Entries Tagged as 'Roger Mason Jr.'

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Roger Mason Jr.: An unfinished portrait

Whether through a series of unfortunate circumstances or simply misplaced expectations, The Legacy of Big Shot Rog will likely end as one of the most regrettably unfinished chapters in recent San Antonio Spurs history. Roger Mason Jr. came to San Antonio with little expectations from Spurs fans but quickly endeared himself to the AT&T Center [...]

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Pounding the Rock, a strike for strike account of the San Antonio Spurs regular season

The NBA playoffs open up with the San Antonio Spurs in their lowest playoff seeding of the Tim Duncan Era. But to understand why the Spurs are not discouraged about opening on the road in Dallas, instead of the friendly confines of the AT&T Center, there must first be an understanding of their philosophy. San [...]

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Mason’s open look

For those of you who missed it, here’s the set up. The Spurs are down 3 with 9 seconds remaining. Popovich has the clipboard, which usually means a clean look out of the timeout. At this point in the game, Roger Mason Jr. was 0-7 from distance. Manu Ginobili was 6-10, but he had also [...]

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

San Antonio Spurs 95, Cleveland Cavaliers 97

The unstated position of my Dime piece is straightforward: the Spurs’ defense is failing. “Defensive transition was really poor in the first half. I thought we did a horrible job with that and we gave away 8, 10, 12 points just because they ran it right down our throat and our transition was God-awful. That [...]

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Best Bets Without Parker

Wayne Winston, who achieved celebrity status at Dorkapalooza 2010, emailed this morning to say the Spurs should be fine without Parker, at least over the balance of the season. Obviously, they’ll need Parker in order to compete in postseason play. The APM answer to Tony Parker’s injury, at least in the short term, is to [...]

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Notes from Wayne Winston, part 4

One of the most fascinating aspects of Wayne Winston’s work is the ability of adjusted plus/minus to, in the words of Gregg Popovich, “indicate trends.” My conversations with Wayne Winston have mostly operated at the level of 5-man units. But last night he sent me an email that’s worth posting because of its focus on [...]

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

On the Departure of Veterans

The weeks immediately following the trade deadline are usually kind to San Antonio. It’s typical for veteran buyouts to angle for a spot on San Antonio’s roster, hoping to hitch a ride to a championship. But the times have changed.

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Stein: Mason-to-Heat Proposal Declined

Via TrueHoop: The Spurs were hoping to tempt Miami into absorbing Mason’s $3.8 million expiring contract into a $4.3 million trade exception that would have enabled the teams to complete a deal without San Antonio needing to take back another player. A future second-round pick from the Heat would have completed the transaction. But the [...]

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Report: Mason Issues Trade Request

Breaking news can now be done in less than 140 characters. Adrain Wojnarowski tweets that the Spurs will seek to accommodate a Roger Mason Jr. trade request. Mason wants more minutes.

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Spurs Face Expiring Time and Contracts

Leaving the All-Star weekend, perhaps no theme encapsulated the Spurs more perfectly nor enemy loomed so big-well, maybe the Laker’s frontline-as time. And not just time, as in the amount of time left in their stars’ careers, but timing. Timing is everything.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Closing One Window, Cracking Open Another

Last week we ran a series of features exploring three options for the Spurs: Make no move; make a minor roster move; and make a major roster move. There was supposed to be one more- a post arguing that we should make moves focused on future seasons- that for various reasons was never published. After [...]

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Duncan, Trade Market Implications

Yesterday I ran a piece that attempted to point out an obvious development that some have missed: Tim Duncan is playing very well this season. Some want to qualify this by saying Duncan is receiving less double-teams, to which my response is “so what?” and “is he really?” Honestly, I’m not sure that assertion is [...]

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Minnesota Timberwolves 99, San Antonio Spurs 117

The storylines that defined tonight’s victory over the Timberwolves are self-evident. Manu Ginobili’s craftiness and intensity poured forth in torrential proportions. Richard Jefferson played with a swagger and physicality which, were this not the present, would appear anachronistic to the Duncan era. And, if Roger Mason had not already driven the final nail into the [...]

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Merry Christmas

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Los Angeles Clippers 87, San Antonio Spurs 103: the Early Edition

There are lots of positives to take away from tonight’s victory over the Los Angeles Clippers: the continued excellency of Tim Duncan; Tony Parker’s reignited aggressiveness; and what you might generally refer to as 48 minutes of sustained focus on both ends of the floor. But for me the story of the game is the [...]