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He has a very close bond with his daughter. I remember last year after a playoff game with the Nuggets, he was making funny faces at her in his press conference and then she came running over to him when he left the podium.
My quick recap from another board.
Um, yeah I can give you some insight. The Spurs were amazing!!!
Tim Duncan was aggressive. Tony Parker was aggressive. Manu is pissed and decided we will win this series.
A few quick notes:
Tim Duncan did not wait for the double every time down the court. He would often get the ball higher in the post and drove to the basket.
Parker did not depend on the pick and roll. He was dedicated to finding holes and penetrating.
The pick and roll was not the same as we have seen it in previous games. They would set up the pick and roll away from the ball. Parker would start to drive, pull the defense and the pass it to Manu who then would run the pick and roll with Duncan or kick out when neccessary.
Ball movement was the best that I have seen this season. Games like this for the Spurs remind me why we have won championships in the past. Not only did we have great kick-outs which is the standard, but extra passes on the perimeter, as well as interior ball movement. Just great team basketball.
Bowen shut down Peja, again.
Thomas and Oberto did a great job against West.
Scott made poor coaching decision in 3rd to leave Chandler in with four fouls. Picked up his fifth half way through. Nail in the coffin for their interior defense.
62% shooting in the first half for the Spurs.
There is definitely more, but I have to go to bed.
Go Spurs, Go!!!
He has a very close bond with his daughter. I remember last year after a playoff game with the Nuggets, he was making funny faces at her in his press conference and then she came running over to him when he left the podium.
I've been taking at work for the two losses in NO, and I've been telling people, "just wait, when Tim is healthy, he'll eat these chumps for breakfast. if amare and shaq couldn't slow him down, west and chandler better watch out."
call it an excuse, or call it an explanation, but Tim was sick those first two games, so the Hornets got off easy. look how tim plays when he's well.
I remember that well, it was a wonderful sight to see him swoop her up in his arms as he left the podium.
I was really worried about it too. It really looked like he tweaked it trying to save that ball from going OB. And it looked like he was stretching it out as they went into a commercial break.
is it true or just a joke?
bless barry.
Good game, refs, good game. It's tough for us to beat a team who gets away with murder on the court then we breath on them and they go to the line....
But you guys did shoot lights out - I'll give you that. Good game, but can you shoot that way in the hive? Tune in tuesday night, turn up the sound and get ready to hear a real home court advantage.
Yeah Chris Paul's pushoffs, and Chandler and West's moving picks were keys to the Spurs getting a lead.
Huh, what, they weren't called??
Oh...
Funny you say "real home court advantage" when NOH was about 26th in the league in attendance this year.
Sadly, that stat is correct. But if you check out the stats after the "bandwagon" got rolling, probably around mid-jan. to present, I'm sure you'll find it a wee bit higher. Anyway, it's loud as . South Lousiana fans have a reputation for being the drunkest loudest fans in the country. It's tough to win in the hive.
No, it's tough to win in Utah. NO needed owning the Mavs to get momentum, we only needed to get healthy and recover from an actually challenging first-round. An it'd be 3-1 if Bowen had moved to Peja in Game 2. Peja's 25 points averaged to like 30 NO points when you take into account the spacing he earned his team. Get Bowen to cancel him out AND outscore him(yeah I said it, Bowen actually outscored who he guarded in 2 consecutive games), and you are ed. And our twenty point win came with taking out our key player with 8 minutes left, and Byron Scott decided to just ing pad his players' stats.
And something funny I read was how the Spurs are collectively only 3 years older than the Hornets. I didn't do the math, but when I heard Peja was 31 AND the oldest player, I expected like a 5 year difference. If everyone on are team is like 34, then what gives. Sorry, I'm just too lazy to do the math. I only know RH=37, BB=36, TP=29, MG=31(maybe not, he could be 30), TD=31, MB=29, everyone else being like 34. I guess Ian got averaged in, him being 21 really helps out. My half-ass math puts the Spurs at 32.79, but I'd expect the Hornets to be around 28, so what gives? I know the NBA wouldn't be wrong about the Spurs age since they poke fun at it constantly, but I thought there would be more of a disparity.
Theres only one hive, and it was in Charlotte...It's tough to win in the hive.
Ya i'm not sure how bees feel about the swamps.
And won with authority as was given to us in the crescent city...we gave back what we got....I told me seat mates....they must 'crush their spirit' ..now.
Let us hope that is so and the force is with them. Either way, I tear an orange ticket from the book...hoping ..with 'em all the way...win or lose.
You just had to get out of your temporary home of Oklahoma. Trust me, we felt your pain.
CFB fan here....Hook 'em all the way but if I can't get that...LSU all the way. My two favorite teams.
Nothing pains me more than having to hate Kevin Durant. Seattle...fine. Oklahoma. No.
Lights out? You can tell yourself that if it makes you feel better. The Spurs shot 30% from the 3P line, and 70% from the FT line. They just shot an adequate percentage on their jump shots. If they had really shot lights-out, it would have been a total blood bath.
Tim and Tony cut the Hornets to shreds in the paint. And yes, those will continue to be high percentage shots in New Orleans. (A mud-dauber nest isn't properly called a hive, is it?)
The calls? Funny how they guys who were supposed to be too tough to ever need to flop are flying all over the court looking for whistles now. It's a when the refs are calling things similar on both ends of the court.
Clinic
Getting it yet?
who called the game last night Harlen or Marv?
GO CAVS!!! If you pull a series like you did in the ECF last year, then props to King James. Man if the Celtics don't get to the Finals I will laugh my ass off, but I don't think it could really be entertaining any other way. We all know what a Spurs-Cavs Finals looks like.
I see game 5 will not tip until basically 10 on the east coast . Living on the EC These start times are brutal. Why the is the NBA so west coast oriented???
Because people on the west coast would never be able to catch a game at 5 pm.
If anything, the EC games get screwed on the west coast, because weekdays are tricky for 9-5 people to catch games until they are later in the evening.
I should clarify, I meant if there was a Lakers game on a Thursday at 5 pm (8 pm eastern) it could hinder the number of people that would show up because of such an early start time on a weekday.
Also, start the game 5 blog, you've been awesome luck for the Spurs so far!
I just wish they were on maybe 1 hr earlier, tough when you have to get up at 6 am and the games are over at 1 am in the east. Missing a game is never an option for me, so i just suck it up with lots of morning coffee.
"Also, start the game 5 blog, you've been awesome luck for the Spurs so far"
Just did it.
The Spurs rode that Big Easy 'til the Mississippi started yawning last night.
Just did it.
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