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It's clearly a bold move, but also the spurs have stood at this same spot in other moments and they pushed for it.I am pessimistic about this now. Spurs don't do bold. The boldest move was shipping an injury prone Tiago to sign Aldridge and letting some roleplayers who were FA go... wasn't even that bold. An no brainer bc Tiagos career was on the downswing and he was almost never healthy. The season after they traded a Diaw that was getting benched in the playoffs to sign Gasol. It wasn't that difficult a choice either. Diaw was also on the downturn. You get benched in the playoffs bc a 22 year old Slowmo is a better option than you, you better be packing your bags. This season they chose to sign Patty to a generous contract and stood pat at the guards spots loading up on young guards to see if they find a keeper. The situation is not the same as the prior two seasons. They like what they have. Veering away from that initial plan is the bold move. They won't do it.
They signed Aldridge, as a patty of a plan of course, but also because they had the opportunity.
Then the plan was set, still when they knew they had a chance at Durant, they went for it, and in the end Durant choose elsewhere.
I am not so sure how much they pursued Paul, but Paul, because of his age and cost, was much more of a high risk move than Aldridge, Durant or now Irving.
On the other hand Danny Green has been on the block, and no one on the organization spoke against it, making it different to the Aldridge situation.
Danny, as a LeBron friend, could be a building block for Cleveland to start showing he can make a banana boat team there, surrounded by friends, and still remain compe ive.
There are, like always, a lot of things against the Spurs. The fact that don't do bold i don't buy it, if Irving is moved, and he is not moved here, won't be because we don't do bold, but more likely because others outbided us.
