Someone Forgot to Tell Manu to Show Up Last Night

Cut the guy some slack. They had to travel to LA. They got there late due to plane problems. They jus went through a seven game series and Ginobli pretty much won that last series for them. He has one bad game on the road and now he's really bad? Yeah, 32% was not good, but I didn't see anyone else step up in the last 5 minutes of that game and help try to win it.

Didn't mean it to be harsh, it's just that if the Spurs want to beat this Laker team they need him to bring his A-Game.

Oh, no problem. You are very correct in saying what you did. If it goes 7 games, I wouldn't bet too much money on the Lakers in game 7. You could tell they were tired in the 4th quarter last night. Nobody really had anything left to do anything with. Thanks.

I know Manu is sort of the 'go to' guy down the stretch, as he should be until someone figures out a way to stop him. But when he is off, as he was last night, they need to go to the getting it inside so when someone doubles Timmy they can kick it out opposite and then swing it for an open shot. They run that play to death and who has stopped it consistently? Love Manu, but they need to mix it up.

actually someone told kobe to wake up.

Actually, if the Spurs want to win: Manu needs to start flopping, Tony needs to push the ball up the floor more, Timmy needs to start playing like the "greatest power forward ever", and Ol' Pop needs to out coach Phil. Short of that...the NBA's Jizz-over-Kobe train will keep rolling!

How did the NBA jizz over Kobe? He shot like 4 free throws last night. No one is talking about last night's game on the mass media. The NBA and Stern hates Kobe. Ever since his non-"rape trial", the NBA doesn't want him as the face of the league. He should've won MVP for the last 3-4 seasons.Bruce did a decent job on Kobe but there is nothing anyone can do when he's hot. He's the best player in the game, hands down.

I hope you're joking about the mass media. Everyone was buzzing today how Kobe was "distributing" and then "turned it on" to spur the comeback in the fourth. Not that they're wrong, but the media was definitely Kobe-centric today.

Did he not take over?

Oh, I think that David Stern wants a Lakers/Celtics series more than you know. They are both big money markets. I don't think the trial has that much bearing on it. He may not have been "guilty" of rape, but he was fooling around, so he set himself up for that kind of situation.

Hmmmm...the past 3-4 seasons in L.A. have been the making of Kobe's infamous "Yeah, I Would Like To Be Traded" saga...the only thing he deserved in the past four seasons has been a first-round exit of the playoffs, if that! I am so tired of watching everyone jizz about Kobe...he goes 0 for 1 in the first half with a couple assists and rebounds and everyone says..."Oh, Kobe just hasn't turned it on yet. He's being a team player right now. He'll turn it on when he wants"....and that is the biggest bunch of purple-and-gold bull--bowen played him stiff in the first half and he couldn't get a shot and the spurs were like a brick wall. He couldn't get a shot, nothing else to it. Period. End of story. P.S. Kobe will go down as one of the greatest scorers, not player.

What else does he have to do? He's more than a scorer. He's a good shooter, he's a 7 time all-defensive team. He averages 6-7 assists and 5-6 boards.

Phil Jackson said, "Kobe, you need to start acting like an MVP". It's only one game. The Hornets got up on them 2-0 and then a different tune started playing in San Antonio.

The Spurs let this one get away... It kind of feels like Game 1 of the Phoenix series, only the Spurs are on the wrong end. I was pretty disappointed in Finley bricking all of those threes after playing so well in Game 7 of the New Orleans series.

That's usually a sign of fatigue when the best shooters on the team start bricking on the threes. Was an exciting ending.

I just find it funny that Manu is the "go-to-guy." Normally the best player takes over the game in crunch time, but for the Spurs, it's Manu, their third best player.

I don't blame Manu for the loss. If someone hits a three or actually man's up and takes an open shot, the Spurs would have won that game.