Los Soles wrote:Spurs units in the top 15 in total minutes that employ four out with four 3-point shooters (ranked by total minutes):
Ranking by min . . . . . . .players . . . . . . . . .APM/APM . . . total minutes
3) Parker - Hill - Jefferson - Bonner - Duncan 16.95 74.02
4) Hill - Neal - Ginobili - Bonner - McDyess 32.39 71.38
5) Parker - Ginobili - Jefferson - Bonner - Duncan 11.47 59.08
6) Parker - Hill - Ginobili - Jefferson - Duncan 0.65 57.83
10) Parker - Hill - Ginobili - Bonner - Duncan 19.06 34.83
13) Hill - Neal - Ginobili - Jefferson - McDyess 11.54 31.13
14) Hill - Neal - Jefferson - Bonner - McDyess 11.09 29.08
15) Parker - Hill - Neal - Bonner - McDyess -30.70 28.68
And the Suns??
14) Dragic - Carter - Dudley - Frye - Gortat 5.16 29.08
15) Nash - Carter - Dudley - Frye - Gortat -6.90 28.40
That's insane, right? Tell me that's not insane. I can't believe the Spurs of all teams are playing more like the Suns than the Suns are. This, despite the fact that...
1) We still have Steve Nash playing at a high level.
2) Channing Frye >>>>>>>>>>> Matt Bonner
3) We've done this successfully for the better part of a decade.
4) We swept the Spurs in the playoffs last year with this very style, much of it with our second unit.
5) The Spurs still have Tim Duncan, Antonio McDyess, DeJuan Blair, and Tiago Splitter. We (cough) don't.
6) They've won championships with a more grind-it-out style, playing a lot of three-out/two-in with some of these very same players.