Fabri's Twitter: I don't know yet

[objective]

Gist is not getting any time on the Spurs this year. With Ian, Blair and probably a new starting big all needing to get minutes to really learn the system Gist will either be on the Toros or overseas again. His only hope to make the Spurs is if he is considered a 3, not a 4. If he is a 3 then Oberto's return would have no impact. Besides, if Oberto returns he is merely an insurance big that watches most games in sports coat.

So Finley played minutes at the smallball 4, and Udoka played minutes at the smallball 4, but Gist, who's bigger and blocks shots . . . couldn't play at the smallball 4. Gotcha.

[objective]

I went back and checked the numbers and K.T. peaked in february and steadily, but not drastiaclly, fell off each of the following 3 months. But more than a numbers thing, it was the way he looked physically. Yeah, he'd have an impressive outing one night where he looked to have the juice but then he'd have 3 or 4 nights where even if he seemed pretty productive, it just wasn't the same. He looked somewhat gassed.

Be that as it may, I'm not going to sit here and argue something I'm not trying to argue. My point was to say I'd still like to see Kurt on this team if he's bought out, and it seems you want me to tear him down or argue for the sake of arguing.

Kurt would be useful in a limited role where he wasn't depended to carry such a heavy load and if the Spurs land a quality big with the MLE, there'd be no need for him to.

I looked at his numbers after the season and saw the same thing.

It's called getting old. He'll have a spurt where he feels good and droughts of games where his production just isn't what you think you should be getting when you think of Kurt Thomas. That''s natural. The older he gets the longer the droughts become.

[coyotes_geek]

Has Fab even been cut yet? Perhaps I just missed it, but I never saw any kind of announcement.

???

Anyone?

[manu_maniac]

He hasn't yet, but on his ESPN page it says that Dumars admitted he was acquired to free up cap space. http://espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=2805 I haven't read it anywhere else, but there's no reason why that would be wrong.

[coyotes_geek]

I can't see why Dumars would have traded for him if not to cut him. But according to shamsports, Fab's deal becomes fully guaranteed tomorrow. It's possible sham is wrong, but that would be rare.

[GSH]

Well, I guess he knows now. Probably posted elsewhere, although I didn't see it under its own thread le. But they did waive Fab yesterday.

[Da Spurs]

Getting Fab and Bowen back would be a perfect situation for the Spurs. Guys who know the system and will play for the vet minimum. What more can anyone want at the end of the bench? They'll be great with the young players and be a good locker room influence. Add Finley to this (which we didn't have a choice on) and it's a good veteran core.

We will still get our big very soon and these guys are just extras to the final pieces of the puzzle.

[Spurs Brazil]

Once Fabricio Oberto clears waivers in Detroit on July 7, there will be several teams courting the ex-Spurs forward, including Washington, Phoenix, Sacramento and Indiana, sources say. There’s still a strong possibility he could return to the Spurs, who traded him as part of the Richard Jefferson deal last month.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_yl...yhoo&type=lgns