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imagine what the conversation was like when he called his close friend Luis to ask him about the Spurs FO...
TAU ceramica should have been bought by holt not the freaking Toro's...
The Spurs should never, ever, draft players from Tau again. I wouldn't trust any of them ever again.
This sucks. 2 year deal, I thought, no big deal, he'll still be young. But a 4 year deal - he'll be washed up, and who knows who will be left from the Spurs by then?
What does the buyout look like for 2010?
imagine what the conversation was like when he called his close friend Luis to ask him about the Spurs FO...
TAU ceramica should have been bought by holt not the freaking Toro's...
Last edited by urunobili; 06-06-2008 at 07:47 AM.
So you still haven't shown how you get to $20 million dollars by paying Scola $300K over Bonner, even when I rolled out the math.
Apology accepted.
It should be a quite small buyout given that he has also a buyout in 2010 for other European teams that is said to be way higher.
I guess it should be $500K, which is what NBA teams are allowed to give for a buyout.
He wanted to be drafted to have a bargaining chip with Tau. Or maybe he just wanted options. It wasn't like he was drafted by the Clippers or Sonics.
Oh well, when you blow out that knee 5 years from now and you could've had $50 mil guaranteed left on a NBA contract, enjoy.
I just hope the Spurs FO learned somewhat of a lesson on drafting Euros. Good for Splitter. I can't fault him at all. Professional basketball is a business. He made a business decision. Time to move on
Spahia, the head coach of Tau is resign!!!!
Spahia is working with the spurs and also coaching the spurs summer league, he is very good friend of Pop.
i have a feeling that there is a connection between the Splitter extension to the resign of Spahia, i think that he dont like what Tau was doing to the spurs and therefore he resign.
This will be known as Buford's folly.
He wants to work in the MAJOR leagues, I guess. Interesting.
Yeah but everyone looking to run Buford out of town on a rail after this Splitter deal shouldn't get their hopes up. I've always thought when Duncan goes, Pop goes...with RC not far behind.
Good, I guess, cuz he'll be hastening the end for both of them.
the reason for the resignation defined as disagreement between Spahia and the management!!!!
it's make perfect sense - he resign because of the Splitter thing
Damn man... now we've had to get this bad news twice! And now it's doubled!
Spahia has had problems for months with Tau's management and even some players.
Can Spahija play the post?
you suck Tiago
The reality is, in the case of Splitter, there were few other people in that draft the Spurs could have had who would have made any difference. It was worth a chance to see if Splitter would come over.
The Spurs have not had good draft picks since TD, and have done pretty well (Manu, Tony) with low draft picks. But that's the lot you pay for having won 4 championships.
Now that we know Splitter won't be coming over, we will have to focus on injecting more youth into our lineup other ways. The reality is, our biggest need isn't a big man, and Mahinmi is a definite with a serious upside.
What we need more than a big man at this point is an athletic swing man, someone who can be a scorer. We need a younger Michael Finley, really.
Spahija failed to grab the big prize.
He had problems with Tau management (and even players).
Believe it or not, world basketball does not revolve ENTIRELY around S. Antonio.
I'm sorry but....
You act as if Tau owes us something. Tau is a professional basketball club, who's goal is to put together the best possible team and win as much games, les and trophies as possible. They will use all and everything that is at their disposal in order to achieve that goal.
Please show me where Tau promised the Spurs anything and then recanted.
If you think that the Spurs would have done anything differently if the roles were reversed then you don't understand that pro sport is a business before anything else.
I'm a little disappointed that the Spurs did not make a stronger, more public push for this guy when it became clear he hadn't signed the contract yet. But I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe they had better information about this whole thing than we did.
Frankly the Euro teams are taking advantage of the strong Euro and the fact that the Euroleague is getting financially stronger. The rules are different than in the NBA, therefore there will always be cases where one side takes advantage of a local or current situation to get the upper hand.
There is only one real long term solution to this and that's the NBA's expansion to Europe. But to do so the NBA must stop doing a half assed job of it and start talking to the real basketball cities/nations in Europe. Every time Stern talks about putting the 1st NBA franchise in London people over here are dying from laughter. Blatantly ignoring European clubs with old basketball traditions and legacies is also not helping.
I would take Spahija as an assistant in San Antonio in a heart beat. He's one of the most accomplished coaches in Europe.
Which is also very good, and should be kept that way.
Tiago's coach has more balls than him.
you Splitter. You are no more than dead to us now. Even if you do come back after your contract, you'll be nothing compared to what you are now. You screwed the Spurs over. You die now.
Brazil is part of the EU now?
Correct.
Why should he be an assistant, even to Popovich?
Messina (CSKA) was offered an assistant job to Mike Mitc ?
MIKE freaking Mitc ?
Two years extension with CSKA.
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