As we depend down the times till Spurs basketball is on our schedule (the primary preseason sport it 4 weeks from as we speak), I’m nonetheless discovering inspiration from PATFO and the San Antonio Spurs group.
San Antonio Categorical-Information author Tom Orsborn, whereas in Las Vegas this previous summer season, posted this photograph whereas the Silver & Black had been engaged in Summer time League.
“The measure of who we’re is how we react to one thing that doesn’t go our method.”
That is refreshing. In a league filled with younger expertise who’ve skilled monumental accomplishment, a reminder that success on the highest stage doesn’t come simple is an important a part of the journey.
Full disclosure, I are inclined to subscribe to the Sean Elliott stage of curmudgeonry describing how trendy gamers usually can not maintain a candle to the predecessors. Don’t get me mistaken, the security measures put in place to guard gamers is accountable, but it surely does water down the sport to a sure stage.
I’ve at all times contended that Stephen Curry would by no means have made it by way of a seven sport sequence in opposition to the Unhealthy Boy Detroit Pistons, however he isn’t the one daffodil within the trendy NBA. Few gamers might have intensive careers again when exhausting fouls had been the norm.
Nevertheless it goes past that.
Nearly all of gamers as we speak got here up as a part of the participation trophy era. Loss was sugar coated as to not damage the emotions of youngsters. The gamers who made it by way of to this stage needed to develop grit paired to their expertise. Robust love needed to be explicitly aimed toward them to organize them for the following stage.
A number of years in the past my daughter was classmates with a child whose dad performed for the Spurs. His mom spoke usually of the hours and dedication that goes into making ready a younger man for the pains of the game. Even then, a profession will not be assured, not even after a profitable collegiate run.
The fellows in Las Vegas had been aimed toward making rosters, on the lookout for a house as gamers get signed and futures grow to be decided.
How any given participant handles himself when issues should not going his method says lots about that particular person.
And the Spurs tradition has at all times centered round grabbing as most of the guys who had that important mixture of expertise, teachability, and “over himself”ness essential to carry them into the fold.
Their heroes aren’t Jordan and Kobe as a lot as they’re Durant and Curry. A completely totally different era altogether. Solely two members of this 12 months’s Spurs had been born earlier than Tim Duncan was even drafted.
What do you consider this 12 months’s squad?
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