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Oh mama. The full magnitude of the Spurs potential power was on display in Friday night’s convincing win over the Mavericks. As Sean Elliott kept saying again and again, this team is just super deep and amazingly versatile at every position on the floor. Pretty much every player can contribute meaningfully on both ends of the court (even Matt Bonner, who makes up for a lack of athleticism on defense…
My favorite part about going to NBA games is watching the warm-ups. Players take shot after shot, and they just don’t miss. Bonner will take 20 3-point shots and make 17 of them. Even players like Duncan will take shots he never takes in games and make them at a high rate. Players practice; they work hard. What they are capable of and what they often achieve in games can…
I was going to focus my recap of last night’s game against the Magic on Richard Jefferson’s spectacular 3rd quarter, and how he displayed the tools and promise the team had long sought from him yet had only intermittently seen. The positive person that I am, I was going to opine that if we saw much more of this RJ, the team would become much more deadly and fans would…
Game day was overshadowed yesterday by T.J. Ford’s announcement that he will retire from the NBA. I actually heard the news first listening to PTI on ESPN, and actually gasped. After reading the reports and articles, I understood. There’s not a person alive that would begrudge him his decision nor wish him the best of luck. I will miss having him on the team, especially since he was the best…
It’d be easy to look at the score of last night’s game and wonder what in the hell happened to the team and any notion of ‘defense’. And while the team overall did not play great defense, it was more a case of just one of those nights when you run into a team that can’t miss a shot. And by ‘team’ I primarily mean Chris Paul and Mo Williams….
Despite the big win against the Knicks, I’m still unimpressed with what I’m seeing from the Spurs currently. The team still seems to be in a lull, juggling many different moving parts that will-hopefully-result in something much better. Things certainly looked better against the Knicks…but Amar’e’s and Carmelo’s defense has a tendency to do that for a lot of teams and players. I’m much more interested in the upcoming games:…
There’s surely nothing alarming about losing two home games, one to possibly the best defensive team in the league, the other to a really good team seeking a slight measure of revenge from a loss last week. Conversely, there is absolutely nothing special about beating the Bobcats anywhere, anyhow, under any circumstances. But a win is a win, as they say. After going 8-1* (with an * on that ’1′…
What a game to miss while on a weekend road trip! I checked the score sometime Saturday afternoon, and saw that we had won the game in OT. Jubilation. Then I checked the Box Score and thought the lines for both Splitter and Ginobili looked odd. Uh-oh. Let’s hope for a speedy recovery for both. I doubt we’ll see either again on the road trip, and then we have the…
The Nets just aren’t good enough to hang with a rested Spurs team, and that truth bore out over 48 minutes. The Spurs did nothing exceptionally well and mostly played a fairly sloppy, lethargic game. But they were the more talented team, and eventually their precision and execution won out over the less precise Nets. End of story. Of course the more interesting story line for Spurs fans was the…
And he’s gotten it. Congratulations, Tony! The way he’s carried this Spurs team to the second best record in the West, he deserves to be an All-Star. Last night’s performance against Philadelphia was his encore performance (the votes were already in before the game started). And a virtuosic one it was. 37 points, 8 assists, and a complete command of the game. He ran the pick and roll to perfection…
