Reply With Quote
Yeah should get a solid to darn good player at 20...
http://www.nba.com/2010/news/04/16/d...s=iref:nbahpt2
In a 4 way tie of teams at 50-32 Boston won out, then the Spurs, followed by OKC and Portland.
A pick in the teens for once would have been nice (even if it was 19th) but picking behind Presti & Pritchard would have been tough too. All in all a good outcome.
Yeah should get a solid to darn good player at 20...
I think this is the highest the Spurs have picked since they got the #1 in 1997.
It is a relief that Portland will not be picking before us.
lmao, with all the injuries POR has had they could still be picking high in the draft to stack their roster.
lol overachievers.
we'll be lucky to get a guy as good as Mahinmi
just for fun...
here's a list of the 20th picks over the past 20 years:
2009: Eric Maynor, Virgina Commonwealth
2008: Alexis Ajinca, France
2007: Jason Smith, Colorado State
2006: Renaldo Balkman, Phoenix
2005: Julius Hodge, North Carolina State
2004: Jameer Nelson, St. Joseph’s
2003: Dahntay Jones, Duke
2002: Kareem Rush, Missouri
2001: Brendan Haywood, North Carolina
2000: Speedy Claxton, Hofstra
1999: Dion Glover, Georgia Tech
1998: Roshown McLeod, Duke
1997: Paul Grant, Wisconsin
1996: Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Lithuania
1995: Jason Caffey, Alabama
1994: B.J. Tyler, Texas
1993: Scott Burrell, Connecticut
1992: Hubert Davis, North Carolina
1991: John Turner, Phillips
1990: Gerald Glass, Mississippi
...a surprisingly unimpressive list if you ask me.
Then again, the Spurs have fared better with lower picks.
I think we'll be able to get a good swing athlete at 20. Pondexter would be perfect.
Jameer Nelson is pretty good.
And the reason for that is......
Ilgauskas would have been an amazing pick at 20 if he hadn't had so many foot problems over the first few years. Spurs fans would be salivating over Haywood a 20 too. A few other guys on this list have been solid bench players, which, IMO, is all you really need with the 20th pick.
The truth is that the Spurs will get the same type of player they've been picking at 29th...except they'll have to worry slightly less this year about someone picking them up before they get the chance.
If they're not a top 5 player, it's all about your scouting department.
What other picks do the Spurs have??
The first round picks by the Spurs in the Tim Duncan era have been Hill, Splitter, Mahinmi, Udrih, Leandrinho Barbosa, John Salmons, Parker, Leon Smith, and Felipe Lopez, all at picks 24-29. I'm sure they'll do fine at 20.
And I think Spurs pick at 49 in the second round.
Next year could be pretty good, get rid of Mason and Bonner if they don't perform in the playoffs, sign Splitter + 20th pick. Youth movement es.
thats 2 good picks out of 9, im not sure theyll do fine at allThe first round picks by the Spurs in the Tim Duncan era have been Hill, Splitter, Mahinmi, Udrih, Leandrinho Barbosa, John Salmons, Parker, Leon Smith, and Felipe Lopez, all at picks 24-29. I'm sure they'll do fine at 20.
That is 2 good picks out of 9?! I'm guessing you are saying Parker and Hill. Barbosa, Splitter, Salmons???? Those are great picks in that range. Just because they never played in a Spurs uniform doesn't mean they weren't great picks. 1st rd money is garunteed and we were winning championships. I can't blame the front office for trading away our 1st rd picks so we didn't have to have a player garunteed for 3 years and tie up rosters spots for vets at the time. Yes now its youth movement time so we need to keep these picks.
Ahead of Presti and Pritchard is the good part.
Good Result.
Some good players will still be around @ 20, and Pritchard can't steal them now unless he buys more picks.
I can't see us not drafting a SF or a big man. The only SF on the team is RJ, and at SG and PG we're pretty stacked.
what's with the Bonner hate? His role is to spread the floor, forcing defenses to be late on rotations, and hit 3s when they refuse to rotate....without him teams would sit two big men on Duncan or in the lane where the guards can't penetrate.
If you see Bonner going in the game it's to create spacing.
Sadly his defense is better than Blair's to boot.
I wouldn't mind watching Dexter Pittman and Dejuan Blair fight over rebounds...he's prob. a mid-2nd round pick that could potentially fall to us late in the draft.
Also think Damion James (1st rounder) could be a good 2-3 for us since we need to plan for the departure of RJ after next season.
This could just be my UT bias talking though.
I'd like Glen Monroe. He's foregoing is junior year at Georgetown. I wonder how high he would go in the draft since he's considered a lotter pick. 6-11 248. He seems to be a decent passer and can run the floor.
He's a choke artist.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
