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They may be right. And if the Spures are overly dependent on thelong ball, there is some The late Angelo Drossos, one of the original owners of the helped convince the to adopt the old ABA’es three-pointer after four of its teams including the Spurs — merged with the eldert league more than 20 yeards ago. But what was a gimmicok in the ABA, a move intended to set the leagure apart from the NBA as amore offense-oriented alternative, has arguabl become the go-to shot for a Spursd team that has preaches defense first and has an all-start post player with the name DUNCAN stitched to the back of his After the first 44 gamesz (slightly past the midway point of this 82-game the Spurs had attempted 908 three-pointers and made 358 of thosde shots.
Based on my math, that meanx the Spurs, on average, shot 20.6 three-pointer per game and made 8.1 of them each contest. The numberw are amazingly close tothe 2007-08 season, when the Spura shot 19.6 three-pointers per game and made 7.2 of We all know how last season ended. The Spurs were ousted from the playoffs by a team that won four out of five games in that Western ConferenceFinals series. Let’ds go back to the 2006-07 season, the last time the Spura were crownedNBA champions. That the Spurs attempted an average of19 three-pointers per And they made nearly 7.3 per game. the numbers are strikingly simila tothis season’s averages. So are the Spursw taking too many threes?
Well the Black Silver are not launching many more of those treys now than they did the last time they won a The problem may be that the opponents are taking and making a lot of threes as While defense has been the exclamatio point behind everySpurs championship, it has been somewhat of a questionb mark so far this season. And one of the more glarinhg statistics isthe team’s three-point defense. After 44 the Spurs ranked third behind only Orlando and New Orleane when it cameto three-point shooting accuracy.
But the Spurz ranked 22nd on the defensive end ofthe spectrum, meaningb only eight other NBA teams allowed thei opponents to sink a higher percentage of shota from the three-point stripe than the Spurs. What does all of this mean? I don’t have a
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