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Good luck for tonight....go spurs go!
The wait is becoming excruciatingly painful. GO SPURS GO!
Good luck for tonight....go spurs go!
Yeah, time is crawling to a standstill
I'm nervous. Time is coming!
The timing on Pop's timeouts will be crucial in this game. I think a timeout should be called at any inkling of a hornets run.
Already 6 pages in the game thread and we still have hours to go before the game!
my moustache is 14-2 in the playoffs dating back to last year against phoenix... no worries... we've got this.
I was just about to say this.
as an aside, I wonder how many new registrars we have after the newspaper article... I see one here, there's bound to be more.
........and please please please lay off the Hack-a-???
Looking at the stats real quick, I've noticed that David West has yet to have back to back good games...
game 1: 32 (loss)
game 2: 10 (loss)
game 3: 23 (win)
game 4: 10 (win)
game 5: 38 (loss)
game 6: 10 (win)
this worries me a bit as it might mean that he's due for a big game... but I think as long as we keep him from scoring 2 games worth of points (high 20's - 30's) and effectively limit their open looks, then we should be looking good. but it also show that we can lose when he plays ty and we can win when he plays good... as evidenced by games 2 and 3 respectively.
i think that as long as they double CP on the perimeter and not on the drive we'll be fine... it's when they double him on the drive that he just flips it up there to the doubling big man's guy and they get the easy 2 points.
as much as i hate hack a chandler or hack a ely...i think it has it's uses... especially at the end of quarters when you dont want to give up a three.
Pop will only go to Hack-a-_______ in this game if he can get the 2-for-1 position out of it at the end of a quarter.
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Believe!
Let's do this and move on!!!!!
This thread reaches page 100 tonight. Book it!
I think the crowd tonite is going to have the Hornets playing in a frenzy early on and that their adrenaline is going to be to their detriment by trying to do too many things too fast.
Spurs need to jump on them and keep pounding it, getting that lead as high as possible for the inevitable runs NO's will make once they settle down.
Hornets' magical season, or Spurs' defense, to end
By BRETT MARTEL, AP Sports Writer
Posted May 18 2008 6:10PM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Jannero Pargo spun through the air on a one-handed dunk attempt, stuffed himself on the front rim and fell backward onto the court while his New Orleans Hornets teammates buckled over in laughter.
Tyson Chandler, showing no lingering effects from a foot injury last Tuesday, quickly grabbed a ball and mocked the whole sequence - fall included.
If the young Hornets are nervous about Monday night's Game 7 against the defending champion San Antonio Spurs, it didn't show after practice on Sunday.
Chandler joked that having three days off after Thursday's Game 6 loss helped his conditioning because he was able to spend more time with his 2-year-old daughter.
"She may be a little tougher to chase around than Tim Duncan,'' Chandler said. "She's been a handful out there - no disrespect to Tim Duncan. He knows he's my guy.''
No Hornets team has advanced to a conference finals in the 20-year history of the franchise. However, this squad, led by first-year All-Stars Chris Paul and David West, already has led the organization to new heights, including a franchise-record 56 victories in the regular season.
That mark earned the Hornets the second seed in the Western Conference and what seems to be an all-important home advantage in this second-round series. The home team has won every game by double digits. The Hornets have yet to lose in six home playoff games during the first two rounds of the playoffs.
"We knew it was going to be a long series, the type of team we're dealing with,'' said West, whose sore back didn't stop him from scrimmaging on Sunday and apparently won't keep him out of the lineup on Monday night.
"The reason we fought out games throughout the regular season was to be able to have a Game 7 on your home floor. We've been able to do that, so we've got to take advantage of the opportunity we have.''
This is also the first time the Hornets have faced elimination in these playoffs, something the Spurs overcame in Game 6 in San Antonio, when the Spurs blew out the Hornets, led by Manu Ginobili's 25 points.
"You've just got to be very focused, knowing that you can't blink, that you can't let the other team get on a run, get confident on a run,'' said Ginobili, who made six 3-pointers in Game 6. "It's going to be a really tense game with a lot of adrenaline. Fans are going to be going nuts. So it's going to be a very fun game to play.''
Although the Spurs have won four NBA les in the previous nine seasons, they've never won two back-to-back. They've also never fought back from a 2-0 playoff series deficit, which they had early on in this series. The Spurs were beaten soundly in their previous three games in New Orleans, but in none of those games was their season on the brink as it is now. Whether added urgency makes San Antonio a better road team remains to be seen.
"We'll see if we thrive on pressure after Monday's game. We still don't know,'' Ginobili said. "It's a great test for both teams. A lot of pressure, as I said before, and we're going to try to be the ones that respond to that pressure the best way.''
( WTF, Manu of the Big Metallic Balls? "we'll see" )
While the Hornets appear loose and jovial, there was a poignant moment Sunday when coach Byron Scott gathered players in a huddle and told them he wasn't ready to close the book on what has been a special season.
There has been a certain magic about the Hornets this season, their first full-time campaign in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005.
Paul and West both made their All-Star debuts in the same season that New Orleans hosted the popular exhibition of basketball's elite, then led the Hornets to the playoffs for the first time in four years.
The team incorporated the city's fleur-de-lis symbol into its logo and backed it up by helping with rebuilding projects all over town while offering performances worth cheering on the court.
The New Orleans Arena, often half-empty back in November and December, has been routinely sold out since midseason. Indeed, a city of world-renown culinary distinction now has an undeniable appe e for pro basketball, if only the Hornets can serve up another round of the playoffs.
"I don't want today to be our last practice,'' Scott said Sunday. "I don't want tomorrow to be our last shootaround. I just felt I needed to let them know and hopefully they feel the same way.''
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AP Writer Elizabeth White in San Antonio contributed to this story.
I'm hoping for the Spurs to pull away in the 4th, so I can enjoy the end of the game and Pop can rest the starters, but I think it's gonna be a war, just like the Cavs-Celtics game last night.
GO SPURS GO!!!
2 Hours!!!!!
2 Hours til Game Time!!
Fired up man! ing lets do this already! GAME ON ES!
I'm thinking it would be fine with Scola in game 7. But, no way.
Good luck guys!!!
Let's Go SPURS!
guys, anyone know how can i watch the game live via internet? Thanks!
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