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I'd rather have Leonard and Green on the court together as much as possible. I advocated Manu at the 3 last season a bit, but his inability to stay healthy means the Spurs can't rely on him. It helps that Anderson is still an interesting prospect.
So can Green and Manu.
I'd rather have Leonard and Green on the court together as much as possible. I advocated Manu at the 3 last season a bit, but his inability to stay healthy means the Spurs can't rely on him. It helps that Anderson is still an interesting prospect.
I like Thomas. He's going tk pan out. Practicing against Kawhi should make him a beast. Or break him.
4 million for Brand? Not bad
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...hawks/2518219/
Invite him to training camp? Why not? He's signed for two more years that are fully non-guaranteed. So if he doesn't make the team cut him. If he blows up, he's really cheap still.
Well, we're going to disagree about Anderson still being a prospect interesting enough to justify a permament roster spot. I get the guy got hurt as a rookie, but he hasn't shown much in the way of improvement over the last two years to suggest that there's a big developmental leap for him in the future.
I agreed with those that said the Spurs would be better fit to let him go last season, but his brief stint with the team last year when Jack and Leonard were out impressed me a bit. I'd love to see him get a preseason invite at the very least.
Paranoid Pop will have his semen cup ready if James Anderson returns.
Anderson is a small forward and on a vet minimum. Has some familiarity with he Spurs of course spending 3 seasons with us. He'd be playing 12 mpg and could finally have a chance to live up the 1st round pick we used on him (one of our rare 1st round misses)
Miami and Orlando are actually rather small markets, with favorable attractions.
No Harris. Toe injury supposed two sideline him for 2 months. He can't sign with them yet.
Come on now. Anderson would be injury insurance / garbage time player if he came here, not a 12mpg rotation player.
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Picking him up off waivers doesn't give him a permanent roster spot. It keeps him on his extremely team-friendly deal and gives him a spot in training camp.
Also, despite the belief that Anderson hasn't improved since his rookie year, the numbers say otherwise. Every one of his advanced and per-36 stats went up with the exceptions of block percentage and defensive rating (and it's a good thing for that to go down). He went from failed starter to viable bench player. He'd be great wing insurance, and he probably would eventually get the minutes at the backup three. And if he's not, he just won't make the final roster. Doesn't seem like a big risk at all.
Who would you want to get rid to sign Anderson? I would prefer Diaw,manu,green at the 3 before Anderson and at sg he is even farther down the list. Not that Anderson is not any good, but just not good enough for the current spurs roster in my opinion.
You don't have to get rid of anyone. The team can have 20 players on the training-camp roster. If Anderson beats somebody out for their position, he can stay. If he doesn't, he gets waived again.
Agree with you on TC invite but there is no way he would beat out any of the current players under contract. Thomas and Neal have more value than Anderson and are still on the outside looking in at a roster spot. Now if a trade occurs for multiple players then there is a possibilty but If I am anderson I go somewhere where I could realistically get a roster spot.
If a team picks a player up off waivers, he has to report to that team. Anderson is not a free agent until/unless he clears waivers.
Seeing as Thomas and Anderson would be signed to essentially the same contract to play the same position and are about the same age, I don't think Thomas is that far ahead of Anderson. As impressive as Thomas looks so far, Anderson's already had as good or better moments in the actual NBA. Add that he has shown that he can actually be productive as a small-forward in limited minutes, while we're all just hoping Thomas gets it, and I could see James getting the final spot easily.
But really, it would be best for Anderson to take De Colo's spot and Thomas to take the final spot, provided Neal does not return. That way there's no need to call Thomas up this season.
Last edited by Chinook; 07-15-2013 at 03:14 PM.
This. In a nuts , De Colo needs to be gone. FO should hurry up on those negotiations with the Wizards if there are still any.
Dude, I have to disagree with you on comparing Anderson and Thomas. Thomas is almost 3 years younger than Anderson for starters. Anderson has had 3 seasons now to improve over his career and has not and thus he is simply trying to get invited to a camp to try and get a 1 yr contract again. Not going to say Thomas is the better NBA player since Thomas has yet to step on the floor of a regular season game, but he has youth, size, and and the fact that no one knows how good he can become in the future unlike Anderson who's stock has declined over the last 3 years. Not really sure about anderson over Nando yet but I damn sure about Thomas over anderson
Spurs can't pick Anderson from waivers. He hasn't been signed to a min contract and Spurs don't have the cap space of the trade exception to claim him.
My bad about the age. I thought it was a year and a half and not two and a half years. But the size difference is overblown. Thomas is a quarter-inch taller than Anderson (6-4.75 to 6-5) and only 12 pounds heavier. He doesn't have any real physical advantage over Anderson.
Even if Anderson has reached his ceiling, he's at least as good as most rational people are expecting on Thomas. He puts up great per-minute stats, which is extremely important for a bench player who most likely will not see consistent minutes. His stock may be going down, but his stats say he's very productive:
http://www.thenbageek.com/players/co..._ids%5B%5D=113
Paranoid Pop was wrong to keep hyping Anderson over Green, but he was not wrong when he argued that Anderson was a much-improved player last season. If Houston didn't have a strong tendency to release young players with potential, I'd take him changing teams again as a red flag. But I don't think he's below a late-second-rounder who's impressing against players who largely will not see NBA minutes this season. That's not a big knock on Thomas. I like the kid, but he's getting massively overrated on this board right now. He's still much more likely to bust than to even be nearly as good as Anderson was last season.
He was signed to a minimum deal according to Sham.
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