LOS ANGELES -- Gregg Popovich emerged from his first look at the revamped Los Angeles Lakers with enormous respect for the work of fellow coach Luke Walton.Popovichs veteran San Antonio Spurs also showed Waltons Lakers just how far theyve still got to go.LaMarcus Aldridge scored 23 points and Kawhi Leonard added 23 points and 12 rebounds in the Spurs fifth straight victory Friday night, 116-107 over the Lakers.Tony Parker had 16 points and seven assists for the Spurs, who improved to 7-0 on the road this season. Theyve won six straight over the Lakers, but this back-and-forth victory bore little resemblance to San Antonios regular demolitions of the Lakers over the previous few seasons.Luke has done a great job of making them believe and playing aggressively, and you can really see it, said Popovich, who earned his 1,099th win to pass Larry Brown for seventh place on the NBAs career list. They came back and stuck it to us. ... We got after it and executed better, but I am just so impressed with what (Walton) has done with this group.Pau Gasol scored 16 points in his first trip to Staples Center with the Spurs, who went 18 for 19 at the free throw line to hang on after the Lakers rallied late. Parker hit a clinching 17-foot jumper with 33.6 seconds left.Theyre talented, Parker said of the Lakers. They play hard for Luke. They play with great energy, and they have a lot of pieces. Now its all about chemistry and how theyre going to gel.Lou Williams scored 24 points and Nick Young added 20 for the Lakers, who played without injured leading scorer DAngelo Russell for the first time this season. Los Angeles still kept it close until the final minutes, when Aldridge and Leonard took turns hitting big shots before Parkers big bucket.We cooled off a little bit (in the third quarter), and they just continued to go, which is what they do, Walton said. The important thing to take away is how we come back from this, how we respond.BENCH CHARGEJordan Clarkson scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half while the Lakers rallied. Williams also came off the bench in another enormous game by the teams reserves, who lead the league in bench points per game. Theyll need all that depth: The Lakers began a stretch of 18 games in 30 days with only their third loss in nine games.BIG RALLYThe Spurs blew an early 13-point lead, but took control in the third quarter while making 11 consecutive shots. San Antonio stretched its lead to 91-76 while scoring 39 points in the third quarter on 14-for-19 shooting, but the Lakers chipped it down to four points before succumbing.Last year, we would have been out of this game if we were down by that much, Clarkson said. Were out here to compete every night now. Were not OK with any loss.D-LO OUTRussell has a sore left knee, and the Lakers elected to rest their point guard out of caution. He wont practice Saturday, either. Walton doesnt expect the injury to be a long-term problem, although the Lakers brutal schedule over the next month wont help. The second-year pro leads the Lakers balanced lineup with 16.8 points and 4.7 assists per game.Jose Calderon started in Russells place, scoring five points while playing only 14 minutes.TIP-INSSpurs: Gasol got another warm ovation in Los Angeles, where he won two NBA championships as Kobe Bryants right-hand man in 2009 and 2010. The 7-foot Spaniard was booed late in his Lakers career, but has been welcomed back enthusiastically since his departure as a free agent to Chicago. ... Former USC big man Dewayne Dedmon has a sprained left knee and didnt make the trip with San Antonio.Lakers: Los Angeles recalled center Ivica Zubac from its D-League affiliate, but the rookie didnt dress for this game. ... Lakers rookie Brandon Ingram had a rough night. The No. 2 pick missed his first seven shots before finishing with four points on 1-of-9 shooting.UP NEXTSpurs: A weekend off and a visit from rival Dallas on Monday.Lakers: The homestand continues with a visit from Dwyane Wade and the Chicago Bulls on Sunday night. Cheap Jerseys . After a lengthy wait, persistent rain finally forced the postponement of the Nationals game against the Miami Marlins on Saturday night. The teams, and a few thousand fans, waited nearly four hours from the 7:05 scheduled start time before an announcement was made shortly before 11 p. NCAA Jerseys Wholesale Free Shipping .J. -- Marshawn Lynch said Thursday it will be good to get back to football after the Seattle quiet talking running back wrapped up his final mandatory media session of Super Bowl week. http://www.cheapnfljerseyschinasupply.net/ . 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But every so often in sport and - more rarely - in life, a sudden, drastic shortcut will take you from one state to another in a matter of minutes.Thats how it was in 2005. Yes, I know its the second time Ive brought up 2005 in this series, but thats a reflection of the staggering emotional impact that summer had on English cricket followers. Its hard to explain to anyone whos not English, but Ill have a bash.By the end of the final days play of the final Test, at The Oval, England held the Ashes for the first time in 16 years and 42 days… and every time I see that figure I am once again amazed that it was so short. It felt like an eternity and a half, as if England were doomed to humiliation until the world ended.Thats why the series of 2005 meant such a disproportionate amount to long-term cricket followers in England. Thats why the moment when Steve Harmisons bumper struck Justin Langer in the first over of the series was such a big deal, as Ive already mentioned in this space.Towards the end of that series England were on top but didnt dare to believe it. They had Australia by the throat but couldnt bring themselves to squeeze. They took a fraught 2-1 lead into the last Test at The Oval. Anything but an Australian win would give them the Ashes. But could England dare to stand up to them at the last?Autumnal weather blew in, murky light came with it. A see-sawing match had the teams six runs apart after first innings with England to bat next. Surely nothing could go wrong now…But it did. Of course it did. England collapsed. When any other Test team in the world collapses, England get royalties. At lunch on the last day Australia were still only 133 runs behind with five wickets to get. Kevin Pietersen, controversially brought into the team for the first time at the beginning of the series, was at the crease and had already been dropped twice. It looked dreadful.Surely only the weather could save England. The crowd raised umbrellas to fend off the rain that refused to fall; the Australian cricketers took the field in sunglasses despite the murk. Very jovial, but in sporting terms this was a desperate situation.England needed to bloock for a draw.ddddddddddddPaul Collingwood, their last recognised batsman, was at one end, playing in the series for the first time. And there was Pietersen, batting like a man with his trousers on fire. It was all about to go quite horribly wrong.Pietersens response would have been considered irresponsible in a beer match. Here, with everything depending on barn-door defence, he went nuts and hurled his bat at everything that came his way. Had he got out hed never have been forgiven.But he hit everything. Impossibly, against all precedent, all logic and all good sense, it came off. Brett Lee was bowling at around 95mph. Pietersen took after him as if he was a middle-aged trundler. Michael Vaughan, the England captain, had told him, Play your natural game. But he didnt. Instead he played his unnatural game. In The Iliad, the gods are always intervening in the Trojan War, breathing divine strength into one or other of their favourites so that for a while he fights like an immortal.Thats what it looked like at The Oval that day. It was as if Pietersen had transcended the limitations of the human frame and the human mind. Normal rules were suspended, normal life was put to one side. This was sport as it exists in the mind of a ten-year-old playing cricket with a garage door as his opponent.I have seen many great days of cricket, but all of them have come down to basic dynamics of human opposition - batsman against bowler and fielders against batsmen. There have been passages of play when I have watched players reach out for greatness, and sometimes they even touch it.But this wasnt like that at all. It was as if Pietersen had taken cricket out of humanitys hand and replaced it with something more audacious than we are capable of imagining. And all the while there was Collingwood scoring 10 in 72 minutes, for which he was rightly given an MBE.Pietersen was out for 158, playing for a draw by hitting 15 fours and seven sixes. The match was saved, the series was won. Despair had turned to ecstasy, the impossible had been made actual before our eyes and the Ashes were in English hands again at last.Cricket. 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