2009 Spurs Summer League Preview - SpursTalk Edition

I think Gist would finally stay in Euro again.

I think the game starts 1:00 PM Pacific Time.

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Originally Posted by Ace9

I think the game starts 1:00 PM Pacific Time.

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Thats right. It's at 10PM here, so 3PM San Antonio time.

i think it starts 1 PM SA time

Nope:

http://www.nba.com/summerleague2009/...ate=07/12/2009

4PM ET, 3PM CST, 10PM Central Europe

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Originally Posted by Darkwaters

Nope:

http://www.nba.com/summerleague2009/...ate=07/12/2009

4PM ET, 3PM CST, 10PM Central Europe

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Let's talk in Italian!

hahahahaha...dove la guardi? hai qualche link???


Just Jocking, but i'm surprise to find someone else from italy!

ia anybody going to be recording these games? that would be sweet if tgere was a way somebody could up them later for download

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Originally Posted by Darkwaters

Nope:

http://www.nba.com/summerleague2009/...ate=07/12/2009

4PM ET, 3PM CST, 10PM Central Europe

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That's actually 3 pm Central Daylight Time (CDT), for those of you trying to figure out your offset from Wikipedia pages or something.

As of this posting it is 11:35 MDT, 12:35 CDT, and 1:35 EDT. The game will start at ~4 pm EDT, or approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes.

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Originally Posted by picnroll

Hill has to show that he can break down the defense at least some and get into the paint. With the exception of the first few games at the beginning of last season, when Parker was hurt, did he show the remotest ability to get into the paint off the dribble. Was that because the defense quickly figured out his limited penetrating ability? Last year I think so. For the rest of the year he was always deflected laterally and would just give up the ball to the point where he stopped even trying to penetrate, except occasionally from the baseline. He would just bring up the ball and immediately give it up to Mason, Ginobili, whoever. If he can't break down the defense and get into the paint now he FAILS.

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Good points but I think his lack of penetration was just due to a lack of aggressiveness. It started really being a problem when Manu returned. Instead of trying to make plays, he would just dribble the ball up and hand it to Manu and then run to the corner. We'd see glimpses of his early season play here and there but it was almost always when there were a limited number of scoring options on the floor and he was forced to sink or swim.

But yeah, if he starts dribbling the ball up, handing it off and running to the corner during summer league ... RC will be running to the phone to find a backup point guard.

The Spurs schedule, for anyone interested.

2009 Summer League Schedule

Date Opponent Location Tipoff (all times CDT)

July 12 New Orleans COX Pavilion 3 p.m.
July 14 Denver COX Pavilion 9 p.m.
July 16 Oklahoma City Thomas & Mack 7:30 p.m.
July 18 Portland Thomas & Mack 9:30 p.m.
July 19 Memphis COX Pavilion 7 p.m.

http://www.nba.com/spurs/news/090701_summerleague.html

I hope John Mason will show up today. :)

so what times the game 3?

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Originally Posted by duncan228

The Spurs schedule, for anyone interested.

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r u kidding me? im sure everyone is interested! :lol

Hill will dominate.

Last two tweets from Jack McClinton:

JackMcClinton Bout to grab some breakfast then gametyme
about 1 hour ago from TwitterFon

JackMcClinton Focus."this time it's for the money"
19 minutes ago from TwitterFon


Sounds like he knows that if he plays well, he's got a good shot at a guaranteed contract. :tu

I hope Newman doesn't decide "It's random scrub time!" and play the key guys in 4 minute stretches while camp invite fodder scrubs are logging 34 minutes at each position.

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Originally Posted by lurker23

Last two tweets from Jack McClinton:

JackMcClinton Bout to grab some breakfast then gametyme
about 1 hour ago from TwitterFon

JackMcClinton Focus."this time it's for the money"
19 minutes ago from TwitterFon


Sounds like he knows that if he plays well, he's got a good shot at a guaranteed contract. :tu

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i think he will def get a GC. hes the type of instant offense player that can allow manu to possibly start again and eliminate some of the pesky slow starts we have at times. not to mention RC was drooling about his DEE and we know in SA that puts you on the floor even if you take bad shots from time to time. Really excited about all these young guys being able to contribute. McClinton is already 25 years old and much more mature than most rookies so i think he will be more ready to make an impact than most of us expect.

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I hope John Mason will show up today. :)

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OT Bruno have you seen any of Beaubois's games. He tore it up on D in game one and D and O in game two. Looks like the French might have another heckuva PG and unfortunately Dallas too.

25 years old!!! heck yea!

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Originally Posted by picnroll

OT Bruno have you seen any of Beaubois's games. He tore it up on D in game one and D and O in game two. Looks like the French might have another heckuva PG and unfortunately Dallas too.

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No, I haven't watched him during SL. I was damn surprised when I've seen that he scored 34 points.
I don't see Beaubois being good in his rookie year. He is more a long term project but it's true that he has a very high upside.

Can't wait

For those of you that do not want to pay, the game is on live stream somewhere on justin.tv at 4pm eastern New Orleans vs San Antonio

This is the best link to see the game. HQ video and I believe 100% legal to view.

www.tubeon.com/sports

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Originally Posted by picnroll

OT Bruno have you seen any of Beaubois's games. He tore it up on D in game one and D and O in game two. Looks like the French might have another heckuva PG and unfortunately Dallas too.

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I was pretty damn surprised from what I saw of him in summer league so far. I've seen a number of his games in Europe and he looked like he had the tools but still needed a lot of work. I think his scoring outburst was a little bit of a fluke because it was mostly three-pointers and he hit only 31% of his threes last year in the French league. Like Bruno said, Beaubois has talent but I'd be shocked if he was much of a factor this coming season.

A good sign for the Spurs is that De Colo was his teammate in France and put up much better numbers than Beaubois. Hopefully that is a sign that De Colo might be a bit better than advertised as well.

Normally Rodrigue will be in the mavs roster, from what I saw of him since few years DeColo should be better but his 34 pts are impressive.