Hill Tries to Steal Parker's Wife; Instead, Steals His Game

Tonight’s game was quite odd. In so many ways, we played poorly. There were more careless turnovers than I care to remember, often leading to easy transition baskets for the Grizzlies (and often leading to their own ridiculous turnovers). We were unable to get a convincing stop down the stretch. Despite the nice numbers, Duncan really had a poor game, getting blocked on consecutive trips down into the low block and more or less getting owned by the Memphis bigs’ defense. And yet we led the whole game anywhere from 2 to 11 points. Despite the Grizzlies best efforts, it never felt like we were going to lose. It was a good win, but not a spectacular one.

George Hill and Roger Mason, Jr. carried the team for important stretches. Hill came out aggressive, attacking the rim with ferocity and zeal. Mason, Jr. shot the Grizzlies out of the game in the 4th, hitting clutch basket after clutch basket. It was nice to see these two players come up big for us.

It was also nice to see McDyess have a third consecutive solid game. Rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated it would appear. Right now he’s averaging about a 5/5 (points/rebounds). It’d be nice to see his average sitting somewhere closer to 10/10. Then, if we can get something similar from Blair off the bench, that would give us 20 points and 20 rebounds from our “other” big. That would be incredible.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this game was how unremarkable it was. It just felt like another mid-season win for a Spurs team poised to make a second half surge, the type of win we’ve seen a hundred times in the past. No glaring holes or weaknesses, nothing to set off the alarm bells. Just a nice, normal game to enjoy.

Looking Forward:

Looks like the voodoo worked. That makes us 2 for 2 with ritualistic voodoo sacrifice to compensate for our lack of lock down defense, team chemistry, and offensive consistency.

So what do we do for nuggets?