Its borderline Maloofian to be so faddish as to run around gushing over whatever team won the title last. The year before last it was stretch 4! stretch 4! by idiots ignoring the fact that Miami only won with its "stretch 4" because he's one of the 5 best basketball players to ever play the game. Before that it was ooh! Juan Juan Barea! Runty gunner! Runty gunner! Certain ownership idiots translated that into Jimmer! Jimmer! and started trashing the team over it. Another squad actually dumped a big contract on said runty gunner, have hated it ever since, and just got done buying him out.
The Spurs are the Spurs. And they are a great passing team. And big amazing whoop. We've seen good passing teams before. They also aren't nearly as democratic as shallow neophyte analysts like to claim there are. FGA/36:
Parker 16.5
Mills 15.7
Duncan 15.1
Manu 14.6
Bellinelli 12.4
Leonard 12.1
Green 11.0
Diaw 10.6
vs. Indiana
George 16.9
Scola 14.4
West 13.7
Turner/Granger 12.3/12.0
Stephensen 11.4
Hibbert 11.3
Heck, we were as highly stratified as any team last year, but our Top 3 guys weren't actually taking that many more FGA than the Spurs Top 3 guys:
Cousins 16.8
Gay 15.3
Thomas 15.2
The difference that the shallow nimwits pass over is simply minutes played. The Spurs are NBA grandpas. They can't play big minutes. But when they ARE on the floor they're gunning it nearly as much as our younger personnel is.
