Mavs vs Spurs Game 1

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Its 12:00 and if your tv is not on ABC, then there is something very wrong with you.

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6:29 left in the 1st. SA up 12-8. Both teams are having trouble making their shots.

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TO SA 5:16 left in 1st

Mavs up 13-12

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2:26 1st

Dallas is up 23-22. Both teams have committed 6 fouls so far.

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End of the 1st

Dallas 29
San Antonio 26

Very close, very intense game. What esle could you expect from 2 high caliber Texas teams?

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8:56 2nd

Dallas 33
SA 32


Duncan coming to the line to shoot 1 after the foul. Diop has 3 fouls so far.

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5:36 2nd

Dallas 40
SA 38

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Duncan 20pts 8-13 4reb

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2:41 2nd

Dallas 45
SA 42

[Chris Hart]

This one is going at a pace that benefits the Mavs. Gonna be a great series!:clap:

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Halftime

Dallas 52
SA 46

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Originally posted by Chris Hart
This one is going at a pace that benefits the Mavs. Gonna be a great series!:clap:


Dallas has pretty much set the pace so far, forcing the Spurs to play at a faster pace, but it is only the second half. This will definitely be a great series.

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8:33 3rd

Dallas 54
SA 52

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5:03 3rd

Dallas 61
SA 58

[Cameron Crazy]

looking good for the mavs 65-61 3:21 3rd

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2:44 3rd

Dallas 68
SA 63

Mavs are now over the foul limit, but still in control.

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End of the 3rd

Dallas 72
SA 71

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Everyone hold your breath because the last quarter promises to be a good one. GO SPURS!!!

[Cameron Crazy]

You are straight trippin!:hand:

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8:20

Dallas 77
SA 77

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6:06

Dallas 79
SA 81

[Rabbit'93]

Has Tim Duncan ever committed a foul?:confused: I guess if you ask him he hasn't. He should get an oscar for all the flopping and flailing he's doing to get calls. Actually all the Spurs should try acting after their careers are over.;) :D

[GWOOD]

Originally posted by Rabbit'93
Has Tim Duncan ever committed a foul?:confused: I guess if you ask him he hasn't. He should get an oscar for all the flopping and flailing he's doing to get calls. Actually all the Spurs should try acting after their careers are over.;) :D


What tv station is carrying the game?

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2:56 4th

Dallas 84
SA 84

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Originally posted by piratebg
Its 12:00 and if your tv is not on ABC, then there is something very wrong with you.

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[GWOOD]

Originally posted by piratebg
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Thanks! I missed that!

By the way, have you seen my keys anywhere?

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SA 87
Dallas 84

50.0 sec

I must be trippin.:crazy:

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36.3 sec

SA 87
Dal 85


GO SPURS!!!

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13.9

TO Dallas and they have the ball after the Ginobli miss.....

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SPURS WIN!!!!!!!

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Tim Duncan ends the game with 31pts, 13 reb, and the Academy Award for Best Actor:rolleyes:

Spurs lead the series 1-0

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[Emerson1]

My hate for stackhouse is even worse now.

[Pmoney]

Originally posted by Emerson1
My hate for stackhouse is even worse now.
How do you hate stackhouse more than 20 pts off the bench and you hate him? he alone had more bench pts than the whole SA bench

[Pmoney]

The refs had to be based out of SA because they called a foul everytime ducan went inside

[Maroon87]

I think Stack went a little brain dead there.

[Emerson1]

Bonehead plays like that, instead of driving to the basket looking for a kickout to dirk or terry he steps back and jacks up a 3. He should know refs don't call fouls in the last 10 seconds.

[DU_stud04]

Originally posted by Pmoney
The refs had to be based out of SA because they called a foul everytime ducan went inside

want some cheese with that wine?

[Emerson1]

It's the nba what do you expect.

[piratebg]

All in all it was a good, hard fought game by both teams. Dallas came out ready to play hard, and San Antonio had a hard time keeping up for most of the game. Hopefully, this sets the stage for one hell of a series that goes 6 or 7 games.

[Macarthur]

Originally posted by Pmoney
The refs had to be based out of SA because they called a foul everytime ducan went inside

It can go both ways. Manu should have gotten a foul call on his drive right before the Mavs got that last poss. The fact is they are going to swallow their whistle late in games.

[Rabbit'93]

The refs swallowed their whistles when it came to the Spurs, period.

Stupid play by Stack. Oh well, bring on game #2.

[Maroon87]

Yeah...the refs stole the game. Right. Spoken like a true Cubanite.:rolleyes::p

[SintonFan]

Good job Spurs! Three more wins to shut up the whiners...:clap:

[Emerson1]

Whiners? Popavich was crying after every call.

[Maroon87]

Bowen blankets Nowitzki with 'bear-hug defense'

By Chris Sheridan
ESPN Insider

SAN ANTONIO -- Bruce Bowen didn't merely drape himself all over Dirk Nowitzki's body. He also crawled into his head.

Take a look at a sampling of Nowitzki's postgame comments Sunday after he made just one basket in the fourth quarter and nearly threw the ball away on Dallas' final possession in an 87-85 loss to San Antonio in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series:

"I'm not going to get any open looks in this series. I already know that."

Or this one:

"I know I'm not going to score 35 a game in this series."

Despite standing nearly a half-foot taller than the defensive specialist assigned to guard him, Nowitzki grew increasingly flummoxed as the afternoon wore on Sunday to the point where the look on his face went from normal to quizzical to queasy.

And on the final play, when Dallas got the ball into his hands near the top of the circle, he stumbled so quickly in the face of an onrushing second defender that he fired the ball to Jerry Stackhouse in the corner rather than waiting for Stackhouse to cut to the basket as coach Avery Johnson had intended the play to unfold. Manu Ginobili deflected the pass, and Stackhouse managed only a desperation heave from the corner that missed everything to end a compelling, competitive game between the two best teams in the West.

More of the same should be in store as we move through the next two weeks. Unless, of course, the doubts in Nowitzki's head continue to rattle around up there like one of Bowen's foul shots. And with a full dose of the same close coverage coming his way for the foreseeable future, that possibility cannot be dismissed.

"It's what you call 'bear hug defense,'" Mavs coach Avery Johnson said afterward. "That's the new NBA rule. That's what's going on, and I've got to try to formulate or simulate a drill to help him. If a bear comes up to you and hugs you, what's he going to do?"

Johnson left his own question unanswered, but you don't need to be a Discovery Channel regular or a National Geographic Explorer aficionado to know what happens when a bear hugs a human.

The bear wins. And it ain't a pretty loss for the human. But Bowen wasn't bear hugging Nowitzki so much as he was pestering him like an oversized insect. He was a gnat with his hands and arms, keeping one or the other on Nowitzki at all times, grabbing and clutching occasionally, and with enough discretion, that the refs never called him on it.

We've all seen him do the same to Kobe Bryant and every other scorer in the league, most recently against Bonzi Wells of Sacramento in the latter stages of the Kings-Spurs first-round series, and now it's the big blonde German's turn to try to find a way to repel him. Bowen has guarded Nowitzki before, but never with the stakes this high.

"This has the feel of an NBA Finals," said Bowen, who shrugged it off when Johnson's bear hug comment was relayed to him. "It used to bother me. You would think you try to earn the respect of other coaches, and you'd think they'd be happy with what you do because you give 110 percent. But it's something that's said a lot, so add him to the mini-list of others who want to say stuff."

The task for Johnson in the next two days will include not only inventing a drill to simulate Bowen's defense, but also giving some serious thought to sending a few more double-teams at Tim Duncan.

The Mavs tried to stop the Big Fundamental with single coverage about 90 percent of the time -- using DeSagana Diop, Erick Dampier and DJ Mbenga -- and Duncan ate it up with a display of his offensive arsenal rarely seen during this regular season, when his scoring average was the lowest of his career.

"It was like it was in my rookie year when we were going through him all the time," Tony Parker said.

Dallas got away with leaving Parker (7-for-18) open on the perimeter, and they contained Manu Ginobili enough (15 points on 5-for-14 shooting, five turnovers) to put themselves in position to win.

Bowen's 3-pointer from the corner with 2:14 remaining gave the Spurs their final points and broke an 84-84 tie.

Six missed shots later, the game came down to one final possession, and Nowitzki was too blanketed by Bowen to finish his job as the first option.

"I knew they were going to go to Dirk, and my thing was I'm going to make this as tough as possible for him -- tougher even than his other shots. He started stumbling, and if he tries to shoot the ball stumbling it's going to be a bad shot."

But that wasn't even Nowitzki's final stumble. As he left the postgame interview podium after telling everyone how he wouldn't score 35 in the series or get any open looks, he nearly tripped over a chair while exiting stage right.

It shouldn't surprise anyone if it was Bowen who put that chair there.

Chris Sheridan, a national NBA reporter for the past decade, covers the league for ESPN Insider.

[DU_stud04]

Originally posted by Maroon87

But that wasn't even Nowitzki's final stumble. As he left the postgame interview podium after telling everyone how he wouldn't score 35 in the series or get any open looks, he nearly tripped over a chair while exiting stage right.

It shouldn't surprise anyone if it was Bowen who put that chair there.



thats hilarious

[Gobbla2001]

Obviously Ginobili didn't act enough on that "push" by Dirk in the fourth... that was a good no-call...

Unless he was straight-up blocked, Duncan WAS getting fouled when he got inside to get a shot, don't know what the problem is there...

Bruce Bowen tested the waters and knew what he could get away with in that game... everybody got away with the same stuff Bowen did, it was fairly called in that aspect as well...

But I guess the Spurs are up .5-0 in this series and the refs are up .5-0 as well :rolleyes:

Fact is that the Mavs had the last shot... they could have tied the game or won it... they didn't do either #1 because of GREAT defense by Ginobili and #2 because Stackhouse set himself up for a bad shot...

Spurs up 1-0 ;)

[Chris Hart]

Sounds as if Dallas(mainly Dirk and Avery Johnson) are doubting themselves already. I hope they don't throw in the towel in their hearts already, I was hoping for a great series between the two Texas teams. I don't care which one wins, I like them both, but c'mon Mavs don't start whining after one loss in SA, just get physical back and fight for it. The problem was the first half Dallas controlled the tempo and the scoreboard showed it. The second half SA controlled the tempo by defense and slowing it down and the final score showed it. This can still be a great series if the Mavs don't give up already...:mad:

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by Chris Hart
Sounds as if Dallas(mainly Dirk and Avery Johnson) are doubting themselves already. I hope they don't throw in the towel in their hearts already, I was hoping for a great series between the two Texas teams. I don't care which one wins, I like them both, but c'mon Mavs don't start whining after one loss in SA, just get physical back and fight for it. The problem was the first half Dallas controlled the tempo and the scoreboard showed it. The second half SA controlled the tempo by defense and slowing it down and the final score showed it. This can still be a great series if the Mavs don't give up already...:mad:

Avery Johnson doesn't know how to throw in a towel... the Mavs may end play their best ball of the year this next game... The Little General is a good game-planner...

[Chris Hart]

Originally posted by Gobbla2001
Avery Johnson doesn't know how to throw in a towel... the Mavs may end play their best ball of the year this next game... The Little General is a good game-planner... I know he's a great coach and didn't mean literally throw in the towel. I was referring to what IMO are ready made excuses. Why not just say we got outplayed in the second half and that's why we lost, and we must play better which we are capable of in game 2? I would think the team would respond better to that, JMO

[SintonFan]

Originally posted by Chris Hart
This can still be a great series if the Mavs don't give up already...:mad:
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It'll be a real good series.
I was suprised the Spurs won though. They played horribly and still got it done. :)

[DU_stud04]

Originally posted by SintonFan
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It'll be a real good series.
I was suprised the Spurs won though. They played horribly and still got it done. :)

which is why dallas will not win

[Blastoderm55]

Great game. The great seats made it even better so. :D

[Emerson1]

Originally posted by SintonFan
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It'll be a real good series.
I was suprised the Spurs won though. They played horribly and still got it done. :)
Dallas played just as bad, they weren't able to hit wide open shots.

[Phil C]

Everybody -


SHOW SOME COMPASSION!! :mad:

[Bandera YaYa]

Originally posted by SintonFan
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It'll be a real good series.
I was suprised the Spurs won though. They played horribly and still got it done. :) Hey now, "they" didn't all play horrible!! But it was a fight till the end, that's for sure! GO SPURS GO!!! :D

[Gobbla2001]

For all of the "refs choked" folk out there... Manu WAS infact fouled by Howard on the layup he missed... Howard's knee hit Manu's elbow...

Funny, no one mentioned that....

[Emerson1]

Manu doesn't get fouled, a fly lands on him and he flops across the arena.

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by Emerson1
Manu doesn't get fouled, a fly lands on him and he flops across the arena.

Yah, he will do that, and I thought he was just complaining for no reason when he got up after the layup... but if you look at it his elbow is hit by the knee and does jolt his arm out when making the layup...

But of course no Maverick fan will acknowledge it, that would have meant two MORE points for the Spurs...

[Cameron Crazy]

Well lets all hope the mavs step it up in Game 2

[SintonFan]

Originally posted by Emerson1
Dallas played just as bad, they weren't able to hit wide open shots.
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I think the Mavs played better than you'll admit.:p I mentioned many times that Sacremental was tougher than most thought they would be and it showed with the Spur's getting two playoff wins in about 36 hours. Duncan VOWED the Spurs would play much better in game two. Even so, the Mavs might take this game. I have my reasons for this belief, but you probably wouldn't wan't to hear about it....:D

[DU_stud04]

Originally posted by Emerson1
Manu doesn't get fouled, a fly lands on him and he flops across the arena.

like dirk doesnt flop..... bowen looked at him wrong and he flops.......sucks that he is ur go to guy, i feel sry for the mavs and the fans