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Hoepfully will play with summer team in mountain revue in butlers spot..
I always considered the frontcourt to include SF.
Right now we have Bowen/two SGs/ White
the future might look like:
Bowen/Williams/White or
Bowen/white/williams
Hoepfully will play with summer team in mountain revue in butlers spot..
Is there a chance that this happens?
I don't know, but I would really like to see that!!! It would be like opening a Christsmas gift the night before Christmas.
Somehow I don't think so. Splitter is a professional player that is well established in Europe. Why should he waste his time on a summer league?
true... Scola is...
wrong!!!! Argentine and Brazilians don;t precisely get along and love each other.. it's more of a Maverick/Spurs kind of Rivalry and applied to the soccer world... even worse
How awesome would that be if you could get em both on this team.
Their chemistry along with playing with Oberto and Ginobili would be fantastic.
shut the fukk up with that stupid logic
these are grown men, not forum posters
Some interesting takes in this thread also
I love reading old stuff like this but by far my favorite one:
Mcroberts?????
I KNOW RIGHT?? I can't believe we passed on Josh "The Franchise Player" McRoberts...
Nice read. I wasn't on the forum yet, so it was good to hear the initial takes. lol TPark.
Bump.
I love how people said Splitter "maxed out his potential" in Europe when his game there was much more complete than most big's games are throughout their career. If Splitter could play here like he played there, the Spurs would be unstoppable.
He's better now than he's ever been, in my view. He's a better FT shooter. He makes more clutch plays than when he was with TAU. Tiago has been very solid this year. He's proving his $9M value in the 2014 playoffs.
All I can say to Bill Simmons who ludicrously made the assertion that Splitter was overpaid and the Spurs could have got Robin Lopez for a song instead, is.. Are you watching this series, dude?
If he only knew how to finish strong.
Hey now, he knows how to finish strong. It just always takes 3 or 10 of his weak moves getting destroyed before he gets angry enough to do it. Ime should stand out there during warm ups with a broom, and smack Splitter in the face a couple times while he attempts lay ups. Then, maybe, he'd start the game with that fired up mentality.
McRoberts has actually played pretty well the past 2 seasons. He started 78 games at PF alongside Al Jefferson on the Eastern Conf. Playoffs 7th seed. He was a better shooter than Splitter in 2007 and still is, for that matter (He actually hit over 100 3s this season). He's a high assist guy.
Fazekas was a much better shooter in college in 2007, but his foot speed killed him once he got to the NBA.
Splitter has been a real blessing for the Spurs, once he became a starter over Blair last season.
It's really hard to evaluate guys like Splitter IMO - especially early on when he's playing in Europe. Many professional scouts missed on him because of this (look where he was drafted). But players like Tiago (skill based and not athletic) are always very difficult to judge.
Foot speed, lateral quickness and overall athleticism are huge question marks especially for non offensive players. Tiago is an offensive player, but not in the traditional sense where you have to double him and where he has consistent range like most bigs today that are considered "offensive".
He's been fantastic though and fits almost perfectly with the Spurs (but that's a credit to coach Pop, the system and Duncan really changing his game up so Splitter and Tim can coexist on offense).
look at the spurs d when he is in game and when he is out
splitter killer la
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Lol, I remember this like it was yesterday tbqh.
LoL. This is only between the soccer thugs. And some irrelevant players of Brazilian National Team, as Marcelo Machado. Scola named his so Tiago after Splitter and they are good friends until today.
Tiago dropped to the Spurs because he had a contract that needed to be bought out.
That is part of the reason, but why would the Spurs be the only team ok with that contract buyout? Why not any team just before them? It's because he's not an easy player to evaluate. , even most Spurs fans after seeing him play don't realize the impact he has. In the media, because he's not athletic, you get plenty of people scoffing at the idea of Tiago Splitter. His contract situation didn't help, but it's foolish to think it's the only reason the Spurs got him when plenty of other teams spend more money on players than SA does.
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