Manu Ginobili
Manu Ginobili
Emanuel David "Manu" Ginóbili Maccariis an Argentine professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. Coming from a family of professional basketball players, he is a member of the Argentine men's national basketball team and the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association. Hailed as one of the finest international players to grace the NBA, he plays a high-tempo and intense game. He is one of only two players, along with Bill Bradley, to...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth28 July 1977
CityBuenos Aires, Argentina
The crazy thing is, we shot 57 percent and beat them in rebounds (40-30) and we still were so close. They are playing great. We really got to respect them and think about playing even better than today.
Whenever you are in a good streak, feeling good about yourself, you like to keep playing. But it's good to have a break after the back-to-back (games). We were kind of tired today, so its good to have a couple of days off.
We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.
It didn't hurt me. But the league makes its own decisions.
We were a little antsy to play the game, but at the same time you want to do too many things in the first minutes.
Our season is starting in a couple of days. The last 10 games, you just wanted the regular season to finish and get ready for the excitement. The atmosphere changes in one second.
They got really close. It could have gone for them, but we had a couple of great plays down the stretch.
They are a very capable team. They have a lot of talent on their team. They want to change what they have done so far and they will want to use the game to turn things around. We have to be careful (Saturday) and get some rest so that we are ready.
They are playing really well, so we are looking forward to playing them. We have the first- and second-best records in the Western Conference, so it is going to be a great game.
There was no time to hesitate, ... I saw Martin coming so I tried to get the ball up high.
Some shots I usually make are not falling in and I'm not feeling that well penetrating, so I'm in a tough moment. But I'm not worried. In 82 games, you're going to have some ups and downs.
Of course they miss a great player in Ron tonight because of his defense, but we scored a lot of points, too. I made the shots that I could in the offense. We move the ball and we really don't care who scores.
I thought they were going to take some time. But Avery's been doing a great job. Everyone knows their roles and they're rolling.
I saw that they were too close, ... He lost control of the ball for a moment. It was a good play by Jack, and I was able to steal it.