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Like most players in tonight’s game, I haven’t really participated in any meaningful NBA action in almost a week, so let’s ease our way back into the first post-vacation game with a simple “bullet points” recap: –After a week off, tonight’s game looked it. Lots of energy, lots of rust. The Spurs played well, and are just a much better team than the Kings. At any given point, they could…
In a game that had no rhythm, little sense, and miniscule long-term meaning, perhaps the most indelible image of the season was born. All Spurs fans love Kawhi Leonard. He is all promise and hope, a cornerstone of the future, and to date, he has delivered on every tantalizing possibility, brought along slowly in the long shadows of titans and legends. Not a lot is asked of him beyond his…
Whoa. What a fun win. It’s always great when the ‘kids’ win and play great to boot. Too much going on, we’re going straight to the bullet points: –Some insane numbers from the box score: The Bulls outrebounded the Spurs 49-26, with 17 offensive rebounds. That’s insane. They also held an 18-2 second chance point edge. However, the Spurs won the turnover battle 19-8, and scored 29 points on turnovers,…
After giving up 35 points in the first quarter to the Nets, bringing the total to 5 really bad defensive quarters in a row, it seemed like a fait accompli that the Spurs were about to get run out of the building. And given that our best defensive player and anchor was out of the game, and our second best playmaker and offensive spark was also missing, could you really…
Last night’s loss to the Pistons was a long time coming. The team hadn’t been playing great for a while, but had been getting wins mostly by executing down the stretch and playing passable to good defense in stretches. But missing 2 of your 3 most important players, you’re going to lose some games, particularly on the road in February in the middle of a blizzard against a team that…
Another night, another ugly win. Showing no real predilection to win this game–other than Danny Green’s barrage of 3-pointers, obviously–it was an old friend that helped us finally pull away in the closing minutes: execution. With the game tighter than it should be and no team willing to seize control, the Spurs were able to generate several shots that were either wide open, at the rim, or both. The Timberwolves,…
Not much about this game matters beyond the extent of Duncan’s injuries, but we’ll discuss it just the same. The first half was incredibly efficient and beautiful Spurs’ basketball, even after the injury. In fact, the team went on a tear after the injury. Scoring 51 points and holding the other team to 26 is just incredible. Everybody was playing hard, the defense was completely locked in, and we were…
In the midst of two games in 10 days, both at home, before the Rodeo Road Trip, against the dregs of the Eastern Conference, tonight’s opponent was less the Charlotte Bobcats and more lethargy. And while the opponent put up a good fight, the Spurs strung together enough better than decent minutes to get a pretty comfortable win. Charlotte played hard, but they are just young and not very good….
It isn’t always pretty and it isn’t always easy. Mired in a slogfest late in the 3rd quarter, trailing a team they would handle easily on most nights, and looking like a collection of players just going through a set of motions they’ve been trained in for decades with no real enthusiasm, Manu drove down the lane past his defender, Shannon Brown. It was a play we’ve seen a hundred…
In coach Bud’s in-game interview, when asked what the team does in the absence of Pop and Duncan, and with Parker out injured, he gave an illustrative quote as to why the Spurs continue to be so successful year after year: we try to stick with the system. Over the last half decade, more than anything else, that has been the key to this team’s continued stay at or near…
