Roger Mason signs with the Knicks.

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Originally Posted by DesignatedT

He wasn't asked to play point guard last season. It was a brief stunt in 08 when pop experimented with that which all the mason nut huggers keep reaching to for an excuse. Injured hand? Sure, I'll give him that but he wasn't shooting well before he had the injury anyway. Thank god he's gone IMO. He brings nothing to the table. He is a good guy though so I hope he does well.

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I don't know if you watched the Spurs this season, but at points he was ONLY getting minutes as a backup PG. Also, the 'brief' stint in 08-09 was basically from January-playoffs, where he played combo guard.

Try shooting with both a healthy hand and a broken wrist on your shooting hand.. tell me which is easier.

Roger will, once again, become a free agent bargain next year, and I would not be surprised if he's getting 20 MPG on that Bulls team and putting up great 3-pt percentages.

I doubt after Christmas '08 you were as low as Mason as you are now. He still has it in him if he plays zero minutes as a PG.

Now I gotta change my icon and signature. Fucking A.

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Originally Posted by Andy25

Now I gotta change my icon and signature. Fucking A.

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I think you should have changed that like 3 months into last season.

Roger Mason signs with the Knicks.

Every time I glance at this title I read "Roger Mason sucks" + other words.

I don't get Mason. Seemed to come from solid stock, a well spoken son of a doctor who worked for what he had. Playing extensive minutes with AD when agent 0 went down in Washington, he makes a name for himself and spurs landed the bargain free agent signing a couple years ago. He then had a great regular season until the brilliant Pop totally fucks with his game. He totally falls apart, but I must say Pop gave him many many way too many opportunities to redeem his game. I think he turned malcontented and inconfident. I still can't believe the Spurs favored Mason over Finley, eventually leading to Fin's departure and for what? ... Mason's backup PG game?

Either Mase fooled everyone and wasn't the guy we all thought he was because of some choice end of game buckets his first year with the Spurs, or he actually is a damn good shooter whose inept coaches ruined his game and who also got bitten by the injury bug at a most inopportune time, thereby further eroding his fragile confidence. Either way the Spurs got had. At least he wasn't an expensive 2 year deal.

After the inexplicable multi-year Bonner deal and overpaying for RJ and letting athletic 7 footer Mahinmi sign with rival Mavs for next to nothing even though Spurs have a size need, signing Mason to any sort of deal would have made Spurs brass look incredibly bad in my eyes.

Good riddance Mase.

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Originally Posted by superbigtime

I don't get Mason. Seemed to come from solid stock, a well spoken son of a doctor who worked for what he had. Playing extensive minutes with AD when agent 0 went down in Washington, he makes a name for himself and spurs landed the bargain free agent signing a couple years ago. He then had a great regular season until the brilliant Pop totally fucks with his game. He totally falls apart, but I must say Pop gave him many many way too many opportunities to redeem his game. I think he turned malcontented and inconfident. I still can't believe the Spurs favored Mason over Finley, eventually leading to Fin's departure and for what? ... Mason's backup PG game?

Either Mase fooled everyone and wasn't the guy we all thought he was because of some choice end of game buckets his first year with the Spurs, or he actually is a damn good shooter whose inept coaches ruined his game and who also got bitten by the injury bug at a most inopportune time, thereby further eroding his fragile confidence. Either way the Spurs got had. At least he wasn't an expensive 2 year deal.

After the inexplicable multi-year Bonner deal and overpaying for RJ and letting athletic 7 footer Mahinmi sign with rival Mavs for next to nothing even though Spurs have a size need, signing Mason to any sort of deal would have made Spurs brass look incredibly bad in my eyes.

Good riddance Mase.

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I believe if you go back ,Mason's shooting had fallen off before the point guard experiment started.Once teams started applying defensive pressure to him I think he always heard footsteps and never got over it. Finley's departure was long overdue no matter what else was going on.

Mason's shooting remained streaky thru his tenure with the Spurs, but he eventually became ice cold and remained that way except for a couple of double digit games last year. Finley's departure to Boston was because he was getting so little PT behind Mason as well as Bogans. Finley indeed had little to offer but he could still shoot better than Mase and could have given the Spurs at least something. His D was similarly crummy to Mason's but Finley contributed timely and valuable shots his entire tenure with the Spurs, something Mason was definitely not able to do. Fin did way more for the org. than Mason. I agree though his departure was indeed overdue and I definitely don't want to see him in silver and black again, although I appreciate what he did for the Spurs.

I'm glad he's gone but I certainly don't wish Mason any ill will. He seemed like a pretty good guy that should have perfectly fit into the Spurs system.

But I think he sold himself the idea that he was only a three point shooter. The whole gun thing with him slapping his thigh always bugged the shit out of me. How many times did he get the ball inside the arc and then dribble outside to launch a three. Before he started sucking, he had a pretty good inbetween game and was very accurate on mid range jumpers. Ahh. I forget my point. But at some point, he was a decent basketball player. I'd still rather have him than Bonner. I think Mason's suckiness can be fixed.