CHICAGO -- It wasnt that they finally lost a road game and had their shot at a
record dashed.
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bothered the San Antonio Spurs was the disturbingly slow start.Dwyane Wade
scored 20 points and the Chicago Bulls handed the Spurs their first road loss
after a 13-0 start, hanging for a 95-91 victory on Thursday night.San Antonio
fell one win shy of matching the NBAs best road start set by the Golden State
Warriors last season. The Spurs cut an 18-point deficit midway through the third
quarter to four in the closing minutes, only to come up short.Streaks are a good
sign when theyre positive and theyre a bad sign when theyre negative, but at the
end of the day, it doesnt give you anything else, said Pau Gasol, the former
Bull.Hes more concerned that the Spurs keep struggling early in games. It could
be San Antonio is still adjusting after a busy offseason that included the
retirement of Tim Duncan and the addition of several new faces to complement
Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge. Even so, the Spurs need that to change.Our
opponents have outplayed us physically and execute-wise in most first halves for
most of the season, and somehow we pull it together in the second half and play
harder and smarter than we did in the first half, coach Gregg Popovich said. We
got it to four, then some execution mistakes. Thats the disappointing part, that
were not a very consistent team and we havent learned as a group the game is 48
minutes.Leonard scored 24 for San Antonio. Patty Mills added 16 points, hitting
4 of 6 3-pointers. Gasol had 13 points and 10 rebounds in his first game in
Chicago since signing with San Antonio in the summer, but the Spurs lost a road
game for the first time since Oklahoma City knocked them out in the Western
Conference semifinals last season.Jimmy Butler scored all of his 13 points for
Chicago in the second half. Rajon Rondo added 12 points, nine assists and 10
rebounds, and Chicago picked up the win after dropping three in a row and six of
nine.The Bulls have beaten two of the NBAs best teams in the past week in the
Spurs and defending champion Cleveland. But they also lost to Denver, the Los
Angeles Lakers, Dallas and Detroit during this slump.Its a long season, Wade
said. We have time to fix it. We could play with good teams in this league home
or road, but we still have time to fix that. As long as we understand what we
need to do, what we have 60 games left, whatever it is, we have a lot of games
to fix that so hopefully we can.STREAK ENDSThe Spurs had won 14 straight regular
season road games since Denver beat them on April 8. But after a big push down
the stretch, they couldnt pull out this one.The Bulls led 65-47 midway through
the third following a surge by Butler, who scored seven in a 54-second span
after missing his first six shots. But the Spurs jumped back into it in the
closing minutes of the quarter.They went on an 11-2 run that Mills finished with
a 3 to cut it to 72-66 just under a minute into the fourth.Things got real tight
when Gasol nailed a 3 to pull San Antonio within 88-84 with 3:24 left. Doug
McDermott then hit three free throws after being fouled by Tony Parker, and the
Bulls hung on.WELCOME BACKGasol spent two seasons with Chicago and forgot for a
moment where to go when he arrived at the United Center. The six-time All-Star
was halfway to the Chicago locker room when he realized his mistake and turned
around. The Bulls showed a video tribute to Gasol during a timeout midway
through the first quarter.TIP-INSSpurs: Parker had eight points and five assists
after missing a game because of a bruised left knee. ... For the second straight
game, the Spurs set a season low for first-quarter scoring. They had 17 points
after managing 19 at Minnesota on Tuesday night.Bulls: McDermott scored eight
points after being sidelined because of a concussion since Nov. 12. ... Butler
had scored 20 or more in 15 consecutive games, the longest streak by a Bulls
player since Michael Jordan did it in 24 straight during the 1995-96 season.UP
NEXTSpurs: Host Brooklyn on Saturday night.Bulls: Host Miami on Saturday night.
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was playing. Except that Graeme McDowell saw the whole thing. Crouched behind
the 10th green at Sheshan International, McDowell looked over at the powerful
American and said, "Ive probably seen 18 of the best drives Ive seen all year in
the last two days.
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. They had already blown a double-digit lead, fans were hitting the exits, and a
long seven-game road trip waited at the end. ICC chairman Shashank Manohar has
said the revival of bilateral cricket is in the hands of the members boards,
because bilateral cricket does not fall under the jurisdiction of crickets
international governing body. The idea of two tiers in Tests was put forward by
Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa, Manohar said, and it was up to the
members to decide what to do about it.I can tell as a fact, this issue [two
tiers] was raised by Cricket South Africa and Cricket Australia, and came up at
the Chief Executives Committee (CEC) meeting in Edinburgh, Manohar told the
Indian Express. Being the chairman of the ICC, I dont attend the CEC meetings,
but I was specifically called for this agenda item. I said at the meeting that
the ICC is not empowered to look into this because these bilateral rights are
rights belonging to home boards and its for them to decide what to do. The ICC
has nothing to say in this. This matter cant be deliberated on the ICC
platform.Haroon Lorgat, CEO of Cricket South Africa and former ICC CEO, had
similarly told ESPNcricinfo that it was the responsibility of the member boards
and not the ICC to ensure bilateral cricket is in good health. Technically, the
ICC is only in charge of organising ICC events like the World Cup, World T20,
Champions Trophy and Intercontinental Cup.While revamps of bilateral cricket
were being debated, Manohar said it remained equally important to pinpoint the
basis of Test crickets attendance problems. He said he felt it largely came down
to the many options todays fans have inside and outside of the game. I said at
the [CEC] meeting that the decline in crowd attendance for Test matches is not
because theres no content. What should be done is a survey. You should find out
why the popularity of Test cricket has diminished.For that you will have to
interview people who watch T20 games or ODI games. Because there the stadiums
are full, so those people are interested in watching the game of cricket.In
earlier days, there were only about five Tests in two years time. There was no
television. So people used to go and stadiums used to be full. But today, for
all 365 days, theres somee game going on somewhere in the world.
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can watch a game of cricket anytime, any day. So why would a person waste seven
hours for five days, from 10am-5pm? All these things had been argued at the
meeting.Manohar also offered specific numbers on the budget for the Champions
Trophy 2017 to be hosted in England, saying the BCCIs claim that it was three
times that of the budget allocated to this years World T20 hosted in India was
false. Thats not factually correct. The budget for the World T20 2016, including
the television production cost, was $55,084,116. The budget for the Champions
Trophy 2017, including television production cost, is $46,781,507.Yes, there
were more matches and teams at the World T20 2016 compared to what will be there
for the Champions Trophy. But the Champions Trophy games are full-day games and
the accommodation and travel cost in the UK are substantially higher that what
they were in India.After replacing N Srinivasan as ICC chairman in November
2015, Manohar had stated his intent to end the imbalance of power at the ICC
caused by the constitutional revamp of 2014 - the Big Three episode. Now he
reiterated his commitment to the international governing body over the BCCI, of
which he was president till May. Today Im unconnected with any particular member
of the ICC, he said. Im the independent ICC chairman, so I have to look at the
best interests of the ICC. Its for the BCCI representative to look after the
best interests of the BCCI.When asked if the BCCIs views did not deserve special
attention at the ICC level given it is the biggest contributor to world cricket
financially, Manohar said: I dont agree with this. Then, why the same logic
shouldnt apply to the BCCI? There are 30 state associations [in India], why
shouldnt somebody have a veto power? For example, Mumbai generates the highest
revenue but does that mean that they should have a veto power on the BCCI
decisions? Institutions function in a democratic manner and decisions are taken
by the majority.
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