[JBC77]

Manu Ginobili scored 35 points, shooting 10 for 18 from the floor, in the Spurs' 98-89 victory over the Hornets, as San Antonio pulled even with New Orleans at 37-17. Get a load of how well Ginobili has been playing:

Ginobili, over his last five games, has now scored 172 points, while making 55 of 86 field-goal attempts (64 percent). Only one NBA player since the year 2000 has scored as many points with as high a shooting percentage over any five-game span; that was Shaquille O'Neal, who with the Lakers in March 2002, had a five-game stretch in which he scored 177 points while shooting 69.5 percent from the floor. That's it.

By the way, prior to Shaq, you have to go back to 1996 to find the last such instance of a player scoring and shooting as well as Ginobili over a period of five games. (Hakeem Olajuwon had 172 points and a 65-percent shooting stretch over a five-game span late in the 1995-96 season.)

[Junkyard Dog]

i hate the spurs but he is one of my favorite players

[Data]

Many people underestimate him because he plays off the bench. They think of the Spurs as "Duncan plus the rest of the cast". I think of the Spurs as "Duncan and Ginobili plus the rest of the cast".

[hoopster42]

he needs to pick up the slack with tony parker out. he's playing great