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I don't think it's anywhere near that dire. The team could get by fine with only one of those bigs for a long stretch. Same goes for Leonard. Sure, they'd take a hit, but you're still talking about a well-coached team with talented players. If teams like Dallas can make the playoffs with how terrible they've been recently, the Spurs could, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by SAGirl
I guess so, but I had never seen a Spurs team that was this top heavy. I haven't been a Spurs fan that long mind you. The teams I have watched since 2013 were teams that had a lot of depth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chinook
What made you a Spurs fan and who were you a fan of before?Quote:
Originally Posted by SAGirl
It's easy to have depth when you hang out over the cap for like a dozen years (literally). MLE signings start adding up, you can keep your own guys comfortably. You have less to think about when making trades. When you use cap space, you have to let a bunch of guys go every year. I think they settle back into a long time of no cap space after 2018, or they might even do it after next summer if Gasol opts out and they get a long-term answer at C and PG.Quote:
Originally Posted by SAGirl
Anyway, the Spurs have prospects, and you just have to hope those guys play well. For regular-season games, I'm pretty confident they can get by most nights.
Just typing that was difficult. :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by SpursFan86
Maybe some phones have a setting that automatically capitalizes the first letter of each word? Seems useless though.
If memory serves me there a push in one of the CBA negotiations to get rid of the MLE, but the players pushed back hard at that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chinook
The MLE is one of the things that kind of makes a mockery of the salary cap anyway. If the league really wanted parity they wouldn't allow teams to operate over it so easily. Not allowing tax-paying teams to receive a player in a sign-and-trade was a step in the right direction imo.
I moved to SA around that time (husband in the military). I had not watched or followed basketball b4, but I switched states, homes, moved, found myself in a new place and the Spurs are a big thing locally. Saw a few games on TV with husband and I was surprised the team was still that good. I mean even a casual fan knew the big 3 from winning championships but that was a long ass time ago. I was intrigued by their young guys, etc. I was more attracted to the team building, the culture of the team etc. I am therefore a little bit more attached to younger players than the old big 3. It's been interesting for me to see Kawhi develop and the team around him, etc. I just have a different perspective I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by coachmac87
Interesting. I wouldn't have known you've only been a fan for 3 years or so due to the way you talk about the game and players. It's awesome to hear and see how the Spurs have made you passionate for the game of basketballQuote:
Originally Posted by SAGirl
So why are you SAGirl if you aren't from the area?Quote:
Originally Posted by SAGirl
Anyway, my interest curve is similar to yours, but it started earlier. I am the only basketball fan in my immediate family, but I just sort of watched dumbly until about 2008 or so. So I was more attached to the new players of that came around that time (Hill, Blair, Splitter, Green, Hairston). I remember Robinson, Elliott, Avery, etc. But those aren't MY Spurs. Even the Big Three were more like an older sibling's friends than my own.
I think it's mandatory given how the cap is actually going to drop. There are so many team that just don't seem prepared to go from trying to make the minimum salary to being tax payers. The Spurs are one of the few that seem like they're ready for the changes that are about to occur.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seventyniner
Btb, Redick's being an idiot on Twitter.
San Antonio Spurs @spurs 1m1 minute agoSan Antonio, TX
Spurs sign forward Davis Bertans » http://gospu.rs/29ywRK5 Welcome to the squad, @DBertans_42!
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Nevermind.
There we go.
Hopefully one ginger is enough.
well that should be it. So we should see, Manu sign soon and then free agents
Not there was any doubt but it's nice to see the signings happening. :tu
yes! hope he's good.Quote:
Originally Posted by raybies
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Originally Posted by Chinook
Where you from? Why the Spurs in 08'?
damn :bangQuote:
Originally Posted by raybies
:tu
Bertans announcement could have been delayed waiting on fiba clearance, contract probably turned in before dedmon
Hopefully this means we can see him in Summer League tomorrow. And out of curiosity, why is Milutinov in town if he wasn't going to play? Maybe the Spurs were working him out against the Summer Spurs to evaluate him. The only move we can make to afford him from what I know is trading Patty, and if we do that we would have some space for a center too. I'm sure the Spurs wouldn't really want to do that with all the influx of youth and new players. Gonna need character and leadership in this transition period. But on the flip side we are most likely gonna lose him after this season with the market the way it is. I don't know if PATFO will want to spend around ten mill for him, which I'm guessing.
Austin. Born and raised, and still living here. Spurs are my team because they were always my team. But I didn't care about the intellectual aspect of sports until I was an adult. I went away from college and didn't get to watch the games, so I had to read about them instead. Changes your perspective.Quote:
Originally Posted by coachmac87
Yes, that's easily the best explanation. Plus, I think Laboral Kuxta just accepted the buyout yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by objective