Spurs crush Trail Blazers 116-92 in Game 1 behind 33 points from Tony Parker

SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs cruised to a Game 1 victory against the Portland Trail Blazers in their Western Conference semifinals matchup Tuesday, flattening the Blazers 116-92 in front of a sellout crowd of 18,581 at the AT&T Center.

The veteran Spurs pounded the Blazers into submission early in the contest, with Tony Parker setting the tone with 13 first-quarter points as San Antonio led by 13 after one and never looked back. Parker finished with 33 points, knifing his way through the Blazers' defense all night.

Parker dominated the highly anticipated point guard matchup, outscoring Damian Lillard 17-4 in the first half and 33-17 for the game. Parker, who also had nine assists, scored at will throughout the night and finished 13 for 24 from the floor.

LaMarcus Aldridge, who entered the series shooting 57 percent against the Spurs — his best mark against any team — finished with 32 points and 14 rebounds on 12 for 25 from the floor. But Aldridge struggled early as the Spurs built their lead, hitting just 6 of 17 shots in the first half before finding a rhythm in the second half.

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/in...game_1_be.html

 

Trail Blazers taught a Game 1 lesson by the stonecutting Spurs

SAN ANTONIO — Maybe you wished for a bout of amnesia as you went to bed on Tuesday night. Or that you'd wake up Wednesday with a mulligan. Or maybe you just clicked the heels of your sneakers together and hoped James Harden would suddenly reappear.

Instead, just this: Spurs 116, Blazers 92.

It's not going away.

Game 1 wasn't a game at all. But before we declare the series over and Portland done, take a tour of the San Antonio locker room with me.

Because on the wall between the lockers of residents Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili there is posted a beautifully framed quotation from social reformer and early 1900s journalist Jacob Riis.

It reads:

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it --- but all that had gone before."

Down the hallway as you exit the locker room this same Riis quote is also posted in French, Spanish and Portuguese. I'm thinking Spurs coach Gregg Popovich doesn't want any of his players to miss it, but today, it's the Blazers who might want to sneak in and absorb the lesson.

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/ore..._taught_a.html

 

Re: Trail Blazers taught a Game 1 lesson by the stonecutting Spurs

Is this what Tlong does on your spurs forum? Cause i could totally understand your detestation if he tries to force your fan base to read a Canzano comparable spurs writer.

 

Re: Trail Blazers taught a Game 1 lesson by the stonecutting Spurs

Thanks for this?

 

I think we all watched the game and know what happened.

 

Something smells funny in this thread.

 

I would just like to take the time to thank Tlong for trolling a fanbase using the same fucking name that can be tracked back here.

Nice one man. Real fucking smart. Who the fuck trolls under the same name?

 

What's funny is if one of the regulars had started this thread we's get suspended for baiting and trolling.

 

Man, I've already banned one Spurs fan. I really don't want to start banning them.

 

Also, I'm not sure any rational fan thought Portland was better than SA. So congrats on the win in game 1. Our roster, youngest in the playoffs, is still learning what the playoffs is all about

 

That's why they pay you the big bucks......To make those tough calls

 

Well, it would be nice if we could have a friendly discourse, but it sure doesn't seem that way thanks to Tlong.

 

I missed it. What'd he do?

 

He has literally been trolling their forum for years under the same damn name. The last game we had against them in the regular season, they finally found him and spammed the shit out of our forum. These guys are all from that forum.

 

I really don't know. I don't get any satisfaction out of that kind of thing. I find it humorous to read what other fans think, but I don't enjoy trolling them.

 

I have never understood trash talking. I agree completely

 

Playful trash talking can be fun, but going on another fanbase's website is just simply without any class.