You just have to love Manu!!!

Manu had 26 points not 28

Peter Holt…look in the rafters…Manu means more to this team than Johnny Moore ever did.

Wow, just got home from work, great win tonight!
I’ll go to bed with a satisfied conscience :)

Props to RJ, he had 9 rebounds, and played with good energy.

Manu was so …… words seem so meaningless to describe watching him tonight.

I say we take RJ’s contract and give it to Manu.

Pure passion for the game, he won this one for us.

It’s time… Trade him.

Fuck, the Mavs won.

Anyway, woohoo Manu!!!

I know it’s all about the Manu this game but TD had 15 boards. Oh, and Manu was awesome!

From the game notes:

Spurs C Ian Mahinmi has played in just seven games this season, and coach Gregg Popovich doesn’t see many chances for the 2005 first-round pick and long-term Spurs project to get on the floor. Between Duncan and the rest of the frontcourt, Popovich said Mahinmi simply can’t work his way up from the end of the bench.

very solid win against a team thats been playing great lately.. gotta love manu with the FOOBA!

falling out of bounds assist to Hill for threeeeeeeee!

i hope they can carry this over somehow.

That Manu block was awesome. Even better than his block on D-Wade last year.

Who’s Manu? Is that a Greek God or something?

ESPN with a lame 3 play game highlights. I hate that. I would hate it even more but one of those plays was Manu’s block :D

Ah.. Now I understand. The team just finished reading this book:

Once again, I miss a winning game by the Spurs. I can’t believe that RJ got 9 boards – might be his best effort of the year.

"That’s superhero," Brooks said. "It’s amazing."

OKC Coach Scott Brooks on Manu’s block of Durant’s dunk.

Good to have a win after all the sadness that was around here

I don’t think TP sucks. But he’s not a player you build your team upon (after TD and Manu retires). I say we resign Manu to a 3year contract in the offseason and trade TP. We go all in for the next 2 years till Timmy retires, then we rebuild. No way around it. We have to completely rebuild once Timmy leaves. The last year of Manu’s contract can be trade bait by then. Or maybe he’ll retire with Timmy. Or maybe we can get those front-loaded contracts so the last one wouldn’t hurt us as badly.

And we should start using Manu like our Superstar. (at least for the 25-30 mins he’s on the court). He should dominate every possession. The spurs have been holding him back for too long, even through his prime (which has past, sadly). Imagine if the Spurs deferred to him like the Lakers do for Kobe, or even like the Spurs has done for Parker for the last 2-3 years.

And more touches for Timmy please.

Decent win tonight peeps, I say decent because while most of us knew that the Thunder were on a SEGABABA, and that’s okay for young teams, some people might have forgotten that they were on the Italian dreaded FOGAFINI! Other than that, Nick Collison was missing for their rotation, who provides some nice defensive pressure/shot blocking. Anyways, I know Collison isn’t as important to them, but that’s still missing a big frontcourt piece for them. So I will say that the Thunder were depleted tonight.

As for why it was a good win, the thunder recently had a 9 game winning streak and lost to the suns before us, that’s a nice game to win against a still, hot team.

I loved RJ aggressiveness tonight, both on the boards and offensively, I was surprised that he only had 9 points because I felt he had more than that by watching the game, but his 9 boards were a nice realization to observe and it showed on the boxscore. I will not expect him to perform things that are not conveyed in the boxscore as well as Manu does, but the fact that he’s showing things other than scoring on the boxscore is a promising thing for me, I hope he’s slowly becoming a Spur.

Anyone else notice that Tony was not in the line-up during the closing minutes?

okay, this is a repost from the game thread. but i think it sums it all up for Manu.

We played 31 minutes of SMALL BALL tonight. This win is fools gold.

hoping for a 20 game winning streak or even just ten!
wow even if it was just 95 points and a dose of defense this would be the best game i’ve watch this year for the spurs.
this
toronto game,very high scoring
the wolves
and who can’t forget the kings and the manu swatting?
im hoping for more!
go spurs go!
p.s. is it possible we can pursue zydrunas?i mean is he still a free agent?just asking
tnx!
:)
go spurs go!

well its it just me or…do we need to let tony come off the bench or play him less time like 20-24 mins?and give more time to gino and cubits?
just saying
or experiment on giving the starting role to rj with hill,tony benched?
i mean,hill….wow!
i mean if we think of defense first…right?
is it just me or,tp needs lesser time on court, first his banged up,to tell you i think him playing over the summer would end around 2013, i mean this summer he’ll play i think im not sure but in 2011 there’s another fiba event, idk if france is going to be there,its a qualifying game for the olympics,how much more if their in the olympics, i really love guys playing for their country,but speaking bout health,tony would be very much banged up…geroge hill anyone?!

Remember when the Spurs did absolutely nothing after losing to the Lakers in the 2008 playoffs because they said we were a Ginobili injury away from being back in the Finals? At the time it made sense to me, but it had faded from memory for me as we lost to the Mavs in last years playoffs and struggled through this season. It all came rushing back to me last night. It had been so long since I had seen a vintage Ginobili performance that I had kind of forgotten how much of a difference maker he could be when he was playing at 100%. I mean he’s played well this season, but last night was the first time in a long time that I came away just completely wowwed by his performance. Even as the Thunder made a push to tighten things up at the end, I just knew there was no way Ginobili would allow us to lost that game. Hopefully it’s a sign that he’s finally 100% back physically, emotionally, what ever, and this’ll be the Manu we see the rest of the season. I have no idea if he can keep up these type of performances down the stretch and through the playoffs, but right now, I don’t really care, as I’m just basking in the glow of his Manu-ness.

Kevin Durant last night via Twitter after landing back at home in OKC:

Hell of a block by Manu ginobili tonight..wow! Can’t be mad at a great play like that

I like this kid.

i really hope kd stays the same, his my fave player for my second fave team. i really hope someday he’ll wear a silver and black,which i think is impossible, i just really wish his attitude would be like timmy,no ego,“don’t care bout the hype”…don’t be the next lebron kid….IMO your wayy better than him, just learn how does lebron pile those ast, and your reb is good…i really hope you could be a spur!

That was a sweet win.

I just remembered his “block” on Dirk during the 2006 Western Conf Finals, giving the Dirk the and-1, after he made that clutch shot to put us up by two.

spurs had better go ahead and get the contract offer ready now.

thought for the day – i watched OKC forward james harden play a lot of games in college (at arizona state). on several occasions back then , i heard him say how much he tried to pattern his game after manu ginobili.

one can only assume that harden was referring to performances like he witnessed up close last night.

also – for once, the spurs manned up and got stops at the end of a tight game. OKC didn’t make a field goal in the last 4:30 of the game.

two close games against the Thunder + two amazing plays by Manu = two wins for the Spurs
Manu Ginobili == MG == My God
I like Kevin Durant a lot. He made some classy comments about Manu’s block and about his own streak. Hope he’ll continue kicking butts of other teams.