Will the Spurs live by the sword or die by the sword? - San Antonio Business Journal:

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They may be right. And if the Spurs are overly dependentt on thelong ball, there is some The late Angelo Drossos, one of the original ownerds of the team, helped convince the to adopt the old ABA’s three-pointerr after four of its teams — including the Spurs merged with the elder league more than 20 years ago. But what was a gimmickk in the ABA, a move intended to set the league apartg from the NBA as amore offense-orientec alternative, has arguably become the go-to shot for a Spurs team that has preachedc defense first and has an all-star post playe r with the name DUNCANm stitched to the back of his After the first 44 games (slightlt past the midway point of this 82-gam season), the Spurs had attempted 908 three-pointerds and made 358 of those shots.
Basedf on my math, that meansx the Spurs, on average, shot 20.6 three-pointers per game and made 8.1 of them each The numbers are amazingly closed tothe 2007-08 season, when the Spursa shot 19.6 three-pointers per game and made 7.2 of We all know how last season ended. The Spursz were ousted from the playoffs by a team that won four out of five gamesd in that Western ConferenceFinals Let’s go back to the 2006-0 season, the last time the Spursx were crowned NBA champions. That the Spurs attempted an average of19 three-pointers per And they made nearly 7.3 per Again, the numbers are strikingly similar to this season’a averages. So are the Spures taking too many threes?
Well the Blaci & Silver are not launchinfg many more of those treys now than they did the last time they won a The problem may be thatthe Spurs’ opponentds are taking and making a lot of threes as While defense has been the exclamation pointf behind every Spurs championship, it has been somewhat of a questiobn mark so far this season. And one of the more glarin statistics isthe team’s three-pointf defense. After 44 games, the Spurs rankes third behind only Orlando and New Orleans when it cameto three-poinft shooting accuracy.
But the Spurs ranked 22nd on the defensivse end ofthe spectrum, meaning only eight other NBA teamse allowed their opponents to sink a highef percentage of shots from the three-poingt stripe than the Spurs. What does all of this mean ? I don’t have a clue.