Threes hardly a long shot

Every morning before practice, Spurs players hit the floor to work on what coaches call “your shots.”

“They’re the shots you’re mainly going to get in the offense, that you have to be comfortable with,” guard Gary Neal said.

The definition of “your shots” is different for every player. To Neal, “your shots” encompasses a broad area.

“Anywhere behind the 3-point line,” he said.

What makes this Spurs team so unique, and so lethal, is that Neal has plenty of dead-eye company behind the arc.

Through 23 games, the Spurs lead the NBA in 3-point accuracy, hitting 41.4 percent. Heading into Monday’s games, no other team was shooting better than 39.1 percent.

If the Spurs maintain that pace, they could wind up challenging the league record, set in 1996-97 by the Charlotte Hornets, who made 42.8 percent of their threes that season. The Spurs’ club record is 40.7 percent, established in 2000-01.

“With 3-point shooting, you take open shots and hope it’s a night when they are going in,” said Matt Bonner, the league’s fifth-most accurate long-range shooter. “We’ve had more nights than not when we are making them.”