fine, whatever

Estoy decididamente más enfocado en lifestyle que en deporte en WERNER, pero esto amerita. (Nota: en función de esto voy a decorar este post con fotos de Eva Longoria, novia de Tony Parker, más que con fotos de negros traspirados.)

Anoche los Spurs quedaron eliminados en Overtime, pasaron de ronda los Dallas Mavericks en lo que fue una final de Conferencia anticipada.

No es para preocuparse, el equipo tenía calibre de título pero le faltaron piernas. Para el año que viene seguramente agreguen jugadores jóvenes energéticos, un poco más de tamaño (los pivots no sirven para nada) y puedan competir de nuevo por ser campeones.


Dice ESPN:

Eva Longoria's season ended Sunday night as scheduled.

Tony Parker's ended Monday night, five wins short of the NBA Finals.

So what's next for the San Antonio Spurs?

Disappointed as they are to fail in their bid for back-to-back championships -- again -- I wouldn't expect the Spurs to turn desperate.

It was the third time since 1999 that San Antonio's title defense didn't last beyond Round 2, but the Spurs still have a three-man core to envy. Tim Duncan is 30. Manu Ginobili is 29. Parker in 24. As a trio, they combined for 88 points in San Antonio's Game 7 defeat.

So let's hold off on the idea that the Spurs' window is closing.

It's only the group around those three that has to change, with a skilled management team in place to make the changes. Remembering that they've managed to reload around Duncan more than once since the first title in '99, you figure that the Spurs will find the youth, athleticism and rebounding they need in the off-season to keep up with the West's fast movers: Dallas and Phoenix.

Besides . . .

It's not like the Spurs were overwhelmed by the team from North Texas that has made this rivalry more heated than ever.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich made the concession early in the series that he had to shelve his big men and play small ball to stay with the Mavs and he didn't miss by much. The teams split two games decided by a single point and the Mavs won both games that went to overtime.

"Maybe it was Dallas' year," Parker said.

-- Marc Stein at the AT&T Center in San Antonio