San Antonio Spurs

[menderouv]

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sige lang in not the end of the season. what is important is we have a sure spot sa playoff. by the way phoenix are coming back with their running game play.

[ManWhore]

^^ nindot pagka edit ana oi..tumpak kaayo

[tackielarla]

Man, I am so pissed off with this loss! I don't get Pops man-crush with Finley! Trade his butt off the team! And TP's defense (if there is one) is just plain PATHETIC! Second game in a row where the opponent's PG went berserk on us!

[tackielarla]

unsa team nimo bro................. salamat sa nakapildi sa Pistons..........

Fixed for you bai.

[tackielarla]

Gin-sanity: Why Spurs are looking
Buck Harvey

NEW YORK — The Spurs have been nosing around Vince Carter for most of the season, going over the numbers, re-evaluating the details. When they know there's no way around the numbers and details.

Taking on Carter's contract would be a risk in this economy. It would risk everything the Spurs have been for a decade, too.

But they've kept nosing, and Tuesday offered an explanation. Then the Knicks doubled Tim Duncan, and the other Spurs struggled to score, and the player they needed was back in San Antonio.

This is part of the Vinsanity equation: Do the Spurs need an option if Manu Ginobili can't hold up?

Ginobili's good ankle is sore now, and maybe it's nothing. Maybe he's on his way to Detroit.

But the other ankle snuck up on everyone last year, too, and the timing is odd. After scoring 32 points in the previous game in Toronto, after resting during the All-Star break, Ginobili was too sore to even make the trip?

If this were another player on another team, there would be suspicions of a rented moped.

The Spurs can't blame their second consecutive loss on his absence. Had a Duncan turnaround at the end of regulation bounced in, the Spurs would have seen the night as further proof that they know how to win when things aren't right.

One aspect that wasn't right: Tony Parker left his jumper at the All-Star Game.

Nate Robinson left nothing in Phoenix. He vaulted over Dwight Howard there and the Spurs here. And after Richardson put in 32 points against the Spurs, including a half dozen in overtime, Parker summed it up.

“He was the opposite of me,” Parker admitted.

This is what happens when the Big Three drops to a Big One. The best way to attack Mike D'Antoni's non-defense isn't to fire from outside. Ginobili would have taken care of that, as would have an expensive athlete who doesn't live far from Madison Square Garden.

At first glance, Carter looks like the kind of overly paid and underachieving star the Spurs have beaten for more than a decade. Most think he's related to Tracy McGrady by both blood and heart, and there's a strike against him that execs in the NBA still wonder about.

Jason Kidd had problems playing with Carter, when Kidd rarely has problems with anyone who plays hard.

Still, the talent is there, and the Spurs saw that last week. Then Carter stretched out with the ball in his palm as he drove, doing things no Spurs player can do. He scored 25 points in New Jersey's loss.

He also has size for a wing player, meaning he would help the Spurs rebound. His ego is manageable. He can pass. And he has the kind of Kobe-LeBron body that might come in handy against Kobe-LeBron.

He's been durable, too. He missed a game earlier this month, before the Nets played the Spurs. But that made 11 games missed — in four years in New Jersey.

And then there's this note, as recorded by 82games.com: Carter is second only to LeBron James in game-winning shots over the last half-dozen seasons. James has 17 in 50 attempts, Carter 16 in 51.

The Spurs have their own reasons to like him, too. Duncan has only so many more years left, and the Spurs want to make sure they maximize them. Carter would also ease the burden on Duncan, especially on nights such as Tuesday when Duncan played almost 40 minutes.

As for Gin-sanity: An additional impact player might ease the wear on Ginobili, too.

Other teams see the same, which is why the trade is somewhere in the 10 percent range of happening for the Spurs. The Nets would struggle to match bodies with the Spurs, and both the Rockets and Blazers are involved with easier pieces to move.

The Rockets saw Tuesday night what is possible. Then Carter scored 30 points in Houston.

Still, the Spurs keep nosing around, knowing all the drawbacks, knowing how damaging Carter's massive contract could be. They don't want to inhibit later signings, and they don't want to pay the NBA's luxury tax, and they don't want to give up a carload of players.

But they don't like playing without Ginobili, either.

[tackielarla]

*** N E W S F L A S H ***

Manu MIGHT be out for the entire season!

[Archer sensAtion]

*** N E W S F L A S H ***

Manu MIGHT be out for the entire season!

huh?! naay ka link sa news?


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[tackielarla]

Source is someone close to the org, hence the term MIGHT. But definitely, he's hurt.

[footlose]

Source is someone close to the org, hence the term MIGHT. But definitely, he's hurt.

this is sad, knowing this is the only team who can really beat the Lakers in the west...

[menderouv]

that's why they need vince carter badly