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Spurs should have kept him and dumped de Colo and CoJo.
Guy was the best player of a Finals game yet they couldn't wait to get rid of him... And he wasn't even healthy at the time...
I'm still not over it tbh...
Look at his stats with a scrub team without the "great" mastermind on the bench :
GP MPG FGM-FGA FG% 3PM-3PA 3P% FTM-FTA FT% RPG APG BLKPG STLPG PFPG TOPG PPG 2013-14 Regular Season 4 28.5 5.3-13.0 .404 2.0-3.8 .533 2.8-3.3 .846 2.3 3.5 0.0 0.5 0.3 1.0 15.3
Guy could create his own shot and make bad shots, that was precious, Danny Green is good at what he does but he will never be able to do that...
Spurs should have kept him and dumped de Colo and CoJo.
Patty Mills would be putting up those numbers with those minutes tbh.
Bonner still on the team. Neal is not.
Ayres on the team - Blair is not.
"mastermind"
What was there to be grateful for, tbh? Yeah, let's miss some hero-baller who is shooting 40% this year. And doesn't contribute in any other way. Let him enjoy Milwaukee, where he can shoot as much as he desires and no one will give a fleck. It's perfect for him.
I'll admit, I miss having Neal available. However, Mills and King Belli > Neal.
If he's still shooting 53% from three point range in a month, let's revisit the conversation. Otherwise, I don't really want him taking more shots than Tim Duncan during his limited minutes.
He's the type of player who can kill the opposing team and at the same time, can kill our team. Kinda missed him in a way that when our bench is struggling in offense but realistically, I don't know if it's okay for him to be the 11th man.
Considering his role and his salary, I'd say most Spurs fans were ungrateful. He had his flaws, especially defensively, but he was totally worth his money for those 3 years.
the dude doesn't play D
Like I said Belinelli is not really better than Neal.
Letting him go was, in a way, letting him have a bigger money and role which Neal certainly believe he could attain playing somewhere else.
I wouldn't say the Spurs were "ungrateful." In the offseason, it was actually their first choice to re-sign him, but only if the price was right. Milwaukee made him an offer that was outside of the Spurs' price range, so they moved on by signing Bellineli.
Never. His shooting was remarkable at times, but at other times he was so damn annoying with his shot selection. In the finals he got his shot back, but before that, he wash horrible. Let me remind you why we didn't like him:
You're telling me in a critical moment of the NBA finals to clinch the le, you are going to lose track of someone who can hardly move, and let them make a three with one damn shoe on?
Well said.
Gary Neal? I totally forgot about him
Ungrateful? No. He was a shooter, nothing else. Couldn't play a lick of defense. He got paid a lot of money to shoot a basketball. He parlayed that to an even bigger deal. I'd say the Spurs just paid for a product that they found a way to use to it's full potential, par the course tbh.
Gets the ball, runs back up the court, and jacks up a shot as soon as he hits the 3 point line. Plays minimal defense. Good riddance.
And to say Bellineli no better than Neal? Did you not watch last years Bulls Heat playoffs? Marco brought it every game.
Horrible defender. Low BB IQ. Ball stopper.
If Anything Gary Neal should be grateful for the opportunity the Spurs gave him, if I remember correctly when he was signed to his initial contract there was a lot of howling going on about him, most fans were more interested in other players and if James Anderson, who had been playing great up to that point, hadn't broken his foot, Neal might not ever have gotten a shot .
wut? You forgot to blue font?
No, I don't miss him by any means. I use to shout "WHY NEAL?!" everytime he took a bad, contested shot.... which was probably about 60-70% of his total attempts
Belineli, in 6 games, has shown more all-around ability that Neal has during a 3 year stint. Truth is... Neli isn't a terrible defender. I have NO idea why ST makes it sound like he's barely above Neal in that aspect, Maybe they forgot how terrible Neal truly was on the defensive end. He didn't have the length to contest natural shooting guards nor did he have the quickness to keep up with point guards. He could really only guard other combo guards, but even then he was still lacking. I mean, did we all forgot when he got lit up by Daequan Cook during 2012 or Greivis Vasquez in 2011???
Beli on the other hand manages to stay in front of his offensive player. He's not the best at contesting shots (We're just spoiled because of Green and Kawhi tbh) but he's always has a hand in the player's face. Just like his defense against Iggy on the final play last night... Do any of you think Neal would have managed to stay in front of Andre, or even take him out of his comfort zone like Marco did? I doubt it. Neal was that bad on defense
Beli is also a much better play maker. I don't need to go forward on this, because we all know it's true.
And lastly, Marco just takes better shots in general. Right now he looks a bit rusty, but he only shoots when open or if the clock is running down. If neither of the two are happening, he sets up a play. And that alone makes him much more fitting to our system than Neal ever was. The same can be said with Ayers and Blair, tbh.
Also.404% shooting
And always a threat to get trapped for a turnover while bringing the ball up court...
40% FG+ top 3 worst defender, pass
So does Ginobili and Green. People here don't really have a ing clue what they're talking about.
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