Reply With QuoteWell the comeback unit that was on the floor really will have the confidence the next time a situation like tonight occurs and I for one am excited despite what I post! (I love them guys do or die!)
Good game by the nets.
Spurs have a ways to go but there are a couple of bright spots.
At least the spurs tried to win this early in the season....last season Pop would have thrown in the towel when the spurs were down by 18.
This at ude will lead to at least 6-9 extra wins.
Well the comeback unit that was on the floor really will have the confidence the next time a situation like tonight occurs and I for one am excited despite what I post! (I love them guys do or die!)
Rangers YEA!!!! Keep it goin Texas!!!!!!
This.
Let's not forget his brother either. 2-11 from deep is atrocious. When these two get teammates involved, spurs win. When they suddenly become a pair of Lloyd B Free's spurs usually go down.
First half was compe ive, even if sloppy for both teams... after that, we just lost to the better team right now. We only made it close once West walked off injured.
We have a lot of work ahead of us.
San Antonio Spurs 90, New Orleans Hornets 90: From “sloppy to poor”, Spurs fall in 3rd quarter
by Jesse Blanchard
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AT&T CENTER–Having whittled an 18-point lead to three, Richard Jefferson lined up an open three-pointer from the baseline with a little over a minute left–his only missed shot of the fourth quarter, and one that would have completed a furious comeback.
“It looked good, I was already on my way back to celebrate a little bit,” George Hill said. “That’s how it goes though, you’re going to make some and you’re going to miss some.”
Mostly it was the San Antonio Spurs missing tonight, shooting a meager 38.8% from the floor, compounded by a 6-for-26 night from behind the three-point line.
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son the score is the same lolz
I only correct something if someone spells Elliott's name wrong.
They'll catch it.
Post game video here.
More post game quotes here.
Paul scores 25, Hornets beat Spurs to open 3-0
By Paul J. Weber
Tony Parker began the day by signing a $50 million contract extension. He ended it on the bench in the fourth quarter, watching Chris Paul and the New Orleans Hornets remain unbeaten.
Paul scored 25 points and New Orleans emerged as the only undefeated team in the Southwest Division, beating the San Antonio Spurs 99-90 Saturday night for a 3-0 start under first-year coach Monty Williams.
Any pressure to keep this up?
“You don’t have to tell me. I’m too young for all this stuff,” said Williams, pointing to his goatee. “This thing will be white by the time the season is over with.”
Williams beat his former coach and mentor, Gregg Popovich, who benched Parker and Tim Duncan after a miserable third quarter that ended with the Spurs trailing 76-60 after being down just one point at halftime.
The bench is probably not where Parker imagined he would be after agreeing to a four-year extension hours earlier.
But instead of Parker and Paul facing off in the fourth quarter in a matchup of three-time All-Stars, Parker sat while Paul blew past George Hill on a crossover dribble and hit a tough running bank shot to seal the win with 49.7 seconds left.
“Man, you have no clue how good it feels to play basketball again,” said Paul, who missed 37 games last season after surgery on his right knee. “Last year sitting on the sidelines, you hear all this different stuff, and you just want to compete. This is what I do.”
Parker finished with 13 points and missed five of his last six shots. He did not speak to reporters after the game.
Paul, saying he knows how Popovich works, wasn’t surprised by Parker and Duncan sitting in the fourth in favor of an energized second-unit that eventually cut the deficit to three. That included Gary Neal, a rookie who logged just 1 minute in San Antonio’s opener but played the entire fourth period against the Hornets.
Manu Ginobili, who led the Spurs with 23 points, has been with Popovich long enough to know he’ll stick with the group that works.
“What made it tough,” Ginobili said, “was that it was both Tim and Tony out.”
Duncan finished with seven points on 2 of 10 shooting.
“If a group is rolling, Pop is going to keep with that group until the car stops,” said Hill, who shot 2 of 7 and finished with six points.
The Hornets are off to their fourth 3-0 start in the last five years, this time after a summer spent picking up two products of the Spurs’ system to make New Orleans compe ive again. Williams played and coached as an assistant under Popovich, and new general manager Dell Demps was plucked from the Spurs’ front office.
The way New Orleans shut down San Antonio defensively in the third quarter, it looked as though the Hornets took Popovich’s most valued fundamental with them. After leading for nearly the entire first half, the Spurs shot 6 of 24 in the third.
David West had 18 points and Marcus Thornton added 17 off the bench for the Hornets.
It was the first 20-point game of the season for Paul, who was 8 of 15 from the floor. He also had five assists.
Richard Jefferson scored 18 points for the Spurs, including 10 in the fourth.
The Hornets beat the Spurs for the first time in five tries, including getting swept by San Antonio last season.
“Am I surprised? No, I’m not surprised,” Paul said of the Hornets’ unbeaten start. “I like it, but I’m not surprised.”
Notes: Williams said he’s still not set on the Hornets’ rotation despite their strong start, saying New Orleans still needs rookie Quincy Pondexter in the mix. … Spurs F Matt Bonner is expected to be out through at least next week with a right ankle sprain.
Hornets were in the second game of a back-2-back and CP3 only played 31 minutes and West missed most of the 4th quarter. Honestly, Thornton and Green were big reasons why the Spurs lost.
sons can someone plz make me a nice gif of the last shot by Paul in this clip? thx in advance
Í know this is just one game, but the way TD played does not give me the confidence we can go to him in the playoffs. I know he is no longer dominant and can't bring it every game. However I am hoping we can depend on him in clutch situations in the playoffs , much like we depend on Manu to make the big plays. With how poorly he finished plays , I'm not confident he can. Hopefully we can mitigate TD's decline with Splitter delivering immediately.
BTW I have a question for everyone : Do you think TD this year will be better than David Robinson in his last year (2003) ? I have a bad feeling , that he can't approximate the Admiral's last season especially on the defensive end. TD's decline is also more prononced as he dosen't have a young dominant big man to support him, like Robinson had.
Saying that Ginobili is a ~40% 3 point shooter is deceptive
Really - he's a 70% 3 point shooter on some days, and a 20% 3 point shooter on others. At the end of the day it all balances out to around 40.
He was 6-8 in 2 point field goals, and 2-11 in 3's. I guess he made the decision to live or die by the 3 tonight.
Consider that Ginobili really didn't get to the line much at all. More than half of his free throws were from defense 3 second violations - not from getting fouled going to the hole.
I forgot to get to my point. My point is - people already know that Ginobili is a threat driving to the basket. He's a proven slasher. They know he'll finish if his shot is not contested, and this in turn makes Ginobili very amenable to getting fouled while driving to the hole.
Sometimes the lanes simply aren't there - I understand that. Instead of shooting 3 pointers to open the lanes up, I'd like to see Ginobili step in for 2 point jump shots from time to time. Just a thought.
will someone plz make my gif!
We grabbed more rebounds and much more offensive rebounds from Hornets.
We dished more assists than Hornets.
We turned ball over less than Hornets.
We took more free throws than Hornets.
We blocked the ball more than Hornets.
But they beat us, because they shoot the ball very well and score more points. That's the summary of boxscore.
This one is on Timmy. It happens. Hopefully this is just an outlier and not the norm.
Spurs defense has to be better. A good defense can allow you to overcome these bad shooting games (Spurs were 6/26 from 3 points land). While Spurs don't have the roster to be a great defensive team, they cans surely be better than that. Splitter will help in that area but a rookie won't solve the whole problem. Some players had to play better D.
Pop is stressing running this year. Running teams win championships.
Made me lol.
However, he wants us to pick up the pace, not be a running team. Big difference. We have more athleticism on this roster than we have had in a very long time(2003 probably), don't see how picking up the pace would hurt us. It is getting back in transition and our perimeter/help defense that is sucking. The offense will come.
The second half run that doomed the Spurs
by Andrew A. McNeill
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AT&T CENTER — It was a quiet home locker room in the AT&T Center last night, and for good reason. The San Antonio Spurs, who hoped to get out to a better start this season than last, thanks to a favorable early season itinerary, put in a terrible third quarter of play and fell 99-90 to the New Orleans Hornets.
“It was a 22-7 run over time,” Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich said after the game. “I thought during the 22-7 run in the second half, we played poorly.”
What was so bad about that run? Well, after the postgame interview concluded last night I rushed home to re-watch the Spurs’ abysmal third quarter and bad start to the fourth, and look at the breakdowns. Let’s go through this play-by-play style, starting at the 10:58 mark of the third quarter, when the Spurs got their last lead of the game.
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