You missed it because it didn't happen in 2005, it happened in the 03/04 season. Willis wasn't even on the team in 2005.I must have missed the whole "kevin willis throwing devin in the shower" thing back in '05. What happened? A shower fight?
People are confusing the rib injury Brown got horsing around with Willis in '04 with the back injury he suffered on court in 2005.
Interesting, LJ. The sad thing is on a fairly recent Pop show, Popovich, himself, strongly rejected the possibility of Devin coming back. What the happened!? I never would've considered Devin a cancer, and I know he had a back back and all, but I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt and a second chance...but ONLY a second chance. See if he really has grown up. He's definitely got youth.
It's amazing what playing for a ty team can do for your stats.
Devin Brown does well for a crappy NO/OK team. Suddenly he's better than our entire bench.
Stephen Jackson puts up nice numbers for a dismal GSW team. Suddenly he's a basketball god and would obviously be able to do the same for the Spurs.
This guy Conroy puts up amazing numbers in a third rate league like the NBDL, suddenly he's better than Beno Udrih.
It's amazing no one here has gotten the call to work for anyone's front office, isn't it?
Yeah true, my bad. I mixed up the season ending injuries
Here were Devin's 8 games prior to getting injured in 2005:
NJ - 22 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists
PHX - 13 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals
DEN - 15 points, 7 rebounds
NO - 8 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds
MIN - 7 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists
CHA - 15 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists
DET - 18 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists
NY - 22 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist
The Spurs would kill for that type of production off the bench from a swingman. If Barry or Finley could even do half that, the Spurs would probably have four or five fewer losses on the year.
1) That crappy NO/OK team is 4-1 with Devin as the starting point guard.
2) The Pacers are worse than Golden State. Both are hovering around .500, but the Warriors are in a much harder conference. You put Indiana in the West and they are battling it out with Memphis.
3) If Beno didn't have a contract with the Spurs, he'd go back to being the backup point guard on some Russian team or wherever the Spurs found him. Beno has regressed to the point that he wouldn't even dominate the NBDL and there's no way he'd be starting for a Euroleague team.
Bump.
In Devin's last eight games, he's averaging 15 points per game while shooting 50% from the field and 49% from beyond the arc. He has scored in double figures in 14 straight games. He's hit at least one three-pointer in 13 of those 14 games. He's averaging more rebounds than anyone on the Spurs outside of Duncan. He's averaging more assists than anyone on the Spurs outside of Parker.
Devin Brown on the Spurs right now would probably be starting and would be a huge key to this team. Brown starting with Manu off the bench would make this team so much better than it is.
Such a got damn shame.
He's been playing well. Color me surprised.
I'm happy for Devin that he's playing so well, but it pisses me off as a Spurs fan. How did they not at least give him a non-guaranteed look? I know he was lazy in his last stint with the Spurs, but what would it have hurt to have one final look at him?
It's not a stretch at all to say Devin is playing at a higher level than anyone on the Spurs outside of the Big Three.
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