spurs have a excellent team considering they are very nonathletic. They play team ball with excellent defensive switching and passing. I watch them play everytime they are on television because they play beautiful basketball. Rockets are a ISO team with a little passing mixed in. Rockets style is ugly but effective until they are forced to play in halfcourt
Obviously I don't listen to a ton sports talk in SA, but when I am there I hear a ton of cowboys talk. I would venture to guess the Cowboys are more important to SA than the spurs, but I could be wrong.
Check the games. Tim Duncan is allowed to play illegal D and is allowed to set moving screens to get Parker to get by his defender.