True, we don't have cap room, but we do have the mid-level. Problem is, so does almost everyone else. And the 2nd problem is the Spurs are a team that has fallen from contention with aging stars.
If you are a mid-level free agent, San Antonio is way down ther on your list of free agent destinations, that's the problem. We also don't have much to trade to get an impact player that will make us a contender again. If we trade Parker, we have NO POINT GUARD, and Duncan and Manu ain't going nowhere. Everyone else is just a role player-for role player trade chip.
I'm all for building through the draft, but the window is TOO small for that now. We need to win now before Duncan and Manu are gone, then worry about building throught the draft.
Psst. The window is closed. We'll be a good/playoff team until Duncan hangs them up, THEN we can rebuild. Relax and enjoy. There's nothing to be done until we suck badly for 2-3 years, and THEN build through the draft. It's the way the system is designed. Good teams don't stay good forever, although we've had a run that dwarfs almost all other teams in NBA history, making the playoffs every year since 1989, with the exception of 1997. That's 21 years out of 22, if you're counting.
Just push the playoffs back to fit the normal schedule of an 82 game season.
Kerr did little in 99, Elie did alot more! Forget him? Jackson in his second year here! Jackson was a starter and was huge in our 03 le run forget that? Derek Anderson in 01, for just one year but had a huge impact! ALL were signed, good looks on Bowen and Horry and maybe Neal, but you forget the guys above mentioned.
Finley did well in 06 as well, faded a little in 07 but made timely shots in his time here! He was a key to 07 le if not for his 8 threes alone! He killed DENVER in that key game.
Lets hope the Spurs only have to play 3 times in three nights once.
And give them the scrub teams of the east ...
What are the odds on the Lakers getting most of the scrub teams in the East? Sure, for TV ratings, they will play the Big Three in the East, but I'm sure the games vs the Bulls, Celtics, Heat will be in L.A...
while their eastern road games will be New Jersey, Washington, Toronto, etc. Gotta protect the ca$h cow...
Report: Out of conference games limited
The NBA's season will run Dec. 25-April 26, a league source told ESPN.
The 66-game season will include 48 conference games, down from 52 last season, according to a Sunday report in The New York Times. With only 18 games against teams from the other conference, teams will not visit every NBA city.
Teams will play about two more games per month, the report said, and each team will play on three straight nights at least once, but no more than three times.
Off days in the second round of the playoffs will also be limited.
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/72...26-source-says
A compressed schedule was always going to have a smaller percentage of inter-conference games than an 82 game schedule. I had figured out some possible scenarios based on 50/16, 48/18, and 46/20. I'm not surprised that the 48/18 option was chosen, as it allows for more of the national TV games that the NBA would want.
I believe it will break down as follows.
18 inter-conference games:
3 opponents x 2 games= 6
12 opponents x 1 game= 12
48 intra-conference games:
w/in division:
4 opponents x 4 games= 16
outside division:
2 opponent x 4 games= 8
8 opponents x 3 games= 24
Now, how to decide which opponents get the extra games?
Take a cue from the NFL and use last season's standings. A first place team will play one extra game against the other five first place teams. Second place v. second place and so on.
This ensures that the Lakers will have 2 games each against Boston, Chicago, and Miami.
As an example the Spurs would face:
Division opponents 4 times each (16)
Lakers and Thunder 4 times each (8)
All other conference opponents 3 times each (24)
Boston/Chicago/Miami 2 times each (6)
All other Eastern Conference teams once each (12)
When do you think the NBA will have a revised schedule done?
After the new CBA is voted on and accepted.
Thats exactly what I fear. L.A. already has it easier with playing the Clippers in their own building twice a season.
Hopefully the schedule makers find a good balance. Regarding the number of b2b games the Spurs were pretty lucky the last years ...
Perhaps earlier ... I mean they published the normal schedule despite the lockout.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports...=pm_sports_pop
Sounds like the B2B2Bs will be back.NBA lockout: Confusion surrounds supposed comfort of 66-game season
By Michael Lee, Published: November 28
Probably for the first time in 13 years, NBA players, coaches and executives face a time when there is so much confusion surrounding comfort. Owners and players reached a tentative agreement over the weekend that will allow teams to hold training camps and free agent signings beginning Dec. 9 and kick off a 66-game game season on Christmas.
But until the players recons ute their union, dismiss their an rust lawsuit against the NBA, finish the final details of a new collective bargaining agreement with the league and a majority of players and owners accept the deal, the lockout remains in effect.
A person with knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the litigation said Monday that the lawsuit settlement and union re-formation likely won’t occur until the middle of this week or later.
“There is a lot of work to be done in a lot of places, with a lot of committees and player groups. . . but we are optimistic that it will hold and we will have ourselves an NBA season,” NBA Commissioner David Stern said last Saturday.
Uncertainty abounds, as it did in 1999, when the league had less than a month to stage a 50-game season because of another owner-imposed lockout. Teams don’t know how long training camps or preseason will be, but the league is telling teams that they will have two regionally based preseason games against the same opponent. In 1999, the Wizards played a home and home preseason series against Philadelphia. Teams remain in the dark about the schedule that they will play once the season begins. As it stands, only the six teams scheduled to play on Dec. 25 know where their seasons will begin.
But with an unofficial deadline approaching, players and coaching staffs can’t sit idly by until the final terms are resolved. Wizards Coach Flip Saunders and the rest of his coaching staff — Randy Wittman, Don Zierden, Sam Cassell, Gene Banks and Ryan Saunders — are scheduled to meet at the practice facility at Verizon Center on Tuesday. They will map out the game plan for a shortened season and a possibly condensed training camp. The group has come together to watch film and discuss strategy several times during this protracted offseason, and Saunders has also had individual meetings with each one of his assistant coaches.
Players still don’t have access to team training facilities, so they remain on their own as it relates to working out and getting in basketball shape. Former Wizard Roger Mason Jr. and local trainer Joe Connelly organized a mini-training camp this week at Capital Sports Complex in District Heights.
Mason has invited several players, including the Wizards’ John Wall, Andray Blatche and Hamady Ndiaye, former Wizards Brendan Haywood and Jared Jeffries, and Baltimore natives Josh Selby of the Memphis Grizzlies and San Antonio Spurs guard Gary Neal. They are expected to trickle in throughout the week. The next two weeks could be wild and become more intriguing if the pool of free agent talent is deepened from players waived through an amnesty clause that allows team to waive someone currently under contract and have their contract removed from the salary cap.
“It’s going to be crazy. You saw what happened with football [after the NFL lockout],” Mason said. “It should be a frenzy, but I think it’ll be good for our league.”
Schedule breakdown
Though the NBA likely won’t release its new schedule until early next week, the league released a general breakdown of what should be a grueling pace that matches the nearly four games per week that were played in 1999.
With the league still planning to have a four-day All-Star Weekend in Orlando, teams will have to squeeze in all their games in the span of 119 days, meaning that each team will have at least one stretch in which it plays three nights in a row. They won’t have more than three back-to-back-to-back sets.
The regular season will end a week later than usual on April 26 and the Finals could end on June 26 — just two days before the draft.
The Wizards will play 48 of their 66 games against Eastern Conference teams and 18 games against Western Conference teams. They will play only three teams from the other conference twice (one at home, one away) and six other teams at home and the six other teams on the road. They will also play six teams in the conference four times, four teams three times (two at home, one away) and the four other teams three times (once at home, two away).
The first 25 games on the Wizards’ schedule have been wiped out, leaving them with 57 dates set for games and nine games likely to get plugged in for any available gaps.
With so much of the schedule depending on arena availability — and Wizards among several teams that share a building with an NHL team — the league likely won’t deviate much from the dates already in place, but the teams may change.
And Mason better not rub off on Neal, dammit!
If Pop is going to sit Tim and/or Manu on the second night of a back-to-back, then a B2B2B isn't much different. He'll just sit them for the middle game.
Thanks for being the first one to mention this
Still you have to look at the rotations of the other players too if they have to play three times in three nights ...
There you go....Thanks for being the first one to mention this
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