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@ the only highlight of Erik Williams being a hard foul on TP.
Watching highlights just now of Boner on WOAI...
He has a nice stroke, and looks like he can run the court. Good .
Holy I Can't Believe The Raptors Are That Dumb
violentkitten, if the spurs are looking to dump saleries then certiainly that trade posted ealier for lebron makes since Tim is the biggest contract on the spurs. Lebron is on a very cheap contract and is a great value.
I can't believe I'm going to say this but...
Rasho is not that bad. Collangelo is not that stupid. He will fit in ok there, and they will be alrite...as will we. Win win situation.
Yeah good luck with that
Once again.
Im not floored with the possibilities of Eric Williams.
Hes old, wershed up.
Hopefully hes parlayed to a worse team for something......
Reminiscint of getting Turkoglu and Mercer.
Well -- Saving money -- BFD again, nothing to get too excited about. ---
We definintely lose on the defensive end -- UNLESS Pop thinks Javtokus can come in and defend like Rasho right away. -- which I doubt he does.
if you spurs fans want to see why Boner was picked up its because you lack a good dunker
boner at his best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtyaa...=matt%20bonner
Bonner could be a sleeper whose hustle turns into some real contributions for the Spurs. Only 2 years in the league, he still might step up his game.
We still need our center.
I think that's right. If you find something, great. If you don't, you really haven't given up anything that hurts.
Who cares what they get in return? Rasho was dead weight and now the lose a year off the contract. There's would have been no downside to trading Rasho for a seat cushion with one year left on its contract. Actually, the seat cushion would probably see more action.
True, the guy has a shot and is pertty long. If he can hustle and be scrappy, I can see Danny Ferry all over again.
Here's one of Rasho's dunks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtya....t%20nesterovic
The only real downside is Yao is going to ing own us if we don't get another dreadnaught C.
Since the FO traded Rasho to Toronto like I told them to, I request they bring Andreas Glyniadakis to their summer league team.
He's so...white.
Great, great trade.
Matt Bonner is one of my favorite players in the league. This guy is the Malik Rose or Udonis Haslem the Spurs needed. I love his hustle ... plus he has an outside shot.
Eric Williams isn't half bad either.
Plus a second round pick? For Rasho?
Christmas came early.
vid didnt work
NO...Bonner USED to shoot 80+ .
Now it will be around 75. Williams will fall to 70.
Don't you know there is something down here that scews up peoples FT shot.
I haven't paid much attention to Bonner, but I seem to remember him banging around, getting boards, active, hitting some shots. Hope he commits soon to playing D.
When Rasho left Minnesota, the following article was written by Britt Robson. He speaks the words that I can not form right now.
Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Losing Rasho
Rasho Nesterovic, who announced on Tuesday that he is rejecting the Timberwolves' contract offer to go and play in San Antonio, is one of kindest, gentliest people I have ever encountered inside or outside the world of sports. Even after he became fluent in English, the seven-foot Slovenian has answered reporters' questions with terse, humble pla udes, always steering his answers toward team performance and results, while magnifying his faults and downplaying his strengths on the court. When I did a Hang Time column about him back in January of 2002, Timberwolves' assistant coach Randy Wittman told me that at the age of 15, Rasho had lost close family members during the civil war that occurred after Yugoslavia fell apart. Rasho confirmed the news without getting into details, and seemed grateful both that I raised the issue and didn't pry further. After that, whenever our eyes would meet in the locker room, he'd acknowledge me with a slight lift of the chin, and maybe even a small smile. Charles Hallman, the sportswriter for the Minneapolis Spokesmen-Recorder, told me he developed a similarly subtle mini-rapport after doing a personal story on Rasho.
The point here is that Rasho is a shy, sensitive soul not given to many outward displays of emotion, a person and player whose emotions and compe ive fire are often turned inward. In many respects this has hindered the quality and consistency of his play; he has never really learned how to handle the rough-and-tumble jousting that occurs under the basket, and when he makes a mistake or two, he is prone to lose confidence. All this made him an uncomfortable match with his superstar teammate, Kevin Garnett, who is nearly his polar opposite emotionally. When a teammate isn't going well, KG gets in his face, not necessarily in a negative way, but with encouragement that's laced with fire and an overt challenge to improve. And when Rasho or another Wolves' teammate does something spectacular, the exuberant Garnett is likely to acknowledge it by whacking him in the head or bumping him in the chest, a display of macho warrior brotherhood. Most of the time, Rasho crawled further into his s when KG challenged him, and received his whacks and bumps with a forced camaraderie that looked as if he were tolerating an unpleasantry.
Of all the Wolves players, the person who probably liked and understood him best, and defended him against criticism most consistently, was Wally Szczerbiak, whose locker is just two stalls away from Rasho's at the Target Center. That's not a great ally, given that Szczerbiak is not well-liked by most members of the team, and has had an uneasy at best relationship with Garnett ever since he arrived. Rasho is a loyal guy, and in his own quiet way probably resented the way Wally was treated and perceived. Finally, it has been reported on ESPN.com that Rasho and coach Flip Saunders didn't get along. There weren't many overt signs that this was so, but it is true that Saunders was loath to play Rasho at crunch time, especially in the fourth quarter of close games. The coach explained that this was because of Rasho's poor foul shooting, but there were certainly times when Rasho's other contributions would, and should, have outweighed that potential pitfall.
Put it all together--KG, Szczerbiak, Saunders--and it is not hard to see why Rasho opted for San Antonio. Like Rasho, Tim Duncan is a quietly fiery compe or who rarely gets in the face of his teammates. The team has just won its second championship and had sufficient salary cap room to offer Rasho roughly the same amount of money he'd be receiving in Minnesota. One of the determining factors in Rasho's decisions seems to have been a meeting he had with coach Gregg Popovich, who no doubt sussed up Rasho's personality and realized lots of positive strokes would be most effective.
In any event, the loss of Rasho is a huge blow to the Wolves' franchise, especially on the heels of Sunday's news that free agent forward Juwan Howard would sign with Orlando instead of Minnesota. Kevin McHale and the rest of the team's front office will have to act fast and boldly if they are to convince Kevin Garnett to re-sign with the team. But that's another column for the near future. This one is to say goodbye to Rasho, a class act who probably made the right choice for his future happiness and ongoing improvement in the years ahead.
Last edited by ploto; 06-22-2006 at 05:01 AM.
Are you sure we are going to keep these guys? When could we officially trade them?
Bottom Line: Great Trade
Spurs save 14 mil over 3 years.
Get an additional 1 mil for next year and maybe 5.3 mil total if they buy Williams out on his player option year for next season.
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