Spurs Blog - Very Dismissive about the Warriors

I wanted to see the Spurs fans' perpective of the Warriors from the last time the Spurs and Warriors met since the Spurs won that contest (to see if there was any insight on strategy).  Here's one from Pounding The Rock.  I think we Mavs fans hold the Warriors in higher regard!  Finally, we Mavs fans and the Warriors fans have something in common - a dislike for the Spurs and their fans.  The bolding below was something I added for emphasis.

That wacky Nellie decided to throw a change up at us and start Al Harrington at the five spot instead of The Lively Latvian, Andris Biedrins. Consequently Pop resorted, in maddening Pop fashion, to 23 minutes of tinyball.  Here's a sentence I never thought I'd type - James White was our backup power forward.  The bottom line was that, in a shocking coincidence, our defense suffered a bit and we gave up a relatively high point total, for us.  We even allowed 32 3 point attempts, and one would think with four smalls out there the whole point would be to discourage such a thing.  

The good news, well...

Yup, Timmy dominated.  It was unfair, how easily he scored over and over and over again, but the Warriors bring this on themselves.  The Golden God could've gone for 50 easily if he wanted to, but Golden State's defense is so awful that eventually other people wanted to get in on the act.  How do the Mavs lose to these guys?  It's so embarrassing.

As near as I can figure, and this might sound a bit simplistic, is that the main reason we blew them out last time and had a rougher time of it here is that in Oakland Richardson and Harrington combined for 1 point and here they had 45.  How's that for some hard core analysis?  Thankfully S-Jax and the high flyin' Monta Ellis shot just badly enough for us to pull it out.

It was refreshing, in lieu of my hassle with the message board mafia to see Tony start the game with a pass first mentality.  Dude had fifty cents before Manu even checked in.  Yeah so he only finished with seven helpers.  The point is he got the offense off to a great start, everyone was feeling involved, we scored a season-high 40 in the first quarter and he managed to chip in a very impressive 18 points on just 10 shots, thanks to a renewed emphasis on going to the basket and drawing fouls.  

The cutest moment of the game was when Bob Fitzgerald, the Warriors dopey homer announcer exclaimed late in the 4th quarter that Warriors fans shouldn't be too upset about the loss because "the Spurs brought their absolute `A game.'"

I actually giggled out loud, alone in my empty closet of an apartment.   "A" game?  Dude, not even close.  "B-"at best.  Crappy team's announcers are the most pathetic creatures on planet Earth.  I actually feel sorry you people who live in San Antonio and only get the home broadcast team every night.  Y'all would be shocked and horrified if you heard what other teams' announcers say about your silver & black clad heroes night after night.  (Hint: they're not overly fond of the guy with the big nose, and also they feel that Mr. Duncan, on occasion, complains too much about the officiating.)

It's lonely at the top folks.