Nikoloz Tskitishvili

[Buddy Holly]

Dude was cut by Portland... I know, I know.

So far he's been a huge bust.

But why not give this guy chance?

[Please_dont_ban_me]

Not enough room on the roster for another risky guy.

At this point we need a sure thing, in my opinion.

[Buddy Holly]

He can take Sean Marks place on the roster (the last or second to last guy).

[strangeweather]

Dude was cut by Portland... I know, I know.

So far he's been a huge bust.

But why not give this guy chance?
If we're going to take a chance on a ridiculously unlikely long shot, why not just sign Shawn Kemp? At least there was a point in his career when he could actually play basketball.

[Please_dont_ban_me]

He can take Sean Marks place on the roster (the last or second to last guy).

Sean Marks is probably better than this kid. I'm serious.

[Big P]

Already? They just got him off waivers like 2 days ago & I thought he was going to be on their summer league team...weird...I would take a shot on him for the minimum.

[Quadzilla99]

That guy was an orca sized bust. Have you seen his shooting percentages?

[timvp]

Another great Buddy Holly thread.

[Kori Ellis]

Didn't Porland just pick him up on Friday?

He's gone already?

Damn he sucks.

[Obstructed_View]

I'm sure the Spurs are working up a 10 day contract offer for him as we speak.

[Buddy Holly]

Another great Buddy Holly thread.

Mature and intelligent way to add to the thread.

Maybe next time I'll start a "Who wants to whack off Reggie Evans?" thread.

You'll be the first to post, no doubt.

[Kori Ellis]

....

Where did you see that he was waived?

[Buddy Holly]

Where did you see that he was waived?

ISH.

[Please_dont_ban_me]

Mature and intelligent way to add to the thread.

Maybe next time I'll start a "Who wants to whack off Reggie Evans?"

You'll be the first to post, no doubt.

:lol

[Pistons < Spurs]

He's definitely no Nowitzki: Blazers cut loose Tskitishvili

PORTLAND, Oregon -- It looks like he wasn't the next Dirk Nowitzki after all.

The Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday waived forward Nikoloz Tskitishvili, who has been a major bust since being taken in the lottery in 2002.

Selected fifth overall by the Denver Nuggets, the 7-foot Tskitishvili was counted on to be the next great European player. Instead, he has career averages of 2.9 points and 1.8 rebounds in 172 games. The native of the Republic of Georgia has played with five teams.

Tskitishvili, 23, averaged 2.8 points and 1.7 rebounds in 12 games with the Trail Blazers last season.



http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2510501

[Kori Ellis]

Is that the quickest waiver wire pickup being re-waived ever?

He should get a trophy or something.

[Please_dont_ban_me]

2.9 points?

God damn...he needs to be arrested for robbery.

[Buddy Holly]

Didn't the Spurs work him out before the draft?

[Kori Ellis]

Tskitishvili, 23, averaged 2.8 points and 1.7 rebounds in 12 games with the Trail Blazers last season.

He played for Phoenix last season.

[timvp]

Tskitishvili is probably the worst player in the league, yet San Antonio boy wants him on the Spurs.

Classic.

[Buddy Holly]

Tskitishvili is probably the worst player in the league, yet San Antonio boy wants him on the Spurs.

Classic.

Yeah, and you want the nut grabber.

Lets see:

Buddy wants a first round bust for a summer league team spot maybe even in the ALL IMPORTANT 14th man role Sean Marks has owned for three seasons.

LJ wants the cat who tried to molest Chris Kaman to come be the big show stopper in SA.

I'll get on that whacking thread ASAP.

[Please_dont_ban_me]

This should be good.

[Quadzilla99]

This should be good.

:lol :lol

[gregpschneid]

he is only 23 and is a good athlete

[SPARKY]

If he can't make it in Phoenix with Nash setting him up he can't make it anywhere.

[furry_spurry]

I can't wait for the heads to explode when the Spurs sign him believing they can be the ones to change him into something he isn't.

[carlos30]

i don't see him coming to the spurs

[SPARKY]

Yeah, too expensive.

[Spurologist]

Sir Charles always stays players are in the league for a reason and are good.

He was wrong. Maybe he needs to be introduced to Tskitiskvili.

I can almost swear you say shit every time you say his name. Maybe it's just me.

[zeleni]

The guy would be a fantastic Euro player.

[NBA Junkie]

He played for Phoenix last season.

...And Minnesota. If you consider mop up duty as actually playing.

[Bruno]

The main reason why he has been waived is that he has been an asshole with Portland :


With no other game-tested center around, Tskitishvili, career scoring average 2.9 points per game, demanded a guarantee of a contract for next season before he'd report to summer league.

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf?/base/sports/115207351348260.xml&coll=7&thispage=2

[GrandeDavid]

A couple years ago I attended a closed Spurs practice and watched alongside the Slovenian national team coach and an assistant coach of the Spanish national team. I remember explicity the Slovenian coach, when talking about Eastern European talent, that Skita (Nikolaz Tskitishwhatever) would become a great player in the NBA in a couple years. Well, its a couple years later and looks like dude has regressed! :lol

[ChumpDumper]

We are so going to end up with Skita and Keith Van Horn....

[GrandeDavid]

He asked me if I'd heard of that young kid "Nikolaz Tskitischvili". I was like "yeah, you ever work with him?". The coach said he had and said that he was a nice prospect, talented and would have a great NBA career. I wonder if he still stands by that opinion. Very nice guy, though.

[Obstructed_View]

A couple years ago I attended a closed Spurs practice and watched alongside the Slovenian national team coach and an assistant coach of the Spanish national team. I remember explicity the Slovenian coach, when talking about Eastern European talent, that Skita (Nikolaz Tskitishwhatever) would become a great player in the NBA in a couple years. Well, its a couple years later and looks like dude has regressed! :lol
About thirteen years ago I was attending Fatso's watching a Spurs game alongside a North Carolina fan watching a college game. I remember explicitly the UNC fan assuring me that Eric Montross would be a better NBA center than David Robinson. ;)

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Dude was cut by Portland... I know, I know.

So far he's been a huge bust.

But why not give this guy chance?

I guess saying he sucks would be too obvious an answer.

[Kori Ellis]

About thirteen years ago I was attending Fatso's watching a Spurs game alongside a North Carolina fan watching a college game. I remember explicitly the UNC fan assuring me that Eric Montross would be a better NBA center than David Robinson. ;)

I have a worse story than that.

In 1997, Josh Elliot (who is now on ESPN) came into the temp agency that I used to run in Beverly Hills. He was a young guy looking for any kind of job related to sports. I ended up getting him a job making $8.50/hour at Fox.

But anyway, we became friends and it was about draft time and we had huge argument about Tim Duncan. He said that Duncan was too soft to ever be anything but a role player in the league. I said he'd eventually be MVP. :drunk

Yes, he works on ESPN as an analyst and I babysit this messageboard. :lmao

[JamStone]

When a player makes the Darko pick look genius, you probably don't want to pick him up.

[Mr. Body]

Kori, the guy sounds tailor made for ESPN, where you have to respond to flash and sizzle the way Pavlov's dog did a whistle. It has to make you salivate and hoot and get tunnel vision unto blindness. Duncan was too mellow and vanilla for this guy. They probably asked him the "Tim Duncan" question when he applied at ESPN - they still ask it today: "Has Tim Duncan ever won the Most Valuable Player in the NBA?"

Bonus points if you answer, "Who?"

Basic answer that'll get you the job: "Duncan? Did he? I don't think so. We can get the stats guys on it. Maybe not, not enough time..."

Hired!

[tlongII]

The main reason why he has been waived is that he has been an asshole with Portland :



http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf?/base/sports/115207351348260.xml&coll=7&thispage=2


This is true. He was demanding a guaranteed contract when Przybilla looked like he was signing elsewhere. Once Joel signed we booted his selfish ass out of here.

[MI21]

:lol

Somebody wants this guy?

Sean Marks is FAR more useful.

[wildbill2u]

Dude was cut by Portland... I know, I know.

So far he's been a huge bust.

But why not give this guy chance?

Because when you've been cut by Portland, the next stop is bouncer at a bar in Baltimore.

[Quadzilla99]

He might be one of the worst players in NBA history. Look at his stats. Career 30.4% shooter (shot 29.3% his rookie year). I've never heard of anybody that low.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/stats?statsId=3603

[GrandeDavid]

About thirteen years ago I was attending Fatso's watching a Spurs game alongside a North Carolina fan watching a college game. I remember explicitly the UNC fan assuring me that Eric Montross would be a better NBA center than David Robinson. ;)

HILARIOU! You kidding me!? :lol

[GrandeDavid]

I have a worse story than that.

In 1997, Josh Elliot (who is now on ESPN) came into the temp agency that I used to run in Beverly Hills. He was a young guy looking for any kind of job related to sports. I ended up getting him a job making $8.50/hour at Fox.

But anyway, we became friends and it was about draft time and we had huge argument about Tim Duncan. He said that Duncan was too soft to ever be anything but a role player in the league. I said he'd eventually be MVP. :drunk

Yes, he works on ESPN as an analyst and I babysit this messageboard. :lmao

SWEEEEEEEEET!!! Kori, you are kidding me!! That is also hysterical! What a fool that guy is. He must've been trying to make a name for himself by bucking the trend, by going against the tide of accolades for Tim Duncan at that time before the draft.

[Axl Van Dam]

:madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun :madrun

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FREAKING MIND?

[GrandeDavid]

^ A lethal dose of combustible attitude - Billy Bailey combined with Jean Claude Van Damme.

[George Gervin's Afro]

I was living in Misssissippi (University of Southern Miss. Class of 98) at the time when the Spurs won the #1 pick and I actually had the following conversation. I was at a local watering hole enjoying a few adult beverages and struck up a conversation with the dude sitting next to me at the bar. We started to talk about the Spurs (I brought them up) and what they were going to do with the #1 pick. I told him that the Spurs would no doubt draft Duncan however he had a different perspective. He told me that he had some inside information :lmao that the Spurs were going to trade the pick because they already at David Robinson. His source also told him that the Spurs felt that the 2 centers could not play together and he emphatically (like someone does after 12 beers) predicted the Spurs would not pick Duncan....

Come to think of it that might have been Isaih Thomas..

[Obstructed_View]

I have a worse story than that.

In 1997, Josh Elliot (who is now on ESPN) came into the temp agency that I used to run in Beverly Hills. He was a young guy looking for any kind of job related to sports. I ended up getting him a job making $8.50/hour at Fox.

But anyway, we became friends and it was about draft time and we had huge argument about Tim Duncan. He said that Duncan was too soft to ever be anything but a role player in the league. I said he'd eventually be MVP. :drunk

Yes, he works on ESPN as an analyst and I babysit this messageboard. :lmao
That's awesome. Things like that are why I laugh when people try to refute an argment by saying, "All the ESPN guys agree with me."

[Obstructed_View]

HILARIOU! You kidding me!? :lol
Actually, the guy said that Montross at that time was already better than Robinson.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Last year we win the Michael Finley sweepstakes and suddenly this summer people are saying we should sign Portland rejects???

What happened to my Spurs?