The beginning of the Spurs way was drafting David Robinson, then Tim Duncan with high picks, then being sharp with ahead of the game scouting to keep hitting late 1st rounders out of the ball park 

Quote from: LatterDayCelticsfan on June 13, 2014, 01:56:41 AM

The beginning of the Spurs way was drafting David Robinson, then Tim Duncan with high picks, then being sharp with ahead of the game scouting to keep hitting late 1st rounders out of the ball park

Exactly.

and great coaching from Popovich

CP, there's no question that the Spurs are a well run franchise. If there was a system for building a culture where all-stars want to stay with your franchise for less money than they can make elsewhere, though, every single team in the NBA would be doing it.

The Spurs were not patient when they were bad. The Spurs were patient when they were good. They were disciplined about maintaining their success by paying extra attention to overachieving international prospects instead of underachieving ncaa prospects and high profile square-peg free agents. We can admire them for that, sure, but when you are on top, you have the luxury of making low-risk-low-reward-moves. It's not difficult to be disciplined when (a) you're already a top team, and (b) your stars are both aging gracefully and somehow not interested in money.

But yeah, let's be smart!

spurs were more lucky assembling this team than anything. but they have done a great job maintaining that luck.

any team trying to intentionally repeat what they have done is an exercise in futility. I don't want that to be my team.

Let's not forget about Parker.  He was drafted after the all star Joseph Forte!   

Lets be honest. Really all they did was draft Duncan.

Well, not really. They also mostly managed to keep a competent team around him. But that second part is pretty meaningless without drafting Duncan.

If we can draft someone this year who is a plus passer for his position (Gordon, Smart, Anderson, Saric) our ball movement could be very good next year. I believe Sully and KO are good at passing and cutting, Bradley is a good cutter, and Rondo is an excellent passer. If we can add another good passer we could have a team that makes up for the lack of a go to isolation scorer by creating open shots via savvy passing and cuts.

That being said, the Spurs also play good defense and adding Anderson or Saric to our team would only make our porous defense worse.