So do the Spurs still get a F- for this offseason?

[MannyIsGod]

Is Ghost really Ron Artest?

Well, at least one pacer really wants to be a Spur.

[Ghost Writer]

Is Marcus the schitzo still talking about me? Find a new hobby.

I am sorry, folks, but I can't get look at our new acquisitions out of the context of the Holt-ing Pattern.

If we won the le last year with guys like Jack and Bowen, imagine what we could've done with Mercer and Artest over the past two years.


It's tough for me to watch our rivals get so much better having no cap space and we do the typicl marginal summer improvements.

This summer would be okay if I wasn't sold for two years that we were sacrificing for a star.

I am not happy about losing Claxton and Jackson. I think their style and demeanor played vital roles in our playoff success.

[Marcus Bryant]

Would you shut the **** up about the "Holting Pattern"? That means nothing to anyone.

Let's see...the Spurs won a championship, are adding young talent, have kept Tim Duncan, and can keep most of their le winning core intact. I'd say that's pretty ing successful.

WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT YOU CRAZY BAS ?

[Marcus Bryant]

It's tough for me to watch our rivals get so much better having no cap space and we do the typicl marginal summer improvements.

Get a ing clue. Both of those teams have made short term moves. Why the F should the Spurs blow up their team just because of that? That makes no sense whatsoever.

[NCaliSpurs]

Ghost, do you still complain about your junior high girlfriend ing you over for another guy?

"Jenny, that !!"

Let go of the past. Live in the now.

[Ghost Writer]

I want what the Holt-ing Patten had us clear cap space for:

a star replacement for David Robinson.


It's terrible that our rivals had better offseasons than us.

Sad.

[Marcus Bryant]

Dumbass.

[Ghost Writer]

Good comeback, homer.

We have enough to sign a max free agent and come up with Nesterovic and Horry.

Meanwhile, Minnesota trades for Spree, Cassell and signs Olowokandi.

We help the Kings trade for B. Miller.

The Lakers reload with Malone and Payton.

Pathetic.

[Russ]

I am not happy about losing Claxton and Jackson. I think their style and demeanor played vital roles in our playoff success.

Are the Spurs becoming too Euro? Less athletic?

The Spurs quickness was a big factor against the Lakers last year.

I'm afraid the same obliviousness to his surroundings that allowed Jax to hit all those game-winning threes now is guiding him toward a huge career mistake.

[Marcus Bryant]

That's my comeback because your repe ive nonsense is tiresome.

For example:

We have enough to sign a max free agent and come up with Nesterovic and Horry.

...and Turkoglu. Oh yeah, forgot about him, right? In addition the Spurs give themselves the flexibility to retain Ginobili next summer. On top of that the Spurs could clear up to $13.75 mil in cap room next summer for trade and/or free agency purposes. Only you would hate a scenario in which the Spurs add young talent and set themselves up to retain their young talent and even add more.

Meanwhile, Minnesota trades for Spree, Cassell and signs Olowokandi.

The 2003 versions of Spree and Cassell. Short term moves. Why should the Spurs go into panic mode and make a bunch of dumb moves? As for Kandi there's a reason he went so cheaply and bigman starved teams like Dallas avoided him.

We help the Kings trade for B. Miller.

Miller's nice. Maybe if the Spurs didn't have Tim Duncan I would give a damn about Miller.

The Lakers reload with Malone and Payton

Short term moves. O'Neal is on the way down.

Get some ing understanding nitwit.

[Flipmode master]

Ghost what is up with you? Would you rather not get Hedo? You still complain about every little thing.

[T Park Num 9]

I dont get



how we acquire two great talents for Danny Ferry and Picks.


I dont understand how thats BAD?!?!?!?!??!!?

[Ghost Writer]

Um, Marcus, if you're last post was supposed to make our offseason look better than Sacramento's, Minnesota's and LA's, you didn't.

Remember, they also didn't have enough to sign a max free agent, either.

[Marcus Bryant]

It was meant to educate you, but of course your intellectual capacity is not sufficient enough to understand.

LA and Minnesota made short term moves and Sacto added a nice piece, nothing spectacular. Why should the Spurs deviate from their long term strategy of putting together a young and talented team just because of those short term desperation moves by LA and Minnesota? Teams are successful in this league by not always jumping at what another team does. I'm sorry that you don't have the ability to understand this.

[Ghost Writer]

The strategy was to add a star this summer. Don't change what you've been trumpeting for two years because it failed, loser.

[Marcus Bryant]

I haven't changed a damn thing, you little . "Loser" = someone who blows as much time as you do on this board and still has nary a clue about the cap.

[MannyIsGod]

WE FAILED AT GETTING A STAR.

We still have argueably the best team in the NBA.

Good enough for me coming off a championship year.

[Marcus Bryant]

Indeed Manny. Ghost is whining like the little girl she is because the Spurs didn't end up with two franchise players this summer...right after they won their second championship. What a trick!

[Ghost Writer]

That's fair, Manny.

I'm not over that failure to get a star, obviously.

Reading you guys hi-five each other over marginal free agent signings is salt in the wounds.

[Marcus Bryant]

Turkoglu is "marginal"? WTF? "Salt in the wounds"? Damn, it's so damn horrible that the Spurs didn't add a franchise player to the one they already ing have.

[Ghost Writer]

Yes, it is.

When you clear cap space for two years, you better do better than castoff foreigners from other Western rivals.

What are we — the Ellis Island of the NBA?

[KoriEllis]

Ghost, I understand your disappointment in the Spurs not landing a second star. And though you may not be as high on Turkoglu as most here (for the record, I'm not either), you must admit that getting Turk and Mercer and not giving anything up was somewhat of a coup this late.

[ChumpDumper]

If I heard the reports from KENS TV correctly, Duncan put the kybosh on the Rose for Spree trade.

I don't consider Spree franchise material anymore anyway.

[Temple Of The Dog]

this last deal with sac and indy was basically a steal... so in that respect, the front office should be proud of what they did with all that capspace. (but some of the i'm reading here is insane)

for the most part hedo was benched for jackson and christie in sac... and mercer was moved around in indy because he struggled to get starting mins at shooting guard (over old and crippled people)

but both have lots of potential, and both make us a much deeper team. hedo has the most upside of the two... and should be a huge contributor this next season.

but what does that have to do with NO LIMIT? (nothing) there is no big name free agent or pseudo allstar coming to help tim duncan in the year 2003... and the organization did pass up trades that could have made us better earlier to do so... so its valid for people to wonder "what happened"?

maybe not as much as ghost...

i think what happened was that manu and parker turned into gems instead of just well placed gambles in the late first or second rounds of drafts... and they did so, sooner rather than later. (one by force and another by talent)

we managed to stay compe ive while we planned for this season when robinson was to retire... something that the front office should be praised for... because it wound up winning us a le. its far removed from all that no-limit crap, but i hope that was the plan.

so far... the only move i do not understand is horry. other than that, with this trade i feel they did enough to stay compe ive yet again... and now, to give themselves a good chance to repeat this year. (no matter what other teams did)

i'd rather have tim duncan and a solid team around him, then to be trying gimmicks like the lakers... or trying to keep up with the jones' like minny... or being locked into players in a losing system like dallas... or trying to plan for the future like sac seems to be now?

i give these boys a solid B this offseason. (just for the talent they added) for the flexibility they're keeping for next year... a solid A. (we'll be in even better shape then)

and i think we're almost done? just one more guy probably... a backup point that can bring the ball up in less than 8 seconds to play for 15-19 mins a game? (maybe?)

5 nesterovic/duncan/willis
4 duncan/malik/horry
3 bowen/hedo/horry
2 manu/hedo/mercer
1 parker/backup?/kerr

i love that depth... solid B...

[Ghost Writer]

Kori, I am pissed that the addition of Hedo & Mercer basically signals the end of Jackson.