Gm 1: Sun., May 20 @ SAS, 3:30 p.m., ABC
Gm 2: Tue., May 22 @ SAS, 9 p.m., ESPN
Gm 3: Sat., May 26 @ UTA, 8:30 p.m., ABC
Gm 4: Mon., May 28 @ UTA, 9 p.m., ESPN
Gm 5*: Wed., May 30 @ SAS, 9 p.m., ESPN
Gm 6*: Fri., June 1 @ UTA, 9 p.m., ESPN
Gm 7*: Sun., June 3 @ SAS, 8:30 p.m., ABC

Would you rather go against Boozer and Deron or Duncan and Parker?

I didnt expect the Jazz to go this far.

The Jazz have an answer at every position (with exception of the 2) and quite possibly more depth. I expect this to go 7 games but for SA to prevail. So....Spurs in 7. If Kirilenko is playing like he's capable of playing, then Utah could have a shot to pull the upset.

If ak47 plays like he did in the last game vs the Rockets, Jazz should really have a chance of winning the whole thing. I'm scared of both these teams and which ever team we may play, it will go 7.

Coaching wise, both coaches are pretty damn experienced and know what they are doing.

All I ask is that they beat each other up silly.

I expect Jazz to give SA fits too and might beat them.

Jazz beat us both games this year... I think we split with SA, but I'm wanting the Jazz a lil more than SA, cuz of UJ inexperience at the big show.

Pistons got swept by SA, 81-90 and 89-90. Anyway I'm rooting for Utah, them stealing a game in SA and quite possibly winning both in Utah is possible. For some odd reason no one can win there. I blame Flip Saunders.

I think this will be a close series, probably 7 games.......but the Spurs are putting on a clinic right now.

54-36 at halftime.

Duncan has 18 pts, Ginobili has 14, and Parker has 10. The Jazz have only 1 player in double digits (Memo 10 pts, 3-11 FG). Spurs are shooting 65% FG vs Utah's 29%.

Utah looks lost right now....putting up 110+ pts against the Warriors is one thing. Trying to score against the Spurs is another.

I dont care who wins as long as they beat up on each other.

Spurs in five.

Damn even though they lost, Derron Williams is the MAN.

Parker owns Memo ...

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See, Memo isn't a Catholic school girl.

See, Memo isn't a Catholic school girl.

because he lets balls go between his legs? I've known plenty of catholic school girls that let that happen.

If Memo was a Cathlic school girl, he'd own Parker. See here (http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/04/eva_longoria_jokes_about_sex_ban).

I dont care who wins as long as they beat up on each other.

I agree. Both teams have a solid PG that can work in pick and rolls, which is our biggest weakness. They also both have size, though not any depth there really. I don't really care myself either, as I think we can beat either playing at a good level.

I wouldn't mind seeing the spurs again actually. They are basically the same team as before. They haven't added anything (except maybe Oberto for Rasho), and they are just older. Yeah, we're older too, but Max, Webber and Flip were not here either. We were 1 three pointer away from beating them, so I think we would this time.

Memo has looked like garbage every time I have seen him in this year's playoffs.

He looks lost out there.

I wouldn't mind seeing the spurs again actually. They are basically the same team as before.
They added Finley, who's been saving himself for the playoffs and is doing a great job out there. He's their Webber, the aging-but-still productive max player obtained at a bargain price.


They haven't added anything (except maybe Oberto for Rasho), and they are just older. Yeah, we're older too, but Max, Webber and Flip were not here either. We were 1 three pointer away from beating them, so I think we would this time.
We outscored the Spurs over the course of 7 games, as it turns out. We just didn't stagger it right. <sigh>

because he lets balls go between his legs? I've known plenty of catholic school girls that let that happen.

LMAO. Seconded. [smilie=llama_banan:

A Wilbon column slurping the Spurs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/20/AR2007052001657.html

What would you guys prefer? Home court in the finals against Utah and 3 games straight at Utah (where we NEVER win) or 2 games at SA with the possibility of a split and 3 straight at home again?

In game 2:

- Deron outscores TP
- Boozer outscores TD
- AK47 outscores Finley

and the Jazz still lose. Oof! Oberto's outplayed Memo, and the Jazz don't seem to have an answer for Ginobili off the bench.

In game 2:

- Deron outscores TP
- Boozer outscores TD
- AK47 outscores Finley

and the Jazz still lose. Oof! Oberto's outplayed Memo, and the Jazz don't seem to have an answer for Ginobili off the bench.

memos the x factor here. if the jazz really want to win, memo needs to do something other than shoot bricks...

and in the offseason, jazz need to find a 6th man via draft or FA. Harpring or fisher aint gonna cut it in the playoffs

This series is boring, pointless, and over. But I am pulling hard for the Jazz to get back in this thing and pull it out. Although revenge vs. the Spurs would be sweeeeet.

What is up with this whack ass schedule?

Just hand the Spurs the title already, Stern. You know you want to.

Hand the boozer some liquor. He needs to go off.

Deron Williams is a BEAST. Everytime he has a big game, i can't help but laught at the Hawks for passing up on him when they needed a PG.

Game 3 stats:

31 pts, 8 asts, 5 stls, 10-19 FG, 4-5 3PT, and one sick crossover on Vaughn (which I'm sure will turn up on Youtube soon).

deron has had a good game for the psat 3 games. This time, it actually means something.

What's wrong with Okur? Seems like he just disappears in the playoffs.

also, the jazz haven't lost at home yet this whole playoffs so far.

i think deron and dee brown are both going to be good pg's in this league.

oh god that crossover was so sick. I dont know why, but i feel bad for guys who fall ...especially for Antonio Daniels when he fell twice.

I forget but I thought Dee Brown was on the Jazz too and both Deron and Dee were teammates in college, with Luther Head. It's prolly going to be hard for Dee to get quality playoff minutes though

Duncan had a terrible game. 5 fouls 8 turnovers.

Good, Duncan is one of my least favorite players. And I won't hide it.

Anyway hopefully they'll extend it to 6 at least on Monday so when the Pistons get through Cleveland in 5 we'll actually be the ones to get rested up.

Memo was playing something that resembled D on Duncan... interesting.

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The fact the Jazz are in it in the beginning here in game 4 is a bad sign for them .

No one else is watching?

Boozer DESTROYED Duncan on that block. I LOVE IT!!

I hate Boozer but DAMN that was a really nice and super clean block on Duncan.

Great game.

I can't believe Derron Williams is THIS damn good.

Great game.

I can't believe Derron Williams is THIS damn good.


I've never seen a PG do what he's doing to the Spurs' defense. Not even Nash, and CERTAINLY not Chauncey.

Ginobili's referee force field is at 100%. I love how some people don't get the relationship between the refs, jump shooting, and turnovers. Utah going to the hole and getting screwed by the refs to the tune of offensive fouls and no-calls leads to the need to make jump shots, especiallly if the other team can flop to the FT line. I'm amazed the Spurs got THAT much love in Utah.

The Spurs are getting a fucking red carpet rolled out to the finals for them. The shit they've gotten away with in these playoffs is just sick.

I heard a great comment this morning from Steve Czaban on Fox Sports Radio. About the huge free throw discrepancy (25-2 in favor of the Spurs in the 4th quarter alone), Czaban said David Stern "used the handkerchief drenched in chloroform" to help eliminate the Jazz last night.

That's not a typo, the Jazz are done.

It's good that flopping is finally getting some national attention, hopefully the league will be forced to enact some sort of anti-flop policy next year.

Nice article on Ginibili's flopping from Yahoo:


Playing the flop card

By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
May 29, 2007

SALT LAKE CITY – When it was over, the San Antonio Spurs hustled out of the arena under a barrage of boos and descending debris, the Utah Jazz's flustered fandom throwing cups to tiny tubes of lip balm out of the stands. Manu Ginobili didn't stop to admire the mayhem left in his wake, but there was no mistaking that the rage tumbling down out of the rafters had been a testament to his talent of provoking even the most polished of Jazz playoff performers.

Coach Jerry Sloan had been tossed for marching out on the court and venting over the technical foul called on Derek Fisher for running down the floor, searching Ginobili out and plowing a shoulder into him.

"I don't know why he got upset," Ginobili shrugged later.

Soon, Sloan and Fisher would be watching the final 2½ minutes of San Antonio's 91-79 Game 4 victory together in the losing locker room, where assuredly they still were cursing Ginobili.

"I can't recall anything for (Fisher's shot) to happen," Ginobili said, "but if that helps the team win and get a couple of easy free throws, I'm ready to do it."

Throughout Monday night, Ginobili flailed his arms near the basket, tumbled to the floor and marched to the free-throw line an extraordinary 15 times. With the ball, he lowered his shoulder into Fisher, bullied him backward and drove past for a layup. There always is acrimony left on his trail to the rim, a defender with his arms outstretched, pleading to the official, desperate to understand how Ginobili conned himself another call.

"I don't want to say he flops," Utah's Deron Williams sighed later, "but … I mean … he flops."

Yes, he does. He flopped his way to 15 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter, including 11 at the line, and this Western Conference final is over. The Spurs are returning home with a 3-1 series lead and an 18-game AT&T Center winning streak against the Jazz. It won't be long until San Antonio is back in the NBA finals for the third time in five years, chasing a fourth title in a decade.

Along the way, when Ginobili is playing well, the Spurs have been virtually unbeatable. All his life, he has been a big-game, big-moment player. He won the gold medal for Argentina in the 2004 Athens Olympics, dropping 29 points on the Americans in the semifinals.

As it turned out Monday, this was a marvelous night for Argentinean basketball in Game 4. Beyond Ginobili, his teammate Fabricio Oberto was everywhere on the floor, delivering 11 points and 11 rebounds. He's a pest, too, a 6-foot-10 forward who played professional ball overseas since 1993 before San Antonio's crackerjack general manager, R.C. Buford, recruited him to the NBA last year.

"Fabby is a blue-collar guy," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.

As though there's any other kind in San Antonio. Fabby and Manu, two Argentines deep in the heart of Texas. Sounds like a sitcom. Nevertheless, Ginobili made it easy for Oberto to transition to the NBA. Now they appear destined to win an NBA title together, the way they did a gold medal.

Ginobili pushed Game 4 out of reach by slinking out of a slumber in the fourth quarter. Once Utah moved within 67-66 with just less than 10 minutes left, he hit a three-pointer and the Jazz never were within a basket again.

"I don't think I did too much to get into their skin in the first three quarters," Ginobili said. "I didn't go to the rim as hard."

It wouldn’t be long until those daring drives were ending with a whistle and free throws for Ginobili, until Fisher lost his mind with that lowered shoulder, and then a swinging arm upside Ginobili’s head that laid him out on a jumper for his second technical foul. For such a genteel, agreeable soul, Ginobili has a habit of driving people out of their minds and out of the game.

As the debris descended out of the stands, as Sloan and Fisher seethed in the locker room, Manu Ginobili gave it the "What did I do?" shrug as he ducked his way out of sight into the Salt Lake City night.

I couldnt fucking stand it, when Ginobili ran into Fisher and then flopped away, to see Fisher get fucking ejected.

Ginobili should be fucking suspended for that shit, it just wrecks the game. Prove a point to the rest of the league by doing something about Ginobili's move today, it was just a fucking disgrace.

Jazz got spanked and thats probably because deron only scored 11 points with 4 fouls. And also because they only made 26 shots.

The Spurs are going to wipe the the floor with the Cavs in The Finals. 5 games at best.

The Spurs are going to wipe the the floor with the Cavs in The Finals. 5 games at best.

I'm even thinking sweep. No way does Z or Gooden even get close to marking Duncan. Hughes cant keep up with Parker and defense all around is pretty damn good.

Spurs vs. Cavs = even worse than Spurs vs. Nets.

Imagine that...

This is just great.

I'm really excited to watch Man-goo Floppobili go for another ring.

Spurs sign special effects coordinator, stunt man to take their flopping to a new level

Hoping to be at their peak for the start of the NBA Finals, the San Antonio Spurs today hired a special effects coordinator to help them embellish their flopping, and also gave a roster spot to a professional stunt man they hope will take numerous dramatic fouls.
“This is a big moment for the stunt man profession,” said Jim Davis, who has worked on television shows ranging from The A*Team to 24. “Gregg Popovich says that none of his players were willing to step on charges that would hurl them into the crowd or light themselves on fire to draw a foul. I’ll do it, though. I’m not a huge puss like Manu Ginobili.”
Popovich says the Spurs needed a special effects coordinator to make their flopping seem more realistic.
“Sometimes our guys drop on their backs and don’t get a call,” said Popovich. “But what if they were wearing blood packs or had steaming gunshot bursts tear apart their jerseys. It would be impossible to not give them a call if fake blood is spurting out of their neck.”
-http://www.sportspickle.com

Congrats to the Spurs, now set your ass down and cool the fuck off for about a week. Get out of sync, get fat and out of shape. We'll see you in about a week when we are in stride and readys kick some Spur ass.