Sebastian Pruiti is at it again. Today over at NBA Playbook, Pruiti looks at how NBA teams take advantage on the offensive end when double-teamed. And wouldn’t’cha know it, the San Antonio Spurs are one team that he thinks does a great job beating double teams.

On Wednesday, Kelly Dwyer of the Yahoo! Ball Don’t Lie blog posted his list of the Top 30 power forwards in the NBA. The pride and joy of St. Croix, Tim Duncan, finished second on the list. Who was number one? If you couldn’t tell by the photo and headline (I hope you readers are [...]

It’s widely known that traditionally, San Antonio Spurs players over the years have been good defensive players. But how good are they really? We’re talking greatest-of-all-time good.

With the 20th pick in the NBA Draft, the San Antonio Spurs selected the Maiasaura, an unremarkable, slow, medium-sized herbivore.

Over at TrueHoop, Kevin Arnovitz (with some help from David Thorpe) takes a look at Tim Duncan’s pick-and-roll defense. It’s been painfully obvious that the Steve Nash-Amare Stoudemire combination on pick-and-rolls has been killing the Spurs.

My mellow, my man Rob Mahoney of the Two Man Game stopped by Hardwood Paroxysm to do some preaching: Now, the Spurs are not dead. But the three-star system that relied on Parker, Ginobili, and Duncan to bring out the brilliance in one another as equally important parts? Like a doornail. It’s rotting, maggoty (I [...]

No, Manu Ginobili didn’t play in the San Antonio Spurs disappointing loss to the New Jersey Nets last night. But luckily, Zach Lowe at CelticsHub.com has a great video breakdown of how the Celtics defended Manu on pick-and-roll situations in the Spurs 94-73 win on Sunday night.

Henry Abbott, Kevin Arnovitz, and numerous other TrueHoop Network writers are at the MIT Sloan Sports Conference. While there, Sebastian Pruiti of NetsAreScorching and NBA Playbook reported on a paper presented by John Huizinga, a professor of business at the University of Chicago (via TrueHoop): Is blocking a lay-up more valuable than blocking a jump-shot? [...]

Over at NBA Playbook, Sebastian Pruiti has a tidy little breakdown of a pick & roll play the Spurs ran early in the first quarter of Monday night’s game. Gregg Popovich places Antonio McDyess in the high post and Tim Duncan on the block.

It may be temporary, and due to injury, but George Hill is a starting NBA point guard much earlier than anticipated. Not bad for another of the Spurs’ “where did he come from” draft picks. Because he has improved so much from last season to this one, a lot of expectations have been placed on [...]

The Orlando Magic are reeling. After a tough loss to the Lakers last night the Magic have now dropped seven of their past nine games. What does this have to do with the Spurs? Well, among the contenders no one overhauled their roster over the summer more than Orlando and San Antonio. That both teams [...]

Well before the 2009 draft, I was talking on the phone with my brother from another mother, whose sensual voice you hear narrating the above video. At the time we both agreed that, behind Griffin, DeJuan Blair would be the second best big man in the entering rookie class. As of right now I’m feeling [...]

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 [...]

Via Forbes.com: After a 1999 NBA championship, San Antonio has gone on to win more than 70% of its games since 2000, while capturing three more titles. Financially, the club’s value has grown 146% since then to $415 million, helped along by a move into the lucrative AT&T Center in 2002. Their criteria included not [...]