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Portland TrailBlazers 136, San Antonio Spurs 106 48-15 overall, 25-4 home The story of the night will most likely be (and probably should be) Damian Lillard. He was a man possessed in the second half, seemingly playing in an empty gym, impervious to any “defense” or the occasional “missed shot”. If I didn’t hate losing to the Blazers so badly (a team that just owns us these last few years,…
San Antonio Spurs 101, Chicago Bulls 83 (48-14, 25-3 home) 50-16. The Spurs and the Bulls both finished last year’s strike-shortened season with the same 50-16 record. Both were best in their respective conferences. Fortune would favor neither team, however, as both missed making it to the NBA Finals. We’ll never know how good that 2011-2012 Bulls team really was, or how far they might have gone, had it not…
Bill Simmons ranks the most cost effective player contracts in the NBA (“The Best Bargains in the NBA: With the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement in full swing, it’s all about the contracts“). Guess which 3 Spurs made the list. 15. Danny Green (Spurs): 3 years, $11.3 million You can always find cheap perimeter guys who can defend and shoot 3s. They’re always kicking around. If you have…
San Antonio Spurs 114, Detroit Pistons 75 (47-14, 24-3 home) With a loss in Detroit last month being one of only a few blemishes on the Spurs season, and tonight’s game being the first without Parker, there was no doubt that the team was going to come out focused and hungry. The real question was: how well would they play? And while you might have to subtract a few points…
San Antonio Spurs 130, Sacramento Kings 102 (46-14, 23-3 home) Why should Spurs fans care about Friday night’s Spurs-Kings game? Going into the game, the Kings were in a three-way tie with the Phoenix Suns and the New Orleans Hornets as the worst teams in the Western Conference. The Spurs had something to make up for, coming off an overtime loss to the Suns that snapped their 18-game home winning…
Phoenix Suns 105, San Antonio Spurs 101 (45-14, 22-3 home) …and the prayer of a desperation pass and shot are answered, and suddenly we’re in OT of a game that should have never even gotten that close. And that OT might have been the ugliest 5 minutes of basketball played all season. 1 measly point. Putrid offense. Bad fouls. Not a single good look, solidly executed play, or wide-open shot….
The rodeo road trip is over, and thus begins the final leg of the season, pushing towards the playoffs. With an impressive run of basketball, the Spurs have put themselves in prime position to get the #1 seed in the West, not to mention the overall #1 seed. As I’m sure most everybody has heard by now, the Spurs have 24 games left, with 17 at home. At home where…
Even playing without Tony Parker, in the 9th game of the Rodeo Road Trip that has taken the team on the road for the better part of 2-1/2 weeks, after a dispiriting loss Friday night, this game seemed an awful lot like a formality. And after a close first quarter, the Spurs opened up a double digit lead early in the 2nd that they never relinquished. The game had a…
Thursday night, the Spurs beat one of the best teams in the league, a Clippers squad which owned them in their previous two contests. It was especially satisfying to see the Spurs win so decisively, leading by as many 33 points before three quarters had even been completed. The Spurs were sharp and precise on offense, shooting almost 60% for the night and nearly 50% from behind the arc. On…
I’ve been waiting for this game for a long time, and boy did it not disappoint. The Clippers dealt the Spurs probably their two worst losses of the season (and only 1 of our 2 home losses) early, and for much of the season looked like the superior team. The Spurs have been playing tremendously of late, seizing control of the Western Conference, but I was still interested to see…
