this is disheartening news but i'm gonna hold off on getting angry until I see what we are like after the trade deadline. if we end up looking like the same team heading into the playoffs, guess i'll be prepared for the letdown.
wow I actually thought curry was gonna make the team tbh seemed like he was having fun with the team too.CIA pop got curry and brown's hopes up thinking they had a good shot to make the team only for pop to all over them and cut them both.
Spurs thinking Blair and Bonner can defend Howard and Gasol.
cant wait for another season that went down the drain
Dont worry guys we still have the rights to the savior Ryan Richards. Nevermind he cannot make it in Europe and basically sucks.
If only the FO were as intelligent as posters on Spurstalk
Since the team is an offensive juggernaut when rolling on all cylinders I thought that would make Curry a natural fit, especially when role-players hit a dry spell and/or Tony needs some breathing room in the lane. Are any defensive specialists going to be found for the minimum? I am pretty sure the answer to this question is no. So what is the front office thinking?
That the 2 or so minutes left behind Duncan and Splitter at the center position are not worth losing the flexibility of having a roster spot open?
At first sight, this does look like a surprising move, as Currie did play very well -offensively at least- in the short stints he's played, and would look to the casual fan as an obvious upgrade over Bonner and Blair.
However, Currie was suspected to have hypertrophic cardiopathy back with the Bulls, asked to take DNA tests by the top expert of this condition -Barry Manon- and refused. Without those tests, one will never know for sure.
He has been cleared to play by other cardiologists, but the question mark remains.
Maybe the Spurs simply didn't want to take the risk with Currie.
Well, then Pop is showing tremendous faith in Tiago and the team should hope that Tiago can deliver for the entirety of the season - then again, everyone will be expected and need to deliver their goods for a chance at a ring.
Since Bonner and Blair are useless to the team and Pop (respectively) during the playoffs I imagine this means Boris and Jack at the 4 with Kawhi taking most of the minutes at the three, his main backup tbd though Green and Manu are obvious options.
Then there is the option of Kenyon Martin as some people have suggested.
Oh well, here we go.
You mean the 2 minutes + 20 minutes Splitter can't play because he either has a sore earlobe or because he can't make a free throw to save his life?
The Spurs need a big presence inside...a 7-footer, regardless of skills, is valuable in the NBA.
I don't want to talk for other posters but the main reason why we are disappointed isn't necessarily because we thought Curry would be some kind of savior, it's more that Spurs enter this season with the same bigmen than last year while they got exposed in that area during the playoffs.
I wish we had kept Curry as well. Beleive me, I don't always understand or agree with Pop's personnel moves, but my only explanation for what seems like a nonsensical dismissal is that Pop feels that our mid-to-late season additions last year (namely Diaz and Jack) make us a much stronger team going into this season than we were at this point last year. Admittedly, that's true.
Jack is a huge upgrade over RJ, and Diaz is a serviceable big, especially in the Spurs' new hyped up offense. I'd much rather see Diaw on the court than Bonner, and thankfully Pop played him with Tim in the playoffs, despite not "knowing the system." Kawhi was an unknown commodity going into last season, and played way better than any of us thought he would for a rookie. Also, going into last season, Pop had no confidence in Splitter at all, and rarely played him in his first year. But to our mild surprise, Tiago played pretty well last year. Yes, he's not the most skilled offensive big, but he's solid, and he does fine in our system. So my point is that Pop must feel comfortable having a team that goes 11 deep or so, and a training camp where Diaw and Jack can learn the system, so he's standing pat. Meaning, he may deem it too risky to bring in a new guy like Curry who has tremendous size, but a spotty resume and possibly a bad ticker. To me, Josh powell is actually okay as a "last big off the bench." But frankly, he plays with a lot of energy, especially on the offensive glass, so I'd play him ahead of Bonner.
All that said, is Tiago going to get destroyed by Dwight? Yes, and so will the rest of our bigs, who are either old, slow, undersized, or all of the above. That's why none of us can understand Curry's dismissal. I sincerely hope it doesn't come back to bite us. Sometimes I think Pop feels that another Robert Horry (a weak-side shot blocker who can defend the post and hit threes) is going to walk through the door.
I remember timvp's writeup of the first preseason game when he said Curry got so tired he asked out of the game only a few minutes in. Had he developed NBA endurance in the couple of weeks since then? Or did he get injured? (why'd he miss the Orlando game?) The guy has to be an NBA level athlete, and a guy with a heart problem who had to ask out of a preseason game after a few minutes just doesn't sound like that. I can't believe people are getting so worked up over Eddy freaking Curry. I hate Bonner too, but , even I'm not enough of a Bonner hater to think Curry is some kind of upgrade.
Yes you can.
so Spurs don't keep Curry. well, FO must be totally incompetent to do so.
wait.
Spurs had the by far best offense of the league last season, right?
and they bring back the same staff, that was responsible for this offensive qualities.
and they plan to improve the defense, they said.
so why do they bring in a player, who exclusively offers offense? and then waive him.
hmmmmm
oh, it's not called preseason championship, it's called training camp.
and what do you need to improve the defense of your regular player during camp?
right, you need some quality offensive player to work with them.
and at the end of the camp, you don't need this player any longer.
makes sense? naaaahhh. Pop/RC are idiots.
A very good point, everyone focusses on Curry's use for the team in the offence, but who knows, they may just have been using him to develop a serviceable strategy to target dwight and other bigs. Was last years post season failure put primarily down to a failure to close down a dominating paint player? Or was it an offensive failure (green, bonner)? I know my big fat red answer.
So with the core group with another year under the belt, another pre-season learning the system, a pre-season trying to defensively work on their weakness (defending bigs aka using Curry for all he's worth and discarding him) and then potential to strengthen that gap at some point by dominating the regular season and upping the stakes of our trade bait and exploring EXACTLY what is needed after some regular season rotations. Is there any need to panic?
I don't think so. Excellent use of a big in training camp that was the exact type of player that defence needs to learn to shut down, nicely played FO, I look forward to the next move.
Think of it this way, this saves us all from having blue balls all year for Curry who rides the pine as Bonner gets pwned over and over and over and over and over....
Yeah, the Spurs have the best offense in the RS. But when you have Matt Bonner getting 20 minutes per game in the regular season and your offense depends on him hitting 3-pointers in the playoffs, you're in trouble.
Nobody thought Curry would be a defensive presence, but he offers something that only 1 player in SA offers (low-post offense). A low-post player would be welcome when your PG starts to struggle in a P&R switch, when your starting SG shoots 25%FG and 17% from deep or when your stretch BIG chokes for the 6th time in a row in the playoffs shooting 14% 3p.
If Curry was a P&R BIG, I would totally agree with you that makes zero sense to keep a big that only offers that kind of offense and no defense. The difference is the kind of offense Curry offers.
And seriously, how can SA be elite defensively with this kind of personnel ? The backup PG candidates are Neal, Mills and Nando. Who plays defense? None of them. SA's backup PFs are Dejuan Blair and Matt Bonner. Who plays defense? None of them. It the FO was really serious about getting the defense path back, at least Bonner and Blair would be gone by now.
As I said to ElNono, people expecting this team to be elite defensively will be really disappointed. SA will win games again with their offense, not with defense.
prefer to have curry than turd towers or anything to do with blair, bonner or splitter on the court individually or on at the same time is asking to be scored on at will...
Wasn't everyone making fun of Miami for signing Curry last year?
Most were making fun of the Spurs inviting him to camp too.
Ok I just got the news (lol 1 day later)
WTF they are not keeping Curry ?
They think Bonner is better ?
And people are wondering why some San Antonians become Laker fans
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