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Are you ready for Maggette?
.....in a heartbeat. And so should the FO.
Are you ready for Maggette?
Vaugn has been decent and Manu could be a 3rd pg option, plus Manu is in the top 25 or so in 3-point field goal% so i dont think we would miss Barry that much
I'm a HUGE Barry fan and I do that trade. I just don't get it. I don't buy into this .
I don't want Magette ; yeah, we've had our ups (against good teams) and downs (against bad teams) this seasons, but we'll be rolling after the Vegas week-end , not to mention the playoffs ;
let's just hope we stay healthy
I don't know what Spurs team you've been watching, but most of the downs have come against the good teams in this leauge and there havne't been that many ups against them.I don't want Magette ; yeah, we've had our ups (against good teams) and downs (against bad teams
let's just hope we stay healthy
Yeah, but winning in Dallas or destroying Utah recently VS losing at home against , ahem, Charlotte is kind of disturbing
And, despite our ups and downs, we are 2nd in the league
So, let's not panic
Problem is the Spurs are more like the Dallas Mavericks in the Nellie ball era and the current Mavericks are more like the championship Spurs teams.
Yeah, really weird
I just hope we keep playing like we did against the Jazz ; I mean Spurs basketball : Priority on D, and good execution on offense
The Spurs need Maggette. The Spurs are on pace to shoot 1927 free throws this year. That's the second lowest amount in franchise history.
Yeah but to get, u must give
I like the team we have now
I really don't get it. The Spurs lack rebounding -> Maggette helps; the Spurs don't go to the FT Line a lot> Maggette helps; the Spurs are pretty old-> Maggette helps... Barry played well this season but the question is if he can do it in the Playoffs as well. If you get a PG and Maggette back it would be strange if they don't do it...
Beno/ Barry fot Maggette/ Ewing??? DO. IT.
So you like the no rebounding, no defense, non foul drawing team we have right now? OK.
I just found this on Realgm:
31st December, 2006 - 9:47 am
Boston Herald -
Even though trade discussions between the Kings and Clippers have apparently ended, Corey Maggette remains very available.
“The Clippers want to get rid of Maggette in the worst way,” said one league general manager. “And Artest had worn out his welcome in Sacramento halfway through last year. The thing that gets me is that Iverson gets a rap when you think about these two. At least Iverson goes out and tries to win for you every night.”
Do that trade. Damn...
could the spurs be holding out for a draft pick?
http://www.latimes.com/sports/basket...nes-sports-nba
Baylor says deal for Artest is dead
By Jason Reid, Times Staff Writer
December 31, 2006
Closing the door on a potential trade for Ron Artest, the Clippers are no longer pursuing a deal for the Sacramento Kings standout swingman, Clippers General Manager Elgin Baylor said Saturday.
"As far as anything goes with Ron Artest, that's a dead issue," Baylor said. "We're no longer talking to Sacramento about Artest … that's not going to happen."
...or waiting until summer '08. I'm actually not in love with Childress, but Josh Smith would be a coup as a small ball "four" and Bowen replacement, and they are NOT going to pay both of them, not with Mr. Cheap back in the driver's seat in ATL.
Getting Josh Smith or Okafor would be worth the wait, and you will ALL want Beno back the first time Maggette goes on IR because of a bad pedicure. Dunleavy is not the first coach he's battled with, nor is this the first team to dog his work ethic. 27 is pretty old to be considered someone who needs an at ude adjustment.
Of course if the Spurs were going after Maggette....Pop wouldn't tell anybody. I would do the Beno/Barry deal.
My thoughts exactly. Since when do we put 100% stock into the blurbs we read in the Express-News?* There have been arguments for and against this trade, but we all realize that some kind of change needs to be made and we need to have faith that whatever happens will be for the best.
Now I'm going to take off the Pollyanna dress...
POP, FIND US A ING DEPENDABLE BACKUP PG!!!!!!!
*No offense to JBlaze.
sorry...what? All I saw was "take off...dress"
I would feel better about them passing on Maggette if I felt there was some realistic possibility they could land one of those expected FAs that you mentioned. Those guys may or may not become available and if they do become free there are no assurances the Spurs can and will land either of them.
We DO KNOW that Maggette is available and can be had RIGHT NOW. The Spurs would be big fools to pass up this guy. Perhaps he doesn't shoot the 3 like Barry, but he attacks the glass and is a relentless rebounder for his position. He gives them a skill set that they do not have on this entire roster and it would improve their overall talent level.
As far as minutes go, I could see him gobbling up minutes from Finley.
It makes sense they wouldn't bring him in if he won't play defense, because if he were to join, that's EXACTLY what they would need of him. Barry doesn't have to play D as much, that's not his role - he's there for offense, and that's what he's brought. But a long SF is needed on this team to help defend other teams' long SFs...so if Magette won't do that, they should pass. Pop has a good record with players who want to work hard - but players who don't (Magette, Devin Brown, etc) haven't worked out here.
There's lots of players the Spurs have brought in that this could be said about, and yet we taught them how to play defense, at least to the extent of fitting in our defensive system.
None of those guys will become available. Chicago loves Nocioni and will lock him up. Same for GWall and Charlotte.
Pietrus, it remains to be seen what his value exactly will be, but even given the idea that GS won't want him anymore they will sign and trade.
Why can't anyone learn from this team's past? Every time we have cleared cap room to make a run at a free agent (see Jason Kidd, Jermaine O'Neal), it has blown up in our faces.
San Antonio just isn't a free agent destination for anyone but veterans in their twilights who have gotten paid and want to take one last run at a ring.
The Spurs, if they want to get back to a championship level, need to improve through trades. Clearing cap space for 2008 or any other time is just fool's gold, and if that's going to be the front office's game plan going forward everyone better just enjoy the regular season wins because this team won't win another le as is, and Tim Duncan will retire with three rings.
Which would be a pathetic failure for this front office.
Tim deserves better and the fans deserve better. This trade is a no brainer relative to what we have to give up to get a guy like Maggette.
Do people even pay attention to what happens in games, or just read what the Express News cheerleader staff has to say about things?
Bowen's starting to get lit up more and more this year, and you can get a guy like Maggette in here and coach him up to replace Bowen. He'd be perfect to D up guys like Bonzi and Lebron that are too strong for Bruce to deal with.
Not to mention he would help out on the glass and on the scoreboard.
As far as the concern that we lose two good ball handlers in Barry and Beno, that's a joke. Manu can play backup point and I have a hard time believing they can't find another quality backup point somewhere in the NBADL. Chump and others have already thrown out some names even.
If the front office passes on this deal, we will be looking back on it like we look back on trading Barbosa to Phoenix for cap room that we squandered - an abject failure by the front office.
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