Current Lineup

[WalterBenitez]

I beleieve he has indicated in the past that he does not want a 6th man award.

He doesn't .. but we do

[SAGambler]

[QUOTE]Starters
1 Parker/Stoudamire (If Tony has to sit again)
2 Udoka/Finley
3 Bowen
4 Duncan
5 Thomas

Bench
1 Stoudamire/Vaughn (if Damon/Tony hurt or a blowout)
2 Ginoboli
3 Finley/Udoka
4 Horry/Bonner
5 Oberto

This is the lineup I would like to see the rest of the season, and then kind of play it game by game in playoffs, where it might behove us to start Manu again. But if Tony gets back to scoring his normal 20, then we need Manu back off the bench to give us some real firepower there.

[SpurOutofTownFan]

Thomas will eventually be part of Tim's unit on the floor. Especially if they face the Suns or the Lakers to counter Bynum/Gasol and Stoudemire/Shaq. That's the whole thing behind this trade.

So I don't see how Oberto will remain an starter if the spurs face at least either one of these two opponents in the playoffs.

[Supergirl]

I agree our center situation has been shaky at best since David's retirement, but I think in some ways we're actually our BEST since then, simply because of Oberto. No one else we've auditioned for the C position since David has even come close to being as hard a worker, a decent enough a shooter, and most importantly as strong defensively. Oberto has been great, and he showed last year he can really turn it up in the playoffs.

Elson was a big disappointment, as was Mohammed. They just never realy "got" the Spurs system. Rasho was good defensively but too slow and unreliable offensively.

Thomas is exactly who we needed to be our back up C. Pop said they've been pursuing him since he was a Knick - that's a long time. I'm glad they finally got him.

[CaptainLate]

I'd make Thomas a starter and put the other Argie off the bench.

That should occur by playoff time...and we could have had over half the Argentinian Gold Medal Team coming off the bench if the FO hadn't had a brain fart with Scola.