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Who is "Monte"?
That would benefit Manu as well as TP.
So you take the Finals team and replace Bonner with Kirilenko. Lose Neal in the process I guess.
Easily Kirilenko. I think he is a terrific player who would be a great fit with Spurs.
I'm not a fan a Monta Ellis and his chucking but, if Manu is back, I don't even think Spurs really need to add another guard or to re-sign Neal. Parker, Green, Ginobili, Joseph, De Colo and Mills is fine by me to play the guard minutes. Players like Joseph and De Colo will likely be better and after the promises shown last season, they are ready to have a bigger role.
Which then means the Spurs need a replacement, apparently Billups they have targeted.
And you could use a backup 3. Interest in Barnes, though every offseason the Spurs are offering Barnes and he never signs.
Starters
1 Parker
2 Green
3 Leonard
4 Duncan
5 Splitter
Bench
1 Joseph
1/2 De Colo
2 Ginobili
3 ?
3/4 Kirilenko
4 Diaw
5 Baynes
IR
1/2 Billups
1/2/3/4/5 The People's Champ
Monta Ellis is not only a chucker (and a talented and quite inefficient one at that). He is a horrendous defender who gives little effort at that end. Considering he will be overpriced, he would be a redundant piece on the Spurs. There is no way the Spurs are going to overpay a one-dimensional scorer who is inefficient to boot.
Andrei Kirilenko answers two specific needs for the Spurs - a backup small ball 4 who will spell the Spurs' bigs and play that position. And secondly, a good defender against spot-up shooting while playing help defense. This was what was glaringly a problem for the Spurs against the likes of the Warriors and the Heat.
Kirilenko does both at league elite levels and he will be a very good fit.
Only issue is that he won't be effective as a Lebron guard on the post or on ISOs. Those days of his spider-arms shot blocking are over and he will only be league average there. What he will do is to effectively thwart ball movement of the opposition, get some steals and will ignite fast breaks and transition buckets in the plentiful.
Combine him with Kawhi, Green, Manu, TP and Cory, and the Spurs' perimeter defense could be scary good.
The only issue with AK47 is his age. He is 32 and shouldn't get a contract for more than 3 years. Will he accept that is the question to be asked.
people are just assuming Ellis is a shotjacking ballhog incapable of sharing when in fact he's one of the best passers at his position and he's been a #1 option by default for the majority of his career due to being the best player. When there were better scoring options next to him (Jason Richardson, Baron Davis, Stephen Jackson, prime Al Harrington) he shot less than them all. In recent seasons he's had to shot jack as the #1 option, in San Antonio its clear as day Parker is the #1 and he'd have no issue being 2nd banana. You think he's going to shoot 40% playing opposite a superstar? Thats almost ludicrous to suggest. This sounds like the logic people use to suggest Carmelo Anthony hurts the knicks. There is no chance in Monta Ellis hurts us and I'd like to think a career 20 point scorer on 45% would help us immensely
That would have to have happened in his first few years in the league. Monta Ellis is exactly what he is, which is a low 40%s undersized no defense shooting guard. That's what you're buying.
I would enjoy the Kirilenko/Lundgren comparisons.
Not quite, the year GSW beat Dallas in the playoffs, Monta shot 53% from the field for the year and averaged 4 APG. Like poster said before, the GSW had shooters in Harrington, Richardson, SJ, Belinelli, Pietrus and Baron Davis.
Statistically speaking, Ellis had his most efficient year that year. Playing next to Duncan, Splitter, Parker, Green, Leonard, and Manu, Ellis wouldn't be the primary scoring option but we be more of a facilitator/scorer coming off the bench and a spot up shooter/slasher when Parker is on the floor with him.
Look at the trend line of his shooting %, year to year. I'll give you a hint: It's NOT going up.
This was through February last year, going by the image name...
I agree, but that is because has been playing on Sorry teams since the 07-08 Warriors where he had to carry most of the load. Its funny how people say Harden is possibly the best SG in the league yet he averages 43% FG shooting last year and he had his best year coming off the bench and being the 3rd option behind Durant and Westbrook.
With Ellis not being the main guy and actually coming off the bench against a teams 2nd unit, his number IMO would greatly improve. Spurs need another slasher on this team. They had Parker and Manu for years. But Manu showed towards the end of last year he can't do it on a night in and night out basis.
No , other than Jennings, everybody on the bucks is garbage
Do you know that he would even be willing to come off the bench? Everyone is not Manu...
Where did you hear he'd have no issue being the second piece of fruit?
Possibly, its up to Ellis what he wants. At 27 that was the age Jason Terry switched to being the 6th man and he avg. like 18 ppg for 6 years being just that for the Mavs. Word is that he wants to go to a championship contending team. Spurs have shown you can be an allstar on this team coming off the bench as a 6th man.
It wouldn't be a tough sell on the Spurs part b/c they have proven that just b/c your coming off the bench doesn't mean you're just a role player.
Harden supplements his overall FG% by: 1) hitting a decent percentage from 3, 2) getting to the FT line, more than anybody in basketball, & 3) occasionally playing a little bit of defense, albeit nothing spectacular.
If Harden did none of those things, he would not be a good player. He would be Monta Ellis.
Monta, then get casspi.
Why would Ellis come off the bench? The sixth man would be a great spot for Green. A spark plug, instant offense, floor stretching defender..
I still value defense over offense a lot more, so if Monta wanted to start then he'd have to really want to play defense and get MUCH better on that end of the floor. I wouldn't start him over Green as it stands right now because his defense is sub par.
No doubt that AK is certainly cut from Spurs timber while Monta is pretty much the anti-Spur. That being said, MB does bring up a fair point about the Spurs backcourt scoring. The offense struggles enough when Tony's getting a rest, even more so when Manu's having an off night shooting the ball. Monta would certainly help there. The Spurs went after Corey Maggette real hard several years ago, so I think they're comfortable enough that there's room on the team for a guy who plays a little (okay, a lot) selfish.
AK would be a nice add as well, but he's pretty much redundant to Leonard. That is not a bad thing in any way as both Leonard and AK are incredibly versatile and the Spurs would have no problems finding roles to accommodate both of them. But the question is whether or not the Spurs are better off strengthening a strength, or strengthening a weakness. Another factor to consider about adding AK to the team is that his presence pretty much makes Diaw an irrelevant piece to the team. Leonard/AK are going to eat up some PF minutes just because the Spurs have to get those guys on the floor.
Either would be a good add, but I'd lean towards Monta TBH.
Yesterday I would have said AK over Monta immediately, but today my mind has shifted a little towards Ellis. Not 100% sure why, but I do agree that the back court scoring during droughts would be nice, and definitely there with ME. Spurs getting either would be a big acquisition.
if ak for three years ak easlily
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