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All the Spurs need is for someone to bite on Rasho's contract. After this season he has 3 years and about $23.7 mil left on his deal.
All we need is a Rasho playing here like he played his last year at Wolves, plus the defense he's picked up.
11 points 8 boards 2 blocks, solid D.
THATS ALL!!!!
All the Spurs need is for someone to bite on Rasho's contract. After this season he has 3 years and about $23.7 mil left on his deal.
As for Malik, all the Spurs need is for the Knicks to go through one of their purges and buy him out.
Free agent sign and trades are almost a fan forum urban legend. I remember the last one we did and as I remember you and 90% of the spurs forums screamed like a stuck pig...*hint* the trade was with Portland.
Yeah they never happen......
How about Jaric+Hudson+Blount for Timmy?
Bump.
With Rasho traded, perhaps the Spurs do the unthinkable and keep Nazr. I know every Spurs fan alive is already counting on him exiting, but perhaps Nazr for cheap wouldn't be a bad idea. His stock can't get any lower and to be fair to him, he's never been through a training camp with the Spurs. His negatives are plentiful, but he is a good rebounder and a decent offensive player.
I think if the Spurs can sign him for a decent contract ($15-20M deal), it'd be worth it. Chances are other teams will offer him double that but if teams are scared off because of Nazr's lack of playing time down the stretch of the season, signing him is still an option.
He is taller than Reggie Evans and less prone to grab another man's sac.
This seems to be the best bet right now. If someone outbids SA, then fine. But they won't find good inside help quite so easily. I can see Nazr remaining a Spur...
and then getting stuck behind Javtokas in the rotation.
I was really disappointed in Nazr's rebounding every time I saw him this year... not to mention his defense. He seemed to go Jaren Jackson on us after a great run in 2005... he prob should've waited until after he signed the new contract though.
What makes anyone think Nazr wants to come back here?
IIRC he was making noises about being unhappy when we were playing the Mavs...
I think Nazr is pissed at the Spurs not playing him...for reasons of contract and personal pride.
I don't want Nazr at any price. He just doesn't get it.
Well, I think he was too busy thinking about the defense and forgot how to do the only thing he did well -- rebound.
We would be well-advised not to expect any other one-dimensional players to suddenly evolve as Spurs.
I don't really, either, but apart from pulling Mahinmi too soon off the vine, I don't see many other answers.
I thought he was pretty horrible rebounding the ball too but his numbers are pretty nice.
Ranks #4 in the NBA in Offensive Rebounds Per 48 Minutes(5.6)
Ranks #18 in the NBA in Defensive Rebounds Per 48 Minutes(8.8)
Ranks #9 in the NBA in Rebounds Per 48 Minutes(14.4)
If he can be had at the right price, I think going through a training camp would do wonders for his defense. He'll never be a good defender but he can get back to what he was during the 2005 run. Last year he regressed overall ... but that was due largely to the Malik treatment he was receiving.
But has any player EVER survived the Malik treatment? It seems once in the Pop doghouse, a player never, ever gets out.
Thank God we threw that Mav series to get Nazr's price down.
hehe yea
Well If not in the summer we still have a half of a season to trade him if he signs with the spurs.
But ofcourse I agree that he is not a good player for the spurs, like Kori said "he don't get it". How come a player being with the team more then a year do not know the plays? Where to be and things like that?
There are not so many teams that could afford a big contract for Nazr...
One is Chicago (but in see them go after KG and Wallace...), the other, maybe, N.O.
If he doesn't receive big offers from these teams, it will be our turn to play.
I think that, if we don't find a way to sign and trade him (one of the best options : trade him with package for Speedy and package), we should simply sign him at the cheaper price as possible (* or -...the money of a mid level excepion)...and give him the chance to win the place to be our second big man.
His rebounding numbers per minute, considering that he had the worst season he could ever have had, are still impressive...and we have to consider that one of our recent liabilities has been...rebounding!
You can't teach size. The asking price will be too high. If by some miracle it isn't then I say keep him.
"You can't teach size"
You can't teach 6'10" Nazr anything, not defense, not rebounding, not hustle, not floor vision. Low BB IQ, no big man fundamentals. He averaged a miserable 6 pts and 5 RBs in 17 MPG last season.
Pop couldn't find reasons to play a starter even 1.5 qtrs.
The "Malik Treatment" has been one amamie theory. The best thing the Spurs could have done was have an increased value for Nazr. That would have meant fewer teams that could afford him withut trading with the Spurs as he'd be above the MLE. Right now you won't see him getting more than MLE so teams won't have to do a S&T with the Spurs, just give him MLE or less. And you won't see a cheap Nazr retained by the Spurs because they don't want him, not unless he is extremely cheap, which won't happen. Fact is Nazr didn't play because he didn't have the smarts to get the job done not some Spurs' conspiracy.
Well, the theory was that the Spurs were seeking to minimize his asking price this summer. A job well done.
If Mohammed could be had for, oh, say $18 mil over 4 years you don't believe the Spurs would be all over that?
Honestly, I hope not. Nazr has had much less than stellar careers with the 76ers, Hawks, Knicks and now the Spurs. He's a journeyman that just doesn't get it. Pop thought he could make a player out of Nazr but he couldn't. A few offensive rebounds isn't enough.
In any event somebody will give Nazr MLE or close to it just to find out he's not the answer. The fact the SPurs don't match will tell you how highly they value him.
Please RC, Pop dont make the same mistake with Nazr that you made with Rasho and Malik
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