Spurs waive forward Derrick Brown and center Eddy Curry

[silverblk mystix]

" Matty has been in the gym all summer-wait til you see him manhandle D.Howard es!"

[trypldubl]

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.

Yea the same coaching staff that pretty much every playoffs can not make in series adjustments when needed.

[phxspurfan]

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 disagree. I think this team got exposed in the playoffs for losing their entire game plan in the middle of a series. No combination of bigmen would have changed the fact that all of our role players simultaneously took a giant crap and OKC couldn't miss. Perkins and Ibaka's inside presence was hardly dominant and would not have single-handedly won OKC four straight games. Not to mention the fact that this team curbstomped the best team of big men in the playoffs, the Jazz, and then also swept a team with two great up and coming big men in the LA Clippers.

It's a long season...injuries happen, and so does random players stepping up (who knows) and other players falling off (Nash, Kobe have to at some point).

But please, dear God, trade Bonner!

[silverblk mystix]

I disagree. I think this team got exposed in the playoffs for losing their entire game plan in the middle of a series. No combination of bigmen would have changed the fact that all of our role players simultaneously took a giant crap and OKC couldn't miss. Perkins and Ibaka's inside presence was hardly dominant and would not have single-handedly won OKC four straight games. Not to mention the fact that this team curbstomped the best team of big men in the playoffs, the Jazz, and then also swept a team with two great up and coming big men in the LA Clippers.



It's a long season...injuries happen, and so does random players stepping up (who knows) and other players falling off (Nash, Kobe have to at some point).

But please, dear God, trade Bonner!

Do you think our "bigs" bear any responsibility for allowing Ibaka to hit 15 shots in a row? Most of them uncontested? Timmy can't move once we reach the all-star break and the turd towers can't bother anyone's shot and Tiago will be benched by then...lol

[jiggy_55]

Disappointing. Hoping there is some plan for a trade eventually or a signing to make this better. We need a big man who can score easily and we need one badly.

[Spurs Brazil]

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.

Agree. We got that weak bigmen rotation since 2009

[turkish spurs fan]

isn't tiago splitter + zaza pachulia trade possible in the middle of the season?

[Bruno]

Disappointing. Hoping there is some plan for a trade eventually or a signing to make this better.

I hope it too but the most likely scenarios are Spurs starting the season with 14 players or keeping Powell as 15th player.

If Powell is kept, it will be interesting to see where he will be in the depth chart. There were signs in this preseason that Pop was giving up on both Bonner and Blair.

[jjktkk]

I hope it too but the most likely scenarios are Spurs starting the season with 14 players or keeping Powell as 15th player.

If Powell is kept, it will be interesting to see where he will be in the depth chart. There were signs in this preseason that Pop was giving up on both Bonner and Blair.

One can only hope.

[TD 21]

If only the FO were as intelligent as posters on Spurstalk

Being intelligent doesn't mean you're above doing stupid things.

[spurs108]

Duncan on Curry's camp performance: http://www.nba.com/spurs/video/121024_duncan
"Eddy had a really good camp. I thought he did a really good job, he played well. It's just kind of situational that we can't keep him. I wish we could with his size and his skill. But he had a really good camp and it was tough playing against him, but it was fun."

It really is a shame that they didn't keep him. Having another big body on the roster with his skill in the post(especially at the 15th spot) would have been valuable. Just hoping the "situational" means they are looking at a better option outside of the current preseason roster. Only time will tell...

[phxspurfan]

hopefully "situational" means trading Bonner, Blair and Splitter for a real big man and a bag of chips.

[spurs108]

My guess, if they don't plan on going into the season with 14(which is very possible), is that it won't be a trade. If it were, then we'd most likely be giving up two players and getting back one, which would leave an open roster spot for curry and wouldn't explain him being waved for "situational" reasons. If the spurs are looking at adding another for the beginning of the season then it will probably be someone who hasn't found a team yet(Martin) or is getting dropped from another teams training camp.

[Duncan2177]

hopefully "situational" means trading Bonner, Blair and Splitter for a real big man and a bag of chips.

Or signing Martin.

[SpurPadre]

Or signing Martin.

He's going to be 35 in December...great another old fart. Oh well, he's still better than that red-headed, sandwich loving piece of .

[therealtruth]

Do you think our "bigs" bear any responsibility for allowing Ibaka to hit 15 shots in a row? Most of them uncontested? Timmy can't move once we reach the all-star break and the turd towers can't bother anyone's shot and Tiago will be benched by then...lol

Exactly it's ridiculous the self denial by Spurs fans. Those guys won't shoot that well again. It was a fluke. The real truth is that players are more likely to hit uncontested jumpers so regardless of how unlikely their shooting performance was it was made possible by not contesting the shots. Till we stop playing "hope you don't make it" defense the same thing is going to keep happening.

[therealtruth]

Yea the same coaching staff that pretty much every playoffs can not make in series adjustments when needed.

That's the truth. Can someone name the last time Pop made a successful in series adjustment that worked that didn't involve starting Ginobili? I will give him credit for going into the Jazz and Clippers series with a good gameplan that those teams didn't respond well to. He had a fairly good gameplan going into the Thunder series but he never countered Brooks adjustments.

[therealtruth]

Curry could have helped by allowing us to get easy baskets and giving enough time to set our defense. It's much harder to set your defense when your jumpers are missing and the other team is flying down the court. If the jumpers aren't falling we have another option other than Tim to get easy baskets. Good post scoring can mess with your opponent's rhythm and break up their momentum.

[silverblk mystix]

Curry could have helped by allowing us to get easy baskets and giving enough time to set our defense. It's much harder to set your defense when your jumpers are missing and the other team is flying down the court. If the jumpers aren't falling we have another option other than Tim to get easy baskets. Good post scoring can mess with your opponent's rhythm and break up their momentum.

Well, everyone knows that 300 pound 7 foot centers grow on trees and Pop just felt that the spurs can always get one of those if they ever need him...oh wait...#$%$#

Same ol spurs story...

[DOS CHAINZ]

Whats Rosho doing these days?

[callo1]

Curry could have helped by allowing us to get easy baskets and giving enough time to set our defense. It's much harder to set your defense when your jumpers are missing and the other team is flying down the court. If the jumpers aren't falling we have another option other than Tim to get easy baskets. Good post scoring can mess with your opponent's rhythm and break up their momentum.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Most intelligent post in this thread.

Sometimes a good defense starts with a more reliable offense. Last year the spurs lived by the jump shot; especially the three ball...offense went cold and lack of transition defense was exposed.

[dylankerouac]

Martins age won't be a big deal with Pops minute management. I just hope the team can do something quick so the player can have a lot of time to learn the system. I already forsee an excuse about said player being set-back because they weren't a part of training camp and Pop casually leaning on this excuse (let's be perfectly blunt, it would have nothing to do with Pop not giving the player adequate minutes in playoff like lineups before the playoffs) at the end of the season unless a rings the thing next summer.

[007nites]

Tim Duncan on Eddy Curry:

"I wish we could have kept him, he has great size and skills"

[Ice009]

Tim Duncan on Eddy Curry:

"I wish we could have kept him, he has great size and skills"

I just don't know what to say. A guy with his size and skills as the 15th man for minimum salary, I just don't understand why you would let him go this early. They could have kept him for a while then released him later if his defense was so bad.

For minimum salary and as a 15th man I thought he was worth holding on to. Don't know if Tim was just being nice by saying what he did, but if not, then I guess he thinks the same thing as some of us do.

[temujin]

Sometimes I think many Spurs fans need a good dose of Bobcats FO "moves" and "deals" for, let's say, 3 years.
Then they can come back and talk about Eddie Currie.