18 posts tagged “san antonio spurs”

I'm just home from the hospital. Neighbor has MRSA in the heart valves. Not good. She is quarantined and will be moved to a skilled nursing facility because it could take weeks on antibiotics to kick this thing. She's 87, so the odds are working against her, but you never know . . .

Mom's breathing has started acting up again -- she just finished the antibiotic yesterday.

And my Spurs lost tonight to the stupid Lakers. Sheesh.

Now, I think I've shown great restraint during our recent trouncing of Shaq and the Suns. I can't promise that will continue as we move closer to the finals . . .

I found a column this morning that I think says it all about our team. Some excerpts:

The Spurs are laughing at us. Not out loud, mind you. They are too smart for that. But they are feeling mighty fine on the inside, thank you very much. Just don't expect them to show it. That's part of their secret.

Don't let the Spurs' No. 3 finish in the regular season fool you. This is the best team in the league, and it's not close. They may have teased us for 82 games, letting us think that the pack was catching up. Don't count on it.

People gripe that the Spurs are boring but the only place they're boring is in front of reporters, and that's by design. On the court, the Spurs are a finely tuned machine that plays as efficiently as any team ever.

Then the Spurs eliminate them 4-1 and a report -- from a very reliable source -- comes out that Mike D'Antoni is out as head coach. How dumb: Lets' get rid of one of the best coaches in the league because we lost to the Spurs. Getting rid of D'Antoni ensures Phoenix of one thing: The Suns will not be any closer to the Spurs this time next year. The Suns will not find a replacement who's better than D'Antoni. And the Spurs can take satisfaction knowing a team that actually was closing the gap last year now is losing ground.

At least the Spurs' next victim, the Hornets, won't have to worry about radical makeovers after they come up short. This is a young team with its window just opening. They will learn valuable lessons from the Spurs. They just won't beat them.

Next!

WEST SEMIFINALS: SPURS VS. HORNETS
G1 - at Hornets, Saturday, 9 p.m. TNT
G2 - at Hornets, tba
G3 - AT SPURS, TBA
G4 - AT SPURS, TBA
G5 - at Hornets, tba
G6 - AT SPURS, TBA
G7 - at Hornets, tba

The San Antonio Spurs today announced the schedule for their first round best-of-seven series with the Phoenix Suns.

Game 1 Phoenix @ San Antonio Saturday, April 19 2:00 PM (CST) ABC

Game 2 Phoenix @ San Antonio Tuesday, April 22 8:30 PM (CST) FSNSW

Game 3 San Antonio @ Phoenix Friday, April 25 9:30 PM (CST) KENS (HD)

Game 4 San Antonio @ Phoenix Sunday, April 27 2:30 PM (CST) ABC

Game 5 Phoenix @ San Antonio Tuesday, April 29 TBA TBA

Game 6 San Antonio @ Phoenix Thursday, May 1 TBA TBA

Game 7 Phoenix @ San Antonio Saturday, May 3 TBA TBA

In today's USA Today, there is a full page ad by PowerAde that says, "And this is just a building year" with a picture of LeBron. At the bottom of the page it says, "Congratulations to LeBron and his teammates on a powerful season."

Yes, I believe some day LeBron will have his own Championship trophy. But jeez, the Spurs just won the title four days ago!

Eff you Coca-Cola.

Nike, Witness This:

 

After all the recent season and series finales, what are you watching on TV these days?

Um, hello? The NBA Finals!

The Cavs are going down in four games, and they're going down as one of the worst teams to ever reach the NBA finals.

That final, frantic spree of this 103-92 Game 2 loss was a mirage at the AT&T Center. Cleveland turned a 29-point gulf into an eight-point deficit late in the fourth, but no one bought its legitimacy as progress. That was merely human nature taking over for the Spurs.

"The one thing, our guys … didn't quit," Cavaliers coach Mike Brown said. "They didn't quit in Game 1. They didn't quit in Game 2."

Well, you'd kind of hope so, because, you know, this is the NBA finals and all.