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I'd rather have TP's slump the first half of the season rather than the homestretch.
He is an all star, he will bounce back like a red speeding Ferrari on the tracks!
SUCK IT PACERS! We Kicked YOUR ASS!
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, a win by any means at this point.
Timmy is awesome.
I'd rather have TP's slump the first half of the season rather than the homestretch.
He is an all star, he will bounce back like a red speeding Ferrari on the tracks!
edit: make that a Bugatti Veyron.
We have more weapons now dip . He is shooting poorly. You don't take 25 shots when you are hitting about 15% of them.
It's either that or the spurs play down to their level of compe ion.
Ok, now everyone file in and vote for Tim Duncan on the AS ballot. Fer real.
Pacers have some nice pieces to build around. Hibbert looked great tonight, and let's not forget Granger is injured.
Turnovers, okay that would seem to be nearly every game now right? It is a real problem, not somethign we just blow off and say oh well they turned it over alot, thats a reoccuring the. FT's well we know there, thats ALWAYS a PROBLEM with the Spurs man
Updated.
Spurs beat Pacers to give Popovich 700 career wins
By Paul J. Weber
Gregg Popovich has won plenty more important games with the San Antonio Spurs, but Tim Duncan gave his coach a memorable 700th career victory.
Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert will likely remember this one, too.
Duncan dunked over Hibbert with 4.6 seconds left after having his first shot blocked by the second-year big man, and T.J. Ford missed a fadeaway jumper as time expired to cinch a thrilling 100-99 victory for the Spurs on Saturday night.
Duncan let out a triumphant roar after scoring the final two of his 19 points and getting the last of his 16 rebounds, which was corralling Hibbert’s block just a split-second before springing up for a rarity in Duncan’s stellar career—a game-winning dunk.
“I wanted to try to take it to the glass and see what happens, and Hibbert made a very good defensive play,” Duncan said. “I saw the guy come from the corner and tried to stretch it out, and he still got a piece of it, and it just came right back to me. It was a little bit of luck.”
Hibbert, who scored 20 points and otherwise held his own against the perennial All-Star, said he felt like he let his team down.
“I blocked it and he got it right back,” Hibbert said. “I should have made a second effort to try and get another block but I was off-balance and he dunked it and finished it for his team.”
The Pacers, on the other hand, couldn’t finish after building a 13-point lead heading into the fourth quarter. Hibbert put the Pacers up 99-98 on a tip-in with 1:12 remaining, but on the next Indiana possession he couldn’t fight off Duncan to grab a missed Ford jumper with 10.2 seconds left.
“If I would have gotten that, I think it would have sealed the game,” Hibbert said.
Troy Murphy led the Pacers with 21 points. Indiana, which rallied from a halftime deficit by ending the third quarter on a 21-8 burst, has not won in San Antonio in seven years.
Reserve Luther Head scored 14 points for Indiana, and Mike Dunleavy added 11.
Popovich became the 16th coach in NBA history to reach 700 wins and is among seven active coaches to hit the milestone. He credited the win to the player chiefly responsible for most of them over the last 13 years.
“As has been all season, Tim Duncan is our most consistent player,” Popovich said. “He’s been fantastic.”
Tony Parker added 15 points and Keith Bogans had 14 for the Spurs, who continued feasting on losing teams while being mostly outplayed against clubs with winning records. All but two of San Antonio’s wins this season have come against teams with losing records, while the Spurs are 2-9 against winning teams.
One of those losses was earlier this month in Utah, where the Spurs lost 104-101. Duncan also had a chance in that game to take the go-ahead shot with the clock winding down, but he instead passed out of a double-team. Parker took the pass but missed an open jumper.
“I kind of gave it up in Utah, and I didn’t want to give it up tonight,” Duncan said.
The Spurs improved to 12-1 against teams who entered Saturday with losing records. That said, the next three weeks bode well for the Spurs: Eight of their 12 opponents have losing records, leading up to their first meeting with the Los Angeles Lakers on Jan. 12.
The win wasn’t all good news for the Spurs. Matt Bonner fractured the ring finger in his shooting hand in the first half and did not return. Bonner, who scored seven points and hit two shots after appearing to hurt his hand, was to be re-evaluated Monday.
NOTES: Indiana F Jeff Foster left the game in the first quarter with a sore lower back and did not return. … San Antonio is 6-1 at home against Eastern Conference teams. …The Spurs made just 23 of 38 free-throw attempts.
Spurs 100, Pacers 99: Pacers Miss Out On Chance For Road Win
by Tom Lewis on Dec 20, 2009 12:14 AM EST in News 0 comments
It's about time to issue a warning: Follow the Indiana Pacers at your own risk.
On any given night, their play may force your heart to stop intermittently or your brain to go numb. You may pull a hammy dancing with joy, or become life-less, depressed pile of bones as the buzzer sounds.
Against the San Antonio Spurs tonight, all of the above side effects were felt as the Pacers rallied from a 13-point second quarter deficit to take a 13-point lead into the fourth quarter.
From there, the heart fluttered, mind froze, dancing ceased and depression set in after T.J. Ford's potential game-winning jump shot was just wide right, allowing the Spurs to escape with a win, 100-99.
Just when the expectations for the Pacers sink, as they did after last night's double-digit loss to Memphis, the team puts together an effort to draw you back into and actually have you thinking win...on the road...at San Antonio. It was all there for the taking early in the fourth quarter.
But you could feel the Spurs mounting an attack, plus the Pacers' recent history made a late run by the Spurs standard operating procedure. Once the Spurs made their run to make it a one possession game with five minutes left to play, I began to wonder if this would be a repeat of Orlando where the Pacers would shut down offensively while the Spurs methodically pulled away.
Not tonight.
The Spurs biggest lead would be three points with three minutes to go. But a dunk by Brandon Rush and a near-miraculous tip by Roy Hibbert gave the Pacers points on consecutive possessions and a one-point lead with a minute to go.
Nope, no fade tonight, just a missed opportunity.
After weathering a couple of Tim Duncan offensive rebounds, the Pacers had the ball and the lead with 33 seconds to go. After using up some clock, T.J. Ford missed one of his patented little 12-foot fade away jumpers, leaving the Spurs 10 seconds to win the game.
Naturally, the Spurs went to Duncan. Roy Hibbert met Duncan at the rim and stuffed the Hall of Famer's first offering. But Duncan quickly took the rejecting and jammed it home. Spurs up one with four seconds left.
Once again, the Pacers went to Ford to be the hero, clearing out for the point guard to work from the top of the key. It appeared he had George Hill off-balance and rose up for a clean 16-footer which helplessly clanked of the right side of the rim. Depression.
Oh would you just stop this TP stuff lately, he is playing horrible! The only one playing great is TD! RJ is doing alright lately but TP and MANU are playing horrible right about now! I would not expect you to admit it though.
He would admit half of it though.
Flat out redunkculous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUTgMT8x2yo
recap isn't on nba.com yet(i don't think), but it's on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdsgA0ooD0M
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