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San Antonio 92, Miami 88 San Antonio leads series 1-0 Holy Hell, that was a good game. And not just because the Spurs won, though that surely helps my retroactive opinion of it. Both teams just played at a tremendously high level, with amazing efficiency on both ends. There were plenty of missed shots, but there weren’t a lot of bad ones. The defense was good; the offense was often…
San Antonio 105, Memphis 83 San Antonio leads series 1-0 San Antonio (both the team and the city) has been waiting a little over 2 years for this game. While much of the make-up of this team has changed since 2011, the roster is still pretty similar. So players like Green, Neal, Bonner, and Splitter who had minimal impact in that series were still on the bench, and still felt…
Time to close this thing down. After a convincing win in Game 5, and an overall trend towards “figuring this thing out”, the table is set for the Spurs to advance to the next round. But the Warriors are nothing if not their namesake, and Game 6 will be a battle, as close out games often are (2012-13 Lakers excluded). I expect the crowd to be in a frenzy, and…
It’s season making time. Game 4 was a blown opportunity. Despite putting up the worst shooting performance ever in the Tim Duncan era, the team still held the slimmest of leads in the final minute. But historically bad shooting will always catch up to you, and it slipped away. But we’re still in a good position, regaining home court advantage, just needing two more wins to advance to the Western…
Golden State 97, San Antonio 87 (OT) Series tied 2-2 There’s an elegant symmetry to this series, the 4 games almost a mirror of each other. Golden State had every chance to win Game 1 on the road, but gave it away and lost in OT; in Game 2, they were clearly the better team, and won. (Hold up mirror.) Game 3 saw the Spurs as the much better team,…
The true joy of Game 3 was that it felt like we were seeing the Spurs we know and love for the very first time this postseason. Even when we were rolling over the Lakers, it never quite felt like we were in sync; we just had more than enough to beat a teetering team. It took two strong punches from the Warriors and facing a tough road win to…
The current iteration of the San Antonio Spurs has been one of the most successful professional sports franchises of late. Not only do they rattle off 50-win seasons year after year, they also make deep runs in the playoffs. Four of those runs resulted in them hoisting the Larry O’Brien trophy. However, some experts say that the Spurs don’t have much left in the tank. They’re looking more at teams…
At the beginning of the week, Jason Collins, the journeyman NBA center, came out as openly gay, making him the first professional male athlete to do so in American sports. I encourage every one to read the piece; it is eloquent, passionate, funny, and important. This has been a long time coming. Statistically speaking, it just makes sense that there are (and have been) gay professional athletes. With the ever-shifting cultural…
Whoa. What a couple of days off the court. Lots of big news in the series and in the NBA at large, so let’s jump in. • The Lakers are decimated, and just keep falling. Steve Blake is out; Steve Nash is out; Jodie Meeks is out. The Lakers will be starting a backcourt of two players nobody outside of Los Angeles (and most inside, probably) knows. One of the…
Spurs open battles to win 5th championship VS the SteveBlakers, or it comes full circle. “Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999.” -Prince Hola amigos. Been a while since I rapped at ya. We Spurs fans begin our most exciting, yet nerve-wracking and intense part of the year… the part we’ve looked forward to with anticipation since last spring, when our Black and Silver Hoops Juggernaut went on an historic…
