With George Hill injured, Gary Neal leads the bench with an NBA career high 22 points to help the San Antonio Spurs defeat the Phoenix Suns 118-110 at the AT&T Center.
The Suns recently acquired three new players, but the offense still runs through Nash. Is there anything they can do to limit his productivity?
In the past decade the NBA has dramatically tilted its rules in favor of quicker, more diminutive floor leaders. But while the NBA became a “quarterbacks” league, its greatest point guards have had surprisingly little say in the ultimate prize. In discussing the positional revolution, I stated under the current NBA rules defending quality point [...]
Empires fall. The history books are littered with them. The Greeks. The Romans. Spain. Britain. Maybe someday even America. The same holds true for nearly every major power that’s ever risen to the top, be it nation, corporation, or basketball team. Especially basketball teams. After all, unlike nations or corporations, basketball teams rely solely on [...]
Two bold predictions. First, the biggest and best possible acquisition of the offseason for the San Antonio Spurs will be Tony Parker the All-NBA point guard replacing Tony Parker the above average one. Second, the biggest offseason moves concerning the San Antonio Spurs will be those not made by their Western Conference rivals. And they [...]
AT&T Center-It was over before it began, but for a brief moment with George Hill following through on a last minute three-pointer, with Amare Stoudemire making the stereotypical Amare Stoudemire lapse, it was almost enough to stir up a flicker of hope. That, in short, was the 2009-2010 San Antonio Spurs season. In many ways, [...]
“From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.” -Tom Hanks, Apollo 13 Tonight begins the daunting and improbable task of making NBA history. Every ounce of statistical analysis and reason dictates that this series is over, and it [...]
AT&T CENTER-The night belonged to Goran Dragic, but the story of his momentous fourth quarter started long before he hit his first three-pointer. It began in the first half when working with an 18-point lead, the San Antonio Spurs needed only 15 feet of rope to hang themselves. Mirroring Game 2, the San Antonio Spurs [...]
Coming into the series, I told Michael Schwartz (proprietor of the Phoenix Suns blog Valley of the Suns) that San Antonio Spurs fans treat the Suns’ status as a true rival as a controverted issue. Our Jesse Blanchard, for example, took the position that the Suns could not be considered a rival until they actually [...]
Graydon Gordian of 48 Minutes of Hell and Michael Schwartz of Valley of the Suns stop by ESPN’s NBA Today podcast to talk Suns-Spurs.
In Game 2 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs, Freaky Friday turned Wacky Wednesday and the star-crossed Phoenix Suns have suddenly become the soul swapping Los Phoenix Suns. As stated in the series preview, the San Antonio Spurs and Los Phoenix Suns remain stylistically opposed but no longer occupy complete opposite ends of [...]
John Hollinger says we should expect more smallball from the Spurs. I’m inclined to agree. According to another statistical expert, Wayne Winston, the Suns’ best lineup is Steve Nash, Jason Richardson, Jared Dudley, Channing Frye and Amar’e Stoudemire. After Game 1, he wrote to say the Spurs will win or lose this series based on [...]
It’s not a new story, just one that matters. The San Antonio Spurs are a very different offensive team this season. In their Game 3 victory against the Dallas Mavericks, the Spurs didn’t make a single three pointer. Not one. The Spurs were 4-19 on three point attempts in Game 1 against the Suns.
It’s the second round of the NBA playoffs, and unlike last season the San Antonio Spurs are still playing, which means there’s plenty of good writing and a hearty helping of hilarity out there on the internets for you to enjoy.
