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Everything was going well until Games 3 and 4 of the '05 Finals. He needs his confidence rebuilt.
As much as I dissaprove of what im gonna say.
Bring back Beno.
One last shot.
you tell him to work out, tell him to drop the weight, and you sign a Pargo, who is proven in the playoffs, ala 2005, and sign higher priorities like long 3 and rebounders.
Everything was going well until Games 3 and 4 of the '05 Finals. He needs his confidence rebuilt.
Beno's main 2 problems are huge. Yes, he has tons of potential on the offensive end in the way he runs the offense and with his shot, but he has a huge hole in his game regarding bringing the ball up the court against any kind of pressure. There were signs in this season that he was going get better at this, but in the end he revereted back to his old game.
And to top that off, he can't guard a stick. It is disgusting how easily opposing point guards take him into the lane. I'm not sure how he can work on this, but dropping weight and working on his quickness is a damn fine place to start.
Whether or not Beno gets a shot depends entirely on what trade offers come through this summer as well as what FA signings are made. If there is no way to get a SF/PF in here of quality, I can easily see Pop using the MLE to go out and sign a PG. Who could blame him at that point? You need to do the best thing possible for your team and that may be it in the end. If we can go pickup a forward, then of course we won't have the money to go after a top notch backup pg as well. Also, I'm pretty sure Beno is a firm fixture on the trade block at this time. There is no way the Spurs aren't shopping him around the leauge but his value being so low I'm not expecting any offers to come through that make sense for this team. He has potential but I don't think many teams value that potential very highly given how the Spurs gave up on him this year.
I personally would rather not see the ball in Beno's hands next year when Parker heads to the bench. Quite frankly, I feel some of the guys people mentioned as 3rd stringers are players I would rather see playing 2nd string in front of Beno. However, with as little room as the Spurs have to manevour this year, I understand the most likely course of action involves brining him back in the hopes he can fill the backup PG spot. I think that he'll get a shot in camp and I think he'll blow it. I hope he proves me wrong, but unless he works extremely hard in the offseason the Spurs can find a veteran for the minimum who will give this team more than Beno does.
Well, assuming Nazr-for-Wallace isn't happeneing, I'd work on Nazr for Duhon + trade exception.
If Beno seems like he might be able to be a real #2 PG, go to the D-League for a guy like Aaron Miles or Ramel Curry - projects who could actually push Beno for minutes if he starts sucking again.
I'm not sure he can.
It's not sure it's his height/weight problem as much as a mentality problem. We turned Ferry into a good defender but he's the pesky type. He just looks annoying. Beno doesn't seem to have the types of traits you can turn into...what's the word, anyways you get the point. Viva le Speedy.
With Sweetney doing well there and Duhon's big role off the bench I don't see why Chicago would be interested in that. But if they are, I'd take Duhon anyday.
Sure.
Bring him back. As a 3rd string PG
They are always looking for size, and I read in some non-Sam Smith article that they were shopping Duhon.
If that's the case I hope it's not b/c he's not happy with his minutes.
If he thought playing behind Kirk and Gordan was bad, wait until he gets behind TP/Manu
I tell you Beno won't be traded. And no other backup point guard will be bringed. Remeber this. Spurs need backup wing with solid defense and not point guard. If Beno will really be so bad that you think he'll be, there are still Barry and Manu, who can play PG for some minutes.
BTW, staying with Spurs is bad for Beno. If he were somewhere like Atlanta i believe he would show much more.
Beno haters - you're silly with those games against Detroit in last year finals. This was 1 year ago. Have you ever heard for development in players game? If i read your posts i most suppose you haven't.
Last edited by zwbgr; 06-05-2006 at 08:01 AM.
TOR could draft Aldridge for the Bulls and get the Bulls to draft Bargnani for them with the 2nd pick. Then TOR could trade Aldridge and backup PG J. Calderon to the Bulls for Bargnani and PG Chris Duhon.
miles played for kansas right? how did he do in the d-league. i remember he was pretty damn quick, but his shot was pretty inconsistent. was he hinrich's backup at kansas or did he play sg? i can't remember.
I like Beno, but if SA wants another PG, why not Jay Williams? Although their injuries were quite different, maybe Williams can make a stirring comeback like T. J. Ford did. Sign him to a 2-year contract with a team option on the 2nd. That way if he looks like he just doesn't have it, SA can just decline the option and end up only having spent 1 year on the experiment. The first year could be for a low base salary and highly incentivized, ie. if he plays so many games, he gets $$$, etc. Or maybe Williams would be happy with a 1-year contract in that he'd want to use this year to show he's back and have the flexibility to subsequently sign a big contract the next year.
SUNS HAVE 2 draft picks 21 and 27
That's the guy. Got an appointment right now, but I'll tell you what I saw of him later. He "developed" nicely.
STATS
Check out his splits and log too.
damn 10 pts. 6.6 assists per game... played great on the road. did he get benched in the last month? seemed more productive in starts.
You might want to go to Google and download this season's final regular season game against Houston and tell me how much Beno had developed.
I forgot he was a two-time champion with the San Antonio Spurs. Good for Beno.
Yeah, and Nando de Colo was robbed a championship with the spurs in 2014 when he was traded for Daye. He actually played decently (like 12th man decently) for the spurs that season.
De Colo was a whiner. He wasn't traded in a vacuum. I believe he asked out because of playing time issues.
Beno would have been good in today's game. He was famous for his PUJIT, pull up jumper in transition, and that probably punched his ticket out of town when you have Duncan in the post and the rules in his favor.
Seriously, good for him.
Craziness...I was just looking through some old pictures of a season ticket holder party we went to at Dave & Buster's one year and have pictures of Beno and hadn't heard his name in years. I also had a bunch of pictures of Rasho from that party.
Yeah, he was a good player and kinda filled that Steve Kerr / Speedy Claxton / Cory Joseph role well. Backup guard, not playing huge minutes but was good to throw in for a change of pace and mostly steady...except for when he started getting cooked by Billups in the 2005 Finals and had to be benched
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