Splitter was huge today

[ElNono]

Completely disagree.
He is a chucker. Horrible shot selection, can be extremely streaky. He's also a poor defender + rebounder.

I'll take your word for it. I haven't seen him play enough. That was just my impressions from that game, where he played pretty well... probably the exception.

[Mal]

I've heard numbers being thrown around like 8 to 10 million Euros. There is no way we could come close to that amount. Heck lets say he is only offered 6 million Euros. That still equals as of today 7.8 million dollars. To match our offer of 5 million per year MLE, all Madrid needs to offer is 4,065,000 in Euros. I'm pretty sure they can beat us easily.

1. Spurs can offer him something like 9 mln $/2 yrs. Then , when he is adapted to NBA, 27 years old, he can sign a new contract on new salary rules. Something like 5 years long. Then another one, probably his last.

2. He just earned 5 mln euros this years. Earlier he was earning something like 1 mln euro / year.

3. It`s NBA. He said he wanted to play in NBA. That`s why he has got 0 $ buyout clause in his contract

4. He`s not native european. He isn`t glued to Europe.

5. This are Spurs. He will get his minutes. He will play for le, not in lottery team. He will earn from Pop, TD, Dice, maybe DRob. Very nice place to develop.

6. Real won`t offer him 8-10 mln euro. This are salaries for Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo.

[EricB]

Vito Do u comprehend things like the crashing euro and uh spain's economy crashing like a rock?

[DynastySpurs210]

uh how much is this guy worth?

[Mel_13]

uh how much is this guy worth?

The more appropriate question is "how much will it take?"

[mingus]

Splitter will realize just how "huge" he is when he meets George Hill.

[Chomag]

Can we send Jefferson over there in place of Splitter? That would be 15 mil for Splitter to come here right there.

I know, but one can have wishes.

[BronxCowboy]

^^

[BronxCowboy]

Splitter will realize just how "huge" he is when he meets George Hill.

Somebody take away his camera phone.

[jason1301]

There was NEVER any doubt that Splitter can play!

My concern is hitting the rookie wall, and being able to take the wear and tear of an NBA season. He is not that athletic, plus he always had injuries.

[TheSpursFNRule]

Am I the only who doesn't think Tiago looks very good?

[ElNono]

Am I the only who doesn't think Tiago looks very good?

Depends on your expectations. If you expect him to be the next Tim Duncan, then you're going to be sorely disappointed. If you think he's an upgrade over Bonner, then you'll probably end up fairly happy.

[slick'81]

if hes anything better than rasho nesterovic ill be ecstatic

[45 bank shot]

Real Madrid targeting Splitter Written by Jeff Garcia Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:41 Rumor has it that Real Madrid is willing to dish out some serious money to acquire Tiago Splitter and other players to remain compe ive.
According to talkbasket.net, Real Madrid is targeting Splitter among several other players.
The main targets of the club this summer are:

Sergio Rodriguez, Vassilis Spanoulis, Milos Teodosic, Alan Anderson, Mike Batiste, and Tiago Splitter. The club is particularly interested in Vassilis Spanoulis and Tiago Splitter.

The club is said to be willing to spend up to 8-10 million euros net on each player in order to secure both Spanoulis and Splitter, because the club believes this would allow them to win the ACB and Euroleague championships next season.
Now there is no official statement from Real Madrid so take it for what it's worth.
However, if true, then this could present a problem for the San Antonio Spurs in convincing Splitter to play for the team next season for the mid-level exception and pass up a pay-day from Real Madrid.

[Vito Corleone]

So you're basing everything off hearsay?

No, I'm just going to look at the numbers and say I won't get excited about a guy we likely won't ever see in a Spurs uniform. No matter if it's fact or fiction, the numbers aren't in our favor. Knock yourself out if you want to believe he is going to be a Spur next year, I hope your right, but I sure ain't going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen.

[Vito Corleone]

Vito Do u comprehend things like the crashing euro and uh spain's economy crashing like a rock?

Yes, and I also comprehend the fact that Real just got a bailout by the Spanish government. As far as they are concerned, their playing with house money.

Real Madrid targeting Splitter Written by Jeff Garcia Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:41 Rumor has it that Real Madrid is willing to dish out some serious money to acquire Tiago Splitter and other players to remain compe ive.
According to talkbasket.net, Real Madrid is targeting Splitter among several other players.
The main targets of the club this summer are:

Sergio Rodriguez, Vassilis Spanoulis, Milos Teodosic, Alan Anderson, Mike Batiste, and Tiago Splitter. The club is particularly interested in Vassilis Spanoulis and Tiago Splitter.

The club is said to be willing to spend up to 8-10 million euros net on each player in order to secure both Spanoulis and Splitter, because the club believes this would allow them to win the ACB and Euroleague championships next season.
Now there is no official statement from Real Madrid so take it for what it's worth.
However, if true, then this could present a problem for the San Antonio Spurs in convincing Splitter to play for the team next season for the mid-level exception and pass up a pay-day from Real Madrid.

Thanks for posting, sucks because I'm still not very happy to read it but at lease it shows I'm not crazy.

[jiggy_55]

Btw, seems I was wrong. It's a best of 5 series, meaning there is still 1 game at least. They didn't eliminate Real Madrid as I had thought they did and said in my opening post.

[Buddy Holly]

No, I'm just going to look at the numbers and say I won't get excited about a guy we likely won't ever see in a Spurs uniform.

Based on what? Numbers you either made up yourself or someone made up themselves that you take at face value.

No matter if it's fact or fiction, the numbers aren't in our favor.

What numbers? There are no numbers that define anything yet except on the Spurs side which is the MLE.

Knock yourself out if you want to believe he is going to be a Spur next year, I hope your right, but I sure ain't going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen.

The only way he isn't a Spurs player next year is if they trade his rights.

[ChumpDumper]

lol talkbasket.net

[024]

marc gasol and luis scola translated very well to the NBA. splitter is a similar player so the hope is that he his rebounding and defense carries over to the NBA. if splitter comes over, i just hope that the spurs have patient and let him develop rather than make him into a one trick pony jump shooter. if splitter can score on the post, it would alleviate duncan's responsibility.

[mountainballer]

Real Madrid targeting Splitter Written by Jeff Garcia Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:41 Rumor has it that Real Madrid is willing to dish out some serious money to acquire Tiago Splitter and other players to remain compe ive.
According to talkbasket.net, Real Madrid is targeting Splitter among several other players.
The main targets of the club this summer are:

Sergio Rodriguez, Vassilis Spanoulis, Milos Teodosic, Alan Anderson, Mike Batiste, and Tiago Splitter. The club is particularly interested in Vassilis Spanoulis and Tiago Splitter.

The club is said to be willing to spend up to 8-10 million euros net on each player in order to secure both Spanoulis and Splitter, because the club believes this would allow them to win the ACB and Euroleague championships next season.
Now there is no official statement from Real Madrid so take it for what it's worth.
However, if true, then this could present a problem for the San Antonio Spurs in convincing Splitter to play for the team next season for the mid-level exception and pass up a pay-day from Real Madrid.

talkbasket= permanent BS alarm!!!

but aside from this assumption, the article above doesn't tell for what number of years the mentioned offers would be.
two days ago the same page reported this:

Vassilis Spanoulis might not be staying in Panathinaikos next season. According to various reports, the Greek guard's priority is to go back to the NBA next season. In case that plan doesn't go the way he hopes, Spanoulis has another option which is to move to Spain to join Real Madrid.

Sport.gr reports that Real Madrid are prepared to offer two-year contract to Spanoulis which is worth €3 million a year. It is also reported that the Spanish giants are looking at the possibility to sign Milos Teodosic of Olympiacos who named the Euroleague MVP this season.

In spite of which route Spanoulis chooses it is expected that several teams in Europe will be prepared to offer him a contract. The possibility that Olympiacos would be among those teams interesting in landing Greek international is also realistic.

first off, talkbasket is kind of a blog and it's pretty easy to place false reports there.
2nd: I guess Bruno mentioned that talkbasket has become a field of activity for KBP. so forget about any accuracy of reported numbers.
3rd: whenever sport.gr is named as a source....BS alarm double volume!

[Kafka]

I guarantee you Splitter si not going to play in Madrid. He will be a Spur or he will keep playing in Vitoria, and I'm 99% sure that he will play in NBA next season.

[mogrovejo]

I'll take your word for it. I haven't seen him play enough. That was just my impressions from that game, where he played pretty well... probably the exception.

Don't get me wrong, he's a good player and could be an useful contributor off the bench for some NBA teams in a very limited role.

But he's a 6'10'' Eddie House - subpar defender+rebounder for his position, extremely one-dimensional offensively as an excellent and very self-confident albeit streaky (can get hot and go for 6/8 or cold an go for 1/8) outside shooter. He's going to put up 3 pointers even if he's missed the previous 10 and regardless of how good/bad/contested the shot is.

[mogrovejo]

Ahaha, KBP trolling the out of people. This modus operandi of him can be pretty successful due to the lack of a true news coverage of the European basketball scene, meaning blogs and sites like sport24.gr just keep copying stuff from one another. I still remember when Danny Ferry purposedly met in person with Dynamo Moscow's coach David Blatt because of something KBP planted the same way.

No team in Europe pays 10 millions euros net to a basketball player. Only a handful of European teams have a bigger budget (including not only payroll but everything else) than that. I expect Real to throw between a quarter and a third of that at Splitter.

[Blackjack]

People keep sleepin' on K_B_P thinkin' he's just some village idiot.

But in reality?



In honor of Jose Lima: Believe it!