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November 11, 2010
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Scratch That...
...nobody beats the Clippers 19 times in a row.
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November 11, 2010
I Should Just Stop Waiting for the Other Boot to Drop
After a slow, ugly, and unsteady first half that luckily only saw the Spurs down 4, the team came out in the second half with more energy and precision, racing off to a quick 11-4 start and taking the lead for good. Although we were never able to get any real separation from the Bobcats, we were able to hold them off just long enough to come away with a 4 point win and improve our...
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November 08, 2010
Sometimes It's Better to Know the Results Before You Start Watching
I was unable to watch the Rockets game last night as I had an early show that directly conflicted with the game. My plan was to watch it today (Sunday), yet I know, from previous experience, that it's almost impossible to avoid the final score before I start watching. So I don't try anymore. Boy was I relieved that I knew the final score before I watched that game. I...
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November 07, 2010
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Spurs-Suns games always seem to follow a familiar narrative, regardless of the rotating cast of players. Little runs by each team to go up 6 or 7; opposing runs to level the score; odd shifts in momentum, during which either team looks like they could very easily pull away, yet never do. And always, coming down to under 5 minutes, the score is close. For years, it was always the...
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November 04, 2010
What Clippers Fans Said
ClipsNation.com:The Clippers have lost so many times to the Spurs, and usually in such embarrassing fashion, that only being down 10 entering the fourth quarter, forcing Messieurs Duncan and Parker and Ginobili to actually exert effort after 9:30 PM, is a major accomplishment. Especially considering that LA was playing with their third string point guard.Taking advantage of the...
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November 02, 2010
Clippers Lose 4 in a Row; Baron Davis Already Checking Out
Ho-hum. As the Clippers announcers said late in the game, sometimes a team just has another team's number. The Spurs have the Clippers number. We've won 17 in a row, apparently, and have barely lost to them in the Tim Duncan era. Granted, the Clippers haven't been all that good ever, really. But they have talent on the team, and they're certainly better than losing 17 in a row...
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November 02, 2010
The Third Quarter Massacre
A familiar problem to anyone who watched the Spurs last year resurfaced in tonight's 99-90 loss to the New Orleans Hornets: the inability to play a complete 48 minutes. We played 2 sterling quarters (the first and the fourth), winning them by a combined score of 54-40. However, the middle two quarters were a completely different story, as the Hornets outscored us 59-36. Yikes...
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October 31, 2010
For Halloween, Pop is Going as Don Nelson
The Spurs won their season opener at home against the Indiana Pacers 122-109 in a closer-than-the-final-score-indicated game. After playing a Nellie-ball style first half in which both teams made every shot and seemed to have little regard for that 'D' word, the Spurs tightened the screws just enough in the fourth quarter to pull away late and bury the inexperienced Pacers...
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October 29, 2010
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Another season is here. All is right with the world again. We get one more year of Ginobili's brilliance, Parker's dazzling speed, Duncan's fundamental genius, and Pop's acerbic wit.But for how long?Here are the things I'll be watching for this season.One Last Rodeo?For the first time in a while it seems as if the Big 3 of Duncan, Ginobili, and Parker are all...
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October 26, 2010
Join the Spurs Dynasty Fantasy League
If you like Fantasy Basketball, I'd like to invite you to join our Spurs Dynasty Fantasy League, now in its 5th year.We'll be having our autopick draft this Sunday night at 12am midnight PST and currently have room for up to 5 more managers.It's free to play with a Yahoo account. You'll need a League ID# and Password to join. If you or anyone you know is interested...
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October 23, 2010
Tim Duncan Set the Mold for Breaking the Mold
In the backlash to the backlash over the LeBron James debacle this summer, many people are arguing that James is doing exactly what we ask athletes to do all the time, which is to take less money to pursue better competitive situations and championships. To put the team first (even if it's not your "hometown" team) by giving them better financial flexibility to fill...
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October 23, 2010
My Excitement for the Upcoming Season is Inversely Proportional to My Writing About the Pre-Season
Which is to say...I'm very excited.I find it hard to write during the preseason because, honestly, I don't have that much to say. I follow all of the coverage from camp and love the first glimpses of old players we haven't seen all summer and new players hoping to make the team. Generally, though, the most exciting story lines from the preseason are about who is going...
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October 20, 2010
Out On the Road Today I Saw a Deadhead Sticker on a Cadillac
The changing of summer into fall is my favorite time of the year. The sun still shines bright, but there's a crispness in the air as the leaves turn and fall. The season starts with my birthday (middle-end of August) and more or less continues through my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. And in that time period, the NBA season starts. And like the protagonist in Don Henley&...
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September 27, 2010
Spurs Summer League Recap: Spurs & Raptors Share Title
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:The Toronto Raptors and San Antonio Spurs were the only teams to go undefeated and shared the title with 5-0 records."I'm sure Pops (Spurs head coach Greg Popovich) will say, 'What the hell are you doing? We're not supposed to win the Summer League,'" Spurs Summer League coach Mike Budenholzer said. "We told them at the start of the week that winning...
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July 19, 2010
Poll: Who Will Win the 2010 NBA Finals?
Now that just four teams remain, I'd like to give SpursDynasty readers a chance to redeem themselves with another poll (almost 96% thought that the Spurs would beat the Suns).Who Will Win the 2010 NBA Finals? Los Angeles Lakers Orlando Magic Boston Celtics Phoenix Suns Who cares? I stop paying attention if the Spurs aren't playing.See ResultsNot that it should influence your...
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May 14, 2010
We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning
The Spurs are dead; long live the Spurs.There's not much to say about such a resounding defeat. The Suns outplayed us in just about every category. In a lot of ways, the teams were pretty evenly matched. There were just a few critical areas in which the Suns were clearly superior: 3-point shooting, bench play, and composure down the stretch. Do those three things sound familiar...
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May 11, 2010
You Can Never Go Home Again
The Suns are the better team. Much better, as it turns out.Is there really anything else to discuss?Do you want to talk about all the missed free throws? I don't.What about our awful switching pick and roll defense that leaves Tim Duncan or Antonio McDyess guarding Steve Nash one on one about 35 times a game? Didn't think so.Goran Dragic's fourth quarter? Next.The...
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May 09, 2010
The More Things Stay the Same, the More They Change
Don't let the relative "closeness" of these two games fool you: The Suns have thoroughly and convincingly beaten us twice. They are beating us in every aspect of the game. Rebounding? Check. 3-point shooting? Check. Hustle and tenacity? Check and check. Defensive intensity? Great big check. Depth? Check. Role players stepping up? Check.Every advantage we used to own over the...
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May 06, 2010
Most Popular Posts of the 2009-2010 Regular Season
If you're new to SpursDynasty.com, welcome. In case you missed them, here are the most popular stories from the 2009-2010 regular season. The titles tell you something about the tastes of our readers, I suppose.10. Some Teams Play Bad Defense, Some Teams Play No Defense...And Some Teams Are The Golden State Warriors (Mar 20)9. Don't Look Now, But We Don't Suck Anymore...
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May 04, 2010
Game 1, Redux
Last night's Game 1 felt a lot like Game 1 of the Dallas series.There are a lot of things we can look at. Defensively, the only positive thing we really accomplished was limiting their 3-point shooting. Of course, they hit a couple of clutch 3s late that helped put the game out of reach. We weren't able to stop Nash from scoring (33 points) or playmaking (10 assists)....
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May 04, 2010
Greatest Hits
After meeting the Mavericks in the playoffs for the 5th time this decade (and dispatching them for the 3rd), up next is another team also marking their 5th series against us this decade: The Phoenix Suns. As great as the rivalry is between the Spurs and Mavs, the one with the Suns might even be better. The history is certainly as contentious. And the fact that the Suns have yet...
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May 03, 2010
Poll: Who will win the Spurs-Suns series?
Do you agree with sportswriters Brian Mahoney, Adrian Wojnarowski and Johnny Ludden, or do you think Marc J. Spears has it right?Who will win the Spurs-Suns series? Spurs in 4 Spurs in 5 Spurs in 6 Spurs in 7 Suns in 7 Suns in 6 Suns in 5 Suns in 4See Results
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May 01, 2010
Back In the Second Round, And It Feels So Good
There's nothing I fear more than a 20 point first half lead. Because you know it won't last, especially against a team as good as the Mavs and a player as good as Dirk. And then when Dirk picked up his 4th foul in the first half, I just had this sense of dread: "Uh oh; this is way too easy. We're being set up for a massive comeback."And it came. It came...
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April 30, 2010
"For us it's a Game 7"
"For us it's a Game 7. It has to be. We definitely don't want to come [to Dallas] for a seventh. We've got to approach it as if there's no tomorrow."--Manu Ginobili
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April 29, 2010
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