TimVP and Marcus Bryant are going to get owned

[El_Mago]

Ha, Elliott and I mentioned Udoka...when everyone was contemplating....Pietrus, Nocioni, Scola, and blah blah.....

Next...

[timvp]

Ha, Elliott and I mentioned Udoka...when everyone was contemplating....Pietrus, Nocioni, Scola, and blah blah.....

Next...

Before free agency...

I don't think that the Spurs will use their MLE to sign anyone. After re-signing Oberto, Bonner and Vaughn, that'll put them at or over the luxury tax threshold. Using the MLE beyond that would end up costing the Spurs about $11M.

Sign and trades make a lot more sense given the Spurs' situation. Because of that, restricted free agents should be looked at. Nocioni, Pietrus and T. Outlaw are all restricted free against and all could fit needs with this team.

As far as unrestricted free agents, the two I like most for the Spurs are James Posey and Ime Udoka. Posey for a starting salary at around $3M would be nice. However, he probably gets more.

Udoka would be an absolutely perfect Bowen replacement ... except for the fact that he's 6-foot-5. Udoka can defend, rebound a little bit, decent pass, doesn't turn the ball over and is a +40% three point shooter. He's had the same type of career that Bowen had before joining the Spurs and he's the same age that Bowen was when the Spurs signed him.

Portland has said they want him back but after they drafted like 38 players, I'm not sure they have the room. If the Spurs could get him for a couple million, he'd be a pretty decent signing. His only drawback is his height, but if he were 6-foot-7 he'd cost two or three times as much.

Another thing about Udoka is he shoots most of his shots from the corner threes just like Bowen ... and Udoka hit those shots at a 42% clip this past season.

Two weeks later...

I know TIMVP and I have been supporting this move.

I firmly believed the Spurs would stand pat and not sign any huge free agent, but if they did, I figured it would of been Udoka.

Spurs tend to sign players on the cheap, under the radar, and hope they blossom.

Should be a good move.

Today....

I recall ElliottFan and timvp as the only ones who were interested in Udoka from the beginning of the offseason.

[gemneral]

Whott Is A Loser Hahaahahahahahahaahahahha

[smeagol]

I have a reading comprhension problem? Check your first post on this thread, which everybody forgets after you've spun and spun this topic to the point no one knows what the you are talking about.

2008?

I've been looking at all the available FA's this summer and teams with little or no cap space...

The Spurs will make a move this offseason to get a talented SF either via trade, draft day trade, or attempting to sign one outright in a year there will be limited $$$ for FA.

So The Move is Udoka? Get the out of here.

Pop and Holt will out manuever everyone.

They sure did. I'm still dazzled by their moves, aren't you?

I still say that Barry has a team option on the final year of his contract.

More BS

I'm not sure about Horry...but they also hold a team option on Bowen, and Finley and Oberto have player options they are likely to opt out of. You are talking substantial cap space.

And yet more BS


Spurs are going to wind up with lots of options this offseason and TimVP and MB will be exposed as haters without a cause lamely trying to get mileage out of old GhostWriter takes.

They might have had lots of options, they never acted on them. The smell of BS is pretty intense right about now.

In short...PWNAGE.

Yeah, pwnage alright, not the one you were thinking, though

Bookmark this thread. You heard it here first.

[Spurminator]

I recall ElliottFan and timvp as the only ones who were interested in Udoka from the beginning of the offseason.

I can't just let this go by without making sure I get some props as well.... I don't expect anyone to remember because it was last year, but I was frighteningly accurate on this one...

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...65#post1126365

[timvp]

That was one of a take. How the did you foresee the agent's posturing?