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Badass!
Manu being Manu against Denver, gotta love it.
Badass!
ESPN already hoping we lose Saturday, check out the typo in their game recap:
"San Antonio improved to an NBA-best 22-4 while dropping the Nuggets to just their second loss in 13 home games."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=301216007
lol Ducks
What would ST be without ducks...
Thank you !!!!
What happened guys, i couldnt watch the game....
please fill me in
thanks!
A better place?
What would ST be without ducks...
Watch Tony's reaction on the back when Manu takes the charge... he goes from hands up to dibelief in a millisecond
Manu did that celebration right in the faces of all those front row people who had been jumping up and down for joy about 3 seconds earlier. Gotta be a great feeling he was having just then.
Morans on twitter can't even spell his name right.
Manu... just makes bball so much fun to watch.
BTW, tune in to ESPN right now they're about to do the "Top 10" plays after commercial, and he hinted J.R Smith's dunk will be number 1...
++++++ please! that would be great!
http://nbaplaybook.com/2010/12/17/ma...BA+Playbook%29
The Denver Nuggets-San Antonio Spurs game had a wild finish that featured Carmelo Anthony scoring 4 points in under 1 second and a crazy Manu Ginobili double clutch lay-in. The wildest moment however was on the Denver Nuggets’ final possession, and it wasn’t because of what happened on the offensive end:
As the ball gets to the trigger man, Carmelo flashes from the weak-side block to the ball side elbow, getting the ball in his sweet spot.
As Carmelo Anthony makes the catch and faces up with Richard Jefferson right up on him. Manu Ginobili has both feet in the paint, but because he is actively defending his man as he is within an arm’s length of him (one of the ways to avoid a three second call).
In a post earlier this week, we talked about timing your double team, not going too early or too late. What Manu Ginobili did here is exactly what I meant by it. Ginobili doesn’t double while Carmelo is facing up, because if he does, he would leave his man wide open with Anthony in position to make a pass. As soon as Anthony puts his head down, that’s when Ginobili takes off.
Ginobili does a fantastic job of beating Anthony to the spot, getting both feet well outside of the restricted area.
With his head down, Anthony doesn’t really see Ginobili in front of him and he tries to force his way through him. Ginobili takes the contact, and the offensive foul is called. Here is the play in real time (hat tip to the CBS crew for the video):
Just great instincts and timing here from Manu Ginobili getting himself in position to take the offensive foul.
Manu's wild circus shot to win the game was number 7 on ESPN's "Top 10 plays", while some wack hockey plays were above it, and J.R. Smith's dunk was number 1...what a joke.
^ 10/10
you gotta love timmy's jumps on the bench after the call
ESPN just showed that the Spurs start of 22-3 is the 2nd best 25-game start in NBA history. 1st was the 08-09 Celtics with a 23-2 start.
He is Manu Ginobili.
Post-Game.
“I knew Carmelo was going to attack the rim,” Ginobili said. “We were not going to let him take that open shot. Antonio (McDyess) made him a driver and I was in the right position. It’s my job to be there and try to draw a charge. When he jumped I knew I was going to get it because I was right outside the circle.
“I definitely didn’t want to make any doubts for the refs. A guy that explosive, it’s hard to stop and pull up. I knew I was right out of the circle and he got me right in the chest.”...Anthony, who led Denver with 31 points, thought he had the game-winning play, not Ginobili.
“No, obviously what I think and what they called are two different things. I thought I made a great play. I took advantage of how Richard (Jefferson) was guarding, attacked. I don’t think I could’ve got a better look at it than that,” Anthony said.
“It’s tough, you know, just going out there playing as hard as we played out there and to lose the game on something like that.”...Official Haywoode Workman waved off the basket for an offensive foul.
Nuggets coach George Karl was crestfallen over the call.
“It’s a play that I think goes either way a lot,” Karl said. “It seemed like the referees, they like to hit us with tough calls. It was a tough call. Good play. Good basketball. Melo made a great play. It’s close. I’ve seen it called both ways.”
But at the buzzer?
Told that TV analyst Scott Hastings said he hadn’t seen that in his nearly three decades watching NBA basketball, Karl said, “I’d probably agree with Scott.”
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said: “I never even saw it. I just saw Carmelo barreling to the rim and I’m thinking, ‘Oh my god.”’http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2010121607“He’s a stud,” Popovich said. “He’s been a compe or, he’s won championships here and overseas and he’s been MVPs of things. He scored the two free throws down the stretch, then he scored the winning bucket and then he took the charge. That pretty much says it all about what he’s capable of doing.”
Look at Parker on that play. He looks like he's not happy.
Watching Carmello's celebration cut short by Manu's human whoopie cushion maneuver won't soon be forgotten. Another great play in a career crowded with great plays.
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