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You're joking right?
Hill will be an a future allstar in Indiana.
The Spurs did not develope Hill properly, trying to plug him into team needs and playing him as a pg.
Playing him behind Manu and parker stifled his game. If the Spurs were smart they would have seen manu's small window and shipped him out for an upgrade on the frontline and moved Hill to starting sg.
With Hill, Anderson and Neal the Spurs would have been good at sg and they could have gotten a borderline star or really good young player on the frontline for Manu and push Bonner to a limited minutes player.
Now the Spurs will likely fill the frontline with an over the hill washed up backup and call it the summer. Leaving the frontline still too thin to have a legitimate chance at a le next year.
In indiana they will play Hill at starting sg and watch him gain confidence and grow into an all star.
The Spurs should have moved Manu and kept Hill as the starting sg.
You're joking right?
imo he has the qualities to be an allstar, whether he gets selected or not is another question,
watch out for him though, i think he can flourish in indiana....
i like what indiana is doing atm, time to build a bench for its starters...
manu is the best player on the spurs, so you don't trade him.
He won't be an all-star, although he can be a better version of Jason Terry. Also, he'll be seeing a lot of time at PG in Indiana as well since they've got a ton of depth at SG/SF (Granger, Dunleavy, Rush, Jones and George).
Love the move for all parts involved. Hill goes back home and can play a bigger role (possibly) on a young, up-and-coming team, the Spurs finally get a solid 6'8''/6'9'' prospect at SF and they didn't part with McDyess' contract. They can conceivably still make a move or two.
As much as I personally like George, the Spurs opened up their offense to an extent not seen in the Duncan era, and his numbers went backwards.
2009 FG% .478 3G% .399 ppg 12.4 apg 2.9
2010 FG% .453 3G% .377 ppg 11.6 apg 2.4
On reason for his drop-off in stats is that both Parker and Ginobili were relatively health throughout the season. Still, he seem to have flatlined in his development here, hopefully in Indiana he can continue to grow and provide skills the team lacks.
As long as Granger is a Pacer, there won't be enough shots for Hill to even sniff an All Star selection in Indiana.
Hill is going to be a very good back-up/mediocre starter at sg his whole career with limited minutes as a back-up pg. He has the will to defend but size wise doesn't match-up well against most starting SG and he doesn't have the ball handling skill or court vision to be a regular starter at point guard. Ideally he'd find a team with a big point guard where he could play shooting guard but the big point guard experiment era passed quickly.
I don't see all-star from him but I do see a fan favorite 2 position back-up that gets starter minutes.
Hill 2012 mvp of the league
Parker and Ginobili's health made his shooting percentages drop sharply?
I like GH, but I'm afraid another team would have made an offer during his FA that the Spurs would not match, losing him for nothing...good move for both teams.
the difference between two teams, their coach is force to play the young players, while the spurs coach only care about playin the stupid vets who would just be happy sitting on the bench collecting a paycheck
He'll be a star in Indiana because he's frickin' FROM Indiana! and he is I believe the only IUPUI grad ever to play in the NBA.
Even if Hill becomes an all star this was the right trade. You have to understand that for a team that is built to compete for championships like San Antonio, they can't afford to have young guys such as Blair/Hill playing 40+ minutes. They learn that way but the team's record suffers as a result. It worked for Parker because he had a Duncan in his prime + David. Look at 2009-2010 season when Parker went down. Spurs ended up with a 7th seed. Hill played nicely then but then last year did not improve. If he secures a starting position on the Pacers, Hill could very well make an all star team down the road if he improves his shooting. We all know hes not a point guard. Even if he doesn't, people outside of Spurs fans seem to think highly of him and Hill could have easily made $5-$7mil next year. Spurs can't afford to pay him that much when he would still just be backing up Tony for 4 more years.
five year long broken record
Monta Ellis still hasn't made an All-Star team and he is by far, BY FAR, a better player than Hill will ever be.
I guess if your definition of a "star" is someone who will be known by his team and most non-casual fans around the league while putting up 16/4/4, then yeah he will be a star.
Seriously, the overrating of George Hill on this board is ing ridiculous.
stat padding on a bad team is overrated, till his team is in the playoffs then we can say something, or replicate that on a winnin team then you can say something
other then that his just another guy posting big numbers on a ty team aka kevin love...
Monta Ellis is an example of what could happen to Hill if he is given minutes on a bad team. His stats will look good just because of increased usage and playing time. Doesn't mean the trade was bad.
lol comparing Kevin Love or Monta Ellis to George Hill
He will never be an all-star
The only young player in Indy that has the potential to be an all-star is Paul George.
We're just saying people on this board are going to overreact when Hill puts up huge numbers for a sub 500 team while averaging 40+ minutes. Obviously if he got that playing time in SA he could as well but less wins. I believe in 55 starts for Spurs he averaged like 15 ppg and 4apg.
stopped reading after that
How to develop a guy's dribbling skills and aggressiveness?
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