Not that we needed any more confirmation, but Geoff Sheen of 1200 WOAI & the Ticket 760 said that Jimmer has about a 1% shot of making the team, and that he's being generous with that percentage.
In other words, he'll be gone tomorrow.
Not that we needed any more confirmation, but Geoff Sheen of 1200 WOAI & the Ticket 760 said that Jimmer has about a 1% shot of making the team, and that he's being generous with that percentage.
In other words, he'll be gone tomorrow.
Jimmer would've had to play like Gary Neal did back when he made the squad. He just didn't shoot lights out.
Nice..no more White Americans, please, its 2015..
So we threw what? 1 mill at a guy guaranteed just so we can have first look at him?
Only $507,000 of it is guaranteed. Consider it a charitable donation.
but then spending another 500k(if they keep a 15th player) in luxury tax that they wouldn't have had to pay.
fuark me, i dont feel sorry for him one bit.
The hope is that if/when Jimmer gets cut, someone else will pick him up off waivers and save the team money. Otherwise, I would consider stretching him. It would save the Spurs almost a million bucks this year, and it wouldn't really hinder them at all going forward.
Jimmer will have a lot of money in the bank (by most standards for his age, if not NBA standards), has a gorgeous wife, and will get to play a game for a living in Europe or China. No real reason to feel sorry for him.
Especially since he's on the verge of being cut because he wouldn't fix his game.
He must really suck if they didn't even let him play at home. I mean if Sykes played and is getting cut at least he got some pull. Will they do it by tomorrow? I might win a bet.
Would have liked to see Jimmer show what he can do. However, Spurs seem to want to give Butler and Reggie Williams a lot more burn. That's definitely not a good sign.
I would be surprised that Bonner would get cut, but he also can't get himself into the court.
By that you mean his slow release? If so, I agree.
Pre-season hasn't been kind to Jimmer. Pop seems to have forgotten that he's even in the team. Pop is playing Butler, Williams and Sykes all ahead of Jimmer. Jimmer has played probably as much minutes as Deshaun Thomas.
With Parker injured, you would think that there would be time freed up for Jimmer to play.
Which kind of implies that Pop has seen something in practice and already made his decision.
If Jimmer can't even graduate into the regular season with the Spurs, then his NBA career is practically over.
It might be, though some team without much depth may pick him up. Vlade may bring him back to Sactown on the cheap. Public pressure on the Jazz may make them give Jimmer a shot...who knows...China and Europe are likely too.
Pop said earlier that Jimmer was trying to show he was more than just a shooter. I think that's what he needed to prove to make the team. Spurs need a shooter, but they rarely go one dimensional. They like guys that can do a combination of different things so they have options. If Jimmer wasn't a pg or a small forward, it's tough to make the roster as just a shooting guard who can't play defense.
That's a good point. Beli for example wasn't much on D, but besides shooting, was a pretty good passer and an OK playmaker.
Jimmer didn't play bad defense against the Hawks.
It's the fact that he's only a set shooter in an open gym. So he didn't even pass the first test.
Jimmer has been absolutely awful in his limited game time. Runs the floor our of control, loose with the dribble, passing to guys out of bounds, trying to force that out-of-control spin move and ever opportunity, fouling opponents, getting lost of defense...it's hard to really come up with any positive impact he has made. He had one jumper that got wiped away from a DWest foul, and another spin-and-finish in garbage time at the end of a blowout.
Right now, he looks like a shooter who can't shoot, and struggles to really do anything else well. The only way he sticks around is if he has been playing lights out in practice, and the reports that have come out say the contrary. Spurs just need to eat the 500K and send this guy on his way.
To be fair to Jimmer, I don’t think you can totally judge him by his playing time in the preseason. He didn’t play many minutes, and when he did, he played with guys that were all trying to jack up shots to show they belong on the team. I thought the Spurs signed him to spread the floor. To see if he could do that or not in a preseason game would require him to play with starters. He really didn’t get any minutes with them. He mostly got minutes in garbage time with the rest of the garbage players. I’m guessing the imperfections in Jimmer’s game, at least to the Spurs, were noted behind the scenes in practice.
I think I’m being a little unfair in calling any of these guys garbage. The reality is that every person on that roster would clean our clocks in basketball and make up the 1% of great basketball players in the world. They just aren’t good enough to stay in the NBA, which is one of the hardest jobs to get and keep.
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