[Highlight] The Spurs show off their elite ball movement against the Grizzlies with eight passes between everyone on the floor before Dylan Harper knocks down the 3-pointer.
Its 2006 - the Spurs have great ball movement, you’re broke af
Its 2016 - the Spurs have great ball movement, you’re broke af
Its 2026 - the Spurs have great ball movement, you’re broke af
Damn bro it’s true but like you didn’t have to call me out like that
I feel personally attacked.
Joke’s on you I wasn’t born for the first one of those
Goddamn, I’m old.
Future is now old man
your mama was broke af
to add The 1996 team had some serious momentum with a 17 gm winning streak in the spring
You forgot 1999
Eh, 1999-2003 was just grindy and admittedly quite ugly brand of basketball
The beautiful game
Downright ethical
This is exactly what Wemby was talking about in that presser. People got baited with an edited clip and they think he’s talking about flopping. The ethical comment was made regarding team ball and not having a heavy reliance on ISO ball.
“I probably turned down a shot I can make with my eyes closed, but that was to get one of my teammates a shot he can make in his sleep” - Victor Wembanyama
Quote of the Year.
Look, Wemby is my guy, but he was 100% trolling.
AND I LOVE IT!!!!!!
I grew up watching the 90s/00s spurs. This damn near brought a tear to my eye.
?? This looks nothing like that era of spurs offence. Do you mean the 2012-15 era?
Yeah 00’s was just ugly in general, and the Spurs were amongst the ugliest of them all.
Throw down to the Twin Towers and let cook
Repeat as necessary
My first NBA game ever was the Lakers home opener in 2002, which was vs. the Spurs. Was super excited to see Shaq. I remember it being awful and making me not want to go to another game for awhile, but I just looked at the box score and oh my god. Spurs - Lakers, October 29, 2002.
That game had *87* total turnovers (compared to Grizzlies vs. Spurs tonight which had 27 total turnovers). Kobe was well on his way to earning his reputation by going 9 for 29 (and it felt like he shot more than the rest of the team combined). Tim Duncan wasn’t much better going 3-14. And Shaq? He was injured.
Yeah, it wasn’t a great time.
This is mid-2010s Spurs.
Shades of 2014
Spurcelona
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It works
Only to boring people.
If I was 12 and this much smarter than you, you’d have bigger problems than “boring” spurs basketball.
If this is boring basketball to you then you have more in common with the brain rot tik tok generation than you realize.
Bro, give it up, no one agrees with your shitty opinions
Oh good, you replied. Time to talk more shit and watch you get down voted. I could do this all day, grabbing my beer now and going over all your downvotes. How’s it feel to suck? lol if everyone despises you on the internet, you must have no friends in real life either. Sucks to suck. I’d rather “pretend” it’s good basketball than pretend my opinion is important to anyone other than myself. Please reply….
Spurs won “boring” 🏆🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 the 2000’s & they’re going to add some more soon!
Those Spurs weren’t boring.
People just don’t know what good basketball is.
They had tons of games where both teams didn’t score 90 or even 80 sometimes & the lowest was (70-72) Vs the Suns!
Suns 72-70 Spurs (Apr 22, 2000) Final Score - ESPN https://share.google/9f0rnsmcBT48U5Gpb
So?
You need 50 more points scored in a game where lots of points are scored anyway?
Maybe it has to do with video game instant gratification. What do I know.
sigh
You call that boring and you think you know what good basketball is?
There are a ton of basketball fans that feel the same.
So you don’t know what you’re talking about.
The irony of you saying this moronic take on a highlight of pure team basketball is hysterical.
Brother, he might have hated it, but he still used it. You did not watch the 2010s Spurs play if you think that quote had any influence in the way the Spurs played, because there are dozens of highlights of Pop’s Spurs teams doing exactly what is on this video
Why would I “Limp away”? It’s your quote vs literally watching the Spurs play. You can circle jerk around his quote all you like, but even though Pop said he hated the 3 pointer, he also used it, and did so effectively focusing around ball movement to get open shots. It is quite literally the foundation of the 2014 championship.
But hey, according to you, quotes play basketball. Also are the people who find it laughable in the room with us right now? Because you keep claiming some non-existent support in your comments, which is quite funny
Coming from a nuggets fan 😂
Anyways, back to watching more shit you hate!
Good passing game is not the kind of thing people talk about when complaining about current basketball lmao
Foul baiting is so much more exciting.
You can shove that ‘boring’ take up your ass lmao
Thanks for proving you’re eternally bitchmade
Nah, laughing at your bitchmade ass is too much fun to stop
LMFAO at your projection when you’ve been a defensive little bitch with every reply
By what metric?
Cue literally one of the most poster worthy games of the season. It was a highlight reel tonight
Stick to watching pre-1979 games. Regardless of whether you like it or not, the three is there to stay.
Whole Memphis team collapses on Wemby in the paint
4 defenders in the paint
Boy got offensive and defensive gravity or whatever is the opposite of gravity
Defensive anti-gravity
Defensive anti-matter because he just deletes the paint.
It’s almost as if…
he’s an alien
I think I may have that with women as well
Ultimate push and pull.
Wemby the air gravity bender
Offensive Gravity and Defensive Force Field
They’re not 24-47 for nothing.
Good teams do that too
Their tallest player is 6’9 lmao
fuckin midget
did he snitch
And these pundits wanna talk about no gravity?!
Offense is more than just points
Here is the guilty parties
Those numbers don’t even add up to 100!!!!!
Watch an entire Spurs game and you’ll pretty much see every team in the league do it
That’s for you, Pop!!!
I hope he’s doing good one of a kind
Hes still El Jefe
from all the latest footage, he appears to be doing better. He’s at practices and chatting with players like Wemby.
2014 back on the menu boys
Bring back frogging and the coffee gang while we’re at it!
ribbit
coffee gang
Luke Kornet is on it!
Keep going im almost there.
Wemby gave it back like, “you’re open you mf”.
Lol that’s what I was going to say, pass #7 was kind of unnecessary
At least got wemby the assist?
Dude like 5 of those passes were open shots and unnecessary
They were necessary cause nobody had the confidence to just shoot it. If you get a pass from wemby tho? You better shoot that
Nah, let them run for a bit and get them tired lol. There are 24 seconds on a shot clock, let them play chicken.
Wemby gets absolutely nothing on the box score even though this entire play is because of his gravity. Maybe offensive impact isn’t just points?
Edit: he got an assist. I’m dumb. Point still stands though lol
He got an assist
Glazin mans
This is just 5 defenders collapsing on one player and then 4 perimeter players passing up open shots
Pass up a good shot for a great shot.
The whole point of the beautiful game spurs was giving up good shots so someone could get a better shot. Not only that, but all the ball movement wore defenses down.
Notice how it ends with a wide open Harper 3 (though, he should’ve just shot it before passing it that last time)
To quote a wise, tall man: “I probably turned down a shot I can make with my eyes closed, but that was to get one of my teammates a shot he can make in his sleep.”
Those are all good shots, any one could’ve taken them
It’s like you didn’t even read what he said lol. The point is that the last shot was more open than the others, and it tired them out running around to close out.
Make em work though get them bums on the bench quicker.
Lol I mean it’s the 2026 grizzlies, there’s going to be a lot of bums on the court no matter what they do
That was Memphis’s strategy for the whole first half. If everyone’s open they won’t know who should shoot.
For real lol. It’s cool, but any one of them could’ve taken the shot
Could have =/= should have
Find the best open shot, thats the beautiful game. Yeah people were open, but not nearly as open as Harp was after vic flipped it back to him
They were all wide open lol. The guy who made the last pass had no one near him
Good shot? Nah
Perfect shot
It’s lowkey overpassing, but I like the spirit of it
They should all get an assist
Wemby getting good at those one hand touch passes lately
We’re so fucking back
They had 4 guys on wemby at the start im crying
Wemby is a culture setter. And the spirit of pop lives on
Wemby is a culture setter.
Actually, it seems like it’s Keldon. He’s attributed by many for being more than just 6th man on the court.
KJ is definitely a driving force but I feel like the whole team has bought in at this point.
You dont have 8 people average 10+ a night if anyone on the team isnt bought in.
Spurs org stays winning
This is my typa basketball. Love that team man
OKC could never
This is an ominous sign for the rest of the league.
foreshadowing
noun
Damn, this was nostalgic as hell. I remember watching the Spurs with my late father during their big three days. This had that flavor. Chefs kiss.
Beautiful Game Part 3
Holy shit, /u/bankei_yotaku has posted 40+ times in this thread trying to defend his shit take.
Talk about bitchmade LMFAO
Damn. And I thought Tiki Taka is dead.
Basketball as it was meant to be played.
Holy shit nothing better than good ball movement in basketball! I love It most beautiful thing in basketball in my opinion is when the ball is moving good
That ball being treated like a high profile cornstar in the early 2000s, The whole team hit
Spurs playing in slow motion
Leigh Ellis type beat
Dylan Harper takes great shots
His three ball is getting really good so fast. Not on much volume but you cant sag off him now which is NUTS for a rook doing what hes doing already
Beautiful to see but thats just slow and lazy defense by memphis, every single pass had a open shot.
Spurs band of basketball is just unselfish and a ton of fun. That’s why their superstar is not a ball hog and isn’t all about stat padding.
“the system is back”
The beautiful game has returned
Somehow, Ball Movement returns
Just going around the horn and the defense is scrambling lol. Love to see it though
Spurs are building a 2014 team from the ground up.
Only this time, the core are right about the same age.
Plus, they have a Wemby.
the more things change the more they stay the same
I feel like Anton Ego when he tries Remy’s Ratatouille
Death, taxes, and spurs ball movement
This team will go down as the greatesg dynasty in history, barring injuries of course
They passed up about 4 wide open threes to secure an open three lol. It looks pretty until one guy chucks it into the stands
Imagine beefing with ball movement and a perfect shot that went in
It’s not all that impressive to swing the ball around the arc. Lol. But okay. Magnificent play!!
They passed up like 10 objectively open shots for shots that were not any better
Most of it was just passing it around the perimeter. Good decision making but elite ball movement? Lol, if Harper missed the shot nobody would think that
Looking at your comment history, you appear to be a miserable human being. I hope you get some help and find something that makes you happy in your life.
well thanks, you just saved the rest of us from wondering what it could possibly look like
Some people are doomed to be sad and miserable I suppose.
not really, but when you take it out on others, I really couldn’t care less
Oof. It’s worse than I thought.
ChatGPT ass answer
Dude hide your comments if you’re gonna suck this much.
Well if teams don’t send 4 at wemby it’ll stop and if teams do this happens. Guess what that means for the league? Wemby and the Spurs gonna be unstoppable in a year or two.