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My guess is he's packaged with Jefferson if we can find someone to take RJ.
Blair has two more seasons with the Spurs and those two seasons are unguaranteed. Now, what should we expect from Blair next season?
He worked on his jumper during the summer but without a shooting coach. We saw the results.
Do you all think Blair has room for improvement and what facet of his game can be improved?
My guess is he's packaged with Jefferson if we can find someone to take RJ.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Blair is a good energy guy, but this team desperately needs an almost all star caliber player for the front line.
It took Scola to move Jackie Butler's last year at 1/3rd of Jefferson's salary. You think Blair is going to get the team out of 's 3 more years? It would cost Ginobili or Parker.
If he stays with the team:
-Needs a jumper with legit form....the jumper he has has range but looks mechanically faulty/awkward which is probably why he isn't comfortable taking it
-Needs to work on a faceup offensive game (ie Larry Johnson); if his footwork improves and he has moves he can go to (up-n-under, etc.) he won't rush possessions on offense....right now all he has is the spin move and usually when he uses it he's going to throw the shot up regardless to whether or not it's a high percentage one as if he wants to hurry and get the ball out of his hands
-Work on FT shooting
-Hopefully he slims down and turns the remaining weight more into muscle mass
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It'll be more than Blair, but I don't know what. One of our young wings, maybe a draft pick, some cash, maybe all of the above.
But tonight and a DNP in the second half for RJ signaled the end of his run here in SA>
doesnt cost us much to keep him around anyway since his earnin 1m a season only...thats just like drafting some clown and dumping him at the end of the bench....
If he stays with us, he needs to spend the next 6 months studying Chuck Hayes`s game... That and rebuilding his stroke with a shooting coach.
I think it might be too early to give up on him already. I know he's undersized, but so is Big Baby Davis from the Celtics and he's improved greatly and is basically the 2nd best big on the C's now after KG. The guy came into the league with no jump shot whatsoever and now his J is money. Blair should look to this guy for motivation.....
wasn't Blair the starting center for most of the season for the team with the best record? i could have sworn he was. he must have been doing something right.
He doesn't fit into our system unfortunately.... he doesn't fit into a championship formula because he is a liability on defense due to his lack of size.
When he has a good streak next year, and his value maxes out, trade him in a package to get rid of RJ or Bonner.
I don't see any realistic way that contract is movable. The Spurs are just going to have eat for the colossal mistake they made. If they start dumping draft picks like in the Robinson era, I'll be ing pissed.
He was doing something right: He was on the team with the best record. That's about it.
So, wasn't Tiago on the bench during most of the season of the team with the best record? Must be something to that.
I don't care if they dump draft picks. There are rarely any decent picks in the draft anyhow, past the top 10. We've managed a few but no one is going to trade for RJ and the 57th overall in 2012.
It depends. He would be cheap for tanking purposes but worth very little in the playoffs.
Parker, Ginobili, Scola, Giricek, Hill, Splitter, and Blair were all very solid picks, and every one of them was way past #10. I'd love to see what RC could do with high picks where he'd have a chance at the elite prospects too.
He's fine if he's paired with a 7 footer who can guard the other teams' 7 footer. Him and McDyess would have been fine and dandy as a bench duo.
Mahinmi is maybe the one bad pick the front office has made in the modern era of the team.
, Anderson looked like a pretty good pick before he got injured too. I can't wait to see how he develops next season.
Marcus Williams 33rd pick of 2007 draft; Pretty bad IMO-- Could have had that Marc Gasol guy.
Jack McClinton was pretty bad too-- Could have had that Wesley Matthews guy.
I thought Anderson was going to be a force to be reckoned with, but that injury really set him back.
I too would like to see the Spurs get some quality looks.
If we package him with Rj that would be great but if we can't find a taker I still want Blair gone.
Someone mentioned Glen Davis being undersized. Glen Davis is not 6'5.
Blair is fine just not as a center. He needs to get some fundamentals down and work on his game. You can see the transition from a raw talent to a confused slightly trained talent to just being confused. Once he gets that in order, if he ever does, he could be Zebo 2.0
It's hard to complain about second round picks, as most of them can't even make a roster for more than a year or two. The quality of players the Spurs have picked up with second rounders and first rounders that are virtually second rounders is unreal to me. It's one of the main reasons I want to rebuild the team starting next season; the front office has proved they can score in some really tough situations with their picks, and I think they can eventually rebuild the Spurs to a 50-plus win team again.
I wish he could convert to SF... when pigs fly I suppose.
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