Spurs Update

Sunday night in Dallas, we actually came out hot, and it looked like it was gonna be an easy one - the way the Mavs looked out of the gate. But behind 10-4, Dallas called an early timeout, and things changed. Mavs picked it up, our shots weren't falling - at all, throughout the whole first half. Jason Terry and Vince Carter were making almost everything they put up. Down 24-18 after 1 Q, and down 51-40 at the half.

I can't summarize the rest any better than this short video does:


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I will say there were several bad calls in crunch time. Dirk's traveling in the final seconds.. a hard foul on Tiago underneath, the out-of-bounds call that they spent 5 minutes reviewing ..they got wrong, and Marion on the final play may have fouled Matt Bonner 3 times in 3 seconds. But we shouldn't be giving the ball to Bonner in that situation anyway. Wait - he shouldn't have even been in the game at that point, much less in the position to take the 1st option inbounds-pass. And, If there's 0.6 rather than 0.5 on the clock when Danny Green takes that final shot, we win - game over. It was that close.

Gary Neal - You've gotta make that free throw! It was a gimme-bonehead foul anyway. MAKE THEM PAY! Here's the box score.

Spurs LOSE 101-100 in OT. If the playoffs started tomorrow, we'd miss-out! Sigh. C'mon guys...

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Nothing HUGE here. I was actually over-confident; I had them winning in 5. Kudos to George Hill, and Antonio McDyess, though. As usual it's not always the "big-three" that get it done for us. Sometimes other guys step up and are the difference.

Ho-hum.. on to Phoenix!

Rivalry Renewed

This is really a super stat page for last night's Spurs/Mavs game.. Yeah we shot 53% and lost to a team that shot 49%. Well that might happen against a good team who does just about everything else better on this night. But hey, a playoff atmosphere, a ton of positives came out of this game, we so-o-o had them, and our last meeting with them is game #last (82). Seedings? These are the two teams that will produce the division winner. One will probably be 2, and the other no worse than 5. The most important number on the whole page is circled in red.

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Keep Blair out of early foul trouble. This is a GREAT 10-man rotation they've had here for the last 5-6 games. Notice Bonner and Finley haven't even been in the picture! Pop's gotta be smart and not interrupt what's going on right now. Frankly, I don't see how giving Finley 8-10 minutes is really that bad, but if Bonner is in the starting lineup anytime soon, that's just plain wrong.