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mmm thought about that.. but i have the feeling it ain't going to happen
It's a possibility, but I think Pop would prefer to keep all his points active to start the season.
mmm thought about that.. but i have the feeling it ain't going to happen
I would have to concur with that comment.
Its time to quit hating on the guy and jump on the George Hill bandwagon guys.
We'll have to wait and see. Looks like he has the physical tools at least. Vegas is going to be great this year.
Jacque was pretty good in game 6 of the 2007 Phoenix series, which is at worst the second most important game of the whole postseason (tough call between it and game 5 of the same series).
Hill doesn't have to be an upgrade of Vaughn to help the Spurs, Hill has to be an upgrade of Stoudamire.
I dunno, if the Spurs couldn't find room for Mahinmi and he's putting up incredible numbers in the D-League where are the Spurs going to find minutues for Hill?
At backup point.
Well hopefully he makes the team and does better than Washington last year.
Mahinmi was too much of a project to put into the rotation last year.
Comparing last year's Mahinmi and today's Hill, Hill is more NBA ready.
Mahinmi had the compe ion of Thomas, Oberto, and Horry. No way a project wins a spot on the rotation with those compe ors.
Hill only has to fight Vaughn, who shouldn't be much of a problem for him.
Besides, Mahinmi will have a rotation spot next year.
Does better than an undrafted project?
He'll do better than Aaron Brooks.
Aim high.
Aaron Brooks is not high on my list of players. He is a brick a minute player. Yeah he's fast but unless he gets his speed under control he will continue to be marginal.
Or not.
No, it's going to be great. Lots of players to evaluate, four games in four days, and it's Vegas...Or not.
Just like Washington. Difference is the Spurs didn't guarantee his contract.
Okay, I'll give you that.
Mahinmi needs to have a rotation spot THIS year. With Horry out of the way, I'm hopeful they'll add another big (like Najera perhaps). This team loses so much when Duncan sits the bench. To lessen the continuous workload on Duncan, this team needs Ian to contribute next season. Otherwise, the Spurs frontcourt will continue spinning its wheels with the same frontcourt rotation as it had last year.
Hill is a kind of brooks of this year
brooks was projected as a early-mid secound round pick and ending at the end of the first wich was surprising
we'll see what hill can bring to the team but fril the report he didn't look bad and we'll never know if the spurs could took him after
we also see that the spurs wants to trade up to have another pick but they can't so maybe they want to securise hill
Posted before, but nice mini-report on Hill:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...cts/index.html
hey spurstalk, im a newbie here...just wanted to say o and that ive been a fan of this site for some time..
in any case i just wanted to drop the link the the draftexpress point guard ratings that was posted by mr bottomtooth earlier in the month in case anyone wanted to revisit it..
and i know you really cant compare midmajor schools to division one schools but from the stats alone its easy to see how hill caught the FO's attention to begin with
http://www.draftexpress.com/article/...ard-Crop-2919/
I don't want to sound like I'm gushing like a homer over his dunking ability and that surely does not a point guard make, but some perspective.
There's plenty of 6'2 players in the NBA who CAN NOT dunk in games unless they're all alone by themselves on a fast break or cherry pick. Like Tony Parker. I have almost every dunk of Parker's career on tape and none of them were ever with anyone nearby. Not even talking about dunking in traffic, I mean dunking with a trailing defender. Even slam dunk champ Nate Robinson doesn't have that many dunks in traffic, when he was invited to the dunk contest IIRC he didn't even have a dunk in a regular season game at that point.
And I emphasize that Hill at IUPUI wasn't just dunking on a break, he was dunking in traffic, in the halfcourt, both on his own and finishing alley-oops strong. Legit alley-oops where he got up, not weak barely get it in type soft lay-ins.
And Hill is only 6-2 in shoes. When compared to guys like Monta Ellis and Baron Davis who are dunkers in game action, without shoes measurements Hill is a full inch shorter than Ellis without shoes, and an inch and a quarter shorter than Baron Davis without shoes. Half an inch shorter than Deron Williams without shoes, and he's another guy that can dunk strong in games.
That's noteworthy athleticism regardless of what round he was picked in or how small a school he went to.
That doesn't mean that he can bring the ball up under pressure, that doesn't mean he'll make good decisions with the ball (noticibly worse A/T ratio than Chalmers), and doesn't mean he'll get over his camp-noted tendency to over dribble instead of running the offense. Those are still question marks and worthy of being cautious over him.
But to me anyway in spite of playing at small time University he sure looks from game film like he has legit NBA level athleticism.
But I'm not one of those people who go ga-ga over his wingspan, Romain Sato had an even better height to wingspan. Or by Hill's standing reach for instance, where Hill's is nothing outrageous compared to the other draft hopefuls. He's half an inch taller than Mike Taylor and has a 1.75" better wingspan but a 0.5" worse standing reach.
Hill will work out just fine.... Wait and see.
Watch him blow up and make every other team wish they would have picked him up.
Is anyone keeping a list of all the nay-sayers on this board who have been knocking this guy? I want to use that as a reference in about 3 years.
Eh.
Let's not go overboard.
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