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GameThread #28 - San Antonio Spurs @ Detroit Pistons - Part II



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ok, Spurs rungun the Pistons

let’s break this game wide open!

Halftime. Time to eat something and watch Super Lintendo.

I heard he’s not doing so well.

Still a lot of basketball left.

But he has defensive stopper Jose Calderon on him.

I watched him until the Spurs started, and he played very well. The Knicks defense is unspeakably awful, though. Amare just let a guy shamble past him. Shameful. Pop would defenestrate him.

How quickly would he have to get him to a window, in order to do that?

Pop needs no wimpy window.

Jeffries is an awful basketball player but his defense is significantly better than Amar’e’s. Amar’e better get his shit together because his could become the worst contract in the league fast if he doesn’t.

Oh, I haven’t heard that one yet.

Lmao more like the Lintenator!!!

Hey folks, how we lookin’?

Not interested, and still winning.

Jerebko is lookin' great.

sparles competition

You've forced me to do this.

Don’t look directly at it because it causes estrogen levels to rise in even the most virile of men.

Where’s Easty to counter all this Jonas Jonesin’?

Oh she wouldn’t be happy.

That is a sparkly man.

Heat currently burning the Pacers.

Wel 20 minutes to watch linsanity

Well the good news is i will be spending half time attempting to teach a man how to click the refresh button. Gotta love tech support.

tell him to alt + f4

I’m about to just hunt him down. The call started with “I replaced my keyboard and it broke my internet.”

Maybe he replaced it with a sponge?

I’m glad the game’s on early today.. I can still do something with my wife after for V. day.

Alamo Drafthouse in SA is doing a Princess Bride quote-along + meal tomorrow.

Well I guess I’ll just be flying in from California!

We’ve actually been talking/dreaming/joking about moving to Texas..

Do it!!!

Knicks playin’ the Raptors tonight so we got a 2xBB

I hope they get into OT

And the Knicks > the Pistons. So maybe that favors us.

yes sir ROLLTIDE.

Well that was unexpected! Roll Tide (all Spurs fans should love Alabama basketball- Robert Horry and Antonio McDyess.
)

yes sir and fooooootball too. Saben looked good @ Pebble last weekend.

I once explained to someone how Spurs basketball = Alabama football. Emphasis on “boring,” fundamental play and defensive-minded the whole way. Also the best coaches in each respective sport.

Rip coach Woodson stressed so much on fundamentals there’s hardly any fundamentally stresses coaches anymore :(

As long as it’s basketball and not football, we allright!!!

Hola. I’m MIA cause I like running the online game feed through the TV, but I thought I’d come revel in the greatness of the hottest team in basketball*

*In a quantifiable sense, not based on what ESPN wants us to think

Wait… what? This isn’t Posting & Toasting!

My Jack and Coke says otherwise.

i dont like today’s game at all.. may be coz there is no energy in that building… i dont know!

Sand Tiger Shark. Carcharias taurus

During early embryonic stages the young absorb nutrients from a yolk sac and possibly consume uterine fluids. At approximately 10 centimeters (4 in) in length, developing embryos in the mother’s uteri are killed and devoured by two surviving pups, a process called intrauterine cannibalism.
There are reports of biologists probing the bellies of landed females and having their fingers nipped by the cannibalistic young with their fully developed teeth.19 The surviving embryos (one in each uterus) continue to feed on a steady supply of yolk capsules that contain 7-23 unfertilized ova.20 After a lengthy labour, the female gives birth to 1 meter (3 ft) long, fully independent offspring. The gestation period is approximately eight to nine months.3




The last thing i would want to see in the ocean.

You sure about that?
Really sure?

What’s the poisonous octopus? That would get my vote.

Blue-ringed octopus.

Birdman breaking out the marine biology! I like it!

No thank you sir.

Yes, Tiger sharks eat anything.

TONGUE LOUSE

Holy F**** what the hell is that?

It’s a parasite. I forget what it’s called, but it eats the fish’s tongue, then basically becomes the tongue.

Sounds…..painful.

Yes, basically the parasite cuts off the blood supply to the tongue and tongue dries up and falls off. Then the parasite acts as the fish’s tongue, eating whatever scraps of food it can get.

Do we have anything like that we could fit into Metta World Peace’s mouth?

“I let him coach and I play,” World Peace told the website Friday before the Lakers’ game with the New York Knicks. “I’m just trying to win, and . . . coach is a stats guy. His background is video coordinator or whatever. So he’s all stats. But Ron Artest is all feel.”

I heard that too…he wouldn’t survive as a Spur even for a single day after making such a statement

Like Blair and Manu basically.

A tongue louse.

That is some scary shit

where’s Sigourney Weaver?

Dios Mio!!!

I’m sure those would make nice pets.

Hmmmmm Tasty!! Shark steaks on the Barbie!!

Even with great photos…they still look scary.

Knicks still cant play defense

do you mean Lin is not complete?

He has to give in to his anger and strike D’Antoni down.

Lin’s 9 assists still more than his 6 turn overs!

positive numbers!!

Linsanity!!

It’s just Linsane, you have 9 assist and 6 turnovers? Looks like made for a hot Valentines night in US

Got to love the knicks effort on defense

Not looking good for Utah in OKC, they’re shooting 29% and down 12 now.

It’s been decided that you guys are going to take CV, BG, and Isolayshaun off our hands.

No laughing. No crying.

and is your name mad?

No, my name is shitty.

No thanks!!

But we…I mean you can’t…
Oh well, send them over.

Aww, thanks Spurs!

You ARE lying. just epinion.

in my epinion, I am desperate.

Rec’d to the memory of coachDP.

Isolayshaun – i like it.

So they’re related to Manupulayshaun?

This needs to be in the Lexicon!! Lmao!!

Your dream, my nightmare.

sobz

around here, the subject line is emphasis I think.

Double-double for Lin.

Almost a triple double if you include turn overs!

Linsanity lives on

10 assists and 10 turnovers?

Oooh, nice Moose block!

Can DEjuan learn how to pumk fake

he knew that once, when he was a rookie

We’ll give you guys Wilkins too. He’ll teach him all about the pump fake.

I’m afraid he would consume our shot clock if he would learn those. T_T

Grrrrr Blair has to make that.

Timmy another block!

Monroe just got educated.

RJ lobz

Very nice execution, I’ve been seeing those in the highlights, but never saw it coming.

Uuuuh who’s this RJ dude?

We got him from the Bucks. He plays a couple of times a year.

Ask Romeo. RJ is his hero.

Wait, RJ can still dunk?

his 2nd dunk this year!!!

He is allowed to do it only once per 5 games per Pop’s request

I LOVE THAT PLAY, I LOVE IT EACH AND EVERY TIME

RJ with the hops!

Whenever the LOB to RJ2.0 is working, you know the game is proceeding smoothly.

Who needs Blake when you have RJ?

Finish these guys, so Anderson gets to play

THe pistons are spending in halftime shows because no one wants to watch the team

End of 3rd: Heat 90, Pacers 58
:’(

they miss Cubits so much

Timmy with a double double already.

Timmeh that was ugly

Yay Blair makes it.

sup pounders! posting just for the roll call :P

Yo, srf. ’Sup?

sup LD, just sitting here at work hoping the boss doesn’t see me typing away. just sneaked a quick look at the game on my phone as well…

You need to work on your no-look smart phone typing. A key skill.

Gotta say that I’m a huge fan of both your screen name and you sig. Very nice

What about my awesome nick and my lack of sig? Hmm?

Now you’re just sounding desperate.

Always craving attention.

cheers. wish i was able to join in with you DBB people here today….

Clamp down that D.

HEY!

…says Stuckey

Ben Wallace is one bad mamma jamma.

You guys don’t swear here, right?

Yes, we do but in moderation. Also, bad mamma jamma is better than any curse word. just epinion.

What did they just call on tiago!?

A personal foul.

Dang I gotta step out for a bit to do something… right as Manu comes in. Y’all hold down the fort while I’m gone.

Tony has had a tough time getting to the rim tonight.

Its nice to see oposing anouncers giving so much praise to the spurs. Heard me Grizzlies anouncers?

Timmy is everywhere.

He is sooogood (Tiago)

The Spurs have so many plays… Watch NY for a minute and the difference in incredible.

Don’t you mean Lincredible?

It’s Lintestinal Colintis.

sooo true, they may not be 2 more different teams in the NBA.
Mike ’Antoni is so fuckin overrated. Steve Nash was the offense, all that Mike had to do is instill a defensive system and a bench. He failed at both.

Spurs big men are balling. Tiago nearing double digits while the others are in double digits already.

The Pistons broadcast just caught Frank saying “oh shit” after a ref explained that Splitter foul.

he just pooped his pants?

grab a towel to clean out Tiago’s ears.

He does have a bit of a babyface….

Wow, that was a nice move by Prince.

I still don’t like him.

TOR 78, NY 72 (9:09 4th)

Lin with 19 pts and 10 asts

WOW! Even if his efficiency is not the best, the dude gets results.

great fantasy player

I know…and I hate myself because I had the chance to get him. Before he exploded in the first game, I had him on my watch list…. but didnt have the courage to take him.

In my fantasy football league last season, I cut Victor Cruzy.

I have to give him props. He’s surrounded by cow dung in basketball jerseys.

Its like watching two 5 year olds slapping at each other

As opposed to this game, which is like one 5 year old slapping at a cave bear.

a cave bear mounted by Chuck Norris ( Manu)

I really hope they win. As Yoda would say..Selfish Iam.

All-valentine team? really?

Love gets a nod?

George Blaha can be my valentine… any time.

Tiago is so smart

TIAGO BEING SMART.

He is lin-like

Lintellingent. (Double use = win.)

so much win in one word

So much LIN, Chilai!

Geez.

I linsuck

This is what I think of every time someone on the media makes a Lin pun.

Chang!

I just want to know… is there ANY room in this pocket for a little spare Chang?

just learned from 9gag that he’s a doctor in real life. Cool Cool Cool.

C’mon, Neal… what the heck was that.

Splitter is looking all kinds of awesome.

noooooooooooooo neal get up!

Leonars is 7 for 8 on his last 3s

Manu makes EVERYONE better.

even the refs will make better love to their spouses tonight

Lin missing free throws, giving assists… It’s the Lin show, for better or worse. (Better. Amare is disgusting.)

2pt game in New York. Lin makes me care.

Oh that’s a bad call on Big Ben.

lol. The announcer asked his partner “Do you like Splitter?”

Like him better if he was 24 not 27, naturally.

Like him, or like-like him?

It is Valentine’s Day…

If Leonard starts making that…

Feed em Tony. O no Off foul

This just in: our bench is good

Leonard is starting to become a much more credible threat on offense. Great to see.

Ben is doing a good job on Splitter. The old dude can still play.

Stay with these guys awhile Pop.

It’s a little bit boring, the Pistons trying too hard to sell fouls.

Manu may be the only player in the NBA that makes an offense much better even when he is mising his shots

Congrats to Big Ben.

A tribute to effort and hard work.

Best undrafted NBA player ever.

I Lindisagree…damn…I dont know how you guys do it

TOR 80, NY 76 (5:57 4th)

Yeah right, it’s Ben Wallace’s 1055th game.

They are POUNDING Lin.

Well, it is Valen… oh wait, we’re not doing that?

“Valin…” I am disappoint.

They’ve been PoundLing?

What exactly are you watching right now?

Must… resist…. urge…

Only 16 points for Detroit in that quarter…..only 19 for us though.

Lets finish this quickly please!! We have a game tomorrow against a bunch of retarded dinos

Fine with me. Let’s end the pain.

Handicapable Dinos, please.

Why? Its not racism…I even let my handicapped out of the cage sometimes

Oh my bad, that’s actually pretty nice of you.

8 for 9 in his last 3s for leonard

I’m back!!
What did I miss??
We are up by 13, yaaay!

you missed all the linsanity!!

Leonard is quite showing us that he’s got game from outside.

If he can hit that consistently he could become the new Bowen.

go away pistons

I wouldn’t worry.

Manu done for the night.

Stuckey is strong

Why they always make those coast-to-coast , and-one type of play against 4 of our players?

My fantasy team is effing terrible today. Manu hasn’t scored a point, and is my best player so far.

Man even the announcer sounds sad.

I’ve seen these in other half-empty arenas. At someone point everyone just stops giving a fuck.

I’m pretty sure that happened right before tipoff.

I’m back. Good to see we still have a lead.

I just got back too. Two threes, seriously?

Wallace 3, really??

Ben Wallace… hah. Gotta love that. Unless we lose.

Ben Wallace makes his 7th 3pter EVER.

Shit, Ben Wallace just make a 3

Alright this really needs to stop.

Prince cant get over the Bonner wall

Tim’s 3 > Ben’s 3

But Ben’s 3 is just exciting, it’s his 1055th game!!!!

sigh, and we got a game

We need to stop the run!

Ben Wallace is the best three point shooter ever.

ew…manu….we need you now

yikes! the lead is just down to 6

Crap had to attend to family stuff and i see they came back.

i made it and we only lead by 7????

Wallace 3 pointers!

there’s something wrong when an opponent shoots a 3pt shot, only 7th in his career?

They are cranking it up. Respond.

Watch out, the 15 people at the game are getting rowdy.

Will the crowd noise carry the Pistons over the top???

The 13 Spurs fans there, better get rowdy!

Pistons on a 10-5 run in the 4th

Bout to be 13-5.

COUNT THAT BABY AND A FOUL!

and my feed just died

And my feed dies.

Yes. Here too.

The other one working now..

Ben with great D on Duncan.

No Parker or Ginobili in the game! Pop do something!

Where’s our non-RJ lineup to set things right?

Yay Jefferson! THAT WAS what I wanted !!

That’s what she said.

Wow, Pistons got lucky with that tip.

Fear not. I’m watching the game now. Playtime is over.

I was worried.

That’s understandable. RJ and me are here to rescue the Spurs.

WHAT THE MOTHERFUCK

One point game. Yep.

Don’t look now!

Nice rebound and make RJ!

Their bigs are raining threes on us.

Duncan can’t score on Ben.

…and Gordon makes that.

Lets go Spurs!

Neal to Kawhi!

Nice cut Leonard

Geez

We need some freakin’ stops.

Oh for the love of Tim.

great pass neal, great cut leonard

Ummm where is the fucking foul call?

Knicks-Raps tied, by the way

how was that not a foul on wallace

I hope Duncan’s ok.

22-9 run Wattta……

we need to score!

nobody can’t stop anybody. Come on Spurs!

That’s a 5 point swing. Fucking bullshit.

Should we riot? I mean i don’t have anything better going on.

ummmm……put manu in?

Ok, lotta time left. Lets get it together. GET PARKER AND MANU IN THE GAME. And finish this.

Great. Now I’m sweating. It’s Valentine’s Day, we are playing Detroit, I’m not supposed to sweat!! Damnit.

I make you sweat, no?

This is a different kind of sweating, Tiago baby.

Tim had no business taking that shot.

Ummm he got mauled.

Should’ve been a for sure trip to the line. Tim knew it.

Are you kidding me Lin??

Huh. Well shit, maybe no overtime for Toronto now.

What happened?

Hit the game-winning 3 with .5 left.

You hear that sound, off in the distance?

Yep, ESPN just had a lingasm.

I didn’t even see it, and my pants feel a little tight.

And Lin just hit the game winner

Really? Wow.

Lin with a buzzer beater 3….nice

Where is Tiago?

He should be in the game.

Whats going on? Quick recap please?

This Lin stuff is unreal.

yeah..very unreal

I hate you, doubleteapot.

Can we get some of that Lin Magic?

LOL @ the Warriors.

Ouch Manu knee to Gordon’s face.

Wallace seemed to apologize to Tim. Duncan didn’t finch. He’s mad as hell.

Put Tiago in!!

Yes. Go at Jerebko in the post.

I love Jonas, but it’s true. He’s no post defender.

And Tiago does have some post moves.

WTF Wallace go away!

All 30 fans in the arena are really making some noise.

Yay a missed FT!

Oh my Timmy got to the line, finally!

Parker and Manu should have been in the game sooner

how i miss those manu-ops!

I want a beach party poster

Flop.

You may think that is was a foul or not but it was not a flop. Manu’s I mean

Duncan’s mad and he’s so aggressive

TIMMMMMYYYYYYYY!!!!!

Gotta get stops.

Ben gets victimized by two straight flops.

Terrible shot Manu.

Put Tiago, run some pick and rolls dammit

can’t watch this.

So how the fuck did this happen?

Tiago is on the bench

I want Sparkles back

Prince it isnt game 7 any more…

GO AWAY FOREVER, RICHARD JEFFERSON

This is the crunch time line-up, apparently.

and Bonner and Jefferson are in it

off night for Manu

He should even be in the game right now.

He needs to get to the line some how.

Sean calling for Hack-a-Wallace

but the guy just hit a 3pointer! T_T

Pistons tv guy looks like al gore

Lin stole our mojo

Good lord Wallace is bad at shooting freethrows

Oh shit hack-a-Wallace

I honestly cant say i have ever seen a man Airball freethrows twice in one game.

And then swish a couple of threes. He is awesome.

RJ trolling again!

RJ: “This is for you, Drums.”
romeo: sniff

RAGE makes up for his mistakes

Holy Tony.

RJ MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

RJ, please play some Spurs basketball.

Box score messed up and said Parker made the three… lol

Oh man. Make the damn FT Tony.

Hack-a-Ben? is this 2005? Is this real life?

I hope it’s 2005 again!

Timmy should dunk on Ben again.

1/4 FT’s tonight from tony.

wallace is a better FT shooter now?

Payne said it:

Gregg Popovich is the Kazsparov of Koaching

“Pop doesn’t seem to care too much what the fans think.”

Lol..love it.

And that’s the problem w/ hack-a-wallace.

GET A STOP!!!!

Can we box out.

Not against Ben Wallace.

take Bonner out of there

Offensive foul bitch.

You’re so fucking smart, Manu.

OMFG another rebound lost

7 Spurs in double figures. How the hell is this close? Oh, right – defense.

Manu has 0..

Don’t I know it.

almost no Tiago in the 4th

I love you Manu!

Manu plays Defense!

Be my valentine Manu.

Classic Manu

Timmy has filled up the stat sheet tonight

Is anyone else hearing that awful lady in the background yelling? Good God.

we need a stop here

I hate flopping. I can’t blame Manu too much for it, since he’s a great actor and is rewarded for it, but it’s garbage. Rules need changing.

So charging is okay then.

Well, I’d argue there’s a happy medium between no charges and no flops.

hmmmmmmmm…..

Apparently I’m the only one that thinks going at a defender with your off-arm is a foul, as well as moving into them on a screen? Sorry!

I didn’t see the off arm at the time. Certainly you can’t do that.

Manu AMAZINE D

THat’s the Manu effect even without scoring.

We need another stop.

Manu flopping against Prince on a close game? This is 2005. Where is the DeLorean parked?

Love and Respect for this Pistons team. Some of the calls didn’t went their way, but they’ve kept it close.

What a late call, and a bad one at that!

Late BS call

Makeup call.

for what? lol

The alleged flop. Home cookin’

Perfect defense. Manu backed away.

Sweet makeup call! Thanks, refs!

Jerebko killed a redhead.

Fun stat of the night: Manu is the ONLY Spur who hasn’t scored, yet he leads the team in +/- at +13

+/- should count in fantasy, gd-it.

That’s the Manu we know

That’s SO MANU

Geez. Bonner…

Bonner was murdered

Bonner….uuuuhh….. please make the free throw.

Bonner you’re so silly.

Oh my goodness.

Manu with the block!

2x in a game. Defensive Manu came for Valentines.

Bonner started the game so great too.

damn it Bonner!

Yeah Manu defense!

why is Bonner in the closing line up

Pop likes to fuck with us.

So Tony can have that layup.

Basically. I’d rather have Tiago in there, though.

2 for 1. Clock management.

TP!

Crucial free throws and Bonner missed them both

I hope Brandon Knight can learn that Tony Parker floater. Such a good weapon.

TONNNNNNNNNNNNNNYYYY YOU MAKE ME FORGIVE FRANCE FOR SARKOZY AND THIERRY HENRY.

Tony REPS THE TONE

REPPIN’ IT HARD, BRO

funny

Anyone see Green making fun of Tony’s floater?? Funny! DVR folks, rewind it to where Tony made it to the bench!

tony can score!!

The HD league pass feed is so obviously delayed

Ok Spurs, get one stop and win the game.

Who gives a shit about Lin when we have Tony.

Manu’s shot counts, right?

It counts in my heart.

If they dont count it they risk facing the wrath of the manu.

Make free throws.

Hah, Manu made that

Yay a tech on Gordon.

stupid Gordon

Maybe not so stupid………….

+1000 you need every loss

Still thinking about how awesome a Monroe/A. Davis frontcourt would be.

Ben Gordon with the classic Detroit low BBIQ

That guy just shaved the point spread.

While we’re on the subject, it seems to me that the central complaint about Manu is misplaced. He’ s not flopping at fouls that aren’t fouls; he’s dramatically “over-reacting” to actual fouls to call the refs’ attention to it. It’s a soccer technique that may be obnoxious, but it’s certainly not cheating.

That’s all I’ll say on the subject.

I think, in this particular game, that’s mostly right.

I love this more than you know.

let’s talk about this in the quick cap…

This

I’ve always felt that this was the case, and I’ve always blamed the refs for players flopping. The only reason players (like Manu) flop so much is because it helps their team. The refs call the foul. If the refs didn’t call it, players would flop less. So even though it’s frustrating for the opponents to watch, it’s the smart play because it makes the refs react.

I’m not sold that is related to soccer. International players are used to playing organized ball for most of their lives. Getting calls becomes more important part of their games. Also, flopping is not perceived as a not-masculine act.

Ok. Can breathe again.

Hack a manu

are you kidding me?

not yet over….arghhhhhhhh!

Not the best game to have Manu shoot FTs.

Manu with a chance to get a point.

he has 1!!!!!!!!

Oh fuck. Badly misses the first.

Yay makes the 2nd.

Phew. Too close.

Spurs make me nervous on Valentines day…

Congratulations again to Big Ben. Nice game.

Thank you for some big shots tonight Tony.

Thank God, we dodge the trap

What a crazy game.

Now tomorrow becomes the trap.

I kinda get the feeling Manu goes off tomorrow.

Hopefully this gets their attention and the tarp is avoided

there you go! Spurs win! 8-game winining streak baby!

now I can focus on Linsanity

me too. i wanna see that last shot..:P

Right there with you.

That was fun, guys! Thanks for letting us DBB folks hang out.

You have an awesome blog. Keep it up.

you guys are always welcome

What an unsatisfying win….but I will gladly take it

Yeah I’m just happy to get the win at all after all that, so in that sense it was satisfying.

Heckuva a road trip so far.

18 pts 14 rbs 3 assists 3 blks 2 stls for Duncan

Let’s trade him!

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