Mensah-Bonsu to sign with raptors

[Indazone]

Not keeping Pops was an dumb move of epic proportions. Nearly the magnitutde of giving Scola to us.

[EricB]

Vaughn could have been retained as a coach which is his likely destination after this year and he won't see 2 second playing time except garbage minutes.

Of course, cause you know so much more than Spurs management.

[Indazone]

Pops will command at least $3 million dollars next year.

[poop]

Of course, cause you know so much more than Spurs management.

keep backpedalling bag.

[picnroll]

Of course, cause you know so much more than Spurs management.

Is this T Park the condescending asshole?

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Yeah would've been a fantastic move to piss off the rest of the players and cut Vaughn.

Has the franchise ever made a move you disagreed with?

Tpark.... piss off the players? I'm sorry, was there some line in the sand "keep Vaughn or else" meeting that the team had with management.

It's a business, they would have lived with it. And I suspect he would have still been kept around as a coach.

But go ahead and get your panties in a wad about people criticizing the Spurs for keeping a geriatric 5 MPG veteran over some young, cheap talent.

[VI_Massive]

Yeah the savior.

I don't think he's a savior, but if he can play in the system and be had for a reasonable price, I think he could help.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Of course, cause you know so much more than Spurs management.

Ah, good ol' TPark...

Considering we have Hill and Mason backing up Tony now and Vaughn holding down a chair at the end of the bench, your defense of management for keeping Vaughn around is pretty comical.

(but nothing new).

Spurs could trade Tim Duncan for Sean Marks and a bag of chips and you'd be excited to have the bag of chips.

[MaNu4Tres]

Tpark is an ignorant WAH WAH. He was crying with whott about how Gooden was going to be a horrible pickup because he thought Oberto scored on Gooden so well in the 2007 Finals when Gooden wasn't even guarding Oberto for all of his series high 7 points in game 4 of the finals. lol go figure

[Flux451]

Pops will command at least $3 million dollars next year.

I wonder why we didn't keep him then? chu ching!!!

[VI_Massive]

Pops will command at least $3 million dollars next year.

In this economy? With everyone saving up for 2010 offseason? I doubt it.

[Spurlady]

It is a moot point as to whether we should have kept him or not, we didn't. For what it is worth, he had another strong showing against Indiana:
22 minutes, 21 points on 5 of 10 shooting, 11 of 13 ft and 8 rebounds.
He simply wouldn't get those minutes here. Even Hairston is in street clothes right now and Ime is playing because Pop goes with the veterans down the stretch.

[peskypesky]

Not keeping Pops was an dumb move of epic proportions. Nearly the magnitutde of giving Scola to us.

the dude put up 21 pts and 8 boards in 21 minutes

that is quality

and the FO ed up one again...just cause Pop doensn't like dunks

[picnroll]

Has the franchise ever made a move you disagreed with?

Mistake? Yeah. T Park is still trying to figure out why they ever traded away Jackie Butler. After all they offered him a contract and they never make a mistake.

[Go For Tree]

Not keeping Pops was an dumb move of epic proportions. Nearly the magnitutde of giving Scola to us.

scola was outplayed by a newly accuired gooden last night on his home floor.... and look at all the trophies hes help raise for h-town! you are we tall did. in fact, sofa king we tall did.

[benefactor]

It is a moot point as to whether we should have kept him or not, we didn't. For what it is worth, he had another strong showing against Indiana:
22 minutes, 21 points on 5 of 10 shooting, 11 of 13 ft and 8 rebounds.
He simply wouldn't get those minutes here. Even Hairston is in street clothes right now and Ime is playing because Pop goes with the veterans down the stretch.

Ahh...the voice of reason.

There is no reason to keep ing and moaning because Pops is gone...no matter what he does with the Raptors. Gooden became available and even if we kept Pops and Gooden there is no way that there is enough minutes on our front line for both of them to get sufficient playing time to learn the system and be effective for the stretch run and in the playoffs.

If we don't get Gooden then maybe Pops stays with the team and helps down the stretch...but he became a casualty after a player that could better help this team became available.

So I don't want to hear anymore about "why didn't we cut Vaughn" or "why didn't we cut Oberto" because at the end of the day it makes no difference.

[ChumpDumper]

I was sorry to see Pops go, but we did get similar production from Gooden last night against a much better team -- so I won't be gnashing my teeth over this one.

[ducks]

pops could still end up with spurs next season

[new_N_town]

21 pts dosent suck, take that all you oberto boner ryders im sure fabs will start scorin 20pts now a game ahahaa

[ducks]

how many of them in garabage time

[benefactor]

21 pts dosent suck, take that all you oberto boner ryders im sure fabs will start scorin 20pts now a game ahahaa

[Buddy Holly]

I would highly doubt that Pops the savior ever omes back.

Between Mahinmi, Gist, KT, and others there will be no room.

Would I like to see him given a shot? Sure.

You replace KT with Pops and that's one young and athletic front court.

Tim, Gooden, Pops, Gist, Ian >> Tim, Oberto, Thomas, Bonner

[Biggems]

I want to keep Gooden (yes, I was against signing him, but he has won me over)....and then bring Pops back. I would also like to bring Gist over from Europe.

I would like to say so long to Oberto. We can keep Thomas for the final year of his contract.

C - Bonner, Ian, Thomas
PF - Duncan, Gooden, Pops
SF - Bowen, Gist, ?
SG - Mason, Manu, Finley
PG - Parker, Hill, Hairston

of course if we don't bring back Pops, I want him to stay in the Eastern Conference.....preferably with Toronto. I don't want him with another West team or with teams like Boston, Orlando, Cleveland, etc.

[Biggems]

You replace KT with Pops and that's one young and athletic front court.

Tim, Gooden, Pops, Gist, Ian >> Tim, Oberto, Thomas, Bonner

You do realize, Bonner will be hear next year right? Also, Oberto and Thomas are still on the books for next season as well.

[Bruno]

Keeping Pops would have been very easy for Spurs. The cost of keeping him over keeping Vaughn was quite marginal. Spurs simply made the choice of not keeping Pops.

Spurs bringing back Pops this summer is quite unrealistic. Pops will be a restricted free agent this summer. If he continue to play well, Raptors will make a QO and match a Spurs offer. If he sucks, there will be no interest to bring him back.

Spurs simply decide that Pops wasn't an interesting player to keep. Were there right or wrong? Time will tell but it's quite ridiculous to say that they have made a mistake right now.