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2000 called. They want their Grant Hill admiration society card back.
yup, time to pull a stupid post out of your ass and pine for an old, broken down SF to play backup PG and get used by Terry, Harris, etc.
2000 called. They want their Grant Hill admiration society card back.
Hill will not come to the Spurs..........He wanted Duncan in Orlando with him and TD said no.....expect the same from Hill.
Bull . If Hill asked TD what he thought, TD would probably say the same thing he told Finley, "love to have you, but we don't need ya."
However, he might add this time, "...and don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out -- hate for you to start out on the IR."
When did Beno Udrih become better than Grant Hill.
Unreal
Remember this is a Suns organization that thought enough to bring in Jalen Rose - thinking HE would push them over the top.
Phoenix's version of Three Card Monte.
"Hey, we signed this player that you heard of ten years ago, so please forget about our latest meltdown!!!"
Uh oh....Grant Hill could be that lockdown defender the Suns desperately need.
No kidding. Since 2004, Phoenix has pulled off one or more moves to sign "quality vets" every offseason to get them over the hump, with mixed results.
2004-05: Steve Nash, Jim Jackson
2005-06: Tim Thomas, Eddie House, Kurt Thomas
2006-07: Jalen Rose, Marcus Banks, Eric Piatkowski
Jackson played well his first year, was disastrous in his second. Tim Thomas and House got one season and were out. Rose, Banks and Piatkowski hardly got off the pine this year.
Obviously getting Nash turned the team around and gave D'Antoni a lot of undeserved credit. Kurt Thomas has been adequate, but D'Antoni has shown an unwillingness to use him enough.
Bottomline, they may get another set of vets to sign on, but D'Antoni's clueless coaching will ensure that they don't make too much impact on Phoenix's playoff success. As long as D'Antoni coaches that team, no amount of offseason player shuffling will hide Phoenix's glaring weaknesses: poor defense, lack of rebounding, underutilized bench, key players tiring themselves over a long season, etc.
Or, if managed right, the backup facilitator they have lacked since JJ bolted...Uh oh....Grant Hill could be that lockdown defender the Suns desperately need.
I don't buy into this notion of him starting. He shouldn't be. He should be a bench player, both maximizing his minutes vs. other team's second strings, and his touches. Play with Nashat times, sure, but he needn't play more than 25 minutes a game, and even that's pushing it.
He's a nice bench signing, and hopefully with Tucker they added one more quality wing defender. If Hill signs for the vets min, then the Suns can go after Ely or PJ Brown with part of their MLE, or, if Darko's would accept a contract starting in the 6 million range, Darko with their 3 million trade exception and the 2008 Atlanta pick.
Look who happens to be #1 in the league in +/- ...
http://www.nba.com/statistics/lenovo...&split=9&team=
It's not even close. Tim's +/- for the season is roughly 20% better than the #2 guy (Nowitzki).
For those that mostly only see spurs games here is a clip of what grant hill would bring to the spurs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhd5SWS8u4Y
Every time I have gone to a Magic game Grant Hill has been hurt. I hate that I never got to see him play in person before he got hurt.
Give me a break. The Suns and Spurs were clearly the top two teams in the league last year, and were evenly matched -- even though (and I agree with this much) Rose, Pike and Banks were complete busts. I don't know how Hill will work out, but it's not going to make or break the Suns either way.
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