Manu Ginobili didn’t do a whole lot in his nine minutes of action against the Sixers on Thursday, but I don’t hold that against him because he’s the same age as me and I consider it a victory if I can go a whole shift at work without falling down. He still has a couple of moments per game that remind us of glories from the not-too-distant past, however, and thanks to Justin Willard of Nylon Calculus, it turns out that Ginobili’s heyday was even better than we thought.
As you may be aware, Ginobili has long been one of those players whose numbers don’t look all that impressive when you go by the traditional counting stats and averages we see in box scores.