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gospursgojas
08-09-2006, 01:00 AM
Man I bet the Spurs are kicking themselves for letting this kid go....He can ball. Instead they are stuck with the TO machine: Beno.

Nah but Im asking for real, why did the Spurs not hang on to him? Was it a salary issue, roster issue, or did they think he wasn't ready?

On that note, what happened between the Spurs and Alex Garcia, he can ball too.
Solid D
08-09-2006, 01:02 AM
They didn't let him go. The Spurs traded the draft pick prior to the selection being made. The Suns merely told the Spurs who to select.

The Spurs didn't want to commit first round money to anyone who was left at that point.
gospursgojas
08-09-2006, 01:05 AM
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
T Park
08-09-2006, 01:07 AM
Alex Garcia has had a broken foot and blown out knee in consecutive seasons.

Id say hes not durable enough...
whottt
08-09-2006, 02:07 AM
The Spurs traded his rights(mainly the pick) so they'd have money to sign Jason Kidd.
Burn531
08-09-2006, 02:21 AM
The Spurs traded his rights(mainly the pick) so they'd have money to sign Jason Kidd.

That worked out well. :lol
RuffnReadyOzStyle
08-09-2006, 02:45 AM
Thankfully it didn't! :lol


Alex Garcia has had a broken foot and blown out knee in consecutive seasons.

Id say hes not durable enough...

I love it how Garcia's misfortune translates to "not durable enough" in T Park's head. :oops

How exactly do you take action to prevent a broken foot and a knee reconstruction??? Those aren't injuries you can do anything about. The phrase "not durable enough" applies to players who don't play through injuries they otherwise could play through, not poor souls like Garcia!

Hell, "he's been unlucky" is a much better and fairer description.
T Park
08-09-2006, 03:13 AM
I love it how Garcia's misfortune translates to "not durable enough" in T Park's head

He has played in little to no NBA Games.

He cannot stay healthy.

Therefore, so far, he isn not durable enough to play the game.


How do you take action against those injuries? You dont.


You could say that about alot of injuries.

He is injury prone, as was Willie Anderson and his damn legs.
Mavs_man_41
08-09-2006, 03:31 AM
Heres one fan whos glad the spurs didnt get Barbosa.
Buddy Holly
08-09-2006, 03:36 AM
That worked out well. :lol

Yep. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2005/06/24/PH2005062400133.jpg

Btw, how did resigning Ben Wallace go?
Burn531
08-09-2006, 03:45 AM
Yep.[/IMG]

Btw, how did resigning Ben Wallace go?

Oh you took that as a jab to your team, not intended that way. Sorry dude.
Nbadan
08-09-2006, 04:04 AM
Heres one fan whos glad the spurs didnt get Barbosa.

Or Josh Howard. You could say that the 05-06 season was punishment for the Spurs for passing up all these trade and draft opportunities for a miniscule chance to land Kidd.
TDMVPDPOY
08-09-2006, 06:28 AM
i dont give a shit about that summer, we didnt need that scrub kidd, barbosa or the wankers who were FAs that summer who didnt bother lookin at the spurs = we went onto win 2 rings, so eat shit = karma is a biatch
ducks
08-09-2006, 09:48 AM
Barbosa is more of a sg then point guard
cheguevara
08-09-2006, 10:06 AM
Barbosa is more of a sg then point guard

so is Parker
wildbill2u
08-09-2006, 10:23 AM
You could say that about alot of injuries.

He is injury prone, as was Willie Anderson and his damn legs.

Speaking of legs, has anyone looked at the wheels on Ian Mahimi (Sp?)? He looks like a stork with those long thin legs. I wondered when I saw him if he had any history of injuries? I know people keep talking about him beefing up, but there are some physical characteristics that you are just born with--and skinny legs is one of them.
orhe
08-09-2006, 10:30 AM
yeah jordan was the shit with his skinny legs... so maybe mahimi would turn out just like him :)) wink
spurs_fan_in_exile
08-09-2006, 11:07 AM
I don't know exactly what happened between them but there must have been some bad blood because Pop sent Manu out there to break Barbosa knee.
rascal
08-09-2006, 11:16 AM
yeah jordan was the shit with his skinny legs... so maybe mahimi would turn out just like him :)) wink
I wouldn't say Jordan had skinny legs but the Iceman did.
picnroll
08-09-2006, 12:02 PM
Camby and Keon Clark should prove a skinny big man can play in the NBA albeit injuries can be an issue.
diego
08-09-2006, 12:12 PM
I don't know exactly what happened between them but there must have been some bad blood because Pop sent Manu out there to break Barbosa knee.

please dont feed the trolls

There are a lot of dumbasses out there that really believe that
Spurologist
08-09-2006, 12:29 PM
How many f-ing times is this topic going to be mentioned. Move on.
MajorMike
08-09-2006, 12:32 PM
That worked out well. :lol

FYI, Barbosa, who was not widely regarded in the draft that featured LeBron and Carmelo and a lesser unknown (Wade) with high profile PGs like TJ Ford and Hinrich and Ridnour, was traded to the Suns for their 2005 1st rounder. The idea was good - the Suns didn't seem to be going anywhere and the 2005 draft was projected to be much more robust than the 2004 one (which it was). No one could foresee the Suns getting Steve Nash and having the best record in the NBA. As a projected pick of around the same area as the Spurs would already have, it wasn't worth uch to us at that point, so we included it in the deal to NY with Malik and our 2006 1st rounder for Nazr.

Therefore you could say that we sent Barbosa to Phx, Malik and the 2006 1st round to NY and got the last piece of our 2005 Championship team - Nazr. Seems like an ok deal to me.

FYI, with those 2 picks, NY got Mardy Collins in 06 and David Lee in 05. Real game breakers, those 2.
picnroll
08-09-2006, 01:47 PM
FYI, Barbosa, who was not widely regarded in the draft that featured LeBron and Carmelo and a lesser unknown (Wade) with high profile PGs like TJ Ford and Hinrich and Ridnour, was traded to the Suns for their 2005 1st rounder. The idea was good - the Suns didn't seem to be going anywhere and the 2005 draft was projected to be much more robust than the 2004 one (which it was). No one could foresee the Suns getting Steve Nash and having the best record in the NBA. As a projected pick of around the same area as the Spurs would already have, it wasn't worth uch to us at that point, so we included it in the deal to NY with Malik and our 2006 1st rounder for Nazr.

Therefore you could say that we sent Barbosa to Phx, Malik and the 2006 1st round to NY and got the last piece of our 2005 Championship team - Nazr. Seems like an ok deal to me.

FYI, with those 2 picks, NY got Mardy Collins in 06 and David Lee in 05. Real game breakers, those 2.
That was a highly protected pick the Spurs got, protected to pick 20 or so.
SequSpur
08-09-2006, 01:54 PM
considering the fact that the spurs have only 3 championships, I guess this was a bad move.


:rolleyes
ShoogarBear
08-09-2006, 02:09 PM
GoodSequ, for a limited time only . . .
MajorMike
08-09-2006, 03:11 PM
That was a highly protected pick the Spurs got, protected to pick 20 or so.

In other waords, the pick was ours unless it was in the Top 20, yes.
phxspurfan
08-09-2006, 09:52 PM
David Lee will turn out to be a baller. Dont dog him just yet.
Nbadan
08-09-2006, 11:34 PM
Barbosa, who was not widely regarded in the draft

Matt Bonner went 45th in the same draft. Barbosa was a coin flip, but Howard would have been a solid pick at 28. I still can't believe he fell to Dallas at 29.
MajorMike
08-10-2006, 10:38 AM
David Lee will turn out to be a baller. Dont dog him just yet.


He'll never be crap as long as he is stuck in NY.