12/05/2008 - Denver, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Tony Parker scored 22 points with eight assists and Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili added 21 apiece, as San Antonio pounded Denver, 108-91.
Matt Bonner added 14 points with eight rebounds and Duncan pulled down 12 rebounds with seven assists for the Spurs, who snapped a two-game losing skid.
Carmelo Anthony led a balanced attack with 16 points and Joe Smith notched a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds. Kenyon Martin, along with Nene and Chauncey Billups, donated 12 points apiece for the Nuggets, who saw their three-game winning streak come to an end.
San Antonio held on to a tenuous 30-26 edge after the first period, but took control in the second stanza.
An 11-0 stretch gave the Spurs a comfortable 14-point edge. Ginobili drained a three to start the spurt and George Hill scored the final five points, including a long trey, for the 47-33 edge with 6:05 to play.
San Antonio also scored the final seven points of the half, with Bonner's trey and back-to-back jumpers by Parker, for a 61-41 lead after 24 minutes.
Duncan's slam built San Antonio's edge to 78-55 late in the third stanza, but Denver rallied with a 12-5 stretch to end the period. Martin's slam off an Anthony pass cut the deficit to 83-67 after 36 minutes.
The Spurs were never seriously threatened during the fourth quarter.
Game Notes
San Antonio won for the first time in its last three trips to Denver...San Antonio is 4-4 on the road this season, while Denver dropped to 7-3 at home...San Antonio shot 50 percent from the floor, while Denver made 44.3 percent of its shots...Denver struggled from the charity stripe, making just 14-of-23 attempts...Attendance 15,866.
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Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their “supplements” to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this won’t be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a “truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit.” And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. “The plug-necked yahoos on your team,” you can say, “will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.”
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesn’t focus only on your opponent’s team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Where’s your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, “I’ll try to type slower for you next time.” Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, don’t just conclude by saying your opponent is a “twerp who drafts like my grandmother.” Say that your opponent is a “sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars.” By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You won’t be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, I’m sure, to reply.
In addition to the trash talking, the Sports Alarm has a huge gallery of high resolution pictures of beautiful women and models in bikinis. The most popular models are: Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Underwood, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Paris Hilton.
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