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Tim Duncan
on the injuries piling up at point guard
"I've been willing to play point guard for about 12 years now. I might finally get my chance."
I'd rather see TD running the point than Mason
Post Game Quotes (Lakers Game)
Gregg Popovich
On today's game - "Good win for us obviously against the best team in the West. Particular satisfaction in that, but it's just one game. I'm just glad we played well enough to win."
On Manu Ginobili - "He's been playing All-Star caliber basketball for about a month and a half now. He's taken over the team. He's done a great job."
On Manu Ginobili not backing off when the game got a little bit physical - "Manu never backs off in his life. He's won NBA championships, and world championships, and Olympic championships. He's a veteran winner for a long long time so he's not going to back off from anything."
On the team playing without any true point guard - "I give a little bit of credit to Manu. He kept us together. We just switched off between going to him and going to Timmy. They played together well. A little worried about everything that's coming up now without George. It's going to be difficult to sustain that and have Manu play the point in all these games coming up. So we'll have to figure something out."
On the team's play this season - "I think contribute that to the character of the guys. We've had a pretty mediocre year up until the last month and a half and they never gave in. They just continued to try to get better. Now they are playing their best basketball. I feel badly for them that the injuries are hitting them this late in the year, but they seem to be able to ignore it and continue to play."
On Tim Duncan - "It was great to see him be creative again tonight. He found ways to use the left hand; he used the jump-hook; he shot jumpers. He did a good job of varying his offense. That's when he's at his best when he does that."
Manu Ginobili
On today's win - "Unbelievable victory. I would say like two months ago it wasn't even in our wildest dreams to win a game by 18 against the Lakers. And now we're doing better. We're playing hard. Our defense really stepped up. We made the shots we had to make."
On the Lakers - "They're a solid team. They have so many weapons. Today, they missed big shots. They are always coming back. They're going to keep fighting. They're going to keep playing. They hustle. They play hard defense too. They are a tough team."
On whether today's win would help the Spurs in a potential series against the Lakers in the playoffs - "I don't think so. Playoffs is a totally different story. I don't think it would really count. Actually it would really make them more upset. Playoffs, everybody starts from scratch."
Tim Duncan
On the state of his team - "A real good stretch for us. Unfortunate with the health problems we're having right now. Guys are getting banged up and injured right now. All in all just playing good basketball and getting some good wins on the road."
On the injuries piling up at point guard - "I've been willing to play point guard for about 12 years now. I might finally get my chance."
On the importance of today's win - "It's huge for us. We're not even worried about the playoff race. We're just game to game worrying about the wins, who we're playing, things like that. Huge win for us to stay where we're at. As I said we're just going to continue to build on it."
Phil Jackson
On today's game - "It was a flat game from the middle of the second quarter on. Defensively we had a hard time getting the game where we wanted it to be. We had a pretty good start and the game looked like it was going to swing in our favor, but they got things going their way and it stayed."
On Lakers bench play today - "It was unfortunate for us. We couldn't get them going tonight and we had to mess with our minutes for a while. Things were not going well out there so they could not get a consistent run at times. They played for shorter minutes. Six and five [minutes] so it was a consequence that they didn't really get in the flow of the game. We had too many things going on out there that were not right."
On Lakers offensive play today - "They took away a lot of pass opportunities for us and they did a really good job that way. Our reactive passes and subsequent reactions to that I thought were appropriate. As consequence we got out of rhythm. Pau was terrific all day and I actually probably wore him down a bit more than I wanted to."
On Ron Artest 3-point shots - "He has not found a consistent shot. He has not been able to get consistent with that 3-point shot right now. He has been pretty good during the year."
On possibly facing the Spurs in the playoffs - "We helped them out today, but I don't think that will be an end result every time. They played pretty well so we will see."
On how to run of the offense better in games like today's - "It is how you run your offense. A lot of today was standing around like Pau and getting shots in isolation and there are not a whole lot of second chance opportunities from that. Some of the rhythm shots are opportunities but we didn't make them. We did not make the opportunities for ourselves."
Kobe Bryant
On what went wrong today - "We just missed too many opportunities."
On this game foreshadowing physical play because of the potential postseason matchup - "It don't matter. We don't care who it is, whether it's San Antonio, Portland or Oklahoma (City). We're going to play our basketball and it will be chippy in there."
On how the Spurs were able to pull away and hold the lead throughout today's game - "I think they controlled the tempo today. This was their tempo, from the beginning. You know, we can play both styles. But we didn't make shots tonight. I think, defensively, we did a good job. There were stretches with opportunities to get back in the ball game and we just couldn't put the ball in the hole."
On if his injured fingered affected his shooting performance - "No. I just missed a lot of opportunities and I can live with that. I'm going to get those looks in the playoffs and I'll take my chances there."
Pau Gasol
On today's game - "We lost a little bit of control of the game in the second quarter when it got a little chippy there, a foul, technical… Then we battled hard in the third and couldn't really catch up. In the third, we got close to them then again a couple key shots, a couple key turnovers and once again after all the battling and fighting you see yourself down ten. So it was a tough game."
On the Lakers' play in the post today - "I think we used the post pretty well tonight. More than usual and I'm happy about it. But again we always have got to try to get that balance and get the ball to move side-to-side. So once the ball moves it might come back, it might not."
On what the Lakers have to do better if they face the Spurs in the playoffs - "Just make sure we contain the pick and roll better… I don't know how many times they ran the pick and roll with (Ginobili) and obviously he's very good at it. So we've got to make sure we stop him from getting in the lane and creating all those plays."
Luke Walton
On what he has to do to contribute more - "As a bench player you have to find a way to get active in the game besides that but it can be difficult and tough a lot of times just throw the ball down to Kobe and the ball down to Pau and they make plays. You've still have to somehow to get in there."
On his first game back from his back injury - "It felt good. The back felt good out there. My timing was a little off but that will come, that's nothing. But it was fun to be back out there."
Last edited by duncan228; 04-04-2010 at 07:46 PM.
Tim Duncan
on the injuries piling up at point guard
"I've been willing to play point guard for about 12 years now. I might finally get my chance."
I'd rather see TD running the point than Mason
Why would you interview Luke Walton over anyone but "the machine"? Did they just draw straws to pick the third Laker player they would talk to? I know he just came back from an injury, but he's never been important... EVER.
It got chippy because the Lakers don't like it when they don't get everything in their favor and get to blow kisses to the crowd.
I'm just glad the Laker fans stuck around until the end.
duncan.
Oh yea i'm really really interested on what luke walton has to say!!
From Duncan's 'The Psychoanalysis of Tim Duncan', February 1999. The piece is on the first page of the Duncan Forum.
...but I am no big man. This is merely where they believe I should play because I am tall. I am really a point guard; I'm just a little bigger than everyone else is.
From Duncan's 'The Psychoanalysis of Tim Duncan', February 1999. The piece is on the first page of the Duncan Forum.
"Tragic Johnson"
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...30,full.columnBefore the game, Gregg Popovich, the free-wheeling Phil of San Antonio, acknowledged looking at the standings and wondering who they might play ... like the Lakers in the first round if they fall to No. 8.
That, of course, made him the first coach ever to admit it.
"They're full of it," said Popovich, laughing.
"They're the ones that say, 'We don't care who we play.' They're full of baloney too, because we're all trying to hide from the Lakers in the first round.
"I mean, really, who do you want to play in the first round? 'Oh, the Lakers.'
"What an idiot you'd have to be."
Lakers don't seem to give much credit to the opposition. They only lose because of themselves and the refs (in their minds.)
Derek "Use My Daughter as Leverage" Fisher confirmed as much yesterday in the interview ABC showed.
Agreed
I'd rather see TD running the point than MasonMason running the point makes me feel bad in the stomach...
since tim demands to be playing point guard do we make him the point forward and go big
1-tim
2-manu
3-RJ
4-blair
5-ian
Nice quote by TD
I'd love to know why Pop kept ing stinkass 'Garret' on the roster over Cedric Jackson when we have an overabundance of wings and we were down Tony Parker. And then, boom we're down George Hill now as well. And ed over with no point guards....
CJ could have stepped in and made a HUGE contribution down the stretch here and taken the pressure off Mason and Manu. ing HOF coach my ass......
And I'd rather see dried baby poop plastered on the wall than read your drivel.
I'd rather see TD running the point than Mason
I...don't follow. What on earth has Cedric Jackson done that's so amazing that warrants ill will towards Pop for choosing Temple over Jackson?
None of these players are good. The only guy who has shown glimpses of promise is Hairston, maybe even Mahinmi to a lesser extent.
GasolStop Manu?"So we've got to make sure we stop him from getting in the lane and creating all those plays."
Well, um....for starters maybe the fact that he is a point guard who handles the ball extremely well? I don't know.. call me crazy but I've noticed every team has a few of these and they seem kind of important.
And from what I saw (don't know what you were watching, or even if you were) he logged a few very nice games where he contributed scoring, assists, steals, and even a few rebounds and blocked shots.
Cedric Jackson also had some defensive skills, as noted in the below link. Now tell me again why fans shouldn't be upset that Pop kept "Garret" over this guy? What does Garret bring to the table that Hairston, Bogans, Mason, and Manu don't?
http://www.poundingtherock.com/2010/...cedric-jackson
Ridiculous Upside: Cedric Jackson to the Spurs...
Scott Schroeder from RU(who always does great, great work BTW) gives us some details about our new backup[?] PG.
Defensively, as you'd probably assume, is where he's best. I'm told that, according to Synergy, he ranks as the top defensive point guard in the D-League - obviously why he's the Spurs choice as a call-up. He's not very big (6'3", 190) but he is very athletic and plays the passing lanes quite well - he has great instincts.
Defense? Music to these ears.
The same writer also said:
"He's also a pure point in the same way Mo Williams is a pure point, if you catch my drift"
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