<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>My Game Report</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> - completed<br>
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Jackie, Mandy, Lily, Pam, Kristen, Speedy and I made our way into the SBC Center, named as so for now but likely to change in the near future (my vote is to call it the AT&T Arena, if they must change it). Warming up on the court was Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker and Brent Barry, joined a bit later by Robert Horry though he used the Knicks tunnel rather than the Spurs tunnel where I was. Most of the players had come and gone but I did chat with Tony Parker, letting him know I was visiting in from California. He asked how long I’d be in town for and told me to have fun at the luncheon, he’d see me on Tuesday (I’m also going to the Pacers game) and shook my hand.<br>
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Jackie was talking with some friends by the court so I went over by her, which also happened to be near where Horry was warming up. Robert saw me and said hi but continued his warm-ups. I saw Ginobili leave and take a picture with some fans that had flown in from Argentina, they were jumping around they were so excited to have met him. Barry made his dash to the locker room but did say hi to me, which is probably the longest conversation I’ve had with him yet (he never stops for autos). I was back by the Spurs tunnel and Horry went back to the Knicks tunnel so I didn’t get a chance to talk with him.<br>
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Jackie and I had seats in the 5th row, but there was only 1 row of seats in front of us besides the 2 rows of courtside seats. We were in the corner between the Spurs tunnel and the Spurs bench. I managed to lose my notebook that I normally take notes on (and a great thanks to the janitor guy who crawled under the bleachers at the end of the game to retrieve it for me) so I’m just going off memory here.<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Tim Duncan </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> – Timmy is Timmy, though he does seem to have a 70’s look to him with that fro. At least he shaved the beard. Funny moment in the first quarter – he almost fell on top of a cameraman but there was someone holding him up by the shorts to keep him from falling, that had to be uncomfortable (for TD and for the cameraman).<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Tony Parker </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> – His jumper does look better, want to see more of that. He’s said repeatedly in the past that Stephon Marbury is his toughest match-up, probably because he relies so much on his speed and Marbury can keep up with him and also has more strength.<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Steven Barber </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> – I saw this guy first! If you’ll remember the summer pro league in 2003, I saw this guy play and even told Peter Holt that I thought he was good, he reminded me of Tony Parker. Check out some of my game reports (<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.mistilynn.com/games.htm)">www.mistilynn.com/games.htm)</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> from then to see my write-ups on him and pictures. Anyway, he’s on the Knicks squad now and played quite well, he looked excited just to be there and did his best to match-up against Parker. He’s got a good shot, good speed and did okay on D.<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Rasho Nesterovic </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> – Did you see that jumper he took? I saw him catch the ball there and go up for the shot and said, “Oh no…” but then he made it. Good job Rasho, hit some more of those. When does Nazr get back?<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Robert Horry </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> – Okay, so he didn’t have a brilliant scoring night but it’s pre-season, he doesn’t start warming up until April or so. My guess is he was mostly out there to help get the new guys acclimated to the system. At half-time, Emmett Shaw found me to give me his ticket from the Finals Game 5 and some confetti from the championship celebration for my collection, thanks Emmett and good to meet you! The funny part is that he said he didn’t know where I was so he asked Horry who told him where I was sitting and that I was in the pink hat (note: that’s the pink hat that says, “got horry?”).<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Michael Finley </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> – Ball hog.<br>
After every single shot he took, which was a lot, I yelled out ‘Ball Hog!’ because he seriously took a shot every time he touched the ball. I sure hope he was doing that just to try and find his stroke and get used to the system because … wow.<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Malik Rose </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> – He got a very loud ovation when he was introduced and spent much of the warm-up time chatting with Horry, Duncan, Parker and all the guys. During the game when they’d be lined-up for someone shooting free throws, he be chatting and joking around with whoever was next to him, usually Horry or Duncan. He’d stop by and say something to Pop during the game and they’d laugh or he’d chat with Bowen. He definitely had some nerves going, picking up 2 quick fouls in the opening minutes and finding his only points at the free-throw line. <br>
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Thanks to Mandy for the magazine with Horry on the cover, to Mike for the Lakers basketball cards, to Emmett for the Game 5 ticket, to everyone at the game waiting for me while we got my notebook out from under the bleachers and to the girl that was at the game in the Horry jersey just because you were cool enough to wear an Horry jersey.<br>
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