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Arenas is a poor man's AI.
As already mentioned, Gilbert plays for stats and nothing else, and they aren't impressive.
Let TP, Duncan, Manu, etc jack 30 a night.
Parker would still be here, or traded for similar. I honestly don't know the deal with Ginobili. Trade Parker for similar talent + Kidd, even minus Ginobili? At least one championship. Trade Parker for similar talent + Kidd, keep Ginobili? Easily run the table.
Arenas is a poor man's AI.
As already mentioned, Gilbert plays for stats and nothing else, and they aren't impressive.
Let TP, Duncan, Manu, etc jack 30 a night.
I doubt Manu and TP could do it as well as Gilbert. If they had someone like a healthy Camby in place of Tim maybe they could have a playoff team -- but replace Duncan with a mediocre big man and they wouldn't be quite as efficient. The Spurs just wouldn't be any better than the Wizards in all likelihood.
Gilbert is doing a nice job carrying the second best offense in the league. True he might not be an elite defender, but he has the attributes to be at least an average defender. Im sure he would defend just fine on the Spurs.
Arenas is a uva a talent and Pop is a better coach than Arenas has ever seen to try to get more team play from him. Arenas also has one of the cheapest pay for performance contracts in the league. With what Arenas is paid and what the Spurs had to work with they could now have a one, two rotation of Parker, Arenas, Manu. Anybody that doesn't think that wouldn't have won the Spurs the last three les doesn't know jack. Of course Spurs would have had to sell Arenas into signing with an already entrenched Parker and Manu which likley wouldn't have happened.
The crux of the matter. He doesn't play well with others.Of course Spurs would have had to sell Arenas into signing with an already entrenched Parker and Manu which likley wouldn't have happened.
Name me the young star that would sign with the prospect of being a sixth man. You must have forgotten Parker's reaction to the Spurs going after Kidd.
He wouldn't. That's the point. Everyone is acting like the Spurs missed out on his FA period, when he never would have signed. , he wouldn't even sign in Denver because they had Miller and 'Melo.
Probably not but if I were Pop/RC I would have tried to make that case that Manu, Parker, Arenas could get 30/35 minutes each with les for years to come. Arenas has now said at least once publicly that if the Wiz are not contenders by '08 when he has a player option he's inclined to opt out. '08 a year when the Spurs have set themselves up to have cap space. Maybe the Arenas argument will get revisited. A prime Arenas and Parker and an aging Manu?
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