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Yes, completely agree - especially #3. But For a player like Covington, I would be willing to use the Toronto 1st. The likelihood that we can draft a player as good who can help immediately AND over the long haul is not high.
Solid post, but Gasol will do against the Rockets.
Yes, completely agree - especially #3. But For a player like Covington, I would be willing to use the Toronto 1st. The likelihood that we can draft a player as good who can help immediately AND over the long haul is not high.
He was pretty useful against them in the playoffs 2 years ago.
I would even give up 2 picks for Covington but doubt that happens. Toronto pick and Spurs 2020 first rounder seems ok to me. He's making a case for DPOY, can shoot the 3 and is locked up on a good long term deal.
That seems a little high to me. A 1 and a 2? However, one consideration for moving the second 1st is the number of young players we currently have on the roster. Pop is already probably uncomfortable with the prospect of having to develop/choose among Dijon, DWhite, Bryn, and LWIV. In his heart of hearts, I suspect that Pop would much rather add a young veteran (especially on a great contract) over another couple of young guys he would have to develop.
Yeah, I agree this discussion is purely academic. Pop will stand pat for this season except for possibly adding the traditional over-the-hill vet after the buyouts.
Power Forward/Center/Small Forward SPURS are a SPURS need. If Rudy goes down, spurs are would be in trouble. Pau G, is what he is! a 38 yr old bench center w/ a high salary.. From a GM perspective why would any team want to take that salary on, and not get much in return for what your paying.. He is not a bad backup center option for the team, and I believe he is okay with it and knows his role now..
Snell on a vet min contract, or something much smaller that what he's got, would be good. He's way overpaid for what he brings. If people hate Patty and Pau's deal they'd really freak out with Snell's contract on the books.
You're a wordy mutha.
16m is expensive for a backup big just in case if 1 of the 2 bigs like lma, poetle goes down
compared to the crap bigs on the roster like pondexter, cunningham...or whatever their names are...
he come handy in the playoffs if he is ready, still has intangibles he can bring compared to the other 2 fodder bigs
man i was arguing with DPG about this during the offseason (leonard trade trades) quite a bit. i kept saying the covington contract is great and he kept saying it was an albatross and that getting convington and his contract would be a negative
I'd keep him around in case of injury.
For Kawhi? It would have been. Covington is playing well now after a meh year
as part of a package for kawhi, obviously.
the point was you said (if i'm remembering right) that IF we were to trade with philly, you specifically preferred that covington NOT be part of the deal because he'd be a negative asset because his contract was a burden
Yup. He was not playing well, SA had Danny/White and the package was Cov + Saric.
and in the interest of fairness i was also making a big deal about fultz being a required piece, so i was wrong too
So was I. I wanted Fultz and until things somehow got worse lol I still thought it was a good gamble. But just for Saric + Cov? Nah.and in the interest of fairness i was also making a big deal about fultz being a required piece
i would never have gone for just saric/cov. but if the options were package with cov vs package w/o cov, we had opposite opinions
I can see me not liking that aspect with how Cov played last year while having Danny/White still. Cov playing so much better this year though.
Dude is just cashing checks. You think he'd mind not playing? He'd be pissed if Spurs traded his expiring contract to a losing team clearing salary. I hate it but Spurs culture most likely let him play out his contract - it's always been the Spurs way, sucks
's just sad, now. Someone needs to take Pau into the woods and put down. Pop better bench his ass once Rudy is back, though. Poetl is twice the player now, and could become thrice the player at the end of the season if Pop keeps giving him steady minutes.
I don't think anything will happen with Gasol. While I do think he holds a slightly inflated idea of his value on the court, he has had a front row view of how far the team has come and he has always acted in a professional manner. Coming off an injury and at his current age, ego aside, you'd think he has to know deep down that his role is going to be more in the locker room and hopefully between him and Aldridge being someone to help Poeltl further develop. He can still give a few minutes a night, he had a nice block against Drummond last night but I just doubt he is thinking to himself man I need to get out of SA, I'd be a game changer on such and such team. Let's see.
I didn’t see him in the game. It sounds like he is still working himself into game shape instead of losing his spot. I thought he had a stress fracture on his foot, that shouldn’t greatly effect his game going forward.
If Poeltl were to be injured, we'd need Pau to step in. Those are the only true centers on the roster (and even Pau used to play PF back in the day).
16 millions rotting on the bench in the form of a thrid string center, meanwhile one of Bertans or Gay go down and we are completely ed. But it's all cool, no moves need to be made.
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