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haha I wish I could of heard that.
Mad mad Prahps to Pop's playcall to send the game into overtime. I watched the Knicks' broadcast, and they were completely fooled. When we passed it around and ginobili went into herky jerky mode to drive to the rim they were like, "Wh...what are they doin???" then he flicked that pass to Finley for the clutch three.
It's great to see Pop call a gutsy play and the Spurs provide the gusto to execute it.
haha I wish I could of heard that.
God aint that the truth.
Was at the game last night. The entire arena expelled an audible gasp when Manu passed to Finley. Like as the ball was in the air between Manu and Finley-before Finley even had the ball in his hand to make a shot-everyone gasped.
It was awesome....
Mad Props to Isaiah for STILL being the worst coach in the NBA. How do you not foul on the inbounds when the opponent is down three points?
Well Pop doesn't do it either.
Yeah, but...we're the Spurs.
To be fair to Isaiah, I don't like it when Pop doesn't do it, either. If you're up three with 8 seconds left, and you turn it into a fouling contest, you're probably going to win.
I also think Pop does things in the regular season that he wouldn't in, say, The Finals. I think if SA is up in game 7 of the Finals and the East team has an inbounds play with 8 seconds left, Pop would have them foul. Every game is the Finals for the Knicks. They just need some wins, any wins.
Game 3 vs Cleveland would disagree with yaI also think Pop does things in the regular season that he wouldn't in, say, The Finals
True.If you're up three with 8 seconds left, and you turn it into a fouling contest, you're probably going to win.
Although with this team's past trevails at the ft line, its prob put Pop into the thinking "Id rather our defense get it done, then foul them and give them 2 points"
Known yness.Yeah, but...we're the Spurs.
Its a beautifull thing
Nobody does it. Broadcasters talk about it incessently, but I don't remember Fratello or Collins ever doing it. It's the ultimate not putting your money where your mouth is.
Very true.
"Clyde" Frazier kept babbling incessently about "Why didn't they just foul"
Your point about Horry was right on. He needs to be playing, and playing well if the Spurs are to repeat. For some reason he's the piece that seems to take the Spurs from 'great team' to 'champion team' each year. You've got the big 3, you've got Bowen anchoring the 'D', and then you have Mr. Horry. IMO, those are 5 jerseys that need to be hanging from the rafters someday in SA.
I hate when writers do this, they pause the quote with 'he said' . It makes it sound like the player is trying to be dramatic or something when in reality he is not."It's way too early," he said, "to start getting excited about Rob."
Aside from the barrage of threes, Horry's turnaround fadeaways (he hit two) were also a thing of beauty.
Very gutsy win. I don't care if it's against the Knicks, to come back from 20 down against any team is pretty cool.
I am curious if Bonner actually did anything wrong. Pop always has someone in his doghouse so now with Beno gone it had to go to somebody.
Pop is probably pissed that Bonner isn't a better player and yet we signed him to that contract.
Bonner could easily be traded soon, if anyone is going to be traded.
Its not like Pop puts these guys in there for fun.
More than likely hes done something, or NOT done something to warrant it.
The Spurs were linked to Stoudamire before Parker was forced to be sidelined with the ankle injury. Perhaps Pop knew Parker was heading for the sidelines, but at that point Parker could have turned around his play and stayed on the court.
I heard a Manu interview before the game and he said that with Parker being out, teams are able to focus two and three defenders on him at all times. And he's not exaggerating. Teams are massively overplaying him right now and trying to force him into bad shots. Ginobili initially was forcing the bad shots ... but has adjusted and now is hurting teams with his passing.
Looking at the stats, it's pretty obvious misses the attention that Parker usually draws.
In nine games with Parker out of the lineup, Manu is averaging 17.2 points on 36.9% shooting from the field. If you take out his one game against the pitiful Sonics defense, those numbers drop even further to 15.7 points on 33.9% shooting. With Parker, Ginobili is averaging 19.7 points per game on 45.5% shooting from the field.
Additionally, Ginobili's minutes are way up and his three-point percentage is also way down without Parker there next to him. Parker's stats have also suffered through the years when Ginobili isn't next to him.
Even though their fan bases may not exactly like each other, Ginobili and Parker depend on each other on the Spurs to create room to operate.
I've seen Hubie Brown and Jeff Van Gundy do it. In international play, every team does it.
But yeah, in the NBA it's much harder because players will go straight up into the shot and it becomes a judgment call. On the previous play, Finley looked like he could have be awarded three shots on that intentional foul by David Lee.
Pop's rotations are not always rational and he has admitted as such, e.g. consistently giving "Bone on Bone" Nick Van Exel playing time even when he sucked and everyone knew it.
Yeah, sure, it's possible Bonner did something wrong. But he's about the opposite of a locker room cancer that I could imagine, not to mention, he hustles whenever he plays. I can't imagine a bigger boyscout than Bonner so it's hard for me to imagine him doing something 'wrong'.
I think what he's not done is been a better all around player, which goes back to my point - if that's the case, the FO already knew what player they were getting involved with as of last year.
Spurs just made the beating the Knicks look like an impossible task
and Manu really is getting a lot of min with Parker out
Frazier was talking about why didn't the Knicks foul with under a minute left in overtime when they were down by 7 or 8.
Breen was the one who was advocating fouling near the end of regulation before Finley's three. Frazier didn't say that he would do it, Breen did.
Great recap as always, timvp.
I agree that the only thing to get excited about is the fact that we won. I was glad to see us claw our way back into the game and then to shut them down in the OT. Hopefully, we will play a more complete game on Sunday.
In nine games with Parker out of the lineup, Manu is averaging 17.2 points on 36.9% shooting from the field. If you take out his one game against the pitiful Sonics defense, those numbers drop even further to 15.7 points on 33.9% shooting. With Parker, Ginobili is averaging 19.7 points per game on 45.5% shooting from the field.
damm tp makes manu that much better
Somehow, I was half-expecting this.
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