The Spurs take on ROY candidate Blake Griffin and the Clippers tonight. Who should the Spurs use to defend him?
And how strong is his defense?

Providing compelling visual evidence supporting the legitimacy of +/- statistics, guard Gary Neal stepped in for an injured George HIll and posted a very sound +14. More than just empty numbers, Neal filled up the box score with 16 points, connecting on half of his eight 3-pointers and 6-for-10 overall. Part of the unit that [...]

For all the summer excitement of Richard Jefferson, Antonio McDyess and DeJuan Blair, perhaps the biggest offseason acquisition has been George Hill the shooting guard. Before joining 48MoH, I wrote in my seldom read blog that the stories of the preseason were the play of Blair and Hill. Blair, for proving his game translates (at [...]

Via Clipperblog: The book being drafted by most of the league on Chris Kaman instructs teams to swarm the Clippers’ big man with double-teams when he catches the ball at 15 feet. But Spurs coach Gregg Popovich’s reading list is self-authored and it reads something like this: “We’re the San Antonio Spurs. We deploy a [...]

I love when we play the Clippers because my beloved Spurs get treated to the inimitable stylings of Kevin Arnovitz, who is one of my favorite hoops scribes (and, in full disclosure, my brother from another mother). From Clipperblog: The patented Spurs Corner 3 off the drive-and-kick is a lethal novelty, but the Parker-Duncan screen-roll [...]