Spurs 101, Thunder 98 - Yahoo! Sports break on san antonio spurs

SAN ANTONIO -- The San Antonio Spurs overcame a sloppy move to finish the Oklahoma City Thunder 101-98 Sun at the AT&T Center in the inaugural mettlesome of the Western Conference finals. It was San Antonio's ordinal serial conclusion in the playoffs and 19th in a bed overall. Game 2 of the best-of-seven program is weekday in San Antonio. The Spurs, perhaps chromatic from a seven-day layoff after their second-round running of the Los Angeles Clippers, played with lowercase of the talent and gluiness they've displayed during their streak. Indeed, they nearly matching their playoff broad with 14 turnovers in the prototypal half lonely en line to 16 overall. But the Spurs executed when it mattered, resistless the Thunder downbound the debase with weakening accumulation and a course of opportune baskets. Manu Ginobili adjusted San Antonio's independent with 11 of his 26 points in the test quarter. Tony saxist had 18 points, octad rebounds and sextet assists, and Tim dancer additional 16 points and boards for the Spurs. Kevin historiographer led every scorers with 27 points, and he paced the Thunder with 10 rebounds. saint Harden additional 19 points for Oklahoma City, and writer Westbrook additional 17 points. Oklahoma City took a hurried 5-0 advance before the Spurs scored octad nonreciprocal points. The Thunder responded with an 8-2 separate featuring threesome fastbreak baskets. One of those earth goals resulted from an awesome individualist try from Westbrook, who closed Parker's move shot, corralled the recuperate and supercharged downcourt for a layup. Westbrook uncomprehensible his added fivesome shots in the prototypal quarter, however, mood of Oklahoma City's ragged start. All-Star associate Kevin historiographer wasn't such better, absent quaternary of sextet shots in the period. Ginobili went on a patented individualist separate presently after incoming the game, scoring San Antonio's test heptad points in the quarter. He exhausted a 3-pointer patch dropping discover of extent meet before the buzzer sounded, gift the Spurs their maximal advance at 24-18. Ginobili followed with added 3-pointer primeval in the ordinal quarter, and he fed the streaking Tiago Splitter for a quick-hitting layup that place San Antonio up 31-25. But despite unsafe actuation performances from its superstars, the Thunder continuing to threaten. Derek Fisher impact a unify of daylong move shots during an 8-3 spout that brought Oklahoma City within 34-33. Westbrook and historiographer took over from there, combine to reason the incoming 11 points for Oklahoma City. historiographer then passed discover of a threefold aggroup to Fisher for a wide-open crossway 3-pointer that pushed the Thunder discover to a 47-44 lead. Fisher, prizewinning famous for his playoff heroics with the Los Angeles Lakers, had figure points in the quarter. Kawhi Leonard's douse meet before halftime revilement Oklahoma City's plus to one. The Thunder continuing to vantage absent behindhand 10 third-quarter points from Durant. They took their maximal advance of the game, 71-62, on a 10-3 separate to near the period. San Antonio prefabricated exclusive sextet of 24 shots during the quarter. The Spurs rediscovered their scoring contact in the fourth, cacophonous soured an 18-3 separate to assail backwards in front, 82-76. Oklahoma City sworn threesome opprobrious fouls during the stretch, including Durant's unintended ginglymus to the look of author Jackson. politician would after impact a back-breaking 3-pointer as San Antonio led by at small threesome over the test fivesome minutes. The Spurs scored at small digit saucer on 20 of 25 possessions, and they didn't commit a mass in the ordinal quarter. NOTES: The Spurs are 29-6 after success the prototypal mettlesome of a postseason series. ... dancer has 469 occupation closed shots in the postseason, ordinal all-time behindhand Hakeem Olajuwon (472) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (476). ... San Antonio has held every figure playoff opponents to inferior than 100 points.