This is what im hoping for next year:
C - Duncan, Thomas, Mahinmi
PF - Wallace, Gooden, Bonner
SF - Ariza, Finley, Gist
SG - Manu, Mason, Hairston
PG - Parker, Hill, a cheap Vet/Rookie
but I'm not sure if we can afford it all. Can we land Wallace and Ariza?
The only ones I don't feel good about is leaving Bowen, but I feel like he's at his end. Also I'm hesitant to keep Thomas and Finley, but I think they've got one more season left in the tank. I'd like to keep Bonner towards the end of the bench. Yeah he can shoot 3's, but so can a lot of our guys. What we need out of a PF/C is defense and rebounds, which isn't quite his specialty.....at all. We could trade Bonner and KT for an athletic big with rebounding and defense, but I don't see the front office having THAT crazy of an offseason. The roster above is already super busy by the spurs' standards.
If Manu, Duncan, and Ian can stay healthy, we can be pretty stacked and on the rise instead of declining.
Can someone tell me if this is possible?...Is it possible to sign Drew Gooden using the MLE and still get another small foward, even a decent one like Ariza, Matt Barnes, The guy with the funny name on the bucks etc. I don't know how'd we'd get that second solid SF, would we have to trade? or release players to make enough room for it. Is it possible? Imagine if we got Gooden and Ariza it would be great.
Nice thinking on Blatche. Love to steal him away from them, although there is a risk that he's one of those guys who just never quite gets it though. I'd like to see whether Tim could turn him into a playa.
Blatche is certainly a better option than Sheed. I can't believe so many people want him here - he's 35, back to his bad Technical form, oft injured, and hasn't much left in the tank, not to mention the fact that the NBA has become quicker and more athletic (not a direction Sheed is headed).
That's why you're not a Spurs fan, but a Faker double-agent...
The league has moved on, and an old team of slow vets will not get it done any more. We have to inject youth and athleticism now to keep up with teams like Portland, New Orleans, Utah, Denver, and of course the Lakers, all of whom are more athletic than we are. If we don't, there's no way Tim wins another ring before he retires. The NBA has left us behind.
"Good riddance" is quite insulting to a list of players, 4 of whom won championships here, and the rest of whom have done the best they could. I mean, trade some of them (not Manu, Mason, KT) if possible, but no need to insult the great contributions they've made here.
Spur fans shopping out their players with the playoffs around the corner.
Tony Longoria is definitely a great player but it's still egoistic to define him as the best PG in the NBA as there are also many other PGs better than him, like Jason Kidd and Billups. One of the most important job for a PG is just to run well his team's offense with assists, but the number of Tony Longoria's assists is not very convincible for a good PG compared to the real PGs like caldron and Kidd. Tony Longoria is more of a scorer than a play maker IMHO.
the spurs have already gotten a lot younger since last summer by replacing the antique veterans with fresh youngsters like Roger Mason. this summer the spurs still should do the same job instead of rebuilding, some small fixes will be more than enough to keep the spurs in the top 3 teams in the western conference (the other two are Lakers and Mavs). Only rockets fans and idiots wish the spurs to rebuild then give up their top 3 space for a mediocre team like the rockets. I'm not meaning the records of the regular season, I mean the postseason, first round precisely.
So I expect the spurs will continue their rejuvenating work this summer, for that reason the old spurs most likely to leave are Bowen and Fin. After realizing the dream of ring, Fin doesn't have any reason no more to remain in San Antonio and the spurs also need to cut off some old guys, so it'll be a good option for both Fin and spurs to get divorced. Of course Fin will play the role of the wife as his contract is in roster option this summer, I mean it's Fin that will decide whether to play on spurs for one more year or not, I think Fin will choose to opt out this contract for a bigger one.
geniunely I'm a big fan of Bruce Bowen, but I have to admit that Bowen is already too old to defend his glory of "the best defender on this planet". His contract still has one more year, which makes it an 10-expiring contract that is very attractive to those james-lovers like Knicks and Nets. The best scenario is Bowen gets traded to either Nets or knicks for some picks and young talents, for sure it will also involve some garbage contracts from Knicks or Nets to match Bowen's 5m contract which is also kind of a garbage. even if the spurs fail to find a adopter for Bowen, it's still a better option for spurs to waive him than to keep him. Obviously the spurs will have to rebuild in 2-3 seasons when Manu and TD get senile, so the spurs won't have too many good years to go. Only decent role players can hardly keep this team standing if the pillars collapse, now it's better for spurs to sweep their bad contracts than to expect those fade stones to re-shine.
Lmao at Geriatric nonsense. +1
Good that you think this way because Parker will bring the Kidd to school in the 1st round of the playoffs, and then do the same with Billups in the 2nd round. After that I think you will ask Magic to un-retire or something
Kidd is better than tony...?! uh, ok....
only guys from this team that I want to see on this team next year are
TD
TP
Gooden
Bonner
Hill
Mahimni
Mason
unfortunately just about everybody is still under contract next year
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