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wow what a game..
spurs allowed the lakers to come back and only won from a lucky play by mason. duncan and kobe just exchanged points.
wow what a game..
farmar makes a difference not only on his play but just minutes. a tired player cant make jumpshots. its the same thing if the spurs didnt have finley,hill and bonner or whatever. spurs would have trouble adjusting too
They didn't just exchage, he (Kobe) brought the Lakers back into the game.
Great game guys, I'm out...time to go cry in my beer.
Rematch in 2 weeks.
off topic but this is why i hate it when people call the spurs boring i think we produced 2 of the most exciting games in 08 and now in 09 (so far)
see 2005 nba finals. or games that end up 82 to 69
You can't have it both ways. Like I said if Farmar is healthy who gets the minutes. Does Ariza still play and cover Parker or does he sit. Is Phil going to play 12 players during the whole game. Like I said you had your core guys Bryant,Gasol,Odom,Bynum so I don't think that was as much of an issue as you play it up to be. Your acting like your key players were out which they weren't.The main weakness of the Lakers is your PG's are not that good.
I am glad when Bynum goes into offense mode, his defense and rebounding suffers. He has to pick either.
It's funny to me that people don't realize how good Tony has been in the clutch this year. Better than any other Spurs statistically.
Neither Manu or Tony did anything in the 4th tonight.
It's a team. Some guys step up on some nights and some guys step up on others.
not really. His moves are limited, rigid, and no finesse.
How clutch has Tony been against the best teams in the NBA this season?
It's a travel and here is why.
After the double team on Kobe, on the pass, Ginobili steps to the free throw line and establishes his position. It's Bonner that is shading him towards Ginobili.
Ariza attacks the middle and tries to split the double. The travel call was because when he picked up the ball, he took 1 step with his right foot. He then tried to take his 2nd step on the drive but his left leg hit Ginobili's left leg. Ariza's left leg did not touch the ground and once his right leg came down, that's the travel right there.
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Great game gents, gonna go outside and put a silver shirt on my black dog and kick it.
Have a good night.
Great game gents, gonna go outside and put a silver shirt on my black dog and kick it.
Have a good night.
Also, getting a call in a regular season game doesn't mean as much to me as getting a call in the playoffs. Lakers get the BS calls against us in the playoffs. Tell me when that evens out in the playoffs then I might lay off.
and not just that - Parker seemed to shrivel up in the last part of the 4th qtr. I'm a Parker fan, so I'm not hating on him. I can't argue with whether or not Mason's shot was a lucky shot, but his release is so quick that I think he's suited for those last second shots. Did Gasol fade or was there something I missed in Pop's defensive adjustment on him?
It's not TP's ball handling, it's his decision making. Twice within a couple of minutes in the 4th, he left his feet with no clear shot and no one to pass to and ended up throwing the ball away both times.
If people wonder why why Pop loves JV, it because he never does stuff like that. Maybe it'll start to rub off on Tony someday.
farmar was part of the rotation. powell never plays, along with radmanovic so the same rotation would stay just replace farmar vujacic walton with powell, yue radmanovic. like i said what if the spurs had to go with vaughn instead of hill and bowen instead of mason. its a big deal!
+1 to that
Didn't you notice that Lakers D was locked on manu and tony? I mean Ariza defended tony well. Thank god we have mason.
Well, our role players really did well against the Lakers (Hill, Bonner, and Mason). I don't think we will have a problem with scoring (unless of course we decide to choke our fourth quarter leads) but we do need another big if we want to beat the Lakers in a 7 game series.
TP kept trying to take it to the rack with all the Lakers bigs packing the lane, and not even looking for the kick out. I like the aggressiveness, but sometimes TP seems unaware of where his help is.
Blame the coaching staff for not getting the ball to Manu at all at the end of the game. The way he completely destroyed Kobe at the end of the first half and again at the end of the third quarter should have been capitalized on. No matter, the Spurs got the win without the big statement. It didn't have to be that close, though.
I got kind of pissed with the pound to Tim late O calls. Both Manu and TP missed on Tim rolls. It as if Tim wasn't expecting it both times.
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