The Spurs 2014 Offense Is Basketball Euphoria

The Spurs won the NBA championship over the Heat in 2014, and it was offensive basketball perfection, Gregg Popovich led an unselfish group with Kawhi Leonard, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili. I breakdown how they play in the post, their off-ball movement, their passing, and more.
Motion offense.

[Chandasouk]

Sweetest revenge as a Spurs fan. The beautiful game.

[spurguvitunhuora]

During this series, being a Heat fan i really wanted to hate the Spurs. But... that felt impossible. This is too beautiful.

[juanfrainsane]

finally someone did a video on this team. For non-american players, this is the best basketball we've ever seen (and took us all by surprise to see it in the NBA) and this is how every coach wants their teams to play. Just beautiful to watch

[RushOurComplex]

I genuinely believed Diaw was in the runnings for finals MVP. Absolutely destroyed the Heat. Pick'd them apart.

[nothing]

as a spurs fan these clips make me feel way too much nostalgia :(

[deandrepage]

Boris Diaw was a GAME-CHANGER. 😅😅😅
Passer's I.Q. of a NBA point guard.

[mike.cdn]

Until this day, I recognized this Spurs team as the greatest I have ever seen and one of the greatest in the modern era. This Spurs team had it all, textbook beauty basketball! Solid on the defensive end and some of the best passing you could see in the Finals. This was the moment I grew a large appreciation for Kawhi Leonard.

[des]

The 2013 and 2014 Spurs are among my favorite teams of all time, and they had a major influence on Steve Kerr and what he brought to the Warriors. It’s amazing how differently they played compared to the Spurs teams of the 00’s.

[BeachPleased]

one of the reason Spurs can nulify Heat Aggresive Defense, (Double Team opponent PnR Ball Handler) is ball movement and how Boris Diaw use as the roll man, He's very comfortable distributing the ball. Shoutout to Coach Daniel for mentioning Diaw as one of the best passer in this team. On the Defensive end, People always say that Kawhi is the best LeBron stopper, but often forget how Boris Diaw contain Lebron, whether it's one on one or post up.

[jeromeybarrita]

Hard to imagine that the 2014 Spurs played very different to the 2013 Spurs. They really changed the pace of their game and revenge was sweet. 🏆

[shangoat]

The first part immediately reminds me of Yao Ming, who during his entire NBA career couldn't figure out how to deal with post front. Partially because the best passer he ever played with is Alston/T-Mac.

[lagpc]

Now that i think about it, only now did i appreciate how insane the spurs was. You have parker, ginobili, duncan, and kawhii?! AAAND they were coached by popovich.

[TheHdgie]

The '12-15 Spurs all played the beautiful game. '12 they didnt quite have the D to go with it, and they got hosed by Thunderefs. '13 is the great finals series, which you could say was 1 rebound away from a championship, '14 they won the title, and '15 they had injury problems all year and lost to a Chris Paul prayer in game 7...point is, they all played the great offensive scheme.

I'd also want to point out that the Warriors dynasty took the beautiful game from the Spurs and slightly tweaked it for their personnel.

[juanjuan]

This video just show how important was manu team effort in the big 3 succes. He had all this little things, so much sacrifice. Better 6th man of all time.

[J-jizzy_]

That’s what you have when everybody buys into the system and everybody is coherent. That’s what a lot of teams are missing. It’s beautiful

[sleepypete]

I’ve never noticed this stuff watching these games before. I’m usually fixated on the ball handler, this is phenomenal basketball dude. You have great content man, I love it

[zwebackshyper]

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[janalexishinoguin]

That made the warriors in 2015 Kerr being new coach fresh from popovich's lessons.

[DustVoltrage]

People always underestimated Diaw's contribution, the guy was so important in this system !

[wes]

Out of 5 championships this was my most gratifying. It was like an orchestra that came together and it was beautiful to watch 😢