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Memphis announcer is ridiculous, on the neal shot, stating that shot needs to be reviewed....
Videos ! I need videos of this game !!!
Memphis announcer is ridiculous, on the neal shot, stating that shot needs to be reviewed....
Memphis has been pretty calm and poised this series; but they're still a relatively young team with very little playoff experience. I wonder how this will affect them? They have to be feeling pretty down right now. They had the game, and the Spurs just snatched it away from them. They have to be feeling a little less confident now.
Splitter 3-3 no miss
watching the video looks like they thought #3 (Hill) going to take that 3.
nice execution. Neal is at least a yard away from the line
Pop typically being a selfish, cantankerous ass in the press conference. It's high time he moves on if he's so miserable in his job.
We've learned some things so far in this series, Splitter can help, and Neal is clutch and they need to run some plays for him ala Allen and Miller. The guy can hit those shots.
lol some memphis re must have asked him a dumb question
Did you see that Grizz player thwack Manu in the head at the end of the game when Manu grabbed the final rebound? It's not wise to make Manu angry, Memphis!
NBA TV bag asked him about the play and then followed up with who was the first option. Pop asked him if he was a coach, and he said he was just wondering. Pop told him to keep wondering. NBA TV and the league. Showing that .4 commercial when it looked like the Spurs were done was ing unforgiveable.
This is a GREAT post.
Good win from the Spurs. I think the Spurs have found something tonight, found their real selves.
Durant beats Denver on his own ...
A bg reason why the NBA is in such dire financial trouble is because they up their marketing big time. They have had a team who exemplifies all the qualities of the throwback champions who the fans with money identify with yet they completely ignore them and do stupid like that commercial. The league is re ed, they've had something great and just on it yet wonder why the white middle aged fan with money doesn't relate to the league anymore.
really!
next time we win they will be showing the the game 5 .2 commercial to Memphis
i agree , my man splitter and neal were the heros of todays game besides super manu whos just amazing! but what im saying is once duncan saw splitter stopping gasol and memphis bigs it gave him something to work on
when you have bonner letting everyone score on him while he looks a pop like" its not my fault pop i swear, please dont take me out" oh my god i just want that dude to drop dead. anyway splitter and neal play like ing men and thats what we need im sorry if i offend the gay community but Rj and bonner play like some big flamers!!
I have less trouble with Bonner's minutes when he's getting shots. It's a good adjustment. I'd rather see more Splitter, but I'd rather see less Dice as well.
there was an important layup by Hill at the end too...
Did you see that Grizz player thwack Manu in the head at the end of the game when Manu grabbed the final rebound? It's not wise to make Manu angry, Memphis!
It was Gasol, quite dirty move if you ask me
Memphis cant defend high pick and roll at the top of the key
We have to call that play more often
Thats how we got to the lane again and again in the first half, and how tp got open jumpers in rhythm that he knocked down
Sure felt like a waste of shots like that when Manu's shot was announced as a two.
they ranked dead least in p'n'roll defense this season. I agree
Yeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Post-Game Video:
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178390
Quotes:
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178392
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011042724Neal’s buzzer 3-pointer keeps Spurs alive
By Paul J. Weber
Just 1.7 seconds is all that remained for Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker in what has been a wasted and humiliating dud of a playoff run.
An undrafted rookie didn’t let them go down that quickly.
Catching the inbounds pass with 1.7 seconds left, Gary Neal forced overtime with a spectacular 3-pointer in the face of O.J. Mayo as time expired, and the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs staved off elimination by stunning the Memphis Grizzlies 110-103 on Wednesday night.
“It felt good. I knew I had good legs going into it,” Neal said. “It felt good. I followed through and it went in.”
The eighth-seeded Grizzlies still lead the best-of-seven series 3-2. They will host the Spurs on Friday night, but left town knowing they missed a knockout punch.
“They’re down by three, you’ve got to run them off the 3. You can’t let nobody shoot an open 3,” Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph said. “You’ve got to contest the 3, you’ve got to deny the ball.”
The straightaway 3-pointer was the second of two remarkable San Antonio baskets in the final 2.2 seconds of regulation. Manu Ginobili, who scored 33 points, hit the other with a long corner jumper while falling out of bounds in front of the Spurs bench, in what was originally ruled a 3.
A video replay confirmed Ginobili’s left toe was on the line. That left the Spurs still trailing 95-94, and after two free throws by Randolph, San Antonio needed another miracle.
Ginobili? Parker? Duncan, in perhaps a repeat of his memorable tying 3-pointer with 3 seconds left against Phoenix in the 2008 playoffs, before the Spurs went on to a double-overtime win?
Nope.
They drew it up for Neal, a 26-year-old rookie and former European journeyman who the Spurs signed this season after giving him an audition on their summer league team.
“You really don’t think about the magnitude of making or missing it, you just think about trying to get the best shot that you can get,” said Neal, who finished with seven points. “It went in today, but I think it’s the best shot I could have got in that situation.”
Randolph led Memphis with 26 points and 11 rebounds. He scored 18 points in the fourth quarter and overtime, but the Spurs assured a Game 6 in the overtime behind Parker, who scored 6 of his 24 in the extra period.
Only eight teams in NBA history have ever come back from a 3-1 deficit. The Spurs, who were the NBA’s winningest team for most of the season, are desperate to join that list in what may be their last good shot to win a fifth championship in the Duncan era.
Memphis remains on the verge of becoming just the fourth No. 8 seed in NBA history to win a playoff series. Not since Golden State upset Dallas in 2006 has a No. 8 seed toppled a No. 1 in the first round.
Marc Gasol had 11 points and 17 rebounds for Memphis, while Mike Conley scored 20 points and Sam Young added 18.
Duncan began the game in vintage playoff form, looking keenly aware of the stakes. He scored 11 points in the first 9 1/2 minutes, but scored just two the rest of the way. He had 12 rebounds.
Randolph, whose 3-pointer at the end of the Game 3 win gave the Grizzlies the momentum, hit another big shot with 13.7 seconds left in regulation. His 18-footer over Antonio McDyess put Memphis ahead 93-91, prompting Randolph to put his finger to his lips, hushing the crowd.
But the Spurs weren’t going down that quietly.
“Come on, we’re on the road. It wasn’t going to be easy,” Grizzlies forward Shane Battier said. “And we needed 48 minutes. We didn’t need 47 minutes and 59, 58 seconds and three-tenths. We needed the full 48 to get it done.”
Only 2.2 seconds is all the time the Spurs needed to make not only two of the biggest shots in this series, but in the NBA playoffs so far this postseason.
First up was Ginobili who, after snatching the ball following a botched, up-for-grabs inbounds pass, pivoted frantically to the corner in front of the Spurs bench and made a difficult shot while falling toward the baseline that initially looked like a 3-pointer.
The Spurs—and a crowd that included signs reading “The Dynasty Lives”— thought Ginobili’s incredible fallaway tied the game. But after a lengthy video review, the officials reversed it.
That still left San Antonio down one point, and Randolph stretched the lead back to 97-94 with two free throws. So with their season on the line the Spurs turned to Neal to try and send the game to overtime.
Neal caught the inbounds pass 3 feet behind the 3-point line, then squared up with Mayo running toward him.
The rest is now part of Spurs history.
“It’s hard to beat Tim Duncan’s 3 against Phoenix. Because Timmy’s a terrible 3-point shooter,” Parker said. “It’s hard to beat that one, but it’s definitely up there. It was definitely a crazy game. Especially like we made two buzzer shots: Manu and then Gary Neal.”
Notes: The Spurs are 2-7 in the playoffs dating to last season. … San Antonio avoided being eliminated on its home court for the third consecutive year.
Went to watch the game at applebees and didn't get to post in the game blog earlier.
Holy mother , what a game.
One game at a time yall.
One game. Game 6.
Let's do it.
Saw it live, it was magical!!!
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