GSH]

Just turned on the game, sum off first Q?

Yay!
WTG Tony!
Oh damn!
Oh, fuck me!
The sky is falling!
The world is ending!
That's better.
Hell Yeah!
We're lucky to be back in it.
Shut up faggot!

[RD2191]

Spurs need to pick their poison, and it can't be Harden... let him get his, don't foul... cover the rest...
he'd drop 60 tbh

[ElNono]

And ST was saying Montejiunas was their Jeff Ayres :lmao

Now we get to hack a Dorsey

DMo is a 60% FT shooter... same shit :lol

All their bigs suck at FTs

[Pound the rock]

Unrealistic to expect domination every night but hoping d improves

[FaM0us Skins]

Let's go Spurs.

[Godbama]

That was the best punch the Rockets could possibly give us. We're standing and down just one even though we missed open shots.

Lock down on D, hit your open 3s, and blow them apart.

[pgardn]

A professional BASKETBALL player missing an uncontested FT by a foot...
And they want to take out that auto fouling.

How does a guy who spends that much time around a hoop and a basket miss a 16 foot shot by an entire foot...
He sucks, he is not a real BASKETBALL player, get him off the floor.

[ElNono]

he'd drop 60 tbh

let him.. who's dropping the other 40?

[RD2191]

play harden rough, send him to the line, 2 is better than 3

[Raven]

That was sustainable offense by the rockets. it's what they do.

i don't agree, the defensive missmatches were caused by offensive rebounding.

[RD2191]

:lmao

[ElNono]

see? they all leak out for the fastbreak... Spurs need to be sharp with the transition d

[TXstbobcat]

Timmy!!! The bank is open

[Horry Hipcheck]

That was the best punch the Rockets could possibly give us.

Best that Harden could give us, maybe, with more to come, but at their best Howard and Ariza will cut the Spurs up.

[RD2191]

That was sustainable offense by the rockets. it's what they do.
:wakeup

[Horry Hipcheck]

Getting real sick of them scoring easy points off huge lead passes downcourt.

[Brazil]

Yay!
WTG Tony!
Oh damn!
Oh, fuck me!
The sky is falling!
The world is ending!
That's better.
Hell Yeah!
We're lucky to be back in it.
Shut up faggot!

:lmao

[TXstbobcat]

Thanks Howard :lmao

[Ron Swanson]

Howard giving us freebies.

[Southwest Texas Fan]

Howard looks like such a punk as bitch.

[Raven]

lol howard, that shot was not going in :lol

[RD2191]

:lmao:lol:lmao

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Spurs just can't guard the Rockets at all

[r0drig0lac]

Josh Bird tbh

[Horry Hipcheck]

Howard's like our third leading scorer :lol

[BatManu20]

Wtf Danny

[FaM0us Skins]

Good job Manu.

[Cry Havoc]

Joey Crawford Fuck Ups: 3.

[ElNono]

great D Gino

[Ron Swanson]

Come on, Bobo.

[Southwest Texas Fan]

Manu doing what Manu does, TBH...

[Raven]

manu the only one really thinking out there

[ironman2886]

Come on, Boris.

[Silver&Black]

Manu taking the charge (or flopping)....

Our ball!!!

[01Snake]

Not liking this game at all

[Horry Hipcheck]

Manu showing up.

[RD2191]

Spurs just can't guard the Rockets at all

[BatManu20]

Don't touch foul Dwight.. if you're going to foul him, wrap him up.

[Horry Hipcheck]

Why is Parker the only one living in the paint tonight?

[RD2191]

cojo u scrub

[Silver&Black]

:lmao the cliff jumping thread is already bumped

[TheGreatYacht]

Get Parker back in there

[ElNono]

our offense is shit, tbh...

[ironman2886]

Can't make a jumper.

[Raven]

cory should have shot that

[Horry Hipcheck]

What the fuck is this offense.

[Uriel]

Spurs are hesitating on their 3's. They have to stop thinking and just let it fly.

[BatManu20]

Cory's inability to shoot kill us tbh. And then he passes up a wide open 3, cause he knows he can't shoot either. His hustle is great, but that only does so much. If Patty doesn't quickly find his shot and his confidence, it's going to really cost us in the playoffs, tbh.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Spurs settling for way too many 20 foot jumpshots.

Howard scares the Spurs too much it seems (outside of Parker tonight)

[RD2191]

nut up kawhi. we need you.

[Cry Havoc]

Spurs settling for way too many 20 foot jumpshots.

Howard scares the Spurs too much it seems (outside of Parker tonight)

[Pound the rock]

If Kawhi doesn't contribute it's going to be tough to win this one

[Horry Hipcheck]

Spurs need spacing but Bobo, Leonard, Green aren't hitting. Cojo and TD chucking from the elbow isn't gonna do shit.

[ironman2886]

Fucking sad that this rockets team with 2 good players gone for the playoffs is the Spurs Kryptonite.

[RD2191]

Cory's inability to shoot kill us tbh. And then he passes up a wide open 3, cause he knows he can't shoot either. His hustle is great, but that only does so much. If Patty doesn't quickly find his shot and his confidence, it's going to really cost us in the playoffs, tbh.
parker can score but his defense is probably the worst on the team

[Rob123]

Someone fucking teach cojo to shoot Jesus or Kawhi take us the fuck home man

[Floyd Pacquiao]

Spurs just playing retarded

[TDfan2007]

The problem is a mental one tonight. Not sure why.

[Ditty]

Get Patty in there.

[pgardn]

If we can stay in a game playing this poorly, not time to panic.
Please wake up.
Please.

[siraulo23]

yea the rox just getting everything they want, not sure what the spurs could do on the pick and rolls

[ElNono]

give it to wiwi and clear out. tbh

[z0sa]

man rockets are a shitty MU for us. Really hoping we avoid these fools.

[Silver&Black]

Harden 2.0 in....

[Horry Hipcheck]

Spurs better have a titan second half. Learn how to play these fuckers or they're gonna get diced in Houston.

[ironman2886]

These shots are way off.

[TXstbobcat]

Reggie Williams in in?????????

[Southwest Texas Fan]

Williams playing.

[TXstbobcat]

Bobo!!!!!

[Budkin]

Spurs are terrified of this team.

[FaM0us Skins]

Wtf.

[RD2191]

crofl flopping faggot

[crc21209]

BS call...

[Horry Hipcheck]

Williams already in :lol

[TheGreatYacht]

Fucking midget

[Raven]

prigioni is smart

[GSH]

The same shots Kawhi is missing were all falling last night. So they're gonna have to grind. They're keeping it competitive when things aren't falling. Wait until the second half adjustments to jump off the cliff.

[Silver&Black]

Nice call ref....

[BatManu20]

Progioni you piece of shit

[pgardn]

cory should have shot that

They are are daring him to do something.

[RD2191]

fuck cojo

[TXstbobcat]

Reggie333333333333

[ironman2886]

Dont shoot the ball again, Cojo.

[ElNono]

Harden!

[BatManu20]

Reggie!

[r0drig0lac]

Harden 0.5

[Silver&Black]

Reggie Williams....

My nigga.

[Ron Swanson]

Reggie will get this shit going.

[Nathan89]

Our James Harden will win it for us tbh

[loveforthegame]

I'm liking Willuams.

[vander]

get cojo out of there he can't hit anything, Patty time

[ElNono]

fuck Cojo

[RD2191]

good lord cojo, wtf man

[FaM0us Skins]

Reggie Williams!

[Horry Hipcheck]

Fucking miraculous the Spurs are down by 4.

[BatManu20]

Duncan's too old to handle Dwight.

[Silver&Black]

We're just sloppy with the ball right now...

[NASpurs]

Another stupid pass from Duncan

[Southwest Texas Fan]

As bad as the Spurs are playing and we're down by only 5.

[Horry Hipcheck]

By 1, excuse me.

[NASpurs]

:lmao Spurms

[ElNono]

can't leave Ariza open, smh

[Silver&Black]

Let's just leave Ariza open all night.....

[01Snake]

How many fucking boneheaded mistakes are we going to make!!

[TheGreatYacht]

Why is CancerJo in the rotation?

[crc21209]

Playing like a bunch of scared jump shooting assholes :td

[GSH]

No excuse for sleepwalking.

[Horry Hipcheck]

The Spurs look like idiots on offense and Pop wants them to stew in it.

[BatManu20]

Ariza wide open again. Jesus Spurs :lol

[RD2191]

:bang:bang

[Uriel]

Damn. :(

[jkid12456]

take cojo out he blows.

[Budkin]

By 1, excuse me.

Incredible

[TheGreatYacht]

fuck Cojo

[Beaverfuzz]

Quit fucking around, pick up the defense.

[z0sa]

-_- no marco, no splitter, no 2nd seed...?

[SpurPadre]

Reading these posts, you'd think we're down by 20. I look at the score online (I'm at work) and we're only down 4. LOL.

[ElNono]

we keep helping when we should not... some guys you can't leave open

[BatManu20]

Why is CancerJo in the rotation?

Cause we have no other options. Patty's playing like it's 2013 again. Really need him to get it going.

[TheGreatYacht]

take cojo out he blows.

[benstanfield]

Worst we've played since losing to the knicks

TD/Kawhi need to fucking suck it up and start getting engaged

[NASpurs]

Cojo stalls that offense like no other. :lol

[Floyd Pacquiao]

Why is kawhi playing like a pussy today? He's our best player and he's not taking control and playing passive

[anonoftheinternets]

fuck cojo

Its ok, his D is good.

[FkLA]

why aren't they giving Kawhi the ball in his sweetspot aka the post? the defense had been shit too tbh.

[weeks]

timmy has had an awful lot of bad passes this year

[Horry Hipcheck]

Nothing hypes this fizzle-out team like playing SA.

[Cry Havoc]

Reading these posts, you'd think we're down by 20. I look at the score online (I'm at work) and we're only down 4. LOL.

People gonna cliff jump, but after smashing teams for a few weeks we expected the team to remember how to pass and catch the ball.

[r0drig0lac]

Kawhi passive today

[ironman2886]

Really?? This Rockets team plays this well against us? :depressed

[TheGreatYacht]

Cause we have no other options. Patty's playing like it's 2013 again.
At least he can get hot. Cancer can't shoot and the league knows it, that's why the paint is so crowded

[RD2191]

we are losing because of the defense. the offense isn't great and cojo shoots worse than a blind man but it still isn't that bad. about to allow 60 in a half

[Southwest Texas Fan]

They're playing like its January.

[Robz4000]

Fucking really? It's 9-5.

Posted that when they were down 9 tbh. All I have to follow atm are the comments on here. Can't get a boxscore on my phone.

[NASpurs]

Pop only likes to post up Kawhi when he has a mismatch. Post up Trevor Ariza for God's sake. Sean is right.

[benstanfield]

It's not like you need to guard Prigioni

How would Mills be worse than Cojo?

[BatManu20]

Cory's inability to shoot kill us tbh. And then he passes up a wide open 3, cause he knows he can't shoot either. His hustle is great, but that only does so much. If Patty doesn't quickly find his shot and his confidence, it's going to really cost us in the playoffs, tbh.

[Splits]

WTF is Kawhi doing leaving Ariza in the corner like that? That was Tims help assignment. Awful half for the kid

[Ditty]

There not respecting Cory's shot, perfect night for Patty to come in and knock some shots hopefully Pop sees that.

[tim_duncan_fan]

Why is Williams playing?

Also the choke was expected. We'll lose this game and the next one and play better in the playoffs. It's just the way these guys work.

You know we're gonna lose when Tim is repeatedly just handing the ball to the other team.

[FkLA]

Why is kawhi playing like a pussy today? He's our best player and he's not taking control and playing passive

They're not even looking for him brah.

[spurraider21]

:lol cojo getting smoked by prigioni

[jkid12456]

cojo hasnt taken the oppurtunity by the balls it seems. i dont care how many times the shot will fail for patty, we need to count on patty.

[Horry Hipcheck]

Meanwhile, Memphis is skullfucking New Orleans.

[pgardn]

No PG.

No flow. Little functional motion.

The D can stand and not move if there is no penetration. No creativity. Passing game requires offensive threats to get the D off balance. It ain't that easy.

[TDfan2007]

Can't overstate how terrible the D has been. Part of the problem is offensive. Rushed outside shots are leading to easy transition points

[ironman2886]

we keep helping when we should not... some guys you can't leave open
Spurs have over helped all year.

[coachmac87]

We are helping on defense when we shouldn't and is Parker hurt again???? Get his ass back on the court

[TXstbobcat]

Leonard!!!!!!

[Silver&Black]

Kawhi....

My nigga.

[GSH]

Reading these posts, you'd think we're down by 20. I look at the score online (I'm at work) and we're only down 4. LOL.

They are really playing sloppy right now. Some of the Houston points are just gimmes, so I guess it feels worse to some people. If the Spurs can keep it tight at the half, and tighten up, they're fine. But they can't win playing the way they are. Houston is too good to make these kinds of mistakes against.

[siraulo23]

why aren't they giving Kawhi the ball in his sweetspot aka the post? the defense had been shit too tbh.

Ariza can guard him, Pop doesnt think it's a mismatch

[Southwest Texas Fan]

We need more of that Kawhi!

[Budkin]

Play Mills

[Floyd Pacquiao]

That's more like it kawhimvp

[NASpurs]

:wow look at that. Just took them an hour to figure it out.

[Horry Hipcheck]

Why is Williams playing?

Also the choke was expected. We'll lose this game and the next one and play better in the playoffs. It's just the way these guys work.

You know we're gonna lose when Tim is repeatedly just handing the ball to the other team.

Just a shame they taunted us with this opportunity.

[RD2191]

KAWHIIIIIII

[Silver&Black]

Dumbass pass by Baynes....

thank god Harden missed it.

[313]

Such dumb passes tonight

[NASpurs]

Baynes get the fuck out of the way :lol

[HI-FI]

Kawhi heating up.

[Raven]

kawhi taking over