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I still remember that pathetic loss against them last year. Spurs should win this.
Game is Monday, 6:00 CST on NBA TV.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/preview?gid=2011021417San Antonio (45-9) at New Jersey (17-38)
Tipoff: 7:00 pm EST Mon Feb 14, 2011
TV: FSSW, YES
By Jeff Bartl
The San Antonio Spurs were able to rest their starters as they capped a stretch of four games in five nights with a much-needed rout. That probably doesn’t bode well for the New Jersey Nets.
San Antonio faces New Jersey on Monday night looking for its sixth victory in seven games as it nears the end of a nine-game road trip.
Spurs coach Greg Popovich made his first change to the starting five this season in a 118-94 victory over Washington on Saturday, inserting George Hill in place of Manu Ginobili. Hill scored 18 points and went 4 of 4 from 3-point range, while Ginobili played only eight-plus minutes and had six points.
Tim Duncan played 12 minutes - his fewest since Dec. 2, 2007 - and also scored six.
“It’s huge for us,” Ginobili said. “We earned ourselves the possibility to rest a little bit, and it’s well-needed.”
The victory came after San Antonio (46-9) had its worst offensive output in nearly three seasons in a 77-71 loss to Philadelphia on Friday. The Spurs shot a season-low 33.3 percent from the field.
San Antonio made 58.4 percent of its shots Saturday, with Tony Parker scoring 18 points.
“It’s just one of those games,” Parker said. “Coming back from a tough game (Friday), we didn’t shoot the ball well, (Saturday) everything was going in.”
The turnaround helped the Spurs move to 5-2 on their longest trip of the season and improve to an NBA-best 20-7 away from home.
A better-rested San Antonio team will face a New Jersey club that lost for the sixth time in nine games Saturday, 105-95 to New York.
The Knicks, playing without star Amare Stoudemire, shot 47.1 percent from 3-point range as the New Jersey (17-38) missed out on its first three-game winning streak since a four-game run Jan. 31-Feb. 7, 2009.
“With a team like that, with the way they shoot the ball, you’ve got to hold their percentage on 3-pointers down,” said guard Devin Harris, who scored a game-high 22 points but had five turnovers. “We didn’t do a good job of rotating. We gave them wide-open shots in their sweet spots.”
New Jersey may need to improve quickly when it comes to defending the arc. San Antonio went 13 of 25 on 3s on Saturday and is near the top of the league in 3-point shooting at 39.5 percent.
Harris scored 16 points in a win over Charlotte on Friday, and has back-to-back double-digit scoring efforts for the first time since Jan. 24 and 26. He’s averaged 19.8 points in his last five games against San Antonio.
Rookie Derrick Favors had nine points and a season-high 14 rebounds versus the Knicks.
Center Brook Lopez scored 22 points and grabbed 12 boards as the Nets ended a 14-game losing streak against the Spurs with a 90-84 home victory March 29, the teams’ last meeting.
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Team Stat Leaders
Points
Manu Ginobili SA 17.8
Brook Lopez NJ 19.6
Rebounds
Tim Duncan SA 9.2
Kris Humphries NJ 9.4
Assists
Tony Parker SA 6.7
Devin Harris NJ 7.7
I still remember that pathetic loss against them last year. Spurs should win this.
I'll be there!!! Finally found courtside tix right in front of the Spurs bench for a reasonable price!!!
yeah, i had tix right behind the Spurs bench for the Laker's game. it was my first time sitting so close. before the game started i thought i'd be able to hear everyone talking on the bench but unfortunately it's too loud.
Sounds fun. When you say in front of their bench, you must mean directly across the court from them....?? Make a lot of noise!!
I'll be actually in the 2nd row behind the rim, close to the bench... something like this:Sounds fun. When you say in front of their bench, you must mean directly across the court from them....?? Make a lot of noise!!
First time at the Prudential Center since they moved out of Continental Arena... should be fun...
Hope you have a great time !
http://www.nj.com/nets/index.ssf/201...n_wants_1.htmlNets coach Avery Johnson wants team to be known for its outside game
By Colin Stephenson/The Star-Ledger
Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov once said he doesn’t want his team to emulate the Knicks — that he’d rather copy the two-time defending NBA champion Lakers, instead.
But there is one thing the Knicks do that Nets coach Avery Johnson would love to make part of his team’s makeup.
Johnson wants the Nets to become a fearsome 3-point shooting team, as their cross-river rivals have proved themselves to be.
The Knicks dropped 16 3-pointers in defeating the Nets, 105-95, in the Prudential Center on Saturday night, and if Johnson has his way, the Nets will be doing that to people in the future.
“Oh yeah,” Johnson said when asked if he wants his team to become known for its 3-point shooting. “This is the way the game is now. That’s why (the Nets’ 3-point shooters) will tell you they do not have any restrictions on 3s. As much as people want to say about us being a little bit more disciplined team, I’m liberal in that area, especially with guys who can shoot 3s.”
With Anthony Morrow, Sasha Vujacic, Jordan Farmar and even Travis Outlaw, Johnson believes the Nets have a good quartet of 3-point shooters. “When those guys are on from behind the 3-point line, we could be a pretty impressive 3-point shooting team,” Johnson said. “When three out of four of those guys are on, we’re better in all facets of our game.”
Looking back: Johnson had the best years of his playing career playing with the San Antonio Spurs under Gregg Popovich, including winning an NBA championship in 1999. So it’s only natural that, as a coach, he should do at least some things the same way the Spurs did them when he was a player.
According to Devin Harris, the Nets’ defense is very similar to the Spurs’.
“Our system is sort of the same,” Harris said.
As such, Harris said, the Nets ought to know how to attack the Spurs’ defense when they play them Monday night at the Prudential Center. The key, he said, is to attack them in transition.
“With a team like that, you’ve got to push the pace,” he said. “You don’t want to go against their half-court defense because it’s solid. We’ve got to push the ball, and try to score in the first 6, 7 seconds. We don’t want to spend a lot time in their half-court defense.”
Thank you!
Yup...it's gonna be another blowout.
Manu didn't play last season... it was BS... I only found out when I got there...
TP didnt play also, i thinkManu didn't play last season... it was BS... I only found out when I got there...
I will be there as well. Representin Spurs fans in NJ.
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...nding-minutes/Popovich minding minutes
Jeff McDonald
Spurs guard Manu Ginobili is expected to return to the starting lineup tonight at New Jersey after a one-game shift to the bench Saturday night in Washington, meant to mitigate the effects of four games in five nights.
...If there’s one thing Ginobili’s brief return to the bench underscores, however, it is Popovich’s commitment to keeping his older veterans rested and fresh.
“If you start him, he’s going to have more minutes,” Popovich said, explaining Saturday’s lineup decision. “We wanted to bring him off the bench, so that if we needed him in the end, he wouldn’t have so many minutes on him.”
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Nets coach pounding the rock
Mike Monroe
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...ding-the-rock/
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http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...at-nets-17-38/Monday: Spurs (45-9) at Nets (17-38)
Jeff McDonald
...Having already clinched a winning record on the rodeo road trip, going 5-2 with two games left, Spurs face Nets team that has lost four of its past six...Spurs provided Nets with one of their 12 wins last season, falling 90-84 at the Izod Center...
Last edited by duncan228; 02-14-2011 at 01:37 AM.
Have to win this one, then a loss in Chicago might be bearable ...
i hope gary neal makes the nets his
don't let that Vujačič guy stop Manu.
http://www.nba.com/news/referee.html
Referee Assignments
Mon. Feb. 14
San Antonio @ New Jersey: Ed Malloy; Rodney Mott; Haywoode Workman
Sweet...we get to make Vuja cry tonight!
GO SPURS GO!!!!!
We'll see if Sasha "feels like" getting 30 tonight. Cause we all know he can whenever he wants.
SA 106
NJ 91
Advanced Scouting: San Antonio Spurs at New Jersey Nets
by Scott Sereday
48 Minutes of
http://www.48minutesof .com/spurs...new-jersey-net
Won't be watching this one tonight. I have a valentine. Glad its the nets.
http://www.nj.com/nets/index.ssf/201...son_not_e.htmlNets coach Avery Johnson not expecting Spurs to take it easy on him
By Colin Stephenson/The Star-Ledger
Avery Johnson got a chance to hang out with his coaching mentor, Gregg Popovich, Sunday night, and the two shared some laughs and some old stories.
But that doesn't mean Johnson can expect his old coach to take it easy on him when Popovich's San Antonio Spurs -- who own the NBA's best record, at 45-9 -- visit Johnson's Nets tonight at Prudential Center.
"Not at all,'' Johnson said. "We’re pretty compe ive people, so we’ll say all of that mushy stuff before the game, but we’re really trying to kick each other’s posterior when the game starts… That’s the way it is. The Spurs no longer employ me. It’s all about the Nets, and that’s trying to get the job done for our team, and our players to grow – that’s what it’s all about.''
The Spurs, who will be playing the eighth game of a nine-game road trip, are 5-2 on the trip, losing the first game, Feb. 1, at Portland, and dropping a 77-71 decision Friday in Philadelphia.
Nets point guard Devin Harris said he isn't surprised at what the Spurs are doing, even though they would seem to be an aging group, with Tim Duncan being 34 now, and Manu Ginobili 33, and Tony Parker -- while still under 30, at 28 -- having so many miles on his point guard body.
"That group, they’ve played so many games together, they know how to win games,'' Harris said. "I think more surprising is the way their bench has been playing and the way they’re developing. The (Gary) Neal kid, just kind of the way he’s shooting the ball, obviously, (Matt) Bonner, his abilities.''
Neal, a 6-4 rookie guard from Towson, is averaging 8.6 points per game and shooting 40 percent from 3-point range. Bonner, a 6-10 backup forward/center, is averaging 7.5 points per game and shooting 50.8 percent from 3-point range.
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