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eighth.

Gary Neal, right quad contusion, will not return

Every. Single. Potential. Playmaker. besides Parker

Put CuJo at the point!

Anderson time?

Yup, maybe this is the opportunity he needs

will not return?! how bad is that? Will he be back the next game?

Ooh, that sucks.

Shit.

What? When did this happen?

So… Can the PHX Steve Nash’s Catch up?

Would the Suns ownership ever consider trading Nash?

then what would we watch for basketball in PHX

Just thinking that Nash would want to play for a contender, but probably won’t ask for a trade.

nah, he won’t

Hey, 2Nashty!

Sup yo

So, is Jared Dudley good? I want to like him, but I don’t get it. He looks like a goofball. He seems uncoordinated. He’s not an athlete, yet I feel like he could be a contributor on a championship team.

I despise his headband.

he was, everyone except nash gortat and our rookie has looked bad so far.

Flower Hat Jellyfish. Olindias formosa

The flower hat jelly is a rare species of jellyfish occurring primarily in waters off Brazil, Argentina, and southern Japan. Characterized by lustrous tentacles that coil and adhere to its rim when not in use, the flower hat jelly’s bell is translucent and pinstriped with opaque bands, making it easily recognizable.
The flower hat jelly can grow to be about 15 cm (6 inches) in diameter. Its sting is painful but non-lethal to humans. Its diet consists mostly of small fish.





are those colors photo shopped?

They probably upped the contrast in the pictures to make the colors pop, but they’re real colors.

thats amazing like fireworks under the sea..neato’

I’ll post the Flamboyant Cuttlefish one of these days. That one will blow your mind.

Pretty. Useless, but pretty

Like when Jessica Alba is in a movie.

HQ! She is not a good actress.

I like eye candy.

That pinstripe is stylish

for some reason, this kinda scares me

Nice (jelly)fish!

Nice caption at the end, brolly fish.

Thanks, aquatic humor really only appeals to a very narrow section of people.

It’s an acquired taste.

Sweet, some Rick Renner action.

Hey – it’s the worst, most unexcited play caller ever, doing the NBA highlights package.

Hah! Someone light a fire under that guy’s arse.

Can you imagine how he’d describe it? Flat, unemotional monotone.

My butt is on fire. There goes Griffing for the oop. Lob City. yawn

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU! Neal is hurt, will not return.

what happened?

It’s a contusion, so nothing too terrible. Hopefully.

how bad is it? Will he be out long?

Contusion. So hopefully not a big deal.

~

Damn.

That’s… …harsh.

Off to get some ice-cream….

They really take ice cream seriously

that’s deep

Haha, that reminds me of Blade Runner. “Wake up, time to die.”

Man…another injury?!?!?!

I am not officially glad we stockpiled the guards.

Really has sucked for everyone this year. Downside of having a game pretty much every night ( which is great)

Even our injuries have got injuries.

Yeah, like TJ’s strained hamstring having a tear. I have to pull a DeJuan. . . SMH.

I don’t mind. More minutes for my man Danny Green!

This. Hopefully we can be healthy when it counts.

FG%:

Spurs = 47.8%
Suns = 38.3%

Hey all you Argentines, Del Potro won his first round Australian Open match.

DEL POTROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

DEL TACOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

JUMBACO!

CLAMATO!

no way V8

They’re both equally disgusting.

what do you use if you make ceviche?

I don’t make ceviche. I can cook hot dogs and that’s about it.

good thing ceviche isn’t cooked. lol

See? That’s why I shouldn’t even try making it.

Eh, wth is going on up here, haha

is that meant to be something you drink? or use to unclog drains?

I think that is what clogs your drains.

Hey guys. I decided to pick up my laptop, haha. Game is in our control, but what is with our guard depth depletion, jeez.

All part of Timmeh’s plan to move to the point when his knee gets too sore for the bangin’ down low.

There will be plenty of Sean yelling “TRAGIC JOHNSON.”

morning quarter-pounders! how looks the game of ball throwing?

More like a double-quarter pounder, lol

Close friend of recent acquaintance!

stereotypical NZ greeting!

Cheap shot Aussie retort!

Sunday night out got you good?

…well, yes. lucky i’m still on holiday, otherwise the beers and wine i had with dinner (and after dinner) would’ve been a stupid decision.

Do you get a year of holiday for a year of work?

They’re all descendants of convicts there, they tell there bosses when they feel like working, and their bosses say ’Thank you for being so kind as to work for us"

one of the advantages of living in a convict country – everyone hates work, so we help each other out in that regard.

They say ‘Hard work never hurt anyone’ , I say ‘Why take the risk?’

One day I’d like to visit Australia. Except for you, the people I have met from there are really cool and easy going.

you want to be an illegal immigrant in two countries?

If you’re an illegal immigrant in three countries, you enter the illegal immigrant Hall of Fame.

i’m guessing you enter the hall illegally as well?

You gotta jump a wall and hope the museum guards don’t catch you.

So far, Spurstastic. Not much throwing to random fan-seating-on-the-sidelines.

Patriots vs. Giants for Superbowl

Let’s go Giants!!!

The NFC Championship game is going to be great

it should be. My team got Tebowed, and the Giant’s organization is similar, with lots of connections/history.
(Rooney Mara, for the most recent)

goTexaaa….. damn!

they played well but Yates interceptions killed them

and they weren’t even “rookie” int’s they were dumb no matter how you slice it. Dumb for a high school QB. you can’t make mistakes like that against the Ravens

So are we finally going to see some &erson in the 3rd?

After being favored by 9 points, Spurs now -1 for the second half. Hmmm.


That’s it, I’m suiting up & running point myself!

Another injury waiting to happen

“Gregg Popovich out 4-6 weeks due to dehydration”

all fun and game until he has to guard Derrick Rose

He might be able to take Miami PG’s, though.

LWM is tough enough. I don’t know how we are going to handle LWMFN*.

*Life without Manu, Ford, Neal.

Finally found radio broadcast – spurs feed. No more idiotic jon barry.

His SA denial continues.

RJ starts us out.

RJumper to start the second half.

Leonard with another 2, nice.

He is looking for his offense

trying to show off his offense…

Ok tv feed is behind.

good RJ jumper there!

Good God, Leonard is looking good.

Kawhi with another bucket

RJ rebound, and Leonard score!

Leonard is looking good!

Kawhi with a long jumper!

Kawhi with the jumper.

Nearly had an assist to BLair, too

another Kawhi offensive play! *almost

Wow, that’s the best shot I’ve seen Kawhi take. Looked like a shooter there.

Meh, no defense.

Phoenix on a run

The defense staring to look slow

Wow – Timmeh!

Wow nice TImmy

Nice spin move by TD

Great move strong by Timmg in the post.

we still suck against the pnr

Another classic basket from Tim

Holy crap, Timmy!

Timmie found the glass

The bank opens for Timmy on Sunday!

difficult shot by Timmeh there!

Tim Duncan—nuff said!

back to back shots by timmeh!

Blair’s beard has a ways to go before matching Harden’s.

I dear hope he isn’t reaching for that.

Just passed The Glove :D

Kawhi really rebounding well…

Clyde Drexler, Tim Duncan is coming for you

still a thousand points or more away…

wasn’t it only 100 or so?

I think ESPiN switched some numbers. According to Basketball Reference, Drexler has 22,195 points, not 22,915.

yeah, I went to check nba.com: 22, 195 is the number.

More ESPN anti-Spurs bias!!!

What? ESPN misrepresenting a stat? NEVER

Tony always has the best expression after he’s called for a foul, lol.

Phoenix running. 10 pt game.

Lead down to 10, TO

Once again, the defense by the starters is not good.

Bring on the MOB!

Yeah, we definitely needed that timeout.

3QC—nothing to see here

You’re not allowed to say that. We’ve mostly been great in the 3rd this season thus far. Winning the third = winning the game, losing = losing. With only one of two exceptions I think. Portland the other night was one.

Apologies to the powers that be, then :) I recant the earlier statement.

You know better, AFA.

slinks to the corner in shame

Grant Hill drinks sprite?

nice hustle for the rebound there.

Can Blair stop forcing it. Damnit man, hes killing the flow of the offense.

He was great in the 1Q, not so good now.

losing control again…

He always forces it.

he’s had good games… He was playing pretty well in the 1st half…

Duncan with an easy bucket!

Thank you, Tony.

Thank goodness for Parker.

Not sure why Bonner came in before Splitter

Tony pushes the lead back to 9.

Jefferson with the pass to Casper…

nice move by Parker there!

sweet move by TP!!

BLOCK PARTY!!!!!1

Lol at Bonner’s “what the hell RJ” look

Duncan with a block!

Duncan is looking spry tonight

And he still has the veteran savvy.

What exactly is savvy?

Means ‘wisdom’ or ‘smarts’.

I think it comes form the French ‘savoir’ = knowledge

Thank you. I appreciate it. Always wanted to know the exact meaning but was too lazy to look it up myself.

It means you’re old. CapHill for example, is very savvy.

Gortat killing us

This game is too close for my liking.

All they are getting is layup and open shot. Come on Spurs damn

They never show Spurs huddles. Too many bleeps?

Too many long words

Timmy to the line….
misses the first, darn it. Makes the second.

Veteran move by Duncan.

Are you guys all from Texas?

Virgin Islands here

Hardly. I am (San Antonio and College Station), but we’re from all over the globe lol

Shoot, I’m not even living in Texas right now thanks to the military lol.

ahh, thank you for your service

Thanks for your service to our country.

Where are you, AFA? And how do you feel about A&M’s move to the SEC?

Not too far away—I’m in Altus, Oklahoma right now. And I LOVE A&M going to the SEC. Gonna get our faces pushed in for awhile, but it’s a great move long-term. Plus, going to Tuscaloosa beats the shit out of going to Waco, TX or Ames, Iowa lol.

I’m so sorry you’re in Altus. Hope you get to move on soon.

It’s ok—I’m kind of a boring guy who doesn’t go out much (except to treat Mrs. AFA, of course). She’s in the Air Force too, so when she gets out of training, I’ll most likely join up with her wherever she’s assigned :)

Good luck with that.

Heck no. Some of us like to live in better states, and we’ve got a lot of furriners too.

Yeah.

I’m attending school in Minnesota, but I consider myself a Texan.

in “the 666”

Formerly. Exiled to Tobacco Road.

where’s texas?

^^^^^

Boo this man! BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

booooooooooooooooooooooooo!

wait, what?

We all follow blindly like sheep

Los Angeles. It means smog in Spanish.

same.... until I moved to Mass for college and stayed out there

Boston is Irish for obnoxious sports fans

Tp +1

We need to go straight bench, this needs to be a 20 point game…

No. Just the refined, cultured ones. We take after our governor.

A some point someone should have shot that.

Green charge? Didn’t look like it.

We can be sure ESPN wont bother to show a replay.

Replay showed a charge

uh oh. The game getting too close now.

First time commenter, long time reader:

Getting my first extended taste of our team this year, and they look pretty good…

Damn Kiwi exceeded my expectations…

Welcome.

Welcome to PtR!

Welcome to the neighborhood.

welcome

Wow you guys rock!

What happened to Ford? Hamstring tear?? That’s not good; I thought I was up to speed on things…

Football taking all my sports attention…

hey there! Welcome!

dead frog… howdy.

Hiya! Welcome!

That was a great possession from Green.

reason I ask is, (i guess this goes to the Texas living Spurs fans) does everyone hate the Mavericks or something?
Is that like a birthright of Spurs fans?

It’s a birthright of everyone who loves the game of basketball ;)

Lol, why though? Is it their fans? Did some of their players do something crappy?

Oooh… who wants to take this one?

Well, I can’t speak for you guys.

But Houston and Dallas just in general despise each other.

that’s why I was asking if it was a Texas thing.

I will. Yes, their fans are obnoxious.

I figured it had to do with fans at least a little bit. I try my best not to let idiots that cheer for a team ruin my perception of a team, but it’s pretty damn hard sometimes.

See Jason Terry gif above.

Jason Terry punched Michael Finley (a former teammate of his) in the family jewels in the playoffs back when we met them in 2006. That and the general douchiness of their owner gives one plenty of reasons to hate :)

Ahh, some people think Cuban is a douche. At the risk of being ostracized early in my PTR career, I disagree. He’s the only owner that tries to go toe to toe with gangsta Stern.

I started thinking he was okay.

Then he was one of the owners who was part of that whole “Stern basketball reasons Paul trade” that still makes me rage. And then I hated him again.

I’m not saying there aren’t reasons to not like the guy, but there are definitely some good reasons to like the guy. I don’t think many owners are that big of fans of their team. Granted it could be all for show.

I’ll give you that—still can’t forgive him for insulting the Riverwalk and our fans, though. Can’t do it.

I don’t remember that. What did he say exactly?

Something to the effect of the SA River is dirty (it’s true, but didn’t want to hear it from him lol), and another time he called all Spurs fans “dirty Mexicans” or something like that.

He hasn’t really endeared himself to the River City, that’s for sure lol

Ya don’t have to be from Texas to dislike them ;)

Couldn’t have said it better!

It’s a birthright of all of us.

Eff you guys, WE’RE the ones whom despise Dallas.

Nu-uh!!! WE are!

Lead down to six, Parker steps up again. Back to 8.

Gortat setting lots of screens and were are not defending the PnR

timely shot by Parker there!

Offense is way to Parker-centric right now.

hi, how we doing? and why is there an ad hovering over my feed?

RJ hates you.

what he do this time? NOT miss five in a row?

lead is down to 8. Defense is meh, but we still have the lead.

We stepped all over them in the first half, but having trouble scoring in the third.

Blame the starters. Now Tiago has to clean up.

JRW has to eat SOMEHOW! Feed JRW, Romeo.

hi richard!

meh

how are you posting while you’re lining up for a free throw?

Bonner with the loose ball!

Well my phones battery is at 1% and no charger, alas.

Been fun all!

Later, Meditater.

ya know…i’ve just realised i’ve always parsed his username as mediator.

Those numbers can really eff someone up.

71-63, Spurs. 2:41 left in the 3rd.

Gooooooo Spuuuuurrrrs!!!

(Last words as my phone dies)

I have never been to San Antonio but I am thinking about moving there when I retire in two years

Lots of people do this.

I’m thinking of retiring in two years.

Damn, Cappers, I didn’t know you were 63.

I’m not that old. Just thinking about retiring, as that’s been my goal since college.

I’m thinking about Jumbaco, I’m kinda hungry.

I’m always thinking of retiring. But I’m only 44!

I am 40 bout 20 years in the Army. I am shooting for 23

San Antone sounds like your kind of town.

But not to Texas.

You’ll make Rick Perry cry.

Don’t forget to put my name in your will.

Janieannie sighting

Tony! !

Nice move off the screen by Tony for the and 1

TP taking over

Parker with an And 1!

And Tony with the steal!

No shyhook?

Too shy on that posession

Ill just keep posting til my phone shuts off.

That’s the spirit!

I hope you don’t have an emergency after your phone dies.

Parker with the steal! Putting on Manu’s cape eh?

CuJo waiting to attack!

Happy MLK day tomorrow.

weak call there on splots

Splitter with his 3rd foul

OHH, nice block by GREEN

I saw a lot of screens going nowhere

Splitter to the line

Shannon Brown nearly gets swatted into the stands by Green, and JB is still talking about how difficult his transition from LA to PHX has been.

Wow this announcer is awful. Saying Joseph ran into Splitters screen. Ummm, no that’s not what happened.

Nice block by Green. Splitter makes one of two from the line.

Whoah, what a 3 from LEONARD

Haven’t posted here in a while, so I thought I’d get 100+ posts in a quarter

You’re alive. Good thing Mark Jackson’s Hack-a-Howard didn’t kill you yet.

LOL you should have seen the S*** I wrote during that game… I was trashing everyone. After that I entered “cynical Warriors fan” mode for a while. But then the Niners won :)

Giants, Niners are succeeding. The Warriors, meanwhile, are stinking up the place. 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

Giants are on the path to losing again though… our best pitchers are approaching free agency, and you know what that means (baseball has no salary cap)

Nooooo Lincecum! I think he’ll stay. He has a bit of Filipino blood and there’s like a million of us in the Bay Area.

Yeah I know… but one of them will have to leave, or if we sign both of them we won’t have any hitters (although we barely have any hitters already and had a historically bad offense last year)

Ha! That one was funny. For Howard at least. Jackson? Not so much.

Leonard for threeeeeeeeee

Leonard, folks. Leonard.

I wanna buy a Leonard jersey while it’s still cheap…

Yeah, I’m starting to think passing Leonard has been Morey’s second mistake.

Anyone here watch American football, BTW?

Yeah, I follow college and pro :)

Niners are my team… I’m so happy right now

Bears are my team, so I’m happy right now. Just kidding, I’m being nice.

I’m just glad that I might get a break from the Tebow hype.

Watch out for the lightning strike!

You can thank Brady for that

Patriots, but I was a Tebowmaniac this year

You were doomed once Hanie replaced Cutler and your best RB, Forte, got injured

No kidding. We dropped 5 straight after Cutler went down? It as a disgrace. I hate using injuries as an excuse, but this football season, and the past few basketball seasons have really made me realize just how incredibly important a teams backup personnel really is…whether they play on a regular basis, or not.

You never hear anyone talk about them, and their coach has done an amazing thing there this year, completely turned the team around.

Congrats!!!!! Y’all have been down awhile, nice to see the Niners back in the thick of things.

That was an awesome game yesterday

Thanks man

holy crap, I thought your name seemed familiar

Yeah I’ve been here awhile

No, I mean, I recognize you from Niner Nation.

I go for the Cowboys and Patriots (been following Tom Brady since he was at Michigan). But I was kinda pulling for the Broncos too. Tebow’s a good guy, and Von Miller went to A&M

I do like Miller.

I like Brady. And Gisele.

LOL of course you mentioned Gisele

Yes to Gisele.

I like the Patriots because they’re like the evil version of the Spurs.

Pop should definitely start wearing a hoodie.

I don’t like the Patriots

How could you?

Spurs, just Spurs

A lot of international fans only watch the Spurs, I know

Kinda. I have no shame about bandwagoning football teams, though I’ve always had some sympathies with the Ravens.

They have a good defense. I can appreciate that

Niners – Ravens for Super Bowl.

The Super Harbowl

Ofeensive foul by Suns

Leonard with a three!

How many points has Kawhi scored? Wow!

he’s at 12 now. With 6 boards. 1 steal, 1 block.

Im so excited for Leonard

If Kawhi can make that shot… it would be awesome

Cory shot was going in

also got mugged on the shot

tiago hates rookies

After what he went through as a rookie he must think it’s a tradition.

Good job Tiago, Cory Joseph now hates you.

that would have his first points of the game.

Shoot. Lucky shot.

oh man! Splitter so close too!

OH MY. Shannon Brown!

Fk Shannon Brown. How many times can a guy get lucky. Hes a horrible player.

Shannon Brown can’t make open threes but he makes those shots?

Both of those shots by Brown were ludicrous.

Not too bad from our third unit. Nice shot from Kawhi, good D from Green. Fluke shots from Brown

That was the second unit, not the third

Well, it would be the third unit if we didn’t have so many injuries…

How lucky can they get?

any update on Neal’s injury? praying it’s not another 4-6 week one, those seem contagious.

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