Who was the Spurs 1st round pick?

[Marcus Bryant]

No They should have never gotten Rasho in the first place.

Then who was going to play the 5 after DRob retired? Jay Howard?

[2centsworth]

You said they were entirely responsible, which is absurd.

never said entirely, but judging the performance of who's left compared to the performance before the departures, I would have to say RC is a weak link.

[2centsworth]

What position? They were shopping for a center with the MLE.

Nesterovic, Mohammed, and Oberto were also brought in post-DRob.

Again, you are assuming perfect foresight and the Spurs not trying to address needs today. Plus it wasn't even settled that Scola would be able to get out of his deal, or that he wouldn't just re-up with Tau.

They only time the spurs had a need for a center was to defend Shaq. Otherwise, any Oberto type would have done with Tim Duncan.Just to add to this, Udonis Haslem would have been sweet next to Tim.

[rascal]

Then who was going to play the 5 after DRob retired? Jay Howard?

I'd have to go back and see who was availble at the time but I would not have settled with rasho for what they paid him. They should have gone after R Wallce when he was available or make some type of other trade to bring in a solid front court player to replace Robinson. Rasho was not their only option, it was the option they chose to make.

[anakha]

two things, a financial advisor can tell you what type of situation you're going to be in when you sign a player. Butler, who was an unproven talent, put the spurs in a multim million dollar pickle. He was not worth it at all, truly no unproven talent is worth that much money. That falls flat on the shoulders of the FO.


Secondly, people liking Butler's talent is different than analyzing his cost.

Spurs salaries for the 2006-2007 season:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...aries2007.html

Spurs salaries for the 2007-2008 season:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...asalaries.html

Feel free to disagree, but given how much Butler was being paid (3 years/$7M, I believe), I almost think that Barry's contract was more of an albatross on the Spurs, cap-wise, than Butler's was.