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GameThread #15 - San Antonio Spurs vs Sacramento Kings - Part I

Sacramento Kings at San Antonio Spurs, Jan 20, 2012 7:30 PM CST


Regular Season Game
San Antonio Spurs vs Sacramento Kings


AT&T Center - San Antonio, TX
7:30 PM Central (SPURS) Time



(10-5)
Position


(5-10)

Tony Parker
PG Tyreke Evans
Kawhi Leonard
SG Marcus Thornton
Richard Jefferson SF John Salmons
Tim Duncan
PF JJ Hickson
DeJuan Blair
C DeMarcus Cousins
James &'erson
Danny Green
Cory Joseph
Key
Reserves

JIMMERRRRRRR
Travis Outlaw

Officials

Ed Malloy
Bennie Adams
Brian Forte

Star-divide

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Get better, Manu :(

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Comments

First!

That is all.

Good morning/evening everyone!

LOL @ fat cat, but Sparkles isn’t as key as Mr. &erson? GSG!!!!!

Howdy folks…
GSG!!!

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How goes it sir? How’s your lovely little girl?..

I’m well. I’ve had her, everyday, for 8 days… so, she’s great and I am, too!

Awesome!.. gotta love having the baby with you!

It’s great! The only down-ish side is that she was being SUPER spoiled yesterday. She wouldn’t take a nap. She’d get sleepy and grumpy and I’d lay her down and like 2 minutes later I hear “da-da-dad-dad-da-dad-ad…” I’m pretty sure I’m wrapped around her entire right hand.

Ha!
I believe that…. I kind of am with Heady too…

:D
daughters!!! ::high five::


Out of control cat high five!

Where is Tiago..

oh…and GSG!!!

I here.

Beat the Queens!

I initially read “sexploits”

LOL lulls. There is that.

There you are….now get your a** dressed up and go play. ;)

GO SPURS GO!

Yay Winglet!

Now is the time for Kawhi to show Jimmer how the Big Boys play.

I was just about to post about “jimmer” and Kawhi! IN THE SAME THING JUST LIKE YOU JUST DID JUST NOW ON HERE

Uh, Jimmer would have to play.

Hey everyone

My wife wants to watch Merlin, but Go Spurs GO!

Tell her that he’s on Timmy’s back

Timmy’s ears do look pretty similar, now that I think about it…

I think Billy Crystal is on his back, too.

Does Jared Dudley remind anyone else of Timmy?

I just bought Skyrim for xbox. What have I done?

It was nice knowing you.

I have to ground myself from it cos I will stay on forever (on xbox, too). I put it away from my other games about a week ago and haven’t touched it. I’m scared…

Goodbye, free time.

Good evening Rockers… I am unexpectedly home to hang on this game thread. We got nailed with snow today!

snow… I miss CO!

well, I miss the skiing…

I saw snow once!

On TV!

“The agony of defeat”

De hands can get pretty painful too, when it’s that cold.

oh yeah, I dropped my gloves and had to ski down to them once… OUCH!

nah, I was actually IN it! True story! I know, I know… but believe me, I was on vacation

Yea I get jealous of you folks in the warmer states around this time of year.

I might take snow over the crappy cold rain I have here.

Can’t complain here!

It’s my first time experiencing winter and I’m missing the warmth of a sunny day so badly.

I long for April – September.

It was in the high seventies here in SA today.

Oh rub it in!

Hey, hey, hey Lady!!!

Hi Wayne, et all

did y’all have the hideous fog this morning too?

Yes, it was thick

a car flipped over right by my work this morning… flipped, not rolled. scary stuff.

If only I could go back home…

This is a good matchup for Tiago to test his skills against a legitimate big man…

JJ Hickson ???

;-)

I was referring to Thompson and Cousins…

RT @24writer: ""Just quit your crying and deal with it, just deal with it."-Coach Pop on short grueling season.

ESPN did a great job with this commercial featuring a special appearance from the Iceman.

Quick start and establish a big lead before halftime.

Let’s hope there’ll be a lot of rest for Duncan, Parker and RJ for this game.

yeah hopefully they can rest Timmeh!

I had
GRILLED CHEESE
for dinner… Good stuff..

I was hoping it was a link to THIS grilled cheese.

I’m eating peanut butter and a banana…
and it kinda clicked in my head as I was typing this that maybe I’m doing it with subconscious hopes of RJ and Tiago doing SOMETHING? What could it mean!?

Freaking AWESOME halftime fish for today.

jellyfish?

Nope, but visually stunning nonetheless.

sparklefish?


krill?

skrull?

Krull?

s’what I meant. stupid sticky Jif.

i’m glad you didn’t say it was your banana…

ew. dragging it across the keyboard…

can’t wait…

I don’t hate Kobe Bryant anymore.
Am I alone in this?

There are others I hate more

Is it because him and Duncan are about the same age and their careers are coming to an end.

I think it’s because he’s now at the age where he just doesn’t give a shit. I find that appealing.

So he’s morphed into Pop?

Yes, I still detest him

Not really hate, but more of frustrated about his inability to pass.

GO SPURS GO. GO SPURS GO. GO SPURS GO. GO SPURS GO!

Nice to see Magic assistant Mark Price getting some love from the announcers. What a great player he was. Dare I say he’s a bit forgotten? Not a HOF’er… but damn, could he play.

Mark Price, Craig Ehlo and Brad Daugherty were a nice little trio out there in Cleveland

Brad Daugherty and Mark Price were both great players who’s careers where ended too soon because of injuries.

Yeah that Cavs squad was pretty solid back then. So many great shooters in the 80’s.

Those guys played BALL. And practiced fundamentals! Excellent players.

It’s cool to see there are so many folks who know there NBA history. I am guessing a decent amount of you folks are a little older. If not that is even more impressive knowing about that Cavs team

Define “older”.

Older than 20 something. LOL

Like so many other teams, they were swallowed up by the Jordan Bulls.

Yeah Jordan and the Bulls were beating really good teams. Shit the Kings had a solid team before Webber even got out there. Mitch Richmond doesn’t get enough credit for how great a player he was back in the day

Richmond was a great player on some very crappy teams.

Run TMC was a solid squad. But yeah Richmond did suffer on some shitty teams

Excellent player. Ask any Laker fan where he got his ring, though. ;)

And Detroit… who would’ve mopped the floor with their 04-05 Finals teams.

He could really shoot the ball too. The 80’s had a lot of great shooters all over the court

That Cleveland team, let’s not forget Ron Haper for a few years, Hot Rod Williams, Larry Nance… anyone else? … would have mopped the floor with LeBron’s 66 and 61 win squads on 09 – 10. And his 07 Finals team…? Well…

Yeah Harper was on there wasn’t he? I forgot all about when he was there. I remember him more when he was on the Clippers putting up some good numbers. You are so right about that team mopping the floor with LeBron’s team. But nobody would’ve been able to guard his big ass. LOL

Harper was traded for Danny Ferry and others. The old Cavs teams were better at every position, with exception of SF, than LeBron’s.

Oh yeah I agree 100%

If they just could’ve made it to the Finals one time they might’ve won a title. A 92 Cavs-Blazers series would’ve been good. A 93 Cavs Suns wouldve gone 7… A 91 Cavs Lakers ould’ve probly been ring # 6 for Magic.

Let's Go Spurs!!!!

Lets get a huge lead so the older guys can rest and the younger guys can get more run

Gunnin’ for 200+ comments again, sir? :)

LOL. I just get excited and want to talk to somebody. You think me typing is bad I’m even crazier in person when watching my teams. LOL

Aww shit, no chance to win the thread with GG here.

GG na!

Walang laban!

did you get my email??? ITS IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I replied! Ready to make one, anytime.

I’m predicting at least 3 OOOOOOH MAMMAS! tonight

Does anyone have a feed? Don’t ask FOR a feed, only the information that there IS a feed. :)

GSG!!
I’ll see y’all in a little bit :D

Fear not………..I am here

alright this is my first time this year I willl be with you guys in the glame blog all game long hopefully I dont kill the mojo we have going at home

Mojo is dead but welcome anyway.

Lets get out early and hold off this young squad. keep Cousins off the board and don’t give out open shots SPURS!!!!!!! Lets go

I only want to see two things done well tonight………..Offense and Defense

and cheerleading. LOL

I dont want to see those, unless they have some studs

later, dudes! Party Time! I’m out!

Go Spurs Go!

How would RJ look with the Salmons or Harden homeless man’s beard?

I dont think RJ would look any differnt theres really nothing we can do about his softness as a player even having a manly beard

Like a really wimpy Kimbo Slice

Kimbo’s kinda wimpy when fighting a real fighter… he’s decent against a bunch of stiffs though.

a peanut with beard?

Let’s go young guys!!! I wanna see Leonard and Green have huge games.

So Keith Smart played for the Spurs, huh?

all time leader in FT % for spurs

WOW. learn something new everyday

He shot and made 2

The Spurs were the only NBA team he played for.

We hear about it every time they play sac

It’s the first time I heard it. And apparently, he also played in the Philippines.

Sorrys the word

Push the streak to 13!

Wide open Jumpers already!!! come on defense!! damn

Bring on the bench already!!!!

god damit cousin better not have the tradtional break out game it seems every player on one team has against the spurs now and days

There’s a lid on our basket

We looking a little sorry early

Both teams are.

Stupid foul by R.J. why would Leonard double team Thompson?

rookie mistake

hopefully that was BigFun getting on Beast about tossing up garbage!

Oh is Cousins starting the game off with a Tech?

It was Bobby Jackson who picked up the tech.

This android app needs work. . .

I’d rather that we have an ugly start with a great ending than a great start and an ugly ending… but it would be best if we could sustain being great throughout the ballgame, though.

I hope this is the first case…

Bobby Jackson is an assistant coach for the Kings. Wow.

SCRILLA TIME already?..

Wow the rebounding so far.

We need something for sure.

WTF spurs there is this thing called rebouding

Grab a freaking rebound

Man our defense stinks!!! every game I watch I hope we will magically get better on D but we don’t of course. It is sad to watch honestly.

I like thompson

He’s been playing really well lately.

OK………Green is in

At least cousins shows respect to tim

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It’s ok……………..Don’t hurt yourself

our offense even looks sloppy

how many times has timmeh fallen over this game?

(ps good morning/afternoon/evening pounders!)

same to you. How is the weather down unda?

hot and humid….not particularly nice actually.

He’s fallen I think 2 times.

Timmy forgot his walker at the racquet ball club.

horrible transition D

WOW!!!! This is looking hella ugly early. I think Splitter is eventual going to have to play more minutes than what he does. I like Blair a lot but he is a liability on defense. he has played better this year defensively but still not up to par

his offense is horrible so far

splitter should be playing mor min than what he does I thnk before it was becasue of his lack of offesnive game but now he is starting to be more aggresive and should be getting more min than bonner and dare I say I think he is our best overall defender on this team

Tarp

Now it feels like a trap game

Question: Who’s going to the bench once Manu comes back? RJ or Leonard?
My vote is for RJ

He shouldn’t though

Good Lord…. the Lakers have scored like 6 points since I last looked 10 minutes ago.

It’s our typical non-physical, sorry, stanky start. Ugh.

Of course the one night the Kings pass the ball, play defense, and rebound comes against the Spurs.

Nice pass by Cousins

another still and layup

take care of the ball!!!

another steal… DAMMIT!

Cheese n Rice, Francine!

Well that time out didnt do much good.

Bring in Tiago!!!!!! Please bring in Tiago

was jus thinkin that!

Excuse me, I'm just going to go cry
After The New York Times Magazine ran Michael Lewis’ story that detailed Battier’s scholarly approach to guarding Bryant, their individual matchups have become especially fascinating. Even with his defensive strategy published and surely read by his foe, Battier doggedly forced Kobe to go left, prevented catch-and-shoot jumpers and avoided sending him to the free throw stripe at all costs (Battier finished the game with one foul last night, committed against Gasol). Battier’s devotion to data paid off. Kobe settled for contested perimeter shots for most of the evening, missing six of his first seven attempts en route to an unimpressive 8-for-21 shooting performance. "The numbers don’t lie," Battier said in the story.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYY (Grantland)

Have hated Battier since playoffs last year.

Can we get some defense?

okay this is bs put splitter in the game already

Put Tiago in, we need something in the post

We look like shit out there. Passes are all telegraphed.

That is an ancient technology, as least out passes should be texted.

wow…..looking like mentally we aren’t there at all.

Nice ball movement.

Dont believe bon made it!

this is just embarrassing. It seems Pop is afraid to run plays on offense for other players besides Tony and Timmy most of the time. I mean I understand why but it would help to exploit some mismatches

finally a rebound

WoW

nice pass Tiago!

Nice aggressive move by Tiago on the young guy

there you go splitter

Well this isn’t looking good so far. Hopefully Pop gets our guys in line in the time out.

Btw two years ago yesterday, I think, was my first post here. Seems like only a couple years…

Splitter draws the foul from Cousins. That’s his 2nd foul.

Tiago needs more minutes

We hear ya, man. Free Tiago!

splitters free throws looked good

man chip did some great work with splitter and his FT

it’s still a weird motion….he sorta flicks it towards the basket.

ya but he’s making them now

the ugliest shot is still perfect if it goes in.

oi, sbnation, don’t eat my sentences!

54.3% to 71.4% so far.

2 out of 2 fts made

and another board foolow by a dunk

DANNY GREEN!

He has made me a believer big time. I like the guys confidence and hustle

knocks’em both down!

nice to see you hit your free throws splots

Alright subs lets do this!

there you go Evans shoot us back in the game you hand cannon. LOL. Evans and Thornton are some gunning guys

DANNNNNNNNNNY GREEEEEEEEEEN MOTHER FUICJLK

Thornton is a ball hog.

Black Hole: The ball never escapes

him and Evans. they have shot us back in this game. I can understand why Cousins stayed pissed. LOL

And Danny Green makes em scream OH MAMA!

18-32 Magics up on Lakers

do they have turkglue back now

Mike Brown is great coach, very smart

4:14 left in the first quarter, Kings up, 19-13.

I would like to see Tiago, Timmy, Green Leonard and Tony play more together. I think that would be a good unit defensively

My black and white kitty approves of Danny Green.

Come on Bonner you have to grab those rebounds!!!

too many second chances for Sack of Mentos!…

Matt gives up the open three so TP can take it?

yup, he has no confidence right now

dam it bonner get the fing rebound next time

Neal for threeeeeeeeeeee

Good defense!!

Nice pass and finish

steal and bucket by Green

Box out please

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Off rebs:

SAC – 6
SAS – 0

Fastbreak for the Spurs!

“Green, the steal…got Parker and Neal!”

He rhymed. :P

he’s a poet and he doesn’t even know it

Does he talk in rhyme, all of the time?

Did Sean Elliot just say that Danny’s arms are longer than a bad month?

C’mon Tiago, gotta play stronger in the low block!

Okay bonner all you do is jump up and you get the rebound

How many of you folks think Mayweather and Manny are gonna fight this year?

Not this year.

I think they might early next year

dont think it’ll ever happen!

I won’t believe it until I see it.

Floyd wants no part of Manny…

I don’ t believe that what so ever. Especially after Manny struggled against Marquez

Yeah it seems now that Manny is duckin Floyd!

not the case, read below…

Floyd’s been the one ducking… now he’s “calling him out” but hiding behind the numbers. Manny did look like he underestimated that last fight (He should’ve lost)…

Floyds already agreed to fight so long as Manny takes the tests!!

He doesn’t want to split the money evenly…

and Manny has agreed to the tests

Floyd wants olympic style, Manny doesnt

(love the olympic reference, I just made one too)

Isn’t that already taken care of?

True. So damn True. To be honest both are bullshitting though. LMAO. both want everything to be there way and are not negotiating fairly.

he did lose. LOL. Manny is the fan favorite because he comes off as humble and fight the way fair weather fans like to see fights. Floyd is a loud mouth but a damn tactician in the ring.

yeah, it looked like russian ice skating out there… Floyd runs too much for my taste. a tactician would actually try to fight. this ain’t the olympics anymore.

You don’t like boxing. LMAO. you like fighting. I bet you enjoy UFC a lot also. He doesn’t run he makes people miss which is way harder to do than throw punches. He is one of the best counter punchers I’ve seen in a long time

I love the sweet science.. Just a different style than you and Floyd (and Ray Leonard for that matter). The older I get, the more sports I like…

great boxers not fighters. You like brawlers and like you said it is a different style. I can appreciate both. I don’t see Mayweather as running as a matter of fact I’ve never seen him run. He just makes you look silly.

I wouldn’t say brawlers necessarily, I love B-Hop and he was a counter puncher that wouldn’t engage as much as a brawler would… Mosley was good (although it could’ve been the ped’s), counter puncher but would get the KOs. And I love me some Vitali, he’s a heavyweight, but he’s as defensive as it gets..

so what do you think of Pernell Whitaker, B Hop, Roy Jones Jr.? They run too in your opinion right? LOL

I liked Sweat Pee a ton too.. Roy Jones got sloppy with confidence… He deserved to get KOd like that.

I know my boxing…
;)

Sweet Pea is my favorite guy because he is from where I’m from. He was a defensive fighter just like Floyd and so was Roy before he went up in weight classes.

man, I wish Don King didn’t kill boxing like he did… we need to get that sport back (and hockey for me, most people don’t like it though)

Don King didn’t kill boxing though. The lack of a big name heavy weight is hurting the sport some but it is still wildly popular because of Floyd and Manny

that whole PPV thing for every stinkin’ fight was killing me… glad FSSW and espn have friday night fights and such… you’re right about the heavyweight though. like I said, I love me some Vitatli. I wanna like Vladimir, but his brother’s just got more heart and drive it seems… there was a kid from SA that was promising about 2 years ago, not sure what happened to him though.

I like Manny but I think Floyd will out class him

when both guys are 40

At this point, I doubt it very much.

I’m Filipino but both sides are making too many excuses. Just fucking shut up and fight already.

yeah
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!!

Pass that ball to Tiago, rookie

Turnovers and poor rebounding… what a bad combo

Tiago is already out?

Yep. Dunno why he was pulled instead of Bonner.

Pop doesn’t want to go with the Splitter-Duncan combo. It’s sad.

Splitter cant spread the floor

I don’t care if he can’t. Our offense looks like shit anyways.

every shot is uncontested

honstley pop what is your problem why not play TD and splitter toghther for once

Saving that for the playoffs.

oh right when were down 3-1 in the first round latley pop has made me question him I know hes a greath coach but he has made some dumb decsion

Well, nobody’s perfect.

Cory Joseph is terrible out there.

Well, this sucks.

We’re playing badly, and I can’t see it.

We really need another athletic big guy to help get boards and alter shots.

This is so sad so far

give up a 32 point Qtr

to a poor shooting team

So it’s one of those nights…………..

it would seem… but the night’s young.

Aww shit. We need defense.

we need spliter in

Ok no more of this horse crap. Time to put this game away.

How did he make that…. ugh

That was sick. On the bright side, it would be hard to play worse. I feel lucky to be only down 12.

piss poor effort so far.

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!

What a pile of suck.

22-45 Magics 1:54 before half

Ouch. Kings up, 32-20.

Spurs only shooting 36%

The heb commercial is the highlight of the night so far.

working feed, anyone? not firstrowsports, apparently it’s being blocked here.

15-5 rebounds can not be acceptable

Especially against the Kings.

Alright as horrible as this first quater was there is still 3 quaters to go lets turn this around now starting with the 2nd quater

A lil effort on boxing out and rebounding might help

another offensive rebound! damn

we getting our ass kicked

neal threeeeeeeeee

No boxing out

we had our first offensive board

which led to a bucket

Green and Neal keeping them in the game.

they leaving people wide the hell open of defense. DAMN

Same old same old

pretty much. This is the worse Spurs defensive team i’ve even seen

Finally

we are not contesting shots

thats been the way its been all damn year. poor rotation defense

This is suppose to be the worse shooting team? they look like the best

Well I’m glad we got that terrible quarter out of the way.

Now lets play some Spurs basketball this quarter.

That means contest shots!

its bleeding over into the second quarter also

fffffffffffffffffffffar out.

Somebody needs to start playing some defense

Where is Tiago dammit!!

This is disgusting. There’s this amazing new concept on defense. It’s called rotation. The spurs should look into trying it.

Oof. Even Jimmer is hitting his shots.

He only made 1 so far.

Which is a lot for him. He’s struggled so far.

Corey joseph and bonner are AWFUL

Wow….wide open threes? WTF. Did we become the Suns of old?

Minus the offense.

Yeah, that…you are talking about the one that is stagnant….

I dont even know what the hell to type becasue I know whatever I type the mystery of the missing Tiago is still there

DEN 100
WAS 98
4Q 1:39

lets get this game back in hand. Defense and rebounding.

Blair!!!

that’s a mans move right there!

Damn Blair. Showing off the strength.

we need more of that and DEFENSE!!!!!!!!!!!

BLAIR! We got a rebound! A REBOUND!!

Fiinallyyyyy

Finally, an offensive rebound!

Looked like blair finally got angry

RJ with the drive

Another board but gave it back

Romeo with the layup!

damn as soon as it seems like we are on a roll we screw up

WTF is going on dam the spurs with these TO

Kings can’t hit the broad side of a barn right now.

thats great considering how shitty we are rebounding

They can’t shoot and the Spurs can’t rebound.

Hopefully that will last.

Because guys running at them?

They’re not even running plays that are difficult to defend. Too bad the Spurs can’t rebound.

Steal by Leonard

Leonard should’ve dunked on Jimmer scrub ass. LOL

I just want Jimmer to be good. It would be cool

Until I drop/trade his ass from my team

LOL. fantasy player

Tiago is killing me.

Another off reb for the Kings.

Oh for the love of god…..get the f’ing rebound

I’m guessin we can’t get a rebound so far…

Yay LEonard, but pass the ball

rebound gap is closing 16-20

Kawhi with the steal, draws the foul from Jimmer.

Spurs still down by 8.

Jeez….31 pts in the firs half for LA.

Why why for the all that is holy cant splitter cant some min’s he the 2nd best big we have

Pop hates brazilians

Jimmer looks like Beno in my feed

Not much difference. LOL. Nah Jimmer got some game

Lets go Leonard. hit these free throws and keep the run going. Defense and rebounding!!! we need another big guy and it is showing up in a huge way the more we play

The last time the Kings won in San Antonio, they had Bibby, Brad Miller, Bonzi Wells, and Metta World Peace.

Bonzi Wells in on the infamous list of Spurs killers

Kings broadcasters were talking about that.

Did Splitter steal Pop’s wine? Why is he not playing?

he’s in now?

Yup…Pop heard me

Turnover.

Atleast got a basket again

he promised to buy Pop some rare stuff on there west coast trip

Well, we are closing the gap because the Kings are chucking up bad shots and not passing the ball. I’ll take it.

expected of a team with young players who want more to impress than to win

Better than getting blown out by a bad team.

Horriable pass by Tiago But nice reverse!!!!

nice reveres by Tiago

whenever the Spurs are playing bad, it affects my spelling

Splitter with a an awful lazy pass.

Makes up for it with a reverse.

they need to post Leonard when he is getting checked by Jimmer. That is a huge mismatch

I haven’t watched enough of Leonard to know, but has he developed a post game? I know he has the physical advantage, but I don’t know that I’ve seen him show the skill set much.

RJ loss his confidence

nice shot by Hickson.

damn RJ you gotta knock those down

nice drive by TP

A lot of in-and-out shots from RJ lately.

He is second quessing his shot. The first couple of games, he just catch and shoot

I don’t see it. He seems to be shooting the same way, some rattles out and some are just flat short.

nice pass by Leonard

nice pass by Leonard to Blair

Kawhi runs a pretty damn nice break. He’s three for three so far.

He looks really confident handling the rock and makes solid decisions. Needs to work on his left a lil more though

He has a really good feel for the movement of the people on the court. He just understands.

Woohoo! Rebounds lead to points! We figured it out!

ESPNChrisPalmer chris palmer
The Lakers must trade Bynum for Howard. At halftime. http://t.co/1Yq6zPbs
15 minutes ago
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Love: “I’m an anomaly. I’m different. I’m tired of people saying what I can’t do. Put me in any system and I’ll have success.”

Let’s give Love a shot?

What does Love have to do with the Spurs?

We should have been up 14 by now…Oh well.

The Sixers are balling.

Yeah they are playing well this year

Utah has been playing well this year too.

I’m kind of surprised by the Jazz more than the Sixers

I am too. It’s because they basically didn’t change anything from last year’s team which was awful.

IMHO Utah has better talent than Phily.

But I think Philly is a more balanced team.

Philly is more balanced and have the better coach. I think Tyrone Corban should get coach of the year if they get into the playoffs though. All Utah needs is a real point guard.

Wouldn’t it be funny if Williams went back there in free agency? LOL

Devin Harris has sucked ever since the Dallas-NJ trade,

Hayward is a ridiculous athlete.

Yeah TP cut that lead

dont look now but we are 12-12 on FT

Did the kid just said that TP was his favorite?

Yep. And the guy in the beer line behind the family had an RJ jersey on.

Yep.

First person i’ve heard to say that

Oustanding D by Leonard.off foul

Great D by Leoanrd!!! He had Thornton all jammed up

I don’t think Marcus Thornton can score on Kawhi.

He is to tall and long but Thornton is pretty crafty at getting the ball in the hoop. I like his game offensively

I don’t like him. He’s a chucker.

I’m with Wayne on this one. He usually disrupts the flow of the offense.

Defense!!!! Defense!!

Blair commits his 3rd foul.

Leonard is balling

that’s lemonade if we get one, too many passes

Great offensive rebounding!!!! Fuck yeah spurs

SPLITTER DUNCAN frontcourt

with Leonard. This should be the starting front court

We’re getting rebounds now.

Ah there is the Cousins T

if he gets his head straight, he’s going to be dangerous.

WoW

I went to crap & came back to a 4 point game!!

Cousins with 3 fouls now. And there’s a T for him.

Leonard is drilling his freebies tonight

Smart mouth cousins

Kawhi’s shot is looking better and better.

Timmaaay!

Nice kiss off the glass for timmy

Wow nice Euro step by Evans

wow that’s a good move STUPID EVANS!

Great move by him. You gotta give credit where credit is do like you did

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=6uxpwov

and why would the wolves go for it?

what is the trade?

Love/WesJohnson for RJ/Blair

Kahn will go for it.

If we put 2 PGs there, he might.

Timmy’s off the books this year, correct? We need room for the Max deal we’ll sign Love too.

see that D by leonard on evans?

Good defense but Evans got him the play before

And I thought that Anderson was going to be better than Evans

If he started with the Kings, Anderson could have been a better player.

I thought it was nail time. Drat.

Good score for how we started. Man, the kings would be pretty good if they figured out how to play smart. Evans is sick!

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