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U must be kidding me.
U want to see TP & Kobe next yr? It will really piss me off. Unless of course they hire DWade
Someone with insider post this!!!
U must be kidding me.
U want to see TP & Kobe next yr? It will really piss me off. Unless of course they hire DWade
Okay man I have no idea what your talking about. Someone post the ing insider.
this needs to stop already. tony isn't going anywhere, and nor should he. We would be in much worse shape without him.
It might be this.
Spurs could take new directions
By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playof...nsgame3-100508
SAN ANTONIO -- Tim Duncan was sitting on the corridor floor, with Gregg Popovich standing over him, two unquestioned champions presumably trying to make sense of what had just happened to the team that just last week was being hailed as the most fearsome No. 7 seed in history.
You couldn't get close enough to hear what they were saying. Yet you could safely assume that this was not the way they expected the Phoenix Suns to finally get their vengeance.
The sight of Duncan and Popovich commiserating in a hallway outside the Spurs' locker room was the chilling picture Goran Dragic left in his wake late Friday night, after shredding the San Antonio Spurs like they belonged in his Slovenian league back home. The Suns still have to win one more game to say they've at last beaten Team Duncan in a playoff series for the first time in five tries, but good luck finding someone willing to pick these Spurs to become the first team in NBA history to recover from a 3-0 deficit after the 23-point highlight reel Dragic assembled in the final 12 minutes.
Never in the Duncan era have the Spurs sounded as bewildered in defeat as they sounded after this 110-96 Game 3 pounding, which marked the first time in Pop's 14-season reign that San Antonio surrendered 110 points in three straight games in the postseason.
Never did they imagine missing seven straight free throws in the first half to throw away their early momentum, ultimately blowing all of an 18-point lead and then fading away in crunch time against the speed of a tiny, sub-filled, drive-and-kick lineup ... while Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire and Jason Richardson led the cheers from the Suns' bench.
Someone asked Duncan, before he made it out to his impromptu meeting with his coach in the hall, how surprised he was by all of this.
"I still am," Duncan said.
Exasperated teammate Manu Ginobili added: "It was kind of embarrassing. ... It's really hard not only because of the fact that we are down 3-0 [but because of] the way they are beating us.
"In the first game, we fouled too much and they [scored] too much in transition. In Game 2, they stopped running but they beat us on offensive rebounds. Tonight we didn't foul them, they didn't beat us on the offensive boards, Amare scored seven points and they killed us anyway. That's the tough part to swallow."
That's actually only one slice of the unsavory stuff the Spurs have to digest. There's more. Lots more.
The short-term problem: Tony Parker, making his first start of the playoffs in this Game 3, landed hard on his shoulder after a second-quarter collision with Stoudemire -- with the hosts still up 16 -- and will undergo an MRI on Saturday to determine his status for Sunday's Game 4.
The long-term issue, meanwhile, is how to proceed roster-wise after the Suns finish the Spurs off, which looms as an inevitability no matter how jittery Suns fans are when it comes to San Antonio, even with a 3-0 cushion.
Owner Peter Holt sanctioned the offseason acquisitions of Richard Jefferson and Antonio McDyess, pushing his payroll into the $80 million range, because he believed the Duncan-Ginobili-Parker triumvirate was still a le contender if healthy. A six-game dismissal of the Spurs' longtime rivals from Dallas in the first round had finally begun to convince Holt that the investments were worth it, but the grittier-than-ever Suns' ability to grind out wins in the past two games when San Antonio shut down their running game has instead spawned the suggestion that the No. 2-seeded Mavericks would have taken out the aging No. 7 seeds if Dallas coach Rick Carlisle had simply unleashed his Dragic -- rookie guard Rodrigue Beaubois -- as so many Mavs fans lobbied for back in Big D.
Sources with knowledge of the team's thinking say the Spurs are increasingly optimistic about their ability to inject their front line with some new blood by convincing Brazilian forward Tiago Splitter -- whom they drafted in 2007 -- to leave the European game to come to the NBA starting next season. Yet it remains to be seen how aggressive San Antonio feels it'll have to be about reshaping the rest of the roster after Jefferson's season of struggle, with Parker -- unpalatable as it sounds -- ranking as its best trade asset. The Frenchman has only one season left on his contract ($13.5 million) after this season and, according to a recent report in the San Antonio Express-News, has told friends that he's unsure about his future in town after the contract extension recently bestowed upon Ginobili and with second-year guard George Hill capable of playing the same position.
First, though, the Spurs are going to have to get over this thorough humbling at home. Which certainly didn't sound imminent as you listened to various Spurs describe the problems they had dealing with the guard penetration and pick-and-roll success Phoenix manufactured at the start of the decisive fourth quarter with a group of Grant Hill, Jared Dudley, Channing Frye, Leandro Barbosa and Dragic on the floor.
"We are going to have to play the perfect game," Ginobili said of possibly stealing Game 4, after the Spurs slipped into a 3-0 hole for just the third time in the history of the franchise.
"They just killed us."
Marc Stein is the senior NBA writer for ESPN.com. To e-mail him, click here.
Unless it's something else. This was from after game 3.
The San Antonio Spurs season is not a disappointment.
Come on the Utah Jazz has not won a thing even during the 2x MVP Karl Malone era and it's still kind of amazing to see their fans cheer for their team each yr.
Keep the 21+20+9+3 Alive
Why would the Spurs trade him to LA? You know that's the only way he'd end up in LA, is if the Spurs traded him there, which they're not going to do.
Could take new directions, yes, but tp isnt going anywhere.
You should provide a link so others could find it and post it.
I don' believe that's an Insider article, although I couldn't click on the shortened link you posted to confirm.
Sorry man next time i'll be sure to give the link for espn.com
already posted
Now down 3-0 to the Suns in the second round of the playoffs, the Spurs are on the verge of being ousted from the postseason.
So what to do with the roster this summer?
ESPN's Marc Stein writes that the team will likely try and convince Brazilian forward Tiago Splitter -- a player they drafted in 2007 -- to leave Europe and play in the league next season.
But is it also possible the team will look to trade -- gasp -- Tony Parker?
As shocking as it sounds, Parker is likely the team's best trade asset, and he'll be on the last year of his contract next season,
L.a
It makes sense TP + RJ or Manu + RJ ... that money could let us to get some good players to enhance our bench
Bonner + RJ FTW
You're re ed, and I'm loving the sarcasm. It seems you are the only one to have seen an insider article mentioning Parker on the block.Sorry man next time i'll be sure to give the link for espn.com
Another bogus attempt at making news where there is no news. TP ain't going no where unless NO calls and says they will give us Paul... which will never happen. TP won't be going anywhere.
no real significant evidence there that suggests tony is on the trading block. but it is a possibility certainly. spurs would have to consider it if it meant getting more talented at the 2 and/or 3 spot.
http://espn.go.com/nba/dailydime/_/p...509/daily-dime
The good news: San Antonio will have the blossoming George Hill and DeJuan Blair coming back next season, along with the 20th pick in the June draft, which is the Spurs' highest selection since winning the lottery in 1997 and the right to take Duncan. Team sources say that the Spurs remain optimistic about their chances of convincing 2007 draftee Tiago Splitter to leave Europe and come to the NBA next season.
The complicated part: San Antonio has a nearly $80 million payroll after an aggressive offseason led to the acquisitions of Richard Jefferson and Antonio McDyess, but the Spurs couldn't build on a first-round win over its old rivals from Dallas that had many experts pegging them to be back in the le mix.
As a consequence of this one-sided defeat, San Antonio is thus expected to at least consider trading Tony Parker to either give its three-man core a fresh look or find a younger big man to pair with Duncan, after signing Manu Ginobili to a three-year contract worth nearly $40 million last month and with Duncan and Spurs coach Gregg Popovich under contract through 2011-12.
Duncan wouldn't be drawn on specific areas that need improvement, saying only: "We'll start doing whatever we've got to do to prepare for next year."
time to start seeing what swingmen will be around at the 20 spot.
Trading Parker and creating more chemistry problems will be the Death of the Spurs at least for the Duncan Era.
Tony Parker hindered the Spurs the most out of the Big 3 and despite his injuries he's still going to play for France this summer whereas Manu at least is taking this summer off.
If there's a good enough deal, then he should be traded.
yeah cause all star level point guard like him are sooooooooo easy to find...
I don’t know what the Spurs want to do. So I can’t tell what’s going to happen .
that was to yesterday
We already have a gargantuan expiring in RJ. I doubt the FO trades any of the Big 3 at this point.
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