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On July 8, as mandated by the NBA rules, franchise may make public their first signings. Haislip will be one of them.
Sign a big and this guy and call it an offseason.
On July 8, as mandated by the NBA rules, franchise may make public their first signings. Haislip will be one of them.
http://www.elmundodeportivo.es/gen/2...ernativas.html
It's spreading, this link came from HoopsHype
Why are people so thrilled?
I'm assuming the signing of Haislip means the Spurs believe he is more NBA-ready than Gist? If true, I'm sure this will be very disappointing news for Gist, who seemingly was intent on making the roster and contributing to the squad this season.
Signing an NBA washout Euro doesn't mean that Sheed isn't coming. It just means you can sign Euros now, but not NBA FAs, not until Wednesday, anyways.
Haislip would be considered possibly a top 10 PF in Euroleague level. Gist possibly a top 10 PF in Italian League level. There is a HUGE difference there.
I don't think Haislip signing, if confirmed, has any direct relation to the Sheed hunt.
This thread is another example of the strengh of this board ! The quality of the info provided by some of the posters here is just amazing.
Regarding Haislip, I saw him play once one year ago in Spain and I hope he improved his game a lot. I didn't look specificaly at him but I remember an athletic big with a just decent shooting, a litle bit lazy on Defense, he is not very quick on his feet and had hard time to defend the opposite frontcourt. He has the qualities to be a good rebounder but his lack of effort was obvious during that game. From what I've seen I'd prefer Gist but maybe he was quite bored to play in Europe and he will be motivated by the NBA challenge.
Gist will kick his ass.
Seems like a small money gamble which could pay off handsomely or which might not, but in any event it makes sense in a league in which a player like Gortat gets $32 million guaranteed.
Sounds like a older, somewhat wiser and more polished James White. At 28, he's right on the age bubble if he isn't actually a potential NBA rotation player. Not too many years left for developing potential.
Gotta love the Spurs for keeping up with a myriad of overseas players though. Like God, their eye is on even the sparrow.
The video clips look great. But how does his euro game translate to the NBA? I just wish we knew more about him. Anything anybody can post on him would be greatly appreciated. Sure looks like there is a lot of potential.
I saw him play in college. There were times when he looked like a grown man playing against a bunch of boys. It just looked too easy. He went around guys and threw it down almost at will. But there were other nights when he either just didn't have it, or the other team was good enough to frustrate him... whatever. He didn't look like he was having a lot of fun. If the defender cut him off, he didn't know what to do. Sometimes he tried to power through and got whistled. Sometimes he just chunked up hopeless shots. Sometimes he dumped the ball off... to an opposing player.
The big thing was the defensive end. One of the DX articles talks about him "rotating haphazardly". I actually remember saying that he would "rotate randomly" at times. That's what it looked like - like he just moved because he felt like he ought to go somewhere. And I remember thinking, "What the was he doing, standing over there?" When the play came to him, he was a respectable defender and shot blocker. And he made some poster-quality weak side blocks, as well. But there were times when he just looked lost on defense.
He definitely should have stayed in college one more year. That being said, it sounds like he has made the most of his European experience, and improved his fundamentals a lot. He wants to come back, and I would expect him to put out the effort. He's going to be leaving a chunk of money on the table to do it, so I expect that they will be giving him a guarantee along the lines of the LLE. Even though he wants to get back to the NBA, I can't imagine that he would leave that much on the table and go for an unguaranteed contract.
At this point, we're so starved for real news (not just speculation) that we'll get excited for anything.
I live in Knoxville and remember watching Haislip play at one of the few Vols BBall games I attended. Obviously his game has never been perfect, but at least we are getting an athletic big, and I am looking forward to seeing what Pop and co. can do with Marcus. He was definitely an intimidating inside presence at the college level, I was impressed with what I saw. Mainly the shotblocking and dunks was what I recall. I imagine he can protect the rim better than anyone else we have on the roster.
Because they play with 40 lb. rocks instead of basketballs.
I know absolutely nothing about him...but from looking at his stats and reading he seems like he is more NBA ready than Gist or maybe even Mahimni at this point. As Phila said, we don't have many players at all right now and most of the players we are looking at to fill out the roster are unproven. This guy seems to be a proven player in Europe, so its safe to assume that he is probably closer to being an immediate contributor off the bench than some of our other bench prospects.
Scola averaged more rebounds in slightly fewer minutes his last season in euroleague than Haislip. His last year of ACB play Scola had even better rebound margins. Haislip shot 3s well in ACB, but only shot 25% from 3 in euroleauge.
I'm not real thrilled about Haislip.
I've been saying for a couple of years that Haislip is now a NBA rotational player. Very good in the open-court; a solid face-up 4, who can take slower players off the dribble and pull up jumpers; a bit of a liability in terms of defence and rebounding.
He was awful with the Bucks, but he has developed his game quite a bit, especially his jump-shot. I see Haislip as a much more athletic version of Big Baby Davis; or a poor man's David West.
If he signs for the minimum, he's going to be losing a lot of money; Barcelona is reportedly interested on him to replace Ilyasova/Andersen (their two PFs), who are both joining the NBA next season.
Really liked Haislip back in his Tennessee days, super athletic and instant shot in the arm energy guy. I'm liking the mix of talent. Going to be an interesting summer league/training camp
I'm not thrilled but am interested. Obviously there are some reasons to be skeptical about him making it in the league in his second stint, but it does look like he's used his time in Europe to improve his game. The Spurs are obviously doing what they can to get younger, longer, and more athletic.
I think the Spurs have a pretty good record sizing up Euro bigs. Krstic, Oberto, Garbajosa I believe they wanted. They did ultimately screw up on Scola's assessment. I'll go with Pop's judgement on this.
Disagree.
If Spurs sign a bigman with their MLE (Sheed, McDyess...) and Haislip contract is guaranteed, Spurs will have 6 bigmen under contract (Duncan, MLE big, Bonner, Blair, Mahinmi and Haislip). There isn't room left for Gist.
Before the SL, odds are against Gist to make the team next year. He will need something like him being great in SL and Mahinmi being bad in SL to improve his odds.
EN sucks so far in FA coverage.
3 or 4 places already reported Wallace will be in San Antonio next week and McDonald and Monroe have nothing
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