There’s an old saying that goes something like this: “It’s the Spurs System.” At one point, it was considered a compliment, a form of reverence to the Beautiful Game Spurs. A player’s level of stardom, strengths or witnesses didn’t matter. If the ball kept moving and the players bought in, good things happened — including championships.
The only time it could be taken as a negative was when critics used it as excuse to disregard the success of an individual player’s capabilities, implying that the Spurs System was so “plug-and-play” oriented that anyone could do it.