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Spurs aren't good enough to tank a season.
Not a good start to the season, the spurs need to make a move to get better up front in a hurry or just trade duncan. Why have him around and suck untill he calls it quits?
Bonner is a disgrace! We are not a playoff team with him getting major mins.
I guess Pops figured KT is crap so he had him at the end of the bench tonight.
Bowen still sucks, and vaughn is average at best.
Spurs aren't good enough to tank a season.
You deal in hysteria, and always have. would be being you.
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Honestly, Ghost, who is it that you have on your 2009 draft radar that the Spurs should "tank" for this season?
You're ludicrulous.
oh please, do shut the up.
We don't need to tank, we're sucking ass right now and the team is actually trying.
As long as Pop plays his senior citizens heavily (Bowen, Thomas, Bonner, Finley), there's a fairly decent chance we continue to lose (until Manu gets back anyway).
Tim and Tony are playing great, but they can't cover for all the geriatric ers who are getting turnstyled defensively every trip down.
Hasheem Thabeet would be a nice lottery pick to fit on the Spurs. Great size and actually runs the court really well for a big guy. Would immediately help with rebounding, and could erase some mistakes defensively with shot blocking. Plus, he wouldn't really disrupt the offense, which still will be in the capable hands of Duncan, Parker, and Ginobili. But, he would probably help with second chance opportunities with offensive rebounding.
I'm not sure who even rates as the top SF prospect in the class of 2009 (still some time for that to play out), but whoever it is would be the target.
Of course, the Spurs front office hasn't done to address the SF spot for 5 years now so I probably shouldn't count on them to grow a ing brain all of a sudden.
Give Bowen another five year deal [/Pop]
I like the way Ghost waits till the Spurs lose a few games to try and give his opinions.
If you thought the season was worth tanking you would say so after you witness the off season and the injury of Manu.
And if you didn't know enough about the Spurs until they played 4 games then you have no business acting like you know Spurs.
In any case your a poor excuse of a Spurs fan to even toss in the towel this early in the season.
There are many NBA Championship teams that won the year they started off their season with 4 loses.
Tanking the season is not a bad idea it got the spurs Tim Duncan, but you need to say so Like I did weeks before the season started,not now, after the fact.
Not unexpected.
thats typical coming from you. your not here for the spurs. your here just to play like the playbabies. your done....welcome number 121 on my ignore list.
Both great points fellas but if spurs are only one more player away why tank make a trade you don't have a lot of assets outside of the big 3 but if you could trade let's say Manu and Bowen for a third star most in the league love Manu outside of tm and TP he is the most valuable piece
I have been down on the Spurs for year for only getting older instead of better.
The sensible thing to do is tank. Why fight just to get eliminated by the younger, more talented teams?
Still think I am crazy?
We're looking at OT against the Timberwolves.
Show me the silver-and-black lining on this cloud.
Stephen Jackson sure would be nice right now. FWIW, I still think he's a better player than Manu.
Flame away!
u mean number #1
once Manu + Mahinmi are back I see a pretty decent team
nope - Spurs should have signed Maggette, J.R. Smith and Pargo. They wasted money on Mason and a pick on Hill. Our FO has no clue what they're doing - they've only won les because of luck due to lottery picks.
Seriously, it kills me how stupid and naive fans can be when they make rash judgements based on their own knowledge of the NBA and team make up. I'm not a NBA scout or GM, so I tend to trust successful FO's when they've always made surprising decisions and they continue to do so. I don't understand it, but as a fan I don't need to. Spurs targeted Mason over the past couple of years and while I'll agree they possibly did have Batum above Hill I think they made the right decision when the pick came up. I can't believe that this team is a bad team right now - there's just not enough chemistry and flow to work in the system that we have. If that comes together and we get some more players healthy, things will click and we will be compe ive. To suggest that this team should tank the season is probably the most cowardly thing I've ever heard a fellow Spurs fan suggest.
FO made a push on magette but signed with someone else. smith is too much of a risk. 26 pts today says Money is money.
To suggest that this team should tank the season is probably the most cowardly thing I've ever heard a fellow Spurs fan suggest.
1-81 is still doable, do it pop
What do you know, he somehow even lost more cred saying the Jazz have a Big 3, they only have two, you dumb . When opposing fans(Xylus, Mavs fans) tell ST posters to put down the gun, that should be a wakeup call for all. But not Ghost. 4% in, and he's ready to throw in the towel!!!
I don't see any good prospects to tank for?...And plus if we was to get a good draft pick, our dumb ass GM would give him away to the SUNS or ROCKETS!!!! THAT!!!!
its pretty bull when spurs fans say "we should have signed maggettte/we should have brought in splitter/we should have drafted batum" its all ing bull . grow the up.
I actually totally agree with Ghost Writer, except I think we should play all of our young players all freakin season, and take whatever record and standing we get. We will not make the playoffs if we do that, so we'll still be a lottery team.
It makes no sense to try your hardest, risk injury, and make the 6th spot only to get trounced by the Lakers and be in the same exact position next year, when you can rest up, get a good pick, and be in a better position next year.
Then again, with what we've seen from our FO the past few years, we can be assured that they would manage to it up by picking Tyler Hansborough's little red-headed brother or something.
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