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The criticism of Kurt Thomas's shot is well-deserved...if the Spurs do resign, which I think they will...I would like to see Thomas work on his mid-range range game....13 feet and closer.....
Bottom line, they gave him up because he wasn't worth keeping to them or he'd still be at one of those clubs.
His shot was inconsistent, especially in the playoffs and he's only useful defensively when he goes up against another immobile player. That's why his minutes were also inconsistent.
I'm not saying we HAVE to get rid of him--we'll probably resign him--but let's not kid ourselves about his value as a frontline rotation player at this stage of his career.
The criticism of Kurt Thomas's shot is well-deserved...if the Spurs do resign, which I think they will...I would like to see Thomas work on his mid-range range game....13 feet and closer.....
yes and no. whats being left out is the reason why he wasnt worth keeping.
for pheonix, he was costing them 16 mil in salary plus taxes. thats a lot to pay any player, let along one only logging 15-20 minutes per. this is also the same team that sold away luol deng and rajon rondo. the list of players the suns didnt think were worth keeping seems like pretty good company to me.
Funny, because KT was practically automatic from 15-17 ft in, while playing for the Suns in the 2007 playoffs versus the Spurs.
It's almost like his shot betrayed him this year.
totally. KT has been known for three things throughout his career: low-post defense, setting illegal screens and getting away with it, and that 15ft jumper. he brought the first, got called on the second but still got away with it more often then not, but couldnt do the third to save his life at times. id like to give him some more time before i pass judgment, because i liked what i saw at times.
No way, the guy IS FR. OLD! HE GETS THE VET MINIMUM, THAT'S ALL...
Kurt Thomas | PF/C
Born: Oct 4, 1972
Height: 6-9 / 2,06
Weight: 235 lbs. / 106,6 kg.
College: Texas Christian
Years Pro: 12
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2 years, $10 mil sounds about right.
the only problem ————he is too old
he should be back. now we let horry walk, bring in mahinmi, and i wish we could get rid of oberto.
Exactly. Where else do you get a player of KT's quality without using the MLE? He has to be resigned. All those saying vet min are kidding themselves - he still has plenty of game left, and vet min will not land him. We have his Bird rights so we can sign him for whatever we like. I think he's worth 4-5mil as a dependable backup to Tim who will also play with Tim sometimes. if we can get him cheaper, great, but that will be his price.
TD/KT/Mahinmi and two others is a good rotation. Fab will probably be there, although he'd better play better than he did this season, and Bonner or whatever he is traded for will be the other guy.
Unfortunately, we can't afford to go after any other bigs when we badly need young swings and a backup PG.
I'm happy to have KT around, it's Fab and Bonner that worry me.
Ronny Turiaf agreed to a four-year, $17 million makes thomas market value ?
It doesn't make his market value higher really. I'm sure the Spurs are willing to resign Thomas at or around MLE money (I'm thinking 6-max in the first year, scaled down for year two and a third-year team option). I'm sure a full year with the Spurs will help tremendously with getting him into the flow of offense. Then some people might appreciate what he actually brings. He wasn't in-sync with our offense this year.
Hopefully. ~$4.25M a year for Thomas would be great. Sign him up for 2 years.
Yeah i'd say re-sign him!
If we resign Kurt Thomas, we should trade oberto and bonner. Kurt Thomas is the same type of player that oberto is, but he's better and can do something offensively. When we resign thomas, we should try to trade oberto and bonner for an athletic C or PF that can start along side duncan. Because Thomas is only good enough to be a back up.
At this point, the Spurs don't really even have a choice.
We'd have to include Udoka to the packaged Oberto+ Bonner for a starting big.
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