Ricky Davis

[Ghost Writer]

Anyone?

Ricky Davis is now signed to a 6-year, $34.1 million contract through this season.

He says that he doesn't want to leave the Heat and is looking for a permanent home.

He's a veteran.

He's a swingman.

He has cornrows.

[hsxvvd]

Dude, you never quit.

No trade.

Ricky Davis is a losing team player.

[Ghost Writer]

Dude, you never quit.

No trade.

Ricky Davis is a losing team player.
Pull the trigger already.

He's a fine player that's been on losing teams.

[FromWayDowntown]

What does Ricky Davis bring the Spurs that they don't already have? (other than cornrows).

A bad, me-first attitude?

An erratic jumper?

An undersized, occasionally-effective slasher?

A guy who doesn't defend particularly well?

[Holt's Cat]

The Heat would be looking for some talent in return. If the Spurs are to target anyone on the Heat, Haslem makes the most sense, but that would be kinda hard to pull off, unless they are really ready to move him and will accept cap relief.

[Holt's Cat]

What does Ricky Davis bring the Spurs that they don't already have? (other than cornrows).

A bad, me-first attitude?

An erratic jumper?

An undersized, occasionally-effective slasher?

A guy who doesn't defend particularly well?


Hey, it'd get some run on SportsCenter...

[ancestron]

Ricky Davis fucking blows give us a break with this shit.

[phxspurfan]

Seriously, please don't even suggest this. I really hope the Spurs FO doesn't take anything like this seriously (because we know they read Spurstalk).

[themvp]

MezCclCSjNw

Ricky Davis misses a shot intentionally to get a handicapped triple double.

:blah

[Ghost Writer]

Oh, I'm sorry.

The Spurs get the pick of the litter, right?

Davis ahs an expiring contract, too!

Here's an experienced veteran who can play the 3 and 4 and that Pat Riley endorses, yet you snobs are okay with Bowen and Udoka.


Fine by me.

[Texas_Ranger]

:lol @ themvp video.

[Holt's Cat]

Barry for Davis works straight up. I don't think he would get much run with the Spurs the rest of the way. Frankly Barry would be of more value to the Spurs for the remainder of this season.

You could hope that he finds a nice sign and trade deal for you in the summer. Still, why do the Heat trade him away for the expiring contract of an aging vet?

[FromWayDowntown]

Oh, I'm sorry.

The Spurs get the pick of the litter, right?

Davis ahs an expiring contract, too!

Here's an experienced veteran who can play the 3 and 4 and that Pat Riley endorses, yet you snobs are okay with Bowen and Udoka.


Fine by me.

Ricky Davis can play the 4? At 6'7" and 205? A guy whose best rebounding season was 4.9? Maybe that explains why Miami is so bad this season!!

[Holt's Cat]

Well, we know Ghost's theme for the rest of this season and on into the summer...'Why can't the front office trade for real ballas like Ricky Davis? Popd@mn.'

[adidas11]

Ghost likes his ballas. But I don't see how Ricky Davis would fit into the Spurs scheme this season, or beyond.

[Ghost Writer]

Well, we know Ghost's theme for the rest of this season and on into the summer...'Why can't the front office trade for real ballas like Ricky Davis? Popd@mn.'
Oh, fvck you.

I'll stand by my posts.

Trade for a player with short-term contract that can contribute to the playoffs if you can now, because the front office has not been able to bring in young, quality talent via free agency.

[FromWayDowntown]

Trade for a player with short-term contract that can contribute to the playoffs if you can now, because the front office has not been able to bring in young, quality talent via free agency.

Regardless of whether that player fills a real on-court need or not.

Fantasy Basketball 101.

[bdictjames]

I thought'd you'd never ask.

NO.

[Ghost Writer]

Regardless of whether that player fills a real on-court need or not.

Fantasy Basketball 101.
We don't need an athletic scorer at the 3?

Die slow.

[FromWayDowntown]

We don't need an athletic scorer at the 3?

Die slow.

Yeah, I'll take my chances with Bowen.

If the Spurs needed an athletic scorer at the 3 as a primary need, I would hope they'd look places other than Ricky Davis.

[Holt's Cat]

Oh, fvck you.

I'll stand by my posts.

Trade for a player with short-term contract that can contribute to the playoffs if you can now, because the front office has not been able to bring in young, quality talent via free agency.


My, someone's panties are in a wad.

Ricky Davis would not contribute more to the Spurs in the upcoming postseason than 57 year old Brent Barry. Then he's a free agent and either you have to sign him or most likely he walks without even finding you a decent sign and trade deal.

At least pick a player who's worthwhile.

[degenerate_gambler]

If the Spurs needed an athletic scorer at the 3 as a primary need, I would hope they'd look places other than Ricky Davis.



like Maggette

[Holt's Cat]

We don't need an athletic scorer at the 3?

Die slow.


Why do they need that? They have athletic scorers on the perimeter at the 1 and 2. What they do need is a perimeter defender that allows them to defend their opponent's top perimeter scorer 1 on 1.

Ghost doesn't understand Spurs Basketball.

[ElNono]

What does Ricky Davis bring the Spurs that they don't already have? (other than cornrows).

A bad, me-first attitude?

An erratic jumper?

An undersized, occasionally-effective slasher?

A guy who doesn't defend particularly well?

All of the above...

[SenorSpur]

like Maggette

Just like Maggette.

C'mon man. There are more plausible options that Davis

[T Park]

yet you snobs are okay with Bowen and Udoka.


I'm more than Ok with a clutch shooting 3 who shuts down the other opponent's best wing player and another guy who not only can guard points and wings but athletic 4s as well.

Bowen and Udoka showed last night they can score as well.


Die quickly but painfully.

[Holt's Cat]

Every season it's the same old fucking broken record. The Spurs win championships with defense, veteran role players, and non-flashy small trades, if at all, and Ghost wants the Spurs to win it with offense, young crackheads, and big headline grabbing trades. One would have thought he'd find another team to follow by now.

[T Park]

Ghost would be a perfect fit with the Suns.

[ambchang]

This is just getting ridiculous, all these bs trades coming up from GW. Frankly, I wish you would just have stayed out of ST and spent time with your family or whatever you were doing.

[sabar]

MezCclCSjNw

Ricky Davis misses a shot intentionally to get a handicapped triple double.

:blahEnd thread.

[ChumpDumper]

The only reason I would sign such an inconsistent nondefender is if Barry is really done for the season -- and in that case, why the hell would Miami do that?

[T Park]

Only reason I could see is if Marion drops out, its even more capspace to deal with.

[Holt's Cat]

Only reason I could see is if Marion drops out, its even more capspace to deal with.


Davis' contract ends this season.

[T Park]

Riley might like Barry more?

[T Park]

Doesn't matter.

The only way I'd want Ricky Davis on this team is if Udonis Haslem came with him.

That being said, it aint happenin.

Unless

Bonner, Elson, Barry


could that work?

[Holt's Cat]

Well, if Riley is ready to run Davis out so fast that he will give up the potential flexibility of Davis finding a good sign and trade and will take on old ass Brent Barry then perhaps that should give one pause.

[Ghost Writer]

Just like Maggette.

C'mon man. There are more plausible options that Davis
Like who that we can get?

[Ghost Writer]

Every season it's the same old fucking broken record. The Spurs win championships with defense, veteran role players, and non-flashy small trades, if at all, and Ghost wants the Spurs to win it with offense, young crackheads, and big headline grabbing trades. One would have thought he'd find another team to follow by now.
Um, Davis is a veteran role player, he plays solid defense, would not be a flashy trade and would shore up our hole at the 3.

Fvck yourself... this is no more far-fetched than Kurt Thomas.

[ChumpDumper]

Why do the Heat want to get rid of him again?

[Ghost Writer]

Why do the Heat want to get rid of him again?
His future is in doubt there, but I read that he is a "Riley guy."

I'm uncovering every stone I come across, Chump.

See anything?

[ChumpDumper]

All I see in Miami is attached to Blount.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

He says that he doesn't want to leave the Heat and is looking for a permanent home.
I think that answers your question.

[Holt's Cat]

Um, Davis is a veteran role player, he plays solid defense, would not be a flashy trade and would shore up our hole at the 3.

Dude is not suited to Spurs Basketball.



Fvck yourself... this is no more far-fetched than Kurt Thomas.

Bullshit. There's no way the Spurs make the trade for a dumbass like him who doesn't offer anything other than himself.

And you like the Thomas idea.

[Ghost Writer]

He's good enough for Riley.

[T Park]

Yeah hows that trade worked out for em this year?

Riley hardly plays the guy and only does when forced to.

[ChumpDumper]

Good enough that Riley would trade him for a one-legged Barry?

[Ghost Writer]

Davis averages 35 MPG this season.

"On October 24, 2007, he was traded to the Miami Heat along with teammate Mark Blount in exchange for the Heat's Antoine Walker, Michael Doleac, Wayne Simien and a first-round draft pick.[2] Davis will be reunited with Pat Riley, and Riley admitted he made a mistake of trading Davis in the first place; "I made the mistake of trading him. He's a very talented kid. He was not a problem here. We just needed to move and get bigger players at that time. Over the next six years he has been very efficient."[1]"

[T Park]

He likes him so much hes gonna trade him for a no defending white guy that he traded for once and hated so much he let him walk scott free to the Bulls in the summer of 99?

[Ghost Writer]

I have no idea what you just wrote, but please stand corrected about how much burn Davis gets and Riley's regret for trading him.

He traded BACK for him.

You don't do that for players that you don't like.


Get past the headband, T Park.



I'm offering ideas, which is more than I can say for 98% of this Forum.

[T Park]

Get past the headband, T Park.




I can't get past the problem that he is a selfish ballhog.

The headband doesn't bother me.

Didn't bother me SJax either.

[Ghost Writer]

A selfish ballhog?

You mean "shooting guard"?

[T Park]

Ginobili and Finley are shooting guards and they don't hog the ball.

I don't recall Ginobili shooting at his own basket to get rebounds either.

[Ghost Writer]

Dude, Ginobili and Finley shoot 80% of the time they touch the ball.

That's what shooting guards do.

If you don't like Davis for whatever reason, fine.

I think he'd be okay.

[T Park]

I think hed be fine too.

If he came with haslem.

[cherylsteele]

Thank god GW is not in charge of the the Spurs FO, we would be right where the Clippers are right now, after all these knee-jerked reaction trade ideas.

Although his threads are good for a laugh or two.

[Ghost Writer]

Thank god GW is not in charge of the the Spurs FO, we would be right where the Clippers are right now, after all these knee-jerked reaction trade ideas.

Although his threads are good for a laugh or two.
Yeah? And you're a slut who will be getting drunk and riding the bull tonight.

Your idea of improving the team is counting on lottery balls.

[T Park]

:lol

Ghost your one in a million.

[Ghost Writer]

:lol

Ghost your one in a million.
That one was for you, playa.

[Mister Sinister]

Yeah? And you're a slut who will be getting drunk and riding the bull tonight.

Your idea of improving the team is counting on lottery balls.
At first, I was like :wtf.
But then, I :lol'd!

[Holt's Cat]

Clearly the way to improve the team is to take the league's top perimeter defender off the floor and replace him with a player who once thought he could get a rebound by throwing the ball off his own team's basket.

[Ghost Writer]

If you follow the Spurs, you'd know that the mighty Udoku is cutting into Bowen's PT.

Who says that Ricky would replace Bowen, grundle?

[Holt's Cat]

If you follow the Spurs, you'd know that the mighty Udoku is cutting into Bowen's PT.


Moreso Barry's. And to the extent Bowen is resting that's for the postseason.




Who says that Ricky would replace Bowen, grundle?

Is not the Spurs' greatest weakness the lack of a scoring 3, in your view? If Davis doesn't address that, why the fuck are the Spurs trading for him?

[Ghost Writer]

It does help address that.

You are bright.

[Holt's Cat]

Ok, so the Spurs just took their top perimeter defender off the floor. And you're counting on Ricky Davis, who's so defensively inept he once tried to score on his own team's basket to replace that? Hang it up, Has Been.

[Ghost Writer]

Do you remember a kid named Stephen Jackson and how he was able to trive in the rotation with Bowen, Ginobili, et al.

[adidas11]

Do you remember a kid named Stephen Jackson and how he was able to trive in the rotation with Bowen, Ginobili, et al.

He has a good point. That season, Stephen Jackson > Manu and Sjax > Bowen.

Not that Ricky Davis would necessarily work out. But its always good to consider all options.

[Holt's Cat]

Problem is, Jack played the 2 and Bowen played the 3 that year. Jack didn't take Bowen's minutes.

So not a good point.

[mardigan]

God, I was hoping this thread was about Davis being one of the worst players in the league.
There is no way in hell I would ever want to see that guy in a Spurs jersey.

[remingtonbo2001]

Problem is, Jack played the 2 and Bowen played the 3 that year. Jack didn't take Bowen's minutes.

So not a good point.

So, your the mastermind setting our rotations.

All this time I thought it was Pop. :lol

[Holt's Cat]

Davis is worse than Jack and of course the Spurs didn't replace Bowen with Jack in their '03 title run. Now he wants the Spurs to replace Bowen with Davis in the post-season. Genius.

[mardigan]

Name one team that Davis has ever helped improve.

[Ghost Writer]

Um, I can't follow your lunacy.

Davis could be a valuable part of the rotation with Bowen still dazzling us with his stifling defense.

[Holt's Cat]

Davis could be another NBA headcase who never really figured out what it takes to win. The Spurs don't have time for reclamation projects.

[Obstructed_View]

I'm not really a Spurs fan, I'm just a post-whore.

[Obstructed_View]

Name one team that Davis has ever helped improve.

Each one he's ever left.

[Shastafarian]

Name one team that Davis has ever helped improve.

Edit: Guy above me beat me to it

[himat]

I think Finley is better and less of a burden than Ricky Davis. There is a 3 man rotation at guard. Plus Vaughn might have his short comings, but he is arguably the Spurs best defensive guard. Ricky Davis won't help that much at this point.