I never really agreed with the notion that the Spurs are a
boring team, especially the Big 3 version of the Spurs (Timmy, Tony and
Manu) of the last 5 years. Watch this video highlights of this year’s
playoffs, courtesy of “John Rambo” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kH1mc6esaV0
If you don’t find that brand of basketball especially the
passing and flawless execution as
exciting you’re not really a basketball lifer. Yeah there are only few highlight
dunks , but you’ve got to appreciate the beauty of complete mastery of team
play over individual highlights.
I know a lot of Filipino fans associate Miami Heat “small
ball” with the Philippines , but actually when you really think about it ,
based on the type of talent we have available, small and crafty guards (ala
Parker and Manu) a high IQ big man (Duncan) the team that actually resembles
the Philippines more in terms of type of talent is not Miami but the
Spurs. The Spurs are actually no bigger
in the NBA context than Gilas is with the FIBA Asia context (with Marcus,
Fajardo and Jap) , this notion that our bigs are short is actually no longer
true and is a thing of the past (pre Doulthit or Gilas years). What we actually
don’t have is athletic and powerful wings or Guards with size like Lebron, Wade’s
or the El Khattib’s or Douglas of FIBA Asia. So really personnel wise actually we are really
dissimilar to Miami. If we actually want to capitalise on our strengths
the Spurs flawless passing and execution and smart team defence is actually
what we should emulate.
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