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And how was that locker room?
Dirk struggled in the first half and Josh Howard stepped and scored at will. Then Dirk came up very big late. The Mavs did a great job dealing with all the Spurs switches on D. AJ coached very well, exploiting the mismatches when he could.
Tony and Tim, obviously, had very off nights.
My only positive from the Spurs' effort was that both Finley and NVE showed balls and knocked down big shots.
It's going to be a good second round matchup.
And how was that locker room?
I find it very encouraging that NVE and Finley managed to sink threes against a Mavericks Defense that collapsed on the Big Three. I also loved Duncan's decision making at the end of the game, when he decided to use the ball himself, instead of dishing to Oberto.
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It wasn't as bad as I expected. Tim, Bowen, Fin and Pop did the talking. Obviously everyone was disappointed.And how was that locker room?
^Can you tell us some of their post-game quotes?
I am glad the SPURS competed tonight!!!
I have said before, if they lose a game after competing, I can live with that....(barely).
I am ready to get on with Memphis now!
Van X showed tonight why he's on the team. He's going to win a playoff game or two if he can stay healthy.
this loss wasn't as bad as the kings loss.
Did anyone ask Pop why the he thought Duncan could guard Dirk for the last six minutes of the game?
especially when AJ isolated him every ing play
why is it always so easy for us to see these things but not for him
Memories of yesteryear?
I wondered this as well, though Bowen wasn't doing much better.
Who was supposed to guard Dirk? Dirk murdered Bowen in the third. Duncan versus Dirk was decent.
In the playoffs, that's where Horry comes in handy.
Props to the Mavs.
I have the audio on my recorder but I haven't uploaded it yet. It should be up on spurs.com soon.
It was just the basics ... Bowen said that sometimes you have bad nights offensively and you can't control the ball not going in the basket, but you can control the defense and that's where they made mistakes. Pop kind of said the opposite. He said that holding the Mavs to 92 was good defense for the most part, but that they just didn't do enough offensively. Tim talked about how important the upcoming division games are against Memphis and Houston.
Nothing that exciting was said.
Is Manu's ankle injured or just a twist?
I say "free the kiwi" and let Marks go all crazy Daffy Duck style.
Bowen actually did a great job on Dirk in the first half. But the 3rd quarter all broke loose.
I'm man enough to congratulate the Mavs..but I'll wait until I'm less angry to do it.
No one even brought it up. I assume it was just a twist.
Dirk was hitting great shots. There was nothing really wrong with Bruce's defense on him. Bruce was making him work; but when a great offensive player is on, there is no defense.
WTF LJ? We lost by 6 and Dirk had 7 in a row on Tim...Duncan versus Dirk was decent.
At least Bowen made him work, he just laughed in Tim's face while swishing mid-range jumper after mid-range jumper.
Basically, AJ won the game with the plays he called. He was one step ahead of Pop the whole game. AJ was guessing right about where the doubles would come from and have the play designed to beat it.
AJ won the game.
However, this Spurs teams in the playoffs will be different.
Duncan was staying with him for the most part. When Dirk gets going, you can't really stop him. He's the best jump shooter in the game and showed it tonight. Duncan, and Bowen for that matter, where all over him.
Not much you can do when you have a 7-foot-5 sharp shooter hitting everything.
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