Nace un nuevo papado en el Reino de los Asistentes: Ginóbili entregó 15 pases gol, su nueva marca personal, en la victoria de San Antonio Spurs –el mejor récord de la NBA- ante Sacramento Kings por 130-102. ¿La mala noticia? Tony Parker se esguinzó el tobillo izquierdo. ¿Qué más se le podrá pedir al bahiense?
Volvió a hacerlo, a jugar con el cerebro en las manos. Rumbo a los 36 años, cuando la explosión comienza a transformarse en –todavía mayor- inteligencia, Emanuel Ginóbili sigue quebrando números. Esta vez, con un promedio de 4,6 en la temporada, el bahiense se dio el lujo de jugar y hacer jugar, entregando 15 asistencias (su cifra top en la NBA) en la gran victoria de San Antonio Spurs (46-14) ante Sacramento Kings (20-40) por 130-102. Manu, además, aportó nueve puntos (4-7 en tiros de campo, 1-3 en triples), cuatro rebotes y tres recuperos en 23 minutos. Partidazo del sumo pontífice del tomá y hacelo.
Claro que la victoria no le salió barata al mejor equipo de la liga americana: a falta de 4’40” para el cierre del tercer cuarto, Tony Parker salió lesionado tras esguinzarse el tobillo izquierdo. Cómo vendrá la mano entre los lesionados y la rotación que Tiago Splitter es el único jugador de la plantilla que logró jugar los 60 partidos de la temporada.
Por su parte, el ala suplente DeJuan Blair anotó 16 puntos y lideró a ocho jugadores que tuvieron números de dos dígitos en los Spurs, que sumaron su séptimo triunfo en los últimos 10 partidos y son líderes en la División Suroeste y mejor marca de la Conferencia Oeste y de la liga. El escolta Danny Green encestó 15 puntos y el alero Kawhi Leonard y el propio Splitter lograron 14 tantos cada uno. Mientras que el veterano Tim Duncan y el lesionado Parker contribuyeron con 13 tantos cada uno y el reserva australiano Patty anotó 12 puntos.
San Antonio
| Starters | Pos | Min | FG | 3Pt | FT | +/- | Off | Reb | Ast | TO | Stl | BS | BA | PF | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Parker | G | 25:18 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 3-3 | +20 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| Danny Green | G | 24:23 | 5-9 | 3-6 | 2-2 | +15 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Tiago Splitter | C | 22:30 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 2-2 | +19 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| Kawhi Leonard | F | 29:42 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 4-4 | +29 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Tim Duncan | F | 25:07 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 3-5 | +25 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Bench | Min | FG | 3Pt | FT | +/- | Off | Reb | Ast | TO | Stl | BS | BA | PF | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 51-84 | 9-20 | 19-23 | 9 | 43 | 41 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 130 | ||
| Percentages | .607 | .450 | .826 | Team Rebounds: 8 | ||||||||||
| DeJuan Blair | 23:46 | 8-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | +6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16 |
| Matt Bonner | 23:20 | 4-9 | 3-6 | 2-2 | +9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Manu Ginobili | 22:56 | 4-7 | 0-2 | 1-3 | +19 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Patrick Mills | 14:16 | 5-7 | 2-3 | 0-0 | +1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Nando De Colo | 11:58 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | -7 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cory Joseph | 10:47 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 2-2 | +5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| Aron Baynes | 5:57 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Boris Diaw | DNP - Inactive | |||||||||||||
| Stephen Jackson | DNP - Sprained Right Ankle | |||||||||||||
| Gary Neal | DNP - Inactive | |||||||||||||
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- The San Antonio Spurs got back on track but quickly turned their attention to point guard Tony Parker, their leading scorer and assist man who sprained his left ankle and is likely to miss several games.
DeJuan Blair paced eight players in double figures with 16 points and the Spurs racked up 41 assists in a 130-102 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday night. San Antonio got back to its winning ways, two nights after falling to Phoenix for its first home loss in 18 games.
Despite maintaining the league's best record with a methodical inside-outside game that kept the Kings on their heels, the focus after the game was the injury to Parker.
''He'll be out a while; it's a good one,'' Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. ''He's been a stalwart for us. He's having an All-Star season. As I've said, he's playing better than any other point guard in the league consistently through the year. We will miss him.''
Parker left with 13 points and seven assists. Danny Green had 15 and Kawhi Leonard and Tiago Splitter each had 14 points. Manu Ginobili set a team record with 15 assists off the bench.
Marcus Thornton led all scorers with 25 and Isaiah Thomas added 18 for the Kings.
Parker, who closed out February averaging 26.1 points and 8.3 assists and shooting 54 percent from the field, drove straight down the lane for a scooping layup with 4:40 left in the third period. As he twisted his body in midair to shield off Thomas, who was defending on the play, Parker came down on his left ankle and rolled it outward.
He dropped to the ground grabbing the ankle while play continued at the other end of the court. He was eventually helped off the court, straight to the locker room and he did not return.
The Spurs have been accustomed to adjusting to injuries all season. Leonard missed 18 games with tendinitis in the knee; Stephen Jackson missed 14 games with a broken finger on his right hand and Ginobili has missed 12 games with a string of various injuries.
''Obviously a huge loss, he's been our leader all year long,'' Spurs All-Star forward Tim Duncan said. ''We've played with all different kinds of people throughout this year. We're going to rally. Pop is going to change some lineups.
''We're obviously not going to replace him. But we're going to have to change the way we play for a little while.''
Ginobili added that it would be a challenge because of how well Parker is playing.
''We'll have to play better,'' Ginobili said. ''We're going to have to move the ball really well, because what he creates off the dribble, nobody will be able do it.''
Whatever doubts the Spurs will have in the coming days were temporarily calmed with the ball movement they used to push the Kings into submission. San Antonio's 41 assists came on 51 baskets.
''Yeah, it just happened,'' Ginobili said of his 15 assists. ''In the first half, it started happening. And in the second half, we were just moving the ball really well. (Sacramento) played zone, they got a little lost and in a game were you're 20 or 30 (points ahead), it's easy to do that. I wasn't really forcing the issue.''
Popovich was relieved to see his team bounce back from a 105-101 overtime loss to Phoenix on Wednesday, in game that saw the Spurs fail to score a basket in the extra period against the team with the worst record in the Western Conference at the time.
''They did a great job in that respect,'' Popovich said. ''We were so poor in the last game. We were in the mud execution-wise and discipline-wise. It's good to get back on track so quickly. Now we'll make some more adjustments.''
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Scola aportó 15 puntos y así Phoenix se quedó con el duelo ante el San Antonio de Ginóbili por 105-101. Los Suns sumaron su segunda victoria consecutiva, también en tiempo suplementario.
El duelo entre argentinos presentó como ganador a Luis Scola. Es que Luifa tuvo un rendimiento efectivo en el cruce ante Manu Ginóbili, y así Phoenix (20-39) le ganó 105-101 a San Antonio (45-14) en tiempo suplementario. El ex Ferro clavó 15 puntos (7-10 de cancha) y bajó cuatro rebotes en apenas 19 minutos, mientras que el bahiense se destacó con 10 tantos, tres recobres y tres asistencias en casi 30’.
Los Suns llegaron al final tres puntos abajo, pero Wesley Johnson, con un triple brillante sobre la chicharra, consiguió igualar el juego en 100. Ya en la prórroga, los de Arizona contaron con un gran cierre de Jermaine O´Neal (terminó con 22 puntos y 13 rebotes), y así lograron alcanzar su segundo triunfo en fila.
Además, Carlos Delfino jugó un buen partido pero Houston (31-28) perdió ante Milwaukee (28-28) por 110-107. El Lancha aportó 12 puntos, con una efectividad de 4-8 en dobles, 1-6 en triples y 1-1 en libres, en 31 minutos de juego. Otro que vio acción fue Pablo Prigioni: convirtió un triple en 8’ en la victoria de New York (34-20) por 109-105 sobre Golden State (33-25), que contó con un intratable Stephen Curry, autor de 54 tantos
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| EASTERN | W | L | PCT | GB | 3 PTS OR LESS | 10 PTS OR MORE | VS. + .500 | VS. - .500 | in OT | |
| 1 | Miami | 42 | 14 | .750 | - | 4-3 | 25-7 | 20-11 | 22-3 | 5-1 |
| 2 | New York | 35 | 20 | .636 | 6 ½ | 7-4 | 19-7 | 13-12 | 22-8 | 0-1 |
| 3 | Indiana | 37 | 22 | .627 | 6 ½ | 3-7 | 21-9 | 13-16 | 24-6 | 2-3 |
| Western Conference | ||||||||||
| WESTERN | W | L | PCT | GB | 3 PTS OR LESS | 10 PTS OR MORE | VS. + .500 | VS. - .500 | in OT | |
| 1 | San Antonio | 46 | 14 | .767 | - | 5-2 | 26-4 | 20-10 | 26-4 | 3-3 |
| 2 | Oklahoma City | 42 | 16 | .724 | 3 | 2-4 | 31-4 | 15-12 | 27-4 | 4-1 |
| 3 | LA Clippers | 43 | 18 | .705 | 3 ½ | 2-3 | 29-8 | 20-11 | 23-7 | 0-1 |
| 4 | Memphis | 38 | 19 | .667 | 6 ½ | 3-3 | 18-8 | 18-13 | 20-6 | 3-1 |
Miami lleva 13 victorias al hilo y de seguir así, no veo que haya ningún equipo capaz de ganarle una serie de Playoffs. San Antonio siempre es un gran equipo de temporada regular, pero desde hace 5 años que las lesiones, los errores y equipos más inspirados en los Playoffs los dejan afuera de las Finales. Si bien una serie al mejor de 7 partidos reduce el factor suerte practicamente a 0, si los Spurs llegan sanitos a los Playoffs, van a necesitar mucha suerte, ya no alcanza con tener un gran equipo y el mejor técnico como en la etapa 1999-2007 en donde se consiguieron los 4 títulos.
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http://thepiratebay.se/search/spurs+nba/0/3/208
http://www.nba.com/spurs/fanzone/2012-2013-wallpapers-archive
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