Thanks timaios for the update, nice to hear !
Good to see Mahinmi back in action. Pretty nice stats for the minutes played ... especially in the blocked shots department.
What stands out to me in the box score is the 15 shot attempts for Marcus Williams in 24 minutes. That's ridiculous ... especially since Hairston got two shots. Williams needs to mix in some passes.
A song just popped into my head thinking about the spurs woeful frontline.
"And here's to you, Mr Robinson, jesus loves you more than you will know...
whoah, whoah, whoah.."
Cmon Mahinmi, do your best Mr Robinson impression, and don't dissappoint.
i was waiting for the toros to come down to the valley and play the vipers here so i can watch ian play but that aint happenin for a couple of months...wammp wamp wammmpppp
Good find. Didn't get a chance to see it.
Be interesting if 1) He stays healthy 2) When the Spurs feel he's ready to make a jump.
My guess. Blake Ahearn was signed, will be there for a few weeks, when Parker comes back, he cuts dropped and then they bring Ian in.
No, Ian is already on the roster. But I think Ahearn will be replaced by another 10-day call up. I think we'll see Hairston get at least on 10 day contract in the next few months.
Ahh...got it tav1.
Thanks
nice..
I just hope that Ian could be a defensive beast that DROB was only 5 years ago in 2003.
This team's biggest need, other than the obvious of getting the big 2 back, is help in the middle. Since it looks like the trade options out there are limited, I'm really hoping Mahinmi can come in a produce for us. As I stated during training camp, he may be the x-factor this year for the Spurs. If they can get healthy by the end of the season and he can actually team up with Duncan successfully in the post, the Spurs suddenly are a pretty strong team again.
I've seen worse, and no you don't throw him into the fire after only one preseason game.
Our frontline has pretty much been the same since DROB left but it just looks bad in comparison to the other BIGS in the west.....
Yao and scola
Shaq and Amare
Gasol and Bynum
Oden and Aldridge
West and Chandler
A good athletic big will do fine and Mahinmi COULD be our answer....
you settle down
Andre Brown was just waived by Charlotte-- he's a very good rebounder and energy guy, if nothing else, and though slightly undersized for his position at 6'9", would still make the undersized Spurs bigger. I could see Ahearn getting cut with Manu and Tony ahead of schedule in their rehab, and a guy like Brown along with Mahinmi shoring up the frontline. If Duncan can't have exceptional big men around him, at least he'd be able to count on a deep rotation and not having to worry that Bonner or Oberto are tired...
So maybe the big rotation could look something like this:
Duncan 32 minutes per game
Oberto 16
Thomas 16
Mahinmi 16
Bonner 16
Brown 8
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