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8.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 30.2 minutes per game.
Decent but far from "very good".
It's just a regular first round draft pick contract. Tons of worse prospects have lasted longer. We'll see this year if he's a keeper or a dud.
8.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 30.2 minutes per game.
Decent but far from "very good".
His d-league stats were very up and down, he'd have monster stat games one night and then drop something like 11 and 5 the next.
I've had the su ion for awhile that he won't be around for training camp, he'll be traded or released. I guess I'm at 50/50.
I hope the do keep him and play him as much as possible. If he works out great, if not, they can lose in 5 games in the first round by an average of 13 ppg.
as long as he can rebound and defend the paint ill be happy.
I feel like a lot of people have lofty expectations of Ian and that he will not be able to meet them.
I thought the reason his dleague blocks weren't so great is because the Spurs were encouraging him to stay on the ground and not foul?
The biggest reason I'm optomistic on Mahinmi and hopefull the Spurs keep him around and forcefeed him big minutes is thus:
In his Spurs career with the Spurs, the Toros, and the summer league teams, at no point did he not play pretty much as the top banana. He never logged any minutes with Tim, Tony or Manu (except I believe 1 minute in the first half in an early game in 08 where he was a foul machine).
With the Toros he was the go to guy, both ways. Same on the summer league.
If he gets a chance to play with Tim, Tony and Manu, things will get much easier for him and he'll at least look much better. Good players have been carrying scrubs and making them look better than they are throughout history. Look at this year, Matt Bonner starting? What?
Look at Francisco Elson. A third string scrub with Denver plays marginally okay when on the court with guys like Carmelo and Andre Miller et al . . . Spurs sign him, and he's able to be a part-time starter when carried by the Spurs stars. Even though he's basically a scrub. And has gone on to scrub it up with the Bucks who due to injury didn't have anyone to carry him, so he looks worse.
On the court with TD, Manu and Parker, maybe with Bowen also, things will be much easier for Ian to be the 4th or 5th banana. He should have an easier time rebounding with Duncan getting attention. An easier time finishing near the basket off feeds from Parker or Ginobili instead of Squeaky. Yes he'll be matched up against much better players, but the Spurs have been able to carry guys like Elson, Bonner, and broken down Finley for big minutes, they could even make Mahinmi look credible as well.
I was with you til you mentioned Fin. No amount of Tim and Tony made Fin look good this season.
I personally don't have high expectations for him..I expect him to be a role player, I just hope he can give some consistent energy and show some youth on a team that desperately needs it up front, especially if we get 'Sheed..anything more would be a plus, obviously..
If he could average 8 points, 5 rebounds, and the occasional weak-side shot block or shot intimidation near the rim it would be enough to deem him a success in my book.
I'm expecting this guy to average 12-8-2 next season. Don't let me know Ian.
He averaged 8 rebounds and nearly 2 blocks in D-League, I doubt he'll duplicate those numbers playing for the Spurs. I think best case scenario would be Leon Powe numbers - 8 points and 5 rebounds with a good field goal percentage.
I think it's the SpursTalk hype factor that influenced my numbers.
Agreed.
The guy was drafted at the end of the first round.
Gotta set expectations at that level...
Sorry, I totally tried to steal your thunder with the "8 and 5" prediction.
Injury prone. Next please.
Next where?
Typical message board GM.
He could really help this team by staying healthy next season and making the rotation. NBA frontcourts are getting more athletic. Yes, you still need your traditional rebounding and physical bigs, like a Kurt Thomas, but I think it would help the Spurs greatly to have a bigman who can run the floor and rebound, as well as to score a little. I don't anticipate the Spurs re-signing Gooden either. If they signed McDyess to start, and then brought Thomas, Mahinmi, and Bonner off the bench, I think that would be an improvement. The Spurs would then be able to mix and match their bigman rotation for a given opponent. Mahinmi strikes me as more of an ideal open court bigman who could give you plenty of minutes in the regular season and then you could shave his minutes in the postseason as the game slows down.
This guy has been so over-hyped it's ridiculous. remember that a really good rookie player would be able to step right into at least a part-time rotation role if not as a starter. Think George Hill or a big man like Lamarcus Aldridge or Kevin Durant
Mahimi is more like Greg Oden (injured a lot because of physical build) but without the years of bb experience or developed skill set that Oden has.
Perhaps that's because he's been injured.
So far I've just heard of the guy, never seen him play. I don't really care what he does in a Toros uniform, I wanna see what he will do in a Spurs uniform. I'll just wait for next season to see how he does. I'm not expecting much from him.
He's not like Oden at all outside of injuries..Oden is a beast, and he's probably one of the 3 strongest players in the NBA..
What "skill set" does Greg Oden have?
All I've ever seen him do good is dunk.
After seeing him in last night's game, he cannot even finish the dunk right.
In March, Pop said :
So if even Pop has no idea of what Ian could do, I wonder how some people here can call here a bust or a good player.
I'm simply in wait and see mode with Ian. I won't put a label on him and just wait what he will this summer and this autumn.
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