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It's to late to find one thats not on the team, Anything worth a look is on another team now. We got to go with what we have but thats ok becuase we allways have Bonner's 3's in the playoffs right? oh wait...
I agree. At home, Spurs are an unstoppable force aside from that 16 point Laker game.
It's to late to find one thats not on the team, Anything worth a look is on another team now. We got to go with what we have but thats ok becuase we allways have Bonner's 3's in the playoffs right? oh wait...
well is starting to look like the spurs like to be embarresed on national tv
Is that so? So give me a legitimate reason why Tony and Tim were on the bench for the better part of the second quarter when the game was still close and manageable. It's obvious to me. Las Vegas man, Las Vegas.
The Mavericks game on Friday is a must win game.
for who? because the way the Spurs played tonight it seems like they like to go to sleep at the wrong time
And this is the silver lining about tonight's debacle. In the bigger picture this Miami charade will never sniff the Finals unless they buy tickets. And I'm still on for Spurs and Celtics.
It's OK we all know our guys wont cry about it though....
I understand the point and it is a bit worrisome but If the Lakers or Miami or whoever were so in front of the rest of the league and played such a spectacular first half of the season as we did I believe you would see the same thing from them as you are seeing from the Spurs. No energy, no focus, ready for the playoffs to start already which is exactly what I think is happening. I think it sucks that they are choosing this path to end the season since I think they have a lot they can still improve on but at the same time its human nature to start acting this contently and as much as they might be telling themselves "lets finish the season strong and hard" the fact that they remain ahead of the league by a comfortable margin is definitely sitting in the back of their head. It seems like they have taken the "If we just win the games were supposed to win then we will lock up the 1" approach, which isn't good, but I don't think we are regressing.
I'm with you, but there's still a lot of games to be played and anything can happen
The numbers clearly say the team and mainly the big 3 (and 4 if you count RJ) are regressing.
I understand what the numbers say... as well as what the record says but I think the numbers taking a hit all have to do with the team not playing as hard, focused, with as much energy and determination as what they were in the first 3/4 of the season not because the players or team is getting worse.
You say it's the team not playing hard, but you act like they have had things really locked up. Manu/Tim/RJ have been struggling for months now. That isn't coasting.
very disturbing to see which game was the real fluke.
I think it is to a degree. No doubt in my mind that this team looks more like the first half Spurs once the playoffs start... If that is enough to win the ring is a different question but I think they are definitely "coasting" right now and have been for quite sometime... even though that sounds so cliche. It's a shame too because they still had a lot to improve on but it seems they are already worried about the playoffs starting and have no interest in really trying to improve.
I knew we were going to get blown out tonight no matter what happened. We embarrassed the out of them, and they got payback. But it still sucks.
I don't believe in the coasting thing, they need to tune up their defense and offense and get the bench ready by getting a hugh lead so they can play some minutes and be ready for the playoffs
Totally agree yet I don't see the Spurs acting with that sense of urgency. Seems like they have been content for awhile now and hopefully they can take a different approach to this Dallas game on Friday.
Spurs and Celtics has been my Finals prediction all year and it will never change for this season.
Some post-game quotes.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011031414Bosh scores 30, Heat roll Spurs 110-80
By Tim Reynolds
For the Miami Heat, there was symmetry in the turnabout.
Lose by 30 in San Antonio, win by 30 in Miami.
Chris Bosh scored 30 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, Dwyane Wade scored 29 and the Miami Heat avenged their worst loss of the season by rolling past the NBA-leading Spurs 110-80 on Monday night.
“It’s huge for us, really, just getting even with this team,” Bosh said. “They beat us pretty good and I’m happy that we were able to respond by playing a complete game tonight. But at the same time, it is just one game.”
LeBron James finished with 21 points, eight assists and six rebounds for the Heat, who have won three straight and moved within two games of Eastern Conference front-runners Boston and Chicago.
Miami lost 125-95 in San Antonio on March 4, the midpoint of a five-game slide that now seems all but forgotten after wins over the Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies and now the Spurs.
“Sometimes when you suffer the results that we were and you have this extreme noise from outside, that can be a distraction only if you let it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “But in terms of the guys’ confidence, it never really wavered. This is a very confident group. But the consistency that we’ve had the last three games is something we can build on.”
It was the Spurs’ biggest regular-season loss since April 7, 2005, a 104-68 defeat in Dallas.
Tony Parker scored 18 points and Tim Duncan added 14 for the Spurs, who had won 15 of their last 18 against Miami. Before Monday, San Antonio’s worst loss of the season had been a 96-72 defeat in New Orleans.
And this one was decisive in more than the scoring column: Miami outrebounded the Spurs 47-33 and shot 54 percent to San Antonio’s 38.
“We made a lot of shots in San Antonio and they made a lot of shots here,” said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, whose team endured its third-lowest scoring total and fifth-worst shooting effort of the season. “What goes around comes around.”
According to STATS LLC, it’s just the second time in NBA history that a two-game series had both clubs winning once by 30 or more. The other occurrence came last season, when Dallas beat New York by 50 at Madison Square Garden, then lost at home to the Knicks by 34 nearly two months later.
Add this to San Antonio’s 123-101 loss in Orlando on Dec. 23, and the Spurs’ two trips to the Sunshine State this season were losses by a combined 52 points.
Mario Chalmers scored 11 for Miami. Manu Ginobili finished with 12 and Antonio McDyess scored 10 for the Spurs.
“They needed the game more than us,” Ginobili said. “They were more upset than us and they are a great team. We are not playing against a second-division team in Asia. We are talking about the Heat.”
When the teams met a week and a half ago, it was over after one quarter. San Antonio ran out to a 36-12 lead, making eight 3-pointers in the first quarter alone, on the way to a franchise-record 17 connections from beyond the arc.
Funny how things even out: In Miami, the Spurs could get very little from outside the paint to fall. They finished 6 for 22 on 3’s.
San Antonio shot just 6 for 25 from the perimeter in the first half, 1 for 9 in the second quarter, and the Heat held the Spurs to their fourth-lowest output in the first 24 minutes of a game this season. The Heat lead was 49-39 at the break, with Bosh and Wade combining for 31 points and 12 rebounds along the way.
Meanwhile, take away Duncan and McDyess—a combined 9 for 13 in the half— and the Spurs were downright abysmal offensively. Combined, their teammates shot 9 for 33 in the opening two quarters.
“They definitely had a lot of energy,” Parker said of the Heat. “But overall, they just played better than us.”
The Spurs got some things going in the third, particularly Parker, who hit 5 of 6 shots and scored 14 in the period.
But the outcome was never in doubt. Wade found James for a dunk with 10:14 remaining, then gave a joyous shout heading back to the other end. He had a more prolonged scream 17 seconds later after stealing the ball away from Steve Novak and going in for a dunk of his own that pushed the Miami edge to 87-67.
NOTES: It was the 26th time Bosh finished with at least 30 points and 12 rebounds in his career. Oddly, his teams are now 10-16 in those games. … Wade, who blocked five shots in Saturday’s romp over Memphis, had another for the highlight reel when he blocked Duncan’s layup with 7:36 left in the third. He looked at the overhead scoreboard for a replay, but Bosh getting fouled on the other end was shown instead. … The Spurs now have McDyess in the lineup to start alongside Duncan, Ginobili, Parker and Richard Jefferson. “I wanted to feel like I had something to do,” joked Popovich, who then said going to McDyess more at this time of year has been his plan for some time. … The father of Heat trainer Jay Sabol died Monday morning.
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I want to see the post game quotes and video. Let's see what those sad sacks have to say for themselves.
Thanks for the article.
So far it's just the couple from the recap.
“We made a lot of shots in San Antonio and they made a lot of shots here,” said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, whose team endured its third-lowest scoring total and fifth-worst shooting effort of the season. “What goes around comes around.”“They needed the game more than us,” Ginobili said. “They were more upset than us and they are a great team. We are not playing against a second-division team in Asia. We are talking about the Heat.”“They definitely had a lot of energy,” Parker said of the Heat. “But overall, they just played better than us.”
Pop: "They just made some shots"
Miami Heat 110, San Antonio Spurs 80: 30 points is either nothing or a lot
by Timothy Varner
48 Minutes of
Just over a week ago the Spurs beat the Heat by 30 points in a runaway laugher. The Heat returned the favor tonight, running just as far, laughing just as hard, step for step, cackle for cackle, point for point.
San Antonio played Miami tough, at least for the first 7:30 minutes. But with 4:18 left in the first quarter Gregg Popovich subbed for his starters and the Spurs’ bench couldn’t maintain. A slow trickle of errors gave itself over to a deluge of failures and this game was over before halftime.
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