Are there awards for post of the year? Downfall of the Spurs

[ChuckD]

The same place he has been since the start of season,INJURED!!!!

fify

[Dice]

How many guys on the original list are going to win a Championship this year?

[FromWayDowntown]

How many guys on the original list are going to win a Championship this year?

Because they're all tall, I'm going to say all of them.

[Russ]

So, he hasn't "ping-ponged around the NBA" then, has he?

20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing, but when he was drafted DA wasn't even a lock to make the team.

Jordan was thought to be raw (young) but have big upside. Most mock drafts had him mid-first round and it was fairly surprising that he fell to the 2d round.

http://www.nbadraft.net/mocks/2008_nba_mock_draft.html

[ambchang]

Dude acts like we are LA and can pull some sort of collusion. Only way we ever land quality big man is through tank jobs.

[anakha]

Can't help but chuckle at the sudden influx of trolls/ s recently.

[ohmwrecker]

I'm still waiting for any of these FO-criticizing posters to even consider giving an example of an available trade we could have done that would have actually make the team better AND MORE IMPORTANTLY that the other team would be willing to accept.

To quote a good poster from some of these threads: Waiting...

You will be waiting a long time. Even the "good" posters who are upset about the non-activity are unwilling to discuss a real world trade scenario that would meet those qualifications. Not to mention the fact that a major move would undoubtedly disturb the chemistry of a 47 and 10 team.
It's obvious that a major move was never in the gameplan, nor should it have been.
The Spurs are going to evaluate Anderson and Splitter's potential contribution to a post season rotation and make a move accordingly via the waiver wire.
The fact that the Spurs did not make a panic move, ala Boston, shows that they are confident moving forward. None of the top contenders, save Boston, made moves. One could argue that OKC made moves that put them in contention, but that remains to be seen.

[703 Spurz]

Adding onto my previous post on big men who have been ping-ponged around the league the past two years....
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173014

Tyson Chandler
Hakim Warrick
Nazr
Al Jefferson
Turiaf
Kaman
Camby
Landry
Dampier
Zeke
Shaq
Jermaine Oneal
Haslem
Favors )
Gortat
DeAndre Jordan
Haywood
Diop
Okafor
Dalembert
Villanueva
HASHIM THABEET
JOEL PRYZBILLA
NAZR MOHAMMED
KENDRICK PERKINS

Props to Presti recognizing size really matters (no ) and giving away is lottery pick for an average 7footer....oh my bad, he was able to get TWO of them.

Anyway i'm done discussing this with homer spurs fans who won't admit the FO dropped the ball these past 2-3 seasons. Everyone who talks about the best record or stats compared to the rest of the league, ya'll are idiots. 25 of the teams aren't contenders. We score the most out of the elites and give up the most points defensively compared to them too..plus we're the smallest. If you don't see this as a problem especially in 7 games series, ya'll are ing morons. Please feel free to re-read my post come playoff time when you're yelling at pop through your tv screen for having bonner go up against bynum or gasol or chandler or haywood or nazr or perkins...props to everyone who agreed with me on my original post too...I'm gonna love other teams screwing pop up the rear with his own championship system of starting 2 seven footers...Go Spurs GO!!

Yeah, you're 'so done' you keep creating threads about the same thing.

ing moron.

[DrSteffo]

Please never post again.

This.

[xmas1997]

You will be waiting a long time. Even the "good" posters who are upset about the non-activity are unwilling to discuss a real world trade scenario that would meet those qualifications. Not to mention the fact that a major move would undoubtedly disturb the chemistry of a 47 and 10 team.
It's obvious that a major move was never in the gameplan, nor should it have been.
The Spurs are going to evaluate Anderson and Splitter's potential contribution to a post season rotation and make a move accordingly via the waiver wire.
The fact that the Spurs did not make a panic move, ala Boston, shows that they are confident moving forward. None of the top contenders, save Boston, made moves. One could argue that OKC made moves that put them in contention, but that remains to be seen.

This makes perfect sense to me. Why is it so hard for others not to recognize this?
I don't delude myself thinking that the Spurs as they presently play defense the way they do are true championship caliber. It is obvious they aren't until they achieve CONSISTENT defense.
Pop knows this. It's why he keeps harping on the issue.
There is no need to panic. You would think we were 10 - 47 rather than the other way around by some posters remarks.
If they do make a move and pick someone up, then I have no doubt it will be the best player available, who will come here, to most completely satisfy those defensive needs.

[ChumpDumper]

Here is my nominee for post of the year:

matt bonners 40 million

[rascal]

Why exactly did we let Nazr leave if he's such an asset? The guy has stone hands and lumbers around - he doesn't suit the style of the team any more, and I don't think he's the difference between winning and losing the championship. , he couldn't even hold down the starting job in CHARLOTTE!

Also, don't put words in my mouth, try reading what I actually say, .

You will be another one shedding tears when the spurs go down.

[rascal]

Its not their job to come up with that.


Its just their job to mindlessly about nothing and flood the forum with bandwidth wasting BS.

You'll be the first to bail on the team when they go down a couple of games in the playoffs. Like that meltdown a couple years back. It was so bad you changed your username.

[jimo2305]

lmao.. wow this thread brings in the LOLs.. keep it goin'

[rascal]

I remember in the past when the spurs go down in the playoffs the loudest homers go into hiding for awhile. You won't see many people in here that are arguing that the spurs are fine now as they are.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

You will be another one shedding tears when the spurs go down.

And you won't?

So we know whose troll this is now, eh?

[rascal]

And you won't?

So we know whose troll this is now, eh?

I won't because I don't expect the spurs to even get to the finals.
I don't get the bold part.

[admiralsnackbar]

I won't because I don't expect the spurs to even get to the finals.

Dropping science like Galileo dropped the orange. Me? I'm waiting until we're three-deep with every top-shelf player at every position!

Cheering for teams with uncertain futures is for liver flukes, amiright?

[Mel_13]

You'll be the first to bail on the team when they go down a couple of games in the playoffs.

Now that's some first class irony right there.

[admiralsnackbar]

Now that's some first class irony right there.

Ain't it just?

[Blackjack]

Here is my nominee for post of the year:

matt bonners 40 million

Noted.

[Trimble87]

The issue isn't that the Spurs are small and the front office isn't trying to make the team bigger. The issue is, even if the Spurs acquire another big man, Popovich will not play him.

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[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Jordan was thought to be raw (young) but have big upside. Most mock drafts had him mid-first round and it was fairly surprising that he fell to the 2d round.

http://www.nbadraft.net/mocks/2008_nba_mock_draft.html

Fair enough. BTW, I'm really glad he panned out because I enjoy watching him play.

Still, that doesn't do anything to change my original point which was the epic failure of the OP's list.

I remember in the past when the spurs go down in the playoffs the loudest homers go into hiding for awhile. You won't see many people in here that are arguing that the spurs are fine now as they are.

Hmmm, so you are arguing that people won't be singing the praises of the team after we've lost, if that is the way the season ends... hmmmm... NO , SHERLOCK!

That doesn't change the fact that there weren't a lot of players we could have nabbed at the deadline that could've helped us, nor the fact that the FO has been signing different veteran bigs frequently to try to put us over the top during the last 4 years, a point well covered by FWD on page 2 of this thread:

Of course, I'm still waithg for proof that "haven't made a trade" = "hasn't tried to make a trade". Or a reason that the Spurs acquisitions of Kurt Thomas, Drew Gooden, Theo Ratliff, Antonio McDyess, Dejuan Blair, and Tiago Splitter just in the last 3-4 years are irrelevant to this discussion. If the point is that the Spurs have been unwilling to pursue even serviceable bigs, that list would seem to be a fairly inconvenient truth.

I won't because I don't expect the spurs to even get to the finals.
I don't get the bold part.

So gregzilla isn't your troll? Okay then.

Now that's some first class irony right there.

Damn straight.

[vander]

So, I watched Breaking Bad for the first time tonight and I got to tell you, I'm hooked! Anyone else watch this show? It's amazing.

I used to like that show, then it disappeared, I thought I had my DVR set to record new episodes, but supposedly it's already on season 4, and I think I've only seen two seasons

Whenever I hear that song Wonderful Night I think of Breaking Bad

[Em-City]

Dropping science like Galileo dropped the orange. Me? I'm waiting until we're three-deep with every top-shelf player at every position!

Cheering for teams with uncertain futures is for liver flukes, amiright?

is that a beasty boys line?