Maybe if the Spurs had drafted Howard they would have won. I like my maybe better.
i don't really have a solution, but i am sure malik isn't the answer. i am still happy we won a championship last year, getting rid of him helped us do that. i have confidence in our front office to try and address our needs, and am eager to see what changes can/will be made. we were 20 seconds away from not having this discussion.
Well, since plans that involve travelling back in time are apparently fair game, I say we draft Anderson Varejao instead of Beno.
Bump.
With the Spurs trading Rasho for Matt Bonner and change, the Spurs have an even bigger need for rebounding. Bonner will be a nice bench piece, but his main weakness is rebounding. That also happened to be the Spurs' main weakness last year.
With the roster as it is, Evans is needed even more. The Spurs must get a rebounder on this team. A bigman rotation of Evans, Horry and Bonner could be pretty deadly next to Tim.
I thought you said Bonner would be a good rebounder, that he was only playing out of position?
This is definitely a move I'm warming up to. There was nothing more frustrating last playoffs than seeing the Spurs make a stop only to not have anyone grab the ing defensive board. This team was destroyed on the glass this whole playoff, and you can'y just blame it on Parker, Ginobili, and Bowen like in the past.
Be tough to see the MLE disappear into his grinning mouth, but 'eh.'
The Spurs need better than a good rebounder. They need a guy next to Duncan who can rebound at a high rate. Bowen is a poor rebounder for his size. Parker isn't a very good rebounder. Manu can rebound sometimes but his energy is better served elsewhere.
That means that fifth player has to be a damn good rebounder to pick up the slack. The Mavs destroyed the Spurs on the glass and then went out and were outrebounded by the Heat. That shows you how horrible of a rebounding team the Spurs were.
Reggie Evans is a great rebounder. Players like Bonner or Horry are average rebounders for their position.
He might not get the offers you might think.
Last summer he tested the free agency waters and really thought he was going to bank. He got ZERO interest from other teams. Absolutely no offers. Seattle offered him a 2 year/$10M deal and his teammates were all laughing at him because they knew he wouldn't get that elsewhere. He turned Seattle down and stayed for the one year deal.
I wouldn't want to spend the MLE on him. But 2M/year would be okay.
To paraphrase Chump...we were a damn good rebounding team considering our starting C was a career 2 guard.
I don't know what makes you think Evans is all of a sudden going to be good enough to stay on the court...guy couldn't get minutes against us with Seattle, he couldn't get minutes for Denver in the playoffs...he's not that good TimVP.
Geez, at $2 mil a year, yes. Hopefully it'd not be much more than that. He seems like a foul-fest.
With Seattle this past season, he played 20 mpg and averaged 7 boards. With Denver (reg season), 23 mpg and nearly 9 boards. That's good.
He can rebound and is mobile. Those two characteristicts should be good enough. Matt Bonner wasn't heralded as a good defender but the Spurs have been trotting him around the media like he's a vital acquisition.
Your man Ariza isn't a good enough rebounder to make a difference. I want him too but he's not the rebounding piece that is missing.
If the price is right, fine.
Incidentally, how many times could he grab Yao's sac in a series?
As long as the Spurs win, I don't care if Reggie aims low every game. Having a great rebounding power forward would do a world of difference instead of having a poor rebounding guard playing power forward.
And the Spurs would finally have a horde-member from LOTR.
Having a power forward would do a world of difference instead of having a poor rebounding guard playing power forward.
So how come Dirk wasn't Bill Russell against the Heat? They weren't guarding him with Rodman(without the offensive ability) either.
How about we just not guard Dirk with with people under 4 feet tall and see what happens then...
Why are whottt and chump looking for band-aids when with one signing, the Spurs could turn a huge weakness into a strength? Yeah playing a power forward would even out the rebounding but the Mavs would still be a better rebounding team with a Horry/Bonner level PF out there.
Eh, it would've been nice to have Haslem and Posey on our team.
We just had a bunch of slow big guys that Pop didn't trust.
Now we're getting rid of them.
Has someone said Kenny Thomas ?
I'd like a link from either whottt or chump (chutttt?) that points me to the last stop the Spurs got against the Mavs that didn't involve a steal or an airball that went out of bounds.
Thaa-a-aaa-a-a-a-aanks.
I said for the right price, fine.
I don't know where you get vehement opposition from that.
Calm down.
Reggie Evans is a one-dimensional sacgrabber.
Would he put us over the top in round 2?
Sure, why not? We almost did it without him.
Hope he's everything you say he will become.
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