Easily good for 1st in the NBA. Miami 2nd in the league at 92.5. Might see another Spurs/Miami 67-65 game this year, or something like that. Only, I doubt Timmy gets 17 & 25 rebounds this time
Haven't seen those kind of numbers since Spurs/Pistons/Rockets in the early and mid 2000s tbh
Our defense has been our having grace this season (small sample size and we've really only played 3 good teams, but still). It's been great. It's going to be what we hang our hats on all season. Hopefully our offense starts catching up as the season goes on.
The stat is good and all, but I hope we can carry it against good teams.
I wonder what the advanced metrics say about which lineup is most stingy defensively.
88.8 tbh.
Even if you play bad teams some times u do not play d because your mind set is you can out score them
Love that we are hanging our hat on defense. That is what will translate mostly to the road, and into the playoffs. Having long active and athletic wings in addition to bigs who can defend every area near the basket well will bother the out of teams.
The Heat having given up 100+ pts to a couple of teams including two this past week.
When D West is in the game, he's making use of his body when rebounding. He was never an athlete and for some stupid reason would foul a lot more before coming here. We saw some of that earlier in the season, he's been coached up not to do that. Now that he's learning that the team would rather not foul, he's doing a better job of being in position to play defensive position basketball.
He has long ass arms & likes to strip people but he gets caught w/ his hand in the cookie jar too often.
Until the 2014 rodeo trip, the Spurs couldn't beat good teams, they lost against Blazers, Thunder, Rockets, Pacers, Clippers, Bulls...But we all know how ended that season for the Spurs.
I remember this . Thought we were fools gold.
B-b-b-but the Spurs aren't making enough 3 pointers...
B-b-b-but the Spurs can't win close games...
B-b-b-but INSERT EXAGGERATED SPURSTALK CONCERN HERE...
It's not a given it will last, but it's been really phenomenal. And I know Ettore Messina gets talked down a lot here, but he's been the architect of that during the summer.
Yah but that was because of injuries
Spurs Defense is back in full effect, my friends.
Milwaukee had 59 points late in the fourth before they put a small spurt on our third string. That's just unfathomable in this day and age of the NBA.
The good old days when spurs relied on there defense....Spurs have been playing some pretty good D this yr.....Reminds me of the Spurs of old....
i think i read something the other day saying that the last team this good defensively were...the spurs in 2005Easily good for 1st in the NBA. Miami 2nd in the league at 92.5. Might see another Spurs/Miami 67-65 game this year, or something like that. Only, I doubt Timmy gets 17 & 25 rebounds this time
Haven't seen those kind of numbers since Spurs/Pistons/Rockets in the early and mid 2000s tbh
All hail Ettore.
I have never busted his chops.
I actually shared an interview he gave talking about the team.
I had forgotten about him actually, but yea, he's known as supremely defensive minded.
If he had a part on Anderson's improvement on D, I have to admire the man, because he came in as a rookie labeled as a defensive sieve, yet he could shoot. Right now he's not shooting (I credit Chip reworking his shot, and him needing confidence on it to shoot, never was a shooter as a young guy so to develop that uncouncious shooter mentality, he might never, he could be like Diaw, ever the reluctant shooter, but I digress), defensively he's night and day from where he was.
I actually think us not having Belinelli and those minutes going to Kyle and now Simmons, and then Danny or Kawhi (who both have taken minutes with the bench as a 3, has had a gigantic impact). Also, Lamarcus is much better defensively than he was in Portland, and he's healthy, blocking shots and playing more minutes than Tiago.
Overall we have better defensive personnel... but I have to give props to Messina too. You are absolutely right.
Note; playing at a bottom five pace
The defense has been terrific, but the notion that it is historically great is absurd. Our compe ion has consisted almost entirely of bottom of the barrell offensive teams. Let's see if we can still keep our opponents under 90 PPG once we've had all 4 games against the Warriors under our schedule.
i predicted that the D would be historically great this year, so I'm not surprised with the early results.
Spurs know that they need to start peaking going into the playoffs.
Hardly seems ridiculous if Miami isn't all that far behind.
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