Yeah well, but the schedule isn't getting any easier, that's the problem... we should’ve won this one...
Good game tonight. Milwaukee just hit a few lucky shots here and there. With an extra rebound or call to go our way, the game is ours. I'm not too concerned at this point with the 2-5 record.
Utah and New Orleans lost tonight, how tough can the West be? Not very.
I'm blaming Voodoo...
this one is definitely on Timmy's shoulder's he really should have attacked when the Spurs weren't making s*** and were up on the Bucks.........
devasting loss
time to forget about this game........
That lineup to start the 4th quarter was a complete trainwreck. In crunch time, Pop went back to "offense first" and the Spurs were, no surprise, offensive.
BTW, anyone know where the George was?
Only two players in double figs... Duncan with 24 and Finley with 19.
Gotta have more help.
Yeah that is a possibility. Maybe I should ease off on Roger for that then.
Duncan scored 14 of the team's 19 points in the fourth. He did his part.this one is definitely on Timmy's shoulder's he really should have attacked when the Spurs weren't making s*** and were up on the Bucks.........
devasting loss
No one else showed up to help in the fourth.
And just FYI, the team the Spurs held to 80 last night just dropped 132 on Memphis.
pulled out early 4th i believe. he was way too tentative this game.
duncan lack of rebounding lose us the game, duncan struggle rebounding quite some time, it's very worrying
Well what do you guys think? If we can't beat a depleted Milwaukee team can we beat anyone?
He also gave up some easy boards, had a terrible turnover and allowed an and-one by biting on a pump fake. Thank the refs for getting him started with that terrible blocking foul call.
Speaking of Timmy, his exasperated, "someone else's fault" body language isn't good for anyone on the team, and I really wish someone would tell him to knock it the off.
george hill scored 4 pts in the first few minutes of the first quarter and did not score since then. tolliver was 1-6 from the 3pt line, mason 2-10 FG, out rebounded 47-37. what concerns me isn't as much as the offensive game because that will surely improve when ginobili and parker comes back. it is the rebounding and the lack of an interior presence that concerns me because no one is coming to help except maybe mahinmi.
problem was, he started attacking the rim after we were down 10, it would've been a better idea had he attacked the rim when we were up.....he'll learn though - hopefully.
That's what is great about Manu. Anyone can play with Manu. He always takes the blame himself.
That defense can beat anyone, especially if they do a better job of rebounding. The offense is still a work in progress, and Pop's going to overcoach for a while and cost the team some games.
Besides, I've seen fully healthy Spurs teams lose to undermanned Bucks teams in the Duncan era. This team owns the Spurs. No shame in that.
By the time Pop put him back in the game in the fourth we were down 10. He did what he could.
It was tied at 61 when Timmy came into the game, and they didn't score for the next four minutes. If you're going to lie, wait until the game isn't fresh in everyone's mind.
Final: Bucks 82, Spurs 78
FOURTH QUARTER
The Spurs went cold in the second half and the Milwaukee Bucks went on a 21-2 run to take over a 82-78 victory Wednesday in Milwaukee.
A Michael Finley 3-pointer cut the Bucks' lead to 79-78. Milwaukee's Ramon Sessions hit 1 of 2 free throws to stretch the Bucks' edge back to two points. The Spurs got the ball back with 10 seconds left and came up empty.
Milwaukee's Richard Jefferson hit two free throws with four seconds left to put it out of reach.
Tim Duncan led the Spurs with 24 points. He scored 14 points in the fourth quarter, but was the only Spur to score in the last 10 minutes of the game until Finley hit his 3-pointer with 12 seconds left. Finley finished with 19 points.
The Bucks' run started when they scored the last five points of the third quarter. They went from trailing by 13 points in the final minute of the first half to leading by eight early in the fourth quarter.
Jefferson scored to give the Bucks a 63-61 lead with 8:25 left in the game. The Bucks led the rest of the way.
The Spurs have only one basket in the first six minutes of the fourth quarter. The Bucks have grabbed a 67-61 lead.
The Bucks outscored the Spurs 8-2 to start the fourth quarter and the game is tied 61-61 with less than nine minutes left.
THIRD QUARTER
The Spurs used an 8-2 run late in the third quarter to finish the period with a 59-53 lead. Michael Finley (14 points), Tim Duncan (10) and Anthony Tolliver (9) are sharing the scoring load.
The Spurs went scoreless the first five minutes of the second half. The Bucks went on an 8-0 run to cut the Spurs' lead to four points.
SECOND QUARTER
Michael Finley scored 10 points in the first nine minutes of the second quarter to help the Spurs take a 43-31 halftime lead. Finley, who didn't play in the first quarter, was 4 of 7 from the field including 2 of 4 on 3-pointers.
The Spurs had a solid defensive half, holding the Bucks to 34.1 shooting. The Spurs shot well from outside, hitting 6 of 13 from 3-point range.
The Spurs went on a 9-2 run that included a 3-pointer from Finley to take a 31-21 lead midway through the second quarter.
Anthony Tolliver hit a 3-pointer for the last score of the first quarter and made a tip-in for the first points of the second quarter.
FIRST QUARTER
George Hill and Tim Duncan had four points each and the Spurs hit three 3-pointers to finish the first quarter with an 18-15 lead.
Roger Mason Jr. and Ime Udoka each hit an early 3-pointer and the Spurs grabbed a 9-5 lead at the first timeout midway though the first quarter.
PREGAME
Spurs starters: George Hill, Roger Mason Jr., Ime Udoka, Tim Duncan and Fabricio Oberto. This is the same starting lineup the Spurs used Tuesday.
Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili remain out for the Spurs. Michael Redd is out for the Bucks.
The Spurs will try to earn back-to-back wins tonight in the second game of a dreaded back-to-back when they play the Bucks in Milwaukee.
The Spurs' hopes for success seem to hinge, as they have in the past, on getting started with solid defense. Their defense and rebounding helped them slow down and eventually put away the New York Knicks on Tuesday at the AT&T Center.
- Joe Alexander, mySanAntonio.com
Did Duncan look tired today (since it was a back to back game)? He only got 5 rebounds and had 4 turnovers.
Nice effort. D was good for most of the game. The offense just went into the tank. Hill and Mason stopped being aggressive and Udoka is petrified as the starter. That left basically Finley and Duncan carrying the load offensively.
Love the passing by Tolliver and Bowen has adjusted well to his new role. Too bad the Spurs couldn't get the win but this was much more of a Spurs Basketball loss than those shootouts at the beginning of the year.
More rebounds and one other player stepping up offensively and the Spurs easily win that game.
I loved tolliver's energy but come one... he needs to come to realize what kind of player he is and stop chunking it like he is a 3 point specialist. 1 of 6 from 3 point land just wont cut it.
Tolliver still looks like a terrible shooter, but I like everything else he does. Pop needs to give him the red light and see if he plays the same way.
I was actually going to say that if we had TP with this defense we'd actually be looking pretty darn good at this point. So yeah the defense has been good the last couple of games.
I don't really like Hill's point guard play. Crawford was right last game. All Hill is doing is bring the ball up the court and getting it in to Duncan. How hard is that? Can he penetrate at all? Does he have the handles to do it?
If Marbury is bought out I would not be opposed anymore to bringing him in. We need another scorer and another rebounder.
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