SPUR NOTES
There is a framed quotation on the wall in the Spur locker room from turn-of-the-century social reformer Jacob Riis:
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
Spur Coach Gregg Popovich frequently refers to that before big games. The Spurs expect to hear it several times in the next two weeks.
“Especially the part about the one hit not splitting it, but the 100 that came before it,” said Will Perdue, the backup center. “Because that’s what kind of team we’ve become, the kind that will chip away and chip away at you.”
The thought will be particularly useful for a team playing against Shaquille O’Neal.
How does one prepare to pound on the big guy?
“I go outside and push my car around the block,” Perdue said.
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