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36 points against the Rockets.
Sure, yet also a "forgettable" first round pick.
36 points against the Rockets.
"Out of the blue" is Gary Neal, never drafted, bounced around Europe and made an NBA playoff team rotation at age 25. First round picks are "reclaimed" every year by other teams. That's not news or unusual.
Should I try speaking in your native language or is this just a reading comprehension thing? Reread my post and tell me again where I said Pop hated James Anderson. The whole point of signing prospects is to watch them develop. When the team is constantly picking 20th or later in the draft, you're pretty much assured that those picks are projects at best. Is your idea of development to watch a player sink or swim for a year, then, cast them aside like yesterday's garbage? The guy showed progress prior to the injury and was never given a fair shake when he returned unless you count his 4th quarter entrance's into blow outs. Danny Green played just 8 games in the 2010-11 season so that part of your argument is flat out laughable. By the time Green started BALLING, Anderson was already out of the rotation.
The moral of exstatic's story is that its OK to waste roster spots with garbage talent like De Colo but heaven forbid using that slot for a draft pick in development like Anderson. The Spurs aren't a team that can just buy talent whenever it becomes available. They have to work hard at developing their talent so when the time comes, you aren't stuck in rebuilding mode for five or six years. It sure would be nice to have a versatile wing man who could backup Leonard at SF.
Last edited by Hoops Czar; 11-14-2013 at 05:31 PM.
GL to him
Even though he had a great game, he doesn't play like this every game. Philly fans complain about the same issues that he had here. Too slow, cannot create his own shot and his ball-handling skills are still poor.
He is a great shooter and great shooters can have a big day when they're on. Neal had several great offensive games with us.
This kid could score since college. 24ppg, 1st team All-American and Big 12 player of the year as a junior. Playing defense at an NBA level was always going to be his key for development. If anyone remembers what he looked like in those first few weeks before he got injured in SA, he was blocking shots and putting himself in good position despite his limited athleticism. I think he can carve out a role in the rotation for a good NBA team. But relying on him as a scorer and playing two ways as a good defender, that might be a bridge too far for him at the moment
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I like James and hate Nando, but they have the same problem: they were (or are) buried on the depth chart. They only kept Nando because there was no option to pick up. He was guaranteed this year. James wasn't guaranteed for year 3 going into year 2 and he was the fourth string SG. They didn't pick up his option. Nothing he did in year 2 made that look like a mistake. Not a damn thing. Then, lo and behold, Pop gave him another chance last year, picking him up when Kawhi and Jack went out. He played well in 10 games and earned another NBA shot.
Not sure why you're still obsessing about this when we have Manu, Beli, and Green at SG.
Should be interesting to see what Anderson does with his promotion to the starting unit in Philly, since he had about every chance in the world to make himself the spurs starting SG and did diddlysquat each time.
I'm guessing history will repeat itself there as it did here.
Anderson started at the two to begin 2011-2012. So it's not like Pop didn't give him the chance. The truth is that James was flat-out horrible. There was no way Pop could justify keeping him in the SL and he didn't even seem to deserve to have his option picked up. Green meanwhile was awesome in limited minutes. He took the spot from Anderson over the course of a couple of months of thoroughly outplaying him. Then Manu came back, and there was simply no room for him in the rotation. Compounding that was that he was awful in garbage time.
I wish they would have kept him. They probably would not have needed to sign Belinelli in the off-season and could have kept the MLE in their back pocket. But it's not like Anderson would be anything more than the ninth or 10th man. Don't be tricked by his game against Houston. He regressed big time against Atlanta.
Can't look at it all in a vacuum. Spurs made this move in January 2012 when they still were burdened with the RJ deal (an extra year than SJax's) and he would have tied up a roster spot in 2012-13, as would have the #1 pick they gave up to move RJ. Manu, Green, Neal, RJ and Kawhi were all ahead of him for wing minutes, so he wasn't getting a chance to develop that year, especially given the shortened lockout season.
Now he shows his first sign of life almost two years later.
I'm not a De Colo fan but he wasn't in the picture yet at that point. Reason he's still around is because he's still under contract. First taker that offers anything of value, and he's out the door.
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