1 game erases all the suck ass before? No.
If he gets the minutes and performs like he did yesterday, then yes, not a good decision but let the grass grow before you cut it.
Only 4 days after the deadline, the decision of not picking JA's option looks horrible...
1 game erases all the suck ass before? No.
If he gets the minutes and performs like he did yesterday, then yes, not a good decision but let the grass grow before you cut it.
Yes.
Showing a glimpse of being NBA material is enough to pick up a that cheap option.
All the suck ass?
The guy hardly played.
What's the big deal? The spurs can still offer him another contract if he proves himself worthy.
Anderson will have a hard time finding time to prove himself this year because of the emergence of Danny Green.
My thing is, Neal's already going on 28 and he will be due a 400-500% increase in his salary a year from now. Which brings me to the scenario of the Spurs having to choose to pay either Neal or Green. Both of their market value should be between 3-5 million. I don't see the logic in paying both off, more specifically Neal due to his age and his skill-set (which are both best suited for a contender;which Spurs obviously won't be a year or two from now).
With that being said, Anderson could of been on the books for very cheap after the Neal/Green decision was decided-- which would insure the Spurs depth at the 2/3 for another 2-3 years for a very cheap price.
Piss poor move by Spurs F.O IMO.
Not much of one. And he doesn't have to take it.
The Spurs tried to play the odds. We'll see how things work out.
Agreed... not enough information yet. I would have liked to see us pick up the option but we didn't so we have to move on. Couple of scenarios:
-If Anderson turns out to be the type of player who can consistently do what he did tonight, he'll get something more than 1.5million. In that scenario the Spurs lose because we'd have to pay him more than his original deal or he leaves and becomes a solid player for another team.
-If we continue to let him ride the bench because he legitimately can't/not ready to help the team then we can possibly resign him to a similar deal starting at 1.2 million for 2 years with the 2nd being another team option.
-Green/Neal become consistent enough to earn 3yr 9million deals then we might not be able to justify JA at 1.2-1.5 range therefore letting him walk.
-Continue to gauge his trade value and eventually pull the trigger on a 2nd round pick or maybe as a trade filler/incentive for a big.
I'll take the last one.
They can't offer him more than the option they failed to pick up.
Only one day before the deadline, it didn't look like a factor one way or the other. You can't think it was a coincidence that this was the first good game we've seen from JA this year?
Only time will tell if that was the right choice or not.
Interesting rule I did not know about, we can't offer above the option. Unless jefferson goes down I doubt ja gets enough time to prove himself. Green looks here to stay and rj is a known quan y. It will be tough otherwise for ja to prove himself in spot minutes. I think it is a good flex move but if somebody is hurt and ja surprises we lose.
NBA teams don't generall pay a lot for a "glimpse" of the ability to play. Ian Mahinmi showed a "glimpse" every now and then. You, yourself said that the Spurs were right to part ways with him. The Mavs only had to pay him 884K this season. And Mahinmi is 6'10" - Anderson is 6'6". The D-League is full of small to medium-sized guys who have some potential.
Sorry, but that one game isn't going to make James Anderson stand out from the crowd. And there wasn't anything (this year) before that one game to make him stand out from the crowd. He's going to have to do more than that before the other teams come calling.
And BTW - that "cheap option" is only cheap if he shows more than a "glimpse" in one game.
I'd be more upset if it was Green that had an option and the Spurs decided not to pick up. Anderson has done nothing to justify his option being picked up. The level that Anderson is playing it would seem that the Spurs could find a marginal player to fill same role Anderson has perfomred in two years.
Yeesh. Supposedly, Jones fractures kill shooting touch. That's kind of a big deal for Durant.
Yeah, this could be very not good for him and OKC.
Was one of the first people I thought of when the news of the injury came out. Really, really sucks for Durant if it plays out the same way.
Based God's curse
damn... I totally underestimated potential consequences of his injury tbh
the more I read the more I see this fracture sucks
Patty and Jennings are playing the best bball of their careers since their injury, so there's hope for okc
Durant's body frame is totally different than a couple of PGs though.
Patty, yes. Jennings, no. Brandon still hasn't recovered his stroke. He went from being a RoY favorite to being a horrible contract almost exclusively because he's inefficient as now.
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