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SpursReport.com http://www.spursreport.com/forums san antonio spurs, news, rumors, stats, wallpapers, players, fan forums. Professional news portal about basketball and the NBA. en Mon, 20 May 2013 16:14:58 GMT vBulletin 5 http://www.spursreport.com/forums/images/Infusion/misc/rss.jpg SpursReport.com http://www.spursreport.com/forums Not intentional? You be the judge http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119421-not-intentional-you-judge.html Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:05 GMT Tony Allen trips Tony Parker - SBNation.com (http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/5/19/4346300/tony-allen-trip-tony-parker-grizzlies-spurs) This coming from an NBA all defensive team member? Tony Allen trips Tony Parker - SBNation.com

This coming from an NBA all defensive team member? ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback necron 99 http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119421-not-intentional-you-judge.html SPURS TORCH THE GRIZZLIES http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119420-spurs-torch-grizzlies.html Mon, 20 May 2013 13:01:56 GMT The San Antonio Spurs now have a one game lead on the Memphis Grizzlies, and they achieved this almost flawlessly. The Spurs shot the basketball horribly in their recent second round match-up with the Golden State Warriors, but now they have obviously shaken off the rust. The team made a franchise-... The San Antonio Spurs now have a one game lead on the Memphis Grizzlies, and they achieved this almost flawlessly. The Spurs shot the basketball horribly in their recent second round match-up with the Golden State Warriors, but now they have obviously shaken off the rust. The team made a franchise- record 14 three-point shots in the first game versus the Grizzlies, shooting a blazing 50%. The team was moving the ball well and finding the open man on almost every possession.

Spurs Torch the Grizzlies ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback Flipmode Master http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119420-spurs-torch-grizzlies.html Spurs have changed a lot since 2011 loss to Memphis http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119419-spurs-have-changed-lot-since-2011-loss-memphis.html Mon, 20 May 2013 05:13:10 GMT Spurs have changed a lot since 2011 loss to Grizzlies | ProBasketballTalk (http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/19/spurs-have-changed-a-lot-since-2011-loss-to-grizzlies/) ---Quote--- The Spurs showed their up-tempo bona fides today during a 105-83 win over the Grizzlies in Game 1 of... Spurs have changed a lot since 2011 loss to Grizzlies | ProBasketballTalk

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The Spurs showed their up-tempo bona fides today during a 105-83 win over the Grizzlies in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals. Though the pace of the game wasn’t particular fast, San Antonio excelled by pushing the tempo at opportune moments and getting back defensively after a transition attack – doing so in ways the 2011 team wasn’t capable of.

Tell those numbnuts at the 4letter that this year's team is way different that the one that was upset in 2011.

If they bothered to do the research, it was there for them the whole damn time.
FireySpurs ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback TodTango http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119419-spurs-have-changed-lot-since-2011-loss-memphis.html Hailing from Beijing http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119418-hailing-beijing.html Sun, 19 May 2013 22:05:11 GMT Arrived in Beijing, China yesterday - I will miss all of series and maybe part of finals as well. Spurs off to a good start. Game just ended approx 530am Beijing time, looks like Bonnet stepped up big, how was his D???? Arrived in Beijing, China yesterday - I will miss all of series and maybe part of finals as well. Spurs off to a good start. Game just ended approx 530am Beijing time, looks like Bonnet stepped up big, how was his D???? ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback GalloJD http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119418-hailing-beijing.html Bill Simmons SUXS!!! http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119417-bill-simmons-suxs.html Sun, 19 May 2013 20:43:51 GMT Who is this chump???? Who is this chump???? ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback sparey http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119417-bill-simmons-suxs.html (Video) ESPN Feature: San Antonio Spurs 2013 Season Story http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119416-video-espn-feature-san-antonio-spurs-2013-season-story.html Sat, 18 May 2013 18:16:25 GMT ]]>

]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback Eddy from Austin http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119416-video-espn-feature-san-antonio-spurs-2013-season-story.html 8-6... http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119415-8-6-a.html Sat, 18 May 2013 18:12:22 GMT Sounds like a terrible start to a season, but that's the worst-best record the Spurs need to capture they're 5th title. Sounds simple.... Lets just hope our guys are ready and understand that father time has been kind to them and it will eventually catch up to them completely. On a side note, I'm glad that pompous, team changing, ring chaser in Derek Fisher is eliminated! GO SPURS GO! ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback MRJONESIII http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119415-8-6-a.html Can anyone post new champion will rise: Spurs promo from abc? http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119414-can-anyone-post-new-champion-will-rise-spurs-promo-abc.html Sat, 18 May 2013 06:23:54 GMT Saw promo with Spurs on sbc: advertising a champion will rise but highlighting te three championships of Duncan/Tony and Manu...can someone post it? It's awesome.Manu has the longer hair... ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback captainlate http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119414-can-anyone-post-new-champion-will-rise-spurs-promo-abc.html Official WC Finals Game #1 Grizzlies at Spurs Game Thread (Sun 2:30) http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119413-official-wc-finals-game-1-grizzlies-spurs-game-thread-sun-2-30-a.html Fri, 17 May 2013 22:31:58 GMT

(2) SAN ANTONIO SPURS (58-24, 8-2) VS. (5) MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES (56-26, 8-3)
SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2013
2:30 P.M. CT
AT&T CENTER
PLAYOFF GAME #11 | WC FINALS GAME #1 | HOME PLAYOFF GAME #6
TV: ABC | RADIO: WOAI 1200/KCOR 1350 AM

These teams went 2-2 against each other during the 2012-13 regular season, with each team winning both of its home games.

This will be third postseason meeting between these two teams all-time. The Spurs swept the Grizzlies, 4-0, in the first round in 2004, while the Grizzlies won in six games in the first round in 2011.

Tony Parker is one of 10 players all-time and one of three active players (Kobe Bryant and LeBron James) with at least 3000 points and 800 assists in a postseason career.

The Spurs are averaging 27.2 points on 51.7 percent shooting from the floor in the first quarter this postseason. The 51.7 percent shooting in the first quarter is the best in this year's playoffs by any team.

Zach Randolph has recorded at least 20 points and 10 rebounds in 13 postseason games in his career and 11 times since the beginning of the 2011 playoffs. The 11 20-point/10-rebound games in the playoffs since 2011 are tied for the third most over that time frame

With Zach Randolph (19.7 ppg, 9.3 rpg) and Marc Gasol (18.3 ppg, 7.9 rpg), this year's Grizzles are only the third Western Conference team since the 1996 playoffs to feature two players averaging at least 18 points and seven rebounds in a single postseason (minimum 10 games). The 2001 Lakers had Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, while the 2010 Jazz had Carlos Boozer and Paul Millsap.

Grizzlies-Spurs Preview

By TERESA M. WALKER
AP Sports Writer

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) On the best playoff run in their short history, the Memphis Grizzlies refuse to be satisfied with just reaching their first Western Conference final.

The San Antonio Spurs? Well, they know time is running out for a team that has done so very much in the NBA playoffs yet last celebrated a championship in 2007.

Blowing a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals a year ago to Oklahoma City has driven the Spurs since training camp, and now they are back with Game 1 on Sunday against Memphis determined not to waste another chance.

"We understand as a team that those opportunities are very rare, and we have another great one right now," Spurs guard Tony Parker said Saturday. "We have home-court advantage against a very good team, so we have to take full advantage of it."

The Grizzlies are the former expansion franchise that started off in Vancouver before moving to Memphis, and they started by setting the NBA record for postseason futility while losing their first 12 playoff games.

Coach Lionel Hollins, who won an NBA title in 1977 as a player with Portland, has his Grizzlies believing they can win one, too. The No. 5 seed in the West ousted first the Clippers, then the Thunder by winning eight of its last nine games, including three straight on the road.

"We're just worried about going forward," Grizzlies guard Mike Conley said. "We're happy to be here, but we're still focused on bigger things, and we got another tough opponent."
That would be the Spurs with Tim Duncan, Parker and Manu Ginobili who swept the Grizzlies out of their first postseason in 2004. When Memphis finally won a postseason series, they beat the Spurs in six games in 2011, kicking off that series by winning the first game in San Antonio. Ginobili said the Spurs were not at their best that series and struggled to stop the Grizzlies' big men in Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph.

"We started with the wrong foot, we lost the first one and they got stronger and confident, and that's how they beat us," Ginobili said.

This conference final pits Southwest Division rivals, with the Spurs as the dominating big brother with their four NBA championships and the fifth-best all-time winning percentage in the league since this franchise moved to the NBA in 1976. No coach and player have more postseason games than San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich and Duncan with 200 over 16 seasons.
The Spurs clinched the No. 2 seed in the West winning just two more games than the Grizzlies.

This should be a defensive showdown between teams built around big men with Memphis countering Duncan with 7-foot-1 Gasol and Randolph down low. Memphis held teams to an NBA-low 89.3 points during the regular season, and the Spurs tied for third in defensive efficiency. The Grizzlies also were second defending the 3, which could slow down Parker and Ginobili.

"Finding ways to score is going to be very difficult," Popovich said. "Just playing against their defense is enough of a concern right off the bat."

Hollins said beauty will be in the eye of the beholder for this series.
"Some people think it's ugly, some people think it's beautiful," Hollins said. "I don't know. Don't really care."

Home court mattered during the regular season as these teams split with each winning on their own floor.

Remember when Popovich sent Duncan, Parker, Ginobili and Danny Green home to avoid playing the Heat in Miami on Nov. 29th? Well, that rest at the end of a six-game road trip cost the Spurs an unprecedented $250,000 fine. But the move paid off when the Spurs hosted the Grizzlies on Dec. 1 when Memphis was off to an NBA-best 12-2 start with a 99-95 win by San Antonio.

Three of the teams' matchups came before Memphis traded away Rudy Gay on Jan. 30. Memphis won the last game April 1 when Conley drove the lane for a layup and a 92-90 win on a night where Kawhi Leonard stayed in San Antonio with a sore left knee, Duncan sat out and Ginobili was out with a strained hamstring.

"It's going to be a tough series," Randolph said. "Every time we've played them it's a tough series. They got Ginobili, Parker, and they got a lot of other guys who do great things for the team."

San Antonio went 35-6 at home in the regular season, then swept the Lakers to open the playoffs. The Warriors tested that home-court advantage forcing the Spurs to go to overtime to pull out the first game of that series and did win Game 2. The Spurs won Game 5 at home before closing out the series Thursday night. That forces the Spurs into a quicker turnaround, even though they do get to start at home.

"I don't think you need any more challenge than playing in the conference finals and having the opportunity to go to the NBA Finals," Ginobili said. "Not that we needed that. It is big enough."

Memphis has been on a bit of a revenge tour this postseason. The Grizzlies ousted the Clippers in six after losing to Los Angeles in seven last year, then they made up for their 2011 Western semifinal loss to Oklahoma City by knocking off the defending Western champs in five games.

A key in this series will be Parker and Conley. Parker is averaging 22.4 points a game this postseason, while Conley is averaging a career-best 17.6 points while handing out 7.6 assists a game.

"He's the real key to their basketball team," Popovich said. "Everybody just thinks about Zach and Marc, who are sufficiently wonderful as players. But Conley is very, very important to that group."

They got an extra day of rest after Wednesday night's 88-84 win over the Thunder. Now they have geared up again focusing on defense, rebounding and trying to outscore an opponent in the paint, which already has worked so well this postseason.

"It's the same recipe," Gasol said. "It's just a little tougher."
AP Sports Writer Jeff Latzke in San Antonio contributed to this report. ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback Eddy from Austin http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119413-official-wc-finals-game-1-grizzlies-spurs-game-thread-sun-2-30-a.html First free throws http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119412-first-free-throws.html Fri, 17 May 2013 19:54:10 GMT It used to drive me nuts that TP would get a two-shot foul, miss the first free throw and then hit the second. Thankfully, he's gotten over it. But now Kawhi has exactly the same yips.

What is up with that?????

And what is up with Manu at the line these days? He used to be MONEY!!!! ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback mckennaspur1 http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119412-first-free-throws.html Pick the Winners Game - Conference Finals - May 19th http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119411-pick-winners-game-conference-finals-may-19th.html Fri, 17 May 2013 13:21:13 GMT The Conference Finals are here :banana

It's

thesuspence281 vs fakemxcan in the Western Conference and

spurscrazed vs Mombear in the Eastern Conference.

Congratulations to all 4 for making it this far!!!!! :applause:clap:celebrate

And a big thanks to everyone playing the game throughout the year, specially to all the ones that helped keep the game going, like alh1020 starting most of the daily threads and Guille getting the picks from my matchup.

Games for May 19th

Memphis @ San Antonio

Western Conference

1) thesuspence281 - Please send me your pick
3) fakemxcan - Please send me your pick

Eastern Conference

2) spurscrazed - Please send me your pick
4) Mombear - Please send me your pick ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback pjm http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119411-pick-winners-game-conference-finals-may-19th.html Pick the Winners Game - Second Round - May 18th http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119410-pick-winners-game-second-round-may-18th.html Fri, 17 May 2013 13:15:50 GMT _Scores updated through May 16th_ Image: http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7290/2013secondroundmay16th.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/10/2013secondroundmay16th.jpg/) Being that there is a maximum of 2 games remaining in this round, mathematically, I still have a chance. But... Scores updated through May 16th

Being that there is a maximum of 2 games remaining in this round, mathematically, I still have a chance. But realistically, Mombear has already beaten me this round.
All the other series have already been decided so we have the Conference Finals matchups set. I'll start a new thread for Sunday's game.
Still, I'll keep receiving the picks for tomorrow's game to keep the final scores on this round.

Games for May 18th

New York @ Indiana

Western Conference

1) thesuspence281 - Please send me your pick
4) Dulce - Got your pick

2) Guille - Please send me your pick
3) fakemxcan - Please send me your pick

Eastern Conference

1) pjm - Sent my pick to Guille
4) Mombear - Please send your pick to Guille

2) spurscrazed - Please send me your pick
3) esparzar1 - Please send me your pick ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback pjm http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119410-pick-winners-game-second-round-may-18th.html Predict the WCF!!! http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119409-predict-wcf.html Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:38 GMT Spurs? Cubs? Who ya got? How many games? Spurs in 6 over the cubbies :thumb Spurs? Cubs? Who ya got? How many games?

Spurs in 6 over the cubbies :thumb ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback esparzar1 http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119409-predict-wcf.html ABC Monkey? Curse? http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119408-abc-monkey-curse.html Fri, 17 May 2013 12:39:48 GMT Ok I started a thread bout this before
but I couldn't find it.

Ok I really don't like these games at
all!!! Too early, quick turn around,
Banged up is a recipe for a gm1 let down!

I have faith in our guys but they are really
Banged up, Tony said he was too tired, and
didn't have his legs through most of the
game, last night. ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback stuffedmushroomz http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119408-abc-monkey-curse.html Nocioni not closing the door on the NBA http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119407-nocioni-not-closing-door-nba.html Fri, 17 May 2013 07:40:51 GMT Olga Jimenez: Andres Nocioni: "I'm not closing the door to the NBA" Twitter

A ]]> Spurs and NBA Fan Feedback SilverSpur http://www.spursreport.com/forums/spurs-nba-fan-feedback/119407-nocioni-not-closing-door-nba.html