by Jugs on Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:19 pm
1/11/2003
San Antonio vs. New York Knicks
Spurs victorious 150-107.
Tim Duncan started the game very dominate scoring the first 6 points of the match and the Spurs were out to an early 12 to 2 run in the first 2 minutes of the game. Tim Duncan pulled down 4 rebounds in the first 5 minutes while the New York Knicks were draining 3s to keep them within 10 points of the Spurs.
"Unfrigginbelievable! All those fluke shots.... GET OUT!" GM Jugs Magadag screamed out.
Tim Duncan and Tony Parker dominating the scoring for the quarter scoring 12 and 10 respectively. Rasho Nesterovic's 2 FT extended the lead to 39-22. The quarter ended with the Spurs leading 45-24. Manu Ginobili also added with 7 points and 2 steals.
The only highlights for the Knicks was Allan Houston scoring 8 points and Howard Eisley notching up 5 points and 3 assists. The turnovers proved costly for the Knicks having 9 turnovers to 3 in the 1st quarter.
Rasho Nesterovic started to catch fire in the paint in the early parts of the 2nd quarter but the Knicks started to pose a small comeback, cutting the lead down to 18. Maceij Lampe made body contact with Moochie Norris while Moochie was laying up and Lampe injured his left leg while Moochie Norris still nailed the bucket and 1. Lampe's injury wasn't a serious but he didn't comeback on during the game. The lead eventually blew out to 27 points.
Allan Houston was trying to keep the Knicks in the game, scoring 21 points for his team. Antonio McDyess rebounded a missed shot and went for a buzzer-beating dunk but it wasn't counted. The quarter ended 82 to 57 in the Spurs favour.
Tim Duncan was dominated most of the game recording 19 points, 6 boards and 3 blocks in the first half. Tony Parker also adding 16 points, 3 steals and 2 assists. New York's top scorer was Allan Houston on 21, lead rebounder Charlie Ward on 4, and Howard Eisley lashing out 7 assists.
The start of the 3rd quarter was where the Spurs ran away from the Knicks, recording a 20-2 run in the first 3 minutes of the quarter, with 10-0 since the Knicks first basket of the quarter. The Spurs lead was now 45 points by keeping the Knicks to 4 points in the first 5 minutes of the quarter.
But the Knicks started to come strong, cutting back the lead to 34 but the quarter ended with the score 116 to 79. Tim Duncan still dominating with 25 points, 8 boards, 6 rejections and 4 assists. Tony Parker also adding to the score with 22 points.
San Antonio started to get cold in the 4th quarter, but luckily the Knicks weren't red hot but they did cut down the margin to 35. The rest of the match speaks for itself with the final score being 150 - 107.
The Player of the Game honours went to Tim Duncan for another dominating performance notching up 37 points, 11 boards, 8 blocks and 5 assists. Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, Robert Horry, Johnathon Bender, Stephen Jackson, Rasho Nesterovic and Moochie Norris all scored points in double figures.
Robert Horry and Rasho Nesterovic were great rebounding forces off the benching collecting 8 and 7 rebounds respectively. Johnathon Bender recorded 5 blocks and Rasho and Manu recorded 3 each. Tony Parker lashed up 6 steals while Jackson recored 4 steals and Norris and Ginobili 3 each. Parker also recoreded 6 assists and 5 each to Jackson and Duncan and also 4 to Ginobili.
The "concentrating" part of defence was well dominated by San Antonio recorded 19 blocks to 1 and 18 steals to 7.
At the Post-match press conference, Jugs Magadag had a few things to say, "Well... it was a great scoring game by everyone who scored in double figures, it's good to see a strong force coming off the bench with Rasho (Nesterovic) and Rob (Horry). But Bendy's (Johnathon Bender) durability has been questioned, twice in the game he got stuffed pretty easily."
Tim Duncan had this to say, "I needed some help on the boards, good to see Rasho and Robert standing up. The fouls need to be worked on, we are committing too many."
The only comment from the Knicks team was coming from Maciej Lampe concerning his injury, "FLUKE you Moochie and your ah-FRO!"
Thankyou and GOODNIGHT.
I have decided to make a "highlight reel" from every month with bad quality screenshots taken with my digicam