Glass half full: We competed against two very tough teams

[Sean Cagney]

You can't spin anything good out of a loss like this.

You are right, there is no good to come outta that chokejob there, nothing will make me ever want to see that game or think about it again, just a utter failure of a game they had in the bag in the West race.

[Sean Cagney]

Tiago is playing very well now and I'm very impressed but he certainly has not been better than Bonner this year.

Lately he has been better, but he did not get time earlier to prove that for some reason! I wish Pop played him alot earlier, but hey it's now and we gotta take what we get.

[Budkin]

You can't spin anything good out of a loss like this. If it were Neal and Hill who committed those late turnovers, it would be forgivable...but you had a 3-time champion backcourt commit some of the dumbest, untimely turnovers ever witnessed. The icing on the cake was the 4-time champion coach drawing up that gem of an inbounds play

About the only thing you can be grateful for is that it wasn't a playoff game... that's it.

[mingus]

another thing that hasn't been mentioned much in this is how ty the refs were on that last play. not only did they miss the most obvious travel ever, but the foul was just as disgusting. that just wasn't a foul at all.

like i said, not many times this late in the season do you have revelatory games. this game was one. we learned that Splitter has the potential to make the Spurs' frontcourt one of the best defensive frontcourts in the league. if you match him up with Duncan, you have interior size and talent defensively that only the Lakers can match right now. those two could potentially, if Popovich takes his head out of his ass, make this team a defensive juggernaut and be able win games in the low 80s and 90s, which is essential. there's a reason Alrdridge looked like the second coming of Wilt Chamberlain the previous time we played them, but no this last time. and honestly, he shouldn't even have had 14 points in this game. he hit like three shots in the first quarter that were Kobe-level difficulty shots. he probably should've had 10 points., which is unbelievable considering how great he's been.

[++SaiNt TiAg0++]

another thing that hasn't been mentioned much in this is how ty the refs were on that last play. not only did they miss the most obvious travel ever, but the foul was just as disgusting. that just wasn't a foul at all.

like i said, not many times this late in the season do you have revelatory games. this game was one. we learned that Splitter has the potential to make the Spurs' frontcourt one of the best defensive frontcourts in the league. if you match him up with Duncan, you have interior size and talent defensively that only the Lakers can match right now. those two could potentially, if Popovich takes his head out of his ass, make this team a defensive juggernaut and be able win games in the low 80s and 90s, which is essential. there's a reason Alrdridge looked like the second coming of Wilt Chamberlain the previous time we played them, but no this last time. and honestly, he shouldn't even have had 14 points in this game. he hit like three shots in the first quarter that were Kobe-level difficulty shots. he probably should've had 10 points., which is unbelievable considering how great he's been.

+1
fade away jumpers with a hand in his face...yup saw those L.Aldridge deserves respect . yet (no respect) for what tiago's defense accomplished?? strange...something even duncan hasnt been able to do since hes aged. (no disrespect to timmy).

[quentin_compson]

I can understand the meltdowns, because it was a brutal way to lose a game for sure. Still, not everything in this last game was bad, so a thread like this one is a good way to gain some perspective.
The defense was pretty decent for most of the game against Portland, and Tiago made the most of his possibility to prove himself (let's hope it's not too late for him to earn something of a role come playoff time).
And well, the chances of Manu, Tony and Pop repeating the stupid mistakes they made down the stretch should be slim (that's what I'm trying to convince myself of, anyway ).