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spurs got younger
mason is younger
tp and duncan are still young
spurs also have trainging camp knowing manu is out
should help ones trying to make team play better
Manu's not going to play a whole season - we all know that.
Might as well get his injury time out of the way early and hope that we have a 100% Manu when he returns for the first time since last fall.
spurs got younger
mason is younger
tp and duncan are still young
spurs also have trainging camp knowing manu is out
should help ones trying to make team play better
I wouldn't be surprised to see the Spurs as an 8 seed or miss the playoffs if the west doesn't regress this year. I just don't like the makeup of this team, especially without Manu.
spurs will make playoffs with a all star and finals mvp player tp
and an allstar player named duncan and finals mvp
lower playoff teams are not more talented then spurs without manu
Parker missed a month of the season last year, and was hurting for a month before that. So they had injuries to contend with last season too.
If Manu's back by mid-January, I say the Spurs will be fine. If it goes longer than that, they'll be in trouble. They probably just don't have enough scoring without him, unless Mason really turns up his game.
i personally am encouraged by this. The only way for Manu to get healthy is for him to have surgery and not play. If he didn't have the surgery, we'd all be on ankle watch for the season. He probably should have had this done immediately after the playoff but getting a healthy Manu in Jan, tune up in Feb and Mar and be ready to go for April, May June is fine by me.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but it really isn't that hard to believe. I don't agree with it, nor do I think it will happen, but it's certainly in the realm of possibility, and so therefore wouldn't surprise me. Portland will be another team in the mix this year, and so will the Clippers. That adds two legit teams to a conference that had its first place team 5 games ahead of its last place team. The Spurs don't have much room for error.
If the west doesn't regress, as I stated, then the Spurs potentially have only a few wins differential from last season keeping them out of the playoffs. If the west has actually improved then there is no room to be worse, and the Spurs minus Manu for half a season or more are definitely worse.
portland is not better then spurs without manu
The clippers? Seriously?
Definitely going to get a lot of flak for this but I really think the Spurs are going to do worse tha ppl are expecting next season. With Manu being out they will struggle mightily and there is no way Pop can just ride Duncan all season and expect them to have anything left in the tank. I wouldn't be surprised if they are fighting for a #6-8 seed coming into the playoffs.
Basically the entire team came back, and their all a year older (most being in their 30's).
One 28 year old coming in doesnt make the Spurs younger.
I don't know about the Spurs missing the playoffs, doubtful, but they are gonna be a of a lot closer to an 8th seed than a 1st seed.
As long as Manu, TP and TD are healthy and fresh in Playoffs, Playoffs seeds doesn't matter...
the rest will do him and the team some good provided he gets back in time.
does anyone know the avg age of last years 15 man roster? Because this one for sure got younger with Ian and Mason taking over for Barry and Horry, and also Hill taking over for Damon, we got alot younger there, and if Tolliver makes it, that helps too. I bet we got at least 3 yrs younger, which is pretty significant.
Here are the average ages from the last 4 seasons (the last one is for last season, even though it says 2006-07 in the le):
http://www.nba.com/news/survey_age_2004.html
http://www.nba.com/news/survey_age_2005.html
http://www.nba.com/news/survey_age_2006.html
http://www.nba.com/news/survey_age_2007.html
I'm not going to go ahead and calculate the average age for this team, especially since I don't know how they do the decimal points, and they might not calculate it until November. However, you do have to remember that even though we got younger with Mason, Hill, and potentially Tolliver or Hairston, everyone else got a year older (Parker, Vaughn, Ginobili, Finley, Bowen, Udoka, Duncan, Mahinmi (was counted on last year's 15 man), Oberto, and Bonner). If you're comparing this November to last November, we lost Horry and Barry, and replaced Elson with Thomas. Stoudamire didn't count for either, and there may have been a rookie or two included in last year's calculations.
Agreed. Although being short-handed to start any season is always less than ideal, this may be a blessing in disguise. I'd rather Manu have surgery, rest and rehab early than have him go into the season worn down while his ankle teeters on the brink. This also forces guys like Udoka, in his second year, and the newbie Mason play larger roles early on which may play major dividends during the playoff run. Mason has already had practice filling in for an injured starter. Time to see what the new role players have to contribute.
The Spurs wanted Manu to rest all summer so would that cure the problem? Would the resting the ankle guarantee that with the grind of the NBA season he wouldn't see this same thing at the end of next season? Maybe its just as well to get it over with now and he will be back for when the real season starts after the all-star split.
it would guarantee more spurstalk.com posters would be happier with him
Cuz we're SOOOO important.
I'm not going into averages per se, but if everyone from the end of the year added 1 yr, that would mean 10-13 years. But Tolliver(just a guess, he might not make it), is ten years younger than Horry was, Hill is 9-14 years younger than Damon, and Mason is 8 yrs younger than Barry, I think it's safe to say we got younger. And the active roster(for the 1sst month at least) will be younger still, with a certain 31 yr old out.
Again, I'm just guesstimating, so if anyone wants to actually calculate and call me then fine, it's not too big of a deal anyways.
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