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Kevin Love had a great game. He seems to understand the game and he is a smart, fierce player.
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Posted by Kevin Love
WEDNESDAY'S EPIC GAME
It was crazy. It was my first going up against Tim Duncan. And to see him work and all his moves and how he's a finisher around the bucket. I've always looked up to his game while I was growing up. He's a ... serious player. He's the greatest winner in the past 10 years. And far as best player goes, it's probably him.
So going up against him, and learning from him -- there were teaching points last night. He hit a 15-footer off the glass and I was running up the court and said 'Man, what can I do about that?' Well young fella, you can't do much about that, to be honest with you.
He's as good as advertised. And Tony Parker last night went absolutely off, though. Our game plan last night was to have our guards go under the screens and make him shoot contested jump shots. But he was making them. We stuck to our plan but he had one of a night.
Tony Parker was unbelievable. He had 55 points and I don't care who you are or who you play -- 55 points is 55 points.
With Tim Duncan, we went into two overtimes, and I would have thought, before I looked at the stat sheet thought maybe he had 15, 18 points and he ended up having 30 points and 16 rebounds. That was the quietest 30 and 16 I've ever seen. He just goes out there and produces and gets it done.
We had the game in our hands, but they kept hitting big shots down the stretch. We only had 10 turnovers, had 35 assists on 47 shots. It was a good night for us, but we couldn't close it out. We needed just one more shot, one more rebound and it would have been our game.
You have to give credit to them. They really buckled down the last few shots and made 'em.
I can't say that I was surprised by the intensity of the game because we talked about it in the game plan. They were 0-3 for the first time in 1974 or 1975. We talked about how they were going to come out like it was Game 7 of a playoff series. They didn't want to be 0-4 for the first time in ages.
We came out with the same intensity. We matched them, got them down in the third quarter. Like I said, we had our chance to win the game. It was an intense game going into double overtime, we didn't close it out. We're 1-3, but we have a chance to be pretty good. We could be 3-1 right now, we could be 4-0, but we need start putting things together close out games and get some Ws.
Kevin Love had a great game. He seems to understand the game and he is a smart, fierce player.
Good find Ducan228. That was a good read. The guy speaks the truth. Duncan's stats were very quiet, but for good reason.
Yeah, Kevin Love he was pretty good in that game.. He was pissing me off most of the night with his hustle plays and that meant he was doing great.. lol
Duncans the only player who can put up a quiet 30 pts and 15 rbds
I enjoyed watching Love with Duncan. (Had we lost I might have felt different). I thought he played well and didn't seem the least bit intimidated by who Duncan is. To hear Love say he grew up looking up to Duncan and that Duncan is "probably" the best player he could have been 'star struck'. The bank shot he mentions was a fun moment.
I didn't even realize the amount of rebounds / points he had. Man he's so in solid.
Thanks for posting.
Even if we all hadn't been amazed by what Parker was doing it's easy to miss Duncan's game. It's easy to take it for granted because he's pretty much been giving us 20 and 10 his whole career.
Spurs fans are so spoiled.
Tim will always be the best player ever in my heart.
Love was the reason we went to OT..we had the game won at 2 points, but Love's rebound/hustle plays kept giving them 2nd chances, and they came through with them..he's going to be a good player..
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