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Melvin Ely? Really?
Howdy again there Spurs fans,...
Long time no forum fur flying fun with the spirited and supportive Spurs fans. Which in taking a look at the Spurs thus far I see some things and having missed you fellow fun loving rim rustlers. So it's time to mount up once again to rekindle our hashing out differences of sorts.
Although this time I felt the interest to come in and engage some pondered thoughts in way of sharing team improvement insight assistance.
Sooo,.. first off for those whom thought I was a sole exclusive fan of the outfit that I'd originally touted as Spurs challengers and compe ors for a championship,..you got it wrong.
I love great compe ion, I enjoyed and respect the Spurs faithful. Thus my being an advocate of teams playing to potential and or improving upon flaws to be able to get " Win it all " capable. Now it comes time for me to be more of a ailing Spurs aide to impart insight assistance to help a slumbering giant off the ropes,..the same media is now trying to bury the team as has been's but I know better and see far beyond such a limited view.
Outlook:
For the Spurs to get back in the saddle the objective in the West is to be able to unseat the reigning champions L.A. Lakers. Where you're having a little better than .500 success in regards to current record the season's really just now getting started and no way is all lost yet,..not even close.
Yet having noted and assessed this years version of San Antonio Spurs basketball. Along with them providing some surprises that showed then looming flaws in judgment and understanding. The off season money wasn't spent wisely, the players aren't the sole problem, the rosters incomplete and with a number of tweaks it can be fixed,..but it's got to be done swiftly.
Prognosis:
In having assessed vitals on this game surgeons look my assessment is coach Popovich and GM Buford as a collaboration combo. Have put an incomplete puzzle on the floor and what they've put together. Has the team suffering via coach and GM now being a few days and number of games late from having not gotten the agents for Melvin Ely and Morris Almond on the phone.
They're not stars and not even on anyone's roster right now. But with team needs differing from roster to roster in a range of specific manners. ways and reasons. I see those two as skills sets difference makers that can turn this Spurs team around quiet rapidly.
Melvin Ely? Really?
This guy writes so incoherently its hard to follow but he seems to be implying that Popovich needs to call Morris Almond and Melvin Eli's agents as some sort of "solution" to the spurs current state of affairs.
This guy must be a comedian. Spurs don't need these guys, what they need is patience and time to let this team develop some chemistry and bonding. We've all seen flashes of what they are capable of when they play with some fire, especially Blair.
Yep,..
Absolutely but not just Ely but also Morris Almond as well. They're missing skills sets and what's here on this team is merely incomplete it's not lacking the talent to win.
When I look at this team there's 3 things that jump right out at me. Which are they're mis-scripted in style of attack, their core catalysis are merely lacking support to allow them to attack in transition. Thus the end result is whats leaving them getting beat in all facets of the game from night to night.
Ely helps more than Duncan inside and Almond's size and shooting would do wonders for opening things up for Parker, Manu and on the perimeter and midrange. Which adding both those skills sets ultimately unleashes Richard Jefferson. Whom excels at more of an attack first approach than any mechanical keep it close type of grind game.
Hard FAIL. They had Ely already and didn't think him worth keeping. Almond would be buried in the swing rotation.
this thread sucks....
I wasn't aware Obama appointed a HoopsCzar..
Not all that surprising, just wasn't aware.
So, wait -- guys who aren't getting any minutes anywhere in the NBA at this point in time should be brought to a team with championship aspirations and be given substantial minutes (presumably, one must play at least significant minutes to make much of a difference)?
Really?
Fail you say? { Epic even?},..ROTFL !!!
See in comparison that " FAIL " would absolutely, positively be yourself. Because either you know absolutely nothing of what you're seeing on the floor. Thus resorting to alleging your memory of Ely having once been a Spur is a counter. Or you've forgotten something extraordinarily important in that regard,..of gigantic difference there Gonzo.
See not only did that Spurs team have far more interior skills set depth when Ely wasn't utilized much then. But they were actually so loaded they won the NBA championship that year,..only a FOOL would miss that look.
Thus there's no comparison with this years team and a dire need for the skills set to be more added than bolstered there Bozo,..since you insisted.
Also aside from Manu there's not a single player on the roster. That can stretch a defense from the perimeter with the combo of size and shot to open things up inside like adding Almond would,..put that in your tool box while trying to learn the game.
THIS time I took it easy on you. Although next time you try to employ the " Epic Fail " term I'll tattoo in on you in perfect fit so emphatically that a combo of Ajax, bleach and Borax won't get it off,..ROTFFLMAO !!!
So see not only are you clueless in regards to basketball. Clearly you have NO idea who you're trying to play with in the open floor here { might I suggest you wear a helmet },..and an Ego protector.
+1
This thread is assanine.
No,..
Fact is You Suck you pathetic know nothing nobody. So now you just get your net based romantic fantasies in check long enough to follow along while I combo break down the game amidst plucking your foolish feathers there Plucky,..ROTFFLMAO !!!
Here's lookin at you there you foolish follower with a affliction of being a loser at love Chicken Little,..
Sure { I guess },..
I mean if that's your way of looking at it pessimistically. But the optimal view is far more favorable and conducive to getting this team winning. They're not pillars they're role players and on this team their skills sets are in dire need to get beyond settling for being a .500 ball club.
See as it stands right now this team has some tried and proven core catalysis players. But by lacking the proper role players support it isn't built nor capable of anything much over exactly what you've seen thus far.
Here's the look:
Where for starters with the Spurs having drafted DeJuan Blair. Clearly by talent that was an absolute steal. But by fit in this current Spurs cast he's merely reduced to a young individual with talent and upside but not enough to make the Spurs win,..lets fix it.
Where having traded for Richard Jefferson was surprising for style of play conflict and signing Antonio McDyess was a great pickup by character, experience and play. But as I see it I feel the costly missed look was Popovich and Buford not keeping Drew Gooden as the major mistake in what happened in all the moves they made.
Not that Drew Gooden is in anyway being hailed as any " King Midas ". But more so because in regards to vital skills set element for max mileage out of Duncan and potency production out of the team, he was whom was already here and somehow allowed to get away via free agency.
Where after how Popovich had differences with playing him in the playoffs. As a player of such value no way was he utilized properly nor should he wanted to endure it again,..so don't get hung up on name get engrossed in the skills set element and how it'd spark an improvement difference in this team.
Also Richard Jefferson's talent isn't to be questioned but it has to be accurately recognized. Which it was crystal clear before the trade that by style of play he's not a Popovich authoritarian type player. Popovich stresses routine and mechanical attack in contrast to Jefferson excels in the open floor and it's because as a SF he's actually undersized.
But Jefferson more than makes up for that " undersized " fission if he's allowed to play more open floor style attack. The transition is his game and if not scripted as such you don't tap into nor get anywhere near his total floor game value,..he's being scripted into a lull via manner of play that's got him at a floor disadvantage and it makes for a bad terrible investment and no winners sense.
Now or Later?
By quiet a few indicators and the salary cap for next season being a quiet strong one. It almost appears the Spurs brass was navigating to some form of " next season " projection than putting any sensible investments into what they've done now. As it stand's Popovich's style of play and GM Buford's allotment of player investments is both incomplete and unbalanced,..and just above or just below .500 ball is the direct result of it.
Sure in a down the road look there's youngster Ian Mahinmi that can be seen as a young project pending. But it's safe to say he's a ways off from either flourishing or flopping because he's not only in need positionally right now and he's not seen the game time floor at all. There's also Tiago Splitter who's a rights held future consideration but the Spurs need a big, mobile and athletic PF element right now,..by record their current position as an 8th seed isn't even a lock to hold up with combo missing elements and how old the rosters core players are.
So see Drew Gooden's no star and he'll miss a defensive assignment for wanting to make a single man impact play. But he's an athletic, versatile big body PF that can spark an offense and unleash a Tim Duncan playing along the low blocks. As well as provide feed angles for a Parker up top and a Richard Jefferson is the type of skills set that works to max efficiency off the wing in such a mix.
So the objective is to win and the key to winning is providing catalysis support to allow them all to flourish off a skills set combination like that of such an athletic power forward. It's not Duncan, Manu or Parker that's going to be able to carry this version of San Antonio Spurs basketball,..so don't expect it nor blame them.
It's going to require more collective skills set abilities than what Popovich and Buford has inaccurately formed. Which that " missing link " is one of the main elements the team is missing and they'll toil at hovering somewhere around .500 ball until it's fixed,..the best no compensation pickup to add such an element would be signing former short term Spur and current FA Melvin Ely.
In that regard of element and suggestion the Spurs don't have the trade assets nor cap space to trade for such a by element player. Which like Gooden by all means Melvin Ely's no star either and his game is also limited. But like Gooden he's big, mobile, physical, will play defense, can also score and if considerably younger than the seniors on the low blocks that Popovich and R.C. Buford has the Spurs attack slowed down with.
Having failed to retain Gooden and only having a cast of a 35 year old McDyess, limited skills set Bonner and a 36 year old Theo Ratliff ain't gonna get it done. and Blair's no center and he's developmentally limited in the post as a PF,..the tempo has to be picked up and the mechanical sets are going to have to change to get the most out of him.
George Hill looks pretty darn good although to get more out of this team and the mileage you're going to need / have to get out of Timmy D, Manu Ginobili and now Antonio McDyess the offense is going to have to change,..Timmy's a 35 minute monster now, a 32 Ginobili's now an off the ball shot artist and Dice can't be expected to play in the post.
Morris Almond is a available FA shot artist SG the team could definitely use. Sure he's got his defensive short comings but he's also got strengths and one being range shooting. Which last I checked a pairing of Keith Bogans, Malik Hairston and a 36 year old Micheal Finley doesn't lock any opponent down and doesn't out play Almond type offense either,..
Having watched the Spurs it's noted with Parker missing a number of games earlier has hurt the continuity and production. But that's not the main problem because Parker played in 3 of the 5 losses and those developmental losses were still ugly. Irony is Duncan's also missed 2 games and the team managed to win both of them,..and Toronto and Dallas are improved and relatively good teams.
The misfire is the core { Duncan } has slowed a bit and his minutes have to be decreased and maximized more but he's not the problem. The problem is without having a truly versatile PF alongside and or to spell him. It's gotten Parker off kilter, the offense gets derailed and Jefferson isn't a player that's going to max produce in either a slow down tempo nor a mechanical halfcourt set either,..Jefferson excels in the open floor to max his combo pass and shooters arsenal.
So still trying to floor script the " previous success " mechanical approach isn't going to get it done and it appears Popovich either doesn't understand that or needs more time to try and work on scripting to roster strengths which right now is combo imbalanced and limited,..and it's GOT to be improved.
Oh man,...ROTFL !!!
It's more like the water dogs trying to run in a pack thinking they're chasing a " presumed " defenseless cat. Only to get introduced to finding themselves as din-din in the water they tried to splash { cue the Jaws music },..ROTFFLMAO !!!
Boy,..
You take two shots and miss em both hilariously. You present a combo of Bad math AND you can't even spell the term you're trying to use,..it don't git no better in dat huh Haus.
See with your being such a " Winner " you just hang in there employing your mastery of such sciences there Einstein?,..ROTFFLMAO !!!
Your right I meant asinine. Having said
that, your stupidity rivals kbp.
Sure { I guess },..
I mean if that's your way of looking at it pessimistically. But the optimal view is far more favorable and conducive to getting this team winning. They're not pillars they're role players and on this team their skills sets are in dire need to get beyond settling for being a .500 ball club.
See as it stands right now this team has some tried and proven core catalysis players. But by lacking the proper role players support it isn't built nor capable of anything much over exactly what you've seen thus far.
Make sure you proof read before you POST.. This is by far the worst attempt at posting i have seen since my freshmen yr in college your ideas and point of views points mixed w/ arguements are about as far apart and holy as the SPURS current defense.. It reminds me of a young child learning to put verbs together for the first time..
Not calling anyone out, merly stating that your idea and or attempt at an argurment that makes no sense.. I consider those within this forum to be moderately intelligent, and speak from heart instead of an outsider advantage point but come on.. Your paragragh was all over the place and really made no sense to the average reader...
So all in all nice try but you without a doubt would miserably epically “FAIL”.
Where for starters with the Spurs having drafted DeJuan Blair. Clearly by talent that was an absolute steal. But by fit in this current Spurs cast he's merely reduced to a young individual with talent and upside but not enough to make the Spurs win,..lets fix it.
Where having traded for Richard Jefferson was surprising for style of play conflict and signing Antonio McDyess was a great pickup by character, experience and play. But as I see it I feel the costly missed look was Popovich and Buford not keeping Drew Gooden as the major mistake in what happened in all the moves they made.
Not that Drew Gooden is in anyway being hailed as any " King Midas ". But more so because in regards to vital skills set element for max mileage out of Duncan and potency production out of the team, he was whom was already here and somehow allowed to get away via free agency.
Where after how Popovich had differences with playing him in the playoffs. As a player of such value no way was he utilized properly nor should he wanted to endure it again,..so don't get hung up on name get engrossed in the skills set element and how it'd spark an improvement difference in this team.
Also Richard Jefferson's talent isn't to be questioned but it has to be accurately recognized. Which it was crystal clear before the trade that by style of play he's not a Popovich authoritarian type player. Popovich stresses routine and mechanical attack in contrast to Jefferson excels in the open floor and it's because as a SF he's actually undersized.
But Jefferson more than makes up for that " undersized " fission if he's allowed to play more open floor style attack. The transition is his game and if not scripted as such you don't tap into nor get anywhere near his total floor game value,..he's being scripted into a lull via manner of play that's got him at a floor disadvantage and it makes for a bad terrible investment and no winners sense.
Now or Later?
By quiet a few indicators and the salary cap for next season being a quiet strong one. It almost appears the Spurs brass was navigating to some form of " next season " projection than putting any sensible investments into what they've done now. As it stand's Popovich's style of play and GM Buford's allotment of player investments is both incomplete and unbalanced,..and just above or just below .500 ball is the direct result of it.
Sure in a down the road look there's youngster Ian Mahinmi that can be seen as a young project pending. But it's safe to say he's a ways off from either flourishing or flopping because he's not only in need positionally right now and he's not seen the game time floor at all. There's also Tiago Splitter who's a rights held future consideration but the Spurs need a big, mobile and athletic PF element right now,..by record their current position as an 8th seed isn't even a lock to hold up with combo missing elements and how old the rosters core players are.
So see Drew Gooden's no star and he'll miss a defensive assignment for wanting to make a single man impact play. But he's an athletic, versatile big body PF that can spark an offense and unleash a Tim Duncan playing along the low blocks. As well as provide feed angles for a Parker up top and a Richard Jefferson is the type of skills set that works to max efficiency off the wing in such a mix.
So the objective is to win and the key to winning is providing catalysis support to allow them all to flourish off a skills set combination like that of such an athletic power forward. It's not Duncan, Manu or Parker that's going to be able to carry this version of San Antonio Spurs basketball,..so don't expect it nor blame them.
It's going to require more collective skills set abilities than what Popovich and Buford has inaccurately formed. Which that " missing link " is one of the main elements the team is missing and they'll toil at hovering somewhere around .500 ball until it's fixed,..the best no compensation pickup to add such an element would be signing former short term Spur and current FA Melvin Ely.
In that regard of element and suggestion the Spurs don't have the trade assets nor cap space to trade for such a by element player. Which like Gooden by all means Melvin Ely's no star either and his game is also limited. But like Gooden he's big, mobile, physical, will play defense, can also score and if considerably younger than the seniors on the low blocks that Popovich and R.C. Buford has the Spurs attack slowed down with.
Having failed to retain Gooden and only having a cast of a 35 year old McDyess, limited skills set Bonner and a 36 year old Theo Ratliff ain't gonna get it done. and Blair's no center and he's developmentally limited in the post as a PF,..the tempo has to be picked up and the mechanical sets are going to have to change to get the most out of him.
George Hill looks pretty darn good although to get more out of this team and the mileage you're going to need / have to get out of Timmy D, Manu Ginobili and now Antonio McDyess the offense is going to have to change,..Timmy's a 35 minute monster now, a 32 Ginobili's now an off the ball shot artist and Dice can't be expected to play in the post.
Morris Almond is a available FA shot artist SG the team could definitely use. Sure he's got his defensive short comings but he's also got strengths and one being range shooting. Which last I checked a pairing of Keith Bogans, Malik Hairston and a 36 year old Micheal Finley doesn't lock any opponent down and doesn't out play Almond type offense either,..
Having watched the Spurs it's noted with Parker missing a number of games earlier has hurt the continuity and production. But that's not the main problem because Parker played in 3 of the 5 losses and those developmental losses were still ugly. Irony is Duncan's also missed 2 games and the team managed to win both of them,..and Toronto and Dallas are improved and relatively good teams.
The misfire is the core { Duncan } has slowed a bit and his minutes have to be decreased and maximized more but he's not the problem. The problem is without having a truly versatile PF alongside and or to spell him. It's gotten Parker off kilter, the offense gets derailed and Jefferson isn't a player that's going to max produce in either a slow down tempo nor a mechanical halfcourt set either,..Jefferson excels in the open floor to max his combo pass and shooters arsenal.
So still trying to floor script the " previous success " mechanical approach isn't going to get it done and it appears Popovich either doesn't understand that or needs more time to try and work on scripting to roster strengths which right now is combo imbalanced and limited,..and it's GOT to be improved.
Not calling anyone out, merly stating that your idea and or attempt at an argurment that makes no sense.. I consider those within this forum to be moderately intelligent, and speak from heart instead of an outsider advantage point but come on.. Your paragragh was all over the place and really made no sense to the average reader...
So all in all nice try but you without a doubt have miserably epically “FAILED”.
"But as I see it I feel the costly missed look was Popovich and Buford not keeping Drew Gooden as the major mistake in what happened in all the moves they made."
Absolutely! What the Spurs lack is an offensive black hole who plays no defense. And I'm sure that problem can be readily resolved by signing two guys who can't make any other team in this league (or fill no roles with those teams) and have basically been adjudged on their merits to be incapable of playing at this level.
There is wisdom in the decisions of many. I'm certain -- absolutely certain -- that NBA GMs spend more time evaluating players than you or I do and that they are eminently more qualified to evaluate players than either of us. When they ALL agree that a guy isn't ready to play in the league, it's a pretty hard sell to insist that such a guy should not only be playing, but playing a role on a championship contender.
If the Spurs aren't contenders, neither Melvin Ely or Morris Almond is going to change that.
Some semi-intelligent kid who is trying to play with words. Leave it alone.
I agreed to an extent i still would feel that our defense would be in the same boat as it is currently.. Gooden wasnt exactly known for his defense either..
I believe i might have posted this within another thread. SPURS while gaining youth and athletism & more talent with this current roster they lost more Basketball IQ then gained with this overhaul....
Although his ignorant and laughable babble does remind me of Captain Jack Sparrow.
I didn't take my ritalin today, so I couldn't really read this thread.
Okay, that's all for now, bye.
What are you saying? In english next time...ok?
Again....wtf are you saying??!!Where having traded for Richard Jefferson was surprising for style of play conflict and signing Antonio McDyess was a great pickup by character, experience and play.
I think I know what you're saying there....But as I see it I feel the costly missed look was Popovich and Buford not keeping Drew Gooden as the major mistake in what happened in all the moves they made.DG helped us a lot in last year's post season. He proved himself to be a difference maker.
BTW, how would his being on the roster help Blair get more minutes?
How exactly? Exceeding the cap by $14M in the current year? That's certainly aiming at "next" year. For the love of God I can't believe I read this whole thread.By quiet a few indicators and the salary cap for next season being a quiet strong one. It almost appears the Spurs brass was navigating to some form of " next season " projection than putting any sensible investments into what they've done now.
Perhaps you didn't notice that the Spurs did not pick up his option.Sure in a down the road look there's youngster Ian Mahinmi that can be seen as a young project pending.
Yes. He'll look great in a suit next to Haslip, and sitting near Hairston somewhere. Awesome idea.the best no compensation pickup to add such an element would be signing former short term Spur and current FA Melvin Ely.
You sir, are missing a link or two.So still trying to floor script the " previous success " mechanical approach isn't going to get it done and it appears Popovich either doesn't understand that or needs more time to try and work on scripting to roster strengths which right now is combo imbalanced and limited,..and it's GOT to be improved.
What is this word? Catalyst? Are you trying to say catalyst? If you're trying to say 'catalyst', say it.catalysis
Run it all through Google translator, and try again.
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