Awesome freakin win

[dimsah]

yeah it was awesome freaking jobbing.
908928137089123 fts for the spurs* in the 4th against 2 fts for the jazz!...what a freaking joke!...talk about biassed and incompetent officiating

Lol! You switched teams again?

Why don't you go look at the Utah shot chart in the 4th and tell me where
all the Spurs fouls are going to come from when everyone except D. Williams was shooting jump shots.

[thewatcher]

thewatcher, two simple solutions to that stat:

1) tell the Jazz to quit fouling

2) tell the Jazz to quit settling for jumpers. You don't shoot FTs on jumpers.

be sincere please, it was a clear jobbing

[manubili]

The spurs are a group of awful, old, nasty dogs. Some people might call them boring, ugly, not flashy. Of course, small puppies are funnier to watch when they play. But old dogs bite harder.

[Warlord23]

The Jazz shot themselves out of the game. It was looking good when Williams and Boozer were draining the mid-range jumpers, but I thought Pop made a great adjustment in doubling both of them. Especially the double on Williams took a lot of balls, as the kid can pass.

Problem for the Jazz was, the rest of the cast was cold through 3 quarters and couldn't buy a jumper in the 4th. Meanwhile the Spurs just put their head down and bulled their way to the basket. That was the difference.

[T Park]

That was a 99 esque win.

Thats an "instant classic" game.

Right up there with the game 4 against denver, and game 1 and 2 in Phoenix in 05.

[MannyIsGod]

yeah it was awesome freaking jobbing.
908928137089123 fts for the spurs* in the 4th against 2 fts for the jazz!...what a freaking joke!...talk about biassed and incompetent officiating

Mid range shots don't draw fouls.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

be sincere please, it was a clear jobbing

Yeah, obviously jump shooters should get more FTs than a team taking it to the rack every play, because uhhh, errr, ummmm, oh yeah, because the team shooting all the jumpers was playing at home. Yeah, that's it

[dimsah]

be sincere please, it was a clear jobbing

I sincerely think you're a bag.

[angel_luv]

This is my kind of thread. Believe and teamwork is taking us there! Go boys go!

[thewatcher]

I sincerely think you're a bag.

can you tell me the definition of that

[ShoogarBear]

Second Best Memorial Day Ever.

[Spurologist]

That's Three.

I don't give a damn how bad Tim struggled and turned the ball over, or how crappy Parker shot. Or how they couldn't stop DWill at all. I don't care if JV sucks or Elson is useless.

This is the kind of win that Championships are made of. The Jazz were extremely physical and beating up Parker/Ginobili in the paint, but they kept driving and driving. The crowd was freakin hostile - shouting obscenities at Oberto from start to finish, throwing stuff on the floor when the game was still being played. The Spurs were battered and bruised but they hung and battled. And when the Jazz got close, the Spurs battled some more.

And then, when it mattered in the fourth quarter, the Spurs rallied together and with all their heart and grit and desire they took this in win.

Four months ago, very few of us (including me) would have said the Spurs were going to make it to the Finals. Our swingmen were old. Ginobili wasn't himself. Our centers sucked. Our bench was weak. Duncan was past his prime. Parker was still inconsistent.

And I'm not jumping the gun and saying the Spurs are there, because the Jazz are a very, very good basketball team that present the Spurs with a lot of problems. And there's still basketball to be played.

But right now, the Spurs are going to head home up 3-1 in the WCF. And it's damn sweet.

And haters can call for an asterisk in the Suns series and whiners can complain that the Spurs would have never gotten past the Mavs. But that.

Spurs are one win away from going to the 2007 NBA Finals.

Get One.

Well said.

Regardless of the obstacles, this spurs team never backs down to anybody. Even though they lost in a blowout the last game, they played with heart.

JV didn't play particulary well but he had a nice dime to FIN in the middle for floater inside. Then he had a nice stretch of D against DWill by forcing him to take tough shot and then trapping the pick and roll and diving for the ball on one possession. I'm the first to chew out JV, but he's not bashfull.

Making Kirilenko and Okur into NONFACTORS offensively has been huge. Okur will a supreme spur killer in the regular season and AK47 might as well be a water gun. Much credit has to be given to OBERTO. He's always the unsung hero. He's not incredible gifted vertically but he placed great position defense on Okur by contested all of his shots. He also showed some nice move on Okue by faking inside then fading away for a nice short jumper. Great savy by Oberto inside. When the spurs couldn't hit shots, he was always there to tap missed shots back for second opportunities to score. 6 offensive rebounds against the best rebouding team in the regular season is damn impressive
11 pts and 11 rebounds is SOLID.

Credit to the Jazz to being physical. That comes straight from the coach. Sloan is old school and wants penetrators to pay. TP got nailed early with no calls but he kept attacking and was extremely efficient in that way. He made some free throws to boost his confidence even though his overall shooting wasn't that good.

Same thing for manu. Spurs rode his back for the victory. Clutchness down the stretch. Whether it was going to the offensive rebound and getting a tip to allow OBERTO to get the tap in, driving in the paint for crucial layups, getting to the line. It was all heart, all the time for MANU.

Damn. This win is gratifying.

[conqueso]

be sincere please, it was a clear jobbing

I see your point. Two responses:

1) The Spurs (Duncan and Bowen in particular) got "jobbed" in Game 3. Duncan's foul trouble was game determinative. What goes around comes around.

2) I think Mauer and Javie (Javie especially) got fed up with the Jazz whining all the time and with the crowd giving them constant on every call. The Spurs (Duncan especially) whined a LOT less than they usually do tonight, and Jazz whined a lot more. The first half was a foul fest, and the refs clearly were itching to blow the whistle. The Jazz players should have recognized this and adapted. They didn't. The Spurs did. End of story.

[GrandeDavid]

Great win, indeed. Freaking huge, historical win, actually. I'm so proud of this team right now.

[wildbill2u]

That's Three.

I don't give a damn how bad Tim struggled and turned the ball over, or how crappy Parker shot. Or how they couldn't stop DWill at all. I don't care if JV sucks or Elson is useless.

This is the kind of win that Championships are made of. The Jazz were extremely physical and beating up Parker/Ginobili in the paint, but they kept driving and driving. The crowd was freakin hostile - shouting obscenities at Oberto from start to finish, throwing stuff on the floor when the game was still being played. The Spurs were battered and bruised but they hung and battled. And when the Jazz got close, the Spurs battled some more.

And then, when it mattered in the fourth quarter, the Spurs rallied together and with all their heart and grit and desire they took this in win.

But right now, the Spurs are going to head home up 3-1 in the WCF. And it's damn sweet.

And haters can call for an asterisk in the Suns series and whiners can complain that the Spurs would have never gotten past the Mavs. But that.

Spurs are one win away from going to the 2007 NBA Finals.

Get One.

They played lousy and still won because they played with the experience and poise of champions in the 4th quarter. They didn't lose their confidence when Utah made a run at the end of the 3rd and turned the D up a notch and made shots when they had to. Ginobili took us home.

[ducks]

this was a awesome victory
this has to be one of the biggest wins this postseason

[TampaDude]

The Spurs just made sure that Game 3 doesn't matter any more...the Spurs locked it down in the 4th, while the wheels came off for the Jazz...when Sloan got tossed, I knew it was over. As bad as I felt on Saturday night, I feel twice as good tonight! GO SPURS GO!!!

[td4mvp21]

YEAH. This win was easily the best of the playoffs.

[mattyc]

Even better win given our #1 man didn't fire a shot.

[samikeyp]

be sincere please, it was a clear jobbing

yeah it was the refs fault that the Jazz missed 5 straight shots on 5 straight possessions with less than 5 min to go.

[picnroll]

yeah it was awesome freaking jobbing.
908928137089123 fts for the spurs* in the 4th against 2 fts for the jazz!...what a freaking joke!...talk about biassed and incompetent officiating

They stopped giving Fisher his flops and he decomped. Started calling a few of the Jazz hacks too.

[Spurologist]

be sincere please, it was a clear jobbing

whatever makes you sleep better at night

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Spurs all the way. I hope we shoot lights out on Wednesday. Too bad I won't be able to see it. Seal is in town and I'm going. Forgive me for not knowing, but why are the bravatars not being brandished?

[exstatic]

Pop did exactly what I wanted him to do, he just smartly did it a lot later than I would have. He waited until the Spurs got a bit of separation, 4 or 5 points, then he moved Tim to the high post and let Manu do his thing off of Tim's passes and picks. Utah just isn't a fundamentally sound enough defensive team to stop Ginobili without an obvious hard foul.

[Das Texan]

That victory was sweet like the sweetest wine.