Spurs beat Knicks 100-92

knicks on a nice little run, lead cut to 6! come on spurs!

oberto hustling once again. playing excellent defense.

Enjoying the game here - hate rooting about Malik tho :-(

duncan missing freethrows!

ace3g wrote:my prediction is Spurs: 102 Knicks: 89

my prediction was so close

final score Spurs: 100 Knicks: 92

spurs win 100-92.

decent game. sloppy play during the second quarter and into the third. the spurs were just coasting through the whole game. when the knicks would make a run the spurs would turn on the afterburners. knicks had cut the lead to 4 then spurs go on a 7-0 run to close out the half.

finley needs to find his shot...he is the bricks barry of last year, however, THE brent barry has been hot lately. he is not having a difficult time adjusting to the new ball.

Manu seems to have lost a step, he is not as aggressive as he used to be. do i think he is declining at 28? no, what i think he is doing is "saving" himself for the playoffs, just like how duncan and shaq do. manu is a winner, he was an allstar once and that was enough for him, but what he really wants is to be a champion and remain a champion. hopefully iam right and he turns it on after the allstar break and into the playoffs.

parker has been on a tear! his jumpshot is money and he is passing well too. parker looks like he could go back to the allstar game with his play recently.

good win, spurs need to get some rest and be ready for division rival houston on tuesday...that game will be intense!

GO SPURS GO!

I received a ticket to go to the game and I got to sit right behind the Spurs bench. I took lots of pictures last night and I'll post them sometime probably tommorow.

Parker's season high leads Spurs

Frenchman Tony Parker's season-high 33 points led the Spurs to a contentious 100-92 win over the New York Knicks at San Antonio on Saturday.

Parker was a sharp 12-for-17 from the field, though his side only shot 50% from the field as a team and 55% from the free throw line.

Tim Duncan added 24 points and 16 rebounds for San Antonio, but only shot 4-for-12 at the charity stripe.

Quentin Richardson scored 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in 40 minutes to lead the Knicks, who shot 45 percent from the field.

"We had a slow start, which made it kind of tough for us," Richardson told the Associated Press. "We got to figure out how to exert more energy and stay closer" at the beginning.

After the Spurs took an 11-point lead after one period of play, Parker exploded for 13 of his 19 first-half points in the last 6 1/2 minutes of the second quarter.

After the match an off the court controversy roared over Spurs forward Bruce Bowen's defensive technique after Knicks guard Steve Francis was injured earlier in the week after landing on Bowen's foot in a 105-93 loss to the Spurs in New York.

In Saturday's match in San Antonio both Bowen and Knicks coach Isiah Thomas got technical fouls in the first quarter after Thomas yelled something at Bowen after another New York guard Jamal Crawford again nearly landed on Bowen's foot.

"I didn't really see where he was. I knew he was somewhere underneath me," Crawford said. "I didn't know exactly where. I was focused on getting the ball up."

"I thought Jamal went up to take the shot and as he was coming down, Bruce's foot was under him," Thomas said. "And if he were to come down on his foot, he could have broken his ankle or sprained his ankle and he would have been out, just like Francis."

Bowen said those types of injuries were just part of the game.

"It's unfortunate that injuries happen in this game. But it's about what we learn as kids as far as the enjoyment of playing this game," Bowen said.

^it's inevitable, someone's bound to step on somebody's foot every once in a while ...

Anyways, good game, that one pic was funny!



wasn't that where Manu elbowed Tim?

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2006/11/13/sports/sayson.you.know.it.s.bad.when.57.pts..isn.t.good.enough.html

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS. While both the 2-5 Suns and the 1-4 Mavs are struggling, West powerhouse San Antonio is off to a quiet but impressive 5-1 start.

The Spurs beat a perplexed Knicks team last night, 100-92. And as always, it was a united effort for the 2005 NBA champs. Tony Parker led the way with 33 points and six assists while Tim Duncan, no longer nagged by plantar fascilitis, tallied 24 points and 16 rebounds.

The Spurs went to work early. They built a 32-21 lead and never looked back. San Antonio shot 37 of 73 field goals. They killed the Knicks off the boards, 46-38, and they made more assists, 21-11.

Neither Fabricio Oberto nor Francisco Elson look like David Robinson, but with a combined effort of 10 points and 17 rebounds, they still proved too much for the Knicks, who got 21 from Quentin Richardson and fell to 2-5 in the East.

Here's my game review. It's not that good but I thought I'd still post it.




It was a really fun time last night getting to sit that low. Before the game I ran into Many (Manu's wife). She was too busy speaking to someone I guess was visiting Manu and Fabri. Eva and some friends also ended up coming out of the tunnel soon after that. I was able to get autographs from Fransisco Elson, Beno Udrih, and Manu Ginobili. Manu was very nice. He shook my hand and posed for a picture with me (which ended up not turning out because someone who did it for me didn't press it right) . I told him he needed to get back on his forum and start replying again and again he said he's been really busy recently (yeah right).
It was awesome to sit right behind the bench. It was cool to hear the guys talking to each other and listening in on to their time outs. One funny thing that happened is when the ref called something on Tony, he came almost came up to the bench and it sounded like he was cussing in French to me. I don't know but it wasn't nice :lol. I noticed that Manu did the same thing too but in Spanish and on his way back to the bench throwing his towel around :lol. It was funny to see Pop get into it with the ref a couple of times during the game. Well anyways it was a great game. Here are some of the pics from it.






Eva sighting on the far left






proof that Tony and Eva are still together

Thanks for sharing - sorry to hear your pic with Manu didn't come out though

I didn't want to post all of them because I took a lot but here's the link if you want to check the rest of them out. They really didn't come out very good but here it is.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/kmgospurs/m ... _vs_knicks