Pounding The Rock

yay!

HELL YEAH

GO UTAH

nice little run they’re going on right now.

What took you guys so long?

yeah!

TDzilla! - February 4, 2012 reply

so what do you guys think best win of the season so far

certainly one of the most satisfying.

It was good, but I liked the win against Houston a little better. They have been beating us seemingly every time.

Best performance from TP…

Yep

First Dallas game.

I think our best loss was the second Dallas game when our bench took it to them. I love those games.

Drafting Leonard!

TrooperJoe73 - February 4, 2012 reply

He looks pretty good, no?

I liked our trashing Atlanta and a difficult win @Orlando. Beating Dallas was sweet, but they didn’t look good at all, so it felt like they lost it more than we won it. If we scored 1 more point @Dallas, it would be our best win.

In all of the games where I only posted once in the game threads, we’ve won… I think I’ll do that more often! :-)

The mojo is strong with you.

Yeah! I should not break the mojo!

Hello.

Josh, in case I haven’t said it this year, you kick ass running the game threads/quick caps.

+1 best one out there.

This

what the old lady said.

Is there a derogatory term for Aussies? :P

Wanker?

HQ!

Convict?

DrumsInTheDeep - February 4, 2012 reply

GOL!

i think we wear that one with pride…

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - February 4, 2012 reply

aw thanks Cap! You guys are the ones that make me even relevant…

This2!

TX2NC - February 4, 2012 via Android app reply

It was the KOREAN FISH!!!

the hybrid has magic powers!

WINNER!!

M3D1T8R - February 4, 2012 reply

BRONZE MEDAL!

RESPECTABLE PLACE!

SILVER

I let you. I had to back down. Spurs lose, when I win.

When you respect the mojo, it respects you. Good job.

Thank you. I cant take any chances; this is a short season, lol

TAKE IT AJ!!!…

AJ?

avery

yes…

Duh. Of course. Sorry

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That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

AJ got passed for all time assists by Tony

Tony nearly doubled Durant 42-22, and Westbrook only passed Kawhi in scoring late in the game to outscore him by 3, 18-15

Alamo - February 4, 2012 reply

Those points from Leonard were a welcome surprise. He looked like he really relished the challenge of playing Durant.

I believe it was a great confidence booster for him

What I think was the best about this game was that the thunder were in the top 5 scoring and we held them to 96

Spurs are the 4th seed all of the sudden in this crazy ass season.

Best win of the year so far?

I would say so

Yes.

Spurs, Spurs fans, you’re welcome.

#KobeSystem?

You know it.

Eww

BTW Happy birthday!!!

Thanks, sf87!

It was your birthday wish

Spurlady - February 4, 2012 reply

This.

I believe it was more of the Kobe System at work but yeah, that too :)

Ha!

Kobe System + birthday = SuperMojo

+ infinity

Happy birthday, bronsky.

Happy Birthdayyy!!

SpursCupcake - February 4, 2012 reply

Happy Birthday! Keep doing your thing for the wins. Hopefully, you won’t run out of … well, mojo by the playoffs time.

silverandblack_davis - February 5, 2012 reply

Hah! Thanks, LD, C-cake and K :)

Well, Tony should have their attention now. All-Star, please!

DrumsInTheDeep - February 4, 2012 reply

Tony should be an All Star this year for sure.

gunnin' gervin - February 5, 2012 reply

I wonder if Tony will make the BSPN highlights

Great job by Kawhi as well on Durant.

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - February 4, 2012 reply

I can’t get too high off this win. Yes, I’m glad we beat them, but they were coming off a game against Memphis yesterday. It’s the exact same thing that happened to the Spurs in that first visit to okc.

Jordan Leithart - February 4, 2012 via mobile reply

Party pooper. Don’t be a turd. :P

They were definitely tired, still, they are one of the youngest teams in the league, and they are also the same squad that won 3 games in three nights.

OKC was on their 3rd win in 3 days in that game.

Alamo - February 4, 2012 reply

We were also burying the threes, OKC was giving us a lot of open looks.

We just beat the team with the best record in the west. I dont care if non of their starters started or if they played in nights in a row. This was a great win. They came out on fire.

Yep

Timmeh needs only 1 more rebound to be among the elite 20 in the all-time rebounding list, doesn’t he?

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pgl_finder.cgi?request=1&player=&match=career&year_min=&year_max=2012&age_min=0&age_max=99&team_id=&opp_id=&is_playoffs=N&game_num_min=0&game_num_max=99&game_month=&game_location=&game_result=&is_starter=&is_active=&is_hof=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&c1stat=pts&c1comp=gt&c1val=10&c2stat=trb&c2comp=gt&c2val=10&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&order_by=pts

and he is very close to beat hakeem In All time Double-Double List

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - February 4, 2012 reply

Nice. Thanks for the link

he could end up second on that list before the season is over.

Wow. He’s had such an amazine career.

Tony Parker just tore the Thunder a new butthole <3

bombsaway - February 4, 2012 via mobile reply

Tony dominated Fisher.

And that’s all I have to say about that.

The Spurs are doing as good as they could have possibly hoped without Manu. They are only 3 games behind Oklahoma for the top West seed, all without their best player. This is terrific !

While our young guys have been given opportunity.

Which should pay off down the road.

And Duncan logging a career low in minutes per game. It cant be any better at the moment.

Very nice point

Josh Guyer (completely deck) - February 4, 2012 reply

Awwwwwwyyeeeeeah

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DrumsInTheDeep - February 4, 2012 reply

lol

Durant 22 Pts ….thats good
Westbrook just 1 free throw … and his proud going down lol

Jazz up by 10 over the Lakers, 2 mins left in the game.

Go Mormons!

dear lord, think of the alimony…

I only got to see the end of the 3rd quarter to the end of the game, anyone have any insights into how Blair has been fairing the last few games?

His defense seems to be better, but his offense has fallen off.

Take it all in guys, the grueling rodeo trip now looms. Even then, there are only 2 segababas on the 9 game trip and several lengthy rest times, with two periods of 2 days rest and a 6 day mini-vacation at the trips conclusion.

I’ve read that Manu is doing shooting drills think he can be ready by the end of the month?

he’s looking on track. just hope they don’t bring him back too soon, make sure he gets fully healed.

No idea, I am expecting they will hold him out close to the full 6 weeks.

Didn’t realize the schedule was that favorable (relatively). Need to kick butt on the RRT.

Here a video of Kevin Love stepping on Scola’s face. Seems intentional to me.

damn, it sure was intentional. Should get suspended

hmmm….it looks less egregious than it sounds to me.

Looks intentional.

Sure does look intentional. On the other hand, who knows if Scola had it coming.

Scola did throw the ball at KLove’s junk the last game they played. It wasn’t intentional and he apologized, though.

love has supposedly apologised to scola (at least according to someone on twitter)

It looks bad but Love doesn’t strike me as a dirty player. Scola had flopped on the two plays leading up to that one so he was probably angry and let his emotions get the best of him.

Well, that and that whole zinging a basketball at his nuts thing. =P

lol….It looked about as unintentional as Loves stomp of Scolas face. Love hurts.

HA! Love hurts…good one.

You obviously don’t know Scola. Stand up guy, definitely not someone that would injure another player on purpose.

Had it coming? What the heck? He’s a great guy, and certainly didn’t have anything like that coming.

I know he is from your homeland, but it looked to me like he aimed that ball directly at Loves crotch. ( I am sure Scola probably is a great guy, by the same token, Love appears to be a good guy as well)

Who knows, maybe Scola was himself provoked. I am not questioning anyones stand-upness here, just making a comment on observation. To be fare, I would be extremely pissed off if someone slung a ball at my jewels, whether it was intentional or not.

Yes, he is from my country. I have seen him play for many, many years, ever since he was basically a kid. He never got into a fight, never hurt anyone. I don’t even remember seeing a flagrant from him. He’s not perfect, but he’s definitely not someone that would aim a shot at another player’s ball.

The two choices are: a) he tried to hit Love somewhere in his body, to bounce the ball off court and get it back, and missed; b) he deliberately tried to hurt Love. I am completely certain that a) is right – just as I would be if Manu was in the same situation.

I might be pissed if someone slug a ball at my jewels. I would not step on his face. Duncan would not step on his face. Manu would not step on his face.

Robinson would not step on his face, either.

Tebow would not step on his face.

Hahaha. Clown.

I cant say what happened. I do not know either participant in this series of exchanges, nor the totality of their dealings. I just saw the videos was all. I do not know what I would do if placed in the same situation. But I digress from this pointless argument. I come in here to read cool stuff, talk to cool people and root for the Spurs, not argue about silly things. Asi es que calmate, cuate. Somos del mismo equipo.

I don’t know why you think I’m mad, or agitated, or whatever. You read too much into my mild “what the heck”. I was just giving you arguments as to why I didn’t think Scola “had it coming”. And then I explained that your justification as to why Love would have a reason to do that was fundamentally flawed. But I’m not mad.

LatinD - February 5, 2012 reply

Understood. Apparently I have always had a difficult time gauging emotional intent via text.

that’s disrespek

TDzilla! - February 4, 2012 reply

To be fair, he stomped on his chest, not his face. But, yeah, it was on purpose.

So after making their big trade for Carmelo and signing Amare and Tyson Chandler, the Knicks were led in scoring by Jeremy Lin claimed off of waivers.

Alamo - February 4, 2012 reply

So apparently Westbrook said something to TP at the beginning of the game, and TP got mad

Pop should play that for Tony before each game.

Thank you, Westbrook. Keep it going, man.

42?!?!?!?

Where did this come from allofasudden?

bj1der - February 4, 2012 reply

France

Actually in France it is more like minus 12....sorry I shouldn't have.

luke.G - February 5, 2012 reply

Evidently, before the game Westbrook asked Tony what was the meaning of life. Tony ruminated on the question for a while and finally came to the answer – 42.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy lol
EPIC COMMENT!

LAKERS LOSSSSSSSSSSSS

Poor lakers have no bench to speak of. Bet they wish they would have kept Odom.

He wanted out of LA. Otherwise they would have kept him.

Laker fans have been screaming for their GM to do something, but what is he supposed to do? Getting past the Lakers big 3, the rest of the roster can’t be moved. The 3 MoHeatos are surrounded by Mike Miller, Mario Chalmers, Udonis Haslem, Shane Battier, and Norris Cole. Derek Fisher is no Chalmers, Troy Murphy is no Miller, “Metta World Peace” is no Haslem, Matt Barnes is no Battier, and Darius Morris is no Cole.

He created that team. Why wouldn’t they be pissed?

i suppose so

The proble was that they didn’t get anything back for Odom. It was a net loss. If that trade exception gets them a good player or two they’ll be back to being a contender.

*problem

Kobe is no LeBron. Gasol is no Wade. Bynum is no Bosh. Brown is no Spoelstra. Kupchak is no Riley. Seems to me that the Lakers are no Heat, at least for now.

…Brown is no Spoelstra? You lost me there.

LatinD - February 5, 2012 reply

Here is Mike Brown

This is Eric Spoelstra

Can you see now why I said

Brown is no Spoelstra.

Makes perfect sense now.

LatinD - February 6, 2012 reply

lol….

alamobro - February 6, 2012 reply

;-)

yea but They have a team that spent on salaries $ 85,460,700

By the way, Tony Parker is good.

His trade value just went up!!!

So Jason Thompson and a second rounder?

HQ!

Devin Harris for Tony, straight across?

I think the only PG I’d take straight up for Tony would be Derrick Rose.

MiniMegaMoose - February 4, 2012 via mobile reply

He needs to pass more, but other than that, yeah, he is not bad. I mean, not bad for a French.

I really want to go to the bulls game when we come back home. If only to hear Manu introduced to the screaming masses.

MiniMegaMoose - February 4, 2012 via mobile reply

FIRST Parker dominate Lowry and Dragic
Now: He destroy westbrook

Who needs an “s” when you have TP?

oh cool, league pass has fallen over. least it didn’t do it during the spurs game.

GN all. This has been a great day. We beat OKC, and LAL, DAL and HOU lost.

Night

Later

It will get better after Denver looses

Michael Finley @Da_Finster
@tp9network Congrats on the win and the assist record. Maybe u’ll reply to the tweet since u haven’t returned my text/calls

ooooh….a little snarky.

Someones feelings are hurt…

Well, I don’t blame Tony. It’s kind of scary to receive calls or messages from a zombie.

Zombie!

damn, haha

You know, Tony probably has a no texting policy at this point, don’t you think?

ha!

He only replies to sxts.

Pfff.

Blazers with a 13-pt lead over the Nuggets.

This team really feels different, it will be interesting to see if the immense improvement of the teams wing and guard play can offset the loss of Antonio McDyess.

Also we loss Dice, but we are pretty much gaining Splitter

No denying that, its just that Dice was a cagey one on one defender. Sure, Randolph still killed us, but if not for Dice,Z-Bo might have averaged 35 ppg.

I agree, but I still mad that Pop didnt play Splitter more last season. By the end of the season it was clear that he was a better option than Blair.

The way Bonner is playing, I’m okay with a playoff rotation of Duncan/Splits with Bonner and splash of Blair.

MiniMegaMoose - February 4, 2012 via mobile reply

Damn I hate BSPN

What did they do now?

Probably showed highlights of Durant and Westbrook.

like 25 secs of highlights, and then at the end they mention to RRT and a sarcastic “good luck with that”

wankers.

Did they at least show ample highlights of Parker lighting Westbrook up?

No, they should the westbrook tip in dunk, the record breaker assist and a tear drop.

they show

saw that too espn are a joke spurs win over the best team in the league with manu and they still dont take us seriously

Well screw them. You ain’t changin’ who you are.

The Thunder (18-5) narrowly averted their worst loss this season, while the convincing win was just the springboard San Antonio needed before spending next three weeks on the road — where the Spurs have hardly been as dominant. BSPN

That actually sounds pretty accurate.

They are not lying.

Portland up on Denver in the third.

The Blazers are tough to play against in the Rose Garden.

What a nice win. And I missed it.

Pff.

It was a good win. I think they really turned a corner during the second half of that Dallas game. They have looked like a much better team since then, more confident on offense, tougher on defense.

That’s why Pop stuck with the bench in the most crucial part of that game.

I know some folks questioned that decision, but the team is responding.

Correlation does not imply causation.

It implies it. It doesn’t confirm it.

Jordan Leithart - February 5, 2012 reply

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Popovich scit quid agatur.

quincyscott - February 5, 2012 reply

What up, Pounders!!
I was at the game. It was glorious.
Best win yet?

SpursCupcake - February 4, 2012 reply

It looked pretty glorious on my little screen, too.

CUPCAKE MOJO!

You know this!

SpursCupcake - February 4, 2012 reply

Evening friends… Missed the game, but incredible win. Tony was on, I see? The Defender of the Parker is happy.

Ed (dfjmed) - February 4, 2012 reply

Yeah, you must be really proud of him, DotP.

Ayatollah - February 5, 2012 reply

Oh…and the Lakes and the Mavs lose. Sweet!

Ed (dfjmed) - February 4, 2012 reply

And the Nuggs.

quincyscott - February 5, 2012 reply

yea Mike Brown Gets crazy and almost destroys the eardrum of the reff

People is overeacting about Jeremy Lin Big Night, ala norris cole

i was out for 4 days, then we won 3 straight games against legit teams? im liking it!
GSG!

rank - February 5, 2012 reply

New Orleans (without Jack, no less) is a “legit team”?

Who do you consider illegit?

doggydogworld - February 5, 2012 reply

5-0 when I go to the games this season! Woohoo!
Great win! Now, time to bring the winning ways on the RRT! GO SPURS GO!!!!

Marky G - February 5, 2012 reply

We need to all chip in and get you season tickets so we can win out then. : )

Tony murdered Westbrook tonight. Made me proud to be one of his defenders. He should’ve been in All Star consideration before this game and if he wasn’t the coaches are most definitely paying attention now.

Timmy looked solid tonight which is great to see and Leonard was knocking down shots

GO SPURS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gunnin' gervin - February 5, 2012 reply

+1 Million! :D
I still got a few more games left that I’ll be going to, so hopefully they’ll continue winning. Maybe I should have gone to that Kings game. Then, they would still be perfect at home.

Marky G - February 5, 2012 reply

And I agree, PARKER SHOULD BE AN ALL-STAR! If he doesn’t get picked, I’ll be ticked off.

Marky G - February 5, 2012 reply

Monsieur Parker es tres magnifique!
We got the Thunder this time! Argh!
It looks like they are ready for the Rodeo Roundup…

eastbaysd - February 5, 2012 reply

And just like that,the Spurs are the number 3 seed in the west,without Manu Ginobili. This team is going to be beasting when he comes back.

Sometimes is just interesting (not surprising) how the spurs keep flying under the radar

This is different though, they are doing it without their best player. This might turn out to be the best Spurs team of the last 4 or so years. ( Though the defensive rating doesnt really say that, but theres time to improve on that horrible number)

if you correlate between The top 5 in the west and Top 5 in the east
WEST
1 Thunder = 95.13 Points Allowed thanks to us Rank 14
2 Clippers = 96.95 Rank 24
3 Spurs = Rank 13th Points Allowed 93.92
4 Denver = 99.33 Rank Rank 26
5 Utah = 96.77 Rank 23
*So Right now, if we talk about the TOP 5 in the west we are the best defensive team

EAST
1 Bulls = 88.50 Points Allowed Rank 3
2 Miami = 95.83 Points Allowed Rank 18
3 Sixers = 86.50 Rank 1
4 Pacers = 90.74 Rank 4
5 Hawks = 91.13 Rank 8

If you were to look at the worst offensive teams, a number of them are in the East and have been the opponents of the top defensive teams it the East. At this point it’s questionable as to whether some of teams at the top on defense are only there because they’ve played so many bad offensive teams. Orlando for instance has only the 8th ranked offense with an average of 92.17 points, and they scored only 83 in their game against the Spurs. Orlando’s played Indiana 3 times twice scoring 85 and once scoring 102. They scored 83 against the Bulls and only 69 against Philadelphia. The Spurs have had about 4 games against the bottom 12 offensive teams, whereas Philly has had about 12 games against them.

Alamo - February 5, 2012 reply

I tend to also take point differential into consideration. A team like the Thunder may give up 95, but they score 100, one of the top three offenses in the league, so they are still +5 against their opponents.

Also, if you look at opponent’s shooting percentage, the Spurs are not where they want to be, although they are slowly getting better. We are still in the bottom third of the league in that category.

quincyscott - February 5, 2012 reply

It’s easier to build up a nice point differential when you’re playing against weak opponents than it is when you’re playing against the better teams in the league. Things tend to even out more when you get deep into the schedule. Let’s see if the Spurs point differential changes much after playing Detroit, Toronto and New Jersey.

Alamo - February 6, 2012 reply

This is great stat, I love it.