Anyone else excited about the youth we have?

[Buddy Holly]

A second year Gary Neal, a second year Tiago, a second year James Anderson, Da'Sean Butler, Ryan Richards, maybe Nando de Colo to whomever they draft pick.

Now we just need to figure out how to trade Jefferson and Bonner.

Orlando took back Hedo. Maybe Toronto will take Bonner back?

[timtonymanu]

You forgot to mention the guy who wears #22.

[Agloco]

A second year Gary Neal, a second year James Anderson, Da'Sean Butler, Ryan Richards, maybe Nando de Colo to whomever they draft pick.

Now we just need to figure out how to trade Jefferson and Bonner.

Orlando took back Hedo. Maybe Toronto will take Bonner back?

I'd be much more excited if that youth was in the form of a polished defensive minded 6'8" or 7' player.

[HarlemHeat37]

No, not really..

Splitter, yes, he could be a starter, with some development and adjustment to the NBA..

I like Anderson, but he's already injury prone..he's good when be plays..

Neal is good, but he's not "young", and he doesn't play "young"..he's a good 8th man..

Hill still has the potential to be a great 6th man, Blair has the potential to be a good 4th big..

Not that exciting, IMO..Spurs don't have a young player with the potential to be a top 3 option, they don't have any perimeter defender prospects, and they don't have a prospect in the form of an athletic big to compliment Duncan and Splitter..

[Buddy Holly]

I'd be much more excited if that youth was in the form of a polished defensive minded 6'8" or 7' player.

Bonner and Blair to Toronto for Amir Johnson?

[MaNu4Tres]

No, not really..

Splitter, yes, he could be a starter, with some development and adjustment to the NBA..

I like Anderson, but he's already injury prone..he's good when be plays..

Neal is good, but he's not "young", and he doesn't play "young"..he's a good 8th man..

Hill still has the potential to be a great 6th man, Blair has th potential to be a good 4th big..

Not that exciting, IMO..


This.

[Buddy Holly]

No, not really..

Splitter, yes, he could be a starter, with some development and adjustment to the NBA..

I like Anderson, but he's already injury prone..he's good when be plays..

Neal is good, but he's not "young", and he doesn't play "young"..he's a good 8th man..

Hill still has the potential to be a great 6th man, Blair has the potential to be a good 4th big..

Not that exciting, IMO..Spurs don't have a young player with the potential to be a top 3 option, they don't have any perimeter defender prospects, and they don't have a prospect in the form of an athletic big to compliment Duncan and Splitter..

You skipped three of the names I listed and added two names I didn't list.

And how is Anderson injury prone? Because he got injured once this season? Freak injury took him out for most of the season.

As for Neal, he's young, 26/27 isn't "old".

[Buddy Holly]

You forgot to mention the guy who wears #22.

I sure did.

[FromWayDowntown]

I'm not particularly excited about it.

By and large, the young guys on the Spurs roster have mostly proven to be not-ready-for-prime-time as role players, and I don't honestly see great amounts of room for improvement in any of the young guys. I think the ceiling on virtually all of them is "average role player" and if you focus more upon how they'll perform at playoff time, I think the ceiling is even lower than that.

[BoneyTee]

I'd be much more excited if that youth was in the form of a polished defensive minded 6'8" or 7' player.

Awwww but Tiago did show flashes of good defense and knack for drawing the foul. If he can hit his Freethrows and get a post game he will be alright.
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[Buddy Holly]

I only listed two guys who saw minutes in the playoffs. I'm not talking about Blair and Hill, I'm talking about Butler, Anderson, Richards, Colo, Whoever we draft.

Maybe we trade for some youth this summer.

[mexicanjunior]

Nope...none of them are able to carry a franchise, just nice role players...I'll be excited when we get another lottery pick.

[DrSteffo]

No, I'm not excited. Splitter is a decent C but we have no young all-star caliber player.

[Nathan89]

Splitter and Neal are the only young players I like.

[BoneyTee]

Nope...none of them are able to carry a franchise, just nice role players...I'll be excited when we get another lottery pick.
Oh HELL No that would mean another year like 1996-1997 where we went 20-62. NEVER NEVER NEVER want that again. HELL NO
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[mexicanjunior]

Oh HELL No that would mean another year like 1996-1997 where we went 20-62. NEVER NEVER NEVER want that again. HELL NO
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I would prefer that over 10 years of mediocrity and competing for 8th seeds...only to keep picking in the 14-20 range in the draft. We would basically turn into the Indiana Pacers after Miller retired...

[TDMVPDPOY]

i dont think tankin is going to hurt duncans 70% winning record

[Bruno]

Don't count on De Colo. He has regressed since last year.

Bonner isn't difficult to trade. His contract is fine for a player of his level. OTOH, RJ is nearly impossible to trade.

[Buddy Holly]

RJ is nearly impossible to trade.

That's what they said about Hedo and he was traded twice last season.

[admiralsnackbar]

A 6'8" defender is only useful if you have a dominant big already. Duncan is still capable of giving 17 and 8, but he doesn't dominate any longer.

As bad as he was, we didn't lose to the Grizz because of Richard Jefferson.

[Budkin]

We need to take one more stab at it with those guys playing, plus one more big.

[Bruno]

That's what they said about Hedo and he was traded twice last season.

Well, RJ can be traded for another bad player with a bad contract or by packaging him with assets.

[Spurs da champs]

Wonder what's gonna happen with Ryan Richards?

[Hoops Czar]

You skipped three of the names I listed

He sure did. They aren't worth a second thought. Your not winning with any of those guys.

[Hoops Czar]

That's what they said about Hedo and he was traded twice last season.

Hedo was a gamble. They were hoping to get back the Hedo that took Orlando to the NBA finals. They didn't.

[mingus]

nope. not excited.

offensively, George Hill is probably capped out. defensively, he never became the player we hoped he would be. on a championship team, he's probably at best a 6th man. but he's so damn unreliable that you'd be getting an 8th man 1/2 the time. i don't think he'll ever be much better than he is.

Blair still has room for improvement offensively, but he's always going to struggle with his size. because of that he's at best a 3rd big off the bench, but realistically probably a 4th big.

James Anderson????? guess we'll find out next year. too early to really know what to think.

Splitter is starting big material when he caps out. a solid 13 point 9 rebound 1 block guy with a lot of intangibles that don't show up on the stat sheet. by far most upside out of any of our young players.

Neal is good, but a 7th man, career 3-point specialist with very limited ability to mix it up every now and then.

i like Novak, but there's probably a reason why he's never been able to stick with a team.

[spurtech09]

No, not really..

Splitter, yes, he could be a starter, with some development and adjustment to the NBA..

I like Anderson, but he's already injury prone..he's good when be plays..

Neal is good, but he's not "young", and he doesn't play "young"..he's a good 8th man..

Hill still has the potential to be a great 6th man, Blair has the potential to be a good 4th big..

Not that exciting, IMO..Spurs don't have a young player with the potential to be a top 3 option, they don't have any perimeter defender prospects, and they don't have a prospect in the form of an athletic big to compliment Duncan and Splitter..
james anderson injury prone?hes only be hurt once and hes injury prone....

[mingus]

Yes I like the young guys, Butler and Anderson the most as they have the most upside. Splitter is not young nor is Neal but they could be solid role players. Right now we lack a star player.

If we could find a frontcourt defender who can score, like a Kamen and or make a deal for a Josh Smith then I think we could be in the mix next year. Bottom line, like a said early this year TD sould not be playing more than 60 games prior to playoffs.

Manu needs to come off the bench and give us a killer second unit. I think the spurs are gonna go all out this summer to make us a contender because I think this is TD and Manus last season.

Spurs went all out two summers ago. it didn't pan out. bad FA decision to sign RJ at all last summer obviously. and i was on the bandwagon, too. :bang

if you don't sign RJ maybe you're able to throw money at Battier and David West this summer and then contend next year. i don't see any scenario where the Spurs bring in a player the calibre of David West next year w/o giving up Manu or TP.