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Thanks Findog.
Congratulations on the win tonight.
We knew it would be a good one.
Don't worry he choked on that last two that matters.
Thanks Findog.
Congratulations on the win tonight.
We knew it would be a good one.
what about the foul the refs called when the idiot dirk tripped with his own en feet, do you remember that on eyou dumb it had to be a faker fan making a stupid comment
I feel pretty good about this loss, other than Avery pulling Kidd for the final possession. It's probably a mistake he won't make again, so I'd rather it happen in February than May.
That was definitely playoff Duncan out there tonight. He was jazzed and motivated. I honestly don't think Magloire is any kind of savior, but I don't think the difference between him and Diop will be the difference between winning and losing a series. I was really worried about Parker, and he didn't go off, although he did get into the lane a little easier.I think
Duncan got easier shots than he did in the past against the Mavs with the Diop-Damp tandem. Usually it would slow down our tempo, and help contribute to our come from behind wins. In this game he was on, and the rest of the team was off, but we were right there in scoring pace with you guys. I don't see him working as hard against the Mavs in a series even with Magloire as another big.
How many lessons must this team learn before the get over the hump? I know it's still just a regular season game, but at some point you have to stop questioning your own team, grow a pair and do the obvious to try to get the win.
It's better you guys made a coaching mistake in a regular season game, rather than one in the playoffs.
But it's true, the regular season games aren't meaningless this year as opposed to other years since every win counts now. Avery's probably kicking himself over the Kidd benching.
Shank and Findog need to get a room so they can "play hard" together...
"Say whaaat ? "
Well, the silver lining is that this team still has a two-year window after this one and if Avery once again gets outcoached in the playoffs this spring, we'll have a new coach in November. That was just inexplicable. Yeah, let's have JET dribble around when instead Kidd could do a drive and dish with Jet spotting up.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves now.
We won today, sure, and did so while shooting poorly and playing a very average game, but the point is that the Mavs seem to always do that to us - we play poorly against them more often than not.
The Mavs could easily have won today's game, so let's not have a great big circle jerk just yet...
When TP finds his game, the O is flowing again, and the D is playoff level for 48 minutes I'll start getting excited. However, all that is a while away.
Was at the game and came away with alot of new beliefs about the Spurs and this game.
1. Dirk actually is a fairly smart player. he would shoot then a player running at him would run into him. He would let himself fall down and get a foul . This happen for most of the night till the ref's finally caught on.
2. Seemed like just about everyone played D on Dirk with little to no success. Oberto, Uduka, Bowen, Horry and Finley all had turns on him. nooone had any success.Finley might have been the best of the bunch because he got physical with him and that seemed to piss him off.
3. Few min Horry was in he was to scared to shoot. Can stand when an open player doesnt shoot.
4. Kidd started off on Manu and Manu had his way with him. Poor manu missed a ton of easy layups. and could have had alot more points. It wasnt long till Kiidd was on someelse.
5. Parkers outside shot is currently gone. he was short on all his outside shots and was reluctant to take any shots from the outside. He was even reluctant to drive early on, but once he got his head out of his ass, he eventually and starting driving nad scoring. He didnt kick out much, but he caused enough havic with his pernitration.
6. Bowen D still good, I cant stant when dirk just pretty much jump shoots over him. Seems like it doesnt bother him at all. Bruce still backing off a lot of 3's but the good news was he was moving in and making a few mid range jumpers.,,yes mid range jumpers. scary
7. Manu could have had alot more points but was not getting the calls. he was getting beat up pretty good and just couldnt seem to finish at the rim. Manu just keeps his head and keeps coming at you. His gambling D is troublesome, but his teammates already know to help out because they know he will gamble when he is one on one on D.
8. Pop mostly played small ball and the absolute best line up was TIM. Finley, Parker , Manu, Bowen. this group was awsome on D and had the most motion on O.
9. First half after TD went off on everyone they threw at him, the kept feeding him in the second and pretty much just watched him. Reminded back in the day when we just threw the ball to Tim and watched. luckily, that all changed in the 3rd,
10. Kidd had decent numbers, but really wasnt a factor. The spurs were willing to let him take shots and he really didnt want to take them. He quietly gave out alot of assistsm but nothing extraodrinary.
11. Avery was standing on the court for like the enitire game. Was amazed the refs seldom told him anything.
12. Opening music. the music was decent at best. Kinda a pop rock style with a decent beat, but it was Great by any means. I think they could do alot better. I sure wasnt wowed by it.
13. Kurt tomas was a non factor, he played like 4 min, but pop was intent on small ball and it worked. I kinda would like to see how we would do if we went big, but Dirk would be trouble, ,,,waut,,,he already is.lol
14. yes.....i was yelling "Bring back the Mango tree" most people just didnt get it. and only one guy said," Mango ...mango... mango!!"
15. Spurs D was great all game. Most the shots made were contested outside shots which im fine with. Dirk got more then his fair share of FT, but the ref's were being ticky tacky withhim.
ok 15 points and observations. was a of a game and the Technicals on AJ and Terry cost them dearly in the end. The spurs just kept their heads all game and pulled it out.
I think it's different than before. I think it's good to enjoy our last two wins against the Mavs, even if they weren't with our A games.
Sure, enjoy it, I'm just saying that writing the Mavs off (ie. "In Memoriam...") is a big mistake. If a couple of plays in the 4th didn't break our way we would've lost today. The Mavs aren't dead yet.
It's always great to beat them though!
Sure, enjoy it, I'm just saying that writing the Mavs off (ie. "In Memoriam...") is a big mistake. If a couple of plays in the 4th didn't break our way we would've lost today. The Mavs aren't dead yet.
It's always great to beat them though!
And I'd have still made this thread...you know, for a guy who prides himself on his intellectualism you aren't really thinking on a very deep level here...it's changed.
You don't get it...I think the Mavs played well tonight, they arguably played better than we did...that's my entire point.
Can't turn the PG matchup from a stength to a weakness and expect to matchup better with a team.
It doesn't matter if the Mavs beat us again or not...it doesn't matter if they win the very next game...I'm telling you that the edge they have had against us since AJ became the headcoach is gone.........
This is the first time we have played poorly against the Mavs and not been blown out in years. It's just different now...
It's not an uphill battle anymore.
The Mavs get points on their own against us all day long...Kidd's assist don't mean much to them, a couple of easy baskets per game...
It's changed...the Mavs are just another good NBA team against us now...not the guys that have us by the balls...
Whottt makes alot of sense.
Props Whottt IMO your winning the arguement
Yeah, I lean towards Whottt's take. You can just see it by watching the last two games.
Even when the Spurs were down by 10, it felt like the Spurs played as if they were down 10 against a Cleveland or Minnesota in a regular season game.
The Spurs could make any play they wanted against the Mavs tonight when they needed it.
Spurs aren't afraid of the Mavs now that they're aware their machine built to stop them has slowly been crumbling.
The Spurs need to worry about them in the playoffs like they worried about Phoenix in 2005-2007. Just enough.
"This game didn't mean much, we'll see them again,'' Dallas guard Jason Terry said. "We're still a work in progress.''
This is good stuff.
, true there's a Spurs bias in this thread, but we have to feel good about our team against your guys, since you've had our number for the last two years.
meanwhile Harris debut a hero against the Bucks...
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