I'm really looking forward to the Duncan-less Spurs/Mavs game

[raspsa]

Yeah, me too. I think the game will be more interesting than the last time they met. Looking forward to how the Spurs react w/o TD. Time for the Spurs Bigs to step up.

[ludda]

I think we take this one. Mavs are in a funk. Manu will lead us to victory.

[Ronaldo McDonald]

i have a hunch that the we'll win the game by a substatntial amount...mavs will take it easy on us since duncan is out.

[xamila rey]

i expect Finley to have a good game.

[T Park]

@ all the Finley haters resurfacing after hiding during the playoffs.

[urunobili]

Mavs will double team Tony and Manu all night... bad loss for us...

[TDMVPDPOY]

manu will go for 50pts in a easy win for the spurs

[island_dude]

I look for it to be a tough game. I think the Spurs could still win even without Timmy. I remember a few years back when they blew the Mavs out at home while Duncan sat out.

Does anyone know if this game will be on ESPN? I don't see it scheduled, but Mark Stein mentioned it being on there in an article that was posted.

[41times]

This pretty much will sum up the game on Wed:

-Mavs will suck again on the road
-Avery will play small ball and play Bass/Dirk together in crunch time and give up crucial offensive rebounds
-J-Ho will not pass the ball
-Dirk will once again look like a roll player
-Stack will shoot 2-10
-Devin will pickup 6 fouls on block/charge calls
-JET will show up and score 30(only player on Mavs with some balls (Stack sometimes does))
-Oh ya, Spurs will win without Duncan and the city of Dallas will start chanting "FIRE AVERY" at home games

Either this guy is a Spurs fan in disguise or he has not watched any Mavs vs. Spurs game over the last 2 years!

The Mavs match up with the Spurs better than any other team in the NBA. They have beaten them 2/3 of the time over the last 16 games. This game will be no different.

The Spurs will put up a great fight with the battle cry "win one for Timmy" but his back up (who ever it may be) will not be enough unless Manu, Parker score 60 points and that is very unlikely.

Mavs by 10 in a meaningless game to the Spurs because they will say No Timmy and it's not post season.

Mavs by 10 in a Meaningful game to the Mavs because they are 3 down in the division and a win would insure a minimum of a split in the head to head tie breaker, which could prove to be very important come April.

[phyzik]

would be a great confidence booster for the Spurs to win this one without Timmy

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

This game, sans Timmy, could be interesting. Without Timmy and Manu it could be embarrassing.

[Budkin]

The Mavs always play us tough as nails and ever since "the foul" they've owned us badly. We're due a win, but I'm not sure we're going to get it without Timmy. I feel good about it, but if Manu ends up sitting it out... well, not so much.

[milkyway21]

Reserve forward Robert Horry received a standing ovation when he made his season debut in the fourth quarter. Horry, who had sat out the first 17 games while preparing himself mentally after a family emergency cost him most of training camp, had two blocked shots and two rebounds in six minutes.

I'm looking forward to seeing Horry taking over like what he did when Duncan went down due to injury in Detroit in 2005. He had a big game in one of their games if I remember correctly while Duncan had to stay home to recuperate.

[Udrihlooms]

Without Tim, we can only rely on the element of surprise to beat teams like Dallas and Phoenix. We can also hope that they'll lower their guard a bit, so we can insert a haymaker punch.

That's how critical the greatest PF in history, to us. Without Tim to punish them inside and in the middle, it'll be easy to clog the lane to prevent TP's penetration and then they'll play rough vs. Manu.

[Pistons < Spurs]

Looks like there's a possibility that Manu doesn't play either....

Devin Harris will play tonight, but there's a chance San Antonio's Manu Ginobili won't.

The Spurs, already without Tim Duncan, will wait until game time to decide if Ginobili can go. Their sixth man, who is averaging 19.4 points per game, suffered a jammed index finger on his shooting hand (left) in Sunday's win over Portland.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...e.21bcd39.html

[lefty]

I had a good feeling about that one; as I said, we have the best backourt in the L