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I think Mason will fill in nicely for Finley, we should expect the same type of production and that leaves a healthy Spurs in good shape. If he has a breakout year than more power to the Spurs. Lets just see how many minutes he will get.
I think it means they are trying to pick up a few players they like and see who pans out.
I think Mason will fill in nicely for Finley, we should expect the same type of production and that leaves a healthy Spurs in good shape. If he has a breakout year than more power to the Spurs. Lets just see how many minutes he will get.
Chances are they saw a defensive specialist and had established rotation players in Finley and Barry....and chances are he was offered a much cheaper deal.
Knowing they were free agents this year.
WTF is everyone saying that Mason is our new starting 2 guard ? How the F*ck does that happen when Manu Ginobili is on your team ? Plus, this is his first year on the team and he wasn't even a starter on the Wizards. He came off the bench and averaged 9 pts a game. He knows hot to do it.
Unless Mason sucks ass like Barry, Finley and Hedo did when they first joined the team, Ginobili is starting. He's an All Star and the ultimate team player but he's also a stud when healthy.
Because Manu Ginobili is on the team.WTF is everyone saying that Mason is our new starting 2 guard ? How the F*ck does that happen when Manu Ginobili is on your team ?
Perhaps a slight upgrade over Finley...
But I was hoping the Spurs would do more with the $5M+ they had at their disposal.
Granted not all of it is gone, so they could still pick up another player...but I'm not sure Mason + a possible "player X" is going to have them keeping pace with the other championship contenders.
Guess we'll see...
they're paying Matt Bonner $2.9 million to sit at the end of the bench for the entire season and dress up in a suit for the playoffs. The only good news is I will almost guarantee Bonner gets traded at the deadline this season because he's an expiring contract at basically $3 million...
5 yrs, $30 mil gets you Mickael Pietrus.
So if he sucks ass he's starting, and if he turns out to be pretty good he comes off the bench?
I think this move does exactly that, lets us keep pace for very cheap. It does not catapult us to favorites, but allows us to maintain our level with a slight upgrade defensively over Finley.
So you think Manu, with a bum wheel and still leaning towards playing the Olympics in a month, will be ready to start day 1?
Look at all the additions to the team:
Mason
Hill
Hairston
Gist
Mahinmi
The first three months of the season Pop is going to be in mad scientist mode, and he's going to use Mason to give Manu a chance to rest and recuperate.
I'll be surprised if Manu is announced in the starting lineup on day 1.
With Maggette off the market, there was really only one other guy worth the MLE, and that was JR Smith. Maybe the Spurs contacted him and he told them no already?
Outside of that, spending the entire MLE on someone would have been overpaying. So without a true MLE type, they went to the next best thing.
The Warriors and Elton Brand didn't cooperate, so the Spurs are forced to roll their own. They've done this before.
Maybe Spurs fans shouldn't take as a given that they can land players worth $50 mil for $30 mil, or less.
A fair point.
I'll concede they had interest in him and saw some ability prior to his breakout season they felt they could build on for the future.
Still, I'm not sure they, or anyone on this board for that matter, envisioned a scenario where the Spurs' starting 2-guard for 2008/9 would be Roger Mason...even if they had signed him to a 3yr deal last year.
Najera would truly be a nice piece to add. However, I agree. He'll likely command more money than the Spurs have left. Unless of course, they work some sort of sign and trade, while throwing in Bonner's contract to match the numbers.
Oh I get it, the $ 10 million dollar plays off the bench because he's such a nice guy. He did what was best for the team. How do you now tell him that this guy who wasn't starting material on the Wizards will be starting in front of you ?
So if he sucks ass he's starting, and if he turns out to be pretty good he comes off the bench?
He'll do it if he has to but it better make sense. BTW, I'm sure that trophy is sitting proudly next to his 1st place bowling trophy from 3rd grade. It took everything he had not to roll his eyes in embarrassment when he got it. Great....I'm the best player off the bench.
With JR Smith a RFA and Maggette under contract.
Spurs immediately went after an unrestricted Corey Maggette, on the off chance the Clippers had to renounce him. Or that he was a believer in deferred gratification.
You can do it in English or Spanish.
The same way they did with Hedo, Brent, and Mike.
If he hears that , it'll be in Greek.
Or possibly JR Smith, or possibly Josh Childress, or possibly Ben Gordon, or Kelenna Azubuike.
Or, if the Spurs had used $2.5M or even $3M on Mason they might have been able to get Mason + :
Carlos Delfino
Eduardo Najera
Jarvis Hayes
Dorrell Wright
It's possible the Spurs coudl still get one of these guys, but by spending all but $2M it makes it tough to grab another decent player.
This just in. The Athens Pantheons offer Roger Mason 3 years, $73 million.
If he wants to leave in a couple of years, godspeed.
And why don't you think he would start in Greece?
Those guys couldn't hit jack unless Tim Duncan was on the floor or Tony was passing them the ball after driving to the hoop. It'll suck if we get a repeat of that.
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