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I hope that whenever Barry retires he ends up in some capacity with the Spurs doing PBP with Sean or being the mic man at events.
Can we trade Bonner for Barry??
I hope that whenever Barry retires he ends up in some capacity with the Spurs doing PBP with Sean or being the mic man at events.
Seems everyone liked Brent but he joins a Rocket team that where just about everyone has health concerns. Brent has spent time on the injury list every year he has been here. The older you get usually the longer it takes to heal. Let's see if he can stay healthy in Houston.
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Timvp is right if the spurs wanted him back they woulda reached into their pockets. The fact is barry was always injured and the fins wasnt. Either way its not brent that will contribute on pounding the spurs. We all know with Scolla and Ron the rockets are the better team. Brent will help HOU, because he knows basketball and he really knows each spurs players habits. Add a good coach like Rick and HOU and NO are the teams to beat in our division as of right now. Just think how much better our FO has made the rockets. They cant find players to fit in our uniforms so they make sure they fit into rocket uniforms. hahahahahaha......bunch of dummys in charge of the FO if you ask me.
Barry will have a big ovation.Barry doesn't know how Spurs fans will greet him the first time he shows up at AT&T Center in red and white. He hopes they will remember him fondly and appreciate his contribution to the two NBA le teams on which he played.
I think it was Barry of Finley and Spurs opted for Finley and for pay more. I hope they got it right
As much as I like to criticize the Spurs front office(and rightly so), you can't lay sole blame to them. Arguably more blame has to go on Barry. Barry could have came back. He had the option. He chose to opt out. He must have thought he deserved more playing time. I can't say I disagree. I'd rather have him at backup point than Jacque Vaughn or George Hill.
Basically, what bull . Pop spurts all kinds of stuff about needing Finley's leadership in the lockeroom and how losing Finley would have been a "Depreciation in Corporate proportions" or something like that.
WTF...Barry was infinitly more valuable.
Now as you know I am the biggest Michael Finley fan there is. However, letting Barry go was a huge mistake.
I would have rather seen them let Fin go before Barry. I just hope the Spurs dont have to face the Rox in the playoffs cuz I know Barry will have some big shots ready for his old team.
You have got to be ing kidding me. How about showing even the slightest bit of journalistic integrity, you bag. An organization who pays Finley $5 million can never, ever claim this was about age or money.Now, Barry is gone from the Spurs because the team wanted to get younger and had strict fiscal standards for role players beyond a certain age.
Barry>>Finley
Definately we will miss Barry not only off the court but on the court as well.
But all in all it's business and there are people who are deciding certain things. Those are the same people that let malik go, and many Spurs fans loved Malik.
btw. Why the spurs offense gives many players (shooters esp.) so much stress?
I always thought it is a big issue in success. Spurs mainly were losing because of lacking in shooting.
Barry had problems with open himself in that matter. Findog as well. Hedo screw the playoffs cause it was too hot for him. Vaugh is always in shoot or not to shoot mode ... dayumn
Brent always seemed to me one of the more genuinely fun and funny guys in the league. Pistons got stuck with the older, slower, shorter, balding, less humorous Barry, and he still became a cult hero and fan favorite among Piston fans.
whottt talking out of his ass again. The very first time SA cut AJ (91-92), he went directly down IH10 to....you guessed it....the Rockets.
Help me: I thought Fin signed a 1 year, 2.5 million dollar deal.
I don't Finley will be back next season; he'll retire.
That was a concern for me, too. I think maybe the calf injuries were making the FO a little more hesistant in offering Barry the LLE, though $640K is chicken feed in the NBA. So it seems that the FO wants a younger wing to get the PT rather than Barry. Time top roll the dice and see what happens. As Timvp has stated in previous threads Mason (Barry's heir apparant) could be the make or break player this year for the Spurs.
It would have been interesting to sit in on the meeting between Pop and RC, among others, conerning Barry vs Finley. What a thread that could have produced.
I believe Fin has an option for next year. My hope is that he gets so little playing time behind Udoka and Mason after Manu comes back that he doesn't exercise it. I also think that playing time projections were one of the reasons that Barry left. He knew that he wasn't going to see nearly as much time here as he would in Houston.
barry isn't just funny--he's a very classy guy. He'll be missed
But who knows, he may come back in another capacity since he is keeping his SA home. I think that is interesting since he's such a West coast surfer guy. He may be one of the legion of players who have come to love SA as their permanent home, despite the moving around that is caused by their profession.
I actually think they would have preferred Barry, but he chose to leave. At least that's what I took away from the Finley opening day of camp interview. He said he almost wasn't retained. Since they failed to keep Barry, they went and got a younger version who plays better defense in Mason.would have been interesting to sit in on the meeting between Pop and RC, among others, conerning Barry vs Finley. What a thread that could have produced.
I tend to agree with you on this.
But we'll have to wait for Pop to pen his tell-all autobiography to know.
Rocket's GM is not Bufordic enough to do that
I agree..I think in this case RC Bufford is a . He could at least offer barry LLE and I just found out $5 mill for Finley??? I dont know why Finley rated over Barry,but I love both. you RC for this..hopefully things will be better next timeYeah, that's why they gave Finley five million dollars.
The Rockets gave him the LLE. So that means the Spurs were only offering the minimum for Barry. Not even the LLE.
Buford thought Finley for five million dollars was better than Barry for a dollar over the minimum.
Wow.
Barry will always be a fan favorite
I'll miss Brent... HEB commercials just wont be the same.
Finley has been consistently ahead of Barry in the rotation for 3 years. It's quite logical to see Pop and Spurs re-signing Finley and letting Barry go.
so he left for more money? cool guy
No matter how bad Finley played and no mater how well Brent played, Brent was always stuck behind him. I think Brent mostly left to go to a place where he would actually get to play.
Besides his humor, do not underestimate Brent's basketball knowledge. So many times it was Brent who would notice things in games and point them out to teammates.
the FO desicion could only be measured after the season goes along and compare Finley production, and injuries vs. Brent's... i am sorry but i don't wish him well on that uniform... so Barry now... nobody gives a about you from now on...
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