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Marcus, what did you mean help the clips with our exception? How could we help them and how would it help us get Corey. He is off their hands is he not?
Pietrus never played a full season. For the same money there is simply no comparison.
Marcus, what did you mean help the clips with our exception? How could we help them and how would it help us get Corey. He is off their hands is he not?
Neither has Maggette.
Pietrus plays lock down defense and can hit the three. Plus he's a buddy of Parker's. I'm not saying he's a savior but I see Pietrus instantly gelling with the Spurs whereas Maggette is a risk. On the surface, he can score, what else can he do? Can he fit with his teammates? Would he have a problem deferring to other players in crunch time? Would he be ok with taking less shots per game? Maggette has always seemed like a head case to me.
The Spurs get a role player and more than legitimate fourth scorer in Maggette. He could actually be a team's first or second scorer by the numbers he averages. I don't know how some of you can want Posey over him. Or even Pietrus, that made me LOL.
Pietrus is probably Plan B or C.
That 2nd round pick we picked up from the Suns for Dragic might be pretty early, but the draft is weak so it might be moot.
Rebound.
Get to the line more than Tony & Manu combined.
Miss 10-20 games a year with injury.
Oh... and as I side note, I think Pietrus is too dumb to be a Spur. But that's just me.
Marcus..did you read my question?
Exactly.
I never thought I would see the day WBoM would be pimping the signing of a scrub over a guy coming off a season averaging 22 points and 6 rebounds.Pietrus plays lock down defense and can hit the three. Plus he's a buddy of Parker's. I'm not saying he's a savior but I see Pietrus instantly gelling with the Spurs whereas Maggette is a risk. On the surface, he can score, what else can he do? Can he fit with his teammates? Would he have a problem deferring to other players in crunch time? Would he be ok with taking less shots per game? Maggette has always seemed like a head case to me.
You feeling ok?
I just saw Ludden new article. He's in NY with team USA
We'll have to wait McDonalds to have some news
With Maggette, I'd love to meet and sweep the Celts in the 2009 Finals to show their le was a fluke.
Noted but Corey Maggette never struck me as the John Stockton of the Clippers.
To be honest, I'm not excited about Maggette. Free agents have never really enjoyed much success in San Antonio. I think our system is demanding and team culture is far different than the country club mentality enjoyed by many other squads. Michel Finley made it work because he's about as professional as it gets.
Maggette worries me but we do need a starting shooting guard that is committed to winning NBA championships and not Olympic gold medals and can handle 35 minutes per game so if we get him, I'll be cautiously optmistic.
No! Would Nellie do that to Pop?
Sure. This is business, not the grape.
Thanks for the answer
Yeah Pietrus makes Nazr Mohammed look like a rhodes scholar.Rebound.
Get to the line more than Tony & Manu combined.
Miss 10-20 games a year with injury.
Oh... and as I side note, I think Pietrus is too dumb to be a Spur. But that's just me.
what is wrong with some of you? this guy is BY FAR the best signing we could get for that type of money..
in case you haven't noticed, the MAIN problem with the Spurs(ignoring injuries) is the inability to score and to go through scoring droughts..Maggette is a 20 point scorer..not only that, but he gives us a new dimension..we need a slasher, we rely on 3's too much as it is..this guy would thrive feeding off Timmy in the post..
there's no issue with at ude or ego..there's no issue with chemistry..
there's no way a team with Duncan, Parker, Manu and Maggette goes through scoring droughts, and that's our only flaw..
Maggette eats up more FGA per game than Manu, and less than one fewer than Timmy. I agree with WBOM. Maggette's got lots of talent, but I don't just trust that he's going to be good for chemistry and make the Spurs into a 70 win juggernaut.
I also have a feeling that he knows that he's the best player the Spurs can get for the money, which is why he'll end up going somewhere else for more of it.
Helping with the trade exception meant helping the Clippers reduce their cap figure in order to be able to make a larger offer to Davis and/or Brand.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, or whatever.
I am all for getting Maggette... I just think come Monday we will still have no decision from Maggette and Pietrus and JR Smith will be off the board....
I think the positives for Maggette outweigh some of the negatives that have understandably been mentioned.
I may have missed it, but I don't recall Maggette having been a particularly bad guy in the room or having done anything embarassing off the court. He has that Duke pedigree, even if only for a year, and has played for a relatively demanding coach in Dunleavy -- it would be virtually impossible to simulate the Popovich hard line, of course, but there are signs that the kid responds to good coaches.
I think the injury thing is a problem, but I'd be interested in finding out the nature of the injuries he's sustained over the years before deciding that he's just simply unable to play more than 70 games and is iffy to be ready for a playoff run.
I see an inherent upside to Maggette's experience -- an upside that outstrips Pietrus, Azubuike, or Smith -- in that the Spurs are trying to win now and don't need too many guys who are still trying to learn how to play in the league. Maggette has the respect of officials, he's 9 years in, and he's played relatively well in a number of systems. I somehow find all of that to be more reassuring than troubling in thinking about Maggette as a Spur.
The thing that kills me is that even having missed a relatively high number of games in each of the last few years, Maggette has finished those seasons in the top 10 in FTA:
2003-04 -- 73 games, 620 FTA (3rd in NBA)
2004-05 -- 66 games, 657 FTA (8th in NBA)
2006-07 -- 75 games, 633 FTA (6th in NBA)
2007-08 -- 70 games, 681 FTA (6th in NBA)
Those are remarkable numbers if you stop to think about it. He's also done that without playing some ridiculous number of MPG in those seasons (36.0 in 03-04; 36.9 in 04-05; 30.5 in 06-07; and 35.7 in 07-08). I know his ability to get to the line has been discussed over and over in this thread, but the extent to which those numbers illustrate his ability to do that is pretty astounding. If you think about it, there's a decent chance that even playing the reduced minutes that the Spurs might impose upon him, Maggette could be among the top 10 in the league in FTA. The Spurs haven't had that since 03-04.
It would also be an interesting test of the "Spurs get no respect from the refs" theory, whether or not Maggette's FTA goes way down when he puts on a silver and black uni.
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