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Rookie Rubio, another train wreck!
Well the Spurs could convince him to opt out and re-sign a contract for more years with less money per year. Or they could tell him if he doesn't opt out, they will trade him, probably to a team that is bad, so if he wants to continue playing for a winner he'll have to sacrifice.
Rookie Rubio, another train wreck!
Still better than Deadmn tbh
Funny thing is that we all expect a good playoffs of a veteran, but he played pretty well during the RS and not in playoffs. Damn, he forgot how to shoot a three too.
Rubio? Jesus
Dude airballed layups and tip ins, and SCORED for the other team.... 16 mil for that? Why didnt they keep bonner?
He got old.
Terrible contract at the time.
Spurs love giving washed up geriatrics player options to kill cap room, like Finley.
Don't be surprised when he falls out regular heavy minutes that he pulls a Finley too and asks for release during the season.
Hes lazy as not old. Plain lazy
He was always lazy. Only now he's so old and washed that his baseline laziness isn't up to par anymore.
Thanks OG playa
Rent Zaza, ... , use injury ensurance clause to get rid of his contract.
I thought Finley was signed for the minimum while Cuban was paying his contract (amnesty clause).
He signed 2 contracts with the Spurs. First for 2 years, near 5.5 million, for 06 & 07
Then after the 07 le, where he really only had one great game in the playoffs but otherwise had dropped off from 06 considerably, he got a 3 year deal between 8-9.
Last year was a player option or ETO.
He was trash that last contract, so terrible. But Pop kept giving him loyalty minutes he didn't deserve probably for a full year until Pop finally benched him. That's when Finley decided he'd rather be elsewhere.
I could see Pau doing the same thing.
The players are usually pretty good before they get to the Spurs. Then they just get worse. Aldridge is the guy who has played the best but even he sucks now.
This but I rather we get rid of him. Spurs have enough veterans on the court.
Minnesota could just about open up a max slot so they may have bigger fish to fry than absorbing contracts like Pau's, at least until they're sure no one significant would want to play for them. Even in the case they're ok taking Gasol before the moratorium they'd almost certainly want to send Aldrich's contract back.
Don't blame him one bit. If I were in his position, I too would be looking fowards to growing my bank account while being carried by the Spurs system.
Yeah, too bad. Also he's soft as .
I was thinking the exact same thing, not exactly the Spurs way per se but time to admit we made a mistake and get out from under this contract, what he gives doesn't balance out what he takes on the court, which is bad enough but he also hamstrings our salary cap.
1) He's solid reg season minute eater
2) If he can somehow shoot that 3 ball like he did post-ASB, that's gold
3) He can defend against some matchups decent enough.
The real question is what the happened to that 50% 3 point shooting
problem was Pop started putting him in re ed lineups with LMA again or trusting him to be the primary defender in the paint which is dumb...we saw a lot of plays in the RS set for him to shoot a 3 at the top of the arc, those plays were basically non-existent in the POs. as a bench big he's not terrible, but 16 million for it is definitely a hard pill to swallow
People here are off on Gasol. Sure, he was not good against GS, except game 4, but he was important against Houston. His rim defense was a big part of us winning that series. GSW just had too many midrange shooters for him to have the same effect. He had a good playoff run for us. I'm not saying I wouldn't want him for less, but he is a useful player on the roster.
he was called the sloth in LA & in Chicago, just sayin... but he did assist in Houston series. GSW was not a good match when he has to play on perimeter defense or pick n roll defense, never was good even in his Memphis days.
He is slow, could not even run at decent speed and skipped shots that any 7 footer should try, fools gold.
I remember the whole PAU DOESNT WANT TO GO TO THE SPURS BECAUSE TD IS THERE... he is not even TD´s left ball on a sweaty day.
It had nothing to do with mid range shooters. If you remember against Houston our bigs dropped back in picks, Houston cant shoot 3s off the dribble.
The problem is that he kept dropping back against Gsw because of alzheimers and age, costing us like 50 threes
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