Category: San Antonio Spurs

Spurs prepping for rough Game 3 in Memphis

PG Parker set for MRI before Tip off

When the San Antonio Spurs face off against the Memphis Grizzlies Saturday night don’t expect not to see PG Tony Parker there even though he is scheduled to have an MRI

“just to make sure,” Parker said.

To make sure that his healing from an injury that kept him from 100% late in the regular season.

The Spurs know that they will be playing in an hostile environment in which no playoff team has one in.

“We went on the road in every series and lost and have had to come back. We’re at home and we want to come out and play much more aggressive and confident, which teams normally do at home,” Head Coach Lionel Hollins said after practice on Thursday. “[But] as I’ve told our team, being at home isn’t going to win anything for us. We have to play much better”

Game 3 is Saturday May 25th at 9 PM

Spurs/Warriors Round Two

The San Antonio Spurs survived the Golden State Warriors in an exhausting Game 1 of the Western Conference Semi-finals in San Antonio and now look forward to what game two has in store.  There is one big thing they would like to work on.

“We’d like to figure out how to hold (Stephen) Curry under 40 (points),” head coach Gregg Popovich said. “I have like 10 phone calls out to people asking for suggestions. He’s unbelievable.”

What Curry did was no small feat against a defensive minded Spurs team;  44 points (18-35 from the field and 6-14 from the 3-point line), 11 assists, four rebounds and two steals while playing nearly the entire game (57:56).

Warriors Head Coach Mark Jackson put his team’s chances this way:

“All we do is concentrate on the facts,” Jackson said. “And the facts are, we were the better basketball team for the most part of that game. We did some things we have to do better. But you have to leave that game feeling good about where we are.”

Tickets are still available for tonight game!

 

 

 

Spurs to face off with Golden State in Quarterfinals

The Golden State Warriors pulled off a victory that almost didn’t happen.  Cruising into the fourth quarter with an 18-point lead, the Warriors took their eye off the ball to watch the clock.

“We were up 18, and I was celebrating, having a ball, and then it seems like two minutes later all of a sudden it’s a single-digit game and every possession mattered again,” center David Lee said.

This season, the Spurs split the series between the two clubs 2-2 but if history is a prelude to the upcoming series…anything can happen. Point 1: The last time these two clubs met in the playoffs was the first round of the 1991 playoffs where the 44-38 Warriors upset the 55-27 Spurs. Point 2: The Warriors have not won on a San Antonio floor since early 1997.

All in all, this should be a fantastic series and tickets are still available. So come on Spurs fans, get out and support your San Antonio Spurs and their Drive for Five!