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@spursbane
Wow I've been away for a few days and all these nice nuggets: Baynes, shopping Blair, working out Greene. Props to the folks monitoring the Baynes situation for a few weeks now.
someone made this twitter account:
@spursbane
The other thing I like about Baynes is that he has some of that Queenslander redneck agro mongrel in him, and this team needs some more agro and grittiness.
Baynes really needs to turn out well for us. At $2m, his salary could be the difference between getting a decent free agent big man or not.
He's not being paid 2mil. His contract is 3.5mil over 4yrs, last 2 team options, so he's getting about $800,000.
Pop only playing Patty 'small minutes' Mills, small minutes as he's using him as an international scout.
Has anyone seen him shoot the ball on the floor? All I see is dunks. he looks good going in on uncontested dunks or with minimal pressure from small guys but in the NBA he won't be getting easy looks like what you are seeing in these videos. Look at the small guys he is dunking on.
Earlier in the thread, one person who's been watching him play this season said he has a capable jump shot that goes out to 15 feet but not much beyond that. Honestly, if he can pull boards on an NBA level and is halfway decent at guarding the pick and roll, I could care less about his offensive game outside of dunks and put backs. He'll come in with Diaw, Neal, and Manu, so he doesn't need to do anything fancy on O, as long as he's manning the boards and not constantly pulling a Blair on his man D assignments.
If he can keep people like Zach and Paul G. from getting 17 rebounds then I am all for him getting as much playing time as possible.
but is he classy?
with his physic body.....will the refs allow him to play a physical game b4 blowing the whistle....
Could have used him tonight when Tiago fouled out tbh.
Too bad he would be charged with an offensive foul for doing the same thing in the nba.
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Haha... yep I was thinking the exact same thing. Now otoh if he just a different skin color.. *cough*..
even a soft like bonner doesnt get away from touch phantom fouls called out of nowhere....
this guy can easily be 3rd backup big, beating diaw and bonner up the rotation shouldnt be hard
You mean he would have gotten an and 1 in the nba. Defenders feet were in the circle.
watta lame ass contract offer from the spurs, hopefully he pans out in those 2 years and looks for a bigger pay day in FA asking for a release...
Wouldn't matter. Refs in the nba would feel the need to make the politically correct call in that situation. IMHO of course so take it for what its worth.
So now white players get called for offensive fouls at a higher than normal rate? That's the first I've heard of that phenomenon. TJastal with some weirds, tbh.
monkeyball gets away from that all the time, dunno why there should be a double standards on how fouls should be called for monkeys and avg players.....
as long the plays fits sportscenter then they wont call it...
if he pans out in the 2 years, should test FA for bigger pay day, bigs get overpaid in this league cause skilled bigs are a dime
According to this report, he is getting $2m/yr
http://www.48minutesof .com/spurs...union-olimpija
May not be accurate, but if it is it should be worrying
If it were only so... I wish. But I've seen far too many examples that say otherwise.. I think of guys like Splitter and Bonner and I've honestly lost count of how many times I've seen these guys get hosed repeatedly by the refs. Unfortunately, political correctness has seeped into everything, including pro sports.
Spurs really should have waited to sign this guy till after the season and snapped up Delonte West with the lure of playing alongside a future HOF legend (Ginobili). That would have been a potent lefty backup duo. Damnit.
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