No One Likes Milwaukee

Better late than never, right?

So I feel safe to say no one on this team cares about playing the Milwaukee Bucks. They can really only muster up so much energy to barely win what should have been a really easy game. I don't know what our guys don't like about the team or the city. Are they not fans of beer, hunting and Brett Favre?

So even though were in a tight Western Conference race where every win in meaningful the Spurs started off the game with poo poo passes (10 tunovers in the first half), bad shots, and lazy defense. They're only down 47-51 at the break because hey its the Bucks, not the Pistons.

3rd quarter rolls around and they trade baskets for awhile. Then Bucks guard Maurice Williams, whom the Spurs decided was not worth guarding this evening, picks up a foul on Tony. He gets all up in the refs face. Says all sorts of foul things... I think. Either way he got the boot. So without their little ballhog the Bucks start to collapse and lose their 10 point lead. Pop decides to let guys run for awhile instead of taking 8 eights second every possession to run a play and its a 19-4 run. The Frenchie is a big part of this going up and down the court since no one can guard. Its great he can run again. Jubilations.

4th quarter. After being up 9, Spurs get lazy again start holding the ball for too long, bad passes and guys like Stoudamire and Finley are making old man mistakes and its a close game again. Nobodies like Royal Ivey and Charlie Bell attempt to get their 15 minutes of NBA fame by leading the comeback. Tony has amnesia and forgets how to hit a stinkin free throw. Then Manu Ginobili happened. A shot, a steal, and another shot. Game. Also Michael Redd missed a free throw in the clutch. This is a big deal as he is like a 1000% free throw shooter. True story.

Other thoughts

There are a lot of Spurs fans up in Milwaukee. You could hear them whenever they went up to the line. Whenever they panned out to show the whole arena you could see a lot jerseys and shirts. Also Fin still has a fanbase up there. Some people showed up in his old Mav uniform.

Timmy really doesn't like this place. 4-11 shooting 9 points 7 boards and five fouls. He also got pushed by Andrew Bogut like seven times. A solid -2 effort. GG

If you could combine Stoudamire and Vaughn, they might actually make a decent back up point. But since we can do that we gotta deal with one of them. This is not a win win situation.

3 stars

3. The fans. Honestly did the Spurs 3 good players in this game? Everyone was below average.
2. Tony Parker. Would be number one for actually igniting the team in the 3rd. Except his Ben Wallace like performance at the line can't be ignored.
1. Manu Ginobili. 30/4/4 been there done that. VANQUISHED. Next please.