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The other part of my point is the eyeball test. When the Lakers lose, and you watch them, do they look done? Or a better way to put it is, is the other contenders "bad" as bad as the Spurs "bad"....
BTW, sorry for yelling.
Are you saying the Spurs have less blowouts or equal blowouts over the past couple years than the contenders?
How are you missing this point when I have requoted and underlined this?
The other part of my point is the eyeball test. When the Lakers lose, and you watch them, do they look done? Or a better way to put it is, is the other contenders "bad" as bad as the Spurs "bad"....
BTW, sorry for yelling.
Like the blowout loss to the Clippers?
I think you're still emotional and i'm worried about you.
I think CD hacked you sons.
Merry F'ng Christmas
i forgive you for yelling, son.
The Spurs won 10 straight before this. I suggest you cool down. The Spurs are relying on Quinn and Neal as main backups to Parker, Ginobili and Jefferson. The perimeter depth has been affected thanks to Hill and Anderson being out. If I told you the Spurs would be 25-4 before the season started, you wouldn't believe me. I wouldn't believe it myself.
You know that's one of Bump's trolls right?
In Jamstone mode right now. Answering trolls seriously, tbh.
Fair enough
+1. This was more of a "trap game" than any other one to me. 2nd game of a back to back, against a team who had lost 8 of their last 9 games, and the Spurs' last game before X-mas....
Looked to me like the ass was running the score up a bit. Playing Bass, Howard, and Turk when the game was well out of hand, but hey..what can you do?
Spurs tired because they played the night before? I'll be honest..with the way the Spurs have been playing..I thought they would win.
happens...
true..just look at the Lakers..lots of stinky lately.happens...
Some post-game quotes.
Gilbert Arenas helps Magic beat Spurs 123-101
By Antonio Gonzalez
Gilbert Arenas found a handwritten note on his chair in the locker room Thursday night from Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy that read, “Go out there and play your game. Just push the ball.”
He did.
And, finally, so did the Magic.
Arenas had 14 points and nine assists off the bench, and Orlando cruised past San Antonio 123-101 to snap the Spurs’ 10-game winning streak and give some promise to a remolded Magic team that had been desperately searching for a spark.
“What it does is, I think, it shows us what’s possible,” Van Gundy said.
Arenas added six rebounds while backing up a sick Jameer Nelson, fellow newcomer Jason Richardson had 15 points and the Magic snapped a skid of eight losses in nine games to win for the first time since they orchestrated two blockbuster trades.
Dwight Howard also had 29 points and 14 rebounds in another dominant performance for Orlando, which shot 59 percent from the floor and had a season-high 30 fast-break points.
“For a team that hasn’t practiced yet, really, to go out there and perform the way we did just shows how much talent we have in this room,” Arenas said. “A month from now, we should be dangerous.”
Tony Parker scored 16 points, Tim Duncan had 12 and the NBA-best Spurs (25-4) dropped their first game in almost a month. San Antonio looked very much like a tired team after beating Denver a night earlier and nothing like the one that has dominated the first third of the season.
“It was bound to happen,” Duncan said.
Not that the Magic were complaining.
They were free-falling even before the two trades Saturday brought Arenas from Washington and Richardson, Hedo Turkoglu and Earl Clark from Phoenix. They gave up Rashard Lewis, Vince Carter, Mickael Pietrus and Marcin Gortat, plus a 2011 first-round draft pick and cash, in the deals.
What they have left has been the great unknown.
Arenas was once a strong MVP candidate with Washington but his career fizzled with knee injuries and off-the-court problems. He pleaded guilty to a felony gun charge last year and was suspended 50 games for bringing weapons into the Wizards’ locker room.
The 28-year-old has talked about Orlando being a fresh start. And maybe here’s the first sign of that potential: He came into the Magic’s practice facility late Wednesday night and didn’t leave until he made 500 shots. He even had a crowd that formed along the floor-to-ceiling windows that line the court.
“I was coming just to get 100 up. But then there was a crowd out there. I was like, ‘That’s pressure. Now I got to go out there and shoot some more shots,”’ Arenas said, laughing.
The initial success for Orlando’s revamped roster might not make things any clearer.
Arenas, the centerpiece of the Magic’s reconstruction, again came off the bench but played heavy minutes. He entered with the Spurs leading by six in the first quarter and didn’t come out the rest of the half, leading an outpouring of offense to help Orlando take a 62-53 lead at the break and go ahead by 20 after three quarters.
Nelson, who said he wasn’t bothered by Arenas’ minutes, was dehydrated with a stomach ailment and needed to have intravenous fluids at halftime. He started the second half but was pulled for Arenas just after a minute into the third quarter by Van Gundy and didn’t return until the game was a rout.
Arenas again said after the game that Nelson was the starter and he was fine coming off the bench. Van Gundy had said matter-of-factly that Nelson would remain the starter, but he left the door open for change Thursday night in comments that will surely fuel fodder for a point guard controversy.
“Could it change?” Van Gundy said. “Sure it could change.”
The Spurs could do little to stop the Magic show.
Among the highlights: Arenas stole the ball and had a full-court outlet pass to Richardson for a dunk. Turkoglu rekindled his backdoor, alley-oop pass to Howard. And J.J. Re and Richardson were sinking 3-pointers on cue.
The Magic pulled away 97-67 heading into the fourth quarter on a flurry of fast-break points. San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich cleared the bench before the final period began, and for the first time since Dec. 1 the Spurs were spectators in a loss.
NOTES: Spurs G George Hill did not play for the fourth straight game because of a sprained right big toe and is expected to miss a few more games. … Celtics assistant coach Lawrence Frank was courtside scouting for Boston’s game against Orlando on Christmas Day.
On another note, Orlando shouldnt get too excited, because they are going to get waxed by Boston on Christmas Day...
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...per-for-spurs/Magic’s Howard too super for Spurs
Mike Monroe
...“(His offensive game) didn’t look as good tonight because he didn’t have to do it, but I’ve seen him in other games throw that left-handed hook up there, and that’s where you know he’s added to his game,” Popovich said. “Tonight he just didn’t need it, so I didn’t see it.
“In other games he’s done that and showed the real expansion of his game.”
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http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...rs-win-streak/Magic shoot down Spurs’ win streak
Mike Monroe
...Popovich had a pregame warning for those who believed his red-hot team would have an easy time against a team that seemed a far cry from the bunch that played in the Eastern Conference finals last May.
“I hope we hold these guys below 130 points,” Popovich said. “With the talent they’ve added, they’re really going to be able to score the ball. I think we have to go out and just try to stick with them as best we can.”
Spurs with 8 players in double figures lolwut
Not only that, but the BULLS that won 70 games and the LE that year wouldn't have beat this Magic team tonight if they're shooting 60+% from everywhere.
Orlando had on of the most fortunate games I've seen in a while. Scrubs were knocking down circus shots.
It's humorous to me though, that this time the Magic beat the Spurs - only after the Spurs came off a back-to-back W from the fast-paced Nuggets team.
In all reality, did we REALLY expect San An to go undefeated the rest of the way? Really? Did we?
They already beat Orlando on their first meeting... so this one's a giveaway. Were still no.1 anyway!
Magic with 18 fast break points at half, scoring 97 points at the end of the 3rd, Arenas and Turk finally playing good. All reasons why Spurs lost.
I'm pretty sure Pop gave up on this one almost instantly. But a loss is a loss.
Anyone seeing a pattern here?
Spurs win 12 and lose 1.
Spurs win 10 and lose 1.
I'd prefer if they won 10 and lost 1 like they've been doing recently.
The Spurs did cut the lead to 14 in the fourth quarter so he wanted to make sure and put the game away. Nelson had been sitting most of the second half in foul trouble and Arenas was definitely winded. Plus, it was a non-starter Red who was raining down three's there at the end.
25-4 and still the best record in the NBA...NEXT!
GO SPURS GO!!!!!
Celtics lost so Spurs remain the best team in the NBA. I'm hoping the Lakers can lose to the Heat, as it is looking like Lakers are going to lose at the moment.
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