Felton spencer
Bateer was so damn bad
Mike Smrek was amazing.
Are they really the worst players though? Worse than 12th men like Bateer and other stiffs who were just bodies? Come on...
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Yeah that Mario Elie never helped...
Udoka in his last year, omfg he was bad. Finley towards the end of his career too, he'd occasionally make a jumper or a 3 but his defense was the worst I've ever seen out of a Spurs player, especially when Pop put him at PF.
I hate to this being Australian, but it might be Shane Heal.
6 games and 72 minutes played. A shooter who shot 29% from the field and 22% from 3. Equal amount of turnovers as assists...
RIP Whottt, btw.
It's a tie between Wiley Peck and Sylvester Norris.
Jaren Jackson!!
It wasn't so much as him being bad, but more like he was useless! I always wondered what was his purpose for being on the floor! Maybe the "Spur's System" has to have a guy that's invisible while you're watching the game, but when you check the box score you're like, "Oh yeah! I forgot about him!" Dude! I remember playing NBA Live back in the day and rushing to take him outta the game! Dude sucked in real life and in the video game!
Bateer.
As a starter, Keith Friggin Bogans. As a bencher Soft ass Samaki Walker.
Did some ignorant really say Mario Elie?
LOL he was bad! Udoka here sucked too for the hype he got when they signed him. Parks sucked though.
You are crazy, he hit a ton of threes in that run in 07 during the playoffs! He hit some game winners as well as his game tie against PHX in 08. I remember the Mavs series 06 too, big shots and played his ass off! Far from the worst player who put on a Spurs uni. Those who do in a playoff run get a pass, those who never did in a run do not. Atleast he hit alot of threes in a series unlike BONNER has ever done, so he gets a pass there as the worst.For the love of GOD I hope you are not talkinga bout Elie because he was huge during their first le run.
Last edited by Sean Cagney; 02-04-2013 at 01:13 AM.
I dont remember Bateer... who the was he
Garbage time Chinese (Inner Mongolia) player who could barely hit the rims on FTs (0% for the Season). Won a ring with the Spurs in 2003 (SOMEHOW managed to stay the entirety of the 2002-2003 season), then batted off to China to show all his friends his NBA Ring. I think he's an actor in China now..
Also, surprisingly he was 33% from the 3 point line that year. WTF was he doing shooting those? His three point percentage was better than his FG percentage...
Last edited by Darius Bieber; 02-04-2013 at 01:21 AM.
Amusing thread.
No way. He was by no means a rounded player, but he hit some huge shots in 1999.
Yup...
For mine it was Not-so-nasty Nick Van Exel. He was freakin atrocious by the time he got to us, 2 steps slower than the slowest NBA player other than himself...
Citing a 12th man is the easy way out imo. Of course the 12th man is supposed to be garbage. Let's face it, Bateer was just a 300 lb slab of meat that Pop could trot out that wouldn't be completely bulldozed by Shaq and was good for 6 hard fouls while Tim rested. He's a hired goon for one purpose only, in the mold of Mark Bryant, Tony Massenburg and Kevin Willis. Remember the days when Pop always had some muscle on the bench to deal with Shaq?
Nah, imo the worst kind of guys were guys like Udrih and Hedo. Both talented and both brought in to be difference makers and they both ended up being mentally fragile when it counted the most. Maddening as given their potential. Did anyone really think Bateer was a long term prospect for us? Please.
Playoff Bonner. Van Exel. Alfredrick Hughes.
Some of you guys named some pretty damn good players, tbh.
Zarko Paspalj had some pretty huge hype when he came over. I remember one report called him the Yugoslavian Michael Jordan. Unfortunately, he was terrible. Couldn't play defense and didn't really understand how to run an offensive set. Looking back on his stats, he beasted in Europe. Not sure what happened in San Antonio but he just couldn't hang. He was mostly known for chain smoking outside the locker room at halftime.
From his Wiki:
NBA stint
In 1989 Paspalj became one of the first Europeans to move to the NBA, joining the San Antonio Spurs despite going undrafted.[3] He ended up with the Spurs due to Gregg Popovich, the team's assistant coach at the time, who met 23-year-old Paspalj at a warm-up tournament in Germany in July where the Yugoslav national team was preparing for Eurobasket 1989. Upon arriving to the United States, Paspalj even ended up living in Popovich's house for a few weeks as he acclimatized to the new surroundings.
However, Paspalj's NBA move turned out to be far from successful as he featured in only 28 games,[3] scoring a total of 72 points in 181 minutes (2.6 points[3] and 6½ minutes per game) of action. He also drew the ire of head coach Larry Brown by admitting he played "no defense, only offense."[3] He also confessed a weakness for Pizza Hut and Marlboros.[3] However, Paspalj did develop a cult following among fans, evidenced by the Terry mings-penned song "The Mark of Zarko", which was sung to the tune of "The Mark of Zorro."[3] Eventually he was cut from the team three days before the 1990 NBA Playoffs started, as the team officials wanted to make roster room for veteran forward Mike Mitc .[3]
Oh, and he's before my time but the one correct answer to this question has to be Alfredrick Hughes. The Spurs picked him in the first round of the 1985 draft that was loaded with studs. He flamed out after one season; it doesn't look like he ever played anywhere again. The previous pick was Karl Malone. Subsequent picks include Joe Dumars, Terry Porter, AC Green, Ty Corbin, Arvydas Sabonis and a number of others who made it.
In recent years, I have to give a special shoutout to Jack McClinton. I don't know if I've ever seen another player be so obviously not an NBA caliber player within his first three minutes of summer league.
He's the bloke who did this to Shaq:
but did he play?
I've watched lots of his games when he was still in his prime with the Melbourne Tigers. His defence pretty much sucked throughout his career. But he's a very heady player, sort of like the NBL's version of Larry Bird with a bit of CP3's dirty antics.
He's probably made more contributions to the club since he retired than when he was playing...
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