Mul roll doesn't know squat.
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C ya ! Go get some real twitter fans in Whiteyville.
Sucks to see George go.. he has come along way since the Spurs drafted him as an unknown in 2008.. But its a good move with all the backcourt guys the Spurs have.
Hopefully Kawhi is the long defensive 3 the Spurs have missed since Bruce left.
What a ty trade. Hill is like 23 and makes jack yet he gets traded for an unproven talent in a ty draft.
me.
Disgusting trade. I hope Hill flourishes in Indy.
Just change your team already, ploto.
I know really these GNSF have been butthurt all night. I don't see how you get 3 guys under 20 years old with huge upsides for a 25 year old inconsistent, weak minded,undersized shooting guard.
I don't get it.
Any time you can trade a legit starter level talent in this league for a mid first round pick in the tiest draft of all time you gotta do it.
So your telling me that Leonard shouldn't have been in the lottery, yet in many other drafts in past years, he still would of been a lottery talent. Yet you let a player go ,who is going to demand about at least $3 million more a year, then Leonard, when Hill becomes a free agent. I don't know I always thought it was never a bad thing when one of the oldest teams in the league got younger. Sounds like a "Hill is a great point guard" homer.
wouldnt give 3m to ghill, but willing to pay bonner 3m a season and rj 30/3 remaining on his contract...both players who did all in the playoffs and the time they been here....
okay this is fail
Good trade for the Spurs. Hill had plateaued and wasn't gonna make any more progression. The 2010 Dallas series completely got to his head and made it so he was no longer a defense-first type guy who always hustled. Classic example of a guy who develops a jumper and then gets lazy at everything else.
Well I don't like it. Hill was improving every year. Although he did plateau last year and he did some stupid mistakes in the playoff series. Still he was our best young guy, nobody can deny that. I would have traded him for a real NBA player and not an unknown that we have to start from ZERO again. what a waste.
The Spurs could have signed a proven FA talent in Prince, Kirilenko or Battier, while keeping Hill who's also NBA proven.
Yeah let's sign more fossils
tbh when a pg gets traded for a non-pg you know what DoK's take is gonna be.
So why be butthurt about it? I like Hill, hes a solid player, but once he proved he couldn't handle the pg duties, he became a jag.
Things we know:
-Hill was too good to be a back up PG.
-Hill is not better than Tony Parker
-The Spurs defense was porous
-Hill was not a great defender against small guards
-Hill is a good 1v1 defender but will always be fighting an uphill battle defending players 4 to 7 inches taller than him at the SG and SF spot.
-The Spurs were best when Parker, Manu and Hill were on the floor together. But this led to defensive issues.
-Hill was too good to sit the bench. But not better than Tony or Manu. He was being wasted. The Spurs needed to get better defensively, especially in the top 3 positions, SF, PF and C.
-The Spurs just got better defensively at SF.
Things we probably know:
-Even with all of Hill's upside, Gary Neal can still contribute similar offensive numbers in the role Hill previously had.
-The Spurs didn't see an available big man in the draft that was better than Ryan Richards. I hope that's a good thing.
-Regardless of the supporting cast, the Spurs wont win anything unless Duncan is capable of putting up 15-20ppg and 10rpg in the postseason.
Playoffs?!? Playoffs?!? Who said anything about Playoffs?
This was a great trade, Leonard is going to be a pretty darn good player, imo he's another Gerald Wallace.
Losing Hill you get:
-More Minutes for Anderson/Neal. Anderson has a pretty high ceiling, better size, skill set, potential etc. while Neal is going to be a 16-18 PPG guy next year.
-A bunch of young players with a lot of potential in the draft
-Better on defense, if you watched the Spurs this year you'd know that Hill really fell off, his defense was getting really sloppy, TONS of late rotations as well as being unable to get past a damn screen.
-The Spurs got BIGGER. Leonard is a really long SF, he can play defense especially in the passing lanes, rebound like a beast, he's got a really high motor, he's a gym rat (always working to get better), he changed his shot mechanics, he can score in the paint, he was projected by many mock drafts to go in the top 10 (7-10). As I said before they opened up playing time for Anderson at SG, which means the Spurs got bigger. No more teams posting up our Guards/Forwards or rebounding on them at will like Memphis did last year. Leonard has an 8'10 standing reach and a 7'3 wingspan, he's got the potential to turn into a lock down NBA defender.
funny ppl treat Neal like a young promising rookie.
Dude is 28 next season. He's clutch. But he won't be getting much better.
DISCLAIMER: If he becomes the next Chauncey Billups I was kidding about that ^
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