Schoening: Spurs In The Balance

[Spurs Brazil]

Spurs In The Balance
by Bill Schoening | November 5, 2009

Spurs guard Roger Mason Jr. made an interesting point during a recent pregame interview. Mason thinks that with the overall depth on the Spurs roster this season, there may be no player on the team to average as many as 20 points per game.

Even though the Spurs are averaging close to 104 points per game, there is so much balance that Tony Parker leads the team at 16.3 ppg. There are five players averaging in double figures and no one is averaging 30 minutes per game. Manu Ginobili is now in his 8th year with the Spurs and says this is the deepest team he's played on and one of the deepest in the league.

For the Spurs, it's clearly the collective effort and not about one guy putting up big numbers.

http://www.nba.com/spurs/timeout/20secondto.html

[Samr]

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

The Spurs' greatest off-season acquisition was not one single player, but rather the fact that the combination of players allows them to be flexible and preserve their stars for the playoffs.

[Interrohater]

Harharhar! I can't wait to hear about the rest of the Spurs being put on the all-decline team. It's gonna hilarious and also frustrating to hear people say that Parker has lost a step.