Game Blog: Spurs @ Raptors, February 11 2009

[EricB]

Do you?

Perfectly well.

Apparently you don't.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

I will not use the tired excuse Ruff. Every other team in the NBA has to play through it. Will not use the tired excuse.

It's not an excuse, it's an observation. They look tired.

People around here act like the team somehow relies on excuses when they lose - they don't at all, they simply get beaten by a better team on the night and always own up to it.

Also, we are 18/23 and simply will not win every game in a season, although by the way people around here react to any loss you'd think they expect us to go 82-0. Grow the up, I say!

[EricB]

All season I've been explaining to the cliff-jumping wankers around here (you know who you are) that we are a second half team against lesser opposition, that we'd spark in the second half, turn up the intensity and win the game. Just about every time I've been right (the exception would be Milwaukee, but they are an exception in and of themselves - they have our number somehow?!).

However, today is a danger game and I won't make the same claim I usually do. We look tired, it's the last game before the break (often a mental letdown game), and we can't do a thing right by the refs, so I see us as a 50-50 proposition to win this when usually in a game like this I'd be saying we are a lock.

It all depends on whether TP has the legs to keep penetrating, and what pop can coax out of the bench.

Fingers crossed.

i had a bit of hope there for a minute that Ginobili might pull out the same magic he did last year in Toronto.

Turn up the D a bit, get guys like Mason and or Bonner to make some shots and the game will swing back the other way.

[Brazil]

We cannot loose the day of the return of SD ! not gonna happen

[InK]

Him being about third or 4th on the depth charts of the second worst team in the eastern conference makes him a stiff.

He is a euro rookie pg, its hard to get into rotation of any nba team.

[EricB]

He is a euro rookie pg, its hard to get into rotation of any nba team.

I agree with this

Signed,

George Hill and Beno Udrih.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Do you?

Eric, he speaks Shadowankese: it is a language fraught with desparation and riddled with over-reaction and defeatism... such an ugly language that one tends towards the ignore function, but somehow stays away from it in morbid fascination - how will he own himself next???

[Reck]

Perfectly well.

Apparently you don't.

Well then you might want to use proper capital letters when need be. Such as the word "English".

[sonic21]

I agree with this

Signed,

George Hill and Beno Udrih.

... and Tony

[EricB]

Well then you might want to use proper capital letters when need be. Such as the word "English".

When you can actually put a REAL sentence together, then I think you can play mavis beacon.

Until then. Do the world a favor and break your keyboard.

[EricB]

... and Tony

and Chris Paul
Derron Williams


and on and on and on.

Third string on the second worst team in the East.

Again...

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Him being about third or 4th on the depth charts of the second worst team in the eastern conference makes him a stiff.

Well, he's not 4th or 3rd, he's their backup (AP shifted across from the 2 to start), and he was only drafted last year (in other words, how could he be anywhere else?), so actually, no.

[EricB]

I think Matty is a bit gassed.

[Reck]

When you can actually put a REAL sentence together, then I think you can play mavis beacon.

Until then. Do the world a favor and break your keyboard.

I think you are suffering from re ation. Go read your initial post to me Mr. Professor.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Good, Manu starting 2nd half. No invisible Finley.

[loveforthegame]

Is Finley done for the night?

[EricB]

I think you are suffering from re ation. Go read your initial post to me Mr. Professor.

No its quite known your the re . More than one person has pointed this out.

[EricB]

As i said, either Mason or Bonner.

I'll take the Mase heatin up

[loveforthegame]

Mason waking up.

[EricB]

Is Finley done for the night?

Doubtfull.

Pop will do this about 5 or 6 times a year when the team is tired to inject some energy.

Seems like its workin OK so far.

[EricB]

Good, Manu starting 2nd half. No invisible Finley.

I've got it.

Finley ghosted you the last time you were in town for an autograph

[raspsa]

Spurs cut deficit to 1.. they're a 3rdQ team

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Well then you might want to use proper capital letters when need be. Such as the word "English".

Been led by the Raptors? ROTFL!

Hmmmmm... and maybe you should learn to use the word "being", although even if you did that would be a fragment, not a sentence.

Tool.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Spurs cut deficit to 1.. they're a 3rdQ team

Dude, get your own shtick.

[loveforthegame]

I just noticed Finley has 3 fouls as well so that might have been a factor also.