Checking in on Danny Green

Just over a month ago I wrote a very small entry on San Antonio’s Danny Green and the importance of his 3-point shooting. I mentioned at the time that when the former Tar Heel made 3 or more such shots in a game, the Spurs boasted an 11-1 record.

Well Green exploded for a career high 28 points today in the Spurs victory over Minnesota, in the process draining no less than eight 3-pointers.

Green’s now made 103 long range shots this season at a success rate better than 40% on his 242 attempts.

And what of the team’s success rate when Green hits that three, 3-pointers per game mark? Well after today the Spurs moved to a very solid 16-1.

Perhaps the moral of the story is that if you’re playing San Antonio you‘d better have a plan in place to curtail Green. In addition to Parker and Duncan and Ginobili and Bonner and Leonard and Jackson and Neal and Splitter and Diaw and Blair and De Colo