The 2012 Spurs Defense Update Thread

[Seventyniner]

... unless Blair is the odd man out.

Mills and Anderson are easy cuts from the rotation. I also think Blair should be removed too, and the other 10 played each game, with minutes shuffled instead of removing more players entirely.

[Seventyniner]

Bump. According to basketball-reference.com:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/SAS/2012.html
the Spurs are 1st in offensive efficiency, which is great, but up to 10th in defensive efficiency. It's a virtual 3-way tie for 9th with the Pacers (103.1), Spurs (103.2), and Thunder (103.2). 11th place is 104.1, while 8th place is 102.1, so the Spurs will finish somewhere between 9th and 11th based on the results of tonight's game. The Pacers and Thunder are done with the regular season btw.

The only teams in the Western conference above the Spurs in defensive efficiency are Memphis (101.9, 7th) and Dallas (102.1, 8th).

I'd love to see how the Spurs' defense stacks up since adding Jax and Diaw, but I'm not good enough at searching basketball-reference.com to find that out.

[Spursfanfromafar]

Bump. According to basketball-reference.com:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/SAS/2012.html
the Spurs are 1st in offensive efficiency, which is great, but up to 10th in defensive efficiency. It's a virtual 3-way tie for 9th with the Pacers (103.1), Spurs (103.2), and Thunder (103.2). 11th place is 104.1, while 8th place is 102.1, so the Spurs will finish somewhere between 9th and 11th based on the results of tonight's game. The Pacers and Thunder are done with the regular season btw.

The only teams in the Western conference above the Spurs in defensive efficiency are Memphis (101.9, 7th) and Dallas (102.1, 8th).

I'd love to see how the Spurs' defense stacks up since adding Jax and Diaw, but I'm not good enough at searching basketball-reference.com to find that out.

Difficult to do this using BR, but hoopdata.com has some possession and efficiency stats for each game..

Taking a simple average of defensive efficiency for games before RJ trade and after RJ and adjusting for overall possessions-

Avg DefEff (Hoopdata calculated, poss adjusted) before RJ trade- 107.93
Avg DefEff (Hoopdata calculated, poss adjusted) after RJ trade - 104.3

Avg OffEff (Hoopdata calculated, poss adjusted) before RJ trade- 112.6
Avg OffEff (Hoopdata calculated, poss adjusted) after RJ trade -117.5

The takeaway is what we already know. Defense has improved by close to 3.45% points, while offense has improved by close to 4.3% points by these metrics.

Good riddance to RJ.