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Oklahoma City represents the Spurs biggest potential failings in the playoffs, and not just because they were that last year. The Spurs offense is predicated on using intelligence, design, and ball movement to free up as much possible room to create the best opportunities to succeed. At the professional level, every sport is a game of inches, and San Antonio gets the most inches. But Oklahoma City has the athleticism,…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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,…
The big drama heading into tonight’s game against the Wizards was who would play for the Spurs. After yesterday’s 2OT game in Toronto, there was much speculation that Pop would sit one or more of the big three. This is a totally understandable thought, especially considering Pop’s penchant for doing such a thing. I had a hunch that everybody would play, though; you have an 0-11 team down their franchise…
You could see the ugliness coming. Early start in Toronto, two things that have historically boded poorly for the Spurs. Throw in a pesky Raptors team that is better than their record indicates, and this game had sloppy, frenetic, disjointed, and ugly written all over it. Since we (mercifully) got the win, let’s focus on some of the good things from this game: –Boris Diaw showed a rare offensive aggression,…
Much like Manu, when the final buzzer sounded, I wondered how in the hell the Spurs had pulled out the victory. We couldn’t hit a three to save our lives, we couldn’t get a rebound or a convincing stretch of stops against a middling Pacers offense, and we couldn’t get much rhythm going on offense. What we did have is what we seemingly always have had, and where we’ve turned…
