My husband also emphasized to me, that they passed a lot, a strategy to make each player contribute rather than have just one star making all the points. Ego is subsumed for team cohesion and advancement.
He also said they were focused, disciplined and humbled, not wanting to explain, predict or crow after the game. They are in the zone until the last decisive game.
Bravo!
One extremely underrated four-letter word is part of why the Spurs exemplify a pure aspect of the game. The word is “pass”.
As LeBron James admitted: “They put you in positions no other team in the League does.” His reference was how the Spurs passed the ball to the weak side so quickly as part of a precise offensive set that the Heat did not get into the correct defensive position.
Two words explain how that happened: “Greg Popovich”. He is widely regarded as the best coach of grown men on the planet for a reason. He watched the first two games of the series. He saw his Spurs lose home court advantage and how they could have been down 0-2 but for LeBron James cramping amidst arena air-conditioning failures. He then did what great coaches do – make adjustments. “Pop” inserted Boris Diaw into the starting lineup because of his passing skills. Then Pop reconfigured some plays so that in essence, as LeBron also admitted, the Spurs were transformed into having “4 players with point guard passing skills.”