2014 NBA Playoffs X’s and O’s by Zak Boisvert

Written by Coach Peterman

I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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June 30, 2014

2014 NBA Playoffs X’s and O’s by Zak Boisvert

The NBA Playoffs were a great sight to be seen this year. San Antonio Spurs have been the team that the rest of the NBA has been waiting to go away in the NBA playoffs for several years. They have been counting the days that Tim Duncan and Gregg Popovich retire.

Tim Duncan is 15 years removed from his first NBA championship and has been around a long time to transition the San Antonio Spurs from a boring brand of basketball to a beloved brand of basketball in the NBA Playoffs.

The NBA San Antonio Spurs use their precision passing and selfless style to complete a redemptive run to their fifth NBA championship with a 104-87 victory over the Miami Heat in the NBA Playofffs.

They have learned to evolve and adapt along the way and Tim Duncan has adjusted his game to make room for an exciting, but erratic shooting guard in Manu Ginobili, a great point guard in Tony Parker, and now a stotic 22 year old player in Kawhi Leonard who was named the NBA Finals MVP after holding his own against LeBron James and fulfilling Gregg Popovich’s words about him being the future of the franchise.

Kawhi Leonard scored 22 points and 10 rebounds in the NBA Playoffs game to win an NBA Championship He became the youngest Finals MVP since Magic Johnson in 1980.

The better team defeated the game’s best player and it set a NBA Playoffs record with 12 games decided by 15 points, including all four wins in this series.

Tim Duncan joined John Salley as the only players in NBA history to win championships in three different decades, but Tim Duncan’s run was more remarkable because he is make contributions in all phases of the game.

I really appreciate all the work that Zak Boisvert has done here. He was one of my first basketball coaching contributors to work his way up to NCAA Divison 1. He has an exceptional work ethic. He is now an NCAA Division 1 Assistant Coach at the University of Maine.