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Yesterday was the deadline for picking up team options on players on their rookie contract and it appears that the Spurs have decided not to secure the option for second year swingman James Anderson. This might not seem strange considering Anderson's inability to crack the rotation even with Manu Ginobili sidelined, but it is, in fact, very rare for teams to decline their options on first round draft picks.

Most teams keep those young players, even if their production doesn't match their potential, because their contracts are cheap and they might still develop over time. Even the biggest busts seem to get that extra year to prove that they belong on the league. And then there's the Spurs.

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A thought came over me as I watched the Spurs pull one out over the Hornets the other night. I kind of toyed around with it before placing it on the back burner out of the necessity having more to it than simply being a thought. After last night's game against Atlanta, however, I decided that I would rather have this be as short and sweet as I could possibly make it, and have some of the long-windedness I usually tend to replaced with the essence of the truth that surrounds the matter as I see it. To be perfectly clear, it wasn't even the game itself that returned the thought to the forefront of my mind; it was merely the write-up of the game on ESPN's site.

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San Antonio Spurs @ Minnesota Timberwolves

Target Center
January 27, 7:00 PM Spurs Time
TV: FSNO - RADIO: WOAI 1200 AM

In the first meeting of the T'Wolves vs. our beloved Spurs, we lost our MVP candidate, Manu Ginobili and lost the game to the extremely hot-shooting Wolves. Since then, the teams have essentially gone in opposite directions. The Timberwolves have struggled to get over the hump of mediocrity going 6-7 in that timespan, while the Spurs have gone 9-5 during LWM. Both teams have had serious injury bugs with Minnesota having 6 players out for this game, while the Spurs have just 2.

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With games coming so fast and furious and the front page so full of stories, it's been counterproductive to do any photo posts lately, but this photo taken of Tim's knee brace during shootaround Wednesday should be of interest.

During games the brace is covered with a sleeve, so you would not see this unless you were in the AT&T Center around two hours before game time. I have watched him warmup other times this season and never noticed it, so it may be new. It reminds me of the skeleton shoes he wore early last season.

Good evening PTR! After a nice win last night, our Spurs are off. We've got two nationally televised games on TNT tonight. Let's watch!

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This is the second installment of my weekly series looking at the State of the Spurs. I like to write about trends I see, statistics, make predictions, and say all sorts of things that make sense to me that you may or may not disagree with.

My theme for this week:

Tim Duncan cannot move to the David Robinson role, and neither Tiago Splitter nor Dejuan Blair are going to be the new Tim Duncan.

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via www.photographymuseum.com

"'O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death--there stood Henry Jekyll!"

San Antonio's up-and-down season has created a guessing game for those trying to find a constant in the analysis of this team's performance. And yet, after another convincing home victory against another quality team in the Atlanta Hawks, one could argue there is a consistent variable in the equation: home court. In the story of the Jekyll-and-Hyde Spurs, it's evident that the potion necessary to maintain the identity of the good doctor (the victorious Spurs) lies within the confines of the AT&T Center.

But they can't rely only on this for too much longer.

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