There goes the "streak": Spurs win 117-99 in San Antonio

Four-time champs' talent, experience and hard work overwhelm Wolves

December 30, 2009 at 6:25AM

That two-game winning "streak" is over, undone by a Spurs team that beat the Wolves for the 10th consecutive time and won for the ninth time in their last 10 games.

I'm going to make this quick because I've got a drive to Austin ahead of me (significantly cheaper than flying into San Antonio. Why? I have no idea) and an early flight back home tomorrow.

Some quick hits:

* Kevin Love fell hard in the third quarter after colliding with Spurs beefy rookie DeJuan Blair.

"He's a big boy," Love said.

Love fell in a heap on the AT&T Center and left the game in pain and holding his side.

He returned to play in the fourth quarter, though, and declared himself "fine" once the pain from a hip stinger subsided.

Said Al Jefferson: "You get kind of panicked when one of your great players go down. You just tell him to get up. Thankfully, he did."

* Manu Ginobili came within one rebound of a triple-double off the bench: 14 points, 10 assists, 9 rebounds. "Quiet," Love said. "He's one of those guys who can be quiet and still do that."

* Kurt Rambis said for all the Spurs' talent and experience, he hopes his team learns this lesson from the four-time NBA champs:

How hard they play.

* Afterward, Jefferson lamented how the Wolves allowed the Spurs to both run away to a 29-19 edge in fast break points and also let them make 12 of 24 threes.

"A lot of people say the Spurs aren't a running team," Jefferson said. "But they ran a lot tonight on us."

Here's the game story from tonight:

I gotta go.

Phil Miller's got tomorrow night's game against Utah at Target Center.

Wolves are going for a perfect 3-0 against the Jazz. Hmmmm, go figure...

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