Excuses, excuses.
KG's played with plenty of talent during his time in Minneapolis.
then they shouldn't have signed him to an extension last season that gives him a bit over half of what he was getting. As I said they are a season away from being able to sign a max free agent -- possibly more if they work the right Szczerbiak trade. This trade doesn't do much at all to clear cap as Sheed's deal is just as long "other players" woth contracts have to be involved.Minnesota does such a deal to blow it all up and start rebuilding.
Yes the "KG never had no good teammates" bit is almost as tired as "San Antonio is the 8th largest media market in the US."
When did i say MEDIA market?
Ok, market.
Still far from being true.
Not really, you have an assload of people in your vicinity.
Thats a fact.
What a goofball post! What Flash Gordon, are you the top basketball
analyst among cartoon characters?Put down the cheeba dude! It's all hypothetical but if we essentially traded Rasheed for Garnett we would be heavy favorites to win the East. Garnett's one of the more dominant scorers in the game, the top rebounder in the league, and just as good defensively as Rasheed!
Just add Billups to that and is a done deal.
Not as many as the 30-odd metro areas that are larger.Not really, you have an assload of people in your vicinity.
Thats a fact.
That's a fact.
I enjoy whenever morons like you make this excuse...
The truth is, the Spurs=Timberwolves without Duncan..
Yeah, but Duncan had to do it with Rasho, and we all know he was a Tpup reject.Just reminding you, Tim wasn't even the spurs MVP of ANY win in the finals against the pistons except for game seven.
As it stands now, two rings were with a HOF center and one was with a guy who arguabley deserved the finals MVP also.
Wake me up when KG gets to play with either of those types of players.
Was that the same Rasho that basically got shelved behind a journeyman center that stole his starting spot in the playoffs despite being a late addition?
Thats what I thought.
Vicinity equals metro area now? My GF is twenty feet away watching TV. Maybe I can say theres more people here in SD than in SA depending on who's in your house.
Spin those numbers how you want but the metro area doesn't equal the viciinity.
I 'spoze now you think the bay area doesn't include berkely?
Marcus: I suppose you and all your clones are pumping up Marbury in all the other LB threads huh? A guy so great that Brown wanted kicked off the olympics?
From todays' paper:
"Steph is going to say all the right things about playing for Coach Brown, because Steph will tell you anything you want to hear if it benefits Steph," a former Marbury teammate told me yesterday. "But if anyone thinks that marriage is going to work, well, they've never played with Steph, or coached him." New York Post
Or i suppose you'd love to point out Wally and how they should have made some noise when he was an allstar and neglect that he had a season ending injury after the ASB? Or better yet acknowledge that he was an AS at SG? That basically says a lot about the defense when you have wally guarding the Kobe's or Rip hamiltons of the league.
You might as well have put Sean Marks on Billups in the finals.
In San Antonio, it pretty much does since there aren't many sizeable communities around it like in other MSAs -- something you continue to completely fail to understand.Spin those numbers how you want but the metro area doesn't equal the viciinity.Sure it does, but San Antonio doesn't include Austin.I 'spoze now you think the bay area doesn't include berkely?
no but the san antonio area does.
Have you ever been to minneapolis?
we arent going to trade for kg. if we do we WILL NOT send darko in the deal. darko does not play that ****. we will send sheed, darvin ham, and dupree away.
Except that it doesn't. San Diego isn't included in LAs area is it? No, and I've explained to you why Austin isn't included with SA.no but the san antonio area does.Yes. It's metro population is much larger than San Antonio's. Period.Have you ever been to minneapolis?
Have you been to Austin?
San Antonio?
The Rio Grande Valley?
Yep... that city's boring.
No san diego isn't, but if one weren't so obtuse to stop and think that hypothetically, if San Diego was without a NBA team, then YES, they are in laker/clipper territory. Contrary to what you believe there ARE fans that don't live in the metro area. In an area like Minnepolis, i'd say over half of the fan base is outside the metro area. Since this is a lot more rural (not that many people living in the forest to the north or the farmland to the west) Drive east and your in bucks territory. Meanwhile a quick search gives up such goodies as Texas Speedway in college station is within a 200 mile radius of 90 percent of texas's population, 22 million in '03. 19.8 million divided by three NBA teams, equals about 6.5 million. Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota combined have about that. Your going into Nuggets territory there too. Obviously its not going to factor like that but you DO have that base of people, which most places don't.
But you go ahead and assume that no one outside the city limits cheers for the spurs, why would they? Being the best winning team in the last seven years and having the most exciting player in the NBA in Manu. You go ahead and plead the "woe is me" case just like every one else in this "small market".
I don't find it too exciting either. Way too liberal-minded for me. I'm not into the artsy stuff. Reminds me too much of Milwaukee, but cleaner.
Theres a reason why everyone and there brother have a cabin "up north"
Again, have you been to Austin?But you go ahead and assume that no one outside the city limits cheers for the spurs
Anyway, all your ing was about filling up an arena in the first place, which is entirely dependent upon proximity. I don't count people in Montana or even Underwood, MN as potential season ticket holders, and I definitely don't include Austin for the Spurs. Were that the case the SBC center would likely be the Dell Center.
No it wasn't, the basis is idiots that say "spurs are small market team, that's why we can't get any FA's" I've brought it up multiple times since then, INCLUDING that post about the arena. Whether you want to believe it or not you live in a very populated area. And i assume your "statistics" is you walking around Austin and seeing some Mavs jerseys and saying everyone is a mavs fan. Season ticket holders? definatly not. Corporate? maybe. But theres a reason why the wolves play there preseason games in Grand Forks, Fargo ND, Sioux Falls, Brookings SD. Its to get those guys coming to games and be interested. An hour drive away is a city of 750K, do you actually ever get out of the urban area?
I've been to San antonio and dallas both only one time. Didn't go through Austin.
No. There are Spurs fans as well as Mav and Rocket fans. If you go to a sports bar that is showing Spurs games (which aren't shown on any local channel) and Rocket games at the same time, you'll see pretty much equal numbers of fans for each -- that's simply the way it is and if you had ever been to Austin you would know this.And i assume your "statistics" is you walking around Austin and seeing some Mavs jerseys and saying everyone is a mavs fan.And the Spurs are playing in North and South Carolina -- is that San Antoino's area? I really don't remember the Spurs ever playing a preseason game here.But theres a reason why the wolves play there preseason games in Grand Forks, Fargo ND, Sioux Falls, Brookings SD.
As I have said before, Austin is a relatively unique place. It's close enough to Dallas and Houston for many fans to follow their pro franchises -- I would imagine following franchises from the other major sports in those areas could incline one to follow their basketball teams as well. And the Austin-Round Rock area has enough population, and perhaps more importantly, enough money to be considered a market on its own. It has a Triple A baseball team (San Antonio only a Double A) with Dell as its stadium sponsor and an arena football team (something San Antonio couldn't keep)As I said, Austin-Round Rock is its own urban area, and is poised to grow quite a bit in the next decade to where it might actually rival San Antonio in terms of size. I think the regional thinking would apply better to, say a football team which only plays once a week on the weekends -- the regional model works much better for something like that for actual attendance -- Foxboro comes to mind. In a decade you might be able to plop an NFL stadium between New Braunfels and San Marcos and have it make sense. The same simply can't be said for NBA teams -- think about the Meadowlands.....An hour drive away is a city of 750K, do you actually ever get out of the urban area?
I think not. Only a handful of games are actually shown up here -- quite a few Maverick games make it on FSW as well. Austin is an island onto itself with UT dominating any other sports interest. After that, its pro sports loyalties are given to Dallas and Houston as much if not more than San Antonio.
If you are going to include them there, then you start doing things like including the whole state of Minnesota for the Wolves, for example. It would be tough to draw a map showing viewership that way, but Austin would definitely be split between Dallas and SA.
You posted this on 7-16. Then you said the spurs come after UT, Mavs and rockets in popularity (woe is me routine) This was a direct response to BigDiggyD after he said the size and location of Austin you almost need to include it in the spurs area. For your information, Minnesota is alot larger than an hour drive from anywhere to the T.C.
Now you say its all the same?
Marcus Bryant used the same gimmick that day.
From my time spent in Austin, I concur about the loyalties of the that market. Just because it is an hour away from SA, that doesn't really mean anything. Austin has a transient population with plenty of people from Dallas, Houston, California, NY and the rest of the world.
After UT definitely, I said Mavs and Rockets are at least as popular here -- nothing has changed.Then you said the spurs come after UT, Mavs and rockets in popularityWhat woe? I'm not crying a river over the situation. That's simply the way it is here. Seeing as you have never even been here, no take you have could have any relevance at all compared to people who in fact live here.woe is me routineNo, I said if on was to follow your misinformed logic, you would include all those areas for Minneapolis. Try to keep up -- if you keep having trouble I'll try to dumb it down even further.For your information, Minnesota is alot larger than an hour drive from anywhere to the T.C.
Now you say its all the same?So two Austin residents (who disagree on all sorts of other issues) share the same take and you, who have never even stepped foot in the area say it can't possibly be true.Marcus Bryant used the same gimmick that day.
Are you saying you know Austin better than us?
BTW, are there other NBA franchises in Minnesota that I don't know about?For your information, Minnesota is alot larger than an hour drive from anywhere to the T.C.
Now you say its all the same?
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