11 posts tagged “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

Show us your team! 
Submitted by Juniebird.

San Antonio Spurs

The winner of this year's NBA Finals will be ...

As usual, the Spurs will wait in the weeds. We won't hear much about their owner (as we will from Dallas), or their up-tempo offense (as we will from Phoenix), or their struggles to maintain good chemistry (as we will from both teams in L.A.). But as long as the Big Three (Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili) stay healthy, they will win the West. ~ Jack McCallum

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The Spurs won in '03 and '05, so it's their turn again. More important, Tim Duncan is healthier and more rested than he was a year ago. The Spurs will make it back and face LeBron's surprising Cavs in the Finals. LeBron will go crazy a la Dwyane Wade a year ago, but San Antonio's combination of inside game (Duncan), speed (Tony Parker), playmaking (Manu Ginobili) and depth (Michael Finley) will carry it to the crown. ~ Marty Burns

Pat Riley squeezes one last run to the Finals out of Shaq as Dwyane Wade two-ups LeBron in the East finals. But Riley's motivational ploys run empty against an even more-disciplined Spurs team that will closely monitor Tim Duncan's minutes and rely on Tony Parker's drives into the paint to spread the Spurs attack. And after losing to Dallas on a dumb foul late in Game 7 of the Western semifinals, the Spurs will be looking to teach the Mavs a lesson. ~ Paul Forrester

The easy calculation is that the Spurs are too old to win. But if Tim Duncan had been healthy last season, San Antonio might well have beaten Dallas and gone on to win its third championship in four years. Tony Parker is plenty young and can now carry the team at times. San Antonio has great players at point guard and center, the two most important positions. I think the Spurs have one more title in them. ~ Chris Ekstrand

NBA experts offer their predictions for the 2006-07 season.

P.S. Five of the eight experts chose the Spurs.

HowtheMavswon

Funny. Even if it's true.

Spurs win 105-83 to finish series

Win4

Brent Barry

Brent Barry's three point shot richochets off the rim before falling through during the fourth quarter sending the game into overtime.

Dallas Mavericks coach Avery Johnson has been named the winner of the Red Auerbach Trophy as the NBA Coach of the Year for the 2005-06 season, the NBA announced today.

Our "Little General"

In his first full season as the Mavericks head coach, Johnson received 419 points, including 63 first-place votes, from a panel of 124 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada.

Johnson, the first coach in Mavericks history to receive the honor, led the Mavericks to a 60-22 (.732) record, the third-best mark in the league and tied for the best season in franchise history. Johnson, named head coach on March 19, 2005, was the fastest coach to 50 wins (50-12) and recorded the best start by a first-time coach in league history, winning 66 of his first 82 games. Johnson led the Mavericks to a 34-7 mark at home, tied with the San Antonio Spurs for the best home record in the Western Conference.

After retiring as a player on Oct. 28, 2004, Johnson began the 2004-05 season as an assistant coach with the Mavericks. In 16 NBA seasons, Johnson played 1,054 games and averaged 8.4 points, 5.5 assists, 1.7 rebounds and 25.3 minutes. Johnson spent the majority of his playing career in San Antonio (1992-2001), where he was part of the 1999 NBA Championship team and remains their all-time leader in assists.