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+1. Just brought that up and posted the next 10 games, should be fun to watch.
good win in an ugly game.
+1. Just brought that up and posted the next 10 games, should be fun to watch.
Couldn't catch most of the game. Good win nonetheless. Holding the Blazers to 78 points and all. They are basically a scrub team at this point and the Spurs needed to take advantage of such teams.
Portland looked kind of tired tbh but a win is a win. Good sloppy old-school-Spurs game.
Did everybody see Blair try to take a rebound from Udoka. I hate guys who are all about the stats. I hated Finely because he would never take a shot at the end of the quarter and I hate Blair for taking rebounds from his teammates. What a great player oh I love this guy.
Nice win though.
he couldnt see udoka
I think Spurs should always win home games and they'll be favored to do.We're really going to see what the Spurs are made of these next 10 games guys:
Wed 15 vs Milwaukee (Always give the Spurs fits)
Thu 16 @ Denver (2nd night of a back to back IN Denver)
Sat 18 vs Memphis (Always play the Spurs tough as well)
Mon 20 vs Phoenix (Need I say more?)
Wed 22 vs Denver (Denver again)
Thu 23 @ Orlando (2nd night of a back to back IN Orlando, tough)
Sun 26 vs Washington
Tue 28 vs LA Lakers (1st game against LA this year)
Thu 30 @ Dallas (1st game for the Spurs IN Dallas this year, payback time)
Sat 01 vs Oklahoma City (OKC's picked it up this year)
They'll lose to Orlando and Dallas on the road. 28-5.
Nice win. Now we have to get ready for the difficult back to back.
22-3, here we go (at least).
spurs beat dallas book it
tough games wed/thurs.
Can't wait for the next game which I think will be daunting. GSG
They played Friday, same as us.
Hill will compete for the 6th man of the year
It would be a trap game if WAS wasn't a team that will pick in the top 5 again. They're really bad. The Clippers are bad but have a ton of talent. Outside of Wall, Washington is lacking in that department.
One thing i took from this game is dice & bonner can not play together... have to get that fixed... it should be blair/duncan, blair/dice, splitter/bonner, bonner/duncan....
Blatche has some talent. McGee does as well. Not really offensive, but shot blocking/rebounding/defensive talent.
+1. Those two guys have been pretty solid this year, add Wall into the mix, and they CAN be dangerous.
Did everybody see Blair try to take a rebound from Udoka. I hate guys who are all about the stats. I hated Finely because he would never take a shot at the end of the quarter and I hate Blair for taking rebounds from his teammates. What a great player oh I love this guy.
Nice win though.
Nothing malicious there, why do you think we call him the "Beast"?
He just needs to be fed...
3 games in 4 days with a depleted injured team. I'm surprised they were in a winning streak tbh.
Even Nick Young has shown flashes. But they still have a long way to go. All teams have some young players that show things from time to time, but there is more to building a legit team.
Is alonzo gee still starting for the wiz?
Lately no, Thornton returned and took back his starting spot.
Some post-game quotes.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2010121224Spurs coast past Blazers for 5th straight win
By Paul J. Weber
Tim Duncan left the bench and headed toward the scorer’s table midway through the fourth quarter. Surely, the San Antonio Spurs were in trouble and calling on their All-Star bedrock to once again save them.
Not really.
Duncan had eight points and 13 rebounds in his 1,000th career regular-season game, but the Spurs hardly needed him while cruising to a fifth straight win with a 95-78 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday.
George Hill scored 22 in the fourth straight blowout for the Spurs, who improved the NBA’s best record to 20-3. They were well in control when Duncan re-entered the game with six minutes left to log his fist fourth-quarter appearance in four games.
So what was the deal, anyway?
“I think (coach Gregg Popovich’s) philosophy this year is to try not to play me in the fourth quarter at all, whether we’re winning or losing,” Duncan said. “I think he thinks our team is better without me out there. I’ve been trying to disprove him at some point.”
Wesley Matthews scored 17 points for the Trail Blazers, whose winning streak was halted at four games. LaMarcus Aldridge scored 16 and Marcus Camby added 11 points and 13 rebounds.
The Trail Blazers lost for the first time since ending a demoralizing six-game skid that included a players-only meeting, coach Nate McMillan saying his team wasn’t “responding to him” and Aldridge and others publicly supporting their head coach.
Portland, while disappointed, took this loss much easier.
“I thought we, as a unit, were staggered,” McMillan said. “We didn’t have the movement and they were physical and trying to disrupt the timing.”
Brandon Roy had just nine points on 4-of-16 shooting, and Portland had just three scorers in double figures. The Blazers matched their season low for points while shooting just 38 percent.
Portland’s Nicolas Batum scored just five points on 2 of 9 shooting after going 0 for 7 in a win Friday night at Phoenix.
Roy, who was held to nine points for the second time in three games, said he tweaked his knee early in the game and that it was “a little sore going” the rest of the way. Roy missed three games last month with an injury to his left knee.
“I still got some looks, but I really didn’t have the explosiveness,” he said.
Roy said he expects to play Monday at Memphis.
Manu Ginobili added 18 points for the Spurs, Tony Parker had 14 and reserve Gary Neal added 11. San Antonio improved to 5-0 on its longest homestand of the season and can end it unbeaten with a victory Wednesday night against Milwaukee.
Duncan has lately been watching the Spurs coast along while resting on the bench, where the Spurs want to see their perennial All-Star as much as possible. The last time Duncan was truly essential in the fourth was Dec. 3 against Minnesota, when he finished with 22 points and 10 rebounds.
Remarkably, the Spurs haven’t seen or needed those Duncan-like games during the best start in franchise history. Popovich wants to limit the wear-and-tear on his 34-year-old star, and so far the plan is working: Duncan entered the game averaging a career-low 28.8 minutes.
“As the minutes continue to drop and I’m not in the fourth quarter, I’m going to become unbearable on the bench and pretty much annoy him to the point where he has to put me in,” Duncan said. “That’s my goal.”
Notes: The Trail Blazers have lost five of six on the road. … Although Duncan reached the four-digit milestone Sunday for games played in the regular season, the 34-year-old was appearing in his 1,171st game, counting the playoffs.
San Antonio Spurs 95, Portland Trail Blazers 78: At long last, 48 minutes of
by Jesse Blanchard
48 Minutes of
AT&T CENTER–Now 23 games into the regular season, and off to a franchise-best 20-3 start, it’s hard to find fault so far. But today showed the first glimpse of a happy post game Gregg Popovich as the San Antonio Spurs finally looked a little like the San Antonio Spurs.
Earlier in the season our own Timothy Varner stated that the Spurs defense has become less and less about 48 minutes of , and increasingly 48 minutes of what the .
For all the talk about steals and pace and new approaches, Popovich claims he still holds true to his simplistic analysis of a game, glancing only at field goal percentage and rebounds. In their 95-78 win over Portland, the Spurs finally produced a box score their head coach can be proud of.
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