Spurs vs Miami

en première mi temps la défense a été aux abonnés absents les 2 équipes finissant la mi temps avec quasi 60% au shoot

les spurs ont appuyé sur le champignon dans le 3ème quart après 2 minutes de grand n'imp
+24 à la fin du 3ème
j'ai bien peur que TP reste avec son 15 pts à 7/12 et 9 ass en 25 minutes
Tim et Manu sont aussi très bon
dans l'ensemble d'ailleurs l'équipe a fait un bon boulot

victoire sans suspense

Spurs' defense holds down shaky-shooting Wade

Web Posted: 12/31/2009

By Mike Monroe - Express-News

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich insisted his team did nothing special to limit the scoring opportunities of the Heat’s All-NBA guard Dwyane Wade, who came into Thursday’s game at the AT&T Center with a scoring average of 26.6 points per game.

“We played him more straight-up tonight than we usually would, for whatever reason,” Popovich said. “We just did.”

The most likely reason: Wade’s shaky perimeter shooting this season. A 48 percent shooter for his career, Wade came into the game at 44.2 percent for the season.

Never in any of his previous six seasons had he made less than 46.5 percent, and he made 49.1 percent last season.

Keith Bogans, who always gets first crack at the opposition’s top perimeter scorer, said the strategy Thursday was to make Wade shoot from the perimeter or send him to areas where his teammates make things tough for him.

“I just tried to stick to our game plan and force him to where the help was,” Bogans said. “My teammates did a great job of helping me out with him, because it’s almost impossible to stop him by yourself.

“As long as I took him to where my help was, we were in great shape tonight.”

Wade made only six of 18 shots in 29 minutes of the Spurs’ 108-78 victory and had seven turnovers.

“He looked a little tired, but he still tried to fight through it,” Bogans said “He’s a great player, and if it wasn’t for my teammates, it could have been a long night.”

Free DeJuan: Spurs rookie DeJuan Blair looked incredulous when approached for a postgame interview after Thursday’s game.

“No limelight over here,” said Blair, whose 14 points and five rebounds were relatively pedestrian.

Told that the topic was his improved foul shooting, Blair smiled broadly.

“Aw, snap,” he said. “The free throws.”

Blair came into the game having made only 46.5 percent of his foul shots, and that was after making 5 of 8 Tuesday against Minnesota.

It was in the Minnesota game that he unveiled a new free throw technique, the result of weeks of work with Spurs shooting coach Chip Engelland. The rookie from Pittsburgh now is releasing the ball with one hand and putting more arc on his shot.

Blair’s line at the line Thursday: 4 for 4.

“Yep, it’s working,” Blair said. “Chip is amazing. I give him a hug every day. I work on it every day. He’s an amazing coach, and it’s wonderful, the outcome that you see.”

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/spurs/80454782.html

Spurs find way to beat .500+ foe

By Jeff McDonald - Express-News Web Posted: 12/31/2009


At the moment they walked into the AT&T Center for the last time in 2009, the Spurs were on a streak of nine victories in their past 11 games, which had commenced a quick climb back from below .500 and coaxed their fan base back from the suicide ledge.

On paper, the Spurs were as hot as any team in the league. Their coach, Gregg Popovich, was not quite so enthused.

“If all nine wins were against Cleveland, Orlando, Phoenix and the Lakers, I’d be pretty impressed with us,” Popovich said before his team blasted Miami 108-78 Thursday night. “That’s not the case. Hence, I’m not quite as impressed.”

Even Popovich the perfectionist was impressed with what he saw New Year’s Eve.

Behind a vintage performance from their Big Three and an old-school performance from their lockdown defense, the Spurs rolled to their most lopsided victory of the season — while in the process handing Miami its worst loss of the year.

On the last day of December, the Spurs (19-11) were able to accomplish something they could not in the previous 30 days — beat a team with a winning record. A perfect 0-5 against over-.500 teams heading into the night, the Spurs recorded their first quality win of the month in resounding fashion.

“It was a good 48-minute effort,” Popovich said, “which is always nice to see.”

Tim Duncan had 23 points and 10 rebounds, Manu Ginobili added 18 off the bench and Tony Parker had 15 points and nine assists, all in somewhat limited engagements.

It was the Spurs’ first victory against a team with a winning record since Nov. 27 at Houston.

“It was about time,” Ginobili said. “I was very glad to see the team perform like that for 48 minutes, without having letdowns.”

For the final three quarters, the Spurs treated the Heat as if they were just another sub.-500 team — which might soon be the case if Miami (16-14) keeps playing the way it did at the AT&T Center.

“They trampled us, and we simply got what we deserved,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said.

The Spurs celebrated New Year’s Eve 2009 by partying as if it were 2005.

Their Big Three owned the first half — Ginobili with his gymnastic drives, including one right-handed layup on a no-way-he-gets-that-off finish in traffic; Parker by setting up residence in the paint; Duncan by simply being Duncan.

Then the Spurs’ defense, the cornerstone of their three championship teams in the just-expired decade, popped in to say hello.

After allowing 49 points — including 20 of Michael Beasley’s 26 — in the first half, the Spurs limited the Heat to just 29 after intermission.

Miami did not record its first basket of the second half until a Beasley jumper with 6:57 left in the third. By that point, the Spurs had surged to a 66-51 lead.

The Heat, which had spent its energy in a fruitless comeback at New Orleans the night before, were finished.

Miami went without a basket from the 3:23 mark of the third quarter to the 8:41 mark of the fourth, a span of 8:11. Meanwhile, the Spurs put together a 21-1 run to grab a 96-62 advantage.

The game would have been in doubt only if Vinny Del Negro had been the coach of the Spurs.

“They played well and they deserve it,” said Miami’s Dwyane Wade, who had 16 points but was harassed into 6-of-18 shooting. “Sometimes it just takes a little time to get it going. They’re hitting their stride now.”

The Spurs, for now, remain cautiously optimistic. After closing 2009 with a pop-the-bubbly kind of victory, they are hopeful for better things to come in 2010.

“We’ve got a lot to improve to become contenders and be respected as one of the best teams in the league,” Ginobili said. “We have not been that steady so far this season, but we’re on the right track.”

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/s...t_500_foe.html

Réveillon du jour de l'an oblige, je n'ai pas u voir le match. Mais j'ai l'impression que les Spurs sont restés sur la même dynamique que le superbe dernier match.
Les starters n'ont pas eu besoin de trop jouer, ce qui est une très bonne chose. Les SPURS sont ils de retour??? J'attendrais encore quelques matchs avant d'affirmer celà. Par contre ça joue beaucoup mieux c'est une certitude. Au classement on est du coup très proche de la 2ème place et nous avons le meilleur résultat de la conférence ouest en ration victoire-défaite sur les 10 derniers matchs!!!
Faut continuer comme ça!!!!
GO SPURS GO

J'ai repassé le résumé 2 fois pour voir , les Spurs jouer comme ca .
On sent qu'ils prennent du plaisir à jouer ensemble.
Miami c'est déjà bien mieux que les wolves , quand tu vois la progression de dejuan blair , faire des layup en finesse , faire des passes , que RJ peut défendre aussi, que Gino est back in the business , que Tony revient également es ce que ca laisse pas des espoirs pour 2010 ?

Bonne année aux Spurs et à tous les membres du Forums .

Tout à fait d'acc avec ludo, le résumé vidéo est un pur bonheur. C'est clair qu'il ne faut pas s'enflammer, mais là on peut voir tout le potentiel de cette équipe.

S'ils l'exploitent, ils peuvent faire très mal.

Merci les Spurs et bonne année tout le monde