Please translate
http://canchallena.lanacion.com.ar/1...olumna-de-manu
on it
Actually sounds to me like he has a good chance of being back as long as the team wants him
I hope he and Tim and Bonner and West And Martin And Miller retire.
Pretty much says that Tony Parker is trash and that he can't stop staring at Kyle's head when he's on the floor.
I need to free my mind; now my goal is Rio 2016
SAN ANTONIO.- I haven't talked to anybody, I didn't get together with anybody... this just ended. Now my focus is to clear up my mind. I need to free my mind, digest and after a couple of weeks I'm going to set myself some new objectives. That said, my main goal now is the Olympic Games. It's time to relax. There's nothing else for me before that starts, and I'll take care of the National Team later. I suppose in a couple of weeks I'll think a bit more about my future. I'll probably sit down with Pop, with Tim and some of my teammates to talk for a while. We'll see then what are the objectives, and if there's going to be changes or not. It's still early for that.
It's obvious that my decision will have no effect on what my teammates are going to do, or anything like that. But I want to know what's the plan, what does the team wants to do, and what Pop thinks... That's not going to define what I end up doing, but I need to know, and make sure I understand the team's situation. I don't know yet what I'm going to do, but I know that if I decide to retire it won't be because I no longer have a job, but because I think it's the right time. I'm fortunate -because you can't always do it- that I have the option to choose. It's true that there's the possibility to continue for one more year, but I still haven't decided what to do. That said, the fact that I have that player option won't be a factor to decide anything either. I'm going to take as much time to think about this as I think is necessary.
During this time I think how things developed this season. It was a spectacular season most of the time, but we had a terrible series against Oklahoma City and were eliminated. That happens when you don't play well at certain moments that require you to play well. Even then, I thought it was a pretty even series, with three games that were decided right at the end, and could've gone either way. And in a tight series, some of those bounces can leave you out. Both on Game 2 and Game 5 anything could've happened. A couple of dubious calls, a missed shot, a steal... It's a shame, because we thought we were capable of reaching the conference finals and see what we could do against Golden State, but it didn't happen. They did a good job on key possesions, closed the games better and took the series. There's obviously some disappointment, I insist, because we felt like we were capable to move on to the next round. And last season was somewhat similar. The series against the Clippers was hard fought and we took it to a Game 7. They had a Chris Paul super inspired, and so... The playoffs are like that. There's a very fine line between who moves on or not. Example: Toronto against Indiana. They were about to be eliminated, won a key game with a miracle, and now they're playing the Eastern Conference Final. It's like that, sometimes it it happens in your favor, and sometimes against you.
Like I always tell you, truth is that I normally don't watch what's going with other series, or how the NBA season ends once we're eliminated, but I do have to say that I did watch the game between Oklahoma City and Golden State. And I did because my kids Dante and Nicola are slowly becoming fans of the game, and they wanted to watch Durant and Curry. I explained to them who they are, that Stephen was the best player of the season... So they wanted to watch the game, and we did watch it. After a while, the game was in the background, but since I was itching to play some more basketball I watched Bahia Basket afterwards, and that made me suffer like a dog. I didn't pay a lot of attention to the NBA game, and I did watch more as a viewer, more relaxed. What I did catch was a lot of fun.
There's other objectives for me this year. Even though it's very clear to me I have to mentally rest a bit, it's inevitable that I start getting an itch about the Olympic Games, because that's what's next. I want to relax right now, analyze what happened and see how I feel after a tough season. So the next few days I'll be avoiding the gym, running and shooting. But once the times we've discussed with my fitness trainer and physiotherapist are up, I'm going to start training with one objective: Rio de Janeiro 2016.
Sounds less gloomy than after G7 against Clippers last season..i think there is chance they're both back for a farewell tour depending on Timmy's knee diagnosis ..
Uh no, they took it to a game 7 by punking us in SA
Long story, short:
"Parker will be a better 6th man next season than I ever was"
would love tim and manu to come back.....for the vet min
I got from that, I'm coming back
Pop won't ever tell them "you're done, we need to move on from you"..He couldn't say it to Matt in' Bonner and it isn't like this team is going to have to move on from total mediocrity.(they will look at 67-win & a loss to team that's 1-0 on 73-win Warriors)..
The whole thing boils down to Duncan's knee; if it can be rehabbed and hold up for another season, i think Manu won't say "No" to TD if the latter is eager for one last dance..
Obviously if TD/Manu are back (hopefully for minimums), it doesn't mean you are not going to need to move on from Diaw/Mills/K-Mart/D--Worst and such...
Sounds like he's coming back
I think it's time...
...to stop thinking about it and just come back...
For those saying "vet minimum", both Tim and Manu have guaranteed deals with player options. If they come back they will get paid:
Tim: $5,643,750
Manu: $2,940,630
Those contracts cannot be "renegotiated", etc...
Manu will keep collecting them checks. Spurs gearing up for another 2nd round bounce next season.
Thought he wants to comeback, tbh..the tenor of the article echoes the hopeful post-Game 6 comments, which is in contrast to post-Clippers series borderline "I'm out of it" soundbites..I think it's time...
...to stop thinking about it and just come back...
They can opt out and sign for less. Not that they necessarily should; if the Spurs decide to just roll the cap space to 2017 they can opt in or come back at almost any number.
Awesome
nostalgia-fan in me wants them both coming back, despite the obvious struggles, tbh...
too many memories bailing out porky, it's only natural, tbh...
Yeah it does.
Thank you for the translation.
Thank you.
Thanks for the translation Nono. Though I don't personally need it, it's a kind gesture so others can read it for themselves and speculate.
He's uncertain to me but definitely leaning more towards returning than not.
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