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Kinda like that developing a shooting guard on the fly failed in 02 03.he Spurs cannot afford to develop a starting center "on the fly".
Villanueva was unproven trash.
Proves nothing.
Kinda like that developing a shooting guard on the fly failed in 02 03.he Spurs cannot afford to develop a starting center "on the fly".
why dont we give calvin booth a look, his a FA atm. he was only earning nba minimum last season 30yr old
He had players in front of him as a safety net.
This guy wouldn't.
Anyway, everything I read is about how he's reuniting with this Croatia coach (new coach of Maccabi) and stuff like that. So it seems he's still with Maccabi.
I went right to the link sorry.
http://www.nba.com/raptors/news/cp_recap_051016.html
Euroleague Champions Maccabi Tel Aviv Come Back to Defeat Raptors
October 16, 2005
TORONTO (CP) -- Anthony Parker scored 24 points, including a jump shot with less than a second remaining, to lead defending Euroleague champion Maccabi Tel-Aviv to a 105-103 exhibition victory over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday.
The victory was Maccabi's first over an NBA squad since it edged the then NBA-champion Washington Bullets 98-97 in 1978.
The visitors earned the win as Raptors head coach Sam Mitc clearly didn't want to give this one away, keeping starters Chris Bosh, Morris Peterson and Jalen Rose in for the majority of the game.
Charlie Villanueva had 10 points on 5-8 shooting Sunday. (Ron Turenne/NBAE/Getty Images)
Bosh had 27 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Raptors in their annual international pre-season matchup. Rose added 18 points, while Mike James had 16 for the Raptors, who are 0-3 in the NBA pre-season.
Nikola Vujcic added 21 points and 10 rebounds for Maccabi.
After the final whistle, the Maccabi team stood at centre court and applauded the pro-Maccabi crowd of 17,281 at the Air Canada Centre.
The Raptors led the entire game until Will Solomon's three-point shot with 2:39 to play put Maccabi up 95-93, to the delight of the crowd who danced and waved Israeli flags.
Maccabi stretched its lead to four points on a jumper by Vujcic but Toronto battled back and a driving layup by Mike James tied the game 103-103 with 19 seconds left. Yaniv Green scored for Maccabi with 30 seconds to play, Mike James connected on a driving layup to tie the game, and then Parker launched his fadeaway jumper over Raptors' Morris Peterson with 0.8 seconds left to clinch the victory for Maccabi.
The afternoon was like a home game for Maccabi as the stands were full of Israel flags and yellow-and-blue Maccabi T-shirts. The crowd cheered as loudly for the visitors as it did for the Raptors during team introductions, and erupted into chants of `Ma-cca-bi' throughout the afternoon.
NBA commissioner David Stern flew in to attend the game and sat courtside with Larry Tanenbaum, chairman of the board of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd.
Considered the New York Yankees of Israeli basketball, powerhouse Maccabi has cruised to 45 of 51 Israeli les and three of the last five Euroleague les. But while Pini Gershon said his team is 10 or 15 years ahead of any other Israeli team in terms of management and budget, he believes the top European teams may never be on equal footing with the best of the NBA.
Maccabi heads to Orlando to play the Magic on Wednesday.
For once, the Raptors outrebounded their opponent, beating Maccabi 47-38 on the boards, but Maccabi shot 47 per cent from the floor to Toronto's 44.
Bosh scored 10 points in the opening quarter as the Raptors took a 24-20 lead over their visitors.
Parker's dunk midway through the second tied the game 39-39, but the Raptors ended the quarter on a 17-7 run to lead 56-46 at halftime.
Two free throws by former Raptor Maceo Baston cut Toronto's lead to 68-67 midway through the third quarter and the home team led 81-77 with a period left to play.
NOTES: There was a heightened security presence at the game as fans were patted down at the ticket gates. . . The United Synagogue Day School choir performed the Israeli and Canadian anthems. . . The Raptors edged Italian team Benetton 86-83 last pre-season, and defeated Panathinaikos of Greece 100-76 in 2003.
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i think we should just save the MLE this season, end of this season KG has a player option of 22million, if his hungry he wouldnt excercise it, and come to teh spurs for minimum or MLE
21 and 10 rebounds against NBA isn't bad.
21 and 10 VS Bosh and Villanueva good rebounders I believe.
Of course preseason will be said, but Mitc played them a lot of minutes.
Oh well.
i dont wanna say this, but tim duncan also dominated them last season.
Why would you hate to say that?
Uhhhhhhi dont wanna say this, but tim duncan also dominated them last season.
I really don't know where to go with this.
Velik if you can describe his game some more that would be great. He sounds like he has a similar playing style to Sabonis: semi athletic, filled out big man with great passing ability.
gettin stats of sum euro player against toronto raptors, nothing special about it, kobe went for 81pts, duncans stats> cb+cvs stats combined, check it out
Everybody who doesn't like the idea of getting him is saying the ex. game doesn't matter. You sure as know that if he stunk it up that game they'd mention it every time he was brought up.
I would like the idea of bringing him if they didn't have Javtokas or Oberto. I just don't think you can platoon three new guys at center. If Oberto wasn't here, I'd say bring this guy + one NBA vet.
Yeah I definitely see your point Kori but he should at least be a decent contributor if he's a legit 6'11 and first team All-Euroleague.
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omg the Spurs got selfish.
selfish?
Here's something I wrote last year after seeing Javtokas and Vujcic play each other last December.
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showpost...37&postcount=4It's tough to predict exactly how well he'd do in the NBA since he's always the strongest guy on the court. He does have NBA athleticism to be sure -- he runs the floor well and loves contact. His offense for this game pretty much consisted knocking his smaller defender (like Maceo Baston) out of the way and dunking or going to the line (where he's a pure Spur 50% or so).
Defensively he's very active in a Spur-like help defensive strategy, missed a few rotations but got a huge block late. He had a tough cover in Nikola Vujcic, who could be characterized as a smaller Vlade Divac without too much exaggeration. Probably not athletic enough for the NBA, but Vujcic is a good shooter and great passer who could get anyone to bite on a ball fake, and he got Javtokas to bite quite often. Robertas would probably be much more effective against a more traditional post scorer.
I think he'd be a little foul prone in the NBA, and his offense lacks the jumper that would make him truly compatable with Duncan. That said, he'd probably playing more than Oberto is right now as he would simply be better able to defend more NBA players.
I really like his game, but would rather have Collins as a starter.
"Not athletic enough for the NBA."
Sounds like half the players on the team.
That's the latest on Collins. Doesn't sounds like the Jazz are dead set on keeping him.
Vujcic in great player, but I think he would be more a 4 than 5 in NBA.
He has great court vision for big man and has hi basketball IQ, but he is very average against strong players (see velik m´s post about his game against Smodiš in euroleague´s finals this year).
Thanks. Why do you think he would be more of a 4? Not strong enough? How does he score most of his points in the post or on jumpers?
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