Morning Bell – 11.10.09

Posted by on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2 Comments

IN THIS ANALOGY

The bat is the Raptors, and Manu is Manu.

BECAUSE

Last night was vintage Manu.

WE’RE TALKING

36 points on 15 shots. 6 for 8 from three.  14 for 16 from the free-throw line.  Plus eight assists, four rebounds, and a steal.

OH

And four blocked shots.  And no personal fouls.

FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF

+21.

THAT’S WHY

The Raptors are the bat.

IN OTHER NEWS

The Knicks had no one to guard Carlos Boozer.

YET

Carlos Boozer remains Carlos Boozer.

SO

That’s weird that no one could guard him.

ALSO

Andrei Kirilenko is a pair of hornrim glasses away from being Marty McFly’s dad.

BIG UP YOURSELF

Manu Ginobili (36/4/8). Steve Nash (21/2/20). Chris Bosh (32/10).  The Warriors (146 points).

CHILL OUT

Brent Barry, with your LFO hair.  Mike D’Antoni, with your running game-winning “plays” for Tony Douglas.  Andrea Bargnani, with your weird pump fake move that was probably a travel.  Juwan Howard.

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Vic De Zen

Manu was incredible. The Raps are my team, and their defense infuriated me, but honestly it was great to see Manu playing like that. Hope he can do it semi-consistently. I just wish he'd started this against a different team, blah.

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john

This is the just the kind of antidote the Spurs needed after the defeat against the Blazers. Much suprisingly without the service of Tim Duncan and Tony Parker. The whole team pull things together to grind out this result.

Happy to see George Hill doing a great job in taking over from Parker. Finally we get to another good reason why RJ is here. Special thanks to both Dice and the rookie Blair for the help they provided in defense.

With this performance, there must a whole lot of confidence going on in the locker room. Let's hope another repeat against the Mavs on Wednesday.

As for Manu....(you may check out my post on Mundo)

Well I must admit that I never thought that this kind of performance from him ever again. I guess my main reason must be based on the fact his body might not be able to take it (when you wear & tear in consideration) after these years of aggresive and hustling game that we're all very much used to see it from him.

Then again, you can't change a person habit that easily. Manu does what he does best and not even another pain from his body will stop him from doing so. And that's why we love him so much, don't we.

THE LEGEND CONTINUES....

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