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[ChumpDumper]

9-5, lets see all wins at home, all losses away....we have played more home games than anyone.....what happens on our 3week road trip. Face it we are not a good team. The FO has failed the last 3 years to make the moves to improve.

We have one 1 matchup in the playoffs the last 3 years. Time to pull the plug or pull the trigger on a deal.

What deal?

[jjktkk]

What deal?

He can't give up his sources.

[TDMVPDPOY]

i still think we need an extra big that can protect the rim...bonner/blair is just bull too small...

imo we got the team atm that can win it all barring any injuries, we just need one more big man in the middle....

even if you increase splitters minites to 30-35mpg, i still dont like seeing him on the court with fkn bonner/blair...all it does is makes splitters job harder and his 6 fouls used up quicker bailing out the midgets

[Gagnrath]

TDMVP thing is Bonner isn't a midget, he's just nonathletic and slow. 6-10 in shoes is a fine size for a power forward. The real problem is that even though he seems to know what to do on defense when the other guy can pin him with his hip pivot around and be wide open at will or near at will inside, or blow past him on a cut, catch, one dribble lay-in or dunk then he just looks stupid and low add in that leaving his feet without any speed or jumping ability makes him look even worse and you have a guy with size that plays ground bound and small looking slow and out of position. I have no idea how to fix it, he could expend more energy if he only played 10 to 15 per night which might help, as well as leave everyone less familiar with him but as is he just comes out as exposed.

[therealtruth]

TDMVP thing is Bonner isn't a midget, he's just nonathletic and slow. 6-10 in shoes is a fine size for a power forward. The real problem is that even though he seems to know what to do on defense when the other guy can pin him with his hip pivot around and be wide open at will or near at will inside, or blow past him on a cut, catch, one dribble lay-in or dunk then he just looks stupid and low add in that leaving his feet without any speed or jumping ability makes him look even worse and you have a guy with size that plays ground bound and small looking slow and out of position. I have no idea how to fix it, he could expend more energy if he only played 10 to 15 per night which might help, as well as leave everyone less familiar with him but as is he just comes out as exposed.

Exactly I've always said he doesn't hustle enough for a limited skill guy. He could at least provide energy even if he's non athletic. He should have a couple of floor burns and deflections each game. That would help the team more.

[TDMVPDPOY]

is d12 possible? we cant give him the fame he wants

but we can make him first option since thats what his complainin about in orlando...

we can always amnesty rj
ask parker to FKN PASS the ball...
resign duncan to something he thinks is reasonable...

[SenorSpur]

I doubt a late lottery pick is going to make enough of an impact to make us a le contender next year.

le contention aside, a late lottery pick is a heckuva lot better that a pick in the 20's. The team gets an appreciably better player at that selection and THAT's what it's about. Such a player would help position this team to get better, and possibly get back into contention, at some point down the road.

[TDMVPDPOY]

the problem with our draft picks...pop is not force to play them to develop them, they end up buried on the bench

[Gagnrath]

You can compete for les with a pair of late lottery bigmen from deep years as your starters, if you've got a legit superstar guard. The problem is timing wise that doesn't work for the spurs, in the 3 years it would take for the spurs to really get legit play from a high draft pick next year, and the year after Duncan retires, Manu is in the final year or two of his last contract and Parker is a s of himself and slow... With that you end up with a team in the 5th or 6th seed getting knocked out in the first or second round, that is a legit superstar away from real contention. Barring a big time trade I see the spurs entering 5 or 6 years of mediocrity. Another possibility is that they get lucky with a couple of draft picks and get a player of manu talent out of that. Right now I am hoping Richards can in the next year or two become NBA ready on his way to being an impact player, but I'm not sure if that will happen, The spurs by years of taking good players in the draft to complement their core have managed to set themselves into a position where they have an aging core and a bunch of capable players that can't really compete for a championship by themselves.

[silverblk mystix]

You can compete for les with a pair of late lottery bigmen from deep years as your starters, if you've got a legit superstar guard. The problem is timing wise that doesn't work for the spurs, in the 3 years it would take for the spurs to really get legit play from a high draft pick next year, and the year after Duncan retires, Manu is in the final year or two of his last contract and Parker is a s of himself and slow... With that you end up with a team in the 5th or 6th seed getting knocked out in the first or second round, that is a legit superstar away from real contention. Barring a big time trade I see the spurs entering 5 or 6 years of mediocrity. Another possibility is that they get lucky with a couple of draft picks and get a player of manu talent out of that. Right now I am hoping Richards can in the next year or two become NBA ready on his way to being an impact player, but I'm not sure if that will happen, The spurs by years of taking good players in the draft to complement their core have managed to set themselves into a position where they have an aging core and a bunch of capable players that can't really compete for a championship by themselves.

Hate to tell you this...

but the last 4 years going on 5 have been mediocre....this is who the spurs are now.

Until Pop leaves...this is where they'll be.