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If we can get Shaq for the right price....I'm in. Give me a rotation of Duncan/Splitter/Shaq/McDyess for down in the paint. It would allow us to move Blair to the SF spot instead of being an undersized PF. At the SF spot he would become a beast.
Have you not heard? Shaq reportedly wants "Brendan Haywood" type money.
Good luck with that
If we can get Shaq for the right price....I'm in. Give me a rotation of Duncan/Splitter/Shaq/McDyess for down in the paint. It would allow us to move Blair to the SF spot instead of being an undersized PF. At the SF spot he would become a beast.
Shaq's price (like RJ's) must be going down every day he doesn't sign somewhere.
I'd sign him for vet min in a heartbeat, and I am sure the Spurs FO would too.
Won't happen..
Heres the thing. The Lakers front court consists of Artest/Gasol/Bynum. And we can counter that with Blair/Duncan/Shaq? I'll take it. ya I will. Moving Blair to the SF and giving Duncan some size beside him in Shaq. I dont know if there would be a better counter in the West to face the Lakers up front. Artest trying to contain Blair would be fun to watch.
That's too many post players on the court at the same time.
Replace Shaq with Splitter and Blair with a 3 point shooting SF and you're on target.
Naw, I think you keep Splitter on the bench his 1st year. Let him learn the pace of the game. Dont throw him to the wolves out of the gate. Plus he would learn the game from Shaq and Duncan...the 2 most dominant post players this decade. How great would that be for his game? On top of it, when the Lakers counter with Odom off the bench, we counter with Splitter. We cant counter with Shaq or Bonner or Mcdyess. Also you let Hill, Anderson and Splitter develop a connection for the future in playing the 2nd unit.
totally agree esp after picking up bonner we need more DEfense
Add my hand in the slapping of Spurs fans.
But TD needs to rest and having TD and Shaq on the court at the same time is a slow combo...would only work vs slow teams...otherwise the other team will fast break us to death and tire our big boys out rather quickly.
I think we should expect Splitter to start...unless Pop takes it slow and has Mcdyess starting at first...
agree with you about the 2nd units chemistry...i'm sure Pop will figure it out.
A starting slow combo just worked for Boston getting to the Finals in Garnett and Wallace. We'll just go back to what made us successful...a halfcourt game. Slow the pace. Not a lot of fast break points like that. We'd be fine.
really who cares hes not gonna be a spur
definitely not a starter but if you were to ask spurs fans who they want on the foor during crunch time in the playoffs Bonner or Shaq???? you know who would be called upon, and yes we know shaq isnt in la or even mia form but he is still 5th big ahead of bonner form and if splitter and timmy cant box out bynum in the playoffs who do you think would be able to check him?
he didnt play against elite teams because brown is an idiot he also benched hickson throughout the playoffs and lost those games and his job. all im saying is that shaq can take some time away from matt being overplayed and can help our interior defense off the bench & shows up in the playoffs.
lol Shaq badly wants that 5th ring.
http://ken-berger.blogs.cbssports.co...=rss_blogs_NBA
While the Hawks have ruled out paying luxury tax to sign Shaquille O'Neal -- or any other free agent, for that matter -- the organization hasn't shut the door completely on bringing Shaq to Atlanta, a person familiar with the team's thinking told CBSSports.com. If O'Neal were to lower his asking price from the mid-level exception -- starting at about $5.8 million -- to the bi-annual exception of about $1.9 million, the Hawks would be interested in exploring such a signing. Atlanta would be able to pay O'Neal the bi-annual exception -- or a portion of its mid-level -- and avoid paying luxury tax. But the current ownership group has never paid luxury tax and doesn't plan to begin paying it now. Also, the Hawks haven't discussed -- nor are they interested in -- a sign-and-trade arrangement with the Cavs that would cost them a piece of their young core, sources say.
so it seems as many of you have speculated, that his options for larger pay days are dwindling...
He'd be foolish not to join a contender if it was no longer about the money.
You may have a point. I'll have to concede, as I did not watch a minute of the NBA finals this year. However, I do feel that while we can assuredly slow our offensive pace down, I'd be worried about our defensive pace. By the time Shaq and TD get down the floor on D, the other team with fast break players would have already gotten their shot at an unprotected basket. You bring up a good point though, because if i recall correctly, what got Boston to the finals was their tenacious team defense, which is what our Spurs will have to return to to bring the le home.
Our 'nba best' defensive days are over.. we are at least one proven Shotblocker and one elite perimeter defender away from being a top defensive team again, and without defensive stops, a slow half-court game wouldn't be a good idea for us unless we want to lose games by big margines on a regular basis....
And he'll do whatever it takes to get it. People are saying that he's going to the Hawks. Please...No 5th ring in the ATL.
Does this "rumor" even have any legs?
Going on 15 pages now...
I don't care what anyone says, Duncan and Shaq would give the Lakers problems. If he wants to come and the Spurs want him it's a good move.
Say we do sign Shaq for a good price. Would it be a good idea to have shaq and Tim Duncan alternate nights. For example TD play one night and then Shaq start in his place the next game while TD rests, this way TD is well rested for the playoffs and Shaq is best utilized. And of course some games they would both play, but probably not together on the court at the same time; they would be too slow. But either Shaq and TD always on the court means we will always have a shotblocker and low post presence.
What do you guys think?
Instead of paying all that money to Shaq we should just split the salary in half and hire Mark Eaton to be our West Coast Center and Rik Smits to be our East Coast Center.
This way for home games Duncan can be the center but he doesn't have to travel with the team. We can choose a la udinal line to be the cutoff between Eaton games and Smits games.
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Two not so bad ideas, Duncan's minutes are going to seriously be limited this season even more than last year but he'll be ready hopefully he'll do at least as good as this year or better
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