I don't trust Rudy to be healthy. Nor do I trust Forbes, thus the move to sign a proven champion who knows the system.
Probably. I think they would have had to. When all healthy, 50 million dollar Mills would have been moved from 11th man to 12th man.
LA - Kyle - Kawhi - Green - Murray
Pau - Bertans - Gay - Manu - Hill
or
Pau - Gay - Manu - Hill - Tony
Bertans/Tony - Patty - Forbes as insurance.
Last edited by MaNu4Tres; 02-09-2018 at 09:19 AM.
I don't trust Rudy to be healthy. Nor do I trust Forbes, thus the move to sign a proven champion who knows the system.
Won a ring with boris diaw starting.
Even if Rudy isn't healthy, are you benching Manu or Kyle to play Marco?
I don't think so.
Marco isn't necessary.
Marco can come off the bench with Manu. Kyle play the 4.. bench Davis
Shiiiit Pop would have this lineup
Tony
Ginobili
Marco
Anderson
Bertans
Vince Carter might be bought out. Over 40 years old? Check!
Pop: R.C, get Vince Carter now! Make it happen.
By design. They are no more than Pop's mouthpieces. (Take that any way you like.)
Yeah, I was hoping we would be able to bring George back, too.
I bet Vince would love to spend his last season in the NBA playing with a roster as full of old guys as the Spurs and get to the playoffs one last time. I can see this!
4th quarter starting lineup in a Playoff game.
LMA isn't going to play exclusively center. He forces teams to play big, since pretty much no power-forwards can guard him. So you won't see a lot of Draymond or Anderson at the five when Aldridge is out there unless there are injuries like the one to Nene last year. With a team using a legit center, the Spurs will have a guy for Pau to guard. Gasol is going to get his minutes, especially if he plays well. He's damned sure going to get more than the least playable of Kyle, Gay or Davis if he doesn't suck. Pop's going to want to protect LMA from the physical pounding of playing the five as much as he can.
Patty's a different story. With Murray starting, he's only playable in niche lineups. Unless Pop has an entirely new way of playing defense hidden up his sleeve, you really don't want either of Parker or Mills against GS' second unit. Having both seems bonkers.
Afflalo is another buyout candidate.
Yeah and supposedly Mavericks don't intend to buy out Noel. Wright would be nice, but with Murray now starting in supposed perpetuity, if/when healthy, there's already 10 rotation locks.
If/when healthy, starting Anderson alongside Murray makes no sense. Two virtual non shooters mostly playing off ball roles, is untenable. Starting Gay makes a lot more sense. Would provide Leonard and Aldridge more space and let's face it, that unit is going to be ISO based either way, so they might as well go all in on it.
The opposite is true of the bench. They're going to be motion based either way, so they might as well go all in on it and see if they can produce shades of the beautiful game.
Gay/Anderson/Bertans
Leonard/Ginobili/Paul
Aldridge/Gasol/Lauvergne
Green/Mills/Forbes
Murray/Parker/White
Minutes wise, Gasol and Ginobili function as third big and wing respectively of course, which means the former essentially splits minutes with Gay, while the latter continues on in his long time role of roughly 20 mpg backing up Green.
He is not a buyout guy but Terrence Jones could be another option if Gay is not ready to go after the break.
Last edited by jyra; 02-09-2018 at 02:38 PM.
BOBO UPDATE:
he's nearly in game shape!
Come home King Beli
Dunno why people want Beli. He wouldn't have a rotation spot as it is. They aren't benching Mills or Parker, and Manu isn't playing the four.
yeah belli doesn't really fit at this point. if forbes faceplanted this year, then marco could easily take those minutes, but he's been playing well enough. the only upgrade we should really be looking at is Joff's spot.
He would play a ton for the Warriors and I don't want to see that.
We have to keep him from other contenders like Houston and GS. That’s why.
Philly makes the most sense for him IMO, they desperately need bench pieces..not a contender, but not everybody cares about that..
Agree, I'd be highly surprised if the FO cuts even one guy, but if they do, it should be either Joff or Paul and the replacement should be another big.
I love Beli and would love to see him back, but we already have too many guards as it is.
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