The Spurs beat the Celtics on the boards 55-32. A plus 23 rebounding edge is usually enough to secure a victory, but not last night, and not against the Celtics. The Spurs may have won the rebounding battle, but they lost in every other phase of play. The Celtics controlled the game from the outset. [...]
During the 2007-8 season the Boston Celtics displaced the San Antonio Spurs as the league’s premier defensive team. Tom Thibodeau and the Celtics personnel trumped Gregg Popovich and San Antonio’s squad, and the Spurs spent the better part of the last two seasons with a loose grip on their once proud defensive stalwart status. One of San Antonio’s [...]
Zach Lowe has a nice article over at Celtics Hub asking whether the ’08 Celtics were one of the greatest defensive teams of the modern era. And of course, if you are having a conversation about dominant defenses, the Spurs are sure to make an appearance. Lowe makes an excellent point about the two-tiered history [...]
Every once and a while Tim and I like to talk to an opposing team’s blogger in the hopes of gleaning a little insight before a big game. When the defending champs are coming to town, that counts as a big game. So I caught up with Zach Lowe of Celtics Hub to see how [...]
For the purposes of full disclosure, I didn’t have an opportunity to turn on the game until halftime so our very potent first half performance is about to go unaddressed. If anyone would like to discuss it in the comment section below, feel free. Although our January 14th victory over the Lakers is a close [...]
