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Best manu game ever
Also, Manu's career-high.
Both teams so much fun to watch in one of the most fun eras in NBA history. Also, RIP Bill Walton.
Best manu game ever
This is the game that solidified him into the all-star game in 2005.
Manu was only average around 15 or 16 pts and it was hard to justify him to be an all-star. This game ends the discussion.
This was definitely a fun game to watch. Manu had his career-high 48 points, but what gets overshadowed by Manu's big night is TD having a monster game of his own with 30 and 19 that night.
I remember this like it was yesterday. Saturday game in Australia. I was on school holidays heading into my senior year in high school. Worked my Saturday shift at the local convenience score. Couldn’t wait to get home to watch the game on DVR without knowing the final score.
Good times.
Back when players could do anything other than drive and kick out to three.
Manu freakn Ginobli
Ginobili and Beno with fantastic games. Great to re-watch that one.
thanks for posting, i just skimmed through the entire thing.
man that dunk in OT.
fun game to watch.
Beno Udrih played quite a bit in this game.
The most fun Spurs teams where the 1970s teams. Highest scoring teams in the league.
Gotta disagree, his Game 5 against Seattle in 05 and his Game 6 vs Phoenix in 07 were the two best games of Manu's career
Wish I could find that full Game 5 vs Seattle. 39PTS on 15FGA JFC
I’m so depressed that game was 20 years ago. Still remember it so well.
05 was such a nice run. Up there with 2014 for me.
I love these games and * * do I feel old but sorry - Manu's greatest game was a couple years earlier on Nov 6 2003 when he carried a team without injured Tony and Tim to double overtime against the Shaq (35 and 20 in 50 mins), Kobe (37 pts in 49 mins), Payton (16-7-6 in 48 mins), Malone (15 and 19 in 43 mins)Lakers. He was a monster. The biggest 33 pts 12 rebs 7 assists anybody has ever put up.
Eh. We lost. I watched that whole game. That year was a depressing season start to finish. Half of our 2003 heroes including Jackson and Claxton were gone or retired and Jason Hart was our best PG not named Parker. Our bench sucked that year for the most part and Rasho was as mid as it gets for a starting center.
It was pretty much a parade of free throws but most of them were well deserved. Reggie Evans and Danny Fortson were bone headed punks and flagrantly dirty.
High scoring uptempo ball is overrated, but it was definitely more impressive back in the days when it wasn't a chuckfest of threeeeeeeeeeeeez.
90s-00s basketball is definitely more of my vibe, the kind of ball I grew up with. Inside-out, halfcourt execution, actually caring on defense and not just hoping to get a rebound and one pass and a chucked three with 19 seconds on the shot clock. Height and size actually mattered. Skinny 6'3" ish guys who couldn't make the NFL either had to bulk up or go home because if you couldn't drive to the rim and bang with the trees, you couldn't play in the NBA even if you could make 40% on teh threeeez. Today's NBA allows that archetype to be an all star and that's disgusting.
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Honorable mentions for best regular season games of all-time.
1998: https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/game...1/spurs-pacers Spurs win 74-55
1997: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...185-story.html Spurs win 64-59
I was a little too young to remember those but I do remember vividly the 67-65 W over the Miami Heat in Miami in the middle of the inaugural rodeo road trip. Feb. 2003 some time in the championship season. The Spurs were tired and played offense like dogcrap and even Bill Land & Sean Elliott both had a bad sore throat especially Sean on the broadcast. Everyone was just ready for the allstar break. I believe Timmy got like 25 or 30 rebounds or something crazy like that. IIRC, Steve Kerr after the game when interviewed compared it to a girls basketball game and Timmy was the tallest girl, lol.
That 04-05 squad might have won 65 games if they could have stayed healthy.
That's right, TD had 17 points, 25 rebounds, and 5 blocks in that game.
Yeah but fortunately that year we got injured in March and not mid April like in 2011.
Those games without Tim and Manu down the stretch were rough but we did win a few. Notably, going a perfect 15-0 at home against the Eastern Conference, 38-3 overall at home, and winning the Seattle home game and those two back to backs on the West Coast in double OTs. TP, Barry, Beno, Horry, even Sean Marks really stepped up. The defense was already stout but it was even better with Nazr Muhammad over Malik Rose. The dude couldn't score anything other than a dunk but he was as solid as it gets for a defensive starting center.
The whole team was bruised and dead tired but at least the defense saved us. Winning those three road games after the ASG against playoff contenders on the West Coast was pretty epic. That Portland game where Manu made the game winning 3 in overtime was really the first major clutch-moment highlight of his career imo.
Nice finds!
That was literally Manu's game, though.
A pick and roll maestro that took either Layups/dunks or 3 pointers. Add to that the foul baiting and the eurostep and he is the epitome of today's NBA. He trully was THE innovator, way ahead of his time. Folks don't really understand just how pivotal Manu was in basketball history.
It trully is a travesty how underrated Manu is. You say an undeniable truth like Manu being better than guys like Reggie Miller, Allen Iverson, D-Rose, Westbrook and Harden and you get laughed on. Such a travesty.
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