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Jeff Ayres' best scores of 2013-14

The 15th installment of the "best of" series.

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Be sure to check out the first 14 parts of the series if you missed them the first time around.

Best of Cory Joseph.

Best of Aron Baynes.

Boris Diaw's best playoff passes.

Best of Matt Bonner.

Manu's best playoff assists.

Tony Parker's best scoring plays vs. Dallas and Portland.







Tim Duncan's best playoff scores. Here is Part 2.

Tiago Splitter's best assists. Here is Part 2.

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Let's take a look at some of Jeff Ayres' better scores of the season. These are mostly dunks as Ayres made 36 of his 101 buckets by throwing it down.

Number Ten:

Let's start with Ayres diving to the basket and Boris Diaw flipping him a pass a little behind him. I think we all know that Jeff sometimes has problems handling passes, but here he gathers a tough one that forces him to turn his back to the basket to grab the ball and then continue his spin until he is at the basket. Since Kevin Love is the rim protector at this point Jeff has no problem getting his shot to fall. Pretty smooth.

Ayres_spin

Number Nine:

Ayres is rewarded for his hustle late in the Spurs' rout of the Pacers in Indy here. Jeff is really fast for his size and he beats everyone down the floor where Danny Green finds him open for the two-hand jam.

Ayres_hustle

Number Eight:

Fan favorite Patty Mills hits Ayres with a pass out of a PnR and the big man throws down a monster dunk against the Warriors. If I remember right, Popovich wasn't too happy with Jeff's preening after this one, but it was a pretty sweet jam.

Ayres_big_dunk

Number Seven:

Jeff only played 65 minutes and he scored 17 points during the championship run. Here's his best playoff score. He gets the ball in the crowded paint from Marco Belinelli and turns and scores over Derek Fisher. Extra points for scoring on Fish.

Ayres_vs._okc

Number Six:

Early in the season Will Sevening worked with Ayres to address his trouble handling passes from his teammates by throwing tennis balls at him. He still has his problems, but here he gathers a beautiful lob from Manu Ginobili with one hand and keeps Klay Thompson from blocking his layup by bringing the ball left before finishing once Klay is back on the floor.

Ayres_from_manu8

Number Five:

This is Jeff's first score in a Spurs uniform. It came on opening night against the Grizzlies and it happened off of a Danny Green/Ayres semi-pick-and-roll (how many times did that happen? Once?) Ayres handles the bounce-pass and finishes with one of his many dunks of the year.

Ayres_first_make

Number Four:

Manu and Ayres run a pick-and-roll against the poor Magic that leads to a nice alley-oop. I can't remember exactly how many alley-oops the Spurs completed the two years prior to this last one, but it might have been three. Last season we were treated to quite a few, so that's fun.

Alley_manu

Number Three:

The CoJo/Ayres delayed pick-and-roll. Cory Joseph makes a great bounce-pass between a couple defenders and Jeff gathers it on his way to a huge dunk.

Another_big_dunk

Number Two:

This makes it this high for the gorgeous behind-the-back bounce-pass that Tim Duncan delivers to Ayres as he cuts through the open lane. Ayres finishes the play with one of his big dunks.

From_duncan

Number One:

Manu feeds the trailing Ayres with a nice pass that leads to a ferocious throw down from the big man.

Huge_dunk

Stay tuned for the next installment.