I'm not going to identify the specific incident because I know there are minors on this website and I don't want them to be googling these inappropriate things. But I just wanted to re-visit this trade from a few years back...
Does anyone think that the timing of the trade was really puzzling? Hill had just come off a career year and filled in admirable for Tony Parker before that. He was incredible in the Dallas series, and I saw the "it" factor (thanks Skip Bayless) in him. A reliable backup point guard has been our missing piece for the past three seasons, it was odd why the Spurs moved him without having any plan (very un-Spurs-like).
Hill was one of Gregg Popovich's favorite player and we know how much of an influence he has on personal (for those who don't know, Popovich was actually the Spurs' GM before he fired Bob Hill and named himself head coach). It's weird why he would move Hill like this.
George Hill had it all... he was athletic and long and played defense. He could also score at will and was getting better from downtown. Sure, we got a great talent in Kawhi Leonard, but I think we beat OKC and MIA if we had Hill instead of Parker. Parker is simply too small and got torched by the other teams guard on defense (Reggie Jackson, Norris Cole, Russell Westbook... and so on). Hill is bigger, stronger, and more athletic.
So you ask, who would have guarded Durant and Lebron? Well if we didn't deal for a SF (in Kawhi) we would have kept Keith Bogans, who went on to anchor one of the best defensive teams in the Bulls (finished 62-20 and ranked #1 defensively) while starting all 82 games, and we would have kept Alonzo Gee (who's now blossoming with the Cavs).
Did Hill get dealt because of his off the court fiasco or was this solely a basketball move? If basketball move, do you think the incident played a role? I think we made a mistake now that Hill (who's younger) is now the starting point guard of IND, who's now favored to come out the EAST.
No.
MUTE..... That says it all. Please MUTE like your name says, stop it.
Sorry but, it kills me inside when I see our former future point guard light it up and star on a team will be perennial contenders for the next 8 yrs while we're about to be a lottery team post Duncan.
We wish.
Seriously, off.
No, Hill was from Indiana and the pacers wanted him. The Spurs saw an opportunity to move up in the draft and get a player they liked .
mute is the best troll in Spurstalk since KBP, imo.
But this seems very un-spurslike, considering the importance of a reliable point guard of our system. Why the Spurs pull the trigger on a trade like this without having a backup plan in mind? (Unless, this incident was a deciding factor in Pop wanting to part from Hill)
Should I mute, mute?
YES TBH..
What am I actually doing wrong?? I'm posting on topic instead of random "nba meme comics" and calling Kobe Kirby and Duncan Jim and all of nonsense.
Making threads on...
- trades
- signings
- injuries
- game threads
- takes/game notes
- past Spurs events (memorable)
just don't allow him to create a thread again, pls, Bruno!
8.3/10
Can we put that to a vote?
Last edited by cd021; 01-11-2014 at 12:05 AM.
Best part of Mute is the random threads about how an player who has been out of the league for half a decade can "hypothetically" help the spurs.
Mute should get pinked tbh..
I think the incident you're talking about happened in Feb of 2010...Kawhi was drafted in June of 2011...
For one year and a half the whole team was striving to hide the incident, it was too much too much, and after 500 days no one more or one less they got Kawhi, and the whole team agreed to never, ever speak about that incident again.
YEAH because the Spurs have a track record of being cheap going for the aron baynes and trying to sign d-leaguers like malchom thomas and desean butler.
if the spurs were actual spenders, id make threads for josh smith, kevin love, roy hibbert, and andre drummond
if being an idiot is a ban-worthy offense, there would be a lot less users on this website.
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