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I don't want him at all.
AI will hurt more Spurs than help them.
I'm sure that if the Spurs were interested, Pop would honestly tell Iverson what the team expects of him (be a team player, practice, play within the system, come off the bench and possibly no play at the end of fourth quarter).
After all that, it might be Iverson that says no to the Spurs.
Last edited by Libri; 07-04-2009 at 04:21 PM.
I don't want him at all.
AI will hurt more Spurs than help them.
Your opinion, but if accepts a role off the bench and is motivated to play team ball and win an NBA championship, if anyone can keep AI in check it's Pop. For 1 year, 1 million, and the Spurs sign Sheed, why not. Sheed and AI did not respect that coach in Detroit, they would respect Pop in every way imaginable.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Although if AI could handle the role it would be good to move him to the 2nd team where he could be the focus of the offense like Manu is now when he is healthy and move Manu into the starting lineup. Pop and Duncan both spoke highly of AI after the Olympics saying that AI had been a total team player and did whatever was asked of him. I believe on the Spurs he would accept that kind of role. Heck, even if we snag Rasheed I would pick up AI for the vet minimum or LLE and look to trade Mason to cut salary and pick up a draft choice.
AI's at ude isn't the only problem.
AI needs the ball in his hands and I rather see the ball in Tim, Tony, Manu and RJ hands. That's the main reason why I don't want AI with Spurs.
AI doesn't fit the ethos of the spurs, plain and simple. He wants to play for Memphis because he cares more about starting and having his ego stroked then going to a contender. It is sad to see a once dominant player try to play on a crappy team just to walk on the court before another player. This would be shades of Michael Jordan with the Wizards. However, I think Jordan couldn't stand watching a team his name was attached too lose and was so compe ive he thought he could force them to be winners. Iverson is more whorish.
That's ludicrous. Getting rid of Billups destroyed the Pistons. Dumars had a bit of Isiah rub off on him when he thought that Stucky could replace Billups. It's one thing asking AI to come off the bench behind Tony and Manu w/ 3 rings each and each an all star in their own right that have been proven in the system. It is quite another to ask him to come off the bench behind Stuckey, unproven in both the system and the league.
Truly well said, he doesn't fit Spurs ball unless Manu and Tony are hurt, Duncan with wabbly knees and the green light from POP.
I'd take him as a 2nd unit player. He can be a beast in the passing lanes and should he follow Pop's plan to the letter, he'll get some valuable time through out the season, making everyone's load that much lighter and come playoff time, Pop could employ him in a small ball lineup with quickness that would frighten the league's best perimeter defenders.
He said he wanted to play for the griz because he knows they are not will get drunk enough off his hype and throw a little more money at him the other teams. He hasn't changed.I'd rather anthony johnson. Hustles. Respectable defender and can score. We don't need another superstar. We have enough.Allen Iverson still has a lot left to give. Hes a former all star,scores in bunches and he is not called the answer for nothing. As per ESPN he is reported to be interested in the Grizzlies, no pun intended but who wants to go to the Grizzlies. His stock has fallen so much that there is no one really interested in him any more. So for now he could come probably pretty cheap to a great organization like the Spurs who need a proven scorer. He has said he wants to play for coach he can respect ala Pop who was also assistant to Larry brown whom Iverson admires a lot. If he can come to San Antonio and come off the bench we would have an awesome second unit no one in the league could match.
Iverson to the Spurs yay or nay? What do you think?
People keep saying "if he'll accept his role". EPIC FAIL. Iverson has NEVER accepted a role and never will - he has the biggest ego in the game. For Iverson, it's all about Iverson, and as someone already said, he's one of the few players in the NBA who might be able to cause a meltdown in our locker room.
You can't just say "if he'll accept his role" completely ignoring his entire career in which he's never done anything that he didn't want to do, of which his destruction of the Pistons last year was emblematic. Of course we'd all love AI here for 1 million if we could fully trust that he would accept a bench scoring role and not complain, but THAT IS NOT ALLEN IVERSON!
I can't believe this is even a thread. AI=BS
AI is the Anti-Spur. Practice, ball rotation, unselfishness, etc... He doesn't do it. I kid you not, I'd rather have Marbury than AI. At least Marbury seems to have kinda learned his lesson. (Though I don't want him either.)
He'd wind up in the same closet where they store Ron Mercer.
practice? were talking bout practice. i mean come on. practice?
True: BUT CAN YOU IMAGINE A SPURS BENCH LED BY IVERSON AND GINOBILI?!? They would pillage every other bench in the league!!!
He'd never agree to come off the bench, but these two together would MOP UP the benches of the league, Lakers' included. Just too much quickness and offense.
http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ar...to_be_starter/
I see the writer was a bit drunk. Read the content, don't look at the le.
He still has the crappy ego beside himself.
Actually, I think it was more not showing up for practice.
Bizarro world. Spurs fans are dumping on the possibility of adding Allen Iverson in this thread while donning their kneepads and hanging on every mention of Rasheed Wallace joining the silver & black in every other thread on the board.
The bigman rotation's needs are more acute, but still.
And while, yes, on paper, the perimeter rotation looks fine, we seem to be forgetting that Ginobili's ankles have yet to prove that they can return to 100%. Would Spurs fans have cared about Iverson's past had he been on the roster last season, particularly during the postseason when more scoring was desperately needed? I doubt they would have. Yet that is precisely the argument made for Wallace as it relates to the frontcourt.
TP/Manu/AI, if healthy, would give the Spurs an incredible 3 guard rotation. Defenses would never get a break, especially with Jefferson at the 3. Then the Spurs could fill out the rest of the roster with solid rebounders and spot up shooters (yes, including Wallace). Iverson would take some pressure off TP and help keep his minutes down during the regular season.
If Iverson joins the Spurs, he will have demonstrated that he's about playing for a ring, as the Spurs would not be offering a starting spot nor that much money.
The next two seasons are the last real chance for the Spurs to add another championship banner(s) to the at&t Center's rafters. As the Spurs are demonstrating by their aggressive, luxury tax agnostic, offseason, it's time to load up the roster to win now.
Last edited by Marcus Bryant; 07-05-2009 at 09:39 AM.
Sheed went to the Pistons and fit in and succeeded. AI went to the Pistons, chafed at playing a role OR coming off the bench, and ultimately left the team with some thin-ass "injury" story. It doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to see the difference. While Sheed has had his moments, insisting on dominating the ball and starring has never been one of them. In fact, he's been chided for wanting only to play a role when his talent dictated much more.Bizarro world. Spurs fans are dumping on the possibility of adding Allen Iverson in this thread while donning their kneepads and hanging on every mention of Rasheed Wallace joining the silver & black in every other thread on the board.
Sheed sulked and forced his way to the Pistons where he was given a starter's role. Had Wallace been asked to play behind some unproven player, or better yet, been traded to another team he couldn't get away from and found himself coming off the bench, are we to assume he wouldn't have had a problem with that?
Wallace acts a fool on the court way too much. We're supposed to be concerned about Iverson's off-court sulking, but at least when he's playing in an actual game he doesn't lose control of himself such that he is a detriment to the team.
Lest we forget the role Wallace played in one of the greatest moments in franchise history:
Spurs fans' hypocrisy is of the highest order when jocking Wallace and dismissing Iverson. It boils down to the need for a starting bigman being that great.
Well, Wallace would be starting, and Iverson wouldn't, so we're back to that.
Iverson will have chosen the team and will have chosen to be coming off the bench.
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