River Walk Chronicles ♦ ///

[Axel The Great]

His effort was perfect. He showed how important it was to him to help us get this victory and I have no doubt that, any team that picks him in the Draft this June, will pick a hard-working guy who never gives up, no matter the circumstances.

Take that William! Perfect time to win the NCAA Championship, in Houston! Axel will now rejoice and go back home to celebrate in Houston.

[Valor]

and Will Sit chokes it away, ouch Congrats to Axel

[Grandmama Johnson]

Congrats, Axel. Hook 'em Horns!

[shadowgrin]

Suck it Dookies!

[Fresh8]

His effort was perfect. He showed how important it was to him to help us get this victory and I have no doubt that, any team that picks him in the Draft this June, will pick a hard-working guy who never gives up, no matter the circumstances.

Take that William! Perfect time to win the NCAA Championship, in Houston! Axel will now rejoice and go back home to celebrate in Houston.

Congratulations.

See you in the NBA.

[kibaxx7]

Coaches don't rest key players; Manu and Kobe take spotlight, but Spurs earn a new victory
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LOS ANGELES, April 12 -- Manu Ginobili was on fire in the first half, but cooled off a little in the second. His supporting cast turned up the heat after intermission. Ginobili scored 17 of his 23 points before halftime, staying perfect from the field, and Tony Parker had 17 points as the San Antonio Spurs rallied for a 102-93 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. In overcoming an 8-point, second-quarter deficit, San Antonio (62-19) tied the Miami Heat for the best overall record in the league. “Emanuel was very aggressive,” said Parker, who added nine assists. “If he keeps playing like that every night, we'll be a helluva team in the playoffs and you better watch out for us.” Corey Maggette scored 14 points, 12 in the second half, for the Spurs, who shot 45 percent (38-of-84) from the field, had five players on double figures, all over 14 points, didn't miss a single free throw and also outrebounded Los Angeles, 49-33. San Antonio will play against New Orleans in the first round, who clinched the 8th seed last night with a win over the Memphis Grizzlies. “It's actually a nice first round for us,” said Maggette. “We didn't lose a game against them this season and hopefully we can continue the same way in the postseason.”

At 58-23, Los Angeles fell four games behind the Spurs and will clash with Memphis, the 7th seed, in the first round of the playoffs. “I thought for the most part we played well," said Kobe Bryant, who was the other part in an incredible duel with Ginobili: 19 points in the first half, 34 in the game. “Down the stretch they made the plays, Tony stepped up and made some big shots.” Pau Gasol, who had 15 points for the Lakers, commented, “Our defense in the first half was great, I'd take that any night, but I guess they were better than us in the second half.” With the game tied at 33-33 in the second period, the Lakers had a quick 8-0 run with dunks by Bryant and Ron Artest. Artest, who scored 11 points, then hit a 3-pointer and Lamar Odom (11 points) converted a layup for a 46-38 lead. But the Spurs posted a 12-2 surge to close the first half and take a 52-50 lead; the Lakers couldn't lead again. Even more bad news for Los Angeles -- Andrew Bynum got injured again and looks poised to miss the first round of the playoffs; he suffered a strained achilles in the second quarter, as he landed awkwardly after a collision with Maggette.

Then you could see a back-and-forth game, tied at 60. However, the Spurs responded behind the duo of Parker and Tim Duncan as they combined to score eight points in a 11-2 run and a 77-66 advantage. “At that point we got some great stops,” said Duncan, who earned POTG honors with 16 points, 12 boards, five assists and four rejections. “In the first half it was a tight game, but after the break we just picked up our play.” The Lakers then had a small run, to cut the deficit to 90-84, but then Gasol was called for charging and Los Angeles went for almost 3 minutes without scoring. “I had to take the hit and I was lucky that it was called a charge,” said Tiago Splitter, who added 16 points for San Antonio. Two free throws by Splitter gave his team a 97-89 edge. Kobe tried to cut the lead once again, but he misfired on a 3-point attempt and Ginobili sealed the win by knocking down two more shots from the charity stripe. “I missed a few wide open shots that I normally make,” said Bryant. “That's just the breaks of the game, Manu also defended me without any mistakes.” The Spurs will travel to Phoenix tomorrow morning to play against the Suns and close the regular season.

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Video Music :: The Glass • “Wanna Be Dancin'”

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[kibaxx7]

Bad shooting night for both Sit and Axel. Adding to the insult, Sit bricked all of his shots

It was a tough night for Will. Axel had a so-so night, but the championship makes up for it.

Finally! We got one. If only it was real.

I guess you have to settle with a virtual trophy, for now.

Take that William! Perfect time to win the NCAA Championship, in Houston! Axel will now rejoice and go back home to celebrate in Houston.

Congrats bro! One would say you went up in the mock draft.

and Will Sit chokes it away, ouch Congrats to Axel

Congrats, Axel. Hook 'em Horns!

Suck it Dookies!

Props to the whole Longhorns team, favorites from start to finish.

Congratulations.

See you in the NBA.

You can get your revenge next season, man

Only one game left, fellas! Tomorrow.

[Cruzerr]

Manu is hot everywhere. Nice win.

[hova-]

Wow, some nice blocks by TD, one is really enormous. 81 games - 1 left - great achievement

[Martti.]

Sit the Brick.

Wrap it up already.

[Houndy]

FINISH THIS SEASON OFFF!

[kibaxx7]

Despite a great team chemistry, Hughes ain't making things any easier
nba.com/spurs/beat | April 13rd, 2011

SAN ANTONIO -- Knowing he had done nothing to write about, Chris Quinn implored everyone afterward not to rush to judgment. He produced a line that was, simply put, terrible -- a five trillion -- for a team that has been stellar this season. Quinn was eager to have folks write off this disastrous night in the win over the Los Angeles Lakers as merely an off game by his persona, something like a “getting-acquainted-with-my-teammate” contest for himself. And you know what? He probably has a point. Quinn knows his teammates for a little less than two months; but in the other side, almost the entire roster know each other for years (even Corey Maggette, who arrived this year but has been posting some marvellous statlines for the Spurs, like they were brothers separated at birth). Still... there was another issue there, apart from Quinn, that met the eye, and it just didn't seem right.

Before we get to a dissection of Quinn's performance, like his slow feet on defense (Steve Blake had a +8 in those five minutes), we're going to change the subject to what appears to be a growing note of discord between Larry Hughes and coach Gregg Popovich. At one point late in the second quarter during a timeout, and with San Antonio down by seven points, nearly everyone on the Spurs' bench turned and stared at Hughes, who prematurely broke from the huddle and walked to the scorers' table to await the resumption of play. One could say the swingman has been doing this in numerous occasions (when he was a Knick, for example), but this time, judging from the looks on the rest of the Spurs' faces, there was more. Even Quinn walked over and said something to Hughes, who replied with a shake of the head and the type of disgusted look you get from someone who doesn't want to be told to calm down or to shake hands.

In the mid of the fourth period, Hughes was once again unable to control himself and referees called him for a technical foul for continuing to argue a foul call, earning himself a seat on the bench for the final five minutes of the game as Popovich went with a closing lineup of Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili (who exploded in the first half with 17 points, but was struggling in the second with only six), Maggette, Tiago Splitter and Tim Duncan. With San Antonio up 81-70, that move left a hole in the Spurs' defense, and the Lakers exploited it by scoring their next four buckets away from the paint and cut the deficit to 90-84. Los Angeles couldn't cut the deficit any shorter, though; give credit to Ginobili and Splitter for that.

“We've got to be smarter with these things. We've got a lot of games that we've given points away with some dumb fouls down the stretch. We've got to bite our lip. In close games, you can't afford those calls. You just have to bite your lip and let it go, and we're not doing that. Manu and Tiago were flawless in the last six minutes. If it wasn't for them, we would have lost because of a referee call, and I hate that stuff,” said Popovich. It should be noted that he made that comment unsolicited, closing the press conference after the game. After the conference, Hughes didn't comment although he did throw out an f-bomb to no one in particular as the media waited by the Staples Center's locker rooms. While the Spurs certainly played with a different energy when Hughes was in the court and they benefited from the best part of his game -- his defense on Ron Artest; Larry only scored four points -- , they'll need to achieve that energy over the playoffs in the case Hughes gets suspended or fined by the Spurs or the league.

Some reports even went out and claimed Hughes is out of his job now and apparently on the block, or even won't be resigned by San Antonio this offseason. You know what the say -- “postseason is a whole different animal”, and the Spurs are entering a transition phase in which they'll eventually work with Hughes into the rotation again. They will need him in the team, so this team will evolve, but it also will be judged -- fairly or unfairly -- along the playoffs. Though it is indeed unfair to say Hughes is already out of this organization, there will come a time when his signing will get the thumbs-up or the thumbs-down, and he will stay or he will leave. He was in a special called press conference this morning and we asked, “might that time come?” Hughes didn't hesitate: “People are going to make judgments tonight and tomorrow, but I've been playing for a long time in this league. I just want to play with these guys, they're great players and great people, see where I fit in the best. Hopefully at the end of the year we'll see whether we accomplish our goal, and that'll be the time to go out and say things. Today is not the time.” We'll agree with him on that one.

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[kibaxx7]

Manu is hot everywhere. Nice win.

I just got comfortable with his shot release. Watch out for him!

Wow, some nice blocks by TD, one is really enormous. 81 games - 1 left - great achievement

Yes, Tim surprised me with some blocks. Only one game left man!!

Sit the Brick.

Wrap it up already.

Sit was a little off

FINISH THIS SEASON OFFF!

You waited almost six months, I guess you can wait a couple of days!

I know the article it's kinda long, but I need some feedback. Ran some tests and Hughes would test free agency every time, but honestly, I wasn't thinking in re-signing him either. I think I could use some other FAs better.

[Valor]

It's Larry Hughes, just sign another scrub to replace him

[Houndy]

Agreed with Valor

[kibaxx7]

It's Larry Hughes, just sign another scrub to replace him

Agreed with Valor

I know, but I have to tell some behind-the-scenes story He actually had some really nice games for me, more in defense that in offense, but I don't see myself re-signing him. I like some of the other names in the FA pool.

Promise -- tonight, Spurs @ Suns, REGULAR SEASON ON THE BOOKS!

[Grandmama Johnson]

Great achievement to do 82 games like this, major props Thierry. Almost there!

[kibaxx7]

Seven Spurs contribute on double figures; close season in style with scorefest at Phoenix
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PHOENIX, April 13 -- The end of the regular season brought little for the San Antonio Spurs to celebrate about -- they have had plenty of great regular seasons before, and are limping into this playoffs with big expectations. DeJuan Blair had 17 points and ten rebounds and Tony Parker added 16 points as the Spurs tuned up the last bolts of their wheels for the postseason in a scorefest, a 125-104 win over the Phoenix Suns. “I think they did everything they could do during this long regular season,” coach Gregg Popovich said. “I'm not even savoring this great season we had, but I have a lot of appreciation for what this guys did for the past six months.” Parker also had 14 assists to help San Antonio start the postseason with a 10-game winning streak and the 1st seed in the West, all this without starting forward Corey Maggette, who was given a rest by Popovich. The Spurs will face the 8th-seeded New Orleans Hornets this weekend in the first round. “We've had a crazy, crazy season,” said Blair. “Games that we thought we had control over, we ended up losing them in the end, a lot of them. We were able to pull ourselves out of that bad situation and end the season right with a big winning streak. But you know what they say, the playoffs are completely different.”

Tim Duncan have said anything less than a title will be short of their goal. “What else would the goal be?” said Duncan, who had 10 points and 12 boards. “A championship is what's on our mind right now. That's the finish line.” It was a contested game in the first quarter; the Suns even had an eight-point lead, but the Spurs took care of business in the second period and then rested after intermission. A put-back dunk by Blair on a missed 3-pointer by Manu Ginobili (11 points) powered a 12-2 second quarter run, that gave San Antonio a 61-49 lead. Blair had nine points in the period, scoring 15 of his 17 in the first half. In the second half, San Antonio's bench had this one. Drew Gooden capped a 11-2 spurt in the third quarter with a rim-rattling, two-hand dunk. Rookies James Anderson, who started in place of Maggette, and Gary Neal hit a 3-pointer each to help San Antonio go ahead by 25 points, at 119-94. The Spurs shot 54 percent from the field (50-of-92), including a blistering 61 percent from 3-point land (8-of-13), won the rebounds 49-39, and were monstrous in the paint, 80-38. At 63-19, they tied the best record in franchise history, a 2005-06 squad led by Duncan, Parker and Ginobili, surrounded by players like Bruce Bowen, Michael Finley, Robert Horry and Nick Van Exel, just to name a few.

The only bright note to the end of another losing season for the Suns, at 37-45, was their three-headed monster: Jason Richardson, Steve Nash and Grant Hill combined for 78 of the team's 104 points. “I think we made progress this year,” said Hill, who went back to his best days with 20 points and 15 rebounds, but needed 11 visits to the charity stripe (he shot 5-of-20). “We've got a chance to get better next year.” Richardson and Nash scored 29 points apiece. Nash added, “It's hard to assess your season after a night like tonight, but we have to play a lot of young people and we know how far we have come.” Hedo Turkoglu was the only other Sun scoring in double figures with 16 points off the bench, and Robin Lopez added only 2 points. “It is not a satisfying year,” said Lopez. “But I think at the same time, it felt good and we were productive. Next season can only get better.” Meanwhile, Hakim Warrick didn't shot a single field goal. “We just wanted to go out on a good note,” commented Warrick. “We wanted to give our best effort in the last game of the year, for our fans. They murdered us.”

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Video Music :: Magnetic Man • “Perfect Stranger” [Steve Angello Remix]

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[kibaxx7]

Great achievement to do 82 games like this, major props Thierry. Almost there!

Well we did it... now the hardest part of all, but the most entertaining: PLAYOFFS!

Look:

[dare]

Awesome job on playing 82 games man.

[chaim]

Man, I never finished 82 games season. That is big time achievement.

[KidJustin]

phpBB [video]

congrats!

[Grandmama Johnson]

A big achievement. Is a new definition in order?

Thi-e-rr-y (v.)
verb/
to finish an entire, 82-game season

Much better than the old definition, right?

[shadowgrin]

Thi-e-rr-y (v.)
verb/
to play an entire 82-game season. No simming.

Fixed.
I don't have the time to play all 82 games at 12 minutes.

Though I can finish a complete season in an hour. Season, Playoffs, Offseason (Draft, Workouts, Signings), Preseason, including the development drills, practice, roster adjustment during injuries.

[Martti.]

Can't imagine playing 82 games in 2K. I did it Live 06, but that was just 4th quarter intervention and the quarter was 7 mins.

Now, best of luck in the Playoffs.