SPORTS
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Green, Parker help Spurs
rally to beat Trail Blazers
By RAUL DOMINGUEZ
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — In the
midst of another dispirited effort,
San Antonio coach Gregg Popo-
vich decided not to yell at the
Spurs — and they responded as
he hoped.
Danny Green and Tony Parker
each had 18 points and San
Antonio overcame another list-
less first half to beat the Portland
Trail Blazers 110-94 on Friday
night.
“Sometimes I go crazy,
sometimes I decide to just sit and
let them figure it out,” Popovich
said. “It just depends on how I’m
feeling, how I think the game
might go, or who’s on the court
at the time. Tonight, I wanted
them to see what was going on
for themselves. They did a good
job of it.”
The Spurs won their ninth
game after trailing by 10-plus
points, falling behind by 13 in the
first half against the Trail Blazers.
San Antonio forward Kawhi
Leonard sat out his second
straight game with a stomach
virus and Portland point guard
Damian Lillard missed his third
consecutive game with an injured
left ankle.
Even when Leonard has
played, the Spurs’ first-half
struggles have made things diffi-
cult. San Antonio is at a loss to
understand why that is.
“I don’t know,” Parker said.
“If I knew, I would not do it. No
idea.”
Despite the struggles, the
Spurs have won four straight and
13 of 15.
San Antonio had another slug-
gish first half, trailing by double
digits for 12 minutes and falling
behind by 13 points midway
through the second quarter. Port-
land forced 14 turnovers and shot
51 percent from the field through
two quarters.
“We’ve got to do a better
job of coming out with more
of an edge to the game,” said
Spurs center Pau Gasol, who
finished with 10 points and seven
rebounds. “Teams know we’ve
been having the slow starts and
they play with confidence. Then
AP Photo/Eric Gay
San Antonio Spurs guard Patty Mills, center, is defended by
Portland Trail Blazers’ Evan Turner, front, and Allen Crabbe,
rear, during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Fri-
day, in San Antonio. San Antonio won 110-94.
San Antonio
Portland
110
94
scoring a season high.
“Today their strategy obvi-
ously was they were not going
to let LaMarcus go off,” Parker
said. “In the last two games
LaMarcus has been scoring a lot
and been playing unbelievable.
That’s their strategy and other
guys stepped up.”
TIP-INS
Trail Blazers: Lillard missed
his third straight game after
playing in the team’s first 32.
He leads the team in scoring
with 27.0 points and in assists
at 6.2 per game. ... Portland
entered Friday allowing 111.5
points per game and 38 percent
on 3-pointers, which are both
28th in the league. ... F/C Mason
Plumlee had his streak of two
straight double-doubles stopped.
Plumlee had eight points and five
rebounds.
Spurs: Green has 33 games
with at least five 3-pointers, the
most in franchise history. ... San
Antonio finished 2016 at 66-15,
its most successful calendar year
in franchise history. ... The Spurs
are 13-0 when Parker scores in
double figures.
UP NEXT
Trail Blazers: At Minnesota
on Sunday night.
Spurs: At Atlanta on Sunday
night.
we turn it up and win games, but
it’s something we need to keep in
mind going forward so that it’s
not something that is repetitive
or too repetitive.”
C.J. McCollum finished with
29 points for Portland. Maurice
Harkless and Allen Crabbe were
the only others in double figures,
with Harkless finishing with 12,
and Crabbe 11.
The Trail Blazers shot 43
percent in the third quarter after
shooting 51 percent in the first
half.
Spurs reserve Manu Ginobi-
li’s second 3-pointer with 3:49
remaining in the third quarter
gave San Antonio a 69-67 lead,
its first since holding an 11-8
edge 3 minutes into the game.
San Antonio had seven
3-pointers in the second half
to win their seventh straight at
home.
LaMarcus Aldridge was
held to eight points on 2-for-3
shooting, but Jonathon Simmons
added 19 points for the Spurs.
Green had six 3-pointers in
East Oregonian
Page 3B
Seahawks seek bye, while 49ers
head into uncertain offseason
top of the league has lost its luster.
The Niners have just 15 wins the
past three seasons and have had few
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The games with any meaning.
“I think you do miss that,” Bennett
Seattle Seahawks are stumbling into
the playoffs instead of peaking as said. “That game was built around
the same type of team. A running
usual at this time of year.
With three losses in the past five quarterback, a great defense and it
games, the Seahawks (9-5-1) head was just a fun game to play in because
into Sunday’s season finale at San you had to match the intensity of the
Francisco (2-13) needing a win and other team.”
R U N N I N G
some help in order to
RAWLS:
Seattle
secure a first-round
expects running back
bye .
Thomas Rawls to
Coach
Pete
Carroll’s
teams
Seattle
San Francisco play after he left last
49ers
Saturday’s game with
usually are at their Seahawks
(9-5-1)
(2-13)
a bruised shoulder
best down the stretch,
and did not return in
winning five straight • Sunday, 1:25p.m.
the second half. After
to end 2012, nine of • At San Francisco
two lackluster weeks
11 in 2013, six in a
on the ground, Seattle
row in 2014 and six
of seven last year to surge into the would like to get back to the run
game it had for most of November
postseason.
“When you lose, you can’t look at and the early part of December when
what people are writing, you just have the Seahawks were averaging more
to believe in your teammates and than 140 yards per game during that
believe in the organization and the stretch.
Seattle was held to 72 yards
coaches,” defensive lineman Michael
Bennett said. “I think everyone in rushing two weeks ago by Los
this organization believes that we can Angeles and had just 78 yards last
win a Super Bowl and believes that week against Arizona.
KAP’S FINALE: After restruc-
we can win the playoff games. That’s
all that really matters. It doesn’t turing his contract earlier this season,
really matter about everything else.” San Francisco quarterback Colin
The 49ers can only wish to have Kaepernick can opt to become a free
problems like the Seahawks. San agent after the season. That would
Francisco snapped a franchise-record make Sunday his final game with
13-game losing streak by winning San Francisco, capping a career
22-21 last week in Los Angeles, and that began with a Super Bowl trip
need another win Sunday to avoid his first season as a starter in 2012.
tying the franchise record for losses After going to the NFC title game the
in a season reached in 1978, ‘79 and following year and losing to Seattle,
Kaepernick’s career plummeted. He
2004.
Instead of gearing up for the was benched last year and started this
playoffs, the 49ers are headed into year as a backup, getting more notice
another offseason of uncertainty for his national anthem protest than
with questions about the job security his play on the field.
“My focus once again is this
of general manager Trent Baalke
and coach Chip Kelly, and a roster week and making sure that I’m doing
overhaul expected as the Niners look everything I can to prepare and to try
to help my teammates prepare this
to rebound.
“You know there’s going to be week to get a win, and I think that’s
some kind of change,” Niners left where this whole team’s focus is,”
tackle Joe Staley said. “That’s how it Kaepernick said.
WAGNER’S RECORD: Seattle
is. All you can concern yourself with
is doing your job and holding up your middle linebacker Bobby Wagner
has already set a franchise record for
end of the bargain.”
Here are some other things to tackles in a single-season with 155.
He also leads Sean Lee of Dallas by
watch:
RUSTY
RIVALRY:
What 10 for the NFL lead in tackles going
was one of the NFL’s most-heated into the season finale. Wagner said
rivalries just a few years ago when one of his goals before the season
Jim Harbaugh had the 49ers going was to lead the league in tackles.
“I thought I was around the ball
to three straight NFC title games
and the Seahawks were also at the a lot, now I feel like I’m around the
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AP Sports Writer
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