Woj: Spurs have traded De Colo for Austin Daye

[DPG21920]

Link? If you can post where I said that trading De Colo will cost the Spurs the le explicitly, I will not only leave the site forever, but pay you $50.

If you can't though, I want you to agree to leave ST forever, deal?

[DPG21920]

Convenient that Chump posts something he says he cannot prove

So Chump says people argue about things that don't matter and are "tiny", but he proceeds to post about things that no one can prove? That's just him protecting his rep so he can never be wrong I guess. How can you be wrong if you post stuff that no one can prove?

Also, can you please explicitly explain how my guidelines on how to prove what you said would not work? If you say that it was obvious that I would hate any trade and you saw it coming because it's what I do, why wouldn't looking up the past few trades and my comments not be sufficient to support that?

[Chewbacca]

[Chinook]

I don't have an anti-Green bias. On the contrary, I've been a Green fan since before the Spurs even picked him up. He's just not physically strong enough to guard James in the post.

Leonard needs less help though. Ideally, Green needs a full on double team in the post. That is why Pop went away from that match-up.

Whether there was a single straight up block or not is semantics. To act like many of the names I mentioned aren't better suited to defending James makes no sense.

They aren't. It's not just about being big. James isn't a center. You have to be able to guard him all over the court. That's why Diaw was the worst of the three primary James defenders. Lebron just started taking him off the dribble. Green is a strong post defender for his size, has great lateral mobility and elite anticipation. That's what makes him the team's best on-ball defender. Regardless of whether you think Green wad overmatched against James, it didn't show up in the stat sheet. He has been a good James defender, likely better than any of those you're assuming are better just because of their size. We don't have to speculate on whether he can get the job done. He already has.

And to say Leonard didn't need help is pointless. They both got the same amount of help and both ended up with similar lines against James.

[RD2191]

Despite how annoying Chump can be, you are worse Chew.

[DPG21920]

Huh?

[ace3g]

Jabari Young @jabari_young
Austin Daye's official number will be No. 23 with the #Spurs #NBA



#NextJordan

[RD2191]

Huh?

Nothing, I'm bored and you're short.

[DPG21920]

23 is stands for the average SF PER against him tbh..

[DPG21920]

Nothing, I'm bored and you're short.

Only physically.

[RD2191]

Jabari Young @jabari_young
Austin Daye's official number will be No. 23 with the #Spurs #NBA



#NextJordan

Well that's that. Here comes trophy number 5.

[RD2191]

Only physically.

You have a tall presence.

[wildchild]

Crappy deadline after a crappy summer. Spurs could have done so much more especially with Bonner's contract.

There's no way to become more attractive Bonner's expiring contract...

[AFBlue]

For the amount of minutes Daye is going to get, we might as well have signed Royce White... at least we would be being good sports and promoting mental health treatment...

What are you talking about? The Spurs are bringing this famished dude to the land of Whataburger and Tex-Mex. Stopping hunger one Chophouse Cheddar Burger at a time.

[ace3g]

San Antonio Spurs @spurs


[RELEASE] The team has announced the acquisition of Austin Daye. j.mp/1mfI1jb #GoSpursGo pic.twitter.com/xrpJCetLxu


6:57pm · 20 Feb 14 · TweetDeck

[ElNono]

What are you talking about? The Spurs are bringing this famished dude to the land of Whataburger and Tex-Mex. Stopping hunger one Chophouse Cheddar Burger at a time.

how silly of me. you're correct, sir

[TD 21]

They aren't. It's not just about being big. James isn't a center. You have to be able to guard him all over the court. That's why Diaw was the worst of the three primary James defenders. Lebron just started taking him off the dribble. Green is a strong post defender for his size, has great lateral mobility and elite anticipation. That's what makes him the team's best on-ball defender. Regardless of whether you think Green wad overmatched against James, it didn't show up in the stat sheet. He has been a good James defender, likely better than any of those you're assuming are better just because of their size. We don't have to speculate on whether he can get the job done. He already has.

And to say Leonard didn't need help is pointless. They both got the same amount of help and both ended up with similar lines against James.

With someone as big and strong as James, it is partially about being big. James isn't stupid and neither are the Heat: If a player as physically over matched as Green is on him, he'll take him into the post. Green is a strong post defender for his size, but his size isn't enough against James and the only reason it didn't show up in the stat (according to you), is because it was limited sample size.

I didn't say Leonard didn't need help, I said he needs less help in the post. More importantly, James didn't play damn near exclusively in the post against him, like he did Green.

[Arcadian]

I don't know anything about Austin Daye, but if he's a small forward then it's obviously a good trade.

We had 4 PGs and 1 SF. Come on, it's a no-brainer.

[ace3g]

Jeff McDonald @JMcDonald_SAEN
One bit of housekeeping: Austin Daye is headed directly to SA; will not be available tomorrow in Phoenix.


Get as much work in with staff be ready for "revenge" game against Pistons.

[TheGoldStandard]

Jeff McDonald @JMcDonald_SAEN
One bit of housekeeping: Austin Daye is headed directly to SA; will not be available tomorrow in Phoenix.


Get as much work in with staff be ready for "revenge" game against Pistons.

Hopefully it's a murder suicide

[Russ]

Jabari Young @jabari_young
Austin Daye's official number will be No. 23 with the #Spurs #NBA

Austin won't need a number on his jersey, only a name --- "Austin."

[Chinook]

With someone as big and strong as James, it is partially about being big. James isn't stupid and neither are the Heat: If a player as physically over matched as Green is on him, he'll take him into the post. Green is a strong post defender for his size, but his size isn't enough against James and the only reason it didn't show up in the stat (according to you), is because it was limited sample size.

I didn't say Leonard didn't need help, I said he needs less help in the post. More importantly, James didn't play damn near exclusively in the post against him, like he did Green.

I'm not going to say you didn't watch the games, since you're a Spurs fan. But you misremember them. Lebron faced up almost exclusively for the first four games of the series. Game Five, he posted up almost exclusively, which is why Pop played Diaw after that. But then he started taking Diaw off the dribble. He only posted up Green three times in Game One. He got blocked once, missed another and got fouled on the third. James had much more success draining the long twos the Spurs were letting him have. Again, it's confirmation bias to say Green was overmatched.

Would he be a better James defender if he was exactly the same but bigger? Of course. But that doesn't erase the fact that no NBA team has a better secondary James defender. Would I like another one? yeah. But it's not a major Spurs weakness.

[ElNono]

Hopefully it's a murder suicide

dont hate Daye, he didn't trade himself, tbh

[TheGoldStandard]

dont hate Daye, he didn't trade himself, tbh

Yeah but then we can get some kind of death exception roughly around 4.5Mil

[ElNono]

Yeah but then we can get some kind of death exception roughly around 4.5Mil

You can get that for Bonner/Errors, nobody dies