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AJ!
I was just watching the game and he had Dirk in there with the Mavs up by 40...
Classy move.
Yeah this guy is a real Spur...retire his jersey.
As usual it was all about making AJ look good and anyone else.
You can no longer be an AJ fan and a Spurfan...you have to be one or the other...the man is the enemy and hopefully Pop and the Spurs realize it...
Do you?
I do
AJ!
Thats what I was thinking too when he brought back in Keith Van Horn and they were throwing behind the head passes for dunks.
Its in on now es.
Is this sarcasm? I sure hope so.
Meh, we weren't helping matters by running the score down...
You leave us to lick our wounds and cultivate our hate...
Mav Fan!
Wow she miraculously shows up tonight.
Where was she for the first three ass whoopings.
Its not sarcasm its truth,
WTF is a supposedly HURT Nowitzki doing in a blowout.
Running up the score.
War time.
Spurminator...there are no libertarians in basketball...
Grow the Hate!
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DALLAS (AP) -- Beating the San Antonio Spurs just isn't the same when they're missing Tim Duncan. That is, unless you can make it as memorable as the Dallas Mavericks did Thursday night.
With Devin Harris starting a fast break by throwing a backward, overhead pass while falling down and Jerry Stackhouse setting up another layup with a behind-the-back pass in the lane, the Mavs resoundingly avoided a season sweep by their division nemesis with a 104-68 victory that was interesting at the end just to see how historic it would be.
The answer: Dallas enjoyed its most lopsided win over the Spurs and tied the fewest points allowed in franchise history, while San Antonio endured its biggest rout since falling to Seattle by 38 in a meaningless finale in 2001. The Spurs also went 0-for-12 on 3-pointers, the most misses in team history without one made and just three shy of the NBA record.
``It was pretty embarrassing,'' said San Antonio guard Manu Ginobili, who scored two points on 1-of-9 shooting and missed all four of his free throws. ``Today was awful.''
The Mavs led the entire way, with the game tied only at 2. They held San Antonio to just 27 points during the middle two quarters, with the Spurs shooting 2-for-17 in the third period. Put another way, Dallas had as many highlight-reel baskets in the quarter as San Antonio did overall while sinking toward a sixth straight road loss since their two-time MVP was injured.
``He would've made a difference,'' Stackhouse said, smiling, ``but I don't think he would've made a 40-point difference.''
Keith Van Horn scored 10 of his 17 points in a row during the impressive third quarter and Dirk Nowitzki, who was a game-time decision because of a sore right ankle, had 16 points and eight rebounds in 27 minutes. He left after exchanging shoves and words with Nazr Mohammed early in the fourth quarter, when the rout began leading to plenty of rough stuff.
The Mavs treated their 150th straight sellout crowd to quite a show, and gave new coach Avery Johnson a 1-0 edge against one of his mentors, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich.
Johnson, the starting point guard on San Antonio's first le team and still among the most popular players in franchise history, is becoming pretty popular to Mavs fans, too. Dallas is 9-2 since he replaced Don Nelson, and his emphasis on defense never stood out as much as this game.
Consider one long San Antonio possession early in the third quarter: Center Erick Dampier fouled Ginobili outside the 3-point, then swatted his shot in the lane. Ginobili got the ball back near the top of the key, was fouled by Josh Howard, then drove again and had the ball stripped by Nowitzki.
``I think we were able to put them on their heels with our defense,'' Stackhouse said.
Still, it was the offense that made it so exciting, starting with an 8-0 run to open the second half that Nowitzki capped by slamming a miss by Jason Terry.
Tony Parker drove for San Antonio's first basket, then Van Horn got going. He had a finger roll, a steal-and-dunk, a three-point play, another steal-and-dunk then a free throw.
When he got to the line, fans were still buzzing about his last dunk, which began when Van Horn deflected a pass on defense. Harris lunged to control it and wound up facing the basket the Spurs were shooting at, but threw it over his head and hit Van Horn in stride on one bounce.
Soon after, Stackhouse passed up a probable layup by flicking the ball behind him to Marquis Daniels, who put it in for a 70-40 lead.
Daniels finished with 13 points, Alan Henderson had 12 and Howard 11. In yet another example of what a rout this was, Johnson said before the game that Daniels and Henderson likely will be left out of his playoff rotation.
All 12 Mavs scored, thanks to Shawn Bradley hitting a free throw in the closing seconds. More significant was a 3-pointer by Darrell Armstrong with 5:11 left -- it continued Dallas' streak of consecutive games with a 3 to 521 in a row.
About the only thing that went wrong for the Mavericks was letting Mike Wilks hit a short jumper with 13.3 seconds left, preventing them from giving up their fewest points. Team owner Mark Cuban told the players on the bench how close they were, so they were all standing up and rooting for one last defensive stand.
``They just got a lucky little putback,'' Stackhouse said.
Brent Barry led San Antonio with 12 points and Parker had 11 and no assists. Every player scored except starting forward Robert Horry.
Dallas' previous biggest win over the Spurs was 32 points in January 1989. ... The Spurs need to win their final seven to match their most wins in franchise history, 62. ... Although the Mavs have lost 12 home games, they've now won a season-best six in a row and are perfect under Johnson.
Fuel the Hate.
Oh man, you CAUGHT me TPark! I've been here the last few days. Maybe you didn't notice with your head up your ass.
I am beginning to hate the Mavericks.
Hey, they got scoreboard. The Spurs suck.
Whottt is such a baby. AJ coached his team like Pop would have coached the Spurs. How many times does Pop keep Duncan in the game even though the Spurs are up by a lot at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
You are pathetic.
I'll apologize for AJ for giving you nightmares, ya wuss.
I wanna see Stackhouse's quotes after they lose in the playoffs.
I didnt notice you here after the first three games thats true.Maybe you didn't notice with your head up your ass.
I've always disliked AJ. Maybe now some people will STFU about retiring his Jersey.
Last edited by AFE7FATMAN; 04-08-2005 at 12:15 AM. Reason: spelling
Preach it fatman!
Don't let the AJ fans get between you and your team...and confuse you...
I bet half of them were cheering loudly in the 4th...if you know what I mean
Ive soured on AJ ever since this summer he turned down the Spurs and went to Dallas.
If he was a true Spur he wouldve come back home.
Period.
Whottt is a girly man. He can't take compe ion.
They need to give Avery's number out to someone else right now.
Wasn't Ginobili going to take it?
With all due respect TimVP...why so defensive? I am just one lonely little voice on a message board sticking up for my team
Is this AJ Talk or Spurs Talk?
Don't worry...the AJ Nazis already have the fix in for the jersey, and the honest sentiment expressed by true Spurfans will be squashed by the AJ apologists long before the truth reachs mainstream SA...
And hey...maybe AJ will treat his fans to a 50 point blowout at the SBC with Nowitzki and Finley playing 48 minutes, at his jersey retirement...wooo boy.
Big bad AJ is playing like a meanie. He should be the Spurs color commentator then I'd like him.
AJ laying the lumber"A lot of good things happened tonight," Avery Johnson said after facing his former team for the first time since becoming Dallas' head coach, "against a good basketball team that didn't play the way they were capable."
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