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throw hairiston for nestrovic
Starters
1 Parker
2 Ginobili
3 Jefferson
4 Duncan
5 McDyess
Bench
1 Hill
2 Mason
2/3 Bowen
3/4 Gist
4 Bonner
4/5 Mahinmi
5 Nesterovic
An active roster like that would give you plenty of scoring, improved athleticism, and a very solid rebounding frontcourt. If Gist and Mahinmi are good enough to give you regular season minutes then you should be able to rest some of your playoff rotation during the course of the regular season. You'd have plenty of guys who can stretch the floor from beyond the arc. A question would be if they can get by with only two points on the active roster (I would guess they'd carry a 3rd point on IR - but they might opt to carry two of Hairston, Williams, and Sanikidze for assignment in Austin). Mahinmi as the 4th big would give him some time to develop as well as an opportunity for minutes without being expected to do too much. I think you peg Mason as a 2 and let him focus solely on that position (though the 2 and 3 are quite interchangeable in the Spurs' system). I like Bonner as the 5th big. The question for him will be if he can produce like he did last regular season with less regular minutes.
But the main difference here would be in rebounding and scoring. McDyess would fit very well next to TD. I think Radoslav would be alright in this scenario, as his focus would be defense above all else.
This roster would be a good mix of young and old, scoring, shooting, and rebounding. I think this could also move the Spurs back into the upper echelon of defensive units in the NBA.
The question, of course, is will the Spurs be willing to spend the MLE and LLE now, especially since that will also subject them to the luxury tax (and do away with the lux tax distributions)? I think they will. They don't make a trade like this unless they were willing to spend to address the gaping holes in the bigman rotation (not that they didn't have any there last season - only now they are forced to do so).
Duncan will likely retire after the 2011-12 season (I could be wrong, but it seems that he will). It's now or never. Win now and worry later, someone once said...
throw hairiston for nestrovic
Are you re ed?
That would make no sense.
lol nesterovic wow
There's so many ways the Spurs could go. My guess is they will shop the package of Mason and Bonner for a big man and still use the MLE for a big man and a cheap wing like McCants if a trade with Mason and Bonner does go down and Finley declines his option.
You have anyone better in mind that would adapt to the Spurs system faster than Rasho? If you think he was a bad player with the Spurs, something's wrong. He wasn't a completely bad player, he was just overpaid for the production he was giving us.
I guess they will try to persuade Finley not to use his option, though I'm not sure he could find a better deal elsewhere. Even if he picks it up, that's one more expiring deal to use in a potential trade.
get rid of bonner first we can't have two soft bigman
i say bring gooden get rid of bonner someway somehow
Nesterovic starting at $8 mil a season, sure. At $2 mil a season coming off the bench, I can live with that and I hate him more than you.
I'd love that roster. Good group of veterans but still enough youth on it to make sure things get stagnant. McDyess had a fantastic season last year and Rasho has actually improved in a lot of ways since leaving the Spurs. As a low-salaried bench player, he'd be a valuable role player.
Keeping Mahinmi and Gist high enough in the pecking order to get a fair opportunity also makes sense. And for as much as Bonner is hated these days, as a deep reserve he's quality.
I would have disagreed but RC in that video talks as if he's been given the green light to load this team up as much as possible.
I'm surprised he hasn't popped in. This is his kind of deal.
But yeah, the Tim Duncan window is closing. It'd be great if the FO and ownership decided to cash all their checks, let it all hang out and just go basketballs to the wall until now and the end.
Sheed has to be a legitimate option as the starting Center, does he not?
The way RC kept talking about opportunities on draft day makes me think they have a potential deal lined up. Whether that's using a package of Mason/Bonner or just buying a pick I don't know but just the way he talked makes me think something is in the works.
If they do have to use Mason/Bonner in a draft deal and Finley hasn't excercised his option yet then I think Finley is here to stay.
Are we getting Splitter or what ?
Well, sure. The list of starting quality free agent bigs in the Spurs' price range (excluding a trade) is kinda short. The thing is, everyone is enamored with Wallace's 3 point range and they ignore the fact that shows up in his overall FG% and in his rebounding. Overall, I think McDyess is a much better fit opposite TD and his jumper is still solid enough to force teams to respect him and give TD the space to operate.
If something doesn't happen on draft day, I'm going to be hugely disappointed. For once, RC talked like there was going to be some moves, and it seemed like he actually meant it.
RC, please don't get me excited for nothing.
If Finley is your 5th string wing, you'd have worse things.
Be ready, they always attempt to trade up and something always fails.
IIRC in 2004 they were close to trading up and were gonna snag a point guard named Jameer Nelson.
I wonder if we may buy one of the Twolves 18th or 28th picks of the draft.
There's still no reason to get your hope too high about draft day. If anything good happens, that's just gravy. The next true turning point will be on July 1 when we see who the Spurs are going to target.
I think the wolves are pretty excited to be using all of those up..
Does Finley still have a no-trade clause?
True. I know that it's likely they will have the opportunities, but they just don't happen, but like I've said, for some reason it just seems like they have something planned, like something IS going to happen. Maybe it's just me, but that's the feeling I got from the RC video.
There's still no reason to get your hope too high about draft day. If anything good happens, that's just gravy. The next true turning point will be on July 1 when we see who the Spurs are going to target.
I am excited for July 1st, though.
I think you will find alot of people split on Mcdyess and Sheed. My preference would be the latter, mainly because of his size and length, as well as the added range he has. Dyess is a solid post defender, but his lack of size can be exploited by bigger players.
Still, i would be very happy with either one, and i think thats the best way to go. Rasho with the LLE would be very nice.
Then, if you pull those two off, you take the most talented player left on the board. I wouldnt mind seeing the Spurs grab a wing, like Danny Green. The team doesnt really have that young long SF type stopper to develop. The project big man (Mahinmi) and Guards are there (Hill and Williams/Hairston). Plus Splitter. So, i think they take a wing if they do grab Rasho and one of Sheed/Dyess.
god damn. thats pretty much the exact roster ive been hoping for all day.
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