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So we get another 3-4 years of being painfully average with no reward at the end.
Up here we got the Rockets feed (brutal) but they did say that they interviewed Duncan before the game and he told them that he could play another 3 or 4 years with the way Pop uses him now.
Hopefully someone else got the Rockets feed as well and can confirm, but that's what was said during the broadcast.
Would've super bummed had this been TD's last year. Good to hear, imo
So we get another 3-4 years of being painfully average with no reward at the end.
his only useful when he plays aggressive
Great news as long as he's paid accordingly.
I'd expect to sign for the MLE for the remainder of his career. Hes been know to take pay cuts before, hopefully hes feeling generous.
... Most likely he gets 10 million per season though.
Timmy is still a very serviceable big man, especially defensively. He can help this team atleast until Ginobilis contract is up...will likely be willing to play for a low price as well.
Unsurprising on a team where Bonner gets 25 minutes a game.
Damn Straight ChumpDumper...I hope hes not just trying to get more money
Do you even realize the garbage that you post? You understand it would be for substantially less than what he's making now. How would signing him up for 5 mil a year make us painfully average for 3 or 4 more years?
Because the Spurs are such juggernauts in free agency.
It's not a coincidence that the best players the Spurs have ever had have come through the draft.
So keeping a 36 year old Duncan on a small contract would prohibited us from what? Getting the 1st overall pick? lmao
No team with Duncan/Manu/Parker is going to miss the playoffs (unless one or more of them gets seriously injured). So yeah, if you like flaming out early in the playoffs then it's a great move.
No team with just ONE of the big 3 on it is going to land the #1 pick. If you want to blow it up it would require trading all 3 and even then I'm not sure we would be the worst team in the league. We have already started the rebuilding process while still trying to win.
Duncan should be signing for veteran minimum from here on out. That's if he cares about winning a fifth. He'll probably be worth 5-10mil.
The Spurs aren't rebuilding though, rebuilding would mean the Spurs blowing it up and trading for picks and cap space (something me and many other posters have wanted since the Memphis series). I'm not anti Tim Duncan or anti big 3, I would just rather start rebuilding now rather than postpone it a few years while getting dumped out of the playoffs in the first or second round.
Now if Duncan were to sign for a really small amount (It's not like he needs the money) then i'm all for keeping it together.
Blowing up the team would be business suicide. Might as well move to Anaheim while you're at it.
I definitely would not. blowing it up is blowing it up. Rebuilding is rebuilding. They could have 2 different meanings. Trading for players like Leonard in the draft is still a move for the future.
Some people on here are so ing re ed and act like if we blow it up we will land the first pick and then be back in business for rings in the next 3 years. It won't work that way. If you have a chance at being a top seed in the playoffs every year than you do that until you can't.
Teams like Minnesota, Sacramento, and a load others have been trying to "blow it up" or "rebuild" for decades now and have been irrelevant for about that time. That isn't a path I want the Spurs to take until it's absolutely necessary.
Duncan can name his ticket from here on out.
Any of you who queston that are worse than the Robinson haters (who've long since changed their stripes).
But you know who you are.
I never said the Spurs would get the first pick straight away, and being a top seed doesn't mean if you're going to play no defense and chuck up 3's all game.
And that's a path the Spurs are going to have to take, whether you like it or not.
So you want to go to winning 30 games a year and missing the playoffs with a chance at never making it back to where we are now for the next 10+ years? That's the risk you want to take because it is very likely it would play out like that.
I like winning 50+ games a year and at least being in the conversation with the big boys and there are about 20 other NBA teams that would die to be in the position we are in NOW.
Tell me how it would play out? When will we be back at to winning 50 games every year? or "contending for championships"?
I don't know how it would play out, I just know that this current Spurs team isn't going to win as constructed.
Let me just say that i'm not saying it will kill me if the Spurs sign Duncan to a reasonable deal and carry on as they are, i'd just rather get a head start on the inevitable.
You have your opinion and I have mine and it's obvious we're not going to convince eachother, have a good night
We are winning plenty as constructed...I don't know how it would play out, I just know that this current Spurs team isn't going to win as constructed.
Let me just say that i'm not saying it will kill me if the Spurs sign Duncan to a reasonable deal and carry on as they are, i'd just rather get a head start on the inevitable.
You have your opinion and I have mine and it's obvious we're not going to convince eachother, have a good night
It wouldn't really be a "head start". When starting over like that it could be different for every team. It could take 10 years to get that next star, it could take 20 years, it could take 2 years you never know.
Win as much as you can until you're forced to blow it up and then hope you get lucky with the raffle balls.
Duncan is most certainly still a very serviceable big man. The problem is because the Spurs are so limited on the frontline, he's being overused. I'd like to see the Spurs begin to rely less and less on him, from game to game, starting next year. At this stage, TD shouldn't be the best big on this team. That said, I'd like to see the Spurs acquire at least 2 young bigs for next year - one via the draft, the other perhaps via trade. That way, Duncan can be the valuable mentor for them, that D-Rob was for him.
It's not like the NFL. You don't have to be the worst team. In fact the absolute worst team rarely wins the lottery.
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