Awesome freakin win

[mVp]

yeah it was awesome freaking jobbing.
908928137089123 fts for the spurs* in the 4th against 2 fts for the jazz!...what a freaking joke!...talk about biassed and incompetent officiating

The Spurs attacked the rim, the Jazz took too many jumpers, Kirilenko was shooting 3's WTF?!?

[duncan_21]

This was just a tremendous win. I think the spurs decided that if the refs were going to let the jazz push, shove, hold, elbow that they would go ahead play hard, make hard cuts and take the ball to the hoop and make the refs call the fouls. I think timmy had a a sub par performance but props to manu and parker for taking the ball to the hoop and oberto for playing a great game. Also props to Pop for doubling dw in the 4th.

[TDMVPDPOY]

i was dissappointed actually with the win, wtf couldnt they score 10 more points and be over 180 arrggg, n loss 10bucks, there goes my whole month....

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

That's Three.

I don't give a damn how bad Tim struggled and turned the ball over, or how crappy Parker shot. Or how they couldn't stop DWill at all. I don't care if JV sucks or Elson is useless.

This is the kind of win that Championships are made of. The Jazz were extremely physical and beating up Parker/Ginobili in the paint, but they kept driving and driving. The crowd was freakin hostile - shouting obscenities at Oberto from start to finish, throwing stuff on the floor when the game was still being played. The Spurs were battered and bruised but they hung and battled. And when the Jazz got close, the Spurs battled some more.

And then, when it mattered in the fourth quarter, the Spurs rallied together and with all their heart and grit and desire they took this in win.

Four months ago, very few of us (including me) would have said the Spurs were going to make it to the Finals. Our swingmen were old. Ginobili wasn't himself. Our centers sucked. Our bench was weak. Duncan was past his prime. Parker was still inconsistent.

And I'm not jumping the gun and saying the Spurs are there, because the Jazz are a very, very good basketball team that present the Spurs with a lot of problems. And there's still basketball to be played.

But right now, the Spurs are going to head home up 3-1 in the WCF. And it's damn sweet.

And haters can call for an asterisk in the Suns series and whiners can complain that the Spurs would have never gotten past the Mavs. But that.

Spurs are one win away from going to the 2007 NBA Finals.

Get One.

Say it like it is, Sistah!

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

yeah it was awesome freaking jobbing.
908928137089123 fts for the spurs* in the 4th against 2 fts for the jazz!...what a freaking joke!...talk about biassed and incompetent officiating

STFU. Jazz were shooting jumpers. You want FTs for shooting jumpers and not getting to the rack?

Your team relied on the midrange jumper all game, as they have all series except game 3, because that's what we give you (no 3s, no layups), and you were hot in the first half, but you went cold just when it mattered, and didn't have the balls to take it to the rack, nor the heart to get the O boards you are so famous for.

Suck it up and take it like a man.

[baseline bum]

This is one of my favorite wins all time. I hate Utah more than I can possibly express in this thread.

[Marcus Bryant]

The Jazz' nuts shriveled in the 4th. Too many Js, played too tentative, and lost their composure.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Pop did exactly what I wanted him to do, he just smartly did it a lot later than I would have. He waited until the Spurs got a bit of separation, 4 or 5 points, then he moved Tim to the high post and let Manu do his thing off of Tim's passes and picks. Utah just isn't a fundamentally sound enough defensive team to stop Ginobili without an obvious hard foul.

I was calling for that the entire 2nd half, and even thought Pop was being outcoached, but maybe he was holding it back for the final 6 minutes. Interesting take.

[SequSpur]

I was calling for that the entire 2nd half, and even thought Pop was being outcoached, but maybe he was holding it back for the final 6 minutes. Interesting take.

bandwagoner forum.

[Solid D]

Great win and great toughness, both mental and physical.

Jazz played well, had some great blocks and hit a lot of big shots in the first 3 quarters, although the strategy of "so many fouls...so little time" hurt them tonight.

[Capt Bringdown]

That wasn't a game, it was a frick'n knife fight. The Spurs cut the Jazz's balls off, nailed 'em up on a tree with a rusty nail, laughed about it, took some pictures, had some beers and barbeque and then put the campfire out with a group piss. you, Jazz!

[carina_gino20]

first playoff win in Salt Lake City in front of a hostile crowd...

it was indeed ugly. the calls were inconsistent both ways. i was impressed though at the Spurs' composure. Tim got hacked down low time and again and there was a stretch when the Jazz just kept on hitting their shots. The Spurs could have folded over, but they didn't. Great gutsy win tonight.

and i'm pretty damn glad we got that other Argentine in our lineup.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

bandwagoner forum.

Yup, I'm a bandwagoner Sequ.

Why don't you check the game thread? I said it at least 4 times from the mid 3rd to mid 4th.

[Spurs Brazil]

Great post Kori, agree 100%