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Agreed. Blow these clowns out, get the Time of Daye.
Anyone have clips of his 6 points against Miami?
Agreed. Blow these clowns out, get the Time of Daye.
72 points per 36, and a PER of 83.5
raven is completely wrong.
some people have better reaction times, more athleticism, better proprioreception, etc.
talent is real and no amount of hard work will make you 'talented' at something.
True, but by the time you get to the NBA everyone is talented to one degree or another, and not working hard can get you bounced out of the league, right quick. The right of way of the NBA highway is littered with talented bust outs.
Talent and work are the two dimensions on the NBA career graph. If you're high on both (MJ, Kobe, Duncan) you're likely headed for the HOF. You can be talented and work minimally (JR Smith) and get by, but you'll never be great. You can be lightly talented (Bonner), but work your ass off and carve out a career, too. If you're low in both, you have no chance.
Aside from Reality TV, thats just the way life works!
De Colo was a liability in he couldn't hit the 3 ball reliably. He also could not go to the rim strong.
Daye is the opposite, he can hit the 3 reliably when open. If that is all he works with Chip till the end of the season, then I can see him making a couple of critical plays in post season.
Here's on 'tell' that he's going to be played, Daye has actually been in the court a couple of times already. Malcolm Thomas never saw court time.
By comparison, Daye is a much better pickup than Malcolm Thomas. He's taller, better handles and more accurate shooting. All that is holding back Daye is likely his work ethic. Hope Pop and the Spurs can fix that.
Duncan can teach him how to play great defense without having to jump.
He's only been active in games where one of the other 13 are injured. He's played a total of 3 minutes of garbage time. He won't see a single minute of meaningful time in the playoffs.
Good luck to him showing enough to avoid being waived before June 30th and working with the staff over the summer to salvage his NBA career.
Yes but we must over analyze those 3 minutes and blow our load because he made a couple of open shots against some 3rd stringers. It is the spurstalk way.
Well it helps that he isn't the false prophet
There's always the subset that confuses talking about Daye with
"over-analyzing" or some other similar faux pas...failing to
understand the logical fallacy of the excluded middle...
There is plenty of discussion about everything else, and actually
very little about Daye. Dead threads, and half of the comments
about him are reminiscent of yours; a veiled (or not so much) sar-
casm toward anyone mentioning him or his minor achievements
during his very limited play.
Mills evolved from the bench, Green evolved from the bench,
it's a legitimate topic to discuss whether or not our new bench
player can displace Ayers, at a minimum, or maybe even have
some more upside.
Over-analyzed? How about the jersey threads. Talk about irrelevant
minutia, for the most part, but so what, if it entertains?
Ace3g, frequently with the insider photos, seemed to imply that he may have been getting some special attention by the coaching staff one game-day. Others have loaned some support to the notion that he will not be a throw-away, as well. His tiny sample size hasn't done anything to hurt him, for sure.
Regardless, you may be right. As a matter of fact it seems fairly likely that most end of the bench players are in greater jeopardy of not being retained? That is the default condition, but assuming it to be true and moving on would have us miss Danny Greens, etc. Lots of vitriol spouted toward the guy on the way up, and while still not a star, more that he was ever anticipated.
My apologies, forgot to include the quote.
I think Mel's post was addressing the comment about him playing any minutes in the playoffs. Not going to happen unless 3-4 other Spurs are hurt/in foul trouble, period.
But besides that, both Mills and Green spent a lot of time to earn the trust and respect of the organization and coaches (Mills being a proud towel-waver that arrived with Brett Brown's blessing, Green with multiple stints in the Toros after actually being cut by the Cavs, Spurs). You get the feeling that even Ayers is there because of him being the pet project of Boylen in Indiana.
Daye basically is a Spur because the FO wanted to do De-Colo a solid.
Now, will Daye ever get a rotation role with the Spurs? It's way too early to know, and most importantly, you get the feeling it will have a lot to do with his at ude when things don't go his way (like when they didn't go their way for Mills or Green). I think it's fine to talk about Daye, and this thread is perfectly fine to do so. I just don't know that the Spurs have made any indication he's in their long-term plans, much less in the immediate (read playoffs) plans.
For me, this halfway makes up for trading away Paul George and LeBron's draft rights.
I expect Daye to get the 6th man award next year and possibly be a Finals MVP the year after. He's gonna have to pace himself though.
I like Daye's game. He could provide a huge boost.
Looks like Austin Daye's Dad ( former NBA player) is a Spurs fan.
http://www.nba.com/spurs/features/14...ext_generation
“For me this is phenomenal,” Darren says. “The Spurs have been my favorite team for a long time. And Gregg Popovich has been the best coach in basketball since he started with David Robinson. I’m really excited. With his superior coaching ability, he can help my son and turn his career around.”
Well... let's hope Austin Daye doesn't dissappoint his Dad!
Last edited by ceperez; 03-10-2014 at 02:44 PM.
Daye seems to know what's expected of him in the Spurs:
http://www.freep.com/article/2014022...-pistons-spurs
“Look at what happened to Danny,” Daye said. “He wasn’t playing at all in Cleveland, never sniffed the floor when he was there.
“He came into this system and the system really helps players like that. It helps players with perhaps a special skill-set or maybe even one skill-set.”
taking shots at Danny
no, probably saying his own single skill is shooting
Yeah, I read that, too. Interesting read, about his dad. I have to see that as another + for Daye. I am on my phone, so not fun to look for it, but there was also a pretty good read...an interview with Charlie Villanueva, about Daye. CV had much praise for his boy Daye. They were teammates in Detroit. If someone can find that article it would be a good repost here. If no one does I will try to find it when at a desk.
And lulz re: the shot at Green. Not what he meant I'm sure, but maybe a little accidental humor.
Before Daye got here, I expected him no have no handles...already a better ball-handler than expected, since I was led to expect Steve Novak or Matty.
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