Reply With Quote
Holy , this guy Finley just won't go away.
If you take Finley off the roster and replace him with TPark, we do better than we did with Finley. You need to check his impact in that series last year...
There were some insane +/- aberrations that can totally be traced to Finley, that are quite amazing.
In fact, I wouldn't even think some of them were mathematically possible, but Finley proved me wrong.
Holy , this guy Finley just won't go away.
That does not answer my question. Do the Spurs WIN if you replace Fin with Brent?
As for Fin, we're kinda at the opposite place of last season, now we need a few veterans to keep the younger players in check.
your fast food built brain is not letting you think properly my friend... and what your childish accusation of me not being a spur fan has to do with you having NO ing proof of something you're just making up? prove it or erase it...
I just can't get out of my brain the vision of Pop going small with Duncan, RJ, Finley, Manu, and Tony.
I prefer we play 4 on 5 if one of our 5 is going to be Finley. That'll be a 5-4 disadvantage instead of the 6-4 it is with Finley.
I think we'll come out slightly ahead that way. I don't know how a guy can put up a negative 35+/-(in his best shooting game of the series) or something like that, which is like double the rest of the team combined...but Finley finds away to do it.
Finley stepping on the court is equivalent to strapping 50lb weight on the backs of every player on the court at that time...
Probably because he does nothing to positive effect, unless you consider jacking up shots to be a skill, and is a liability in pretty much every other aspect of game play, compounded by the fact that Pop likes to put him on PF's..
Really it's more like a 7-4 disadvantage if you take that into account.
Hey Whott, do you drive a Dodge?
This move hardly registers a blip for the rest of the NBA, but it's like an 8.8 earthquake on the spurstalk richter scale-- skyscrapers crumble, powerlines crash down, lives are destroyed!!!
so you puked when he hit the game tying 3 against NOH at the end of the season last year?
McDonald chimes in.
Finley opts to return to Spurs
Jeff McDonald
In the end, the decision couldn’t have been very difficult at all for Michael Finley. Did he want another $2.5 million, or didn’t he?
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Finley informed the Spurs on Tuesday afternoon that he will exercise his contractual option and return to play a fifth season with the team.
Finley, 36, is coming off a season in which he averaged 9.7 points, the second-lowest of his career. He led the Spurs in starts (77), and enjoyed the most accurate shooting season of his Spurs’ tenure, hitting 43.7 percent from the field and a career-best 41.1 percent from 3-point range.
Most notably, Finley made two clutch baskets down the stretch of the regular season – to beat Sacramento and force overtime in a victory over New Orleans – that helped the Spurs wrap up the Southwest Division championship.
His role is likely to change somewhat this season, his 15th in the league, with the addition of new swingman Richard Jefferson to the Spurs’ lineup.
Finley will earn $2.5 million this season in the final year of his contract. His return will give the Spurs nine players under contract when free agency opens at 11:01 tonight.
With Bruce Bowen and Kurt Thomas shipped out in the Jefferson trade, it leaves Finley as the oldest player on the Spurs’ roster for the time being.
On April 29, a day after the Spurs were eliminated from the playoffs by his old team, the Dallas Mavericks, Finley indicated that his return to San Antonio – or to the NBA – was far from a slam dunk.
“I’m going to sit back with my family now, enjoy this extended period of time off, and when the time comes that I have to make a decision about my future, that’s when I’ll make it,” Finley said at the time.
D-Day was Tuesday. He made the decision to take the money and play.
People need to chill on this forum, Fin's expiring contract could be a nice asset.
Get rid off him!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not just to another team either. The Spurs might like having the contracts of Finley, Bonner, and Mason just run off the books after this season.
Yup, and a trade involving all 3 of them could bring in some nice talent. Although i'd rather keep Mason.
Bowen gets thrown under to the benefit of one of the whining pusies that called him(and the Spurs) dirty, Spurfans celebrate....in fact they call him classy.
The day Finley is gone will be one of my favorites as a Spurfan.
And a lot of people have a stupid definition of class...
It's not classy to call a team and player dirty and then turn around and sign with them, just because they are the defending champions, the top rival of the team you are leaving, and you are being paid 15 million a year by that same team are motivated almost entirely by sticking it to them.
That is not classy at all...it is an ALL TIME MANUEVER, and the karmic fallout has resulted in us being the Mavs and left us with the grim reality that making it out of the first round can now be considered, "improvement". , winning 2 games in the first round can now be considered improvement.
this, and Finley.
Goddamn...we have fallen so far, that is now considered meaningful....to some.so you puked when he hit the game tying 3 against NOH at the end of the season last year?
Pathetic. Almost as bad as being proud of winning a Silver Medal or something.
.
It's not about Finley hate. I just don't want him out there unless there's no other choice.
Finley will get the nod over the younger options, and this time next year, we will still lack a young wing player ready to contribute (outside of the DL or SL). Lebron is licking his chops again.
Whottt is acting like a drag queen lounge singer who has just been told that Judy Garland died.
oh ok now I get it... But still don;t think this is Bowen is gone because of Fin...
Bowen ed up his relationship with Pop and something none of us seem to know happened there...
awwww .
At least Finley did not opt out and become a trader by signing with the Rockets to sit on the bench. Going to your rival to stick it to your own team. That is a b*tch move.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
