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Chip looks like he really wants Cliff's sandwich
From left to right...
Top Row: Charles Gaines, Chip Engelland, Mike Budenholzer, Brett Brown, Salim Stoudamire, Cliff P (media department)
Middle Row: Fab, Hill, Manu, Bowen
Bottom Row: Newman, Chad Forcier (assistant coach), ??
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What, Louis, you mad because you got caught so quickly?
Maybe because Dirk is actually German.
I was disappointed seeing that. When most of the arena was on their feet cheering, they actually stuck out like sore thumbs. I did see Matt on his feet and Coach Pop as well. Guess my brain lives in a Pollyanna Universe where I think that the Spurs should've at least pretended to be supporting the Stars. David and his sons were sitting in the box behind the Stars bench and even David was up a few times clapping. Wish some of the other guys would follow his example a bit.
Okay, so I went to my first WNBA game and had a blast. I sat right behind the Detroit bench and gave Lambeer grief all throughout the game. The biggest difference is the game is just slower off the dribble, otherwise its pretty fun. Front row seat, finals game, getting under Lambeer's skin, and the extra niceties that come with being courtside made it well worth the $110 for 2 tickets.
$110 damn! i spent $5. haha. but i spend a butt load when i go see the spurs in the po and finals.
Silver Stars open new learning center in South San Antonio
San Antonio Business Journal
Even though the San Antonio Silver Stars are still working to bounce back from Wednesday night’s Game 1 loss against the Detroit Shock, the team is still making time to support the community.
The Women’s National Basketball Association and the San Antonio Silver Stars have opened a new reading and learning center on Thursday in the city.
The new center is located at the San Juan Community Center at 2307 S. Calaveras in San Antonio City Council District 5.
Councilwoman Lourdes Galvan, Spurs Sports & Entertainment President of Business Operations Rick Pych and local players from the Silver Stars officially unveiled the new center on Thursday.
The WNBA along with its parent organization the National Basketball Association created a national network of reading and learning centers. Each center has been stocked with donated books, educational materials, computers and software.
Spurs' future? Bad Boy in it
Buck Harvey
The Spurs had reason to come to the AT&T Center last night. They needed to make sure there really are Finals games in even years.
So they bused over, skipping practice as if on a field trip. But the Spurs weren't the NBA figures of influence on this night. All they did was watch while Bill Laimbeer drew a tech, jutted out his lower jaw and followed a pattern.
He won.
It's only a matter of time before he tries this against the Spurs.
Laimbeer says he wouldn't mind someday, because that would mean he would “add a zero to the end of my salary.” But he also says he's content right now coaching the Detroit Shock, and he acts content.
While his players warmed up Wednesday night, Laimbeer attempted backward free throws. Bored with that, he then tried to hit the overhead scoreboard, but that wasn't any fun, either.
Some scoreboards have an opening in the middle for a camera, and Laimbeer likes to try to get a basketball stuck in the opening. The AT&T scoreboard is without one.
Laimbeer says this is his way of doodling. He says he's thinking while he messes around on the court, and the Finals opener suggests his methods work. Then, the Shock harassed Becky Hammon, took a double-digit lead and held on with some poise.
For Laimbeer, it's routine. He is coaching the Spurs of this WNBA era; he has already won two WNBA les, and this is the third consecutive year he's taken the Shock to the Finals.
It's not unusual for a former NBA player to coach women. Michael Cooper, the former Laker, coached the Silver Stars' previous opponent.
But Cooper was never seen as a future coach when he played. Laimbeer was, and Sean Elliott remembers this.
Then, in the early '90s, Elliott spent one of the worst years of his life in Detroit, but he admired everything about Laimbeer. Elliott thought he was the leader of the Bad Boy era.
So why have others with less experience and persona as a player landed NBA coaching jobs? Why is Vinny Del Negro in the NBA, for example, and Laimbeer continues on a dynastic run in the women's game?
“It will take a daring NBA owner or general manager,” he said, “to hire someone from the women's game.”
It might just take someone who pays attention. Laimbeer's teams play with an at ude (“If people call us arrogant, well, I don't really care”). And he's put together his teams with a knack for when personnel needs to change.
Part of this need to change is because of Laimbeer himself. He can push, sometimes too hard, and there's a shelf life with some of his relationships.
Still, it's as if he realizes this. He's reshaped the Shock several times, with a sense of what a locker room needs. And maybe no change was bigger than this season. Then, after Cheryl Ford fell to injury, Laimbeer opted for a 38-year-old mother of three.
It was classic Laimbeer. He says winning is what drives him; he wonders if he could tolerate an NBA team that wasn't committed. So without Ford, his chances lessened, he made a few calls.
He opted for what he compares to a mid-season baseball trade. He found a team, Washington, which wasn't going to make the playoffs, and he offered some younger talent for Taj McWilliams-Franklin.
“That trade,” said Katie Smith on Wednesday night, “put us here.”
McWilliams-Franklin scored 19 in the finale of the Eastern Conference finals, then she added 24 against the Silver Stars. When the Silver Stars tied the game late with a rush, with the building loud, McWilliams-Franklin snuck a pass to a teammate for the go-ahead score.
“She plays the way I did,” Laimbeer said. “Smart. And slow.”
Laimbeer also coaches the way he played. He gets under the skin of some people, sometimes with a comment, sometimes with mere body language. The fans booed him Wednesday as they booed no one else.
But no one can say he isn't good at what he does, and eventually the league that pays more money will pay to get him. Then, he will see the Spurs again.
you have a point.
But Duncan did not play for Virgin Islands but for the U.S. team...
Because when he committed to the US team, there was no such thing as a Virgin Islands team.
Just to finish the story: When the US Team went against the VI Team in the qualifying Duncan choose to sit out.
Tim Duncan was milling the decision for some time and then decided not to play against his Native country, the Virgin Islands. "It was a personal decision, of course," Duncan said in a statement released by the team. "I did speak with the coaches and some of my Virgin Islands friends, and I came to the decision that it was the best gesture to make and the right thing to do, and that it felt right in this situation."http://media.www.yucommentator.com/m...e-458869.shtmlThe American Olympic qualifying team did not need him as they demolished the Virgin Islands 113-55.
Didn't Duncan get some heat for sitting that out to? I mean geez, really you are not going to make everyone happy no matter what.
like?
Finley and TP with some popcorn...
If I remember right, everyone respected his decision. And they certainly didn't need him to win the game.
Good luck tonight, Stars!
Let's go stars
vaughn thinks if he goes to all the stars games they won't cut him
Good lord Detroit doesn't miss.
Stars can't make a shot Shock can't miss.
Series is close to being over.
They just need to chip away at this and get it under 10.
I have to agree with the color woman, I have no idea why Laimbeer hasn't been offered a coaching job in the NBA. His gameplans and teachings from what I've read are very good.
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