Heard he will be worked out by some of the staff at the facility while the guys head on their rd trip. Supposedly they are impressed with the shape he is in, and how he did in China before he left
Nobody is giving a pick without Blair signing an extension right there and then. Unless it's obviously a ty 2nd pick.
And his production, height and general wariness about his knees means there's good reason to think he'll make less than Green money. Not going to say there isn't a dumb team out there that will offer more, but, IMO, they would be wasting money.
I doubt that Blair has much of a chance at a career in another NBA uniform. I don't understand why so many are baffled by his shtick.
He'd be a superstar in the euro leagues, but he ain't NBA material - the "tell" is that he can't stay on the court in the playoffs. He is a liability that our opponents exploit, it's been proven time and time again. Giving him a minutes/regular spot in the rotation is a waste.
"But this year, it's going to be different!"
Definitely doesn't look that way.
"According to Polish site Sport.pl, Richards is in the outs with the team after a string of poor performances with Asseco Prokom Gdynia and mainly rides the bench. Because of this, the team is reportedly willing to look in another direction and replace Richards on the roster."
http://www.projectspurs.com/2012-art...in-poland.html
I have a feeling Richards will end up blowing his chances to play for the Spurs. He is looking less and less likely to join every time there is a new article about him.
Its not like we're super desperate for a roster spot. Hang onto him and let him walk at season's end.
Releasing Blair would be a terrible idea.
ElNono, maybe you should at least play with being a GM on a video game or something and get some sort of general idea as to how bad an idea that would be to just dump Blair for nothing. There's no one available on the free agent market who's as good and will cost as little. We don't have anyone in the D legaue who's as good either.
I'm not sure why so many people on here are demanding our 10th-15th players need to be dumped or replaced, as if tons of teams have amazing players much better than the guys we have in the 10-15 spots. We have good depth. So much hot and cold love for Spurs' players on this forum.
Yep. Completely agree. Most haters don't take his VERY reasonable salary into account. That makes him worth a lot more than if he was on the last year of a $5m deal or something.
Exactly. depth and circle jerking about our ty bench player that nobody wants like Blair, we're not winning with what we have.
Then they better be working on a trade because if not, that mean we aren't winning . Everyone here now we need another PF or center. Blair is a bonafide scrub, give me Reggie Evans in the same price range, now that's a true bargain. Seriously is such a scrub that having low salary guys like Evans or Martin who can do one thing well would be a massive upgrade.
Martin is better, his pricetag is a question mark at this point but he's better.
Because we want to win. With TP and TD playing that well I hope the FO does his part because with the current team, I'd bet good money that they won't win . Other team don't need a better 15th player because they don't start their 15th best player tbh.I'm not sure why so many people on here are demanding our 10th-15th players need to be dumped or replaced, as if tons of teams have amazing players much better than the guys we have in the 10-15 spots. We have good depth. So much hot and cold love for Spurs' players on this forum.
He was released by a crappy Russian team...
Perhaps you need to stop playing 2k12 and start watching the games, so you stop with the absolute takes bads?ElNono, maybe you should at least play with being a GM on a video game or something and get some sort of general idea as to how bad an idea that would be to just dump Blair for nothing. There's no one available on the free agent market who's as good and will cost as little. We don't have anyone in the D legaue who's as good either.
I'm not sure why so many people on here are demanding our 10th-15th players need to be dumped or replaced, as if tons of teams have amazing players much better than the guys we have in the 10-15 spots. We have good depth. So much hot and cold love for Spurs' players on this forum.
He's been starting again on our team. His minutes average for this season place him as the 4th big (rotation guy). His numbers are down across the board. He can't rebound anymore, he can't score at the same clip anymore, and he's regressed defensively (which is incredible, since he was pretty bad to begin with).
If he's indeed unplayable and has to drop to the 15th roster spot (benchwarmer), then the idea was to bring somebody else that's hungry, cheaper and not emo as like he is to fill that role. The question was if the Spurs could get rid of him now and not have his salary count against the lux/cap, but apparently that's not possible unless you trade him.
^ ayo elno u should blame the staff for trying to turn blair into a diaw type of player .... spurs staff tried to turn blair into a sf not blairs fault .... blair needs to be overweight he was abusing other pf in the paint ....
richards is currently playing.....
EuroleagueBasketball @Euroleague 42-35 at the halftime between @assecoprokom and @MaccabiElectra with 10p of Ryan Richards
How many points did he finish with?
He finished with 10. He sucks. He moves like gorilla, very poor man JaVale McGee. Cant really describe his overall movement with words, but it does not look good.
Guess he had his chance tonight, because this was meaningless game for his, soon to be former, team.
Yeah and not to mention only 10 points in Euroleague game(I think he averages 3)...that's like 5 points in a d-leauge game and like -10 in the NBA. lol
For though, dude doesn't seem to care to much..........he seems to have issues. I wish the best for him. I just wish he came to the Toros and played for a year or two. I think it would've really changed him, maybe not made him into a great player but I think they could've done plenty of work on him.
is there anyway for richards to join toros this year ......
If he's willing to play for 30K/yr.
The Spurs have only 5 bigs and since Kawhi and Jack are injured, Diaw has to play SF sometimes. For the playoffs I hope Pop shortens the bigman rotation to Duncan, Splitter and Diaw, with some small ball in the mix.
IIRC Richards was actually pretty adamant that he would like to be stateside and playing for the Toros. He was almost pushy about it.
When he gave that interview in 2010, he was talking about being under an NBA contract and assigned to the D-League.
Mel, I didn't hear anything about a contract. He said if he's picked he doesn't care whether or not he's playing up (meaning contract with the NBA team) or down (D-league). When he said that if a team drafts him then wants to send him to Europe he'd rather withdraw his name, I took that as meaning he just wanted to be stateside regardless.
From that I took it that he would be pretty happy to be with the Toros.
It's pretty clear to me what he means when talks about being ok with going up and down from the NBA to the D-League. He's talking about being under an NBA contract.
If he'd be happy playing under a D-League contract, he simply has to have his agent arrange one.
With Blair you get what you pay for.
My take is for thinking it'd be stupid to dump Blair for nothing, but your -tastic take about how players need to be flat out released and not even traded to get something back aren't?You're in' delusional. Just like your stupid ass takes about how Parker is done because he had a few bad games, then oh look, like I said he would, he's back into form already. Your takes are liquid .
I told you to at least go play a video game and play around as being GM, because maybe then you will at least get some sort of idea as to how throwing away talented players who can be traded for picks or assets in return is a stupid idea. Obviously just telling you that it's stupid isn't good enough for you since you're a low information basketball fan.
Speaking of how ty your takes are, you're flat out lying about Blair's rebounding numbers declining.
His numbers are down? Let's look at the stats.
Blair's per 36 rebounding numbers:
2012: 9.3
2013: 9.6
Whoops? Are you blind? Or do you just enjoy being wrong, about quite literally, everything?
Ryan Richards is the absolute worst Spurs draft pick since Sergei Karaulov. He will never be a Spur.
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