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Interesting.
Blazers did reach agreement w/ Spurs C Tiago Splitter -- 4yrs, $36M. When became apparent SA would match, sides agreed not to go further.
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Interesting.
good find
spurs had to pay splitter that much or lose him for nothing or a sign and trade
That changes things a bit. Glad the Spurs were able to keep Splitter.
Wow, good to know I guess. I'm all for the Tiago signing, not salty about it at all unlike a lot of posters here. Hope he continues his increasingly better play.
So basically they overpaid. Good job Blazers didn't even have to risk getting an overpaid Splitter on their hands by going through with it.
I split this out to it's own thread since it's rather substantial.
This makes it easier to swallow Splitter's deal -- even though I was fine with it. Despite his flaws, losing Splitter would have been devastating. Centers who can fit the Spurs system offensively and are also an asset defensively are exceedingly rare. Sure, he's not useful in all series and he tends to shrink under pressure ... but he's still one of the very few centers who'd be a fit next to Duncan on this team. I don't know if there are 5 other players who you could replace Splitter with who make less money.
Never really had a problem with it tbh. Manu's contract on the other hand...
AGREED!
Manu should have taken less with decline in play.
Yep, damn.
we will judge manu's contract at the end of the season...
The Blazers have an history of ing with the Spurs for the of it.
I don't buy that it's a good signing. He has been worse than Bonner on this last run. That's a fact. Bonner outplayed a prime Tiago Splitter so let's give him a huge contract.
I hope it's not RJ 2.0 but if it is they can only blame themselves. Even if you bring the band back together Splitter was not as important to the band as a player like Gary Neal the last 3 years.
Glad we kept him.
????????? Did you see his post D in the LA and Memphis series? You don't seem to have a clue there.
to be fair Bonner played lights out against the Lakers
Splitter was the worst player in the Lakers series he was like +1 for the series, Bonner and Baynes did better on Howard who was triple teamed anyway. He did a bit better vs Memphis and his best defensive play wasn't on Zbo (and Bonner did just as well on Zbo basically), it was a switch on Conley that everyone remembers...
Losing Spitter would've been a big blow to the team. His new contract makes more sense now knowing the Blazers had agreed to terms with him.
That's pretty much what we were speculating away. Good to see him back in San Antonio rather than stuck in Portland. I bet his knees are thankful as well.
A career saving move for him.
If they still want him I'd trade him in an heartbeat for Robin Lopez and TRob...
Yeah two players with the potential to be better than him, maybe even much better and for the price of one Tiago Splitter...
Oh wait what could we do without T-Vag, we need him so much I forgot, not like we went to the WCF in 2012 and the Finals last season with basically nothing from him...
Yes, very true. Tiago's already gone through the 2-3 year period it takes Pop to trust somebody. With Kawhi and Michael Finley being the exceptions to that rule. So if we had had to replace Tiago, it would have meant some other big going through that process. I'm sure Duncan was not in favor of that.
How does this whole "ignore" list thing work again?
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