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ok well I guess not.Will y'all lose a damn game already?
The best and most promising part of this game....
was that Pop played Tiago with Timmy.
ok well I guess not.Will y'all lose a damn game already?
Crazy thing is, Spurs could play a whole lot better and are not anywhere near their potential right now - yet we keep piling up the wins.
I agree but the difference with this year's Tony is that he stillmanages to dish 9ast...
He looked out of rythm today, we'll need him bad tomorrow to defend Nelson!
Yup...it feels like the Spurs kind of coast through much of the games...they have a couple more gears, and they're probably saving those for SPAM and the playoffs.
Game notes
Spurs G George Hill (sprained toe) won't travel with the team to Orlando for Thursday night's game. He is expected to miss at least several more games.
http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=301222024
Crossing my fingers he's back for the Mavs on the 30th... he plays well against them.
I could feel a comeback coming for the Spurs at the end of the 3rd. That's the kind of season were having. It's also fun to see the chemistry this team has this year - from the end of the bench all the way to Timmy.
Could we have found a brighter diamond in the rough than Neal? Wow.
Did jefferson carried us in the 3rd as play by play suggests?
Great win Spurs..now I have a question, when the Lakers played the Pacers in Indiana..and came out of the gate hitting everything..why is it hard for them to continue playing like that? If a team blows out a team one night..is it unrealistic to think they can do it every night or is it the energy factor and the players themselves?
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2010122224NBA-best Spurs beat Anthony-less Nuggets
By Paul J. Weber
Manu Ginobili finished off the Denver Nuggets for the second time in a week.
There was no doubt about it this time.
Ginobili scored 22 points and buried the go-ahead 3-pointer late in the fourth, and the San Antonio Spurs beat Denver—playing without All-Star Carmelo Anthony following the death of his sister—109-103 on Wednesday night for their 10th victory in a row.
The Nuggets said Anthony will return after Christmas. Their next game is Saturday at Oklahoma City.
The victory for the Spurs came six days after Ginobili assured a victory in Denver by drawing a charge with 0.3 seconds left on Anthony, who had thought he scored the winning shot on a hard drive to the basket.
Gary Neal also had 22 points for the Spurs, who outscored the Nuggets 29-14 in the fourth quarter as Denver made just two field goals in the final 5 minutes.
“It was a huge fourth quarter,” Ginobili said. “I’m still kind of in shock by the way we won it.”
The Spurs reached their second double-digit winning streak already this season and improved their NBA-best record to 25-3. It ranks among the 11 best starts to a season in NBA history.
Ty Lawson and J.R. Smith led the Nuggets with 22 points apiece, and Kenyon Martin played 17 minutes in his season debut after missing the first 26 games while recovering from knee surgery.
The Nuggets were slow to adjust to San Antonio’s zone defense in the fourth, which coach Gregg Popovich implemented after Denver took an 89-90 lead at the end of the third, mostly thanks to five Denver 3-pointers in the quarter.
Smith, making his first start in three seasons in place of Anthony, was 4 of 5 from beyond the arc in the third quarter alone and scored 16 points in the quarter.
“I feel bad because I couldn’t help my team as much as I should against the zone situation,” Nuggets coach George Karl said. “I think if we had made some shots early they would have gone away from it. We didn’t have a lot of cohesiveness against their zone attack.”
Anthony’s sister, Mic e Anthony, died of a pre-existing medical condition Tuesday in Baltimore. She had four children.
Anthony traveled with the Nuggets to San Antonio but left early Thursday after receiving word about the death of a family member.
“It brings us down to earth,” Karl said before the game. “Basketball isn’t the most important thing.”
Richard Jefferson scored 16 points and rookie Tiago Splitter had 12 points and nine rebounds in his most meaningful game yet with the Spurs.
Ginobili had also hit the game-winner in Denver, and he had another big shot in this one. He pulled up on a fast break with 2:48 left to knock down his fourth 3-pointer, giving the Spurs the lead for good.
But Neal—a 26-year-old rookie who is quickly becoming another unlikely find for the Spurs—was just as crucial. He scored 10 in the fourth and had his second consecutive 20-point game, after scoring 22 on Monday in a win over Phoenix.
Neal is getting more court time because of a toe injury to backup Spurs guard George Hill, who is expected to miss at least several more games.
“In training camp I felt like a rookie. It felt like the game was going 100 miles per hour, but now it’s slowed down,” Neal said. “I feel like I belong out there and the game is manageable for me.”
Martin had eight points in his return to the Nuggets’ lineup, making four of his five shots.
Matt Bonner scored 13 points and Tony Parker had 11 for the Spurs.
The 26-year-old Anthony has recently been hampered by a strained right elbow, sitting out the previous two days of practice. He’s also been the subject of trade rumors since he spurned the team’s offer of a three-year, $65 million contract extension last summer.
Anthony is averaging 24 points and 8.3 rebounds this season.
NOTES: The Spurs are the eighth team in NBA history to start a season 25-3. The NBA record is 26-2, last done by the Boston Celtics in the 2008-09 season. … It is just the third time in Spurs history the team has had two winning streaks of 10 games or more in the same season.
.. Spurs to buck the tradition!
Last edited by Spursfanfromafar; 12-23-2010 at 06:18 AM.
Great win, awesome game
I went to the game and it was a great, great atmosphere. My 2nd game this year, and the 1st was the loss to New Orleans at the beginning of the season, so I wanted to see them win baaaad. Just a little note I wanted to leave everyone with (in case it hadnt been mentioned), James Anderson came out about an hour and half before tip-off and was walking well without the boot.He signed some autographs and went back through the tunnel. Very nice guy as well...
San Antonio Spurs 109, Denver Nuggets 103: Coach Pop thought the defense was terrible, so he went zone for the win
by Andrew A. McNeill
48 Minutes of
AT&T CENTER — When you hate something enough, change it up. That was what Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich thought on Wednesday night at the AT&T Center. Coach Pop couldn’t stand the defense being played by his Spurs, so in the third quarter he switched it up and put San Antonio in a zone.
The result was a fourth quarter that saw the Spurs outscore the Nuggets 29-14 en route to a 109-103 win.
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I'm watching the Denver game from a few days ago as I never got to see anything except the 4th quarter. Nene is still getting no calls on a bunch of crazy fouls. That guy has the refs in his freaking pocket!
We got really lucky that we didn't face the Nuggets at full strength last night. Watching Carmelo reminds me what a bullet dodge that was.
Views from the other side:
Melo-less Nuggets blow fourth-quarter lead, fall to Spurs
By Chris Dempsey
The Denver Post
SAN ANTONIO — The losses that cut the deepest are the ones a person feels could have been prevented.
On Wednesday, Nuggets coach George Karl had that kind of night. He beat himself up the most in a heartbreaking, 109-103 loss to the San Antonio Spurs at the AT&T Center.
And all because of a zone defense.
Read more: Melo-less Nuggets blow fourth-quarter lead, fall to Spurs - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_...#ixzz18xSchmk4
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