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lmfao @ Shawn Marion
Obviously not sure how reliable the rumors were but if the asking price for Garnett was Bledsoe + Jordan and KG was willing to accept the trade, then the Clippers ed up not pulling the trigger.
All that time on his couch and he don't know about the game.
Splitter for half year rental of Smith ? I suppose that wasnt even an option to discuss.
This team cannot win the Championship without Splitter, and no way Smoove learns the system and buys into Pop's plan in two months flat.
If you really want a Smith-to-Spurs argument, it has to be in the off-season, and even then it's the kind of wild risk the Spurs don't take.
I think we beat OKC. I think we were the better team last year. The series swung on an insane shooting perfomance by Perkins/Ibaka in a game that they shot a combined 91% and we lost by 6 points. I believe we are better this year than last. Tiago's improvement on both offensive and defense is notable. Tony is playing at a different level right now and much has been made of Tim "turning back the clock" although I don't believe he has fully recovered from the knee injury. Plus, OKC without Harden is not as good. Even with the Perkins/Ibaka onslaught they still needed Harden to be unconsious from 3 point range to win that game. Spurs take OKC in 5 or 6 this year. Heck, the Spurs went on the Rodeo Road trip up 1 game on OKC and may come back up 4. Who should fear whom?
AK47 was never on the market, so I regard that as more fantasy than realistic.
SJax plus a pick for Marion, IMO, would have been enough to get Dallas' attention. I also believe it would have been overpaying. Not grossly overpaying, but overpaying nonetheless. The team dumping salary normally pays the premium. I do agree, however, agree that Marion would have been valuable against Durant and LeBron.
Honestly I don't think we can beat OKC. It's going to be close again. They did get UNREAL performances from role players last year. Not sure that happens again. I do have a fear of one sided officiating, I know every fan of any team es about officiating. But I think small market NBA fans have legit complaints.....
Miami is clicking, I don't think their team is as good as OKC's or ours, but they have LeBron James. They are playing amazing right now, and flat out handled OKC last year. This season will be interesting come playoff time, we have a shot. Though I have to admit, last year I was drinking the Kool-aid, thought we were winning it all! This year I haven't ever really thought, "We are winning it all."
AK47 is 32 this February. AK47 has a player option this summer, and 1 year left if he doesn't exercise it. AK47 is having a great season. AK47 can get one last big contract in his career. AK47 is contracted to MIN; they have no ring hopes, and nobody actually loves living in Minneapolis. Conclusion AK47 will opt out this summer.
If AK47 opts out, he is a UFA, and MIN has no bird rights....
Therefore if someone put an offer on the table, MIN would consider it. Two picks for a rental? IMO MIN would take it. We might have even got away with one pick...
I disagree.
AK47 may well opt out, but Minnesota wasn't going to trade him to avoid that risk. Certainly not for 1 or 2 late first round picks. Kevin Love is looking for the right moves from management. Trading AK47 would be the wrong move.
I have little doubts Spurs could have made a deal that would have made marginally better this season, BUT:
First, I have some doubts this move would have been good enough to be a deciding factor in the playoffs.
Second, it isn't all about this year. This move would have cost some financial flexibility and/or draft picks which would have hurt Spurs future.
The Spurs will not beat Miami unless there is an injury to a key Miami player.
Consider the source on this. Strauss wrote last spring about how the Spurs are "quite boring" after they beat Utah, sided completely with the league in the Restgate fiasco and suggested that the Spurs were a PR problem for the league, and begrudgingly agreed that Tony Parker should be an All-Star this year by calling him deserving but one of "the players I'd least like to watch."
Strauss thinks the Spurs needed Josh Smith not because it would have made the Spurs better, but because it would have made the Spurs more interesting to him.
ak47 is still around??
Wow. He also left Duncan off his All-Star team entirely.
Maybe I'm getting sappy in my old age, but I do believe that by not trading Captain Jack and showing loyalty to him in a very rough time in his life, they will be richly rewarded in the playoffs. You read it here first: Captain Jack will be the hero in a tight game this postseason.
As was demonstrated last night, this team is a very cohesive unit. To throw that in disarray to "swing for the fences" is the sort of move that the Lakers or Knicks would do. Forget team chemistry, IQ, understanding of the system and just go and purchase the best athlete you can find.
Come on man, give them some credit. Lebron is out of his mind right now, but I'm not so sure that his team will be able to handle the Spurs as a whole. There's no way to shut him down, but unless he can score 100 points on 50 shots, it's a team game and the Spurs are the best in the game when it comes to playing team basketball.
I'm with you brother. Some things don't show up on a stat sheet.
at least in WCF.
splitter is too much to give up for someone who might not resign with the team. end of story.
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