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its a certainty at this point
I know.....Chuck and Kenny need to start calling being out for lack of effort. Truly pathetic execution down the stretch
its a certainty at this point
Why doesn't Pop play our 3 pt. shooters when we need them?
When Hill missed those 2 freethrows, I had a bad feeling about this one.
Why did Pop bring in Dice and not return back to Blair?
Why was Finley even playing in this game?
Where is Mason and Bonner?
I am so tired of losing in the same fashion every time.
What is Pop thinking?
I really thought that we were gonna lose this game, but they gave me hope and it is just frustrating to watch them play like this.
Why is it that Howard turns back the clock whenever he sees the Spurs?
Why did Pop play RJ at the end when he wasn't shooting or being a threat to shoot?
This allows teams to double Timmy and cause turnovers because they were playing 5 on 2.
Again, where was Blair at the end?
Pop is making me ill with his lineup decisons...Finley please
I am finished with my rant in this post.
I am just sad about this team now.
Pop should have left Timmy on the bench. He NEVER showed up in the 4th at all. He let Howard take his manhood.
It's Lottery time!!!
No ?! They should have won this game. Don't tell me to calm down. I am perfectly calm. Just disappointed.
We lost to Denver without Melo. And now a very battered Portland team.
We ed. Hope we find another Blair this summer.
why Does Kenny hate on every great shooter?
The longer he is retired the greater smith was in his OWN mind ...
Collins did. His words within 1:00 were, "I can see why the Spurs have lost some games now this year. You can just see that their execution has not been crisp. They had the lead, they were playing well...." I hope Chuck and Kenny are right but damn... Collins is spot on saying what everyone on this board already knows.
This team reminds me of that Washington Redskins team that went all out and bought the best players to win a championship that year and did not even made the playoffs. Why? Lack of chemistry between the players.
thank god they broadcast real nba on duncan's 20 000 points here in australia
helps cool myself down after that frustrating game
If we're this angry I wonder how angry Peter Holt is????
I feel bad for Peter Holt because he went along with RC & Pop thinking like all of us that we really had a good chance at another le. I just can't believe that RJ, Dice & Bogans show NO heart. They need to man up and give their salaries back to Holt.
That TMAC was sick ...
But respect the gangsta ... Kobe was sick in that decade ...
lebron is taking over this year ...still needs le ...
Right about now Peter is thinking "It really sucks to be me right about now"
Pop is going to have a hard sell convincing Peter to go over the luxury tax again.
Updated.
Blazers rally for 96-93 victory over Spurs
By Anne M. Peterson
Resiliency is the Trail Blazers’ trademark this season.
Despite a slew of injuries—the most recent to All-Star guard Brandon Roy— Portland has managed to win in unexpected ways.
Case in point: Thursday night’s 96-93 come-from-behind victory over the San Antonio Spurs.
“You’ve got to be tenacious,” Webster said. “You can’t have any letdowns. If things don’t go your way you don’t carry it with you. We did that tonight and walked out of here with this win.”
The Spurs, boosted by the return of Tony Parker, led by 10 points early in the fourth quarter but the Blazers made it 85-83 on Nicolas Batum’s layup.
After Manu Ginobili hit a jumper for the Spurs, Martell Webster’s 3-pointer narrowed it to 87-86 with 3:38 left.
Aldridge hit a jumper with 2:54 left to give the Blazers the lead and Webster dropped another 3 to make it 91-87 with 22.9 seconds to go.
With the victory, Portland swept the three-game series over San Antonio this season. The Blazers have won their last five against the Spurs.
Webster finished with 21 points and made all five of his 3-pointers.
“I was just living in the moment. It was a great feeling,” Webster said. “I’m glad we got that win and the tiebreaker in case it counts for something down the road.”
Ginobili led the Spurs with 21 points and Tim Duncan had 15 points and 12 rebounds.
“Handled the ball well all night then turned it over down the stretch and didn’t shoot well,” San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said. “The combination of poor shooting and the turnovers down the stretch gave us the loss.”
Parker missed the previous three games with a mid left ankle sprain. Parker, who started, pounced on the Blazers early with 16 first-half points and 18 for the game.
Portland remained without All-Star guard Brandon Roy, who continues to nurse a left hamstring injury.
Roy, who is averaging 23.1 points, has missed 11 of the Blazers’ last 12 games. He was originally hurt during the third quarter of the Blazers’ 120-108 home win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Jan. 13.
Portland coach Nate McMillan said before the game that he is hopeful Roy will return for Saturday night’s game at home against the Los Angeles Lakers.
“This year we’ve lost to the Blazers twice without Brandon Roy, lost to Denver without Carmelo,” Spurs forward Richard Jefferson said. “We just haven’t played well and hit shots the last six minutes of the game.”
George Hill’s jumper put the Spurs ahead 46-38 midway through the second quarter but Portland tied it at 46 after three consecutive baskets from rookie Dante Cunningham.
The Blazers took a 49-48 lead on Webster’s 3-pointer, but the Spurs went into halftime with a 53-51 edge.
Ginobili hit consecutive 3-pointers to put the Spurs up 74-66 at the end of the third and San Antonio began to pull away.
Roy’s injury was the latest to strike the Blazers. The team lost center Greg Oden and Joel Przybilla to season-ending injuries. Forwards Batum and Rudy Fernandez each missed a significant number of games with injury, and forward Travis Outlaw remains out with a fractured foot.
Portland was coming off a 118-105 loss to the Jazz in Utah on Wednesday night. The Spurs were also playing the second of a back-to-back after a 115-113 victory at Sacramento.
NOTES: The last time the two teams met, Roy also watched from the bench with a sore shoulder. Jerryd Bayless made his first career start and scored a career-high 31 points with seven assists to help Portland to a 98-94 road victory on Dec. 23. … It is the first time that Portland has swept the season series against the Spurs since 1996-97.
Last edited by duncan228; 02-05-2010 at 02:36 AM.
After 48 Games
1997-98 San Antonio Spurs
34-14
1999-00 San Antonio Spurs
31-17
2000-01 San Antonio Spurs
32-16
2001-02 San Antonio Spurs
31-17
2002-03 San Antonio Spurs*
32-16
2003-04 San Antonio Spurs
30-18
2004-05 San Antonio Spurs*
38-10
2005-06 San Antonio Spurs
38-10
2006-07 San Antonio Spurs*
32-16
2007-08 San Antonio Spurs
32-16
2008-09 San Antonio Spurs
33-15
2009-10 San Antonio Spurs
28-20
Unprecedented area the Spurs are stepping into right now.
^ if you'd have told me during preseason that Phoenix would have more wins and less losses than us at this point of the season, I'd have laughed.
You are missing a year.
Then again, that might have been a good idea since you would have put an asterisk next to it.
28-20 is pathetic and that was our easy part of the schedule.
some of these guys play like they're counting on the big 3 to pick up the slack for them. everyone but the big 3 + blair and hill should be on the trading block.
FEBRUARY
9 Games
22 Days
2 Home
7 Road
+.500 (5) (3 Road)
-.500 (4)
MARCH
17 Games
30 Days
7 Home
10 Road
+.500 (11) (7 Road)
-.500 (6)
6 Back-to-Backs
APRIL
8 Games
12 Days
3 Home
5 Road
+.500 (6) (4 Road)
-.500 (2)
2 Back-to-Backs
March/April are extremely brutal
At this point we'd be fortunate to get to 45 wins. That's thinking optimistically. Which ironically, is pathetic.
I knew it, unfortunately.
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