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Jack was the starting two here replacing Smith, so that's why I left him off. Willie played mostly two guard, except that first Larry Brown season when Alvin was there. I can never remember Alvin playing the 3.
Excellent list. Some notables you left off and it may be the blurring of SG and SF: Steven Jackson, Chuck Person, Alvin Robertson (is listed as S/F and would obviously be #4 on the list if considered a SF),Willie Anderson, James Anderson, David Wingate, Monte Williams, Rick Barry (played a lot of 3) and if you want to consider the organization and include Chaparrals you would have to include Cliff Hagen (5 time NBA AS and played in the first ABA all star game).
So if I may:
1. Bruce Bowen
2. Kawhi Leonard
3. Sean Elliott
4. Larry Kenon
5. Mike Mitc
Willie Anderson
Steven Jackson
6. Micheal Finley
7. Gene Banks
Chuck Person
8. Walter Berry
9. Dale Ellis
10. Danny Ferry
11. Dominique Wilkins
12. Jerome Kersey
David Wingate
13. Richard Jefferson
14. Chucky Brown
15. Alfrederick Hughes
Jack was the starting two here replacing Smith, so that's why I left him off. Willie played mostly two guard, except that first Larry Brown season when Alvin was there. I can never remember Alvin playing the 3.
Kawhi is the default #1 imo as he is the only one with a FMVP
Jefferson was overpaid but nowhere near as bad as some above say. I would say he was at least one of the top ten we've had at that position. My top 5:
Elliott
Bowen
Mitc
Leonard (sure to move up over the next year or two)
Banks
Also forgot about Jackson, although he didn't play too much here and his best season was as a SG.
So is he over Kenon, Finley, Ellis, Wilkins, Turkoglu, Berry? Pick two.
Kenon was a 3 time all-star. Twice in the NBA. He was part of the core that was considered strong enough to merge. IMO he has to be on the Top 5 list. I loved Mitc , but I can't put him over Kenon. Banks played at a time I lived elsewhere so I didn't see him much in person. I don't remember his game. I believe the time a player spent with the organization means something as well. Turkolu was here one year. If a guy is here one year only he better have done more than Turkalu did. Heck Glen Robinson was here for a championship run. I don't think he ever unpacked his bags, but he played the 3.
Wait, are you guys talking about the Starship?
wow..I love that vid, did they won the game?
I don't know how much you can blame the FO for re-signing him. He fell of a cliff faster than any player in NBA history without injuries
Not sure on that unless you count injuries to the head look at how fast Marburry and Iverson fell.
Below Kyle Anderson!
OP is Richard Jefferson tbh
Overhyped - overrated - overpaid loser ranks last
Bowen is pretty overrated on this board. Kawhi is already better than Bruce ever was. Jefferson wasn't a bad player, but the Spurs weren't the same team they are now when they had him. They still depended on their Big Three so much that they put too much hope into Jefferson being part of a Big Four. Had the team not traded him for Jackson, I think they would have still gone on their run, provided Pop appropriately benched him for Kawhi.
Trading for him was a mistake, though. They should have just moved Oberto for Johnson like Milwaukee did and thrown the MLE at Tony Allen instead of McDyess.
Third from the bottom.
last
Somewhere in the vicinity of "Spurs FO rules" and "we traded BB for who?"
Amen!!!!!
Hughes is way too high on that list.
Aren't you forgetting Mario Ellie? That Nig was the vocal leader the Spurs lacked in the 90's. He's still one of my favorite Spurs. He was more of a SF than SG tbh. ****** became our SG once we acquired Ellie in 97.
Would include Chuck "The Rifleman" Person on that list. Also, I'm not sure I can rank Kawhi ahead of prime Elliott yet, though the potential is definitely there.
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Elie strictly played the two in 1999 and the Spurs landed him about two weeks before the 1999 season. The SF rotation in 1999 was Elliott/Kersey, and occasional minutes for Jaren Jackson at the three when Elie and Jackson were on the floor together. He played some spot minutes at SF in 2000 between Elliott's retirement and return, but Chucky Brown and Jerome Kersey were the starting SFs.
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