Pacers v. Spurs Game Blog

[Solid D]

O'Neal is one man destruction crew. 2 fouls on Nesterovic

[Solid D]

Horry feeds BArry for nice cut under basket. Spurs 4th TO leads to FB dunk by Foster. 16 all.

[Experiment2100]

These refs suck

[Solid D]

Horry strong to hole. layin good and 1. 18-18
19-18

Duncan on bench. Horry and Rose in frontcourt.
Barry Bowen and Parker.

Parker high off glass after screen roll penetration. 21-18. Timeout Indy

[Solid D]

Replay shows excellent seal by Rose for Parker's score.

[Hook Dem]

Tony is an animal tonight. :lol

[Solid D]

TP has taken it strong to hole 3 straight trips.

Horry blocks JO.

Parker TO, fastbreak other way 2 for indy. 29-22

[Solid D]

Parker penetrates and dishes to Rose rolling down lane 31-22

JO for 2, swish

Parker penetrates with 5 sec. left and dishes to Barry in corner...but Barry leaves his place. Shouldn't have...ball sails into Spurs bench. TO.

4.5 sec. left in 1st. Tinsley takes Parker to block backing in as quarter runs out. Dumb.

31-24

[boutons]

Robert fricking Horry!!! He's 34 playing like 24. Driving successfully twice??

[1Parker1]

Tony needs to limit his TO's tonight, already has 3. Otherwise excellent game :) He is scoring and rebounding.

[1Parker1]

Horry scored 7 pts, Blocked a shot and got a steal, all in 5 minutes.

[Solid D]

Indy starts 2nd with Tinsley, Croshere, Fred Jones, Harrison and Curry.
Spurs Parker, Gino, Barry, Rose, Horry

[Solid D]

Fred Jones knocks down 3. Horry TO in traffic, Jones again for 3 31-30
Parker for 3!!!

Harrison on dunk great feed from Tinsley.

Horry gets strong off. reb. great pass to cutting TP for layup.

[Solid D]

Pacers are moving ball extremely well with 1 starter (Tinsley). Pacers within 2 at 36-34.

[Solid D]

Someone else may need to take over some of this. I may have to quit for a bit.

Technical FT, Barry makes 1 FT. Udrih, Duncan, Barry, Bino, Rose in now.

Duncan fed from Udrih.. Duncan baseline jumper and bangs knees with David Harrison. Rt. knee to rt. knee. Duncan comes out limping.

[Solid D]

Indy shoots 2 FTs after Gino fouls. 37-36

Rose great rebound. Barry great off. reb. Udrih fouled on 3 attempt. 2 of 3 made.

[Solid D]

Duncan back in 39-36 Spurs.

Udrih to Bowen in left corner miss over the top of backboard ob.

Duncan fouled on right block. 2 bricks,

[Experiment2100]

Duncan missed 2 fts 3rd foul on Rasho on other end.

[Solid D]

Foster fouled and converts 1 of 2 FTs. Devin in now.

Udrih for 3 from rt wing, YEssssss! 42-37. Time out Pacers.

TNT announcers calling Beno "Ooo-drick" :(

[Experiment2100]

Beno with a nice three 42-37 Spurs

[1Parker1]

JO with $12000 in donations so far

[1Parker1]

Spurs completely outrebounding Pacers. 21-11

[milkyway21]

Foster fouled and converts 1 of 2 FTs. Devin in now.

Udrih for 3 from rt wing, YEssssss! 42-37. Time out Pacers.

TNT announcers calling Beno "Ooo-drick" :(Why is Duncan taking just few shots? Other than TP & Horry/Udrih :sleep :sleep :sleep
forgive me, maybe because Manu(4 fouls), is on th bench? Barry, too? :sleep :sleep :sleep

[TwoHandJam]

I hope Tim has a better second half. He just hasn't been himself lately. He's shooting a very low percentage and he's not taking a lot of shots. He's being guarded by a rookie (Harrison) and Foster. He should be taking these guys to school. Granted he's drawn fouls on these guys but his shots just aren't going down.

[milkyway21]

and he's not taking a lot of shots. He's being guarded by a rookie (Harrison) and Foster. He should be taking these guys to school. Granted he's drawn fouls on these guys but his shots just aren't going down.yeah! :sleep :sleep :sleep :sleep

[boutons]

"I hope Tim has a better second half"

Tim is stoppable with good defense, and teams know if they stop Tim, the game is half won. Pacers aren't allowing the entry pass. Our ball movement has to improve. If Ind keeps shooting 54% and keeps up their D, the game is theirs.

[Spurminator]

If we continue to outscore the Pacers, this game is in the bag.

[boutons]

I bet you $10 bucks the team that has the highest FG% wins.

Spurs D is failing to stop their offense, and that nearly always means a Spurs loss, esp in the teeth of a fairly serious Pacer defense.

[Solid D]

I don't see the Pacers shooting over 50% in second half. Spurs will step up their D.

The Spurs went with Parker and Udrih together in the backcourt the last 2:45 of the half and the Spurs went from a 1 point lead to 9 in nothing flat. Indy was able to close at end to within 6.

[Solid D]

O'neal left open by Duncan on Rt. Wing for a 20 footer. swish.

Duncan shoots fallaway in lane Yes. Hurts hip somewhat but still in game.

Oneal hits again 59-55

[boutons]

Spurs need to push the ball hard, get FB and transition points, because IND half-court defense and our jump shooting are a bad match.

[Solid D]

Duncan FT,

O'Neal guarded by Horry fadeaway to left baseline 10 footer swish.

Duncan hook from rt. baseline swish.

[Solid D]

Duncan blocks JO on baseline drive, Parker uptempo going to cup, fouled by JO.

Parker 2 FTs 64-57.

[Solid D]

They are going to JO every trip. Horry picks up 3rd foul on JO.
JO 2 FTs, 64-59

Pacers come out in 2-3 zone.

Gino fouled trying to penetrate. non-shooting. Parker from rt. wing for 3 Yesss.

[Experiment2100]

JO starting 3rd like he started 1st let's hope he stops scoring cause 90 vbucks says he's between 21-30

[milkyway21]

"I hope Tim has a better second half"

Tim is stoppable with good defense, and teams know if they stop Tim, the game is half wontim's two blocks on J.O' :elephant :elephant :elephant

[Solid D]

Pacers back to man d.

Duncan fouled on give and go by Gino penetration, no call. Duncan gathers in rebound loose ball and drops it in for 2.

[Solid D]

This blog primarily benefits those unable to watch game.

Camera on Eva Longoria. They say she is dating Tony Parker right now.

[Solid D]

Tim tries wing bank shot, Rasho tips it back out to Tim, Bowen for 3 yessss
72-59

Foster crashes in sideways and makes tough shot in lane.

Duncan fouled on layin after no-call flop with Foster falling down . FT good 75-63

Tinsley baseline 8 footer.

[Solid D]

TO Spurs, JO finally misses 20 footer from rt. wing, rebound fastbreak Gino fouled going strong. 2 FTS 77-63

[milkyway21]

Rasho on his side, made Tim a "killer" in the 3rd Qtr. You are right Coach Carlisle, Tim is a killer! :lol :lol :lol
BTW, Parker is dating Eva???

[Experiment2100]

WTF does anyone know if Scott Pollard has malanoma or something.

[Solid D]

Duncan and Gino fight over rebound running down court, Tim wins it and fastbreak pass to Bowen in rt. corner, upfakes three attempt and takes it baseline to the hole for layin :wow

Timeout Pacers, things getting a little out of hand for them. 79-63.

[TwoHandJam]

Tim showing signs of life. Someone's reading the forum.... :)

[Solid D]

JO baseline spinmove good. Parker penetrates loses ball Rasho picks up and lays in.

JO spins away from Double good 81-67

[Solid D]

Bowen misses left corner 3 attempt. Tinsley amazing pass to Foster inside 2 pts.

2-3 zone by Pacers. Over the back Foul on Rasho on missed 3 attempt.

JO baseline 8 footer over Duncan good, again. 81-71.

Parker misses 3 from top. JO misses layup in traffic. Game getting tougher for both inside.

[Experiment2100]

Put in the zone breakers and end this game.

[Walton Buys Off Me]

Somebody wanna tell me why the Pacers have gone to a zone and Pop's got Barry on the bench? The Pacers are on a 8-2 run in the last two minutes.

Why isn't Barry playing tonight?

[Solid D]

Parker fouled. 2 FTs 83-71.

Pacers still shooting over 50% due to JO. Udrih in and Spurs playing 3-2 zone.

[Walton Buys Off Me]

Pop espleep at the wheel here with the substitutions.....

[Solid D]

Udrih, Parker, Gino, Horry, Rasho in.

Manu fouled on layin no call. Pacer ball.

Croshere 21 fter from rt baseline, good. 83-75

Fred Jones fouls Gino, controversy but Gino shooting FTs, misses 1 of them.

Spurs still in 3-2 zone. Harrison left baseline turnaround over Horry and 1. 84-77 misses FT

[milkyway21]

Somebody wanna tell me why the Pacers have gone to a zone and Pop's got Barry on the bench? The Pacers are on a 8-2 run in the last two minutes.

Why isn't Barry playing tonight?he was questionable before the game:flu-like symptoms. Glad Reggie didn't make treys tonight.. :angel

[Experiment2100]

Nice foul Rasho w/ 6 sec left

[TwoHandJam]

That is one of the worst end of quarters I have ever seen. I fucking hate it when we fall apart like that.

We get schooled by a rookie. Manu is not in the building, missing layups and FT's and then Rasho fouls.

FUGLY.

[Walton Buys Off Me]

Can Ginobili make a layup?

Spurs really need Barry tonight- Pop is giving away the game by not playing him. I could care less if he's not 100% but we have to get Manu out of there- he's useless tonight.

[Solid D]

Parker has ball to close out quarter, dishes to corner to Malik miss.

Foul over back by Rasho with 6.2 left in qtr. NOOOOO

1 FT of 2 by Harrison

Baseball pass to Gino on other end snowbird NOOOOOOOOO misses the layup. Couldn't control speed. 84-78 Pacers back within 6 to start 4th.

[Experiment2100]

Hopefully Gino can wake up in the fourth.

[boutons]

dammit, Spurs couldn't hold the lead again, starting 4th qtr up by only 5, which is 2 possessions.

[Solid D]

Lineups to start 4th.
Udrih, Gino, Barry, Rose Duncan

[boutons]

Pacers out ASTing, and out shooting. I'd say the game is basically a draw going into last 12 minutes

[Solid D]

Malik offensive foul going baseline. JO sitting right now.

JO now coming back in, I spoke too soon.

Johnson from corner, miss. Udrihpenetrates kicks to Manu Threeeeee! 87-78

[milkyway21]

get Rose out! put Horry back in! :wtf

[Solid D]

JO from rt. corner, 19 footer swish! Over Duncan

Duncan turnaround banker over JO yes. 89-80.

O'neal misses. Manu gets ball on wing at arc - pumps and goes to hole, twisting like plastic man and draws foul. 2 FTs 91-80

[xcoriate]

Seems like manu woke up, thanks for the commentry solid

[Walton Buys Off Me]

How annoying is Fred Jones? Total nobody making a face like he just smelt T Park's crotch every time he gets whistled.

"Who me, I'm Fred Jones"

[Manu20]

Nice commentary Solid D.

[Solid D]

Thanks.

Set play after timeout, Duncan curls off screen from top 18 footer yes!!!

[milkyway21]

Pacers=55% FG? this is not good!

[Solid D]

Duncan goes glass after Pacer bucket. 95-85.

Udrih, Barry, Bowen Horry Duncan

Jones from wing, good.

Pacers playing tight man D

Udrih misses flying layup attempt as shot clock is down to 1.

Barry fouls Foster. Misses 1 of 2 FTs. 95-88

[pooh]

Indy hanging in there.

[Solid D]

Barry tries to penetrate and Pacers pack lane. Barry throws away out of bounds.

Parker back in with Udrih. Horry rejects shot by JO going for layin.!!!!!!!!

Foster is borderline in position and draws charge from Horry. Foster is playing annoying but great ball right now.

Bad call on Malik Tinsley 1 of 2 FTs. 95-89.

[1Parker1]

JO is a ball hogger. He has taken 27 shots this game and counting, and made 11.

[Duncanoypi]

why is this game so late?...BTW, go spurs...hold that 7 point lead...

[pooh]

I like the fact that indy is hanging around still and not being blown out.

[Solid D]

Duncan on Spurs logo on left wing. Fake, juke, fake. 17 foot bank yesssss!

Rebound Udrih, to Parker down right side, fastbreak layup!!! timeout pacers.

99-89.

[1Parker1]

I like a backcourt of Tony and Beno, positive things always happen when Pop uses them on the court at the same time.

[Duncanoypi]

Udrih and Parker on the floor at the same time...Parker for a lay-up...gotcha! 10 point lead...89-99

[Solid D]

Indy is playing tough. Foster is really helping them on D.

It's a late game on TNT double-header. Sonics Wizards were 1st game.

[Experiment2100]

why is this game so late?...

Because it's on National TV and it's the second of a double header.

[pooh]

Poster dunk by JO

[1Parker1]

Damn why is this game so close? Indy is without SJ and Artest, and Reggie is having a bad game, should've been an easy win.

[Solid D]

JO or Carlisle got a tech called on him arguing that Duncan fouled him on other end on shot attempt.

Udrih shoots FT.

JO mad and goes in for Dunk past Duncan and over standing still Rasho.. :wow

Duncan now guarded by Foster misses baseline shot.

Reggie fouled. Misses 1st FT makes second. Reggie missed a FT, wow. 100-92.

Duncan blocks shot, Bowen rebounds and tries to call Time and refs call Jump ball. :(

Bowen and Tinsley.

[Experiment2100]

Pacers getting a little violent after a jumpball call. Is a run into the stands next?

[pooh]

Tins leaning into Bowen on the jump ball. As Collins said, it's getting testy.

[Duncanoypi]

Reggie missing a FT...Tinsley with a charge...

[1Parker1]

Manu missed layup, Rasho with a clutch offensive rebound and tip in!

[pooh]

It's time for Reggie...

[Solid D]

Tinsley fouls Bowen on jump ball jumped right into him.

Manu goes between two defenders misses layup but Rasho in position tips it in!!!

Reggie fouled by Bowen. 2 FTs 102-94

[Duncanoypi]

way to go Rasho....nice tip in!

[Solid D]

Udrih's out. Starters are all in for Spurs now.

Bowen fouled by Reggie. Misses 1 of 2 FTs 103-94.

[Experiment2100]

It's time for Reggie...

To foul Bruce Bowen he made one.

[Solid D]

JO on wing tipped away by Duncan then Stolen by Parker. Duncan throws away at other end. :( Timeout.

[pooh]

13 turnovers by the Spurs? No wonder Indy is still in it. As they were saying, JO looks tired, it's got to be Millertime now.

[Experiment2100]

That was an ugly turnover :bang

[Duncanoypi]

Duncan with a bad ass ...sorry...Duncan with a bad pass...

[Manu20]

Only 14 assists and 12 turnovers for spurs!!!!!!!!!!!
No wonder the game is close.

[1Parker1]

Horry should be in the game instead of Rasho right now.

[pooh]

The crowd sure bailed out...what...too late for some ppl?

[Solid D]

Indy is showing great resilience. Both teams have upped their interior D. More physical on ball D by both teams, also.

2:33 remaining. Pacers ball. Clearout for Tinsley on Parker down middle. Fouled by TP.

Tinsley misses 1 of 2 FTs. 103-95

[pooh]

well it was a good game, I'm proud my guys hung in there and didn't fold up. good game by the Spurs

[Solid D]

Great collapsing D by Pacers Spurs recycle ball out Manu from wing for 3 Yessss!

Rebound Spurs Screen by Duncan for Gino, struggling through pressure D but fouled on tough shot. FTs good. 107-95.

[milkyway21]

Manu's 3pt shot at 2:08: END OF GAME.
Spurs>Pacers
glad Jackson/Artest are absent though, we could have lost this game(50% FG of Pacers).

[1Parker1]

Giving up Pooh? Come on, if any1 else can pull a McGrady, its Reggie Miller :)

[Duncanoypi]

Ginobili for 3....goit it!....

[Duncanoypi]

i hope no more T-Mac on the floor tonight...where up 12...

[Solid D]

Tinsley fouled by Parker. Tinsley misses another FT makes second. 107-96 with 1:15 left.

Tough perimeter d - ball to corner, Gino pumps and drives elevates and fouled. Technical arguing call. JO also gets technical something he said during Timeout. Frustration. Not sure what call or non-call he's upset by.

[1Parker1]

On the bright side, Spurs won AND JO will donate 32 grand to the relief fund.

[ata]

Horry should be in the game instead of Rasho right now.
Horry is in foul trouble as Rasho is. Horry commited also season high 4 TO! Maybe is better to keep Rasho in.

[Experiment2100]

Giving up Pooh? Come on, if any1 else can pull a McGrady, its Reggie Miller :)

10 years ago

[pooh]

Not giving up, just realistic. If Reggie was hot all night, then yeah...I would be right in there, but otherwise, no.

[Solid D]

Gino makes 1 FT, Carlisle pulls JO and white flag goes up.

Manu makes second FT. 109-96.

Jones misses 3 from wing Gino rebounds.

Wilks in .

Wilks dribble drive left hand tough layup good!!!

[ChumpDumper]

Parker/Beno is for real.

Mark your calendars.

[pooh]

It was a good game by the Spurs, hats off to them.

[Duncanoypi]

We won...and Wilks with the last shot for the Spurs...JO with a lot to donate...good job JO...

[Solid D]

Pacers score and clock runs out. 111-98. Spurs win.

Timmy being interviewed by Cheryl Miller.

"Very Physical game tonight", Jeff Foster plays good D on me tonight" "We play against each other in the summer" (Jeff went to HS in San Antonio and college in San Marcos).

[Solid D]

That's it folks. Good evening.

[milkyway21]

i hope no more T-Mac on the floor tonight...where up 12...Reggie is the best clutch shooter in years than Tmac. But the Spurs cannot allow that to happen again tonight, sorry! :lol :lol

[boutons]

whew, glad we got that one!! when we meet them again 23rd April, they'll have SJax back. That will be tough for the Spurs, 3rd game of a road trip.

as the announcers said, a weird game statistically.

[milkyway21]

I am TIRED of this Spurs winning again... Who's the legitimate opponent for the Spurs winning the title now? :elephant :elephant I still cannot find a team to hate this year. :princess :lol :lol

[spursfaninla]

Though it was close during parts of the game, you just knew the Spurs had this one in the bag during just about the whole 4th. Once we got the lead back to 10, it was basically trading baskets, game over.

Exciting to watch, the spurs attack the basket without mercy! I am very happy to see that, rather than trying to jumpshoot over the zone opponents keep confounding us with.

Even when we won 62, we were not as offensively diverse as this team. We do have a great chance at a 60+ season If we stay healthy.

the rest of the league is going to truely fear us in the post season; our scoring differential is about the same as the 72 win bulls and the Kobe/shaq lakers during their steamrolling year.

[TwoHandJam]

Good win by the Spurs but the fg% we let Indy have bothered me. I was hoping for a more convincing win considering they're without Artest and Jackson. It's weird to see the Spurs win games with their offense.

[Manu20]

How about Manu he had 18 quiet points. If I recall correctly most of them came in the 4th quarter.

[Solid D]

Manu was in foul trouble in the 1st half. Manu got quite a few FTs in the second half with his dribble penetrations.

[Solid D]

The FT differential and 3-pt shooting was the difference. Otherwise, the buckets were dead-even. The Spurs held the Pacers to slightly under 50% in the 2nd half but they still matched the Spurs with .507 from the floor.

Pacers played great. They scored a lot off of iso's or one-on-one play. Their second unit scored off good passing. Hats off to them, and particularly to JO, Tinsley, Foster and Jones (from the perimeter).

[SlovenianGuy]

I bet you $10 bucks the team that has the highest FG% wins.

Indiana .507 37/73
Spurs .507 37/73

Should he win or should he lose?
:rolleyes

[smeagol]

Good job Solid D!

Solid contribution to the game blog thread.

[SpursWoman]

Indiana .507 37/73
Spurs .507 37/73



That's creepy... :wow

[boutons]

"highest FG%"

My $10 bet is invalid on a technicality, a grammar mistake! :)

Seriously, had Pacers shot the _higher_ FG%age, I would have paid up, but nobody took me up on it, nor was there a "higher" FG%age, anway.

This was really looking weird early on, with Pacers shooting almost 60% and behind to Spurs with under 50%, like a rare game that would be the exception to the rule that higher FG%age wins.

Spurs were damn lucky to get a win. It was a very evenly played game, because both teams played the game well on both ends of the court, plus the coaching.

The same night we are @PHX in 2 weeks, IND will be @MIA for their first game of 4.

[SlovenianGuy]

OK boutons, let's make a deal. You give 10 bucks for the victims of the tsunami. I think this would be fair. Anyone agrees?

[GoSpurs21]

"highest FG%"

My $10 bet is invalid on a technicality, a grammar mistake! :)Technically both the Spurs and Pacers had the highest and lowest FG% since they were the same %.