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Mohammed breaks out repertoire as Spurs beat Suns

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/basketball/nba/spurs/stories/MYSA031806.1C.BKNspurs.suns.gamer.21f1dc2d.html

Web Posted: 03/17/2006 10:34 PM CST

Johnny Ludden
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Nazr Mohammed had bullied the Phoenix Suns on the boards, thrown down an emphatic two-handed dunk and even shown off his fadeaway, leaving him only one small piece of work left to do.

With 1:00 remaining and the Spurs clinging to a four-point late Friday, Mohammed swept across the lane and tossed in a hook shot. The basket helped the Spurs finish off their 108-102 victory at the AT&T Center and allowed Mohammed to match his career-high with 30 points.

In a victory for big men everywhere, Mohammed and Tim Duncan punished the small-ball Suns, combining for 29 of the Spurs' 57 rebounds. The Spurs scored 30 second-chance points on a season-high 26 offensive boards.

Mohammed had ...


拜托……

这篇又是未完成的文章,北京时间下午两点半左右……一般,才是完整的作品,之前的都是完全的战报……没有球员教练采访之类的

许多时候马刺的比赛在北京时间下午两点半都结束了,所以一般的都是"Web Posted: 03/18/2006 12:00 AM CST"之类,比如今天的:Web Posted: 03/18/2006 12:32 AM CST

而不是
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浪费了功力……

以后gamer、notebook下午四点再贴过来好了……
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汗,看来小沙子太心急了,完整的战报与此相距甚远啊。
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These Suns just won't stop rising

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5423990#

Charley Rosen / Special to FOXSports.com
Posted: 8 hours ago

The Suns are certainly one of the most fascinating teams in the NBA. Without Amare Stoudemire and Kurt Thomas, and with a small forward, Boris Diaw, playing center, Phoenix has still been able to turn virtually every ball game into a track meet.

Reversing the traditional wisdom preached and proved by NBA seers from Red Auerbach to Phil Jackson, the Suns' game plan is this: "The best defense is a good offense".

Thus far their high-octane point-making has forced most opponents to play at an incredibly accelerated pace — discomforting the bad guys, wearing them down physically and mentally, and forcing them to make decisions much faster than they want to.

On Friday, Phoenix zoomed into San Antonio looking for more of the same. And, indeed, the game was a legitimate litmus test for the Suns. Could Phoenix's frantic modus operandi overwhelm the defending champs in their own corral?

When the dust settled, the game belonged to the Spurs 108-102. Let's take a look at exactly how San Antonio derailed the Phoenix express.

THE SPURS DEFENSE

There's no doubt that 1-through-8, the Suns have the quickest, most athletic squad in the league. Obviously, they want to run on every possession, even when the Spurs scored and Phoenix was forced to take the ball out of the net. Four of the Suns' starters — Steve Nash, Shawn Marion, Boris Diaw, and Raja Bell — can swiftly move the ball into the attack zone. Only Jumaine Jones has a faulty handle on the run (he had one assist, 3 turnovers, and 3 points). Of their subs, Eddie House and Leandro Barbosa are also trustworthy trigger-men, and the newly recruited Tim Thomas can effectively put the ball on the floor only when he's creating his own scoring opportunities. The math reveals that six of the eight Suns who took the court in San Antonio are capable of leading a devastating fast break.

Compare this quotient with the nine Spurs who saw daylight: Tim Duncan, Bruce Bowen, Nazr Mohammed, Robert Horry, Michael Finley, and Brent Barry are strictly half-court players. Beno Udrih has improved as a shooter, but still has a shaky handle when pressured. That leaves Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili to conduct any fast-break opportunities.


(Steve Nash takes it to the hole against the Spurs.
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It was obviously nonsensical for the Spurs to try to out-run the Suns. Indeed, among Gregg Popovich's pre-game instructions was an insistence that his team walk the ball across the time-line even if they had Phoenix temporarily out-numbered. This last restriction was exercised only once when, late in the fourth quarter, the Spurs had a 4-on-3 advantage and Parker sat on the ball until they could get into a half-court set. Little wonder that one of the statistical categories dominated by the Suns was fast-break points wherein they outscored the Spurs 18-0.

By slowing down the game, the Spurs forced Phoenix to play a half-court game. The Suns were not exactly slouches when the air is taken out of the ball and they have several strategies at their command.

With no true center on the court at any time, the Suns kept the middle unoccupied. This also spread out the Spurs defense and meant that whenever Phoenix ran a foul-line-level screen/roll, the defensive helpers had too much ground to cover to be of much help. This advantage was exacerbated by the sheer speed and tricky moves of each and every Phoenix player. All game long, the Spurs defense never effectively stymied this tactic.

The Suns also changed up by running screen/fades for Thomas and Marion, a strategy which yielded undefended perimeter shots.

In spreading the defense, the Suns also created space and time for the likes of Nash, Marion, Diaw, Barbosa, House, and Thomas to be successful in iso situations. Layups were followed by layups. Even the usually reliable defensive prowess of Bowen was helpless against the Suns jet-footed penetrators (particularly Barbosa). When the Spurs tried to sag into the middle, the ball was whipped to open perimeter shooters. That's why Diaw had 7 assists, Nash had 6, Barbosa and Bell had 3 each. And that's why Phoenix shot 51.2% from the field — including 7-16 from long-distance.

Occasionally, Diaw was stationed at the high post while his teammates cut, slashed, and ran amok. This was another effective half-court tactic that the Spurs never really could contain.

When their half-court sets failed to generate any advantage, Nash simply yo-yo'd the ball, darting hither, thither and yon, driving into the bosom of the defense for tricky pull-ups, flips, and layups. And also finding open teammates whenever the Spurs concentration lapsed and they failed to plug the passing lanes.

With the ball positioned on the right wing, House and Bell came up from the strong-side baseline and received topside handoffs that left them (in the absence of any defensive help) with incredibly good looks.

In every situation, whether operating on the run or with a dead ball, every Phoenix player always made the extra pass. Always.

Mike D'Antoni sent only two players into the low post. Marion, who was bothered by Udrih's quick double-team and missed a complicated layup. And Diaw, who drew a foul, and later committed a charge. The lesson is that Phoenix gained very little whenever they tried using size and power instead of speed.

This lesson was not lost on Popovich. Therefore, in the second half the Spurs countered the Suns various S/Rs by switching. This left a big man (Duncan, Horry, or Mohammed) on Nash or Barbosa, and a small man (Parker, Udrih, or Ginobili) on Marion or Diaw. At first glance, these switcheroos created considerable advantages for the Suns. Not so. What happened was that Phoenix became so intent on trumping these mismatches that the flow of their half-court offense was fatally disrupted. Sure, Nash took all of the Spurs bigs to the hoop for nifty high-light layups (he was 13-22 for 30 points), but his teammates were transformed into spectators. This was the defensive strategy that helped turned the game � and was the same one used by San Antonio in beating Phoenix four games to two in last year's conference finals.

THE SPURS' OFFENSE

Since the Suns play defense like sprinters nervously crouched in the starting blocks, the Spurs wanted to work the ball carefully and take advantage of the visitors' anxiety. Hey, hurry up and score so we can score! Phoenix showed absolutely no interest in buckling down and playing in-your-face defense.

The main thrust of the Suns defense was limited to collapsing on ball penetration and leaning into passing lanes. Both Parker (6-11, 13 points) and Finley (5-9, 13 points) were on the shooting end of inside-out passes, and had time to count the house before firing away. When the Spurs spread the floor (touch�!), the Suns had no answer for Ginobili's one-on-one forays (4-9, 5 assists, 14 points).

A specific point of attack was the low-post where either 6-8 Diaw or 6-10 Thomas (both of them notoriously lightweight defenders) was guarding 7-0 Duncan. Both tried fronting TD several times, but since there was no weak-side help whatsoever, lob passes led to just as many layups. Two-timing Duncan was only partially successful. He did turn the ball over thrice, but also managed to pass to open shooters to the tune of 7 assists. On one possession, Duncan was actually quadruple-teamed — and was whistled for taking an extra step.

Pop even called Mohammed's number several times, and he responded with a stat-sheet filled with jump hooks, turn-around jumpers, and a dunker or two. All told Mohammed, who's usually relegated to rebounding and defending, wound up with 13-21 from the field and 30 points.

It was Mohammed who also enabled San Antonio to take fullest advantage of the size differential. He collected 16 total rebounds, which included 8 off the offensive glass. On several possessions, Duncan and Mohammed played volleyball here — sharing three, and then four, offensive rebounds in succession — until the ball was ultimately dropped through the ring.

Numbers are always tricky, and never more so than in this game. The Suns had better accuracy from the field (51.2% to the Spurs 48.9%), from beyond the arc (7-16 to 6-20), and from the stripe (68.4% to 63.2%). Phoenix likewise registered more assists (28 to 21), steals (6 to 4), blocked shots (6 to 2), along with fewer turnovers (10 to 16) and few fouls (16 to 21).

But the one stat that demonstrated the biggest area of the Spurs domination was rebounding — both total (57 to 29) and offensive retrievals (26 to 6). This last number resulted in the Spurs taking 12 more shots (92-80) and tallying four more field goals (45-41). And that's how and why the Spurs triumphed.

What can the Suns do to rectify this critical imbalance when and if the two teams meet again in the playoffs? Nothing, because it's all about genetics. Sometimes speed kills. Sometimes it commits suicide.

Charley Rosen is FOXSports.com's NBA analyst and author of 13 books about hoops, the current one being "The pivotal season — How the 1971-72 L.A. Lakers changed the NBA."
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summerflower一定是兴奋过头了,怎么能忘记在版面“开工”呢

我要是开工的话,是不是有点不“HD”

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嗯,今天开始,考虑大家一起来完成关于ABA的一段资料,也就是Spurs的前身在当时的ABA联盟的那段历史,虽然不是太有趣味,不过却是非常珍贵的资料,也算是将ChinaSpurs的历史资料部分补充完整……

今后会不定期的给出一段很短的文章,来源均是这个帖子:
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偶会在招工帖贴出一个段落,而后大家谁时间多就顺手翻掉即可,一般都不会超过10分钟的时间吧……而招工部分的段子在上面那个链接里面会以红色显示,完工的段子以蓝色显示

翻译好中文直接贴到“San Antonio Spurs——History of ABA”的帖子中回复就可以了……

这个不需要占坑,如果有撞车了也无妨,正好我们可以用这个比较Formal的文章作为交流和练习用,尤其是对于其中的语句和词汇都可以拿来讨论。

为避免浪费版面,所有和这个ABA相关的事情都会在这里47楼来更新,小二们注意查看

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On October 10, 1973, in their home opener against the San Diego Conquistadors, the Spurs lost but attracted over 6,000 noisy fans to HemisFair Arena. This prompted guard Joe Hamilton to say: "It's just great to play for these people. They're rooting for us all the time. Last year at Dallas we'd have 600 or 700 people at our games, and if we got something going, maybe a dozen of them would start yelling. The rest of them just sat there." Over the course of the season, San Antonio's gaudy attendance figures surprised the entire league. In only 18 home games, the Spurs managed to draw more fans than the Chaparrals had during their entire 42-game home schedule in 1972-73. The Spurs ended up averaging 6,303 fans per game. ABA fans enjoyed pointing out that this figure far surpassed the 1973-74 average attendance of the nearby NBA Houston Rockets, whose top crowd that season barely exceeded 6,000. In fact, the Spurs' first-year attendance was so impressive that Drossos and the other San Antonio owners decided to "take the plunge." They canceled their three-year lease of the team, and bought the franchise outright from the Dallas owners.
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Coach's ejection and Duncan's response used to pull away as Spurs beat Warriors

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/basketball/nba/spurs/stories/MYSA032206.1C.BKNspurs.warriors.gamer.82a6365.html

Web Posted: 03/22/2006 12:25 AM CST

Johnny Ludden
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Spurs coach Gregg Popovich already had exhausted his four-letter vocabulary Tuesday night, but Tim Duncan still had a few choice words to offer.

As he watched Popovich head to the locker room with his first ejection of the season, Duncan shared his opinion of the evening's officiating with referee Scott Foster. Foster, who apparently didn't agree, gave Duncan his own technical.

Grinning, Duncan saluted the call with a thumb's up, a gesture that symbolized not only the Spurs' frustration but their resolve.

With Tony Parker scoring 29 points and Duncan adding 21 points and 13 rebounds, the Spurs overcame the technical barrage before downing the Golden State Warriors 107-96 in front of 18,797 at the AT&T Center.

On a night in which they made only 3 of 18 3-pointers, the Spurs received timely shooting from Parker and Michael Finley, along with an energy boost from Beno Udrih.

"I thought we were a little bit lethargic in the first half," Popovich said. "We depended on the three a little bit too much and tried to do it the easy way.

"We just had to get a little bit of passion going, a little bit of aggressiveness going."

Popovich supplied some fire himself. Angry that Duncan was being pushed under the basket without drawing a foul, he walked down the baseline midway through the third quarter to yell at Foster.

When Foster gave him his first technical, Popovich took a few steps closer and screamed. Foster quickly ejected him, and Popovich exited to a near standing ovation.

"It was about time to do it," Duncan said. "There were a lot of inconsistencies out there with the whistle. I think he got annoyed with it as I was."

After Duncan was charged with a technical, Derek Fisher made all three free throws to give the Warriors a 59-57 lead. Duncan was called for an early tip on the ensuing jump ball, prompting him to laugh and sarcastically clap his hands together.

Unfortunately for the Warriors, Duncan soon turned his frustration toward them. He dunked over Adonal Foyle, drew a foul in the process and wiped out the Spurs' three-point deficit with one play. The next time down, he muscled his way inside for a layup.

With assistant P.J. Carlesimo taking over for Popovich, the Spurs finally gained separation early in the fourth quarter. Manu Ginobili, who returned after a left calf contusion forced him to miss Saturday's victory in Houston, banked in a runner as he was fouled. After Monta Ellis' missed 3-pointer, Ginobili took the rebound and zipped a long, cross-court pass to Udrih, who faked Ellis before spinning back around him for a layup.

Udrih followed with a 3-pointer to hike the Spurs' lead to 82-74 and send Golden State into a timeout with 9:35 left.

"He really changes the game," Duncan said of Udrih, who scored 13 points in 15 minutes.

Duncan could have described Bruce Bowen similarly. With Bowen hounding him, Warriors guard Jason Richardson — who had been averaging 26.8 points since the All-Star break — made 5 of 18 shots.

After Richardson stuck a 3-pointer to bring Golden State within 84-81 with 7:27 left, he didn't make another basket.

"You know Pop's in the back, watching, and I had just come back in," Bowen said. "He wasn't supposed to shoot threes, and he shoots a three right in my face. Now, I've got to put something extra on it."

Finley, who missed seven of his first eight shots, and Parker, who went 1 for 9 to start the second half, both found their stroke down the stretch to hold off Golden State. Parker also contributed seven assists.

"He's starting to scare me," Popovich said. "He's so confident in that jumper. He's becoming a real stud at that position, understanding when to give it up, when to do it himself."

Popovich, meanwhile, had some extra time to pack after getting ejected. The Spurs flew to Denver immediately after the game, where they will face the Nuggets tonight, for the start of a five-game trip.

"Ten days out on the road at the end of the season is a long time, so I'm certainly concerned about that," Popovich said. "But it's also an opportunity to really focus much like we do on the rodeo trip."

As a result, the Spurs wanted to make sure they didn't leave town with a loss. Credit for some of that, Parker said, went to their coach.

"He decided to take one for the team," Parker said. "Just go crazy and make us react."
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Spurs notebook: Ginobili back, says he feels good

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Web Posted: 03/22/2006 12:25 AM CST

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"El Contusion" is back, not entirely healthy, just a little angry and intent on playing for the Spurs when they meet the Denver Nuggets tonight.

Bounced around Tuesday like a ping-pong ball on the final play of the first half of the Spurs' 107-96 victory at the AT&T Center over the Golden State Warriors, Manu Ginobili returned for the second half with new bruises and renewed resolve for the stretch run of the regular season.

Dubbed "El Contusion" last season by Brent Barry because of his propensity for being hit and knocked to the floor, Ginobili said the left calf contusion that had kept him out of Saturday's game at Houston had healed well during the three days since the injury.

"It was good," Ginobili said. "Usually when you get hit in the muscle it's not serious. It was a back-to-back (Saturday), so I wasn't able to go.

"I felt very good today."

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich was relieved.

"He's trying to get everything together," Popovich said. "He felt good after the game. He said his body felt great. It's a good step in the right direction for him, so we can have him at a level where he was last year when the playoffs begin."

Ginobili was upset when he was hit three times in the final seconds of the first half without a foul being called on the Warriors. He was knocked to the floor once before recovering and resuming a drive to the basket, and Popovich railed at the referees on his way to the Spurs' locker room for halftime, perhaps setting the stage for his ejection by referee Scott Foster in the third quarter.

A vote for Bowen: Former Spur Mario Elie congratulated Bruce Bowen on his selection to the U.S. national team, then gave Bowen a hearty endorsement to make the squad.

"By all means Bruce should be on that team," said Elie, who was an assistant coach with the Spurs before joining the Warriors' staff. "If they're serious about wanting it to be a true team, he needs to be on it. He could be that team's Ichiro (Suzuki), the guy who's out there for hours before the game, getting himself ready and making sure all his teammates are ready."

Suzuki, the Seattle Mariners' right fielder, was the inspirational leader of the Japanese team that won the World Baseball Classic.

Injury report: Popovich is still leaning toward holding Nick Van Exel out for at least a couple more weeks.

Coping with bone chips in his left elbow for much of the season, Van Exel received his third cortisone shot last week. The team considered waiting until closer to the playoffs to give him the injection — the first two provided relief for only a couple of weeks — but decided following the shot with additional rest might help more.

"It's better to give it to him now and see what we have," Popovich said. "As we wind down, it'll just be a decision when to get him into some games. But it's not going to be in the near future."

Sean Marks has been bothered by a sore left shoulder the past week, making it difficult, at times, for him to turn his head. He had begun to feel better in recent days until his shoulder tightened again after Tuesday's shootaround.

With Marks unavailable, Melvin Sanders has been on the active roster the past three games.
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Spurs fans should be all jazzed up for this playoff run

http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2006/03/20/newscolumn1.html?page=1

San Antonio Business Journal - March 17, 2006
by W. Scott Bailey

Embrace the moment, Spurs fans.

Love every minute of every Spurs victory the rest of the way this season as the playoffs near.

Wince when Tim Duncan misses a shot or is slower than you remember in chasing after others' miscues.

But be thankful he is still a Spur.

Throw a shoe at the TV when the good guys lose a game they should have won.

But don't break it because you don't want to miss what may come next.

Be sad if the Black & Silver fail to win a fourth NBA title this summer.

But be thankful you are not a fan of those teams who have never won anything.

Why the need to be especially appreciative of the good times now?

Because history says they can't last forever.

It could all end tomorrow. Just like that, this franchise could forget what it means to finish a season with a parade.

Spurs fans who are old enough remember a quarter-century of frustrations.

Chorus of boos

For those who don't believe it can happen, that San Antonio's hoops heroes could step back into the morass of mediocrity that plagues the NBA, I offer the Utah Jazz.

Jazz fans know all too well that when it's gone, things can get ugly.

It wasn't all that long ago that the Jazz were a team Spurs fans loved to hate. They were that good.

The Delta Center rocked.

The playoffs were an automatic.

Championship aspirations were legitimate goals.

Stockton to Malone was more than a play-by-play call; it was the reason teams feared the Jazz.

Spurs fans hated that torturing twosome as much as they hated the way sold-out crowds at the Delta Center would jeer every Jazz foul and cheer every Spurs stumble.

They hated the post-season match-ups with Utah because they knew there were few, if any, tougher opponents.

Then something happened that changed everything. Two teams that had come to define a rivalry went dramatically separate directions.

The Spurs have spent the last few years hanging championship banners in AT&T Center.

The Jazz have tried to regain that lost magic.

While Spurs chairman Peter Holt nervously roots for his team to finish with the best record in the Western Conference, Jazz owner Larry Miller stands on the court in front of the team bench during a recent game, staring down his troops, later saying he wished he could unload them all.

Sour note

This Jazz ensemble has hit such a sour note in Salt Lake City that Miller has elected to do the unthinkable in professional sports -- cut ticket prices.

Next season, the Jazz will lower the price on more than 10,000 of the Delta Center's 19,911 seats.

Nearly 5,000 of those seats will sell for only $9 -- and only $5 when purchased in a season ticket package.

In all, according to published reports, more than 7,400 Delta Center seats will sell for less than $19 next season.

That's what happens when a team, which had some of the best fans in the NBA, only sells out three of its first 30 home games.

The cliché can't help but sting the passionate Miller: You don't know what you've got until it's gone.

The winning, the sold-out arena, the contending instead of pretending ... it's all gone in Utah.

As sure as Tim Duncan will miss another free throw, it can happen here.

And the sting could hurt even worse because those banners will become awful reminders of how things used to be.

I don't see Holt walking onto the AT&T Center floor and staring at his players.

I surely don't see Spurs officials slashing ticket prices when sell-outs become a rarity.

But I can see a time when we look back and try to remember what it was like when our Spurs were the very best.

Wake-up call

Every once in a while, it seems, there are the slightest hints that this great ride may be coming to an end.

Use those moments to remind yourself that these are the best of times in Spursville.

They may never come again.

So enjoy them. Share them with others.

Celebrate every win from here out and be thankful that you've had an opportunity to root for a champion.

Plenty of folks never get that chance.

Some have been teased with such success only to have it all fall apart, never knowing what it is like to line up along a parade route in July.

Fans in Utah can only imagine. And they likely have a message for their counterparts in San Antonio: Love it while you've got it.

One day you won't.

One day the Stocktons and the Malones move on, taking the memories and the opportunities with them.

One day you are the fan of just another NBA team striving to win a final playoff seed.

There are no car flags for those occasions, no businesses hanging Go Spurs Go signs in neighborhoods -- rich and poor, old and new.

So get out the lucky shirt. Paint the car windows one more time.

Do whatever it is that you did in 1999, 2003 and in 2005.

Whatever you do, don't treat these next several weeks with one of those been-there-done-that yawns.

You might, like Jazz fans, wake up one day and wonder where all the good times have gone.


W. SCOTT BAILEY is a staff writer for the San Antonio Business Journal. He can be contacted at sbailey@bizjournals.com.
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Nuggets' Anthony dismantles Spurs

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DENVER — Maybe it was the sight of old friend George Karl, the boos that once again rained upon him from the rafters of the Pepsi Center or the forearm Kenyon Martin used to club him.

Or maybe, for the first time in six months, Manu Ginobili felt whole again. Whatever the cause, Ginobili looked like, well, Ginobili on Wednesday night, sticking 3-pointers, dribbling behind his back, throwing no-look passes, driving fearlessly to the rim.

Now, if he could just find some help.

Ginobili scored 26 points in one of his best performances of the season, but his spirited attempt to rally the Spurs unraveled in the fourth quarter as Carmelo Anthony led the Denver Nuggets to a 104-92 victory.

Anthony scored 32 points and the Spurs, struggling again in the second game of a back-to-back, were outrebounded 58-27. Tim Duncan contributed 22 points but made only 6 of 14 free throws.

"They competed harder for more minutes than us," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "I thought Denver did a good job of making it men and boys for a good part of the game."

Popovich blamed defensive breakdowns by the Spurs' perimeter corps and the team's inability to match Denver's aggressiveness in the first half. The Nuggets led by as many as 18 points in the second quarter and were still up 14 at the half before Ginobili led the Spurs back.

Making it clear they hadn't forgotten each other from their meeting in the first round of last season's playoffs, the teams traded words and elbows for part of the night. Duncan and Nazr Mohammed each got jabbed in the eye, while Tony Parker bruised his right shoulder during a hard foul from Francisco Elson.

With the Spurs down 61-48 in the third quarter, Ginobili broke free for what looked like a certain dunk when Martin ran down and cracked him from behind. As Ginobili hit the court with a thud, Popovich stared at Martin and shouted, "That's bull...!" Martin smiled back.

A couple of minutes later, Martin hit Ginobili in the arm after the whistle, further incensing Popovich. In each instance, Ginobili simply pushed himself to his feet and stepped to the free-throw line.

Ginobili's aggressiveness seemed to shake the Spurs from their slumber.

Parker tossed in a runner. Ginobili hit a 3-pointer. Parker hit one. Duncan even made a bank shot.

The Spurs' surge pushed them ahead, briefly, late in the third quarter. The game stayed close until Anthony made another jump shot and found Greg Buckner for a layup to push Denver's lead to 93-86 with 4:36 left.

The Spurs never seriously threatened again.

The Spurs were making the first stop of a five-game, 10-day trip, their longest since they spent 11 days in a row on the road from Feb. 25-March 6, 1993. They also knew they were walking into a buzz saw Wednesday.

While the Spurs labored to put away Golden State on Tuesday night, the Nuggets were enjoying their third day of rest, though many of them spent it on the training table.

Backup point guard Earl Boykins is expected to be out at least another three weeks after fracturing his left hand last week. Martin and Marcus Camby, both coping with knee injuries, were healthy enough to play Wednesday.

Despite their string of injuries, the Nuggets have taken firm control of the Northwest Division race. Anthony deserves a lot of credit for that. Ruben Patterson and Reggie Evans, acquired on the NBA's trade deadline four weeks ago, also have helped.

"It's even more of an intense, rock 'em, sock 'em group now," Popovich said. "I think they're one of the most physical teams in the league."

That wasn't good news for the Spurs, who, once again, looked like they were playing on dead legs. Denver ran out to a 13-4 lead in the first five minutes.

Ginobili responded with his own burst of energy, picking off a pass, burying a 3-pointer, driving for a layup and pulling up for a 17-footer. He helped the Spurs recover long enough to tie the game 15-15.

After Anthony went to the bench with 9:42 left in the second quarter, the Nuggets hiked their lead from four to 14. With the Spurs feeding them eight turnovers, seven in the opening quarter, the Nuggets totaled 17 fast-break points in the first half.

As it turned out, that set the stage for the Spurs' comeback, one that ultimately fell short.

"I scored more, but we lost," Ginobili said. "I think I prefer the way it was a week ago when I couldn't make a basket and we were still winning."
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Barry blazes trail of threes to boost Spurs past Portland

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PORTLAND, Ore. — By the end of the second quarter, Brent Barry didn't even have to look. He launched the 25-foot shot, followed the ball for just a moment, then dropped his head and turned to run down the court.

The groan of 17,018 fans told Barry all he needed to know.

In a performance that kept his teammates bouncing to their feet and the Portland Trail Blazers shaking their heads, Barry made seven 3-pointers and scored a season-high 23 points to lead the Spurs to a 98-79 victory Friday night at the Rose Garden.

Barry had a chance to tie the franchise record for most 3-pointers without a miss set by Steve Smith — which coincidentally also came at the Rose Garden — but rimmed out his eighth and final attempt with a little more than two minutes remaining. He instead settled for tying the team mark for most 3-pointers in a quarter with five.

"It felt like what I used to do for a long time," Barry said. "It feels good to be out there seeing the ball go in and seeing the things you know you're capable of doing."

With Portland packing in its defense and limiting Tim Duncan to a season-low six points, the Spurs buried 12 3-pointers to match their season high. Manu Ginobili had his second consecutive strong performance with 16 points while Tony Parker added 14.

The Spurs moved the ball freely against the Trail Blazers, assisting on 26 of their 40 baskets. Duncan, who took only seven shots, had six assists.

"If people want to double him and keep him from shooting shots, they can do that," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "It's not too tough to do with a big guy.

"But luckily for us, he's unselfish enough to find people and let his teammates play."

The Spurs broke open the game by making a franchise-record eight 3-pointers in the second quarter. Michael Finley had two of them, and Ginobili made one, but the quarter — as well as the game — belonged to Barry.

Even after Barry made his first two 3-pointers, the Spurs continued to find him open behind the arc. By the end of the first half, Barry's teammates were hopping out of their sideline seats as soon as he touched the ball.

"He was real aggressive tonight, and that's when he plays best," Popovich said, "when he doesn't worry about making mistakes or missing a shot. You just play the game, and all that can happen is you win or you lose.

"Other than that, it's not very important. So you might as well let it fly."

Barry continued to do that when he returned to the floor in the fourth quarter. He promptly buried a 24-footer from the right corner. No.7 came not too much later, from the top of the arc.

Barry found himself open again in a similar spot, but Parker kept the ball himself and drove into the lane. He laughed and immediately apologized to Barry for not seeing him.

"Tony missed a guy?" Barry said, laughing. "That's unbelievable."

Even still, Barry looked like he might match Smith's team record when he hoisted his eighth 3-pointer. The shot, however, popped out of the rim.

"Michael Finley yelled at me, 'What are you doing?'" Barry said. "Close isn't good enough for this team I guess."

Before their 3-point barrage, the Spurs labored to get any consistent scoring. They ended the first quarter leading 15-13 after making only 7 of 18 shots.

That Portland also struggled wasn't a surprise. The Trail Blazers began the evening averaging an NBA-low 88.8 points and were coming off their sixth consecutive loss, a 125-108 defeat in Phoenix on Thursday.

Friday's loss ended another difficult work week for the Trail Blazers. After losing to Milwaukee on Monday, coach Nate McMillan ripped the team for its effort. Darius Miles, Portland's second-leading scorer, slept through Thursday morning's shootaround in Phoenix and was benched for the game.

Miles was then given a two-game leave from the team Friday after his grandfather died.

Friday's loss extended Portland's streak to a season-high seven games.

"We were just outmanned," McMillan said. "They're the world champs, and we just couldn't match up."

Or stop Barry, whose efficiency took just 20 minutes.

"Good teams have a lot of guys who can come in and do that," Barry said. "It's a great time in the next couple weeks to start preparing yourself mentally and physically for what might happen in the playoffs and when those opportunities might come."
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"3-D": Late-Game Defensive Strategy with a 3-Point Lead

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We've all been there. Our team has a 3-point lead, and the clock is winding down. The opposing team has the ball, and it looks like we're one play away from victory. What should we do defensively to secure the win?

The purpose of this research article is to answer precisely that question. First, let's take a look at the most definable situation: when the game clock is down to a few seconds (final possession), and the team with the ball needs a '3' to tie the game and send it into overtime.

The league average for 3-point FG percentage (last full season) is 35.5%; however, late-game shots are known to have a higher degree of difficulty than the typical 3-point attempt. To do this analysis accurately, we need to find out what the 3-point FG percentage is in these exact situations...the following table contains the answer, using data from the past two seasons:



Therefore, with 10 seconds or less left in the game, and a 3-point deficit for the offensive team, the league-wide 3-point shooting percentage is 20.0%. This should be a large enough dataset to give us an accurate read on the situation...so, if our team chooses to defend the 3-point line in this scenario, these are the odds that we will be forced to play five more minutes of basketball, rather than walk off the court with a 'W'!

Now, what if our team chooses to foul? In order for this to play out in a favorable way for the trailing team, several things need to happen:

- The fouled player must make the first free throw.
- The fouled player must then miss the second attempt on purpose.
- The trailing team must then get an offensive rebound off the FT miss.
- The trailing team must then score off the rebound.


The big question is, "what is the probability of this happening?". Looking at data from the last couple years, we find that there were 32 occurrences of this scenario. Of those, the trailing team was successful 3 times...a percentage of 9.4%. Now, this is not very conclusive because the sample size we have is very small. If we had a much larger data sample, would that percentage go up, or would it go down?

So...are we stuck? Not at all! Fortunately, this is something we can calculate without too much trouble. Using Probability and Statistics principals, we can multiply the individual percentages of all the events above to determine what the percent chance is of these events happening in this order. And the numbers are...

- The fouled player must make the first free throw: 75.6%
- The fouled player must then miss the second attempt on purpose: 100.0%
- The trailing team must then get an offensive rebound off the FT miss: 13.9%
- The trailing team must then score off the rebound: (see below)


These stats are arrived at by using league averages. Although it is not unheard of that a player will actually make a FT when trying to miss, we'll assume here that a player can execute an intentional miss each time they try. Also, the percentage for scoring off an offensive rebound can be broken down two ways: put-backs (50.4%), or the ball is kicked back out by the rebounder to a teammate (42.2%). So, now we'll do the math...

(.756) * (1.00) * (.139) * (.504) = .053

(.756) * (1.00) * (.139) * (.422) = .044


There you have it...if our team fouls in this situation as the clock is running out, there is a 5.3% chance that the opposing team will force overtime with a put-back off the offensive glass, or only a 4.4% chance that the opposing team will force overtime when the rebounder passes the ball to a teammate. Now, let's summarize the findings so we can draw some conclusions:



The basic conclusion we come to is this:
With time running out (final possession), and a 3-point lead, the defensive team is roughly 4 times more likely to "blow the lead" and have to play overtime if they choose to play defense, rather than foul in the waning seconds of the game.

This is a satisfying conclusion, but what about some of the other possibilities? A few words about that...

I don't think anyone would suggest that intentionally fouling a 3-point shooter in the "one possession" situation is a good idea, but let's see how that holds up statistically. If the player fouled in this case is an "average" NBA free throw shooter (75.6%), we can calculate the odds that he will make all three free throws and send the game into overtime:

(.756) * (.756) * (.756) = .432


Not that this is a surprise, but we would not recommend that the defensive team foul a 3-point shooter on the last possession, since the odds of him hitting the free throws and forcing overtime are relatively high (43.2%)!

Now, a look at what might happen when there is enough time left on the game clock for multiple possessions...

Because there are so many permutations of events that can occur when each team has the ball two or more times, it would be outside the scope of this article to do a study of every possibility. However, we can make some general statements about this case. When there is enough time left, some teams will go for the quick '2', then foul the opponent right away after the inbounds pass. Others may attempt a '3', and hope for the tying shot to go in, or at least try to get an offensive board off the miss, and then try again! So what can we say about this? The best thing we can do is look at our original data sample, and see what we've got...

As mentioned earlier, we found 32 cases where our base scenario was met (and the defensive team fouled) in the last two NBA seasons. When we include all outcomes (one possession, as well as multiple possession sequences), we find that the team with a 3-point deficit was able to tie the game 7 times...a percentage of 21.9%. As we've discussed, this is a small (inconclusive) sample size, but at least we can get a little information from this. Based on the data we have, we cannot make a blanket statement as to the best strategy for the multiple-possession scenario...the odds of success when fouling vs. not fouling are in the same range, according to our limited information.

Lastly, a note about turnovers. Yes, turnovers can occur in these situations. The reason we haven't really covered that here is two-fold: turnovers are not common in this scenario, particularly when you throw out things like bad pass turnovers that are "desperation" passes, many times from the backcourt, as the clock is running out. Also, to do this correctly, we'd need further information about how and why these turnovers took place - which would require some in-depth game charting information that we currently don't have available.

So, whether you are a fan of the game, or you own, manage, or coach an NBA club, keep this in mind: the next time your team finds itself up 3 points, and you need to make a final play on defense to win the game - think "3-D" strategy!
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Sonics' Allen answers kick by Bowen by scoring 33, including decisive 3-pointer

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SEATTLE — Ray Allen couldn't stop the Spurs from closing out Seattle in last season's Western Conference semifinals. Apparently, however, he hasn't given up trying to keep them from winning the Southwest Division this season.

Allen's 3-pointer with 5.4 seconds left lifted the SuperSonics to a 106-102 victory over the Spurs Sunday night at Key Arena. Allen, who was motivated in part by another dustup with Bruce Bowen, finished with 33 points.

The loss dropped the Spurs back into a tie with Dallas atop the Western Conference standings and spoiled an opportunity to gain a game in the overall NBA standings on Detroit, which lost earlier in the day to New Jersey.

"We're trying to fight for that top spot in the West," Tony Parker said, "so we can't afford losing these games."

The Spurs appeared to have pulled off a stunning comeback against the Sonics after scoring nine consecutive points to erase a 100-93 deficit in the final two minutes. Parker's floater with 39.5 seconds left capped the flurry and left the Spurs clinging to a two-point lead.



Robert Horry then intercepted Luke Ridnour's pass along the sideline, but was pressured by Chris Wilcox and stepped out of bounds with 13.8 seconds left. Horry thought Wilcox pushed him, but admitted he should have called timeout instead of waiting for a foul that never arrived.

"I left the game where I shouldn't have left it," Horry said. "I should have just called a timeout.

"Nine times out of 10 you'll get that (push) call. I just happened to get that unlucky one."

After a timeout, Allen drove to the rim, but Manu Ginobili, who spent much of the fourth quarter in foul trouble, blocked his shot out of bounds with 9.4 seconds left.

Given another chance to inbound, Seattle again put the ball in Allen's hands. Allen took a handoff from Sonics center Johan Petro and freed himself from Bruce Bowen on a pick-and-roll.

Tim Duncan jumped out on Allen, who raised up and buried the 3-pointer.

The Spurs, ironically, were playing in KeyArena for the first time since Allen missed a buzzer-beating 3-pointer that would have forced a seventh game in last season's playoff series between the teams.

"I'm always ready to step up and take that shot," Allen said.

After a timeout, Ginobili tried to inbound to Duncan, but Petro got a hand on the pass and Rashard Lewis came up with the ball. Intentionally fouled, Lewis missed his second free throw, but got the rebound after the ball skipped off Ginobili's hands.

"The mistakes down the stretch made the difference," said Duncan, whose 28 points were wasted by the loss. "They gave it to us and we gave it back."

After missing 23 of 33 shots in the previous two games, Allen stayed after practice Saturday to work on his shot. Judging from Sunday's performance, he corrected whatever flaws he found.

Though Bowen and Allen were one-time acquaintances, their relationship started to sour three years ago when Bowen fouled Allen hard and tried to clear out Brent Barry, who was then playing for Seattle, with an elbow. Since then Allen has publicly complained several times about Bowen's defensive tactics — or more specifically, his physicality — and accused him of, among other things, playing "sissy basketball."

The two players added another chapter to their feud Sunday. In the second quarter, Allen pump-faked Bowen and appeared to jump into him in hopes of drawing a foul. Both players hit the floor and TV replays showed Bowen kicked Allen with his right leg. Allen quickly pushed himself to his feet and started to lunge at Bowen, but was restrained by Nazr Mohammed.

Allen, who shouted at Bowen as players from both teams separated the two, was called for an offensive foul. Bowen was given a technical.

Bowen admitted to kicking Allen, saying it happened in the heat of the moment as he was trying to get Allen off him.

"It wasn't calculated," Bowen said. "I did what I did, and I'm sorry for that. But there's nothing I can say to take it back."

Allen said Bowen should be fined for the act, calling it "coward basketball."

"You guys have chronicled our battles over the last couple of years," Allen said. "I like the competition. But when guys start throwing elbows and kick you while you're down, it's dirty basketball. I don't respect guys like that.

"For a split second, when I stood over him, I thought (I might do something) because my emotions were flowing. But I had to catch myself. I wasn't going to allow him to bait me where I went at him."

Instead, Allen waited until the game's end to get revenge.
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Spurs deliver point with Parker out

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LOS ANGELES — The Spurs took the floor Tuesday night without Tony Parker for the first time this season. Then they did their best to make sure no one noticed he was missing.

Tim Duncan and Michael Finley each scored 20 points and the Spurs assisted on 32 of their 36 baskets to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 98-87 in front of 17,978 at the Staples Center.

With Dallas losing in Detroit earlier in the evening, the Spurs moved back in front of the Mavericks for the best record in the Western Conference.

Although the Spurs were playing without Parker and coming off a frustrating loss in Seattle on Sunday, they regrouped and overwhelmed Los Angeles in the second half. The Clippers shot 37.8 percent for the game.

"We needed to get back to who we are and what our personality is," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said, alluding to the fact the team's previous 12 opponents had shot a combined 47.2 percent. "I thought we did that tonight."

Duncan, who also had 13 rebounds, produced his fourth 20-point performance in five games. Finley made four of the Spurs' 10 3-pointers and Bruce Bowen finished with 16 points, one off his season high.

Parker, who had appeared in every game, was still bothered by the deep bruise on his right shin he received when Seattle center Robert Swift kicked him during a drive to the basket Sunday. He tried to participate in the morning shootaround but was too sore.

"When I jump, when I plant — everything," Parker said. "The blood came up my calf, so now everything hurts."

The injury isn't considered serious and Parker might be able to play Thursday when the Spurs return to the Staples Center to face the Lakers. Popovich doubts he'll miss more than two or three games.

Beno Udrih started in Parker's place but rolled his left ankle and played only 12 minutes. Manu Ginobili (eight points and nine assists) and Brent Barry (11 points and five assists) assumed a lot of the ball-handling duties.

Playoff tickets for the Clippers went on sale Tuesday morning, and that's a sentence that hasn't been written in a while. Although the Clippers have yet to actually clinch their first postseason berth since 1997, they cling to the West's No. 5 seed.

Los Angeles, which needs one more victory to secure its first winning season since 1991-92, had already proven to be a challenge for the Spurs, taking them to overtime in their first meeting before losing, then beating them 98-85 on March 7.

Even with Parker sidelined, Popovich said Tuesday morning he didn't plan to play Nick Van Exel for the remainder of the trip. Van Exel has been bothered by bone chips in his left elbow and Popovich had hoped to hold him out until closer to the playoffs.

But Van Exel had begun pushing to return sooner. After shooting during warmups, he persuaded the coaches to include him on the active roster.

"He's old enough where it's not like he has to go practice for a week," Popovich said. "And with Tony out, he's really chomping at the bit to get a few minutes.

"It's not like he's going to get hurt. He's ready to go. It's just that I've been holding him back."

Popovich planned to plan Van Exel only a handful of minutes, but sent him to the scorer's table midway through the first quarter after Udrih picked up a couple of quick fouls. After missing his first four shots and slinging a pass out of bounds, Van Exel buried a 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds left in the first half to send the Spurs to the locker room with a 48-42 lead.

After watching the shot go through the net, Van Exel banged his hands together in relief.

The Spurs took control in the third quarter when they ran off 13 unanswered points. With the Spurs sometimes switching to a zone defense, the Clippers missed 10 consecutive shots during the 4-minute, 39-second stretch.

Although the Spurs had lost two of their three previous games, Popovich remains optimistic the team can regain the form it showed at the end of last season.

"It's not that people are coasting," Popovich said. "We just haven't been able to get a rhythm like we were in last year and have everybody firing on all cylinders at the same time. A lot of it's been health, nagging things here and there, so it makes it tough to really get that rhythm.

"Hopefully we can get that these last 10, 12 games."
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Strong defense leads Spurs to win over Lakers

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Web Posted: 03/31/2006 01:27 AM CST

Johnny Ludden
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LOS ANGELES — Another night's work complete, the Spurs cleared out of the visitors' locker room at Staples Center late Thursday and headed home, finally, taking with them one more victory and a nice cushion for the rest of the Western Conference race.

With Tony Parker scoring 19 points and Tim Duncan adding 15 of his 20 in the second half, the Spurs blitzed the Los Angeles Lakers 96-85 in front of a sellout crowd of 18,997 at Staples Center.

Bruce Bowen helped hold Kobe Bryant to 23 points on 26 shots, and Robert Horry, having caught scent of the playoffs, contributed 12 points.

The victory left the Spurs with a 3-2 record on their nine-day, five-game trip and a two-game lead over Dallas atop the conference standings.

"Winning on the road is really sweet," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "It's the most fun in the league as far as I'm concerned.

"It's always tough, and it really helps your team come together."

The Spurs won't meet the Lakers again unless the teams cross paths in the playoffs. The Lakers, who were trying to extend their winning streak to five games for the first time since April 2004, lead Sacramento by 11/2 games for the conference's seventh seed.

The Lakers ended a six-game losing streak to the Spurs when they visited the AT&T Center on March 10. The Spurs were playing their fourth game in five nights when they suffered the 100-92 loss.

Given a day to rest after beating the Clippers, the Spurs returned with more energy, though they began the evening unsure whether they would have Parker, who was hobbled by a bruised right shin.

Parker had trouble pushing off on his right leg Thursday morning, and the team went through shootaround with Brent Barry starting in his place. Not until Parker tested his leg during pregame warmups was he cleared to play.

"At halftime it tightened up on me a little bit," said Parker, who made 9 of 14 shots. "But after the first five, six minutes (of the third quarter) it was OK.

"I felt pretty good. It's a big bruise, so I need to play on it."

As Parker's leg warmed, so did his production. Midway through the second quarter he went by the Lakers and scored at the rim on three consecutive possessions. He turned back Los Angeles' final push in the fourth quarter with another layup.

"He's been the guy we've depended on pretty much night after night," Popovich said.

Having watched the Lakers repeatedly slip inside the Spurs' defense to take a 49-43 lead with 10 minutes left in the third quarter, Popovich signaled for a timeout.

The Spurs returned more focused and aggressive, running off nine unanswered points, with Parker capping it by finding Duncan for a dunk.

Brian Cook's 3-pointer brought the Lakers within a point midway through the quarter, but the Spurs closed the quarter by outscoring Los Angeles 16-1.

"I thought focus wasn't very good at that point, so we called a timeout to remind them what we're doing," Popovich said. "Where we are, what we're trying to be at the end of the year — just get a little bit of mental discipline back."

Called a coward earlier in the week by Ray Allen, Bruce Bowen awoke Thursday morning to learn Lakers coach Phil Jackson had given him a different label: Edward Scissorhands.

Jackson, who delivered the nickname when speaking with Los Angeles reporters Wednesday, expanded on his comments about 90 minutes before tipoff.

"The more you move against Bowen, the quicker he reacts and the more chops he gets in," Jackson said. "He'll whack away at you while you're doing that.

"But more than anything else, Bruce plays with his feet a lot. He gets his feet underneath people, and he's tough to get through."

Bryant found that out again in the first half when Bowen stepped in front of him to draw a pair of charges.

Bryant made only 6 of 15 shots in the opening half but still had 16 points. Nick Van Exel reached in and pulled Bryant's arms down on one second-quarter drive, but the Lakers guard powered through the foul and released a high, arching shot that climbed halfway up the shot clock before dropping back through the rim.

Popovich laughed when told Jackson's name for Bowen.

"I think that's very creative and very clever," Popovich said. "I just call him Bruce."
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Show respect to San Antonio to honor Spurs’winning tradition

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By DAVID BETHEA
Published , March 31, 2006, 06:00:01 AM EDT

In the world of sports, winners tend to get respect. Teams that make the playoffs are considered good, teams that win in the playoffs are considered contenders and teams that win championships are considered dynasties.

So how come the NBA team with the most championships and playoff appearances over the past 10 years isn’t even an afterthought when talk of “dynasties” arise?

Despite a 17-year run as a perennial title contender and numbers that compare favorably with other modern “dynasties,” the San Antonio Spurs don’t get the respect they deserve.

While few would argue that the Spurs’ accomplishments rival the eight consecutive titles won by the Boston Celtics of the 1950s and 1960s, the Spurs measure up very favorably with other modern “dynasties” such as the Chicago Bulls, the L.A. Lakers and the Boston Celtics of the 1980s.

From 1979 to 1992, the Celtics made 14 consecutive playoff appearances and won three titles.

Their accomplishments in the ‘80s were trumped only by those of the “Showtime” Lakers, who made 16 consecutive playoff appearances and won five NBA titles from 1976 to 1991.

The Laker dynasty was revived in the late ‘90s, making 10 consecutive playoff appearances from 1995-2004, and winning three consecutive championships from 2000-2002.

Sandwiched between the two Laker dynasties, the Chicago Bulls made 14 consecutive playoff appearances from 1985-1998 and won six NBA titles between 1991-1998.

How do the Spurs stack up to these teams?

San Antonio, who currently boasts the best record in the Western Conference, has already clinched a playoff berth for the ninth-straight season, and the 16th time in the last 17 years. They enter this year’s playoffs seeking their fourth title in the last eight years.

Are the Spurs the greatest team in NBA history? No.

Yet, after nearly two decades of dominance and multiple championships, haven’t they won enough to be mentioned with other great teams of the last 30 years? The answer is yes.

Perhaps the problem is in the question: is winning enough to gain elite status for a franchise? If so, why aren’t the Spurs considered one?

Is it because Tim Duncan and David Robinson don’t have the flair and charisma of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan? Is it because they haven’t beaten another dominant team in the NBA Finals? Is it their lack of consecutive championships? Is it simply their bread-and-butter style of play?

Whatever the reason, it’s time the Spurs got the respect they deserve and took their place among the other elite franchises in pro basketball history.
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