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You are correct, sir!
Ginobili gets completely outplayed by Sasha Yourmy Manu and Spurs fan defend him. Hilarious.
You are correct, sir!
Right from the get-go Manu looked like he was labouring when moving. Doug Collins and this interview confirms what i thought was seeing . The guy had no lift on his drives and a lot of his jumpshots were short. Those that know Manu shouldn't be surpised that he was trying to play through it and contribute.
You're right about the no-excuses line of thinking as this is the play-offs. I called him out earlier on when he stunk it up and was supposedly banged up but that was the worst i've seeing him running up and down the court. I wondered maybe it had something to do with the weird camera angle of staples that made it look like he was running around flat footed. Now, i think he was simply trying to lessen the pressure on his ankle.
Manu played like and his injury is not helping him. It will take a super human effort on his part to help the SPurs win the series.
LA is a great team. Even down by 20 with 18 minutes to go and missing many open layups, they managed to come up with the win.
On to game 2.
By the way, welcome to the Spurs fans that were simply waiting for this moment to bash Manu.
I don't care about the Faker Fans, they are idiots anyway . . .
you, losers!
believe me!!! the suns never had a referee in their corner like the spurs did
What happen to reg season Manu?
Transcript of locker room interview
Sager: Manu, that did not seem like your typical performance, your shooting percentage 3 out of 13, down, the turnovers, you've seemed to labor. How is your health, are you alright?
Ginobili: I have a couple of issues but nothing that bad that can justify the way I played today, so...I'm vey upset, but, you know, it's over. Now we've got to try to play even better next game.
Sager: We mentioned at the beginning of the telecast that you'd ripped off the fingernail on your shooting hand. You got an acrylic put on. What hurts besides the hand?
Ginobili: No, no the hand is alright, that's just a nail. My ankle is bothering me...I gotta a couple of little things but again I don't want to talk about that. That's not the reason why I played so bad, so I just gotta..(end)
I believe it, but the dude has to fight through that and go out and play.
The only thing that bothered me about his game was his poor passing decisions. He was really trying to thread the needle at times when it didn't seem necessary and some of the wild passes across court seemed telegraphed. He just needs to calm down a little.
He tried too hard and it help let the Lakers back in. I would have liked to have seen more Barry and less Manu last night. Barry seemed to play pretty good last night with the few minutes he had.
Pop played him too many minutes...
One thing is not being able to attack the rim or shoot the ball well beacuse of injury. Another thing is to constantly force the issue and take terrible decisions both passing and shooting. His head was off, along with his body.
I also blame Pop for not playing Barry more, when he was 1 for 2 from 3 point land and the Spurs couldn't buy a basket to save their lives.
The visual of the interview showed a tired Ginobili, rubbing his eyes (bright lights can do that). His facial expressions were very dismissive of the questions about his health indicated by his head shaking and frowns.
Basic take-away from the interview. He played poorly, injuries brought up by Sager weren't the reason, and they will have to play better next game.
My own view of the 2nd half. The Lakers made a great run to take that game, played physical with no fear of fouls, and the Spurs lost control. I thought Derek Fisher did a great job of knowing tendencies and reading plays. He was the 2nd best player in the 2nd half, next to Kobe (watch all of his off the ball play, too). Great defensive performance. Sasha played with great effort, and of course Kobe is not, at all, overrated. Props to the Lakers. No props to the Spurs for that one. They were very predictable in their sets and let it get away.
sasha is going to show his youth eventually
Bowen and Duncan must me ticked. They did all humanly possible to win this game.
Yes, bashing Manu is easy when he's playing bad, tired and injured. If we lost this series will be his fault, rigth?
Spurs fans: enjoy this moment to bash Manu.
Believe
Ginobili still has played brilliantly at times in these playoffs, scoring 29 and 31 points in separate games against the Suns and New Orleans Hornets. But each of those performances was preceded by two days of rest. Given only one day off between games, he’s averaging 14.4 points while shooting worse than 38 percent.
The problem for the Spurs: Every game in these West finals is separated by just one off day.
One Spurs official already was worried before the team even bused out of the arena in New Orleans. Ginobili, he said, had nothing left in the tank. He had given everything in the final two games against the Hornets just to push the Spurs into the conference finals.
It's not going to get much better for Ginobili in this series.
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