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I remember him choking and sucking ass against the Timberwolves...
Derek Anderson has been the victim of more revisionist history from the fans than any player the team's ever had. His injury in the playoffs absolutely cost the Spurs their second le, but because he complained publicly about his contract he's been relegated to a status somewhere between role-player and bench scrub.
Pretty much any big the Spurs have had since David Robinson has been minimized by the fanbase, as well as Scola. Lots of folks thought he wouldn't be able to defend or hit a jumpshot and that was why it was okay to let him go.
I remember him choking and sucking ass against the Timberwolves...
The errors in judgement were moves that looked good on paper but just didn't work out would be my contention.
To the media sure.
Surely, they couldn't be foolish enough to trade away one of their trade chips to make such a useless trade.
Acquiring Bell would address nothing. He's is getting on in age, has been recently injured, and not quite as accomplished a defender as he once was.
The last thing this team needs is another player on the north side of 30 years old.
God help us all if they do this.
there be no money for him next season anyway if he continues to stay with the spurs,
spurs going to spend on resigning gino and tryin to bring over splitter at any costs
So if this is the only trade offered, you keep both players?
The Spurs played the Timberwolves 4 times when DA was a Spur. He scored 12 points in one of them, which was an overtime loss. In the other three he scored 21, 29 and 30 points. In the 30 point game, he also had 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks.
So if that's the best you can come up with, I rest my case.
I agree.
I never saw mason staying beyond this season even if he DID have a great year or even worse year than he's having.
The MLE is going to Splitter no question.
He got hurt badly in those playoffs didn't he? Came back game 3against LA and by that time we were already DONE and DEAD (We were not going to win a le that year obviously). If he was healthy in the playoffs thats a different story, but he missed alot of games and by the time he came back it was over (Complaining or not).
Damn, how could I forget Scola? He was painted as a greedy bas by the E-N and Spurs team brass, then went and signed with Houston for like half of what he was supposedly demanding from SA...
LOL, yeah the same agent who negotiated a lesser deal than the supposedly 'outrageous' deal he was demanding from SA...
The only thing I really remember the agent saying, was that Scola was some kind of "prisoner" of the Spurs -- they were the only reason Luis wasn't in the NBA.
The crazy buyout, while maybe a hindrance in the beginning, seems like something the Spurs pushed to mythical proportions (as to win the PR battle in the print) in order to allow them to pass on a guy they didn't believe fit their need -- the perceived poor rebounding and fit with Tim being the "rationale".
To this day (just a couple of games ago, as a matter of fact) people like Sean and Bill will tell you that Scola's buyout was the only reason he's not a Spur (never mind the fact that he signed for $3M per) . . .
I apologize, i didn't remember the other games.
Methinks you remember wrong.
BTW, I can't blame Mason. He knows he's not going to get much PT behind Duncan and 'Dice at power forward
I did.
I own up to it.
I still don't think Anderson makes them better than the steamroller that was LA in 2001 however.
To each his own however.
Maybe Pop likes those pictures...which may explain the "favorite" player bit...
Yeah, we all have a tendency to be so angry from the way he forced the trade that we don't remember what a perfect fit he was with the system. The Spurs needed a slasher and a creator and he was exactly that. I will never forgive Juwan Howard, and I'm still a little annoyed at David for making the Spurs back-burner DA's contract talks.
I believe EricB was thinking about DA in the playoffs against the T'Wolves when he average 11 points for the series on 31.9% shooting. That certainly was a Mason-esque first playoff series as a Spur.
Yeah he fit in well and played the perfect teammate all year and never seemed to be a "Pay me " kinda guy.
Getting him for a milion dollars in August like that was unreal.
Juwan getting nailed with the beer at the end of the game made the whole atmosphere tense to say the least
So all 2003 or earlier.
Just curious. Did anything come out about any of those players that was not true?
who's right?!
I mean I don't doubt OV's numbers they could've been right, but I could've sworm he laid a pretty good goose egg in that series.
Again, that was 9 years ago and I most likely am wrong.
Exactly.
His agent tells the media he needs a 3 year deal worth 9-10 . . . he signs a 3 year deal for 10.
Besides, the 3-9/10 was so well known as his necessary for his signing that a lot of people argued strenuosly and with a straight face that the Spurs shouldn't even give him that kind of deal . . . because it would make him the highest paid 2nd rounder in history.
Seriously. That really happened. That's how polluted the groundwater was from the Spurs. To this day people still believe all the anti-Scola stories.
I really hate to agree, but wait! i cant agree just yet but i definitely think its getting there, his recent decisions have been insane, one right after the other, and he's morphing into don nelson and its unacceptable with tim duncan on your team, if your not serious get the out.
Enough of the bull dog house treatment, strict discipline on the young and naturally talented and the untalented olds get the green light to play whatever position they want and suck at defense!! i mean this isnt the god dang military just because a guy doesnt curl his tail when you walk into the room doesnt mean you ship him out!!!
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