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• To Foul or Not to Foul: Down Two, 27 Seconds Left

  
  48 Minutes of Hell — Authority: 562
  With 27 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Portland inbounded the ball, nursing a lead that had narrowed to two after a layup by Tim Duncan. With just over 3 seconds separating the game clock and the shot clock, the Spurs chose to apply on-the-ball pressure and hopefully force the turnover or, at the very least, a ...
  3 days ago

• Other People: Arnovitz on Kaman and the Spurs D

  
  48 Minutes of Hell — Authority: 562
  Via Clipperblog : The book being drafted by most of the league on Chris Kaman instructs teams to swarm the Clippers’ big man with double-teams when he catches the ball at 15 feet. But Spurs coach Gregg Popovich’s reading list is self-authored and it reads something like this: “We’re the San Antonio Spurs. ...
  5 days ago

• The San Antonio Crisis Of Faith

  
  Hardwood Paroxysm — Authority: 660
  Above is the play-by-play for the final ten seconds of last night’s game against the Indiana Pacers. Hidden inside this very standard and typically unhelpful form of score-keeping is a wealth of information about what has been going right and wrong for the Spurs this season. The hero of this ten second stretch is ...
  6 days ago

• Read Between the Lines

  
  48 Minutes of Hell — Authority: 562
  Above is the play-by-play for the final ten seconds of last night’s game against the Indiana Pacers. Hidden inside this very standard and typically unhelpful form of score-keeping is a wealth of information about what has been going right and wrong for the Spurs this season. The hero of this ten second stretch ...
  1 week ago

• Indiana Pacers 99, San Antonio Spurs 100

  
  48 Minutes of Hell — Authority: 562
  Well, that was far more stressful than I had anticipated. In a game that Gregg Popovich described as an “ugly win,” the Spurs won on a go-ahead dunk from Tim Duncan with four seconds left. After an excellent 1st quarter that ended with a Matt Bonner and Manu Ginobili led run, the team fell flat for the middle ...
  1 week ago

• Gladwell, Spurs, Capitalization Rate

  
  48 Minutes of Hell — Authority: 562
  Malcolm Gladwell, talking with Bill Simmons : What we’re talking about is what are called capitalization rates, which refers to how efficiently any group makes use of its talent. So, for example, sub-Saharan Africa is radically undercapitalized when it comes to, say, physics: There are a large number of people ...
  1 week ago

• Spurs Slow Start

  
  College Football Picks | NFL Predictions | Free Sports Picks — Authority: 147
  Did the San Antonio Spurs go out and spend a bunch of money this past offseason on two players past their primes?  Head coach Gregg Popovich doesn’t think so, and is attributing his team’s 13-10 slow start to them trying to find their rhythm and getting everyone on the same page according to Jeff McDonald of the ...
  1 week ago

• Blair may start soon for Spurs

  
  Bob Smizik's Blog — Authority: 480
  Thursday, 2:45 p.m. Here’s what San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich told the San Antonio Express-News about former Pitt All-American DeJuan Blair: ``If the coach had any brains, he’d be playing him more. The guy is like a stat machine.’’ Although Blair is 11 th in minutes played on the Spurs, ...
  1 week ago

• True Story, Red Dawn Starts Just Like This

  
  Hardwood Paroxysm — Authority: 660
  During the tenured coach’s pregame session with the media, he was made aware of this tweet from Nash. And in classic Popovich style, he sarcastically answered the question, but not before making his feelings about Twitter crystal clear. “Does Steve tweet? I’ve lost all respect,” Popovich joked. “Steve Nash ...
  1 week ago

• Heard It Through the Grapevine

  
  The Two Man Game — Authority: 523
  Theoretically, NBA defenders would become slower and less effective with age. According to Jon Nichols’ statistical work earlier this season, that may not be the case. Jason Kidd’s defense this season is a perfect anecdotal complement for Nichols’ research, and while Kidd may not be as quick as he used to be, ...
  1 week ago

• The Spurs Might Be Broke

  
  48 Minutes of Hell — Authority: 562
  In today’s Daily Dime , John Hollinger picks up on a few themes that are popular to 48MoH this season. We’ve recently written that this year’s Spurs team is Tim Duncan and too little of everyone else. Hollinger agrees: …Tim Duncan is playing unbelievably well. On Tuesday, he had 34 points, his most since ...
  1 week ago

• Gregg Popovich, Not a Fan of Twitter

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 605
  Filed under: Spurs , NBA Twitter , NBA Coaches PHOENIX -- Tuesday morning, as the Suns were preparing to face the Spurs later that night, Steve Nash posted a message to his Twitter feed that said in part, " Anyone know coach Popovich was an American spy in Russia before he began coaching? No wonder his ...
  1 week ago

• Suns Continue Home Dominance With Beating of the Spurs

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 605
  Filed under: Spurs , Suns PHOENIX -- The last team to hold the Suns under 100 points at home was the Spurs , who did so back on Christmas Day of 2008. San Antonio couldnt repeat the feat on Tuesday, so Phoenix extended their home hundred-plus streak to 35 games, on the way to a comfortable 116-104 drubbing of ...
  1 week ago

• NBAs Most Surprising and Disappointing Players/Teams

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 771
  Most Surprising Players Brandon Jennings   Even though Jennings has struggled recently, he is still the most surprising NBA player through the first quarter of the season. Jennings was the top high school prospect two years ago, but after his immense struggles in Europe last year, most scouts were not high on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Evaluating George Hill

  
  48 Minutes of Hell — Authority: 562
  Gregg Popovich’s favorite player is on the mind of basketball pundits. From my point of view, George Hill is much-improved this season. His ability to run the offense–as opposed to running to the corner for a spot up three–has been on showcase since Summer League. His increase in minutes between seasons (from ...
  2 weeks ago

• CelticsHub on World Champions

  
  48 Minutes of Hell — Authority: 562
  Zach Lowe of CelticsHub has posted a thought-provoking piece on the meaning of winning an NBA championship within the global context . His inspiration: Gregg Popovich. I suspect that many of our readers can add to the conversation in the piece’s comment thread. Have at it.
  3 weeks ago

• Brash And Bullish Defeat Dull And Efficient: Celtics vs. Spurs Stuff

  
  Hardwood Paroxysm — Authority: 660
  The C’s did a nice job keeping Parker out of the paint with just a few exceptions. Specifically, they designed their defense to keep him out of the middle of the paint. Watch how Rondo defended Parker whenever Tony got the ball on the wing, and you’ll see him open up his stance to give Parker the baseline. When ...
  3 weeks ago

• Boston 90, San Antonio 83

  
  48 Minutes of Hell — Authority: 562
  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. “It’s a 48 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pound-for-pound crown: Dennis Rodman vs. James Worthy

  
  Dime Magazine (www.dimemag.com) : Daily NBA News, NBA Trades, NBA Rumors, Basketball Videos, Sneakers — Authority: 669
  During last night’s Celtics/Spurs game, a random question came to me: How would Dennis Rodman’s career have panned out if he’d played for Gregg Popovich in San Antonio?Rodman built his rep as a throttling defender and monster rebounder in Detroit, but he didn’t get all (publicly) weird-acting until he got to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Re-Becoming Boston

  
  48 Minutes of Hell — Authority: 562
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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