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I hardly call 6/17 shooting torching you.
thats cool--here's to your pops
I hardly call 6/17 shooting torching you.
Can't wait to read timvp's recap, I want to know Pop's reasoning behind taking out Toll, seemingly right after he stole and dunked. I know Bonner did well, but I still can't fathom why.
I want to know Pop's reasoning behind taking out Toll, seemingly right after he stole and dunked.
ducks wants to know why to
Dude, your dad is 81. You gotta be careful about that kind of stuff.
Late surge propels Spurs past Rockets
By Mike Monroe
Ordinarily, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich deplores his team’s perceived advantage when an opponent is playing short-handed.
Backup players motivated by opportunity, he reasons, often are more dangerous than starters battling boredom.
But in a young 2008-09 season that has robbed him of two-thirds of his team’s Big Three scoring cadre, Popovich figured he could make an exception to his rule. He learned that Rafer Alston, the Houston Rockets’ starting point guard, had been suspended and would miss Friday’s game at the AT&T Center.
The Spurs took advantage and beat the Rockets 77-75 in a dramatic comeback victory that moved the Spurs to 3-5 on the season.
Outscoring the Rockets 12-0 in the final 4:20 of the game, the Spurs scored what easily ranks as their biggest victory of the season, over the team that came into the game with the best record in the Southwest Division.
Down by 14 with 7:34 remaining, the Spurs outscored the Rockets 21-5 the rest of the rest of the way.
Tim Duncan’s running hook shot with 59.7 seconds left gave the Spurs their first lead of the second half. Roger Mason made one of two foul shots with 1.8 seconds left.
Houston’s Ron Artest missed a 3-point shot just before the final buzzer. When it skidded off the back rim, the Spurs raced off the court with a huge win.
“That sort of evens it up a little bit in some ways, I guess,” Popovich said before tipoff of Alston’s suspension, “but I just want to play well, no matter who is out on the court. We want to play a certain way for 48 minutes, and we’ve had trouble doing that.”
The Spurs had no trouble ratcheting up the defense against the Rockets. For the third straight game, they held their opponent to fewer than 83 points.
The Spurs’ offense has been their undoing recently, and it almost was again Friday. In the final 7:20 of the third period they scored only four points.
The last seven minutes of the third and first six minutes of the fourth was some of the most pitiful offensive basketball in Spurs history. Which is saying something.
Good thing the Rockets helped themselves to some of it, too.
Boy was I wrong, who knew that brining in Tmac and taking the ball away from Aaron Brooks would halt all scoring?
Nice job by the Spurs players outhustling and outplaying my team.
TStink must have gotten some bad river water, he was horrible.....wanna trade him for Ginobli?
DD
Guess that feeling I had was right on the money.
Wow... good call here.
it may have something to do with the defense of mason. give the guy a credit.
Felt like the Spurs just stopped going to the rim for their drought, and the Rockets just got denied during theirs. I'll have to go back and watch again to know for sure, but I seem to remember counting 13 jump shots with no pass before it during that sequence; I think the Spurs hit the first two and one by Duncan a few minutes later.
And lakers lose to make it an even sweeter night but sadly kings lose to suns by 2
George Hill was playing out of his mind... I'm really enjoying watching him play!
i think it's because of the successive offensive rebounds by landry and hayes. rockets had 4 offensive rebounds in 4 possessions. but looking back, it's a good thing pop stuck with bonner, who responded with a big 3 when the game was on the line.
What's funny is that when Bonner came into the game, the guy that he was defending scored like four or five times in a row, and it was a different guy every time IIRC. Bonner didn't play bad defense, the guys just made baskets. To his credit, Bonner didn't get down about it and never looked back at Pop. He just kept playing. Even after that horrible foul call against him, he just kept hustling and playing his game, and he was ready when the team needed him to hit a shot.
What does IIRC mean???
If I Recall (or remember) Correctly
Experience should tell any knowledgable NBA fan that Tracy McGrady is one of the most difficult people to defend in NBA history, and any Spurs fan should know how dangerous he is. He's close to unstoppable when his game is on. I've given Mason credit for the effort, but I'm pretty sure that there's something wrong with the guy or the Spurs just caught him on a bad night. Seriously, if someone giving up four inches to TMac can shut him down like that, I don't thnk I've ever seen it.
There will be more opportunities this year to find out if it was a fluke. I assure you that TMac won't forget. If you don't mind, I'll hold off dubbing Roger "The Tracy Stopper"© until he does it another time or two.
Wow spurs won D=
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