Spot Number 42 - Top 50 Spurs

[anakha]

People need to vote or else Rasho Nesterovic is going to make the list of the Top 50 Spurs ever......









and I'm going to have to kill myself with repeated blows to my head with a blunt object. So please help a brother out and vote.

Come up with a catchy name for whatever anti-Rasho movement you want to start up first.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Come up with a catchy name for whatever anti-Rasho movement you want to start up first.

All I can come up with in 30 seconds is


R.I.P. - Better off Dead

Rasho Is Pathetic --- Don't Reward Mediocrity

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

George Johnson and Dave Corzine are two centers more worthy of a top 50 spot than Rasho. Oberto might even be more worthy. At least he saw the court when the playoffs got to a meaningful stage.

[angel_luv]

People, no!

Join my " Luv Conquers All" movement and vote for Rasho!

[timvp]

Fab and Rasho are both equally bad votes right here. I wanted Rich Jones but it looks like I'll have to jump on the Del Negro or Kerr bandwagon.

[urunobili]

at thoughts either Del Negro, Oberto or Rasho r > Kerr

[baseline bum]

Bob Hill? Are you all ing mad? Neither Hill nor Rodman should get a single vote for trashing the 95 WCF.

[ChuckD]

Kerr was an organizational Judas that had one good ing game in Silver and Black. Voting for him would be like voting for D'Antoni. You people are ing pathetic.

[dbestpro]

It's hard to believe that a player like Gene Banks can be over looked for the bench level players that some of you have voted for. I guess its just an issue of too many newbies voting.

[baseline bum]

Kerr was an organizational Judas that had one good ing game in Silver and Black. Voting for him would be like voting for D'Antoni. You people are ing pathetic.

If it's Kerr vs Bob Hill, Rasho Nesterovic, Dennis Rodman, and Vinny Del Negro, I'm voting Kerr every time. Kerr's the only one who actually did anything for this team in a meaningful game.

[baseline bum]

It's hard to believe that a player like Gene Banks can be over looked for the bench level players that some of you have voted for. I guess its just an issue of too many newbies voting.

Agreed, but a vote for Gene Banks is a wasted vote if we're the only two who would pick him.

[timvp]

If it's Kerr vs Bob Hill, Rasho Nesterovic, Dennis Rodman, and Vinny Del Negro, I'm voting Kerr every time. Kerr's the only one who actually did anything for this team in a meaningful game.

I agree Kerr > Rasho, Rodman and Oberto.

However I think Del Negro and Hill are better candidates. Del Negro wasn't that good but he had a lot of tenure. Plus it wasn't his fault that he became the default shooting guard. That was more a job of cheap ownership. Give him the role of a backup combo guard like Kerr got to play and he would have been better than Kerr was at the job.

And really, in 1994-95, who was the backup shooting guard? If Del Negro wasn't there, that team literally didn't have a backup. The only other shooting guard on the roster was the rotting corpse of Willie Anderson ... and he was injured for most of the year.

Plus I'd say Del Negro's performances in Game 3 and Game 4 of the Rockets series were more impressive than Kerr's one good quarter against the Mavs. With the Spurs down 0-2 going to Houston, Del Negro played probably the best two games of his Spurs career to help tie that series. He handily outplayed Clyde Drexler in both games. In Game 4, IIRC, he was arguably the best player on the team for the Spurs. He was horrible in every other game of the playoffs but he did step it up those two games -- and I say that as a long time Del Negro hater.

Plus I have to give Del Negro props for being pretty damn good during the regular seasons in 1994-95 and 1995-96. He hit at least three game winners that I remember and overall played about as well as he could play. He had no business being a starting SG on a championship level team but like I said earlier, without him making the move over from PG, the Spurs would have been in even more trouble.

Kerr, on the other hand, sucked about 95% of the time he was in San Antonio. He had that one stretch where he hit some wide open threes against the worst defender in the history of the NBA but that's about all he did. He filled in for Speedy but it wasn't like he set the world on fire ... especially seeing as how he lost that job to Speedy once Speedy was healthy again.

The argument for Hill is tougher but I covered most of it in the 41 thread. Hill wasn't that good of a coach but he helped mold the Spurs from playing Suns style basketball into a team that took about two or three steps closer to playing championship style basketball. He couldn't complete the whole transformation but he put the team on the right track after going through the John Lucas regime. Plus the coach with the highest winning percentage in franchise history should get at least a little bit of props ... with bonus points for doing that with a clown at power forward, Del Negro at shooting guard and only one player who could even remotely come close to being classified as a superstar.

[SenorSpur]

Fab and Rasho are both equally bad votes right here. I wanted Rich Jones but it looks like I'll have to jump on the Del Negro or Kerr bandwagon.

Fab and Rasho are equally bad votes anywhere.