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Manu out indefinitely (strained groin muscle)
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:41 pm
by Ballings7
Spurs guard Manu Ginobili suffered a strained muscle in his left groin in Wednesday's home loss to the Phoenix Suns and won't play when the Spurs meet the Seattle SuperSonics on Friday night at the AT&T Center.
Ginobili's status for Sunday's game against the Lakers, in Los Angeles, also is in question.
"I don't know how long he will be out," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said after the Spurs' practice, "but he definitely will be out tomorrow (Friday)."
Popovich said Ginobili suffered the injury immediately after checking into Wednesday's game with 6:40 left in the first quarter. Though he played through some discomfort and returned to the game in the second half, Popovich held him out of the bulk of the fourth quarter when it became apparent the injury was affecting his play.
"He felt something on his very first play of the game last night," Popovich said. "He tried to play on it. The doctors checked him at half and didn't think there was a defect -- just a little bit tight. That's why we started him in the third quarter, while he was still somewhat loose.
"It didn't really get any worse, didn't get any better, so I opted not to play him at all after I took him out early in the fourth quarter."
With the playoffs to begin next weekend, the Spurs will take no chances with Ginobili's health, regardless of the effect his absence might have on the team's potential playoff positioning in the closest Western Conference race in NBA history.
"It's pretty tight," Popovich said, "and I just don't want to take any chances with him."
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/c ... e_gro.html
Okay... that does explain his struggles last night. At least a significant part of it.
Depending when he returns, if it'd be early in the playoffs, him possibly having to get his rhythm back. Regardless, time for Finley to step up and play like he's capable of, and has numerous times this season.
As far as the rest of the schedule? Well, I think we'll win at least two games, and maybe three.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:43 pm
by pro2020
with Ginobili out that Laker game is pretty much a loss, 9 days to the playoffs, I'm sure he's done for the season.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:45 pm
by Blame Rasho
Jeez... this is bad news. WE need Parker and TD to really step up. We have to hope to god that Barry can get some PT and that Finley doesn't suck.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:48 pm
by Magz50
Damn, i knew there was something iffy about Manu he just didn't have his game face on all game. Well at leats we know what the problem was now and i'm not as mad at Pop as i was last night. Let's hope Barry is ready to go.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:50 pm
by Ballings7
Yeah, it's questionable whether Barry will be back at all for the rest of the reg. season...
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:09 pm
by DBMethos
All of our offensive struggles and W/L record are secondary to Manu coming back completely healthy.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:14 pm
by Blame Rasho
DBMethos wrote:All of our offensive struggles and W/L record are secondary to Manu coming back completely healthy.
Yeah... in fact I don't even care what seed we are. We have proven that we can win out in the road before if we are healthy.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:31 pm
by SD2042
That's a significient hit to the Spurs offense. Considering the West is in a tight race. The Spurs can't afford to slip down to the middle of the pack. The Spurs will miss Manu these last few games. Which means the Spurs offense will be effected.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:56 pm
by Tiga
spurs will end up with the 5th seed...or so
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:03 pm
by Blame Rasho
Tiga wrote:spurs will end up with the 5th seed...or so
I want the 4th seed...
WHy? to say that we won the championship as the 1st,2nd,3rd, and 4th seed...
The Drive for five is still alive
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:49 am
by Donald Kaufman
There's something about pulling a groin muscle that sounds slightly...wrong.
This will most likely cost us the 2nd seed. Oh well.
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:22 pm
by Magz50
Actually if we drop down and play houston in the first that would be sweet! lol.
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:28 pm
by nashill
i dont think he is really injured, he's just being rested for the playoffs..???
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:06 pm
by DBMethos
Nah, sounds like it's legit, we just don't know how serious. In any case, it's best to rest him until the playoffs and not worry too much about seeding.
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:00 am
by tuncaboylu
Magz50 wrote:Actually if we drop down and play houston in the first that would be sweet! lol.
Not exaclty. We need to drop down to 5 and we would play with Utah instead of it.
Lkaers captures 2nd place and have a tough test against Dallas.
Defensive minded Houston will test against Phoenix.
And we won't meet against one of them till Western finals.