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I’ve said this before, and it bears repeating, especially given the Spurs amazingly difficult early season schedule: games are not played in a vacuum. Yes, these NBA teams travel in luxury most of us can not even dream about, and have not a professional care in the world outside of playing a game for a few hours every couple of days. But I would challenge anybody to traverse 4 time…
Ugh. Just ugh. Everything about this game (save for Tim Duncan) was pure ugh. “Ugh” as in one great play followed by two terrible ones followed by a head-scratching one followed by a lucky one. “Ugh” as in losing complete control of the game, clawing our way back in, seemingly taking control, and then giving it all away again at the end. “Ugh” as in Danny Green stupidly fouling on…
Sometimes you just get these random games on these random nights when not much makes sense and the game is just fun as hell to watch, and nothing would really shock you. Tony Parker recording his first triple double? Sure, why not. Asik and Lin having career nights? OK. Duncan getting into early foul trouble, barely playing the 3rd quarter, and the Spurs surging without him? That sounds about right….
Sometimes numbers don’t lie. –19 made 3-pointers, at a 56% clip (a franchise record); –38 assists, a season high (eclipsing last night’s previous season high), on 50 made baskets; –Yes, 76% of our baskets were assisted; –56% shooting overall; –No player over 26 minutes, none under 12. After playing a near-perfect offensive game against Houston last night, many of us wondered what would happen if we played with the precision…
James Harden is a good player. Really good. Perhaps even great. But he’s not good enough to beat the Spurs alone. And even though the score remained relatively close through three and a half quarters, the Spurs were never really in jeopardy of losing this one, because Harden was the only Rocket doing anything positive on the floor. This was most apparent at the beginning of the second quarter. Harden…
Tonight’s game against Milwaukee had “Trap Game!” written all over it. Coming off a long road trip, then a huge home game against a divisional rival, followed by 3 days off, a little letdown was bound to happen. Throw in 4 key injuries, a non-Conference opponent, and a big home-and-home against another Divisional rival coming up, and the Bucks had a real chance to steal this one. And for 3…
And what a doozy we got tonight in San Antonio between the Grizzlies and the Spurs. The Grizzlies are one of those teams that is utterly frightening to play, as you feel like you really have no advantage against them, and they are just so damn physical, every game becomes a street fight. We beat them 4 times last year, and it still feels like we have no chance in…
“In David Stern’s mind, the answer is to substitute the absolute authority of one man for that of another.” And like that, the hammer of the league came down upon the Spurs from on high. In this day and age, every story is dissected a million times before it even touches the ground. There are a lot of smart, funny, and reasoned (and not so reasoned) takes out there. I…
Dear God, I don’t even know where to begin. It’s going to be difficult to write this without a ton of emotion, so I am not even gonna try. First off, I am just tickled pink right now. I think that was the most beautiful loss I have ever seen. I tend to tweet a bunch of BS during Spurs games, but one thing I stand by: I’d be ashamed…
As advanced statistics and metrics have made their way into the NBA, some very simple (and self-obvious) things have become known to the masses: 3-pointers (particularly from the corner) are efficient shots, especially when wide-open; so are shots in the paint; long 2-point jump shots are the least efficient shot in basketball. So we could argue that an efficient offensive team would get most of its points from the paint,…
