Also:Spurs signed somebody that can dunk.
Gist
Jefferson
Blair
Let me say... i bet all my money that FO would make Haislip as our PF from the bench and Gist as a SF.ò As i wrote time ago..James could become a younger Bruce Bowen who can dunk.
LOL..Chauncey Billups?..no..
Um.....Lakers' of the 1980's maybe.
I thought someone had said Pop saw Gist as a pure PF in the NBA. Might have been a hearsay report, not sure how much value to give it.
Magic Johnson wasn't a scoring PG, are you guys being serious?..he's arguably the best passer of all-time..
Tony Parker is a shoot-first PG..
I heard Don Harris from WOAI TV on the Chris and Jason talkshow a few weeks ago talking about a source in the Spurs Organzation...that they were not too crazy about Ian.
He actually thinks he's better than he is. Chris Duel dismissed it....but Don Harris stood firm behind his source and felt this is Ian's year to prove himself to the Spurs.
We'll we see!!!
It is.
spurs might be high on ian still but they worry about him being healthy
Lol KBP pinked pinky again ay? :P haha why
Dunno. Have you guys made a halfway decent offer yet? I'm guessing the current offer is just slight more than the MLE ~ 6 million. [guess comes from A) Lamar's camp has publically suggested $10 million is about right, and B) the LA Times suggested 1 year, 7.5 million as a compromise ( http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ar...ant_odom_back/ ). A compromise is probably in the middle between the Lakers offer and Odom's asking price].
The Lakers are really playing hardball with their own FA's. I haven't heard of even a token offer to Brown, they dumped Ariza for Artest (about even in terms of talent. Seriously, Ariza knows his role. Artest doesn't), despite the chemistry risks just to save an estimated 1/2 a million a year (plus the same in lux tax, I suppose).
In a completely open Market, Odom would probably get his $10,000,000 a year or more. You keep lowballing him, he may just say it, and sign somewhere else for the MLE for one year. At that point he may just shoot for a championship and a starters role... which he'd get with the Spurs
I don't think he likes coming off the bench in LA - which he will resume doing next season with Bynum healthy again. I really don't think he like Buss trying to penny pinch his ass this hard, after being a very big player in this years championship as well as being a team glue guy ...
Give you the man the respect he's earned, or he might just say FTL and walk. It's not like he hasn't earned enough money already. (Career Earnings ~ 83 million so far).
Last season, Pop was asked his thought about Mahinmi, and his response was basically that he wasn't thinking about him at all. At the time, it sounded like he was refferring to more than just the current injury. It was more like he just didn't enter into Pop's thoughts at all.
It's easy to read too much into a single comment like that, but it really sounded like Pop had completely dismissed Mahinmi. I definitely don't think that they believe he has tremendous upside anymore.
I have heard the same thing. I know someone who works in the Spurs media and he told me that the FO have almost given up on Ian and are very dissapointed with him because of his work ethic. He has a reputation of being lazy.
We couldn't even get Sheed to fly into SA. We're not getting near Odom who still thinks he's worth 10M. That 7.5M to stay with the Lakers is going to start looking pretty good to him right about now.
I know, he only won MVP and when the Pistons traded him for Iverson, that totally didn't back fire on the Pistons and Denver totally got screwed.
Detroit has a history of winning les with teams where their best player is a point guard.
Getting on the court would be better than he is. Some s laughed at me when I said he was injury prone. He's injury prone.
This probably doesn't need to be mentioned, but his signing with the Spurs could potentially be the STEAL OF FREE AGENCY, FOR THE ENTIRE NBA.
With his freakish Vince Carter-esque athleticism, 6'10 only 230, and can hit the 3, who can guard him? He'll be set up for so many 3s by Duncan in the post or Manu driving on the second unit, and if he hits them a 40%+ clip (a reasonable clip after his last season overseas, hitting over 40% 2/3s of the season until the gron sprain, and 37% over all I believe), he'll simply ball fake, go the basket, and reek havoc in the paint. And 1s, foul trouble for opposing big men, and free throws will be the order of the day. If defenders don't close out on the 3 aggressively, of course, he is able to hit 40% plus.
Also, we'll be seeing alleys again?!? Ginobili and Parker will have field day throwing them: and Slip will catch them. Particularly on the second unit, Slip and Ginobili can be HANDFUL AND THEN SOME for other teams. Going against lesser talents of backups, I can see the Spurs second unit with these guys putting up way more points than the first unit! That's saying something!
Not to mention this guy Haslip, if he can learn to NOT BITE on head fakes, he easily has the length and and athleticism to guard Dirk, Odom, and other perimiter big men. Again, with his athleticism, he'd only have to be a serviceable defender to be a good defender (with his height, mobility, legnth, and lift), and The Spurs have NO answers for these guys for years.
I'm NOT saying that he's going to do all of this from day 1. But if Pop just gives him the burn on the second unit, 25-30 minutes a night with Ginobili, and really gives him the green light to just play and make mistakes instead of yanking him every 30 seconds (not that he has any vets left to go to, lol), Haislip and Ginobili could absolutely REVOLUTIONIZE THAT SECOND UNIT.
Here to hoping that happens!!!
The guy must have shown some improvement to have warranted using the LLE to bring him back. The Spurs aren't known for making moves without putting in their homework. Even as a raw talent, he's coming into one of the best places to learn from veterans and blossom, but only if he can manage to fit the system.
Could this be the Spurs patented sneaky move of the summer? Only time will tell.
He will be as useful as Anthony Tolliver was
This probably doesn't need to be mentioned, but his signing with the Spurs could potentially be the STEAL OF FREE AGENCY, FOR THE ENTIRE NBA, and could completely morph the Spurs bench from the one hit wonder it was, Gino, into a HIGHLY potent and athletic offensive attack.
With his freakish Vince Carter-esque athleticism, 6'10 only 230, and can hit the 3, who can guard him? He'll be set up for so many 3s by Duncan in the post or Manu driving on the second unit, and if he hits them a 40%+ clip (a reasonable clip after his last season overseas, hitting over 40% 2/3s of the season until the groin sprain, and 37% over all I believe), he'll simply ball fake, go the basket, and reek havoc in the paint. And 1s, foul trouble for opposing big men, and free throws will be the order of the day. If defenders don't close out on the 3 aggressively, of course, he is able to hit 40% plus.
Also, we'll be seeing alleys again?!? Ginobili and Parker will have field day throwing them: and Slip will catch them. Particularly on the second unit, Slip and Ginobili can be HANDFUL AND THEN SOME for other teams. Going against lesser talents of backups, I can see the Spurs second unit with these guys putting up way more points than the first unit! That's saying something!
Not to mention this guy Haslip, if he can learn to NOT BITE on head fakes, he easily has the length and and athleticism to guard Dirk, Odom, and other perimiter big men. Again, with his athleticism, he'd only have to be a serviceable defender to be a good defender (with his height, mobility, legnth, and lift), and The Spurs have NO answers for these guys for years.
I'm NOT saying that he's going to do all of this from day 1. But if Pop just gives him the burn on the second unit, 25-30 minutes a night with Ginobili, and really gives him the green light to just play and make mistakes instead of yanking him every 30 seconds (not that he has any vets left to go to, lol), Haislip and Ginobili could absolutely REVOLUTIONIZE THAT SECOND UNIT.
Here to hoping that happens!!!
If Haislip plays, maybe.
Wow....I really hope this happens. I mean I know he won't be able to do that from day one.....but I hope he does. BTW what position does Haislip play?This probably doesn't need to be mentioned, but his signing with the Spurs could potentially be the STEAL OF FREE AGENCY, FOR THE ENTIRE NBA, and could completely morph the Spurs bench from the one hit wonder it was, Gino, into a HIGHLY potent and athletic offensive attack.
With his freakish Vince Carter-esque athleticism, 6'10 only 230, and can hit the 3, who can guard him? He'll be set up for so many 3s by Duncan in the post or Manu driving on the second unit, and if he hits them a 40%+ clip (a reasonable clip after his last season overseas, hitting over 40% 2/3s of the season until the groin sprain, and 37% over all I believe), he'll simply ball fake, go the basket, and reek havoc in the paint. And 1s, foul trouble for opposing big men, and free throws will be the order of the day. If defenders don't close out on the 3 aggressively, of course, he is able to hit 40% plus.
Also, we'll be seeing alleys again?!? Ginobili and Parker will have field day throwing them: and Slip will catch them. Particularly on the second unit, Slip and Ginobili can be HANDFUL AND THEN SOME for other teams. Going against lesser talents of backups, I can see the Spurs second unit with these guys putting up way more points than the first unit! That's saying something!
Not to mention this guy Haslip, if he can learn to NOT BITE on head fakes, he easily has the length and and athleticism to guard Dirk, Odom, and other perimiter big men. Again, with his athleticism, he'd only have to be a serviceable defender to be a good defender (with his height, mobility, legnth, and lift), and The Spurs have NO answers for these guys for years.
I'm NOT saying that he's going to do all of this from day 1. But if Pop just gives him the burn on the second unit, 25-30 minutes a night with Ginobili, and really gives him the green light to just play and make mistakes instead of yanking him every 30 seconds (not that he has any vets left to go to, lol), Haislip and Ginobili could absolutely REVOLUTIONIZE THAT SECOND UNIT.
Here to hoping that happens!!!
He plays PF, but with is height, athleticism, length and lift, he could easily be a small forward, or at least match up with perimeter bigs.
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