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Just one of those nights.Toss the tape move on.
Stop embarrassing yourself
Just one of those nights.Toss the tape move on.
Um, how long have you been a Spurs fan? Every year they've won the le people have made posts like that.
Doesn't make them any less stupid!
Haha seriously. Look at the defending champion Lakers. They've had many ty losses this year. The only bad losses the Spurs really had was the Hornets and Magic game.
Hardly. The Lakers didn't shoot 33% for the game and had a 4th quarter meltdown. That kind of thing happens.
This loss by the Spurs was much worse.
Case open.
Oh this was a ty loss. But they happen.
The Spurs have scored 25 points in the 2nd half... 25 !!!
25 !!!
and here come the chicken littles with the sky is falling again.I will sip my soda while waiting for the fire pop,and trade manu or parker or bonner threads now.
Right, I disagree with you so I must be a "worse" Spurs fan than you.
Some of you just can't help but to make childish personal attacks.
i need cutewizard to come in here and make sense of all this....
That's actually pretty good for not running an offense.
Give it up man. Normally elite teams lose about 5 games a season because 3 or so key players stink up the joint. In our case, 5 or 6 key players had a horrible game. In a way, it's better that it happened on the same night. I fully expect Pop to chew them out and for the Spurs to win out the rest of the RRT.
do you sense the league is setting us up.
today was the lakers and knicks day and they didn't want 45-8 to ruin that game.
Again, what other contender has a 25 point half? Is the sky falling? Did I say the season was over? Fire Pop? Kill Man?
No.
Make of it you will.
No other contender has 40+ wins either, or the best road record, or the best record against .500 teams. Like I said, other contenders normally drop several games because a few of their players suck ass. We just happened to drop one in -tastic fashion where almost everyone sucked ass.
Having a 25 point half may be a unique achievement for the Spurs, but it has no other implications on the big picture. All this means is that our lousiest game is lousier than the other team's lousiest game. It doesn't matter if the Spurs play a 25-point half once in 50 games.
I disagree. And so does Pop I gather, from his comments lately about our state of play. IMO This is not just standard coach talk, as we really haven't been playing well lately.
The big picture isn't necessarily limited to our record, and things don't necessarily have to fit some preconceived pattern.
Pop's concern about our play is a whole different matter. As I mentioned in another thread, I'm concerned about Manu's long-range shooting, Hill's road performance and our turnovers. But all of those were true even before this horrible game. This one game has done little to affect that big picture.
I maintain that such stinkers can happen to anybody, including the best teams in the league. Since you keep asking for examples of other contenders stinking it up in similar fashion, here are a couple.
Last year, the eventual champion LA Lakers scored a mere 23 points in the 2nd half in a 26-point home loss to the Nuggets.
LAL-DEN box score
The 2005 Spurs championship team scored 28 in a half vs Houston and only 67 for the whole game.
SA-HOU box score
Your other concerns about the Spurs are valid, but let us not make too much of this one game.
LOL, not going to, but I put it to you that I'm not the one making too much of this game. I just asked a question and was showered with insults. Thanks for your sensible respectful reply however.
Yep, it comes with the sports forum territory, but I'm always amazed how some folks regard any contrary opinion as some kind of personal affront. That's the nature of the internet I suppose.
It's all good, buddy. Like you said, it's the internet, you'll find everything from gui ude to SolidD on the same site!
Some post-game quotes.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011021120Holiday scores 27 to lead 76ers past Spurs 77-71
The 76ers' chances of winning when they score less than 80 points are usually pretty slim. Even slimmer when it happens against the best team in the league.
But Philadelphia played perhaps its best defensive game of the season and wound up with a confidence-building victory as Jrue Holiday scored 27 points to lead the Sixers to a 77-71 victory over the league-leading San Antonio Spurs on Friday night.
Spencer Hawes added 13 points and Elton Brand tied his season high with 17 rebounds for the Sixers, who defeated the Spurs for the fourth consecutive season in Philadelphia. The Sixers hadn't won a game when scoring less than 80 points since a 78-76 win at Detroit Dec. 9, 2003. And the Spurs were 12-0 when holding opponents below 90 points this season.
"Defense won us this game," Brand said. "We got hands in their faces and made them take difficult shots. Great win for us. It was due to defense. The Spurs are known for winning games like this. We stuck with it defensively and got it done."
Despite shooting poorly all night, the Sixers were able to fend off the Spurs and remain in the seventh spot in the Eastern Conference playoff race. The Sixers have won eight of their last 11 overall.
"What an incredible display by our guys defensively," Sixers coach Doug Collins said. "I've never been more proud of them. That was a grind-it-out type of game."
Tim Duncan had 16 points and 13 rebounds, while Antonio McDyess added 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Spurs, who had their four-game winning streak snapped. Gary Neal scored 11 points and DeJuan Blair had 14 rebounds for San Antonio, which was trying to become the sixth team in NBA history to begin 45-8 or better and the first since the 1996-97 champion Chicago Bulls.
The Spurs shot just 33 percent from the field (27 for 81), including 3 for 17 from 3-point range.
"I think it set offensive basketball back a decade or so," San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said.
The Spurs had been 4-1 on their season-high nine-game road trip dubbed the "Rodeo Road Trip," when the rodeo takes place at the AT&T Center. The trip takes 17 days and will take the Spurs on 8,187 total miles in the air.
"Down the stretch, we made a couple of turnovers and missed some shots," Popovich said.
After Duncan's layup got the Spurs within 73-71 with 2:06 remaining, neither team was able to convert on its next possession with Manu Ginobili missing a wide-open 3-pointer from the top of the key.
San Antonio had another chance to tie it, but Ginobili took an off-balance jumper from 20 feet which was contested by Andre Iguodala.
"Andre was great on the defensive end," Brand said. "He was so active, all over the place."
Holiday knocked down a pair of free throws with 19.9 seconds left to give the Sixers a 75-71 advantage. Holiday earlier hit a long 3-pointer to give the Sixers a 71-67 lead with 4:43 left.
"Holiday was the difference-maker in the game," Spurs forward Richard Jefferson said. "When he was open, he was able to knock down shots."
But Duncan responded on San Antonio's next possession with a runner in the lane to close the gap to 71-69.
Tony Parker shot just 3 for 10, while Ginobili was 2 for 10, and 0 for 5 from beyond the arc.
NOTES: The Spurs closed the first half with a 12-6 spurt to tie the game at 46. ... Popovich has the most tenure among NBA coaches with the resignation of Utah's Jerry Sloan on Thursday. Popovich, in his 15th season, has 780 career wins. ... Spurs F Tiago Splitter was inactive with a strained left hamstring. ... Philadelphia begins a three-game road trip Saturday at Minnesota before heading to Memphis and Houston. ... The Sixers donned red jerseys to support heart awareness.
It's been so long since I've seen Matty closing a game... and today he reminded me why the I never want to see him out there... the two offensive rebounds he gave up to Elton Brand in the last few minutes almost make me punch something...
(And before the Bonner fanbois come around, I'm not putting this loss on him)
Couple more quotes, hit the link for the whole piece.
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...cky-in-philly/Spurs still rocky in Philly
Jeff McDonald
...“(Holiday) was the one guy, when he was open, that was able to knock down a shot,” Richard Jefferson said. “I think he hit more jumpers than our entire team.”
..."Both teams kept motoring and kept after it,” said Popovich, whose team dropped to 4-2 on its rodeo trip. “But neither team could hit a damn shot.”
..."The thing about our team this year, somebody is normally going to hit at least long enough to get someone else going,” said Jefferson, who was 1-for-8 with three points. “That didn’t happen tonight.”
..."(Holiday) started from the get-go with curls and stuff like that,” Parker said. “Sometimes, in the NBA somebody gets hot and it doesn’t matter what you do.”
..."We can’t do any worse than we did tonight,” Parker said.
o man, wats up??
lol
oh we lost....
just one of those games yes?
its nice to lose once in a while, lets move on
lol
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