Bonner is a survivor, give the Red Mamba credit.Bonner still finds a way to hang around.
Ginger has brainwashed PATFO and will play ´till his 60s.Bonner still finds a way to hang around.
Bonner is a survivor, give the Red Mamba credit.Bonner still finds a way to hang around.
Nice, I always liked jimmer. Glad he's on board....now, if we can somehow stop this Anderson madness
Does Jimmer have a twin brother that did the athletic parts of the combine for him? Seems strange that he's recognized as a terrible athlete but performed well at the combine.
Bonner still finds a way to hang around.
It is uncanny that all those guys are gone this year, except Bonner. I wonder if Pop insisted on this group for the picture? Just because.
Jimmer is a strong guard so he could potentially play next to Ray easier than Patty.
The -5.6 number is from a year ago, when he played for Sac and then Chicago. Last year on the Pels he was a much more respectable -1.95, which was better than Ray McCallum and a certain other PG on the Spurs. His numbers sucked in Sac, but he got better when paired with better defenders like Holiday, Asik, and Davis.
My main observation is that he appeas to have shorter arms than just about any pro basketball player I can remember seeing. What's his wingspan?
might have to call it a slow break
I honestly hope the Spurs just roll with the 14 players they have under contract. I don't want Eddie either. Simmons and Anderson should suffice as that 4th/5th wing and would be a pretty interesting and compe ive battle between the two.
His jumper is hypothetically pro worthy, but he hasn't really proven that with his play.
His ball handling and running of an offense are poor. If judging him as a point guard he is extremely poor. And he struggles to get quality shots off; that's pretty much undeniable since it's the main reason he hadn't made it in the NBA. Teams could and would overlook his matador defense if he was the scoring demon he appeared to be coming into the league.
The reason the Spurs might gamble on Jimmer is the fact that players like him (Re , Eddie House, Kerr, etc) sometimes take years to figure out how to get their shots off on the NBA level. Once they do, they can suddenly become useful. But the Spurs would be basing the decision on what they saw of him back in college, not his disaster of a pro career.
The aspect that gives me hope is that Jimmer is actually a pretty good athlete. Still, I'd hope for him signing a contract that isn't fully guaranteed.
Jimmer is completely terrible!
An unguaranteed contract to take a look at him at training camp just to see what he has to offer the Spurs wouldn't cost that much.
Based on what?
All three have been fairly consistent in FGA and % based on their amount of playing time since they came into the league.
Agreed, except neither of the shoot worth much a damn from 3.
But that's because he's 5'10" across the chest.
It's nice to have a shooting specialist at the end of the bench to be able to bring in when the moment calls for it. He's not the greatest, but for the minimum, it's not a terrible idea.
Just ran the numbers comparing him with J.J. Re , standing reach is 1 inch less but he has a wider wingspan. Everything else looks comparable. If Re can be such a deadly problem for the Spurs, I think Jimmer could be similarly serviceable.
Spurs should absolutely sign him.
With the right kind of screens, Jimmer can be equally deadly in offense.
Like I said early, McCallum is on his final year. Spurs need a backup PG, Jimmer is a good insurance policy.
Last year, he shot the 3 horribly for some reason. But year 1 h shot 36%, year 2 41%, year 3 47% (including 49%that year with the Kings. He can shoot and he can get his shot off. He can't defend. He can dribble, play the pick and roll, and drive and kick, but can't really create a la Steve Nash. No doubt he is a limited player, but if the Spurs can hide his D and get him good looks, I agree he has his best shot at saving his career. Don't forget he's played almost his entire career with Tyreke Evans...he just hasn't been used correctly. That said, he probably gets a non-guaranteed contract and a shot at training camp to prove he can be a shooter and play some kind of point guard/shooting guard for the Spurs. If he fails here, obviously, he'll spend the rest of his career in Europe, where he will probably be a great player.
What happens when the other team pick and rolls marjanovic out to the 3 point line? Parker patrols the paint?
Players that don't stick with the Spurs beacause of a lack of work ethic. From what I read, Jimmer seems to be a hard working player that just happened to be in the wrong NBA system.
However, Jimmer will be playing behind McCallum who is uber athletic. At SF, Simmons is also uber athletic. Both these players can blow by Jimmer like he wasn't even there. So Jimmer's prospects for proving himself against other Spurs players are next to nil.
However, Spurs players tend to have higher percentages than numbers playing for other teams. So those numbers are going to be much higher. Jimmer is going to find himself unexpectedly open. Based on his reputation, he absolutely isn't going to miss an open shot.
NBA = ed (again)
Controlled chaos defense is zone defense. Marjanovic is in the paint and the guards are at the perimeters, so you they are daring you to take an uncontested mid-range 2 point shot while the the offense takes three point shots or shots at the rim.
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