RC's biggest mistake of his career outside of signing RJ...

[Spurs21Fan4Ever]

Letting Baynes go. Duncan is the only player with significant minutes who can play the C. LMA is fat and unathletic, and Diaw and West are too short. Good teams with bigs will beat the Spurs and we saw that tonight. If Spurs had Baynes they beat OKC to open the season and win tonight against Chicago. What a stupid mistake that was by Buford. The only option they have is to play Boban and he's slow. I still can't figure out why they let Baynes go so easily.

[Kool Bob Love]

Giving Kawhi a Max.

[spurraider21]

giving parker a max extension when he still had a year left on his deal... there was no need to rush that one

[timtonymanu]

Baynes got handed 20 million after getting embarrassed by Blake Griffin in the playoffs. Love Baynes but he's not missed.

[Mr Bones]

What a melt down...

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Worst is awful, and he's going to be even more of a thorn in our side if he gets any meaningful minutes in the playoffs... I still have the VHS tapes at my parent's house of the many Indy/Miami series where Indy winded up losing games because West missed clutch free throws, layups, and failed to box out guys like Birdman or even Udonis Haslem...

[Seventyniner]

So Baynes > Aldridge?? GTFO

[Nathan89]

Wanting to pay all that money to Baynes:lol

[TheGreatYacht]

Aldridge being the whipping boy even after Kawhobe shot 40 something percent :lol

21 & 12 for LMAlpha

[Mr Bones]

If the second worst mistake RC made in a decade is letting Baynes go, then he's doing a damn good job.

[ceperez]

Baynes got handed 20 million after getting embarrassed by Blake Griffin in the playoffs. Love Baynes but he's not missed.

I agree here. Baynes couldn't guard Griffin.

[midnightpulp]

:lol

All of the Bulls bigs outside of Noah were shutdown tonight. Gasol, Mirotic, and Gibson shot a combined 11-31 from the field. I also wouldn't lose faith in Boban. Pop is handling him just he did Baynes, slowly bringing him along. Not having another big is the least of our problems.

[cd98]

Ha, Baynes. That great defender that was routinely on the posterized end of Griffin's dunks. So great that Barnes ripped the ball right out of his hands.

[KaiRMD1]

I take it tonight was a bad loss

[urunobili]

DWI TBH

[Manu-of-steel]

What a melt down! lol!

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

Meltdowns used to be so much better, with more insight and more drama. This is just a dumb post from someone knowing shit about how NBA contracts work. Disappointed.

[DrunkTXLabrat]

you inspired me to bump a tristan thompson thread

[Spurtacular]

Teams have budget limitations. Spurs would've like to've kept Beli, Baynes and CoJo, tbh. Some more than others maybe.

[DMC]

I don't know OP. Alonzo Gee.. that's what I'm thinking.

[Spurs9]

Would OP have kept Jack McClinton too?

[DJR210]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idnICrEhNsI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq2JAgCnQQU

[Silver&Black]

Almost wish I would have logged on last night after the game...

:lol These meltdowns

[Blake]

Bonner. :madrun

[T Park]

Letting Baynes go. Duncan is the only player with significant minutes who can play the C. LMA is fat and unathletic, and Diaw and West are too short. Good teams with bigs will beat the Spurs and we saw that tonight. If Spurs had Baynes they beat OKC to open the season and win tonight against Chicago. What a stupid mistake that was by Buford. The only option they have is to play Boban and he's slow. I still can't figure out why they let Baynes go so easily.


Spoken like a true message board basement dwelling bozo who has zero clue how a salary cap works.

[wildbill2u]

I've noticed that this guy Blake Griffen is dunking on a lot of players in this league, not just our boy Baynes. He may amount to something one of these days.

[cd98]

I've noticed that this guy Blake Griffen is dunking on a lot of players in this league, not just our boy Baynes. He may amount to something one of these days.

Baynes is a good back up center, but he's not better than LMA.

[Horse]

Letting Baynes go. Duncan is the only player with significant minutes who can play the C. LMA is fat and unathletic, and Diaw and West are too short. Good teams with bigs will beat the Spurs and we saw that tonight. If Spurs had Baynes they beat OKC to open the season and win tonight against Chicago. What a stupid mistake that was by Buford. The only option they have is to play Boban and he's slow. I still can't figure out why they let Baynes go so easily.

We had okc beat just didn't finish. And how about tonight we hit free throws and defend the 3? Not to mention the great officiating especially in the 4th. Way too early for this shit.

[Leetonidas]

Lol what a stupid thread

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

No trading away Scola for peanuts. Spurs definitely could have used Scola during the years that Manu, Tim and Parker all were out and playing with injuries.

[Spurs21Fan4Ever]

OK maybe Baynes was too expensive but regardless this team needs a backup C badly, that was my main point. The starting 5 is great, LMA does need to lose a little weight and Green needs to find his shot again, but no backup C will hurt against teams like Chicago and OKC, the 2 PF system might cause problems come playoff time.

[SpursforSix]

No trading away Scola for peanuts. Spurs definitely could have used Scola during the years that Manu, Tim and Parker all were out and playing with injuries.

that could have cost a championship

[Mnky]

Aldridge addition makes spurs number 1 defensive team. Haynes had no offensive existence...so..

Legit thread.

[Lostwingman]

OK maybe Baynes was too expensive but regardless this team needs a backup C badly, that was my main point. The starting 5 is great, LMA does need to lose a little weight and Green needs to find his shot again, but no backup C will hurt against teams like Chicago and OKC, the 2 PF system might cause problems come playoff time.

Staggering Duncan and Aldridge to minimize the amount of time West and Diaw are paired together is the best thing we can do. We also got Boban in the wings for spot minutes when we need a big. Whatever his issues may be, he's good for 5-10 mins of being a paint presence.

[moon02]

I don't see it that way. His was simply a case of being priced out of being reasonable to keep. Not being able to come to terms with stephen jackson after the 03 championship was the only major mistake they have made, in my mind. That being said Jackson was easily just as at fault for that fiasco.

[Spurtacular]

CoJo instead of Jimmy Butler isn't the biggest mistake?

[lmbebo]

Ummm

Trading away Luis Scola to get some dump of a center

[kuato]

Ummm

Trading away Luis Scola to get some dump of a center

[Mr. Body]

Fuck, man, was OP born yesterday? It's Luis Scola.

[ChumpDumper]

It's actually signing Jackie Butler in the first place so they couldn't afford Scola.

[nowitzkikopf]

Letting Baynes go. Duncan is the only player with significant minutes who can play the C. LMA is fat and unathletic, and Diaw and West are too short. Good teams with bigs will beat the Spurs and we saw that tonight. If Spurs had Baynes they beat OKC to open the season and win tonight against Chicago. What a stupid mistake that was by Buford. The only option they have is to play Boban and he's slow. I still can't figure out why they let Baynes go so easily.

think you meant to say Splitter, Tiago. regardless, don't need a back up C vs. OKC (Kanter is a joke) and Chicago won't make it past Cleveland

[Maddog]

CoJo instead of Jimmy Butler isn't the biggest mistake?

That was a huge one. The Spurs where actually had internal debates about KL versus Jimmy Butler. They made the right choice but could have had both! Of course then no LMA because of cap space..


It's actually signing Jackie Butler in the first place so they couldn't afford Scola.

That is a good point. The whole Jackie Butler Scola thing is a lot more complicated than most realize. TIMVP wrote about a while back. Scola had only 1 summer where he could sign with the NBA and Spurs couldn't offer enough to help offset his buyout. Yao Ming got him a Chinese shoe contract. The Spurs tried to trade his rights for something more substantial, however no one was interested. A lot of GMs did not think his game would translate well to the NBA.

[lefty]

:lmao Parker's current contract

:lmao holy overpayment

[GSH]

It's actually signing Jackie Butler in the first place so they couldn't afford Scola.

Bam! But a LOT of people were high on Butler that summer. I remember reading articles talking about how the Spurs had gotten the steal of the offseason. Who knew he was going to take his contract and retire?



CoJo instead of Jimmy Butler isn't the biggest mistake?

Missing Jimmy Butler, in favor of CoJo? That kind of talk is always easy in hindsight. How about missing Isaiah Thomas at 59? Those thing aren't mistakes unless you have a crystal ball.

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah, getting a guy who sticks in the NBA from the end of the first round is almost a crap shoot.

Might as well lament not signing Ben Wallace as a rookie free agent.

[jag]

So Baynes > Aldridge?? GTFO

:lol