The always provocative Wendell Berry is good at digging for disease, never becoming arrested at the surface, staring at symptoms. He wants to get beneath all that. In a thoughtful Harper’s piece dated May, 2008 -Faustian Economics: Hell Hath No Limits-Berry takes on the disease of limitlessness. Early last year, Berry was responding to the [...]
Work with me for a second. Assume the Spurs close out the offseason in style, signing an impact player with their MLE. They go into camp as a favorite, and all their efforts and newly acquired talent put the team back in the Finals, against, say, the Cavs. The series is tight, and all the [...]
Austin Nichols is Ime Udoka is Roger Mason Jr. is Bruce Bowen. Since the Spurs were eliminated from the playoffs, I’ve tried to paint a big picture of their options this summer. Those sort of discussions always gravitate toward marquee names. That’s fun, and given the current state of team, entirely possible, but as some [...]
In Wednesday’s post, I suggested the Spurs needed to put their backcourt house in order. This might come about naturally as players develop and learn the system. The return of Manu Ginobili will help, as if I needed to tell you. But if I let the impression with any of our readers that the Spurs [...]
One of the unanswered questions-so far-of this offseason is trying to figure out how the Spurs see their 2009 backcourt. Personally, I see George Hill as a point guard and Roger Mason Jr. as a shooting guard. But that’s not how Pop played them down the stretch, and we have reason to wonder how things [...]
There are a lot of things I want to talk about in the Offseason Breakdown series. And, judging from the comment thread under the first installment, you have a lot on your mind too. Here’s what’s ahead: my thoughts about what direction the team should go with its backcourt, how to address the small forward [...]
It wasn’t that long ago. May 22, 2006. The Spurs were facing an elimination game against the Mavericks. Game 7. Western Conference Semifinals. You remember it, I’m sure. They lost. Tonight the Mavericks have the Spurs on the brink of elimination once again. The national press, with a few exceptions here and there, are writing [...]
One of the things I’ve loved about this season is the work Spurs.com and the Express News beat writers have done keeping us close to the team. Spurs.com introduced practice and shootaround video, which was always must-watch viewing. And they’ve done a bang up job this postseason. The E-N writers have kept a pulse on [...]
The Express-News’ Buck Harvey has written a timely column that deserves your attention. The cliff notes version goes like this: tonight might be Bruce Bowen’s last game as a Spur. Yes, Bowen is under contract. But if you read the column you’ll see that Harvey’s rationale runs down a coherent line. I’m not going to [...]
Spurs.com has video of Pop saying that there will adjustments tonight, J.J. Barea burned them, and the Spurs need to rebound. LatinD, PtR: Tony’s The Man right now, and while he wasn’t chopped liver, we really need him to play at a higher level. Grand Prince Rob Mahoney, Two Man Game: I will say this: [...]
On Saturday Bruce Bowen played 24 minutes, 5 more than he averaged during the regular season. He covered Jason Terry primarily. Terry scored 12 points on only 8 attempts. Will Bowen be able to slow Terry for the duration of the series? Despite the limited minutes he was during the regular season, will Bruce play [...]
In a recent comment thread, NickyDubs asked, “So I don’t recall what we tried earlier in the season, but who do you think we’ll send at Dirk?” The short answer is Matt Bonner and Ime Udoka, but that doesn’t say much. The Spurs have some personnel problems, one of which has been there since preseason. [...]
Last night’s victory over the Thunder felt like a return home after a long stay away. The Spurs won their 50th game of the season for the 10th consecutive season. And the Spurs beat a fearsome opponent by playing great defense for the final 3 quarters. It was without Manu Ginobili, but it felt like [...]
Practically speaking, this is the second time this has happened since he joined the Spurs. The first occurrence came earlier this month in San Antonio’s March 14 win against Houston. But statisticians everywhere will mark last night’s loss as the first DNP-CD of Bruce Bowen’s remarkable tenure in San Antonio. The defensive ace’s nightly routine [...]
