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 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.
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.
For us it's good, because he's a great player, but we don't have much to do with it. It didn't hurt me. I said it after the game. But the league (watches) everything we do.
I felt better, no doubt. It wasn't that hard to feel better than Game 3 and Game 4.
We are feeling good about ourselves. But the playoffs are a whole different thing. The atmosphere changes in one second.
I admire him probably the same way I did with (Michael) Jordan, ... But the difference was he was representing me with the Argentine jersey. That changes everything.
He was very important for them. He was getting blocks, rebounding, and intimidating.
I came to the arena with a jacket on, so I didn't know if I was going to play or not. But I convinced (coach Gregg Popovich) to let me play. I thought that it was really important to get some confidence back.
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.
When our masseuse took care of Nash ... I requested to her that she tighten his leg, and twist him hard.... Just joking, obviously.
There is a big difference playing with or without Shaq.
We made a couple of good shots and we stops throughout the third quarter. We got it going there for a while and that was the difference in the game.
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.
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.