Yeah, I guess in Bizzarro world, he might make that choice. In ours, he's sniffing around teams like Memphis for shots and $$$. I just really can't see him "flipping the switch" three months after he left the Pistons in a huff with some fake injury story as a cover.
Just the same as we expect Wallace to not melt down on the court and not leave the inbounds man in crunch time. Also, what exactly is taking Wallace so long? He knows what the teams courting him look like and the earlier he commits, the easier it will be for whatever team he selects to make other changes.
Hopefully the Spurs' interest in Wallace is lukewarm and they are really pushing for McDyess, who would be a much better fit and offer far less on court drama.
http://www.individual.com/story.php?story=103326671
Wherever he lands, Iverson may have to accept a reduced role. He chaffed at that prospect with the Pistons, and Thursday night he was repeating his thoughts he echoed several times during the season.
He hesitated when asked about coming off the bench. Finally, he said: "I don't know. I think I would retire."
lol Iverson. He gets to do something that millions of people dream of doing and he would rather quit over not starting? Just GTFO.
My thoughts exactly. He's still talented enough to play a few more years and contribute to a team. But to think he'd rather retire than come off the bench is so silly.
This should tell anyone who wants Iverson thinking that he will accept a role everything they need to know. He won't.
So if McDyess wanted to play for the Spurs what is taking him so long to express his interest? Spurs could make more moves if they knew he would commit.
Most of the free agents have been pretty quiet in the media at least the ones the Spurs are after so we don't really know who is interested or not. For all we know the spurs could have visited a couple of players already its just they keep their business pretty quiet in comparison to the Celtics.
It's simple, if he starts his ego gets satisfied, if he gets benched his ego gets hurt. That is the only way to explain comments like that from a pro basketball player.
Fair enough. That's a pet peeve I have with these free agents. Naturally the first reason for dragging their feet is to find a way to receive greater guaranteed compensation. Of course, money is never the sole motivating factor in a free agent's team selection, especially when the money will be same wherever he goes.
I agree, it is frustrating. But with the Spurs and FA's I have learned to be patient
We just have to wait a little while and hope things work out. As with all well thought out plans, there needs to be a little bit of luck for all things to go smoothly. Which it hardly ever does.
Here's a solution. Bonner and Mason for Foster. Foster gives the post what it needs. Next, sign Iverson with the MLE. Iverson and Parker become your starting guards with Gino from the bench. Iverson also becomes the back up point guard.
if not Iverson then think about Marion for the MLE. Marion could start at the SF with Jefferson at the SG. Manu again delivers the fire power from the bench.
As the officiating has driven the league to a guard league I would love to see Iverson, Parker, Ginobili, Jefferson and Duncan as Pop rolls out his favored small ball sets. Foster would deliver as much as any free agent center anyway.
I can understand that AI balks at coming off the bench since he has been a scoring champion and an MVP. In the grand scheme though, pretty selfish and stupid. Help your team win! If your team wins, then YOU win.
I like AI only if he takes less and plays off the Bench!
Tell him to come here for the vet minimum and back up tony and manu. Also, a tony parker/allen iverson backcourt with ginobili at 3, jefferson at 4 and duncan at 5 when we play small ball would destroy in the offensive end.
Of course, all of that is as likely as KBP shutting the up about greek sucking.
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