Monday, March 23rd, 2009...8:36 am
Other People: Rockets Aftermath
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- Henry Abbott says the Spurs are crouching toward mediocrity.
- John Hollinger waxes poetic about Yao-to-Scola.
- Buck Harvey takes an opportunity to pick at the skin surrounding a festering pus-pit.
- Jeff McDonald suggests that Tim Duncan blew a rotation.
- Mike Monroe praises Udoka and says Pop likes Adelman as Coach of the Year.
- LJ Ellis smartly comments that “Matt Bonner got utterly dominated in the first half by Scola. It got embarrassing at times. Bonner thankfully played better in the second half but his two rebounds in the game were pathetic considering that Scola pulled down 17 boards. All in all, Bonner has been a shadow of his former self since the signing of Gooden. And it’s not like the original image was a world beater . . .”
- Kelly Dwyer is on point about Ron Artest and calls the horse with stripes a zebra: “And while Michael Finley works his tail off, contributions like this (very poor defense, zero points, four rebounds in nearly 25 minutes) just kill teams.”
- John from Mundo Albiceleste provides painful YouTube footage of two game-killing passes.
- Bowen and Oberto nurse the loss with family, food, and tweets.
- Anup Shah has a long memory and worries about the mentality produced by one good win.
- Postgame Quotes
- Popcorn Machine
- John Hollinger dissects the division race, stat geek style.
1 Comment
March 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
That Yao-Scola play at the end of the game wasn’t Timmy’s fault. Parker and Thomas went to double Brooks and he passed to Yao but no one rotated over to Yao and Timmy was left on an island between his man (Scola) and a wide open Yao. He thought Yao would shoot and made a move to contest the shot, leaving Scola open for the lay-in. It was probably Thomas’ error, but after the game TD took the blame, though looking at his face you could tell he knew it wasn’t his fault. Just one more example of why TD is what Bill Simmons called “the greatest teammate ever”. There wasn’t even a moment where he thought about blaming anyone else, even though he would have been correct.
Until the OKC game, it seemed like the Spurs of the past few years have always made the right plays at the end of tight games. If we were tied near the end of a close game, I was always confident we would pull it out and my confidence was almost always validated. I guess you have to think these things even out eventually and its certainly better to have crunch time brain farts in semi-important regular season games than crucial postseason ones, but it sucks to see this happen at the end of three close games in a row.
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