http://www.nba.com/2016/news/feature...=iref:nbahpt6b
great read- saw a lot of troll threads pop up recently about Tim's 0 point game. its sad that folks don't realize the beauty of everything Duncan's done over the past 16 years to set up the franchise in a way that they would win by double digits despite him going scorless
The praise was nice, but relatively substanceless. Leonard and Aldridge are the Next Two, and Green is going to have to get back into 2015 (the previous season)'s shape in order to even threaten to get that third spot. Would be nice to pick up a youngish star within the next two years so that Green could be the D'Artagnan
Thanks for posting the article.
29-6 and the last win against Harden, help the media to construct an optimistic narrative about our future...I'll take it.
Getting a great PG is paramount, and that's extremely hard to do.
That's comparitively easy to do, if you ask me. There are probably 15-20 PGs who could start on a championship team. It's by far the most loaded position in the league today.
A good PG is paramount. A great one isn't necessary to winning a le.
http://www.nba.com/2016/news/powerra...=iref:nbahpt6c
I thought I might piggy back on your nba.com article. They moved the good guys to #1 in the power rankings over GS. I hope this isn't 2011 peaking too early. Watching the games, I think we all see there is lots to improve on as a team, but we can't argue with the results.
LMA is an interim solution.
I said this when we signed him up as a 30 year old. he may have 2-3 years left in him at an elite level. Even LBJ has a sharp decline this year. Not everyone is Duncan.
Kawhi is the only real pivotal player going forward.
Which one do you think is the toughest to fill?
I am guessing a real defensive big man who is healthy (not Tiago---can't count on him for a championship team with his current and past injury history).
Don't be silly, Green is a 3 & D role player, nothing more, nothing less. As far as LMA is concerned, that's a pretty weak no. 2 though, I suppose any team could name its three best players a "big three" regardless of how they stack up against the rest of the league.
I think you exaggerate. There are scoring PGs a plenty, but not many guys that can run with the Spurs.
"Running the Spurs" isn't all that hard, as the current sets are not PG-dependent. The more Kawhi and LMA get situated, the less the PG will have to create. Offensively speaking, I think the 2017 Spurs will be able to get along with a guard the caliber of Monta Ellis when he was with the Mavs. That caliber of player will be available two summers from now.
I'd prefer someone like Mike Conley, as opposed to Ellis.
Give me 1. Mike Conley 2. Cory Joseph 3. Barea
Defensive anchor is probably the hardest to find/easiest to build around. But wings are very scare, too. You have a decent number of elite ones (James, Durant, Harden, Kawhi maybe Thompson). But it's very hard to find wings who are championship-caliber role-players (Green and Ariza and maybe Iggy being the only ones I can think of). Then you have specialists who aren't quite good enough to start on le-contenders (Korver and Allen being two extremes). You need wings who can at least battle the best players in the league, so teams that have two of the guys in those first two categories have a huge advantage over the rest of the league.
I'd prefer Gobert over whoever the Spurs are going to actually get for 2017. Conley is going to get $30 Million a year or close to it. He's not really in the conversation. The idea is that the Spurs don't need to replicate Parker on offense to make the Spurs run.
I pity the team that hands out that contract.
I was talking about the "type". I know Conley's not going to be available.
Leonard, Aldridge, George Hill (when he returns to the Spurs)
Well, then yeah. I definitely agree. I'm just saying the Spurs only need a decent, efficient scorer at the one to replace Tony once Kawhi and LMA get set up. Those are guys who can be found in free agency or even developed.
I've heard people saying that Fournier is looking at $96M/4 this summer. Like they think it's a given. The Spurs are so lucky to have taken care of the cap business this season.
Agreed. The LMA and Kawhi deals will look like bargains. Even Parker's deal won't look so bad.
Aldridge is a really weak # 2. The spurs need an ultra compe ive guy as a #3 to make up for it. I cant think of anyone worth throwing money at next year.
Woah that's incredible with the season the Ws are having.
Granted they are the number one team on our minds for obvious reasons, we're also the number one team on theirs.
It really all depends on their postseason performance & supply-demand. Joe Johnson got 125 mill as a 2nd tier star b/c of his postseason performance & the fact no star player wanted to play in ATL. Rashard Lewis, also a 2nd tier star, got 120 b/c he was the only stretch 4 in the market.
Conley is a 3rd tier point guard who's having a down season, they could sign Jeremy Lin as a replacement if he's asking for a ridiculous contract. They could also trade for Schroder who seem to be rocking the boat in ATL.
As far as Fournier, he might not even be in the starting 5 considering the Payton/Diop backcourt w/ Hezonja on the wing.
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