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Hmm...sorry, still not worth a very valuable roster spot. Moving on...
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/s...t20080728.html
Let’s count ways we’ll miss Horry
Richard Oliver: Oliver's Twist
Express-News
I’ll miss Robert Horry.
Not because he’s a great quote, though he is. Not because he’s had his heroic moments, though he has. Not because he treats the common fan with a modi of respect, though he does.
No, I’ll miss Horry because when the going gets tough, he goes and gets nasty. And the Spurs need that.
The headline example, of course, is the notorious moment two seasons ago when the warhorse forward hip-checked Phoenix guard Steve Nash, causing the Canadian to animatedly flop into the AT&T Center scorer’s table as if downed by a sniper.
Another might be the crunching pick set on New Orleans’ David West and his sore back last year, a forearms-to-the-kidneys move described by one blogger as “cunning and cold-hearted.” West went down in a writhing heap, and our man Horry strolled away with the casual ease of a man checking his petunias.
Those were telling moments, to be sure, but another from last year’s postseason was arguably the most hard-hitting argument for keeping Horry on site.
In a blowout loss at Phoenix, the Suns had several starters inexplicably on the floor while up by 24 with 3:38 left. Thus, when a ball headed out of bounds, the veteran leapt, snatched it and turned to rocket it off the leg of Amare Stoudemire.
It ensured a meaningless Spurs possession. But more importantly, it ticked off Phoenix coach Mike D’Antoni. His face scrunched like a constipated Shar Pei, he groused about the play until he was tossed with a couple of minutes left.
A couple of days later, when the teams continued the series in San Antonio, Horry folded his lanky 6-foot-10 frame over one of the folding chairs on the Spurs bench before the game. Did the team notice, he was asked, that the Suns had starters still on the court late?
Horry, a smile on his face, nodded. Why then, he was asked, didn’t he aim at a more painful target on Stoudemire’s person?
“I used to pitch in baseball,” Horry replied. “I could have.”
Indeed, had the situation called for it, he would have.
And the Spurs need that.
Hmm...sorry, still not worth a very valuable roster spot. Moving on...
David West is a ing pussy.
I guess that I will be in the minority on this one.
Horry definitely lost a ton of skills over the past 3 years.
Still--there may come a time --maybe in the playoffs--when we need him. Some of us will miss the "Horry for three" possibility in closing seconds.
Now with Brent Barry gone--I guess that I wish that we will have at least one veteran role player not named Finley.
There--I said it--now everybody can pile on...
But one question:
IF SA does not sign him up now for one more year--can we still do it later during the season if he is still available?
If so--how do we make a roster spot for him?
Remembering Horry more for his rough plays rather than his personality and clutchness is just plain re ed. This guy may be worse than McDonald.
Yup...this quote alone makes this article lose all legitimacy...
Not because he’s had his heroic moments, though he has.
Horry was good when the team needed him but it's time to move on...
Who the is Richard Oliver?
Missing Horry for this .
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/c...liver.html#bioRichard Oliver was sports editor of the San Antonio Express-News from 2001-03 before moving into the role of columnist/senior writer.
Prior to joining the newspaper in 2000 as deputy sports editor, Oliver covered pro football for almost five years as a senior staff writer for Newsday in New York. He was a sports writer, columnist and sports editor for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times from 1983-1996. Prior to that, he worked a year at the Bryan-College Station Eagle.
Oliver, a 1981 graduate of Texas A&M University, has been honored for his writing by the national and regional Associated Press Sports Editors, Dallas Press Club, Charles H. Green/Headliners Foundation, South Texas Press Club and the William R. Hearst Foundation.
The Corpus Christi native, a Carroll High School graduate, and his wife, Laura, have three children: Katye, Patricia and Ryan.
Where art thou Ludden?
I may never get over it. I miss him.
I can benefit more by squirting lemons in my eye than read this bullcrap.
This guys man crush on Horry is worse than tlong's man crush on Oden.
well.. he has been our enforcer... now i guess we're gonna let a rookie Gist do all that dirty work? i am not so sure... wish he'd be at least on the roster... i'm not prepared to let him go just yet
I don't know if anything is that bad.
I'm gonna send an email to Ludden to see if he'll stuff the national job and come back.
I thought the article was fine. I don't see why he would have talked about Horry's clutch shooting. We all know about it, and it's not like Horry would have brought that if he came next year. Oliver is correct - we'll miss his mind games/dirty tricks that can be helpful in a tight series.
However, that's not to say I want him back. I don't, but I do appreciate what he brought.
For me, bringing Horry back depends on three things- available roster spots, Horry's health, and how much he would take to play this season.
Depending on how the rest of the summer and the preseason pan out, there may or may not be an available roster spot to give him, so it may be a moot point.
Would he come back healed up and at least in some kind of good shape for the season?
The Spurs don't exactly have a "JR Smith/Artest" amount of money left to give. So if we have a roster spot, he's healthy and ready to go, and he's willing to take the vet's minimum, that may go a long way toward deciding.
Of course, didn't the FO already say that he won't be coming back? If so, really a moot point.
If Horry doesn't make the starting day roster, I wouldn't be shocked if he's called upon for the playoffs OR if one of our bigs gets injured. He would have to stay in shape in case the call comes, but I could definitely see it happening.
Offer him a bag of Funyuns to come back.
damn, hoopz is buff.
we held on to horry 1 possibly 2 seasons to long, and this season(because of that) we're gonna pay for it...id be willing to bet timmy had everything todo with horry being gone...if i was timmy, and i got alley-ooped on as much as he did against the suns,hornets and lakers(last season) and all you got is horry coming off the bench if fab and kurt cant play, heck id rather get beat with gist or tolliver coming in.....at least when he gets back to the bench he can say........its not my fault you held on to rob and fin so long papa pop
Horry should have his jersey retired. Horry should be remembered as a great Spur. Horry should be remembered as the greatest role player in NBA history. BUT Horry should retire so someone else (Gist, Mason, Bonner) can step up for us in the playoffs.
I mean I'm sure you can have Horry take up a roster spot til he's 60 so he can play 5 minutes in the 4th quarter of a 3 point game in the playoffs, BUT that wouldn't help us when we need a solid back up PF for the first 3 quarters.
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