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
We know that these two teams ... you can't stop playing for four or five minutes. It's a big mistake.
The Pistons demonstrated tonight that they are a better team than us right now. We still have to improve on things and we are not the team that we want to be right now.
It is tough, but we can't use that as an excuse for what happened tonight. Every team in the league has to do it. Our mind-set just wasn't right tonight and we didn't come out the right way. The whole team struggled tonight, especially at the beginning of the game.
It's important for me to start but even more important is that I feel the same way as a backup coming off the bench. You have to contribute any way you can. I try to do the best I can for the team and bring energy.
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.
My teammates were very supportive. Then I just calmed down a little.
It has happened so many times that teams without their best player really step up and start playing better. It doesn't mean that it was automatic with Steve not playing that we were going to blow them out.
There are moments where we forgot what got us to where we are now. ... We stopped moving the ball. We know how it works. We are playing a great team with great players, and we've got to be close to perfect to win.
It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship
I just try to do what I do best, contribute to my team.
Probably if Ron is there, I score less points. But then somebody else is going to go off, like Tony (Parker) did in Game 1. We're confident in our scoring. We know how to move the ball and find the open man.
We played the whole playoff thinking they were not shooters.
That's three great shooters that can change the game in couple of minutes. We're going to be dangerous. It's going to be good as long as we are smart, we keep the aggressiveness for 48 minutes and everybody thinks for the better of the team.
I was playing like my head wasn't ready after what happened on Friday.