If you repeat the same action enough times, drill the same balletic motions into that shared space of memory between gray matter and soft tissue over the years, there’s not much that either a career-threatening injury or a prolonged hiatus can do to override it.
That was, at least, one of the things you could take away from the Spurs’ 115-108 win over the Mavericks on Monday night.
With Tony Parker back in uniform (and back in the starting lineup), the Spurs appeared to pick up where they left off seven months ago, when he was forced out of the playoffs with a torn left quadriceps tendon.