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He holds a roster spot extremely well until we can find someone better.
What is it about this guy that seems to get 3 or 4 of the regular posters on spurs talk so excited about this guy? He has pretty decent leaping ability, but doesn't seem particularly quick has not jumpshot, and only so so passing and dribbling abilities for a shooting guard, He's only barely decent sized for small forward and lacks rebounding instincts. He seems like at best he can develop into a 10 minute a night guy somewhere. What is it that people see in him at fires them up can you please tell me?
He holds a roster spot extremely well until we can find someone better.
he's better than J, and if you are really a spurs fan you would know hariston has the best d on this team, and everytime he was in the game he made plays
Just about every project/Toros player player gets a rabid following on Spurstalk especially if they showed any intriguing glimpses. Also a few of the Coach Pop haters seem to jump on these player-bandwagons and try to use it to affirm their backwards opinion that Pop needs to be fired. Ian Mahinmi threads come to mind.
Hairston has shown good slashing/dunking athleticism but not much else in his limited opportunities. He could very well be on his way out if he doesn't maximize further opportunities since the Spurs need to work on a SF rotation and he's no longer eligible for the d-league IIRC.
Agreed. If he can fill a need @ SF on the cheap, go for it. He has a knack for the offense, decent defense & an ability to get to the rim. Yes, his jumper & handles are a bit lackluster, but we have to be realistic that he is great for the money.
He can dunk.
From what I've seen of him, he holds a lot of promise. In his limited time made a few hustle plays and his defense wasn't half bad; he was aggressive at attacking the rim. If he gets 20 mins a night I believe he could develop into a reliable role player.
I think he deserved a lot more minutes than what he was getting last year compared to black hole tandem of Bogans and Mason.
The fact that he would have been a better option then "The Centerpiece" last season. He is still deserving of a roster spot over Mason and Bogans. He brings energy and toughness; the only thing he needs to work on is getting confidence in his jumper. Still has way more upside defensively then the people I just mentioned. The problem is you have Alonzo Gee, Garrett Temple, the return of Gist, and a few other players fighting for roster spots now.
I would actually say it's 50/50. There are people that love these guys and hope to see them achieve then there are those that outright hate them and go to many means of putting them down every chance they can get.
It seems like on this board if they are not all-star players then kick them to the curb.
Or if they are marginal talents at best, too many slurp them as if they are future All-Stars sent to San Antonio to be the saviors of the franchise.
Hairston was hyped because he performed extremely well in last year's Summer League and preseason..the hype grew because he was supposed to have beaten out Bogans for that role with their respective performances in preseason, but was stashed behind Centerpiece..
As Bogans continued to struggle, people kept asking for Hairston..this was compounded by the fact that Hairston led the D-league in scoring in his time there last season, and then he performed well in his limited time with the Spurs..
The young players here get hyped because the fans here are used to old, unathletic players that can no longer produce defensively in an athletic league(Finley, Mason, Bogans, Udoka as examples)..so when they see a guy like Hairston dunking, rebounding and defending and outproducing his older counterpart, they get hyped more..it's not that we believe Hairston is that good, it's just that we believe he was better than the alternative..
He's a great rebounder for a wing, good defender and slasher, great leaper..horrible ball-handler and poor outside shooter..if he plays well in SL and preseason again, he'll make the team, if he doesn't, the fans will move on and find somebody else..
If Hairston is cut, the next young player that is stashed behind a useless vet will be the next player to get hyped, it's a cycle..
This is pretty much how I felt. In pre-season Hairston outplayed Bogans in every-way and it wasn't even close. Yet Bogans was still picked over him, that's something that still baffles me to even this day.
I think drafting Anderson basically decided that, on the Spurs, Hairston's peak will be the 10th man at best.
Ok seeing the hairston support as something of a farm team love/ bogans hate makes more sense than liking the guy rabidly for what he brings to the table. He's going to stick as a 10th guy on some roster somewhere as a 2 guard / small forward but he's going to just be borderline, and not see much playing time. It may or not be the spurs. Temple brings more to the table as a guard at either the 1 or 2. Malik outleaping people isn't going to last long or develop much especially if he ever faces regular rotation players instead of subs and garbage time guys.
You're not doing it right.
My question is (we saw how aggressive FA Tolliver was on defense and how his outside shot improved in GSt.) who would you choose to play back up SF, Hairston or Tolliver?
Tolliver is more of an undersized PF. He would basically played as the new Bonner.
It's amazing how many people like to comment on Hairston who clearly never watched him play. I particularly love the "he can't shoot from outside" myth. Kid has a knack for making plays, he's a very good defender, and he plays longer than his height. Add to that the fact that he already earned a spot ahead of Bogans last season, and you pretty much have the reason people talk him up. I'm perfectly fine if he doesn't make it on the Spurs, so long as the people who get spots or playing time ahead of him actually beat him out. Watching Bogans be unable to do much of anything through most of the season while Hairston sat on the bench was frustrating to anyone that was actually paying attention.
O_V is doing it right.
O_V is doing it right.
I didn't get to see alot of the first month or so of last season and no preseason O_V. I can tell you that by early December and after hairston wasn't making any noise in limited playing time, The no jumpshot is from watching, He hesitated to take many of them especially outside and bricked alot of those he did take.
I just liked the fact that Hairston drives to the basket instead of falling in love with the 3pt shot, which he doesn't have anyway. By driving to the basket, if he plays quality minutes, he could end up at the line several times.
Dude blocks shots like crazy. Crazy sons.
With us getting a first round SG I think that unless Hairston tears it up in the summer league this may have been his last season with us. We are set at the SG position our needs are SF and another big of which I think Gee has a chance at SF if not they are some pretty decent SF that are playing in Summer League we could look at...Milsap, Smith.etc.
Then you watched well, Hairston really didn't show that he had a jumper this past season in his limited NBA opportunities:
Compare that to Temple who seems to have a corner 3 and seems to be willing to shoot the ball more, but also had more opportunities albeit both are still small sample sizes:
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