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Boris should have played more these past finals.
BS.
The only stupid thing here is believing that Boris is playing like that only because he wants to help the Spurs and that it has nothing to do with his contract year.
What he made before coming to the Spurs has nothing to do with the money he will eventually get in his last fat contract.
Being a contender definitely helps, but so does the money.
Boris should have played more these past finals.
Like he said in the interview he could have opted out since he had a player option so basically it's his third contract year in row genius...
Yeah and who would have paid him more than the 4.7m that the Spurs are paying him now genius ?
He gets a full MLE offer last season and he is a former Spur now. Please, don't be naive with all this "Boris doesn't care about the money anymore" crap.
He is playing well and that's great for him and SA. It's a joy to watch Diaw playing more aggressively because he has always been talented. But don't say that he doesn't care about the money because it is pure BS.
Let's look at the facts:
- he asked Charlotte to be released and picked the Spurs over all the other teams interested in him
- he cut his salary in half to play for the Spurs
- he picked his player option for this season although being paid less than $5m
What more do you want him to do? Play for free?
I'm sure he cares about the money, who doesn't? But he certainly doesn't seem to care about it nearly as much as the average NBA player.
hey remember when pop benched him after he ignited that 8-0 run in the 3rd Q of game 7?
That's not accurate. That was pretty much his market value at the time. Nobody offered him more than the 2y/9m contract that the Spurs gave him. He was not worth 9m/year at the time.
He didn't cut any salary to play for SA. SA paid him what was fair at the time. He has never done any favors to SA playing here. I actually think that he was lucky to have such a great franchise behind him after the Bobcats failure.
You guys act like he is doing favors to SA by signing here. That's not the case.
Again, I simply believe that all this "Boris doesn't care about the money" talk is BS. Feel free to disagree but that's how I feel.
^ you have your head so far up your ass tbh...
Several teams wanted him when he got his buy out, some could give him more... He pulled an AK47 basically. So he gave up money from his Charlotte contract and then extra money from other teams...
And then took the same money a rookie Splitter was getting... If you think that was his market value after his PO run (he started) I don't know what to say...
Yep. A very overlooked Pop blunder tbh.
So mad for nothing
Not even sure why.
People usually get mad so easily when they have no arguments or when they're flat out dumb. In your case, I'd say it's both.
Boris didn't pull an AK. They were very different cases, but I won't be the one explaining it to you because you're kind of slow and I would be losing my time.
Thanks anyway
It's not that much of a blunder. Pop managed to lead us to being up 5 in a championship elimination game with ~30 seconds left. All he asked for was a single free throw made by leonard or manu, or a defensive rebound but the players failed on all 3 counts. I'd say overall Pop did a pretty good job.
I know people are furious at Duncan being taken out but I don't know why. Duncan has always been taken out in those situations, and only once has it led to a game changing offensive rebound for the opposing team.
"Being a superstar is tony, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili job. I have another role to play" ...sensational
'Sup, elemento? I don't see you around the NFL Forum much anymore. Ravens fans gotta represent more.So mad for nothing
Not even sure why.
People usually get mad so easily when they have no arguments or when they're flat out dumb. In your case, I'd say it's both.
Boris didn't pull an AK. They were very different cases, but I won't be the one explaining it to you because you're kind of slow and I would be losing my time.
Thanks anyway
I don't think people realize how bad Charlotte Dias was. Had he not gone for the buyout, he's probably on a min deal right now if now out of the league. Going to the Spurs was definitely the smart financial move for him.
Sup Chino. Yeah, I need to spend some time over there (NFL forum). Sadly, I don't even have much time for the SA forum anymore. Too much work here in Brazil.
About Boris :
I really don't understand all this discount talk seriously. The Bobcats tried to trade him, but couldn't get ANYTHING in return for his expiring. He had massive weight problems at the time.
When Diaw arranged the buyout with CHA, most part of the 9m contract was already paid. He gave the Bobcats a little discount in order to sign with a contender. Not a single contender would have given him more than a min contract. He was not worth more than that at the time.
When he got the 2y/9m contract, that was an absolutely fair deal. There weren't any teams lining up to sign him, especially with his weight problems.
I have nothing against Boris and the better he plays, the better SA gets. As a fan, I am happy with his aggressiveness. But, SA got no favors from him. Going to SA was the best move he could have made.
So mad for nothing
Not even sure why.
People usually get mad so easily when they have no arguments or when they're flat out dumb. In your case, I'd say it's both.
Boris didn't pull an AK. They were very different cases, but I won't be the one explaining it to you because you're kind of slow and I would be losing my time.
Thanks anyway
Excellent find, Bruno, well done!
You gotta love a person that truly knows himself. Some talented guys have leadership/super-star mantles forced on them when they aren't built for it (Carmelo Anthony) but Boris has probably known all along that he just wants to be a good piece on a winning team and there is great honor and respect to be had in realizing that and playing that part. It's why I like Jamal Crawford. Dude knows that he just wants to come off the bench, get buckets and go home.
I believe it is more losing the Finals than anything. I can imagine last year he was passive because he was trying to fit in. This year though, I think he realizes that he's too talented to be so passive. Wasnt it Boris's threes at the end of game six that almost won it for us?
As for it being his contract year, yeah, I can see that being a motivator too
While I don't think Diaw gave some kind of discount to Spurs, I also don't think the main reason why he is playing like that this year is because it's a contract year for him. 2011-2012 was also a contract year since he was was at the end of his $45M/5 years contract and it's in this season that he was in the worst shape of his career. 2012-2013 was also a contract year for him since he had a player option for 2013-2014 in his contract and he didn't shoot the ball that year.
The contract year effect wasn't specially a motivation for Diaw in 2011-2012 and in 2012-2013. It seems unlikely that it suddenly has become one this season.
Needed more Boris in the playoffs. He guarded the out of Lebron.
Kinda hope we give this guy a ring or two. Feels like he's the successor to Big Shot Rob.
That because he wasn't that bad except for the last year where things got really tense with Silas... Bottom line not it's his 3rd contract year in a row and he would have gotten way more had he opted out.
It's nice to know that after so many years of getting paid millions of dollars to play a kid's game Boris finally "gets it."
It's probably just guilt. He saw what losing the Finals meant to Tim and the rest of the Spurs. Deep down Boris knows he can be an all-star caliber player but he's aloofness when on the court throughout the season last year may have cost the Spurs a championship.
Who do you think would have gone over the MLE for him? I can't see anyone because Dias is like Green in that he's only really valuable to a contender. As far as other teams are concerned, only Charlotte and Atlanta spent big money on free-agent bigs last summer, and neither of them would have wanted Dias back. Maybe Detroit? Doubt it, though.
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