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Don't forget the beating we put on the lakers in games 1 and 2 in 04.
Spurs still have to win one of the next two.
Sure, a 30-point whuppin gives them some doubt, but Denver is still exactly where they hoped to be.
The Spurs have to come out with the same determination they did in the Clips-Warriors double OT B2Bs. If they win game 3, then it's entirely possible they finish in five. They lose game 3, I think we're looking at a 7-game series.
Nice to see some minutes from Devin and Rasho.
Don't forget the beating we put on the lakers in games 1 and 2 in 04.
hey let us enjoy this win for a little....
I think they win, then lose, then win 2 more. Spurs in 6. But it would be nice to get it in 5!
NATURALLY
i was waiting for a dumbass thread like this
No doubt. But I spursed-out today at school and seriously someone in each class had some comment about why im wearing my hat AND my shirt, and i was like so fired up all day just waiting for this game!!!
i knew we'd put the hurt on those NUGGZ
Sure it's not up to the usual level of insightful intelligence we've come to expect from you, but it's the best I could come up with.
Yeah, we're still behind in the series as far as I'm concerned.
It's too bad 30-point ass rapings only count as one win.
Good post. The Spurs have to come out focused again on Saturday. If they lose that game, there is a tremendous amount of pressure on them yet again.
Remember, Denver has only lost once at home since Karl took over. It isn't going to be easy.
AWWWWWWWWW MAN
for real i thought this meant wegon win the championship!!!
Until we win one in Denver, we haven't really done anything yet.
And expecting our team to shoot 60% from the three point line is fool's gold.
this is a young denver team
spurs pounded them good
game 3 is big now
spurs win by double digits on saturday it is OVER
denver is not the lakers they do not have the playoff experince the lakers did
Agreed!
Game 3 becomes game 1 of a best-of-5 series. Spurs have regained confidence. Now the real test is to win on road. The same determination and urgency must be continued. Winning game 3 is crucial to the winning the whole series.
Denver came out tonight like a team that already got what it wanted (a split on the road).
Too true. I thought that was evident in the way the Nuggets warmed up before the game. Almost too loose. They didn't seem to have much intensity about this one, even though it could have dealt a death blow to the Spurs. They offered up a pretty good punch for the first 6 minutes or so of the 3rd, but the Spurs (mostly Manu, I thought) responded and that was that. The Spurs have to expect a big punch early on Saturday and they must respond to that when it comes.
Very similar, I think, to the way that Game 3 went in Memphis last year. Memphis came out like gangbusters in that game, but the Spurs responded with good shooting and some intense defense, which allowed them to recover and eventually build a lead. I'd expect a very similar effort from the Nuggets, and the Spurs must match that intensity and effort.
If Barry, Ginobili, Parker, Bowen, and Udrih, are THAT open, in game 3??
Yes I expect to shoot 60%.
therein lies the rub. they won't.
I guess that 4 down was ok tonight.
It was run quite a bit in the 2nd quarter.
You know what TPark? 4 down doesn't suck in the second quarter, or the first, or the third...It's the gateway to other things and good games by other players...It's when it's the predictable option in the 4th that it sucks.
So if it works in the second, you totally change what your doing in the middle of a game?
interesting concept.
I think what won the game was agresssiveness, not letting the Nuggets get second chances, and cutting way down on the turnovers.
Yes you change it...because it's not good play when people know it's coming, it's death...it's a TO causing play that puts enormous pressure on Duncan, it basically forces him to have to do it all by himself, and it takes other players out of the game at a time when they most need to be in the game.
It takes away our momentum and more often than not allows the other team to get back in the game.
When you got Manu, Parker, Barry...you really need to use their offensive skills...guards make the best ball handlers...and it does no good to have great guards if you just have them camping out when the game is in the crucial moments.
There's a difference between mixing it in with other plays in the second quarter and running it for twelve ing minutes of basketball in the fourth quarter of every tight game in the last 6 years of Spurs playoff basketball.
You are such a hypocrit Tpark. In games where everyone on our team is hitting everything they shoot and could probably hit 50% from beyond midcourt, you hold that up as proof that the plays work and Pop knows what he's doing.
Anyone could coach the Spurs when they're up 31 at half. It's when it's a tight game coming down the stretch of a playoff game where Pop puckers up and goes into hyperconservative mode on offense that gets us in trouble.
we ran 4 down for like the entire beginning of the first quarter and duncan responded every time, thereby setting the tone for the game and leading into the events that followed
Serious, people are on here beating their chests over us playing pissed off, meeting a young, content, naive Denver team tonight and taking care of business.
This isn't about managing blowouts. This is about Pop's tendencies when the Spurs are down 2-3 points late, or holding on by 2 or 3 late.
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