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thinking about the potential of our team vs (unfortunately)the reality of the current lakers team makes me think that the next two postseason's will have the west come down to battles between these two teams.
...history will be repeated
I dont need that chump(why he's on my ignore list) to tell me Ian wasnt ready. It takes no brain surgeon to understand why the spurs sent him back to the toros. And imo he wont be ready for quite some time. He just doesnt have it yet. Of course it doesnt mean he wont ever. But he wont be helping us anytime soon. What I cant believe is how people believe he was being sent back to austin to get himself in shape.(thats the FO suckering us and the nba again). The FO just didnt want to hurt his feelings and admit they're wrong. Ian=waste of time. I do believe if he played for someone like GS or NY where defense isnt number 1, he might play serious amounts of NBA time. But not for our system.
thinking about the potential of our team vs (unfortunately)the reality of the current lakers team makes me think that the next two postseason's will have the west come down to battles between these two teams.
...history will be repeated
lmfao-u just wrote a whole bunch and said what we all think-we dont know how ian will turn up-im going to be optimistic so f off. can u believe how pessimistic this site and all spurs fans were this summer after we lost maggete and drafted ghill??? we, as hard fans were pissed-but look what has happened its turned out u know what were all wrong again! Hill is amazing and mason well is beyond amazing so just stop-if you really think ian has no hope you are not a real spurs fan. GTFO of here
Reading Spurstalk with Chump on your ignore list is like reading a book with only images.
It's easier but much less interesting.
Last edited by JPB; 11-26-2008 at 12:22 PM.
Ian said on the radio that he was 3 or 4 weeks from being in shape, and that's all he's focusing on while with the Toros.
Thanks Chump.
From McDonald's game blog tonight.
Spurs/Austin Toros update:
The Toros played their second of two Developmental League preseason games on Saturday, losing to Colorado 120-104. Malik Hairston, who was with the Spurs in training camp, had 20 points and Marcus Williams had 16. Ian Mahinmi, who is part of the Spurs' roster but has been slowed by an ankle injury, played 23 minutes and had nine points and two rebounds. The Toros open the regular season on Friday.
I really hope we can find out by the trade deadline if Mahinmi is the big we need. If not, we need to get another big.
The great part about the Toros schedule is Mahinmi can stay with them until the New Years and only have to make one trip. The rest are home games. So even if he has to stay there until 2009, the Spurs should be able to keep a close eye on him.
How many of these developmental league gambits have worked out for the Spurs?
Players are ready, or they're not. I don't have much hope in Mahinimi.
Its not really a matter of whether he is ready or not, as know one really knows. He is down in Austin to simply work on his conditioning and finish his recovery from a pretty severe ankle injury.
Also, looks like Hairston is playing well. I really think he should be on the Spurs roster, but as long as he is safe on the Toros he will get great run down there.
Boy, he's chomping at the bit.
Did he play Friday night?
You know you read everything Chump says. You may have him on the ignore list, but you still read what he has to say when other people quote him.
What's Ratliff doing these days?
I think he retired.
He's playing for Philly.
Oh yeah, that's right.
He's not doing much there though. Only averaging 7 minutes.
I wonder if he has anything left. Anything is better than Thomas/Tolliver at this point. Unless he really is injured and not just washed up.
3 to 4 weeks is a lot but if he needs that time to be back at 100%, there is nothing you can do about that.
I still hope it will be a little quicker and that he will be ready after Toros' first home stand that is to say on December 13th.
Ian shouldn't have very difficult matchups tomorrow against Utah; they are a very small team. Brian Jackson may have some success defending him one-on-one, but they will probably be doubling him a whole lot. Their other big man looks like a Matt Bonner/Brian Scalabrine love child.
Saturday's matchup against Tulsa will be much more difficult, as they have will have four quality big men to throw at him in Steven Hill, Chris Richard, Chris Eillis and even Ryan Humprey.
So far, Ian has played 20 minutes and scored 4 points on 1-5 from the field, one (??!) rebound, one block and 4 turnovers.
http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/box...eId=2020800004
Ian with 4 fouls,4 pts, 1 rbd....This guy could stay with austin all season with stat lines like this. Getting into shape is one thing, trying to become an NBA center/pf is another.
There's some comments in the other thread from people who watched that he was being seen by the trainer on the bench and is obviously still injured.
For the Spurs, this season may all come down to The Mahinmi.
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