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The life of a sailor serving in today’s United States Navy is usually chaotic. During a regular deployment (if there is such a thing), I typically work around 16 hours a day. That’s not counting the time it takes for me to do simple things, like shower, iron, eat, downtime (which includes anything from PS3 to knitting — yes, there are sailors who knit) and anything else that I need…
Well, here we are a month-ish removed from our early exit from the playoffs at the hands of a Memphis Grizzlies team which proved that, yes, they had heart. In reality, it was more of a poor performance by the Spurs than it was a great one by the Grizzlies. Of course this is debate-able, but let’s pretend it is fact. Nevertheless, the fish are biting for Tim as he…
2011 Playoffs, Round 1, Game 5: Memphis 103, San Antonio 110 / Memphis leads 3-2 There are two story lines that can emerge from this game. Memphis smelled blood, and had the Spurs all but knocked out. But they didn’t finish the job, didn’t drive the stake through the heart. And like a perfect movie script ending, the Spurs got a little luck and a timely shot from an unsung…
2011 Playoffs, Round 1, Game 4: San Antonio 86, Memphis 104 / Memphis leads 3-1 Now I know how the Phoenix Suns must have felt all those years. Stop me if this story sounds familiar: a regular season 60-win team that runs a smooth, highly-efficient offense predicated on spacing, ball movement and 3-point shooting runs into a grind it out, inside-out, defensive-minded muck it up team in the postseason and…
With the #1 seed locked up in the Western Conference, our thoughts now turn to securing the overall #1 seed, and finishing the regular season with the best overall record. The Magic Number for this to happen is 3, meaning any combination of Spurs’ wins and Bulls’ losses equaling 3 will secure the top spot. The question is: how hard should we go for it? Bart Herridge over at Spurs…
San Antonio 97, Atlanta 90 // 59-19 // 1st in the West Sacramento 92, San Antonio 124 // 60-19 // 1st in the West Two more games, two more wins. Ship righted-ish. If there’s anything to take away from either game, it’s that we can still execute down the stretch of close games, and that we can still kick inferior team’s collective asses. In the Atlanta game, it was nice…
Charlotte 98, San Antonio 109 // 56-13 // 1st in the West This was kind of a Toolbox game, as in, ‘let’s open up the toolbox and see what we got’. Duncan didn’t play for being too old, and Tiago Splitter started in his place. Steve Novak got 18 minutes off the bench and made the most of it, scoring 19 points and connecting on 5 of 8 3-pointers, perhaps…
New Jersey 96, San Antonio 106 // 48-10 // 1st in the West The Spurs called a timeout midway through the 3rd quarter in Friday night’s win against the New Jersey Nets. At the time the Spurs were leading, but the game was still closely contested. Coming out of the break, the Spurs ran a beautiful play in which Parker, with the ball, dribbled off of two picks set by…
Oklahoma City 105, San Antonio 109 // 47-10 // 1st in the West No, Gary, you’re not. But keep playing games like this, and keep learning tricks from Manu, and someday you may be. Gary Neal might be my new favorite Spur. And he’s getting a lot of publicity of late. Jeff McDonald did a wonderful piece on Gary Neal over at mysa.com. Gary Neal was featured on Outside the…
San Antonio 113, Sacramento 100 // 42-8 // 1st in the West I’m sure I’ve said it a hundred times, but I hate getting a big lead early in the game. Games are too long and players too good to generally hold double digit leads for an extended period of time. Watching the game, you just keep waiting for the other team to make their run, and you derive no…
