Oscar The Grouch
Season 49, Game 24 San Antonio 109, Los Angeles Lakers 87 19-5, 2nd in the West After that 51 point win the other night, perhaps I’ve grown a little impatient with these bottom-of-the-league teams....
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Warriors Lose! (Spurs Win.)
Season 49, Game 25 San Antonio 103, Atlanta 78 20-5, 2nd in the West The Golden State Warriors finally lost. The Warriors have been the story of the NBA season; hell, they’ve been the dominant story of...
View ArticleIt’s A Bad Time To Be A Former Pop Assistant
Season 49, Game 26 San Antonio 118, Utah 81 21-5, 2nd in the West The Spurs beat the Sixers by 51; they beat the Hawks by 25; now they’ve beaten the Jazz by 37… and that was with Utah making up some...
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One Loss Avenged
Season 49, Game 27 San Antonio 114, Washington 95 22-5, 2nd in the West The Wizards were owed one, and the Spurs weren’t going to let them off. The Wizards beat the Spurs way back before we knew how...
View ArticleCan We Swap Out This Game For Last Year’s Game 7?
Season 49, Game 28 San Antonio 114, Los Angeles Clippers 107 23-5, 2nd in the West This is why we brought LaMarcus Aldridge to San Antonio. Last year’s season-ending series against the Clippers was,...
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Without Peer
Season 49, Game 29 San Antonio 106, Indiana 92 24-5, 2nd in the West Another night, another elite foe vanquished by Kawhi Leonard. I was very interested in this match-up for Kawhi, because Paul George...
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When In Doubt, Go Back To The Beginning
Season 49, Game 21 San Antonio 108, Boston 105 17-4, 2nd in the West We started poorly and we ended poorly, but in between we played just well enough to win the game. The Celtics scored 27 in the 1st...
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Schedule Win
Season 49, Game 22 San Antonio 119, Philadelphia 68 18-4, 2nd in the West 51. I could probably end my recap right there. When a team beats another team by 51 points, there’s not much analysis...
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Margin For Error
Season 49, Game 30 San Antonio 108, Minnesota 83 25-5, 2nd in the West We learned a few valuable lessons in this game: • Kawhi Leonard, despite popular opinion, is a human. Or, at least more human than...
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Playing With a Lump of Coal
Season 49, Game 31 San Antonio 84, Houston 88 25-6, 2nd in the West When the San Antonio Spurs left town for their game against the Houston Rockets, perhaps Coach Popovich replaced their milk &...
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I Dreamt I Was a Denver Nuggets Fan
Season 49, Game 31 San Antonio 101, Denver 86 26-6, 2nd in the West This morning I woke up in a terrible state, panicked that the last 40 years had only been a dream. For all this time, I had not been...
View ArticleBoban-Wan-Kenobi
Season 49, Game 33 San Antonio 101, Minnesota 95 27-6, 2nd in the West For a night, Boban Marjanovic was our only hope. The best part of this young season for me hasn’t been watching Kawhi ascend, or...
View ArticleOscar The Grouch
Season 49, Game 24 San Antonio 109, Los Angeles Lakers 87 19-5, 2nd in the West After that 51 point win the other night, perhaps I’ve grown a little impatient with these bottom-of-the-league teams....
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Warriors Lose! (Spurs Win.)
Season 49, Game 25 San Antonio 103, Atlanta 78 20-5, 2nd in the West The Golden State Warriors finally lost. The Warriors have been the story of the NBA season; hell, they’ve been the dominant story of...
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“Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)”
Season 49, Game 35 San Antonio 121, Houston 103 29-6, 2nd in the West Watching last night’s beatdown of the Houston Rockets felt good, didn’t it? A little bit of payback for the Christmas Day debacle....
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Changing the Juice
Season 49, Game 36 San Antonio 123, Milwaukee 98 30-6, 2nd in the West The Spurs, without Tony Parker in the lineup, shook off another defensively lackadaisical first quarter to put the clamps on the...
View ArticlePredetermined
Season 49, Game 37 San Antonio 123, Utah 98 31-6, 2nd in the West Two nights after beating the Milwaukee Bucks 123-98, the Spurs returned home and beat the Utah Jazz… 123-98. How’s that for...
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First To 100
Season 49, Game 38 San Antonio 100, New York 99 32-6, 2nd in the West Midway through the 4th quarter, I thought to myself, “Just get to 100 points and the Spurs should win this”. Nailed it. The Knicks...
View ArticleCollege Football Games Are For Suckers
Season 49, Game 39 San Antonio 106, Brooklyn 79 33-6, 2nd in the West Don’t forget about #12. The way the Spurs have been playing this season–absolutely destroying teams–and the emergence of Kawhi as a...
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Did Reggie Jackson Do Something To Tony’s Family?
Season 49, Game 40 San Antonio 109, Detroit 99 34-6, 2nd in the West It actually started in the 2nd quarter. In my notes I wrote: “TP going at RJ (Reggie Jackson), mostly for good.” Every so often...
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