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For a team that's thin on the front line, buying out and releasing both of your starting centers and your backup power forward may be the stupidest thing I've EVER read on Spurstalk. Who else but Fabbs?
Why would you want to? Nobody better out there right now. Then, this offseason (or into next season), the expiring deals have value.
For a team that's thin on the front line, buying out and releasing both of your starting centers and your backup power forward may be the stupidest thing I've EVER read on Spurstalk. Who else but Fabbs?
The hope for the Spurs is mahinmi. I guess there is always the chance someone might want to dump salary later in the season (eg Gasol) and the Spurs could get someone quality.
One question- if and when Mahinmi becomes active, who goes inactive? If the Spurs keep 3 PG's active, and they will have 5 SG/SF active (Ginobili, Mason, Bowen, Udoka, Finley) that only leaves 4 spots for bigs. Duncan, Thomas, Oberto, Bonner, Tolliver and Mahinmi is 6 players, so two would have to be inactive. Tolliver is one, but who is the other. I see Vaughn, and udoka as options. At any given time someone might be injured anyway.
This is what they bring us. Guys like Fab and Kurt. And until they make the changes thats what we'll be stuck with. Guys like Fab and Kurt.
What changes?
Yeah the athletic 3/4 cupboard is very bare at present.
I wanted to see what was going to happen with Al Harrington and we got that answer today, he's a Knick. I'm not purporting that Al was the answer, but he is an upgrade over Fabbs-Bonner-KT imo.
Hmmn so if we tank 2009 whats avail this upcoming summer?
Mahinmi for 15 still leaves 33 minutes per game with the unathletic plodders (sans Toliver). Still looking for a guy who can score alongside Tim.None of those players are going to be bought out or waived during the season. The offseason is a different story, although that depends on whether or not the final year of each of their contracts is fully guaranteed.
The bigman corps for the Spurs is actually not as bad as most Spurs fans make it out to be, especially if Mahinmi is able to come in and fill the missing holes. Right now, the Spurs have the smart and good passing big (Oberto), the big who can defend on the low block against size (Thomas), the perimeter big (Bonner) and the energy big (Tolliver). The glaring omission is the athletic, shotblocking big. If Mahinmi is good enough to play 15 minutes a game and alter a few shots and use his athleticism to get up and down the court, suddenly all the pieces fit.
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