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Havent updated in a while but heres whats been goin on. My summer research program at FGCU is done. Voulunteering at the hospital is pretty sweet met lots of cool people. Playin tennis night and day. Beat Rehan the other day, after all this crap she gave me. She didnt win a game then again we only played two. Raphael Nadal lost in wimbeldon. I knew he wasnt gonna get far. But my homeboy Roger on the other hand is goin all the way.My aunt and two cousins came thursday so yea just been chillin with them.
My lifes off the chain. What about yours.
THE SPURS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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SAN ANTONIO -- Winning a Game 7 in the NBA Finals against Larry Brown's unsinkable Detroit Pistons is not the toughest thing these San Antonio Spurs have tried to do.
This is the team, after all, that domesticated Eva Longoria.
Then again ...
This?
Maybe Eva was easier.
Allen Einstein/Getty Images
Finals MVP Tim Duncan overpowered the Pistons with 25 points in Game 7.
Someone said going in that this would be the Spurs' hardest-ever Finals ... and it wound up being harder than that. To win Title No. 3 of the Duncan Era -- to finally KO the NBA's undisputed resiliency champs -- San Antonio needed more than a second-half resurrection from nine points down.
More than copious doses of a rejuvenated Tim Duncan.
San Antonio had to win this series three times.
That allegedly insurmountable 2-0 lead wasn't nearly enough. The emotional dagger of a Game 5 steal on Detroit's floor, delivered by a textbook Robert Horry special, didn't do it either.
The Spurs had to rally for an 81-74 triumph in a Game 7 that even their fulcrum, Duncan, wasn't sure they could win (at home!). The game's most reliable inside force -- dubbed "the ultimate winner" by vanquished Suns coach Mike D'Antoni in the West finals -- continues to give us reasons to believe that he's perhaps the most fragile superstar this game has ever seen.
"They were more confident in me than I was," Duncan said of his teammates.
Yet it turns out that the unwavering belief was plenty justified. This wasn't a slam-dunk of the naysayers -- like that 37-point, 16-board assault Duncan hung on the Lakers in a Game 6 two years ago to halt L.A.'s three-peat -- but No. 21 was better than his numbers on this night. His between-games body language didn't look too inspiring, and a stretch of nearly 14 minutes without a point was rather alarming, but the smooth look of his free-throw stroke (when we saw it, at last, in the third quarter) should tell you where his head was for this one.
Right on.
Most Playoff Games In Single Season
Team Games W-L
'04-05 Pistons 25 15-10
'93-94 Knicks 25 14-11
'02-03 Spurs 24 16-8
'92-93 Suns 24 13-11
'87-88 Lakers 24 15-9
Don't be deceived by the 27 shots Duncan needed to get his 25 points. While it took him more than two quarters and some serious Detroit foul trouble to get going, don't forget that Duncan got no help for ages. The Pistons' points were coming much easier than the hosts' for a half. The Spurs looked afraid to shoot from the perimeter and literally got nothing on the run. Detroit controlled the tempo so completely that San Antonio went to intermission with zero fast-break points.
After coach Gregg Popovich said beforehand that a slow pace would be "instant death."
Death was averted in the third quarter, but not instantly. Rasheed Wallace picked up his fourth foul just 51 seconds into the half, and yet the stubborn Pistons somehow stretched their lead to 48-39, looking like the unsinkables they've been for so long. Looking like they were destined to become the first team in Finals history to win Game 6 and Game 7 on the road.
SAN ANTONIO -- Winning a Game 7 in the NBA Finals against Larry Brown's unsinkable Detroit Pistons is not the toughest thing these San Antonio Spurs have tried to do.
This is the team, after all, that domesticated Eva Longoria.
Then again ...
This?
Maybe Eva was easier.
Allen Einstein/Getty Images
Finals MVP Tim Duncan overpowered the Pistons with 25 points in Game 7.
Someone said going in that this would be the Spurs' hardest-ever Finals ... and it wound up being harder than that. To win Title No. 3 of the Duncan Era -- to finally KO the NBA's undisputed resiliency champs -- San Antonio needed more than a second-half resurrection from nine points down.
More than copious doses of a rejuvenated Tim Duncan.
San Antonio had to win this series three times.
That allegedly insurmountable 2-0 lead wasn't nearly enough. The emotional dagger of a Game 5 steal on Detroit's floor, delivered by a textbook Robert Horry special, didn't do it either.
The Spurs had to rally for an 81-74 triumph in a Game 7 that even their fulcrum, Duncan, wasn't sure they could win (at home!). The game's most reliable inside force -- dubbed "the ultimate winner" by vanquished Suns coach Mike D'Antoni in the West finals -- continues to give us reasons to believe that he's perhaps the most fragile superstar this game has ever seen.
"They were more confident in me than I was," Duncan said of his teammates.
Yet it turns out that the unwavering belief was plenty justified. This wasn't a slam-dunk of the naysayers -- like that 37-point, 16-board assault Duncan hung on the Lakers in a Game 6 two years ago to halt L.A.'s three-peat -- but No. 21 was better than his numbers on this night. His between-games body language didn't look too inspiring, and a stretch of nearly 14 minutes without a point was rather alarming, but the smooth look of his free-throw stroke (when we saw it, at last, in the third quarter) should tell you where his head was for this one.
Right on.
Most Playoff Games In Single Season
Team Games W-L
'04-05 Pistons 25 15-10
'93-94 Knicks 25 14-11
'02-03 Spurs 24 16-8
'92-93 Suns 24 13-11
'87-88 Lakers 24 15-9
Don't be deceived by the 27 shots Duncan needed to get his 25 points. While it took him more than two quarters and some serious Detroit foul trouble to get going, don't forget that Duncan got no help for ages. The Pistons' points were coming much easier than the hosts' for a half. The Spurs looked afraid to shoot from the perimeter and literally got nothing on the run. Detroit controlled the tempo so completely that San Antonio went to intermission with zero fast-break points.
After coach Gregg Popovich said beforehand that a slow pace would be "instant death."
Death was averted in the third quarter, but not instantly. Rasheed Wallace picked up his fourth foul just 51 seconds into the half, and yet the stubborn Pistons somehow stretched their lead to 48-39, looking like the unsinkables they've been for so long. Looking like they were destined to become the first team in Finals history to win Game 6 and Game 7 on the road.
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