Rummpd
09-17-2010, 01:40 PM
http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com/09/08/10/FISH-The-Top-Six-Off-Season-Moves-In-The/landing.html?blockID=306865&feedID=3577
1. San Antonio: The Fountain of Youth
By reputation, the Spurs are old. Tim Duncan limps a little bit and Manu Ginobili is going bald and … wait a minute. … they just signed Brazilian star Tiago Splitter to a three-year, $10.9-million deal? And Splitter has all that international experience but is just 25?
Never mind.
The Spurs acquired his rights at the end of the 2007 Draft. They didn’t panic, they didn’t demand. They just nursed the situation. And now the time – because some of the Spurs actually are aging, as humans do – is right.
Splitter is a post-up weapon, he’s a worker, he’s a great pick-and-roll fit on both ends. … He’s not LeBron or Wade or Bosh … and again, none of the pickups in the West this summer are. But Tiago Splitter represents how it works in the deeply competitive West, where elbowing and paddling matter so much.
{Others getting praise are: 6) NO 5) Utah 4) OK 3) Mavs 2) Lakers}
By the ways, prayers have to go out to Tim Thomas who at least has temporarily retired to stay home with a sick wife. . . . http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com/09/14/10/Needing-to-take-care-of-ailing-wife-Tim-/landing_mavericks.html?blockID=311037&feedID=3577)
1. San Antonio: The Fountain of Youth
By reputation, the Spurs are old. Tim Duncan limps a little bit and Manu Ginobili is going bald and … wait a minute. … they just signed Brazilian star Tiago Splitter to a three-year, $10.9-million deal? And Splitter has all that international experience but is just 25?
Never mind.
The Spurs acquired his rights at the end of the 2007 Draft. They didn’t panic, they didn’t demand. They just nursed the situation. And now the time – because some of the Spurs actually are aging, as humans do – is right.
Splitter is a post-up weapon, he’s a worker, he’s a great pick-and-roll fit on both ends. … He’s not LeBron or Wade or Bosh … and again, none of the pickups in the West this summer are. But Tiago Splitter represents how it works in the deeply competitive West, where elbowing and paddling matter so much.
{Others getting praise are: 6) NO 5) Utah 4) OK 3) Mavs 2) Lakers}
By the ways, prayers have to go out to Tim Thomas who at least has temporarily retired to stay home with a sick wife. . . . http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com/09/14/10/Needing-to-take-care-of-ailing-wife-Tim-/landing_mavericks.html?blockID=311037&feedID=3577)