So is it safe to say Diaw and Duncan will be the two back?
Maybe Green if blair is gone and he signs cheap?
This is going to be an fun offseason : ) lol
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So is it safe to say Diaw and Duncan will be the two back?
Maybe Green if blair is gone and he signs cheap?
This is going to be an fun offseason : ) lol
Bonner is fairly cheap insurance against injury or against Lorbek taking time to adjust, and my guess is that he would be just fine playing a Sean Marks role if we don't need him for anything more. If we sign both Diaw and Lorbek, I have no problem keeping Matty around as a third stringer.Quote:
Originally Posted by yavozerb
Honestly, I'm not sure what Mills's options are at this point. He looked interesting, but he played exclusively in garbage time, so I really don't have any idea what the market is like for his talents. If Mills walks, De Colo would be an interesting option, but Diaw + Lorbek + De Colo is probably not doable.
If we could find someone worthwhile, it would be interesting to have an athletic big with some defensive potential as a developmental project. But those guys don't exactly grow on trees, so who knows if we can find one.
OK there were ten posts since I typed mine. Somewhere in here I think we need to mention having early Bird Rights on Green. I don't know all the particulars, but the qualifying offer of $3 million, and possibility of other teams matching up to $5 million (NBA average salary) may also be in play.
Chances for Green to come back look good to me, especially coming off the bad performance in game 1. We need him to play just well enough to win, 40% on 3s would be just about right, hit two per game and go 2 of 5 from downtown.
We need green to simi-tank : )
Sorry if someone already mentioned this, but it looks like Sham has updated there salary info.: http://shamsports.com/content/pages/...ries/spurs.jsp No more RJ, SJax, Diaw, Mills added.
Damn, there is really limited cap space. Then again, the Spurs aren't missing many pieces at this point.
Could be much worse, at least we don't have a subprime Kobe Bryant's contract crippling us to the tune of 2 years at $30 million per season.
This is more updated than hoopshype.Quote:
Originally Posted by CGD
fuck him.
That's the saving grace in all this. If all we do next year is resign our current roster, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Our current roster is presently tearing up the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by CGD
I believe you can offer a player full MLE to Lorbek
if you are under luxury cap(70 mill)
I think we have enough money to sign our key players.Maybe Diaw and Lorbek.
If we want to resign Diaw, we will have to use the MLE on him, so it won't be available for Lorbek.Quote:
Originally Posted by ViceCity86
resign Diaw for 18 mil / 4 yrs. Rest of MLE use on Lorbek for 3 years. Dont know what to do with Danny Green
I tend to think, that if the Spurs plan to contend for the 'ship the next season too, and want to continue making the playoffs once Duncan and Manu retire, they have to find the way to keep Green, Diaw and sign Lorbek, after re-signing Duncan. The team has to continue improving, Miami and others will certainly add some peaces.
Adding talent would also put the Spurs in a position to pull a trade to land a franchise player and still have enough talent afterwards.
If he's okay with a small salary then why not? Personally, I'd still choose Diaw over him and if he asks for more money then better pass it.
Lorbek is killing it in the Spanish finals. It'd be so awesome if he is really coming next year.
Lorbek MVP
He can get wice as much at least if he signed a new contract with Barcelona or any other top team.Quote:
Originally Posted by elemento
Wasn't splitter "killing it" in the spanish league at one time too?
The value in coming to the NBA is on the back side: sign a small contract up front, then sign a big one in 3 years once your team has Bird rights. At that point, if you're good enough, you can make far more in the NBA.Quote:
Originally Posted by sisibilio
Of course, that's a good reasoning when you are 22 or 23 but he's 28 and, even if he succeeds, market value is not the same for a 30 YO than for a 25 YO palyer.Quote:
Originally Posted by tesseractive
He'll eventually get it in the NBA, but he's not getting any younger. His window of opportunity is closing.Quote:
Originally Posted by sisibilio
Right. So?Quote:
Originally Posted by weebo
I'd say he's fared pretty good in the NBA whenever he's been given a chance. If only he could hit 60-65% of his FT.
Absolutely true. And having just won the title for Real Madrid and an MVP award to go with it, that will make it harder to bring him in for what we can afford to pay him.Quote:
Originally Posted by sisibilio
But lots of guys have come over later in their careers -- Oberto, for example. Some of them want to take their shot at the brightest spotlight at all. Some of them don't.
Either way, I seriously doubt that we will offer him a contract this summer starting at what he could be making at Real Madrid. It's up to him to decide what he wants to do.
Personally, I'm still holding out hope that there's some way we can split the midlevel between Diaw and Lorbek, but that may no longer be possible.
I don't know about Europe all I can say that Spain is close to ending up like Greece. We will see how things are going to turn for Spain in the next couple of weeks but it is looking very bad for that country.