He was a solid shooter in college, not at the level of James Anderson as someone compared somewhere in this thread, but he can create his shot and drive to the basket fairly well. In the NBA he should be considered an average athlete and an average defender, but where I think he's a little underrated is his d in the paint is pretty good, he's got solid size and strength and imo could play combo forward for us. He's clutch too and shows up big when called upon. That's my take on him.
Interesting move. I don't know a great deal about him, but I like how the Spurs are willing to take a punt on a guy like this. Hope it works out for the guy.
Looks like Ryan Richards will be stashed for another season
Quite a bit actually. An entire off season with the team and most of the season this year aside from injury time. He obviously ac ulated a good bit for him to even see the floor under coach Pop. He was doing great pre-injury. Again, to trade him for anything of value would require a rather lop sided trade, and not in our favor.
Sure it gives us options, but trading productive youth that is signed for cheap is not a very valid one. What if Butler doesn't pan out(i hope he does)? Not to mention, they don't even play the same position. Sure, JA was getting a minute or two here and there as a SF, but he is a SG. Now if we can do a lakers/gasol type trade for him, by all means, let's. Other than that, there isn't a lot of upside in trading away young talented players that fit your team...
Free agency would be a much more valid option for us to acquire our fifth big... Our roster is too deep and the chemistry is too good to go in around with it in hopes that we might find an ok fifth big man. Not to mention we shouldn't around with the roster when our time left with Timmy is getting thin.
Last edited by PhingerRoll; 03-25-2011 at 06:58 PM. Reason: one last thought
As he should be. No way he could help next year..Looks like Ryan Richards will be stashed for another season
Free Da'Sean!!!!!!
Wow, this could turn out to be a great investment move!
Miami still owes him money for next season, too, right? So they're sort of subsidizing the Spurs on this?
Reports said that several teams were interested in Butler so it possible that Spurs have used some creating financing to get Butler with their MLE.
It will be interesting to have Butler's contract details because it will show what kind of commitment Spurs have made with him. My guess is that Spurs have made a true investment on Butler unlike for a player like Danny Green who will be more a training camp fodder.
It's ovah, hand over the LOB, no sense in playing the playoffs.
Is the future bright or are the spurs being a little too risky?
JA- Missed alot time of this season with injuries..
Splitter- missed alot of time this season with injuries..
Richards- Did not play ball this season anywhere due to surgeries..
Butler- Missed the entire season due to a major injury..
Hopefully these guys have gotten all the injuries out of the way early..
How do you know for sure? If he signs with the Spurs this summer, I actually see him being on the roster.Looks like Ryan Richards will be stashed for another season
For 3 of the 4 this is like their first major injury. Though Splitter supposedly has a history of lots of minor injuries.
A 3 point shooter thats taller than 6'6"! Not bad as a project player although he likely won't be contributing much this season and needs a lot of work on the defensive end. A lot of work.
None of those guys are breaking the bank so they can be traded if they do become too fragile for the NBA. With the lockout coming they might also benefit from the extended downtime to heal up and they're all young and brimming with potential. However thats one underrated advantage with Richard Jefferson...dude's built like a tank and hardly misses any games.
I'd like to bring some reality in here. He wasn't a lottery pick before the injury. He was down in the first round category where less than 20% of the picks make it on any team and those aren't stars, just rotation bench players.
He COULD make it back after the injury and COULD become a player--but let's not get carried away that we've picked up a future All-Star.
He seems like a nice young kid and I hope he makes it because it would be a great story.
I hope there is a summer camp. It will be interesting to see:
Butler, Anderson, Splitter (?), Richards, and the picks......
Maybe even James Gist!
I don't think anyone has any illusions that he's going to be an All Star. The reality is that if he had come out this year instead of last, he'd have had a good shot at going in the lottery. We got him essentially for free, and he seems like a Spurs kind of guy. Yes, it's a weak draft, but we don't have to pay him first round guaranteed money, and other teams acquiring similar talent will.
Splitter will not be in any summer camps or leagues.
Hm, that's interesting. Miami Heat's beat writer on Sun-Sentinel:
http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports...r-part-ii.html
"In other words, it will be interesting to see if there is a return from the $300,000 the Heat guaranteed him for 2010-11 and the $394,000 the Heat guaranteed for next season."
On the other hand, if Butler is also saying he's not getting paid next year by the Heat, then the writer probably didn't check something.
Potentially a very nice pick-up. I was at Lucas Oil Stadium during the Final Four. Not a lot of WV fans there - least of all four teams - and you could feel how sick everyone was when Butler went down. Except for the Duke fans. They suck.
The Richards kid looks skilled. Very tall and athletic too... Let's go ahead and bring him over next year and bring him along as we did Splitter this year. Great young core. The Butler move is another great one.
IIRC, if they waive you, they have to pay all of your guaranteed money at that time. If that's the case, they don't owe him any more money because he's been settled at the time of the cut/waive. Likely, there was a buyout, and he got some of the money in return for being cut.
The Heat are ing stupid. They knew he ing wouldn't likely play at all this year. Why give him 300K guaranteed and then cut him? Didn't they know they might need roster spots? I'm so glad we have the front office that we have.
Last edited by ChuckD; 03-25-2011 at 10:21 PM.
Difference is Richards has almost zero experience with professional basketball and Splitter already had 5+ yrs on the the pro level. I would rather see Richards play overseas on an elite lvl team.
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