Aggie Hoopsfan
06-23-2003, 11:46 PM
I'm calling my shot, Babe Ruth style, on this one now.
Stick with me for a moment...
1. Everyone in the world thinks Kidd is target numero uno. Enter CIA Pop/Buford. These guys are masters of misdirection, and if the entire world is spouting off "my sources in SA tell me the Spurs will make a run at Jason Kidd come July 1", rest assured the Spurs aren't even thinking about sending him a complimentary Coyote's Crew t-shirt.
2. The Kidd-to-Dallas talk that has blown up today. Earlier in the day we were blessed with an ESPN article quoting un-named sources in NJ. Later on, Kidd shows up at a golf tourney chilling with Cuban.
Why does this set off AHF's alarm? Simple. The floated article from NJ tells me that Kidd, or his agent, have learned the Spurs DO NOT plan on pursuing him come July 1, despite their obvious interest in the contrast happening. So what better way to re-direct the interest of the Spurs braintrust than leaking a story that Kidd is possibly headed to Dallas, the Spurs midwest division rival and WCF foe, in a sign and trade?
I'm sure the golf tourney has been planned for a while, but it's all too convenient that the day he goes 18 with Cuban an article shows up on the AP wire about Kidd possibly heading to Dallas and "really wanting to go back to rectify his past."
Spare me...
3. Plans have changed. I don't doubt for a minute that at the beginning of this season Kidd was still first and foremost on the Spurs ubermanagement's mind. Since then, however, we have witnessed:
* the emergence of a 21 year old point guard from France, who won a championship in year two and along the way got the best of guys named Nash and Kidd.
* the penultimate flop of the Indiana Pacers, and subsequent blow up of one potential dynastic big man in Jermaine O'Neal, who went from leading a team near the apex of the east to being a first round loser on a chump team full of has beens and never willbes going nowhere fast.
4. Manu Ginobili. Another low draft pick find of the Spurs, this guy has just hinted at what he will be with his play this year. He was easily one of the clutchest players come crunch time in the playoffs, from timely threes in the Dallas series to ripping rebounds away from Kenyon Martin and stealing the ball from Richardson for an emphatic dunk. You die to have a guy on your team who has crunch time big ball moxy. We have that guy, and he wears #20. He's gonna need more minutes next year (this poster says starting), and if Kidd comes that ain't gonna happen. We'd also lose SJax. No thanks.
So with these factors in mind, coupled with the fact that Pop is in good grace currently with me and would blow it in a New York minute if he called up Jason Kidd on July 1st, I can only come to the highly scientific conclusion that Jermaine O'Neal is coming.
Bar the door kids, the party's just starting.:fro
AHF
Stick with me for a moment...
1. Everyone in the world thinks Kidd is target numero uno. Enter CIA Pop/Buford. These guys are masters of misdirection, and if the entire world is spouting off "my sources in SA tell me the Spurs will make a run at Jason Kidd come July 1", rest assured the Spurs aren't even thinking about sending him a complimentary Coyote's Crew t-shirt.
2. The Kidd-to-Dallas talk that has blown up today. Earlier in the day we were blessed with an ESPN article quoting un-named sources in NJ. Later on, Kidd shows up at a golf tourney chilling with Cuban.
Why does this set off AHF's alarm? Simple. The floated article from NJ tells me that Kidd, or his agent, have learned the Spurs DO NOT plan on pursuing him come July 1, despite their obvious interest in the contrast happening. So what better way to re-direct the interest of the Spurs braintrust than leaking a story that Kidd is possibly headed to Dallas, the Spurs midwest division rival and WCF foe, in a sign and trade?
I'm sure the golf tourney has been planned for a while, but it's all too convenient that the day he goes 18 with Cuban an article shows up on the AP wire about Kidd possibly heading to Dallas and "really wanting to go back to rectify his past."
Spare me...
3. Plans have changed. I don't doubt for a minute that at the beginning of this season Kidd was still first and foremost on the Spurs ubermanagement's mind. Since then, however, we have witnessed:
* the emergence of a 21 year old point guard from France, who won a championship in year two and along the way got the best of guys named Nash and Kidd.
* the penultimate flop of the Indiana Pacers, and subsequent blow up of one potential dynastic big man in Jermaine O'Neal, who went from leading a team near the apex of the east to being a first round loser on a chump team full of has beens and never willbes going nowhere fast.
4. Manu Ginobili. Another low draft pick find of the Spurs, this guy has just hinted at what he will be with his play this year. He was easily one of the clutchest players come crunch time in the playoffs, from timely threes in the Dallas series to ripping rebounds away from Kenyon Martin and stealing the ball from Richardson for an emphatic dunk. You die to have a guy on your team who has crunch time big ball moxy. We have that guy, and he wears #20. He's gonna need more minutes next year (this poster says starting), and if Kidd comes that ain't gonna happen. We'd also lose SJax. No thanks.
So with these factors in mind, coupled with the fact that Pop is in good grace currently with me and would blow it in a New York minute if he called up Jason Kidd on July 1st, I can only come to the highly scientific conclusion that Jermaine O'Neal is coming.
Bar the door kids, the party's just starting.:fro
AHF