The San Antonio Spurs have done things the same way for almost two decades, but LaMarcus Aldridge's arrival means they may have to do them differently this season.
The Spurs of the past few years have been all ball movement, unselfishness and good-to-great shot-hunting sacrifice. When we think of them, we think of plays like this:
There's something like a hive mind at work here—some kind of telepathy—developed over thousands of hours of attention-to-detail practice and ego subjugation at the hands of Gregg Popovich. The Spurs can play the beautiful game, because they find players who don't care if their stats look pretty in the process.
That's not to say Aldridge is some kind of me-first ego monster. It is to say, though, that a player like him—one with a glamorous, largely individualistic style of play—has never signed on with the Duncan-Popovich Spurs. Where in the Spurs' collective is there room for individuality like this?
Aldridge is a jump-shooting, mid-post-dominating scorer. His team's schemes have always bent to him.
That's why Ald ...
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LaMarcus Aldridge Presents San Antonio Spurs a Challenge They’ve Never Had
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