You might like to read an earlier post called Under the Influence of Jeremy Tyler.

i think coach quinn snyder was a really great college coach and i loved watching his teams at mizzo play. i like how he has adopted the spurs organization as his own but in a lesser degree yet still retains the organizations professionalism. i hope that eventually coach q becomes the spurs coach when pop decides to hang it up and call it a career.

just wait ’til we start recruiting kids out of high school instead of getting them after they have gone to college and learned how not to play the right way. a natural progression but may never happen considering this countries ties to education.

food for thought,

thanks, i love the spurs!

The team has a large number of lineup options. With the age of the squad and the 17 back-to-backs, the team can throw out any number of lineups at any given time.

Tony Parker twisted his ankle and will miss a couple of games? We’ll start George Hill at the point and Manu at the 2.

Manu sitting out the second game of a back-to-back and Tony is still injured? We’ll play Marcus Williams at the point during the game and give George some time off-the-ball at the 2.

Need to go with a small lineup? Tony at the point, George Hill at the 2, Manu at the 3 and Marcus Williams at the 4.

The main takeaway here is that Marcus has opened up more opportunities for himself to get in the game. The Spurs have the flexibility to adapt to virtually any situation the encounter.

Yes, after reading this interview, I’m really hoping that he’d be in the Spurs’ final roster come October, and he’d be given the opportunity to play long.

“I love passing the ball, and we had a bunch of talented guys that made me look good.” It really sounded so weird to hear it from an up-and-coming player. Usually it’ll be “I dominate, I destroy”but Marcus seemed to be genuine in knowing his role and playing it. He wasn’t the kind of player I’d usually hear about who has this “Messiah Complex,” or someone who feels like he’s the saviour that his team would be desperately needing to get a ring. But he certainly knows that he could be an important part in making the team a very serious contender for the championship.

Thank you very much for the interview, Tim. I really appreciated how you gave importance to the other members of the Spurs through this article.

Nick I agree that Idon’t think that he can guard the point guard spot, but I don’t think that should discourage from him actually playing the position on offense, then on defense there could be some sort of switch, maybe putting hill on the team’s point guard or something like that

I liked your examples and they fit great.

But when I think better about it, it seems to me that the choice to put Ariza, Marion or Hill on Tony has more to do with the total inability of the respective PGs to guard him (Nash may be the worst 1 on 1 defender in the NBA, Fisher is a very bad defender against quick PGs, as showed by the Houston series) than with the desire to match up a 6′8” guy with Tony.

Can’t have numbers based on the possessions played against such players by Tony, but, for what is worth, I also note that in the match ups against LA and Phoenix this year Tony improved in almost any statistical category, notably FG%, with respect to season averages.

On the other hand, Bowen actually played great D on a number of much shorter players, but, as Bentley notices, we are talking about one of the 2-3 best perimeter defenders of the last decade.

In conclusion, probably you are right and I did not consider some relevant exceptions, but I still think the Spurs and the kid are better served having him playing the 2-3 spot and leaving behind the PG experiment.

However, since guys on the Spurs staff are a tetra zillion times more knowledgable and smarter than me, I guess I will trust ‘em anyway ).

Best,

N

I think we’ll see a bit of Marcus this year, and he adds an intriguing twist to what might be the most versatile roster in the league.

Marcus.. what a great kid, so humble.. and not even ripe yet: 22 years old

I love our organization.