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GameThread #18 - San Antonio Spurs vs Atlanta Hawks - Part II




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Splitter for a triple double tonight!

Splitter +12 (10 min)

Blair -4 (15min)

Duncan -8 (14 min)

Thats all!

We also have to consider the opposing lineup when they’re playing… starters play against better players… our bench players play against, well, bench players… our bench players are playing better than their bench players and our starters are probably outplayed by their counterparts.

Duncan -8, Splitter +12. Amnesty Tim!

AmnesTim vs. RJamnesty

Yes! Maybe AmnesTiago when he is sucking?

4 point game…

we did not score for the last two minutes?

Call a timeout, C WEBB !!!

can we have a blow out, in our favour, just once? please?

Hey man I’ve been watching Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, per your recommendation. What a weird and funny show. Thanks for introducing me to it.

glad you’re enjoying it. i don’t know whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing that it was only 6 episodes long.

Probably a good thing. Doesn’t seems like the kind of show that would’ve remained funny for an extended run. I don’t know if you’ve watch it but I want to recommend that everyone watches Spaced. Hilarious show.

It sucks, but at least the show went out on top. The short Look Around You clips are brilliant, then the made the show into a half hour segment and it wasn’t the same.

So, this thread just popped into my mind… my, how far Tiago has come.

One of the most hilarious things, ever.

rec’d just for mentioning that thread.

Haha, that was awesome

I almost never like reading jokes I’ve written a while ago,but I like this. I was inspired that day.

Jeff Teague is 6-8. We need to make him take difficult shots. Shit hes just having his way.

put Green on him. Or Leonard. Wonder if he can keep up that scoring then.

Is that a hobbit in the studio?

RJ was +13 the moment he entered the 2nd Q, after 4mins, he’s down to -4.

an explanation of australia day…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4AchHTN-XQ

what the hell is a poof?

Poof/poofter: A homosexual or effeminate male.

Have you read this Cracked article?

oh yeah. pretty depressing reading that people didn’t get it was satire.

I couldn’t believe it. People are stupid i guess.

You guys do love the “c” word. I can’t help but like you because of that.

C webb couldnt have found a nerdier pair of frames….?

Don’t forget the beaches

WTF is going on?…

If you’re not going to posr Breaking Bad-related pics, gtfo. [not really]

Breaking Bad, the greatest thing on tv.

Breaking Bad in comics.

wow, I thought I was playing along with the WTF flow… guess I was wrong…

all starters are -
bench players all +

Just like that we are cold.

Things like this tends to happen when you’re missing arguably your best scorer/player and your best true PG…

Finally a spurs basket

Duncan, right into the Pachulia !

Pop calls TO, hopefully, he benches the starters

Quick time out

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hah! when was this picture from? Looks like a looooong time ago…

Pop 1999?

Roughly, that’s about the time he was still going semi-buzz cut.

Why did Bonner pass up that open three?

So he can miss a 2!

Is Parker playing that awful? Why did Pop replace him with CoJo 1 min into the 3rd?

The starters are all playing poorly

i like it that Pop isn’t too cuddly with his starters.

Tony has been playing with a sore back, in his defense.

Pop yanked sum starters 2mins in!

Bonner for three

CoJo is looking pretty solid tonight.

Bonner for three!

Bonner chewing Cory out?

straight way 3 Bonner, dammit!

Bon, playing like it isnt a postseason game !

Dammit Joseph pass the ball

Nah he will shoot instead

Kawhi hasn’t taken a single shot!

Bonner again for 3!!!!!!!!

cojo with another J!

Another Bon three

someone reminded Bonner that he can shoot?

BONNER is making it rain.

Not at the strip club though, hes much too cheap.

bonner must take all the shots

the red rocket!

I cover my eyes everytime bonner drives

he cant shoot anything below the 3 point line.

him and KaWhy…

he should ust pass it up when his defender closes in .

Marvin Williams is looking like less of a bust. Still a bust, but not on Kwame’s level.

hey, if it wasn’t for kwame, bynum wouldn’t be the player he is!

HA! True. He taught him everything he knows.

Boner again! HUH!?!?

And another Bon three

YES! Go bench, go!

Nice heads up pass by Cory

PLAY the BENCH FOREVER!!!

MAKE THE BENCH THE STARTERS AND THE STARTERS THE BENCH!

flip the script…

Tiago isn’t even in the game yet! oh the future looks bright for this young group!

Go young’uns

The young Spurs are shining

BONNER WITH NO REGARD FOR HUMANITY!!!

5th three for the game!

Them young whipper snappers !!

Leonard finally gets one in!

wow, it was really his 1st attempt after 19 mins.

Now Kawhi has finally made an attempt and made it!

It seems Timmeh is going to get a lot of rebounds tonight! Go for 20, Timmeh!!!!

lol the Hawks forgot one Mattheus Aloysius Bonner.

This is one of this days … It is very difficult to talk trash about matt bonner

There’s really no reason why Blair should be playing more minutes than Tiago.

His offensive rebounds

Of which Blair has none and Tiago has two.

OHH, DUNCAN GETS THE CALL !!!

man, Duncan is getting beat in this one..

Did we just say, play the benck FOREVER??? What happened?

They thought they had 6

Tiago checking in.

Zaba was SO not ready for that pass !

Alright! Tiago is in!

that’s what happens when iso joe goes away from being iso joe

I’m late, but good to be in! And Bonner with D on josh Smith? Is the world ending

Bonner is MVP tonight

more like Josh Smith with D on Josh Smith, but Bonner is making shots.

Kawhi is playing the most minutes, but he’s having the fewest attempts! Now, isn’t that enough proof of his defensive savvy?

Detroit 98
Miami 95

1:33 left in the 4th

They’ll put it out!

go pandas!

Yup, just put it out for our DBB bros out there.

Splitter getting calls now too, its like 2012 is here ! ( Wait…)

Standing block tiago

too wide open, you can’t do that….

TP9 with the floater!

Blair checking in……….oh no

Google Chrome froze and now we’re up by 9.

lies – chrome never freezes.

Challenge accepted.

Oh, Facebook Aussies liked your Straya Day video. Maybe I should give you credit for finding it.

What was that??

a glitch in the Matrix

Tiago begging Kawhi to pass it. Funny.

wow, good call…

Dble dribble!???

He should send flowers to those reff

nice try by Leonard

are we getting calls in our favor?

Looked like Kawhi got hit on his arm!

blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaair!

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIR &1!

MINI DIESEL!!

Blaaaaaaaair finally does something.

Let’s not trade him for a Choco Taco…Yet.

i like choco tacos

Meh, its more of a novelty than anything. I prefer the ice cream cookie. (Although both sound like euphemisms..)

ha!
it’s a waffle cone with ice cream and chocolate topping. it’s a win win win!

Oh, I have had them. Just dont think they are that great.

whadaya like?
I’m actually lactose intolerant, so they’re just a fond memory for me…

Toldya, the ice cream cookie.

hmmmmm…. good as well, as far as I can remember.

who’s Choco Taco?

A delicious player.

SexSplots

- Easty -

FUCK YEAH BLAIR!!!!!!!

Don’t look now but our bench players are outscoring our starters 41 to 30, thus far!

wow that’s a huge differential.

especially that our bench are playing fewer minutes!

God I love it when DeJuan does something good.

well this game is going well huh

The game has gotten chippy

BLAIR with an easy one!

oh, the Spurs are picking up their game… Hawks are frustrated…

HAWKS FLEW TOO CLOSE TO THE SON OR SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW I’M NOT A NERD BRO!

GREAT WAY TO CLOSE THE QUARTER!

Let’s go to the 4th, ladies!

high five for parker prob will never get another lol

Looks like Splitter and Bonner are having a +/- stats contest.

now THAT’S how you finish a quarter!

Up & Under

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIR!r

pretty move there!

what an easy lay in for Blair. Great pass by Tony!

MIA up 99-98 20.2 secs

41 Points from the bench

my feed is slow.

games over btw

What a great game winner by Malcom Thomas!

We’re already on the next game.

great pass from dejuan

splitter and 1

Hey folks. How’s it?

18 point lead.

That’ll do

BENCH>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>STARTERS.

As long as we’re winning, that’s ok

so true (at least in this game)

bench players are really really playing good basketball

Our lead is of legal age.

And getting older?

Steady so far.

Absolutely everything goin the SPurs way

green mean fighting machine

I love how Pop decided to mix up the rotation. This run only started because of that early TO he took in the 3rd..

I guess this means we shouldn’t fire him yet…

but we still haven’t seen Anderson in this one… Pop messing with us?

If “messing with us” means Anderson has been permanently replaced by Green, then yea, probably.

Anderson played in the last game, for whatever reason.

I meant playing Anderson in the previous game, I thought for sure that was the start of Anderson playing again.

It’s all part of his master plan to keep us mad at him, so we don’t notice Blair’s weight as much.

Comeone now, RJ. Settle down

100-94 Mil over Hou .33 secs

RJaaaaaay!

Double team on Tiago……thats respect

Yep. He’s earned it.

That, and it seems like passing out of double teams is often a struggle for him. I

he’ll figure it out…

I believe so! I’m considering a Tiago jersey as my first…

Spurs shooting the light out

Feels like this should be a 25 pt blowout

someone predicted that in the preview :)

nice! you earned it! the nostradamus of PTR!

fuck it!

Don’t you dare call this game!

that’s “spursfan87”… where you been?

I know. But let’s not repeat it in the gamethread. I’m superstitious.

me too… too many stupid-stitions for my wife to handle sometimes… cut me some slack though.
:)

HA! Sorry man. Didn’t mean it like that.

Miami won.
NJ won against philadelphia.
cleveland won against NY

D’Antoni doesn’t last a month.

solid line-up but losing.

Houston going down too

PARKER 3

lol, he tried another

heat check. haha!

He knew he was heading to the bench

Pop put him back in… he shouldn’t even be there anymore..

TP for threeeeeeeeeeeeee?

woww parker 3 damnn

Parker for another 3! 2nd one in this game!

would have gone nuts if he made that last one.

Insanely busy so I haven’t been able to post much lately. Boys look pretty sharp tonight. I’m out!

My post count must be out the roof.

“Puppy breath”… (stupid f’n commercial)…

I have no idea what is going on in tht commercial. Am I dumb or is it dumb?

it’s dumb.. my wife hates it!

Maybe we’ll see Thomas!

I’d say if we did it would be with 2 minutes to go

he will be in at the 5 min mark

blairrr forrcee 1

Blair force DeJuan

DeJuan and only

DeJuanna be starting something…

Spurs have it stuck on automatic.

Blair padding his stats. Hate the 5 TOs, though.

wow, nice pass by Tiago, Blair missed

So much for the refs being on our side!

they have to even it out now, lol

the game is already out of hand… they’re probably trying to mask it now.. lol

T-Wac, still functioning

not well

We should finish the final seconds of the game up by 14 just to make sure.

Hard to believe he was about as good as Kobe Bryant for a minute, about 7 years ago.

Tiago is a sparkling +23.

Timmeh the only one with a -

amnesty tim!

he is already antique

Timmeh the only player with a -

dang, Blair with an offensive interference. Nice pass by Splitter though.

That was a bad call on DeJuan!

I’ll take it Beast…

I’d be very happy if the hawks don’t hit 80.

Leonard all over Joe Johnson

as long as he keeps doing that, I wouldn’t mind he doesn’t make a shot…

Nice dime by TP.

Josh Smith can take as many of those as he wants

Man, hawks fans must hate Josh Smith every time he tries a 3.

it is the equivalent for Spurs fans as when Bonner dribles the basketball

Every time Josh Smith shoots a 3 a puppy dies.

Pop wants Tony to be an All Star… if not, he should already be on the bench by now.

TP 9th in the league in assists?

has to take over some play making from Manu… Manu gets plenty of assits too..

TP doesn’t care if we are up 20!

Pachulia tried taking Splitter’s head off

Pachulia is kind of a dirty player.

nice steal by Parker!

Eh, Zaza just threw an MMA elbow, I think

that should be a flagrant!

oh wait. so it was a flagrant.

I think it was

Blair has 6 TOs!

He is Tiago Splitter. don’t mess with him

BTW whats up with NEal?

Leonard is playing excellent Defense on Johnson… you can’t take him out of the ballgame, reason why Neal is not having playing minutes.

and now Pop has the option of putting Neal back in when the offense slows down. No need for that yet in this game though.

Zaza being a dick.

Always wanted to type that.

What’s his nationality?

georgian isn’t it?

A Georgia peach he is not.

he tried to kill Tiago because he cant guard him

Tiago is used to that physicality in the Euros

I’m getting excited about extended Splitter time + Ginobili.

lolz at Blairs TP impersonation

now he’s just having too much fun.

I swear to gosh, I thought DeJuan was determined to shoot it no matter what happened or how many people came at him that play

good game tonite

First game in a long time that my heart beat for the entire game

Man Teague is scrappy

Pop playing Blair and Bonner together just to mess with them.

Now he wants to humiliate them!

maybe we see thomas after this TO

Teague bears a vague resemblance to eddie murphy

splots with +27!

Bonner is jealous

+8 last game. And +9 against the rockets

Bonner Blair combo

The favorite combo of the Spurantics! lol

Excited Pop

looks like excited Timmy

And excited Kawhi. That guy does not smile.

Tims like uh-oh sum1 gettin the eye!

which coach is up by 21 points?

JUMBACO!

First you get a jumbo jack then you take two tacos. What do you get?

JUMBACO, JUMBACO, JUMBACO!

Can’t be as delicious as brown bag mashed taters – order a brown bag special from Sonic, take out the wrappers, mash it all together and serve on plate with your sodas

seriously… rofl… I hate love sonic!

JUMBACO JUMBACO!

Bonner ordering a sandwich from the stands with sign language.

Ok, splitter is officially on a tear, maybe not stat stuffing-wise, but his efficiency is hella crazy.

Agreed, his BBIQ is sick.

and he’s still learning the Spur’s system… future looks good for Tiago…

In Brazil they call BBQ "churrasco". The more you know…

Best Spurs Big :D

no longer debatable.

+26 is nuts though

Bonner only missed shots inside the 3-pt lines?

those ugly floaters and hooks when he tries to drive the ball…

Here comes Thomas

Nice layup there.

THOMAS!!!!!!!!!

THOMAS! THOMAS! THOMAS! THOMAS!

Hah! Tim trying to get back in the game!

So it looks like we are not picking that option on Anderson

Damn Leo again. Mr. Andeson is in, Thomas

Splitt is shooting 83% , 16 pts and 8 Boards in 20 minutes

I think it’s safe to say that win or lose, Leonard is one of our most consistent players…

Anderson is in too.

Great D by Thomas

Holy shit, Stackhouse still in the league?!?!

lol! people forget that Grant Hill came into the league before Stackhouse did.

Robert Parish is his hero…

That new guy is actually on the floor

Leonard is an offensive machine.

Me thinks McDyess was holding back Tiago’s development last year. McDyess was a defensive presence, but Tiago brings so much more offensively. He is quick, runs to the basket perfectly, and has those nifty reverse layups.

Probably, but Tiago was hurt last season. He even missed training camp. I’m loving what he’s doing this season, though.

if Tiago was healthy last season, he might have taken more minutes from McDyess as the season went on.

Tiago was available for most of the games, Pop just waited until it was too late to play him

I think our team would have been better if McDyess were around this season… He could spell Timmeh if the old guy is benched by Pop.

Damn it, Thomas almost scored!

Crackhouse is still in the league??

Holy Shit Stackhouse is still playing!!!!!!!!

Kawhi all over it right now!

Damn, that woulda been good for Thomas!

TEE HEE HEE !!!!

That would have been a nice block

Bill is calling KaWhy’s offensive game “not pretty”.… that’s pretty f’n ugly.

Thomas with a sweet block.

nice steal by Leonard there! Good finish by Blair too!

indiana won against chicago.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

now if only they could be a bit more consistent.

Block on Blair & block for Thomas!

Be sure to stay after the game, we’ve got a great poll idea from that Hickups guy. Or whatever his name is

My name is Zaza Pachulia but I prefer Hipuks.

Oh knoes, Thomas with the dreaded neck tattoo !

Is it a tattoo of lips? If not, I’m OK with it.

Gah, there is this guy at my work with the lips on the neck…why???

Really? Guys with neck tattoos get jobs? Ugh.

Nice D from Thomas.

Thomas needs to hit the weight room and some happy meals

dude! the NBA is using Primus in a commercial?…
AWESOME!!!!

As in, the band?

Yes

I used to listen to them alot.

nice ball move

you looking for a TWSS

19 Turnovers!!
We suck!!

blair with 6

So, is Neal in the doghouse too?

only because Kawhi is playing an excellent game defending Atlanta’s best player.

and Bonner was ridiculous from behind the arc. Nea’s shooting wasn’t needed much in this game.

good decision Anderson

good ball movement there!

Go up strong Thomas!

he’s been block twice already

no more points keep them under 80 or i will have bonner banned from all sandwich shops in the continental united states.

& 1!

For the Dancing Bear!!!

That was a hell of a pass.

Blair just having too much fun! Good hustle by Anderson!

Cory with the steal and dunk

This game is ov….HAHA, PSYCHE!!!

After the Game Over GIFs against Miami I’m a littler touchy on the whole calling the game thing.

yes. that was tempting fate, and we got smacked for it.

There were game over GIFS????!!!! I wasnt in the thread, otherwise, peeps wold have been banned !!! (Or probly just warned)

Whata nose for the ball Joseph!!

Joseph says, “I got the play of the game!”

Solid game tonight! Good guys win, easy!!!

oh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!

Great win

Woo hoo, this is the kind of game I enjoy most.

nice to not have a heart attack.

a win and no new grey hairs

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY1

Stackhouse is my great grandfather and CORY JOSEPH!

Almost the perfect Game!

Great win for the Spurs!

now let me watch the MAVs lose

Blair & Bonner high scorers with 17 each.

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