It's just one game...

[Marcus Bryant]

...but, some stats of interest:

Spurs shot 76.2% from the line on 21 attempts in the game. Last regular season they shot 72.4% which was 26th in the league (they also had 25.9 attempts per game). A 76.2% team FT performance for a season would've put them at 17th in the league.

In last season's playoffs, the Spurs shot 72.7% or 12th out of 16 teams. 76.2% would've put them at #7.

Quick rundown on other stats of note:

Offensive

Spurs shot 50.0% from the floor tonight and put up 102 points. They shot 45.3% last season and averaged 96.2 points. They shot 30.8% from 3 (36.3% last season). They had 21 assists on 41 made FGs (21.6 assists per game last season). 15 offensive boards (12.0 last season). Gave up 6 steals (7 last season). Were blocked 4 times (5.0 last season).

Defensive

Nuggets shot 48.8% from the floor and scored 91 points (Spurs gave up 88.4 points on 42.6% last season). Nuggets shot 0.0% on 7 attempts from 3 (Spurs gave up 36.7% last season). Spurs blocked 7 shots, had 27 defensive boards, and stole the rock 5 times (6.6, 30.4 and 7.5 last season).


Of course the most important stat was the W. It'll be interesting to see how this year's version stacks up against last season's title team over the course of this season.

[Marcus Bryant]

Spurs' individual performances from the line tonight:

Parker 0-1
Ginobili 6-8
Duncan 3-4
Finley 1-2
Horry 4-4
Mohammed 2-2

Total 16-21

[thekingrobert]

the scary thing is manu and bowen didnt have games they are capable of having

[Marcus Bryant]

True. If there is one thing to be concerned about, at least in this game, was the number of high percentage shots the Spurs allowed. That's reflected in the Nuggets rather gaudy FG%. Hopefully as the season progresses they won't allow a lot of easy buckets as they did last night.

[bigzak25]

knock on hardwood, but man, what a pleasure to see all the depth our Spurs have this year.

I look forward to seeing the freethrows continue to drop and more importantly, for this team to come together Defensively as the season progresses. I cannot wait to see some of the defenisive clinics that I expect to see...especially with well rested players due to the aforementioned depth at all positions.

Go Spurs Go!

1 down. :tu

[DesiSpur_21]

Quick Q on Bruce - What's up with him? Wasn't he aggressive enough? I'll be surprised if he wasn't

[bigzak25]

i can't comment on bruce's aggresiveness as i only saw he 1st qtr, but bruce is always hustling. he sets he tone 9 times out of 10.

melo only got like 23 pts. so bruce did something right.