Quick Grades: Spurs @ Knicks - Jan. 3

[Ice009]

Who would you put on the trade block?

Blair
Bonner
Mills
Neal (only because Pop won't stop playing him at the backup PG)
De Colo
Jax

would be my trade bait. I wasn't planning on putting Jax on that list, but his piss poor performances lately (along with his salary) are making me think about it.

[Richie]

Would be silly to trade Jackson this season for another big contract when we have a lot of cap flexibility this summer and a number of good big men hitting the market.

With a cap hold of only $7.5m, we can give Splitter a market value contract ($10m~) AND sign another big man for $10m, while keeping Manu at MLE level which he will hopefully be willing to take.

We won't get a player that will improve us using the players listed above in a trade.

[will_spurs]

If you're telling me he's a good 3rd string PG, then you're saying what I said: He's a borderline NBA player. Don't know many of those that drop 9 dimes, 3 steals and 0 turnovers. Fact is, he's averaging 2.8 assists/game. When he gets 3x as much, something else is going on.

He's still far from Kidd in his prime. First of all he got 2 steals in a row on inbound passes to Neal.. which just shows how bad Neal is overall, and how carelessly the Spurs were playing yesterday. I don't know where Neal's head and thoughts were last night, but certainly not in the MSG. Second I didn't feel Prigioni was the issue, nor that he was playing at such an extraordinary level. JR Smith on the other hand...

Compound that with Novak hitting 5 of 7 from the 3 and Bonner shooting 0% and then we've got a problem. Prigioni is an afterthought.

[polandprzem]

Pop should let bench to play more. Esp De colo and Mills and Bonner. He wanted to win game on a normal rotation. And in a game like this 4th in 5 nights and on a road it was tough for players to have the concentration throughout the game.

Oh well


But damn I'm worried a bit the spurs are losing to the elite teams again.

[Brunodf]

Pop should let bench to play more. Esp De colo and Mills and Bonner. He wanted to win game on a normal rotation. And in a game like this 4th in 5 nights and on a road it was tough for players to have the concentration throughout the game.

Oh well


But damn I'm worried a bit the spurs are losing to the elite teams again.

[spurspokesman]

F for neal kawhi and ginobilli. Ditto bonner.

[TDMVPDPOY]

some of you clowns continue to overrate this pathetic spurs roster...

[ManuTastic]

Schedule loss.
Next...

[polandprzem]

Even tough he had a bad game it doesn't necessary means that he would have one coming off the bench in a different role.
He actually was put in a pressure cooker situation, as a savior. He does not like that kind of role

[superbigtime]

I don't know why Pop expects Manu to continue to carry the bench without one of the other Big 2 out there. He can't anymore on a consistent basis and just can't produce like he used to without turning the ball over a thousand times.

He's the leader of the bench. But I do hate seeing Manu playing late minutes when the game is in the bag (or in the toilet like last night).

[superbigtime]

Like that scrub playing alongside Allen Iverson all those years, I forget his name.

eric snow --

[SpurYank]

Hmm, our ninth loss. We can lose 3 times this many and win over 50 games for the 14th straight season. Unprecedented!
I have had days at work when I couldn't have earned a D-, but I still gave it all I had. I think the Spurs always do. Pop wouldn't allow anything else.