Pounding The Rock

We’re killing ourselves with the switching on PnRs. It always almost ends up bad.

Small ball doesn’t help either.

Balir as the only big doesn’t work. You either go as small as them and play Leonard at C or go bigger to force them to change their strategy. I don’t like what Pop is doing.

I agree. Spurs need a big who can match Galli’s footspeed.

And Neal was a freaking matador.

Neal’s getting a bit lost on D.

As usual.

Everybody is lost. Their line-up is super weird. Good job by Karl.

He has been since he’s been back.

I realize he’s not in game shape yet, but you can’t get beat that badly on every possession.

I think Pop should keep a super short leash on him. I feel like Anderson at least should get some of his minutes.

I know Anderson’s shot isn’t falling, but he’s been a better defender and rebounder so far this season.

what’s up with Anderson logging only 6 seconds? like 6 freaking seconds??!

I don’t understand this as well.

My guess is Pop’s going with the hot hand. A game win this early will pay dividends later in the season when teams start getting tired becasue of the punishing schedule.

I think Pop is giving him chances. This is the only thing that makes sense.

Better off with Bonner at 5…

We need to bring in Tim and go on a zone defense. We can’t keep up with all their versatile wings.

That’s like three gamethreads! This is a first this year!

PLAY SOME BLOODY D YOU STUPID BASKETBALL TEAM!

give it to ’em, Yellow Mama!

First part III thread of the season?

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

Denver shooting 61%. Yuck.

They traded places with Spurs.

getting lucky no longer

play Splitter!!!

Well, that was the SPOSQC out of the way. (Second Part Of Second Quarter Collapse)

Ooh Gerald Henderson gets into it with Georgie.

Link

G. Hill didn’t like that one. He got thrown down to the ground.

damn. still nothing beats this:

where’s that gawd awful~~ly funny~~ remix of this pic?..

silly move by henderson, he could’ve hurt jessica…

I’m lucky to have Green on my fantasy team.

Ayatollah - January 7, 2012 reply

What a quarter. ::facepalm::

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

Poorli-drawni-fishcus

Only seen on the web and cartoons. Not to be mistaken by the elusive tongue louse.

tasty?

Free Ike!

Ayatollah - January 7, 2012 reply

What are you guys doing?

Watching Saints-Lions

Watching Rockets-OKC. Tied game, end of the 3rd.

eating breakfast

SCRILLA is trying to make me a believer…

is it ok that I still use that in my every day talk? Am I stuck in the way-way-past?

it’s a possibility…
;)

I’m afraid of a future without “scrilla.”

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

Ha!

I have no mom now, and that’s funny shit!

That is just wrong

That’s very wrong, but at least it’s not a Korean comic.

That’s equal parts wrong and funny.

well said

I laughed… and I feel dirty now

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

One more…

I like his hat

yes!

Ha!

Okay this one was funny

yes!

LOL

Refs

Me thinks the refs are taking the change to the flopping int he league a little to far. Some of the bodies thrown in the game deserve some calls.

Final Frame - January 7, 2012 reply

Chuck Norris Mojo

Lol.

Man, being sick sucks. Too difficult to stay near the computer. Later peeps.

Get well Grego. It’s a compressed season. We’ll need every healthy body in here.

get better brother! just getting over a cold myself (in summer! while on holiday! grrrrr).

get better soon grego!

line of oregano shake you out of it, guarantees

im out of state, anyone know a link?

im quite pleased with mr ford, great find

JUMBACO JUMBACO!!!

Jumbaco!

around these parts taco and burger dont mix

I still wonder why people go to Jack In The Box for tacos… same reason they go to Taco Bell?

right, would you goto taco bell for a eel

I wouldn’t go to Taco Bell for a bag of money.

I would go there for money. But not tacos.

scrilla!

all about that scrilla!

woohooo 17-14 Saints

my fiancee got league pass!!! greatest woman ever!

good for you!

She’s a keeper.

it’s still free :)

Marry Her!

its so nice to hear bill land and sean elliot out here in nc!

Are u in winston, deac?

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

yep. grad student at wake forest, you?

K-vegas.

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

haha, just down the road, go spurs, go deacs

Just so you know—welcome, by the way—a quirky thing about Pounding the Rock is that we don’t use the subject line in our comments.
Thank you for your cooperation, and enjoy!

whoops, sorry

Deacs look kinda weak this year.

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

bball or fb? I have not been following college sports lately.

Bball

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

That sucks. I always liked how they are somehow always good despite being the smallest place on tobacco road.

My son pays more attention than i, he says give rhem another year.

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

i agree with him, espn says the wake recruiting 2012 class is #15 overall, so i have hope

wakes recruiting
http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/recruiting/classrankings?&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fncb%2frecruiting%2fclassrankings

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

RJ 3.0

RJ

RJ for THREE!!!

RAGE!!!

Yay, Timmy is back in.

Nice hook, Beast!

Blair makes a jump hook.

DEBEAST!!!

Blair with the Kareem sky hook, except from much further down.

hah

nice move by blair

BLAIR!!!

Blair scoring again!

Neal.

Blair’s offense is much improved. He’s finally using his weight to his advantage.

must’ve eaten a JUMBACO!

definitely benefited from wrestling some bears in Siberia

NEAL!!!

Neal with another floater-like shot.

TDDDDDDDDDDD

vintage Timmeh

hes looked younger this season!

Nice, Timmeh

Marky G - January 7, 2012 reply

he says it the right way too…

Now that’s a foul

TD!!!

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

I love you all. Have a great night.

Cedarpark - January 7, 2012 reply

see ya Cedar

Night.

Y so early?

Nighty night.

Night, man.

I like Timmy getting some rest in the first and getting younger for the second.

RJ!!

--

a somewhat disappointing game btw…

indeed :(

i finished it last night, and my reaction after the last mission was ….“that’s it? that’s all i had to do?”.

it seemed so.. rushed

yep. it’s a pity, because i can see a good game in there, it just never lives up to what it should provide.

Nice!

Marky G - January 7, 2012 reply

Rage!!!

Can someone just stay in front of Gallinari? How can he beat everyone off the dribble?

OLD

He handles the ball really well for a big guy, tough for most bigs to cover him. But of course he has no post game.

Hey, Gary Neil can miss too?

Blair looks like a man among boyz

BLAIRRR

Wow. Blair!!

BLOL!!!

RJ for threeeeeeeeee

wow rj

And that’s another RJ 3.

Spurs are winning with offense this time

RAGE!!!

Soooo, how’s it going?

thought you had passed out.

In a deep cleaning and organization trance.

Me too. Moving out of my place, and I am a serious pack rat. Having a rough time of it, but should try your solution (alcohol).

It works great.

And luckily I also have to finish up all my alcohol before moving out.

Skoal

Skoal!

Okay, did you find the watch box?

No. I found another, and then threw out the box lid of the missing one. When it shows up, I’ll throw it out, too, for disappointing me.

dude, did rj shoot a thousand threes a day this season? holy shit

Welcome let’s go, generally we don’t use the subject line

Hey LGDC, Welcome to the board. Just so you know, we don’t type in the title box around here. Used to it now, so the bold hurts some people’s eyes and feelings.

Oops, others chimed in as well. Didn’t mean to pile on :-).

sorry guys! i did it a few times…didnt know

No worries at all, no way for you to know.

it’s all good :)

damn neal pass tha ball to rj

And Blair watches Gallo launching a three.

damnit!

Get Blair off Gallinari!! Look at the space Blair is giving him. All day to knock down 3s.

wtf

If Gallo finds his stroke from deep we are in trouble.

Too late

I’d say he’s already found it. He’s been knocking down long 2’s and now 3’s.

He was shooting 18.9% from deep coming into this game. Of course he starts hitting his 3s against the Spurs.

Effing Gallo.

I would live with Galo driving it, he has slow footspeed

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

*Gallo

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

we could call him The Rooster from hereon :-)

Nine Spurs players currently have 6 or more points. WTF we should be blowing them out.

That would require us to play defense.

Too bad Blair can’t guard SF’s…

And Karl <3’s small ball. A LOT.

Manu’s seatmate is laughing

Sad Keanu?

TP!

put in Kawhi instead of blair!

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

Pop heard you :)

Maybe they could put a hand up on defense. . .

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

82-76 now.

come on…….

This is getting bad…

Spurs defense not looking so sharp now.

Their offense deserves a lot of credit. They are exploiting all the mismatches.

No NBA defense should ever allow 65% shooting.

But D’Antoni’s Knicks will try pretty hard.

Agreed. But you can’t deny that Karl was really creative with his lineups and Pop couldn’t counter. They deserve credit.

Ford is in

That’s a mismatch

TAKE BLAIR OUT OF THERE

Please!! Hes just murdering Blair

Blair is also murdering him.

Neither can live while the other survives.

the problem is that Gallo is hitting 3s and Blair 2s

I agree- but you can’t really blame Blair. Blair’s a big. Gallo is not.

(which is weird considering their respective heights)

Alright! Second unit back in. Do your magic BAM!

put TIago!

put someone else on gallo, please.

ok nice D………..finally

GREEN!

Blair’s D is getting frustrating

Blair’s D is getting frustrating

What would you like him to do against a SF?

good point. then they should take him out instead.

Or, since Blair is out performing Duncan, they could move Blair to the 5 and play Kawhi at the 4. RJ couldn’t stop Gallo to start the game, either.

Bonner is in now. Maybe his superior defense can stop Gallo.

At least Bonner is used to being out on the perimeter.

should call more plays for TD down low

and fouls damn

right on

Dear lord Denver is up to 66% shooting

lets hope for an incredible 4th

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

Put in Splitter?

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

Granted.

You got it

Just as you said!

He’s checking in for Blair.

duncan regulating

they finally heard me whining for more TD

Twin Towers

can we put bruce on gallo?

what?

GALLLOOOO

put Leonard on Gallo

those long arms sure will bother him.

THIS.

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

Come on ref, thats not a shooting foul! That was on the floor

Green with some full court pressure

Denver Announcer:

Blair is a mini-bus. He puts it in park and you can’t move him out of there.

Excellent.

Like a bus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkTw7J-hGmg

Nice!

GREEEEEENNNNN

Green for threeeeeeeeeee

GREEN goes for a three!!

wow folks

green machine!!!!!!!!!!!

GREEN!!!

Can someone put Green's face here?

Green needs to work on his ball handling.

dont handle just shoot

I agree – we have enough ball handlers.

TW… Never mind.

Green with 16 points… S

Anderson is fk, now Green is great at shooting 3s too

Anderson better step up his game. Work on his defense and play making skills.

haha!

JMcDonald_SAEN
Danny Green up to a career-high 16 points. Still leads the Spurs in scoring.

Didn’t realize that was a career high. Way to go, Danny, but don’t stop now.

Wow. Green is turning out awesome. Defense plus the 3. Bowen-esque almost.

agreed and agreed

Hmm… not sure that’s a travel.

I think he shuffled just before that move. But just a bit.

lookd like art

That was not a travel

Bad call. That’s not a travel.

Saints now up 24-14.

WTF! THat is not a damn travel. Dont make a call just cause you think it is ref, make sure it is. His pivot foot never moved. Damn.

damn refs

stupid call by a stupid person.

stupid!

bad call….Vintage Tim.

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

How dare they call a travel on the GOATPUFF on the post.

sacrilegious

but…. they’re still shooting 60%

64% to be exact

haha, my bad. My eyes hooked onto the 3-pt column by mistake

Yeah, defense has to step up big time.

the Spurs are shooting well too. Almost 60%

this could turn out like a Suns-Knicks shootout

and that’s a problem, and we are holding our opponents to 43-44% shooting this year with 91 ppg

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

89-82, Spurs.

2:33 left in the 3rd.

Can the Spurs keep up this offense?

Id rather them pick up the defense

Can the nuggets keep it up?

93-92 Rockets over thunder 1:52 to go

Go Rockets!

hope they go to 3 overtimes

Hope it goes to overtime

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

Laugh; Use pivot foot.

That was things Tim Duncan cannot do in an NBA game

nice hustle by Splitter

Green

GREEEEEEENNNNN

Good D by Green and good move on the other side.

my heart! its growing

GREEN!!!

Nice left hand layup by Green.

oh danny boy………….

Danny Green!

that was manuesque

with the left hand too.

confidence booster!

sean elliot <3 tiago

Get in line, Sean.

HAHA! im a fan too

Scrilla on the loose!..

Explain please

Scrilla = money
Green = money
Scrilla sounds like gorilla..
it was a journey, sorry…

It’s a stretch

a lot of ptr nicknames are…

what gallantry.

C’mon Anderson

oh, he’s actually in the game now. Time to step up your game Anderson! Or Green will bury you in the bench.

Truthfully, they’re probably both getting buried when Manu comes back, unless Leonard hits a slump. So enjoy this.

Can’t believe I wasn’t sure which one of Butler/Green the Spurs should keep.

pretty wild indeed

I was sure that the Spurs were going to cut Green

Yeah, that seemed to make more sense at the time. Glad it wasn’t my decision.

I wanted Alonzo Gee instead of him.

yup

I wanted Battier…

I love Green but I would still take Battier over him.

Damn what kind of fouls are they calling for the Nuggets? Just give them free points refs

I think it happens when Stern realizes that the Spurs are winning games

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

Rookie mistake

Come on Corey Brewer…stop making plays please ha

damn kpop…almost.

Green with the Steal!

Good hustle by Kawhi and Green.

CORNER POCKET BABY!

traveling on the Spaniard

&!!!

Finally, James Anderson makes a shot.

He’s 1-of-2.

ANDERSOOOOOOONNNNNN

fernandez looks weird in something other than a portland uni

there ya go mister!

JAMES!!!!

94-95 Houston, .31 secs OKC ball

Durrant hits

I don’t like the fact that KD’s developing ice-water blood. Not good news for the competition.

He also spent the summer working on Dirk’s fadeaway jumper – like he needs more offensive skills.

go to overtime!!!!

triple OT would be better.

Anderson with a 3!

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

How are they looking?

Ahh Anderson almost had that 3. Just a little softer.

nice time management, seemed comfortable with 3 secs

94-85, Spurs.

Defense decided not to show up tonight?

still not loving it…

We gotta survive this, somehow.

I hate shootouts

It’s fun though if we win and you watch it on replay.

hard on the ole REM

True but id rather watch the calmness of low scores and great defense

me too

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

Bruce started as a journeyman and we loved his D. Green also started as one as well and I love what he’s bringing to the team!

nice look there

hahaha i meant *STARTING

may history decide to replicate itself in the very-vital niche that is the Spurs staring SF

There can be only one Bruce. But yes I love what Green brings.

At least everyone is scoring for our team, unlike the Nuggets. Most of the points came from Gallinari. Lets hope he gets cold.

hey yeh the big picture, dig it

95 points. In three quarters! Without that bad stretch in the second quarter Spurs could have hit 100 in the third.

the Spurs been scoring really well this season.

Well Tony is single again.

Zing!

Spurs/ Nuggets two original ABA teams.( Someone tell them this is 2012….)

alamobro - January 7, 2012 reply

True dat

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

ha!

Haha

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team with 9 guys in double figures in the same game. I would love for the Spurs to do that tonight.

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

Come on Tony!

Green with the block!

Green has arrived.

alamobro - January 7, 2012 reply

Interesting lineup

I like it better than the one with Blair as the only big.

they missed the wide open cutter

Call a foul for Tony please! They keep reaching in.

Kawhi’s rebounds are so pretty.

those hands are just so long!

good pass anderson

Good pass by Anderson.

Shit OKC wins

SPARKLES!

come on splots, hit these

thankyou!

slips em in

Tiago makes it 7 Spurs in double figures.

Just need 4 each for Ford and Kawhi.

Glass half-full? The Spurs have a deep roster.

We’re holding up? I’m, you know, relatively intoxicated still.

Cant wait to see how well you type when your full intoxicated

keeping a buffer, but it’s not convincing yet.

Come on Spurs!

RJ!

dammit

I hope Lawler’s Law is true tonight.

RJ 3!!!

Green must really average around 2 blocks during the past 2-3 games

hunderrrddd

RAGE!!!

yes!

Nice drive by Green

Green & lawson – think those 2 know eaxh other. .

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

Scrilla!

cha-ching!

some stops please?

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

RJ has ice-cold veins all of a sudden.

green is a fountain

GREEN 20!!!

Brewer on fire

Oh man seriously fk Corey Brewer! Come on Spurs dont get beat by that guy.

TIMEOUTTT!!!!

SHUT UP COREY BREWER.

eggs zachary!

Tiago so far leading team with +12.

!!

Yay

shut up Brewer

my feed is starting to suck

OKC won, BTW. 98-95.

meh, no OT

Awful execution by the Rockets. They had two chances to win it.

Corey Brewer…that random scrub that owns the Spurs.

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

The refs need to give Brewer a technical. The guy never shuts up.

tiago needs to lay down some law

just saying i would if i was him of course, you know me

wtf is Tiago doing on American Idol?

Ha ha

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

I liked the energy and defense Green brings in, every point he makes is just a bonus. So far, thats 20 bonus points. I like this guy.

confident at both ends, hes something special

Say what you want but I like this lineup, even if it’s small ball with Kawhi at the 4.

because unlike RJ, Leonard can play the 4

Agreed.

I like Kawhi at the 4 better than Bonner, unless it’s one of Matty’s hot nights.

22 points for Danny Green

with 2 steals and 2 block, he’s winning this game for us!

2 assists and 3 boards too!

Green Again

Wow. Danny Green is on fire.

green! manu who?

a good thing eh?

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

Green light!!!

all eyes on splitter

there’s still 8 minutes left in this game? good grief.

We cant stop Lawson from driving and finding guys.

historically quick PGs have always been trouble for us

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

Green should have taken the free throw

green… radioactive

hot hot hot

Danny Green inspired this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-gu2r4iljk&list=FLjfjYj1eR9M-Ml5bP-ijMFg&index=32&feature=plpp_video

Damn, Lawson so fast and strong.

Damn.

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

c’mon that was a foul

bloody hell…

Sigh im not feeling good about this

nice pass!

Great D

waz up pounders…high scoring game..

rank - January 7, 2012 reply

Danny Green showing he can score.

9-11..nice

rank - January 7, 2012 reply

ty ty

TP!

DEFENSE!

Thank goodness

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

OK, throw it back down to Timmy, trust me Pop

so RJ misses when he shoots within the arc.

TPPP

TP!!!

le croissant!

come on, GET A STOP!

Rudyyyyyyyyyyy

fk

Still no foul

Damn damn

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

Ah crap. Only a 2 point game.

106-104.

So that wasnt a foul for Jefferson right refs?

call a foul please?

No foul???

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

damn it

RJ!!

Danny, you’re playing great, but you are not a point guard.

RAGE!

I hate how they call crappy touch fouls for the nuggets yet they hack the spurs and nothing.

exactly

David Stern.

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

Heart attack coming soon….

discount appendectomy

5:38 left in the game.

108-104, Spurs.

gotta tell ya'll

RJ looks GOOOOOD

i’m as surprised as anyone, maybe we were being too nice and he actually responds to trade rumors and being a general scape goat

RamblingSpur - January 7, 2012 reply

this has been crappy

Dark Black - January 7, 2012 via mobile reply

bad taste mouth

The refs doing back to back? They are awful

TX2NC - January 7, 2012 via Android app reply

don’t need a game like this to start a baba….

http://www.poundingtherock.com/2012/1/7/2690769/gamethread-8-san-antonio-spurs-vs-denver-nuggets-part-iv

New GameThread

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - January 7, 2012 reply

Another one?