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Jackson did an excellent job guarding Dirk (which is something the Spurs have always had a problem with). GSW defeating DAL cleared the way for SA to win a 4th championship. SA probably would not have beaten DAL (67 wins) that year.
Green does look much more promising than Anderson.
Jackson did an excellent job guarding Dirk (which is something the Spurs have always had a problem with). GSW defeating DAL cleared the way for SA to win a 4th championship. SA probably would not have beaten DAL (67 wins) that year.
That's very true. He was as much a difference maker for GS as he was for the Spurs. I certainly would love to have kept him.
this dude is horrible and really showed how horrible he was in the lakers game...kid nearly blew it...
? I think he's looked pretty good. Good 3 stroke, aggresive, pretty long. What did he nearly blow? There was nothing to lose.
Green did better than Anderson. Anderson blows.
Anderson just ran out of time to be able to help this year. He looked good against Kobe. Kid looks like an NBA player to me.
I remember fairly specifically that the Spurs offered Jack a 3 year deal worth about 2-3 million/year. Jack wanted more but didn't get any other better offers around the league. While Jack's agent was shopping the Spurs moved on and had their eyes set on the Turkish Magic Johnson, aka Hedo Turkoglu. Around this time Jack came back to the Spurs and wanted to take their initial offer but that offer was off the table at that point. Jack's agent then cooked up a one year deal for him in Atlanta for 1 million for one year. Jack scored a lot of points, like 3 consecutive games with 40 points and then got a huge contract with the Pacers...
So, if the Spurs didn't want to pursue Hedo they could have had Jack at their initial offer.
Lockout aside, I'm really excited to see Anderson/Green/Butler this off-season. I think Anderson has the highest ceiling, but Green (UNC) and Butler (Big East) have excellent pedigrees.
Some really nice sf prospects in Anderson, Butler, and Green.
If Manu is out for one or more games, Green will play some minutes. He should be the perimeter player behind Parker, Ginobili, Jefferson, Neal and Hill for the playoffs. When everyone is healthy, I can see Pop using for a defensive possession at the end of quarters. Foul troubles situations could also allow him to get some minutes.
Long term wise, James Anderson and to a lesser extent Da'Sean Butler look more promising.
Very good comparison. Also, hope to see you posting more in the playoffs!
I like Danny. He has some very good tools and he doesn't really play scared. It's rare that you see someone come in and produce in his situation.
His 3PT shot looks decent. It's not fair to say he didn't look good vs LA. He was playing as a main guy against their best guys. He is a role player, much like Bell, that has potential to fill a void if you surround him with good players.
That is not fair.
I agree. His defense (credit to those posters like OHM that saw it early) is much better than I thought it could be. He gets solid blocks. Not help blocks, but one on one defensive blocks. He is strong and pretty athletic.
He was playing exceptional before the injury. The thing with James is he really falls off when he is out of shape. I have never seen someone look so different from when they are in shape vs out of shape. Most guys still look ok, he totally falls off.
He makes good moves to the rim, but he can't finish right now because his legs are gone. He looks promising on both ends.
RJ is in a slump. It's been what, a few years now?
Pop would have eventually killed Jackson. The guy was good for us but also out of control. He took some awful shots during some of those playoff games and Pops veins emerged. Way too inconsistent and clearly lacked composure when things got tough. When he was good, he was great. When he was bad, he brought others down also. Glad he left.
I think he's done pretty well.
You know that summer is coming back to me. They had a load of moolah to spend after DRob left, and were courting Kidd from Jersey. After that fell through, they spent their wad on the likes of Rasho and Hedo and Ron Mercer and Bob Horry.
man that team was in the midst of their golden run...shoulda woulda coulda won it the next year and the next and the next....
I didn't remember that the Spurs withdrew the offer. If they actually did that when they hadn't actually signed Hedo yet then that's sort of dopey. I'd look at ST from that time but the search function makes me want to kill.
Jack was one of the key reasons we won it all in 03. He had a pretty flawless playoffs on both sides of the ball, and we coulda done it again the next year if he stayed.
03 was definitely our best team.
had we signed jackson, we be talkin about 5-6 straight rings...
look what happen when gsw traded jax, they were out of the playoffs, jax on the bobcats made them appear in the playoffs once, and now back to mediocre due wallace getting traded and other
imo jax still has game but not at that price his on...
now back to the 3 young players, i think anderson is good, but his gettin beat out by neal for minutes...i wish the spurs had no resign rj this season, it was a waste of money and he did all this season....gary neal if we can find anothre needle in a haystack like him...we stacked yo
No.
So what did Jackson and his agent, Dan Fegan, do? They decided that the offer to Jackson, who committed an astounding 26 turnovers in the Finals, was an insult. They did not return phone calls or answer e-mails from general manager R.C. Buford and coach Gregg Popovich. They chose to sit and wait for better deals from other teams, then watched uncomfortably as other free-agent swingmen got the offers. They squirmed when the Spurs traded for two players at Jackson's position, Ron Mercer and Hedo Turkoglu. Then they signed a two-year, $2.2 million contract with the lowly Hawks.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...0223/index.htm
I still don't understand how that relationship fell apart... he was coming off winning a le with us. I think his head just got too big and he pissed off Pop and RC by demanding more than they were willing to pay. Didn't it go something like that?had we signed jackson, we be talkin about 5-6 straight rings...
signin ron mercer and hedo who didnt do all for us...
hedo bolted the following the season...fck that we went back to square one without a prominent 2 way SF besides the defensive specialist bowen...
signin ron mercer and hedo who didnt do all for us...
hedo bolted the following the season...fck that we went back to square one without a prominent 2 way SF besides the defensive specialist bowen...
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