Its not like we're great shooting long 2s.
Our shot ranges are like 40% 3p, 30% 0-3ft, 20% 3-10ft (I think this is mostly trying to draw fouls). 10% everything else. We are hyper-optimizing out there, and it leads to missed threes. But the rebounds on those are high and wide, perfect for chaos ball wings like Camara and Grant and Murray to snap up and drive to the hoop on. It's a lot like what Houston used to run, except we're not prioritizing drawing fouls like they did with Harden.
Jack Ramsay did. Same with Dunleavy
A good sign.
Yeah I've been super impressed. When LMA signed in SAS I always talked about how his legacy changed from possibly the best recent Blazer to 7th best recent Spur just after Splitter. Jokingly but it was also partly true.
Tiago was their starting 5 last time they won the chip.
I was saying this months ago. I love Grant doing his thing off the bench. Happy to see him embrace it. Big ups to Kris Murray.
Yup. I don't think any Spurs fan considers LMA to have a better legacy than Splitter. Probably a dozen plus guys with more of a Spurs title legacy than Splitter.
Ideal comp I might prefer is Kersey.
Yeah my shorthand to my mom was "the team wants him to be Drexler but he's Jerome"
Chauncey was 3-2 (but he bet the over at 2.5)
This win was huge for how it will solidify their mentality and reputation. They don't look like kids out there anymore. They are locked in. They want to win as many games as they can rip from the hands of their opponents. Focusing this group on steals and disruption is fucking genius because they're all so damn eager to contribute. Every play, any one of them can be The Guy Who Wins The Play. The exact opposite of Simons/Ayton ball. Kids like this feed on the action, get motivated by it. If any of them can win the play, they'll want to try to win the play! The feedback loop is instant, the game must be a total rush of dopamine every second you're on the court. That makes you hungry. It's the drug of winning, microdosed for 48 minutes, chased so hard to get the big hit of winning the game. That is how championship teams are made.
Concern I have is the defense. We don't really have any shit defenders right now. That's after decades of always having two or more with Dame, CJ, Melo, last year Ayton and Ant. It's so amazing.
That block at the end was a thing of beauty.
Isn’t division leader ahead of that? I thought we’d be 3rd too but gs has division lead over lakers so it’s them then us then lakers.
