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[SleepingHero]

I remember folks saying stuff like this last summer, that we will replace an elite creator (Luka) with fantastic ball movement.  They ended up being the worst passing team in the NBA.  Its hard to imagine May wont be better at this than Kidd, but generally talent is a much bigger driver of what happens on the court than scheme in the NBA.  Kyrie is going to help, but I don't know that this team has the personnel to have fantastic ball movement.  I guess we will see.

That's a fair point.

I think both can be true. The system has to lend itself to a pass first mindset, and Pop executed that better than probably any coach in NBA history. And we saw it didn't really matter who Pop plugged and played, players were able to be their best selves. I mean hell Matt Bonner, Diaw, and and Patty Mills looked unstoppable on the Spurs and passed well, but were largely forgettable everywhere else. 

But yes, the players need to be good. Parker and Ginobili were annoyingly good, and that's why the Spurs were so inevitable. 

I'm curious to see how May coaches up the guys. But a system closer to Pop's Spurs fits this roster very well, and echoes the versatility mantra everyone has been chanting since April.