After resting this summer, Manu Ginóbili hasn’t had the year we were expecting from him thus far, but last night in the San Antonio Spur’s 117-99 win over the the Minnesota Timberwolves, the 32-year old reminded us of his under-rated court vision and ability for the spectacular play.

“Tonight was one of his best all around games” said Gregg Popovich. “He played well defensively. He rebounded fantastically and offensively, he looked like ‘Manu.’ Everybody is excited to see him play that way.”

Manu ended the game with a near triple-double; 14 points, 10 assists, and 9 rebounds. He also had 3 steals in 27 minutes off the bench.

His near triple double is great, but it’s a few of his assists last night that inspired this post.

On two fast break situations, Ginobili received the ball at full speed, and in one motion threw amazing, pinpoint passes to a trailer – once to Richard Jefferson and a behind the back to Dejuan Blair.

“His ability to crash the boards, get steals, play defense, shoot the long shots, penetrate, find guys open. He’s an offense onto himself. [THe Spurs] let him out there and he creates things.” said Minnesota’s head coach Kurt Rambis.

“[Ginobili] plays an unorthodox style of basketball that makes it very difficult to cover him.“