First and foremost, I want to give special commendation to Hawks C Zaza Pachulia, who crammed the game of his life into a single half, pretty much single-handedly rallying the team from a 14-point deficit in the third quarter to get the team back to even entering the 4th. Zaza, scoreless at halftime, had 15 points in the third and finished the game with 23 in a losing effort. He was in attack mode the whole half, getting to the rack again and again for layups and timely putbacks.

Unfortunately, Manu Ginobili struck again, as he had so many times before in this game, and soon the Hawks were back down again. Ginobili was unstoppable in this game, particularly in the second quarter, when he scored a ridiculous 24 straight points for the Spurs. Begrudgingly I will give him credit for his efforts, even though I think he travels more than any player this side of Allen Iverson, and could have been whistled for it five or six times. Also, it continues to amaze me that in the NBA, you can just flail your body into the lane and get a foul call almost every time - though when I think about it, it just makes me wish we did it more often. I mean, if you can't beat em, join em, right?

Here is a photo gallery from the game - I know moral victories are not what we want to get around here, and I am disappointed by the loss, but I still feel like the team made some progress in showing enough backbone to comeback the way they did. Still though, it's time to start turning moral victories into actual ones.

In other news, today is the trading deadline. If anything happens around here, we will let you know. Obviously there have been some rumors, and we know what the team is in need of, but as of now there are no deals that I am aware of.

Check back as the day goes, and we'll see if anything changes.