McDonald: An opening for Haislip

[benefactor]

Good lord this thread turned into a mess.

Spacing is important with Duncan. It does not have to be a 3pt shot or even 20 feet...but the big next to him needs to be able to shoot at least shoot some sort of midrange shot. Otherwise we are playing 4 on 5.

[sabar]

The long range big is there for versatility. There is no point to stack the big man lineup with under the basket players. We have bigs for under the bucket, midrange, and 3-pters, with differing types of defense.

Just say what you actually want to: that Pop needs nothing but under the basket bigs because he is too blind to look past his 3-pt shooting guy and small ball. This is hardly a new argument and has been repeated ad nauseam since 2006 by various posters. I think it is silly.

[ElNono]

Chump, this is offtopic, but were you the guy that used to go see the Vipers?
If it's you, I have a question for you...

[my2sons]

looks like ratliff will be getting some time again. haislip might get some minutes but i doubt he'll get more than 10 minutes.

also, no way mahinmi or haislip will ever see minutes in the playoffs. mahinmi and haislip have not even proven they can suit up and sit on the bench yet. yeah, lets have "i foul every two seconds" mahinmi and "i can't beat out bonner for a roster spot" haislip play against the elite bigs of playoff contenders. stop wishing for a miracle breakout. spurs' only hope is that bonner doesn't welt under the pressure and mcdyess + ratliff are 100% playoff time.

so if haislip plays earns consistent minutes during bonners injury, no way he gets minutes in the playoffs...or if ian plays and earns minutes during injury, no way he plays in playoffs...might as well keep them in sutis because there is no way they will every play in playoffs....god forbid they get a chance to contribute to wins in the regular season to help team make the playoffs but that is not important right now....no way they make the playoffs, wait, I have a thought, maybe now that bonner is hurt we play haislip and ian a few minutes to see if they can play in this leage, if pleasantly surprised then pop can decide if they are worthy of playing in the playoffs, no we can't do this because its been predetermined that these guys will never see any minutes in the playoffs, so lets just give ratliff the minutes now so he can show how his injury prone career comes back to bite us cuz pop can't monitor his minutes because iam nor haislip should get any minutes now because there is zero chance of them playing in the playoffs...I'm so glad the nba has removed the need for role players

[nkdlunch]

what about Ian???

[HarlemHeat37]

This should be interesting..

I only saw Haislip in preseason + the Spurs scrimmage + the game vs. the European team..so a good amount of games, but obviously no regular season games..I don't think that really matters though, because the guy was obviously trying to impress in his first games..

TBH, he was one of the worst players I've ever seen in the NBA..I don't mind him getting a shot though, maybe his preseason play was just jitters, or maybe he plays better in bigger games, we'll see..I don't have any expectations at all for him though, hopefully he can surprise..

I'd much rather see Ian though, hopefully they both get some time, although I think the organization has kind of given up on Ian..

[Chomag]

what about Ian???

Nah, becuase he plays to much like a big and doesnt shoot 3s like a guard that alot of people seem to be demanding from our bigs these days.