Ian Mahinmi is a stud

[Bruno]

That's all.

[timaios]

[benefactor]

....in this league

[timvp]

Way to jinx him. The last player you said was a stud was waived a month later.

[Bruno]

Way to jinx him. The last player you said was a stud was waived a month later.

Jinx stories are for pussies.

[Hemotivo]

[Bruno]

Splitter didn't sign with Spurs because he was scared of Ian.

[timvp]

Waiving Marcus Williams was a disaster but trading Luis Scola for nothing was a great move.

[Magic_Johnson]

Ian will take over and TD will be the 2nd option.

[timvp]

Splitter didn't sign with Spurs because he was scared of Ian.

Ah now I see why you started this thread. That pic was worth the wait.

Nicely played

[Bruno]

Look at the fear in Scrubla's eyes :

[urunobili]

FAILURE... Mahimini won't ever make the team.. ZERO basketball IQ.. just athleticism doesn't cut it with this team...

[Magic_Johnson]

FAILURE... Mahimini won't ever make the team.. ZERO basketball IQ.. just athleticism doesn't cut it with this team...

well Elson made the team 2 years with no basketball IQ

[Bruno]

Haters can kiss Jackie butler's ass.
And don't worry it is big enough to receive a nearly infinite number of lips.

[polandprzem]

Bruno you are overrated

1st. you did not posted a pic
2nd. you messing with timvp
3rd there is no third

[timvp]

Serious questions for Bruno. In your opinion, how come Mahinmi didn't improve his summer league performance much at all from two summers ago when he was just learning basketball? Do you think he will be a rotation player this season? Has the French media talked about him at all since summer league?

TIA.

[Bruno]

In your opinion, how come Mahinmi didn't improve his summer league performance much at all from two summers ago when he was just learning basketball?

I didn't watch Mahinmi two summers ago in SL.
Mahinmi's improvement over the year in D-League has been quite amazing. I didn't put too much weight in what he has done in SL because it's SL.

Do you think he will be a rotation player this season?

If the roster stay the same, yes.
Mahinmi mobility is light year ahead other Spurs' bigs.
There is a wide open niche open for him in Spurs' roster.

Has the French media talked about him at all since summer league?

AFAIK, no.

[timvp]

Thanks for the answers. Summer league is higher level of play than D-League, so I don't think it's right to say summer league is just summer league and then get all excited about what he did in D-League. But I guess we'll find out if your optimism is based in reality or not. I hope Mahinmi is a stud.

I forgot what Bruno thought about Elson before the Spurs signed him. Hopefully he wasn't hyping him up, too. Let me do a quick search . . .

[Bruno]

Bruno you are overrated

1st. you did not posted a pic
2nd. you messing with timvp
3rd there is no third

[timvp]

I see Elson as a serviceable big man and I think that he will be a good fit with Duncan.

On the offensive end : His midrange jumpshoot will be money with Duncan in the post.

Same thing we heard about Rasho. Truth is at most he'll attempt one or two jumpers a game and will hit about 40% of them. That doesn't do much.

On the defensive end : His speed will help him to play decent man 2 man defense. 90% of the time our center defend the opposite PF and not the opposite C.

He may be faster than your average bigman but that is negated by being uncoordinated and having a low basketball IQ.

If he can be a decent rebounder (at least better than Rasho), he will be a valuable role player.

Rasho is a better rebounder.

Scary, I know.

Add to that, that he is not old, injury prone and has no at ude troubles and for $6M/2 years (Potapenko received that contract last summer and I take Elson over Potapenko), I'm sold on him.

I'd take an NBDL player for the minimum over Elson. Elson is a has been who never was anything. Throwing away more than half of the MLE on him is insane.

Elson is a way better jumpshooter tahn Rasho.

Not really. They both shot between 34-38% on jumpers their whole career. Last season, Elson bumped that up to 42%. Career-wise, they are about the same.

Let him open at 16-18ft and he will hit more than 50% of his jumpshoot and score 10-12pts.

10-12 points a game? A season?

First of all he won't hit 50%. Second of all, it's proven in the Spurs' system that a center with a midrange jumper doesn't get more than 1 or 2 of those shots a game. At most, the threat of being able to hit a wide open 15 footer is what counts.

You don't need to be Einstein to play good man 2 man defense. His low BBIQ will hurt him more for team defense and Duncan is here to help him.

Duncan will also be there to pick up fouls. Nazr was a good man-to-man defender but a poor team defender. In the end, his poor team defense made Spurs fans and Pop want to kill him.

The Spurs' defense is built on team defense. If you can't rotate well, you won't play.

I think that Elson will be a rebounder in SA than in Denver (like Rasho when he comes in SA from Minny).

Nazr and Raso's rebounding rates stayed pretty much the same. Perhaps Elson all of a sudden becomes a better rebounder than Rasho, but that is just hope.

That's your opinion, mine is that it's a good signing.
Only future will tel who is right and who is wrong (if Denver doesn't match).

Yeah, we'll see I guess. I must warn you that timvp is rarely wrong when it comes to pointing out bad free agent signings.

Ouch. Sometimes it sucks being right.

"That's your opinion, mine is that Elson is a good signing. Only future will tel who is right and who is wrong." - Bruno

Was timvp right are will you be able to dance around it?

[Bruno]

Ouch. Sometimes it sucks being right.

"That's your opinion, mine is that Elson is a good signing. Only future will tel who is right and who is wrong." - Bruno

Was timvp right are will you be able to dance around it?

Elson was a decent bigman in SA.
I was right, you was wrong. Deal with that.

[timvp]

Damn, timvp was almost exactly right on each point. Impressive.

Unfortunately.

[Trainwreck2100]

Without Elson we don't get Thomas

[timvp]

Without Elson we don't get Thomas

Good point. That fifth championship the Spurs won last year would have been impossible without the Thomas acquisition.

[angelbelow]

cool