dougp's game thread: spurs @ houston

[dougp]

Ah, to go to a Spurs game - haven't been to one since the crew came in from SA! Was quite fun, got there around 6:45pm and got to our seats - very happy with the view! Unfortunately, we were on the side with the cameras, so our chances of being on TV were ridiculously low. Slowly but surely we were surrounded by Rocket's fans, but most were good sports and generally nice. We had a few comments back and forth in good nature. The bad part was there was an annoying pair of hecklers - a father & son combo. They were going on and on the whole game, telling Adelman to pull out Artest - when Artest was their leading scorer! LMAO

On to the pictures:

The Traitor!


The Red Rocket getting ready for takeoff.


Leanin' like a cholo.


Chip and Bruce are discussing how he's going to torch the Rockets, going for 100pts.


He hit probably 90% of his pregame shots - probably thought it was going to get him some playtime!


Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out.


"Sean, GET OFF THE DAMN PHONE!"


"Hi, I'm the biggest flaming homer in the NBA."


For duncan228.


Brucie getting ready to unleash the beast.


Our view.


My beard is better than Pops!


Part of my poster.


"He wants to do WHAT to me?!"


Yao's greeting his new team mates. He thinks he can get out of the first round with them.


Running out of witty things to say.


"Hey, let me try Finley's shot!"


Another for duncan228.


"Where's Eva?!"

[dougp]

Bonner's thinking, "Damn, is Gooden going to get my minutes? Guess I need to rebound more!"


Fabs, "Damn I shouldn't have shaved - I know Pop would get offended and not let me play!"


Timmy, "You want me to do WHAT?! I'm sorry Pop, I don't think I can hold back much longer - people on SpursTalk are starting to think it's serious!"


"I really need to talk to Stern about renaming it Hightime!"


"Hey Shaq, this is how you shoot a free throw!"


Great Wall of Texas? C'mon, let's pickup Yao!


"WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME RON?"


"Let's get this over with guys!"


"Wanna go get some of that shrimp that Charles wouldn't eat?"

[xtremesteven33]

is that PJ Carlesimo in that Yao pic??


haha

[dougp]

is that PJ Carlesimo in that Yao pic??


haha

LMAO, that does look like him.

[timvp]

is that PJ Carlesimo in that Yao pic??


haha

It probably is him. Carlesimo was Yao's personal coach when he was preparing for the draft. He worked with him for months prior to Yao joining the Rockets.

[NRHector]

Nice pic.

[duncan228]

For duncan228.

Another for duncan228.

Thank you.

The pics are wonderful. Thanks for sharing the first hand experience, what a great game to be it.

[timvp]

Oh and great pictures and very cool sign. Did you take a picture of the whole sign?

[dougp]

Oh and great pictures and very cool sign. Did you take a picture of the whole sign?

No, but I can later. I have posted what it looks like, it's in my albums.

[completely deck]

Good stuff!

[Spursmania]

Very very cool. Great pictures. Thanks for posting.

[dougp]

For LJ:

[timvp]

Pretty damn cool

[dougp]

Pretty damn cool

Thanks - I really should have changed it to Black/Silver/White instead of the Red/Blue/Tan ...

Got it printed out @ FedEx for $41 total.

[duncan228]

I love the sign. I may have to get one.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Nice work, mate!

Every time someone puts up a game thread like this I get severe "let's hop on a plane to SA NOW!" pangs... but I have responsibilities.

I think my favourite thing in the world is watching the Spurs win at the AT&T Centre.

[dougp]

I love the sign. I may have to get one.

I can send you the TIF if you want, and I can convert it to the B&W for you - it actually looks pretty neat.

[duncan228]

I can send you the TIF if you want, and I can convert it to the B&W for you - it actually looks pretty neat.

Thanks, I'd like that. And I think I'd prefer it in black and white. Appreciate it.

[Fernando TD21]

Great pictures. What camera did you use?

[ECZ]

great pics man

[Brazil]

Nice pics !! thnaks for sharing !

[Spurs Brazil]

Thanks for all the pics

[spurastic]

Appreciated the pictures! Looked like there were tons of Spur fans in the stands as well as the Baseline Bums.

[dougp]

Great pictures. What camera did you use?

I have a Kodak Z712IS - 12x optical zoom, 7.2mp. When we were going in, they asked to see it since they don't allow telescopic lenses in to the games. I'm waiting for my lens extension to come in which will allow me to put the telescopic lens on it, which I could smuggle in pretty easy to the games, but the amount of zoom + crappy lighting would make for some really blurry pictures.

Appreciated the pictures! Looked like there were tons of Spur fans in the stands as well as the Baseline Bums.

The BBs were on the opposite side as the Red Rowdies - before the game, the Rowdies went over and were harassing the BBs. It's amazing that they say no vulgarities when several of them had nooses around a stuffed Coyote toy, which should be considered. But all things aside, they got their asses handed to them by the Spurs!

[sonic21]

nice pics