<font size=""4"">That hurts</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The ball didn't find the mark and when Parker came down it was on Bruce Bowen's foot. Go figure. </div> <font size=""4"">Spurs have it all</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"What their defence does, most defences do," Mitchell said. "They take advantage of teams being selfish. So if you don't move the ball you play right into their hands. We have to move the basketball. You have to play unselfish basketball. They prey on guys who want to catch and hold and dribble the basketball. They keep you on one side of the court." </div> <font size=""4"">Rasho has coach's ear</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">So when Mitchell's hotel room phone rang 2:30 Sunday morning after the team had chartered in from Charlotte, Mitchell was not totally surprised to hear Nesterovic on the other end. What might surprise some was Nesterovic's purpose for the call, and perhaps more surprising, the result. The Raptors' Slovenian centre, who was acquired by Bryan Colangelo in exchange for Matt Bonner and Eric Williams last June, is having a homecoming of sorts in this picturesque Texas city but his call had nothing to do with his own needs. He felt the team was in need of a rest coming off back-to-back games and was asking Mitchell to call off the scheduled team practice Tuesday. MITCHELL'S RESPONSE: "OK."</div> <font size=""4"">Raps humbled deep in the heart of Texas</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"(Former NBA coach) Hubie Brown used to say you can take two, three games out of every season and you shouldn't even have shown up at the arena and hopefully that's one of ours."</div> <font size=""4"">Spurs show Raptors who's boss</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"We started off moving the basketball well, we were moving the ball great," said Mitchell, whose team led the Spurs 13-8 midway through the first quarter before San Antonio went on a 15-4 run that never seemed to end. "But then we had a stretch where we just didn't move the basketball and that plays right into San Antonio's strengths defensively, because they pressure the ball and make you drive into the heart of the defence, where they have length and guys who know how to play."</div> <font size=""4"">Spurs stretch win streak to season-high six in rout of Raptors</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"We calculated, and he scored two on me and 14 on other people," Duncan said. "Not that I keep track. I don't actually look at the stats, but that's what I heard." Duncan's teammates didn't agree. "Tim was out there on an island the whole night," Bruce Bowen said, "and Rasho gave it to him like he did at practice every day here." </div> <font size=""4"">Nesterovic likes his new home</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Told that Spurs coach Gregg Popovich had called off Monday's shootaround, the second such cancellation in as many games, Mitchell laughed. "Pop knows his team," Mitchell said. "I'm still looking for the guy who invented shootaround anyway." </div> <font size=""4"">Hail Spurs, the champs of statistics </font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It's the blurry dot.com world, where columnists sometimes act like fans, and everyone poses as journalists. And last summer, when the Spurs signed Butler with advice from Hollinger, the move was later hailed by, well, Hollinger. "For the Spurs to get a young player of this quality this cheaply was highway robbery," Hollinger wrote in his preseason projection story. "All they were missing were the ski masks." </div> <div align="center"><font size=""5""><u>Sunshine Girl - 2/27/07</u></font> </div>
<div class="quote_poster">Rimwrecker Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Bowens a bum. Wow, what a bad game. Sunshine Girl looks good though, she's got her A game at least. </div> Wait, so Bowen stuck out his foot again? He should have already gotten beat up for his past transgressions.
