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Kobe did not get the ball for the final shot ... did not expect that one ... Lakers go to overtime. And Bynum does not play, does he?
Kobe did not get the ball for the final shot ... did not expect that one ... Lakers go to overtime. And Bynum does not play, does he?
Bynum is out with a bone bruise in his knee.
But of course is expected to play Thursday?
well my RRT prediction is off to a good start. I thought I would get a perfect record this time. Oh well.
We don't know yet. Bonner has missed 8 games with a bone bruise.
This is the latest on Bynum.
"I’m not so sure it’s just going to be one game, but it’s a game-by-game decision,” Jackson said before the Lakers faced the Rockets. “It’s a bone bruise, and sometimes those things take more than one game.”
The Lakers are about to gain a game on us. Rox are done.
Nobody made him play any D! The er had 1 foul the whole game, 1.You make a scorer play some d and he gets in foul trouble. Everybody fouls. Shooting jumpers wont get you to the line. It's the same for A'mare and Dirk, go at them hard the first 5 plays in a row they get into foul trouble and a little tighter on d when the player is on O gives him more pressure and as we all know pressure busts pipes!
Portland Trail Blazers 99, San Antonio Spurs 86: How no one fouled out of this game, I’ll never know
by Andrew A. McNeill
48 Minutes of
In the NBA, bad games are to be expected. You can’t play at the highest level every night and eventually, you’re going to find one game where every man is struggling. But enough about the refs, the Spurs didn’t play very well either in a 99-86 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers.
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It's over, thankfully. Move on guys. Hopefully the Spurs were just looking ahead to the Laker game on Thursday....
The Spurs will come out all pissed off against the Lakers and roll them again. Book it.
--No, Mr T. Does DeJuan BLAIR impressions, FOOL!
For some weird reason, I had a feeling the Spurs could drop this game tonight. I just never feel comfortable watching the Spurs play in the Rose Garden. It's just one of THOSE arenas to me....where they always seem to struggle to win. And when they do win, they barely squeak one out....
And very quickly, the Suns' chances of making the playoffs are going down the drain.
Unless we pull off that VC/Lopez/1st round pick for Josh Smith/Filler pipe dream trade...
"We’ve had a good year by playing aggressively and executing well for more minutes than our opponents, but tonight the Blazers did that,” Popovich said. “They sustained in the second half better than we did. They kept on working at it and their aggressiveness, their physicality, their execution wore us down, and we didn’t keep it up.
“They went out and took the game in the second half and we folded, to some degree.”http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...d-trip-opener/Portland hadn’t played in five days after back-to-back home-court losses, and Aldridge said the rest helped him.
“I told my teammates I actually had some energy tonight,” he said. “I felt fresh. It kind of showed.”
"He had a decent game, didn’t he?” Popovich said. “I think we held him to 40 or 35. I stopped counting.
“He was great.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011020122Aldridge has 40 in Blazers’ 99-86 win over Spurs
By Anne M. Peterson
As Portland forward LaMarcus Aldridge was leaving the court following the Trail Blazers’ 99-86 victory over the NBA-leading Spurs, San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich reached out to shake his hand.
Aldridge had a career-high 40 points along with 11 rebounds to hand the Spurs just their eighth loss of the season.
“He never shook my hand before, so I’ll take that as a good sign,” Aldridge said.
Aldridge is among several players, including Minnesota’s Kevin Love and Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers, who are awaiting word whether they will be going to the All-Star game on Feb. 20. Reserves for both teams, based on a vote by the league’s coaches, will be announced on Thursday.
Aldridge is averaging 25.7 rebounds and 10.3 point per game since Dec. 15. On Tuesday night against the Spurs he was unstoppable.
“I think we held him to 40,” Popovich said chuckling. “I stopped counting after a while.
Gary Neal’s 3-pointer for San Antonio tied it at 78, but Aldridge’s layup and Wesley Matthew’s scoop gave Portland its biggest lead of the game so far at 82-78 with 7:03 left.
Aldridge added a 21-foot jumper and Andre Miller had a layup to make it 86-78 before Tim Duncan broke the 8-0 Portland run with a turnaround jumper.
Aldridge’s bank shot with 3:33 left made it 90-80 and the Rose Garden crowd was on its feet. Portland led the rest of the way and Aldridge was treated to a standing ovation when he left the game with just over a minute to go.
“Tonight it just felt good,” he said afterward.
Matthews added 21 points for the Blazers, who snapped a two-game losing streak.
Manu Ginobili had 14 points for the Spurs, who were opening their annual “Rodeo Road Trip” while the AT&T Center hosts the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo. The next stop on the nine-game trip is the highly anticipated matchup with the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday.
The Blazers were coming off a lengthy break after losing 88-78 to the Boston Celtics at home last Thursday.
Portland started Nicolas Batum, who hurt his left knee in the first half of the loss to Boston. An MRI on the knee was clear, bringing a sigh of relief from the Blazers, who have been besieged with knee injuries this season.
Center Greg Oden, the No. 1 draft pick in 2007, who had microfracture surgery on his left knee in November and will miss the rest of the season. All-Star guard Brandon Roy had arthroscopic surgery on both knees on Jan. 17 and is out indefinitely, and center Marcus Camby had surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee on Jan. 20.
Roy and Camby were both at Tuesday night’s game. A Rose Garden fan held a sign proclaiming “Depleted Not Defeated.”
“Real good win for this team to beat the best team in the league,” Blazers coach Nate McMillan said. “Those days off I thought really seemed like they helped our guys.”
San Antonio jumped to an early 11-4 lead after Portland was unable to score for the game’s opening 4 minutes. The Blazers tied it at 18 before the end of the quarter on Aldridge’s dunk, then took a 22-20 lead on his jumper.
The Blazers kept up the pressure but San Antonio kept the edge with 13 points off rebounds compared to Portland’s two. Rookie center DeJuan Blair had 14 points and 11 rebounds in the first half as the Spurs led 52-47 at the break.
The teams weren’t able to build a lead of more than a handful of points in a tight third quarter. Portland went up 71-88 late but the Spurs answered with Ginobili’s 3-pointer that tied it for the start of the fourth.
“To go toe-to-toe with most teams, we can’t do that,” McMillan said. “We’ve got to outwork you, we’ve got to be smarter, execute. And if we do that, we play hard, we’re going to give ourselves a chance to win. Tonight, we beat the best team in the league.”
Earlier Tuesday, Matthews was picked for the sop re squad for the All-Star weekend’s rookie-sop re game. San Antonio’s Neal and Blair were both named to the rookie squad.
Notes: A helicopter that was readying to pick up Blazers’ owner Paul Allen and take him to his yacht went down in the water off Argentina this week. The two pilots were rescued from the water by Allen’s crew and treated for minor injuries. … Rookie center Chris Johnson was signed by Portland as a free agent on Jan. 24.
Being a Spurs fan in the Northwest, I went to the game last night. Here is what I posted on Club Spurs about the game:
Well I had fun at the game tonight, even though I saw yet another loss. Wow, I can't remember the last time I saw the Spurs win in Portland. It seems like it has been a while. Hopefully I am forgetting one. At any rate the Spurs have not been winning games in Portland as of the last couple years and obviously tonight was no exception. But like I said it was a fun night. I took a friend of mine (blazer fan) and my niece (blazer fan) to the game with me. My buddy was wearing a Batum shirt, my niece was wearing a Rudy jersey (we gave her a lot of crap about that), and I was wearing a Parker jersey. We looked like a bunch of Euros.
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As always when I see the Spurs game in Portland the first thing I do is go say hi to my buddy Paul Castro, the Spanish voice of the Spurs, great guy. He was just as stoked about our hot start this year as I was. After we got some drinks and something to eat for my niece we made it to our seats. It end up I purchased the tickets directly behind some seats a group of friends of mine share the season tickets to, crazy. So we sat next to another friend of mine (blazer fan) and his lady friend (blazer fan).
Lamarcus was incredible tonight. I don't know how we could have beat him. I kinda agreed with ace in the first quarter or shortly after when he already had three dunks, that they should have put Splitter on him. But that is a big gamble for Pop to make at that point in the game. Blazers are a good defensive team (outside of their defensive rebounding). Pop would have been giving up a lot of offense with Splitter on the floor over Dice and Blair. I also don't think that Splitter is good to put on the floor with Timmy. They both have a low post game, they can't space the floor for the shooters or penetration. LaMarcus had a career night, 40 and 11, props to him and to the Blazer defense. LaMarcus, Batum and Miller will be this team's future if their GM, Cho, knows what he is doing.
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Speaking of the Blazers. Joel Prizbilla is shot. Its unfortunate to see. I have always thought he is a great guy. I was sad when the Blazers outbid the Spurs for his rights. I hope I am wrong and he comes back next year with a new contract somewhere in the NBA, and has a great season. But I just don't see it happening.
I think the bright spot for the Spurs tonight was the play of my boy, Chocolate Stout, Dejuan Blair. It was fun watching him pad his stats tonight dribbling the ball off the rim a couple of times before he scored. Double double in the first half, not bad.
The disappointments were Manu and Parker and maybe Pop. Manu had a decent game but he didn't light it up like he has been this year. Either it wasn't his night or Wes Mathews was locking him down. Maybe some of both. Tony Parker was straight out owned by Miller. Miller was posting him up, and hitting pull-up jumpers on him. Meanwhile Tony disappeared offensively. He only drove the ball to the hoop a couple of times and he missed a layup, something that almost never happens in his game. The move that Pop made that I didn't like is that they started switching the pick and roll when Hill was in the game. Dice and Blair were having trouble defending Lamarcus. I don't see Hill, even with those long arms, having any more luck. If only the Red Rocket were playing, maybe things would have been different.
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Beat the Lakers and I will forget all about this one. Thanks.
What a 4th qtr meltdown..... actually the Blazwers had alot to do with it but a meltdown nonetheless!
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