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Game 5 Utah @ San Antonio: Spurs 109, Jazz 84 (4-1) We’re in the Finals again, yippee!!! At long last, the guys get to their long deserved moment in the sun, basking in the glow of being crowned champions of the ungodly stacked Western Conference in front of their appreciative fans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) Can you feel my excitement? Can you sense my enthusiasm? Can you visualize my rock hard…
It’s not magic (or magnets), David Blaine. The Spurs are headed to the NBA Finals. I ran across this ad on a non-sports related website yesterday afternoon. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might say that the NBA has been planning on a Spurs-Pistons Finals ever since the Mavericks and Heat were eliminated. But if the fix is in, I don’t get it. Isn’t this the matchup that no…
Game 3 San Antonio @ Utah: Jazz 109, Spurs 83 (2-1) I stare blankly at the imposing box score. 109 points against. 66 in the second half. 25-39 (64%) FGs allowed the last two quarters. 17/19 Assists to turnovers for us, 26/12 for them. Our bench outscored 38-29. Five minutes of run for one Beno Udrih. None of these things make for a pretty picture. So of course I can’t…
This is sad and bizarre on so many levels, nevermind the article it refers to. Bill Simmons’ wet dream. {Thanks to Aaron S at For the Love of Sports for this.}
Game 1 Utah @ San Antonio: Spurs 108, Jazz 100 (1-0)Let’s see… I don’t have to write anymore term papers, sit through lectures, or con my way to a passing grade in español anymore. I got the interminable graduation ceremony out of the way (the highlight, by far, was a speech given by this Asian gentleman; the head of our department or something, dressed like the Pope, whose accent reminded…
Game 5 San Antonio @ Phoenix: Spurs 88, Suns 85 (2-3) With all due respect to my colleague Matthew, I couldn’t disagree more about how it feels winning this game. At first, when the suspensions were announced, I admit I felt guilty about it. Hell, I even suggested that we should sit Timmy for the game just to protest against the national attack of our team’s integrity and principles. Looking…
Game recaps are not my forte, and Michael is certainly working on a brilliant recap of game 5 even as I write this. Even so, I’m compelled to write that last night I witnessed the worst 36 minutes of basketball I’ve seen all season. It started in Cleveland and continued in Phoenix. I have yet to watch a complete Eastern Conference playoff game. I’ve watched highlights and a quarter here…
It’s official — Dirk Nowitzki is the 2007 NBA Most Valuable Player. Fans love to argue about what exactly “most valuable” means — most valuable to the league or to his team? — but one thing is clear from this year’s selection. Soft and ChewyDirk Nowitzki turns out to be a controversial MVP both for fans — many of whom would have preferred the honor go to Kobe Bryant, Steve…
Game 3 Phoenix @ San Antonio: Spurs 108, Suns 101 (1-2) Now that’s more like it. That vaguely resembled what I remember Spurs playoff games looking like in ’05. The Big Three was the Big Three again. Brent Barry was doing Brent Barry things again. Bruce Bowen was getting under people’s skins again. The Spurs are turning their opponents into soft, whiny crapweasels again. Amare had plenty of time to…
Game 1 San Antonio @ Phoenix: Spurs 111, Suns 106 (0-1) Well, that went about the way one would expect. We had, by far, our best offensive game of the playoffs and probably our worst defensive game. Tony sliced ‘em up for 32 points and Tim had 33 against the pansy division that is the Suns’ interior defense. I don’t want to make it sound like it was a boring…
