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If he's hot as you don't rotate him anywhere.
The D-League is for the ass of ass to go and be called up when the ass of the team is injured.
Whats so non sensical about wanting to train your prospects as much as possible? I think people are reading way to much into this. It also makes no sense to sign Ian until he's ready. As Pic said above, there's no need to start the clock on him if he's going to play Dleauge ball. He can get that kind of experience in Europe.
I don't know enough on his skills at the moment to know whether or not theres a chance that they'll sign him this summer, but I definetly don't see this move as some kind precursor to that.
If he's hot as you don't rotate him anywhere.
The D-League is for the ass of ass to go and be called up when the ass of the team is injured.
Given a year in the league can Mahinmi do a somewhat credible job guarding Dirk? Anybody? Anybody?
Well you know that he's come over several other times this year, right?
Maybe this was just another one of the times he was scheduled to come over for a progress check. (Or maybe not)
It makes all kinds of sense if you want to want to decide whether to sign him to his rookie deal in July.
He will likely be the big man ass of the team if he comes up next season.
Sure, you could infer that but given that there's nothing else out there signaling that this guy is ready for the NBA just yet why would that be anything but a remote possibility? I can't see Ian contributing next year unless he's progressed much faster than has been reported.
He's already >> Nazr and Rasho.
And thats what doesn't make sense. If everyone is as high on this guy as it had been made out, then why waste a year of his rookie contract for him to ride the pine when whe can get tons of valuable experience playing in europe?
Playing in Europe is far better than riding NBA pine when dealing with a young player you're trying to develop.
I don't know about that.
That's bull .
My three week old toe nail > Nazr and Rasho.
I don't think the Spurs sign him unless they are so sure that he will be able to play.
They don't sign him its because he's not ready. They do, its because he is.
I'm of two minds about the rookie deal. Sure you have the cheap years of the rookie deal, but if he blows up big time during that time, re-signing him will be much more expensive.
Again, the staff will decide whether he is hot enough to start the clock.
Mahinmi Schedule for this summer:Well you know that he's come over several other times this year, right?
Maybe this was just another one of the times he was scheduled to come over for a progress check. (Or maybe not
05/20 : last game of the season with Le Havre
05/25 - 06/10 : training in SA
06/12 - 06/15 : training course with french NT
06/18 - 06/23 : training course with french NT
06/25 - 06/27 : Tournament in Italia against Italia, Venezuela, China
06/30 - 07/02 : Tournament in italia against Italia, Japan, China
07/14 - 07/21 : Rookie Mountain Revue + some training with Spurs
08/20 : start of the season in France
It wasn't scheduled (cf article).
I don't say they will sign him but I say that this training in San Antonio make no sense if Spurs are sure that they won't sign him this summer.
Mahinmi will play a lot this summer and this training looks more at a workout before the offseason to know if they will sign Mahinmi this summer.
Last edited by Bruno; 06-01-2006 at 07:05 PM.
he was not planning on coming to sa the front office wants him to
it could be nothing but they knew he would be here for summer league why could they ot check on him then?
Spurs brought Robertas in to SA on several occassions in the past without people really realizing it. They even sent him to the Big Man Camp a couple of summer's ago after his accident. What is so unbelievable to people that the Spurs would want to bring him in, work him out, give him some things to work on, etc...
Even the Spurs own players (and yes that has included Beno) sometimes fly back to SA for a couple of weeks in the summer to work out at the facility and with the team's people between the end of the play-offs and the start of their time with their national teams.
As for Ian, wasn't there a mention that he still has some chance of moving up onto his national team and missing the Summer League??
Plus, let us realize. The Spurs hoped they were still playing this week in the WCF. If they had beat Dallas, Ian would not be here working out. The coaches, etc... are avaiable now and have this extra opportunity to work with him.
"Rookie Mountain Revue"
A humorous error, which carries about the same sense!
Rocky Mountain Revue
La Revue des Rocheuses
Why they want to work him out during his only 3 weeks of rest of the Summer ?
Why they want to work him out while they will see him in one month ?
Does practising alone in SA during two weeks with time lag fatigue will do something for his development ?
The more logical reason for this training is that they want to evaluate him before the offseason. Mahinmi in 06 was a no before and now it's a maybe.
Yes. If he plays well with the french national second team, he can be called to play with the first team.
Our bigmen were a faillure against Dallas. I think that they are evaluating all solutions for next year.
Exactly.
but,
the bigmen failure was pop's fault i thought.
everything is tp's fault or pop's t park
Sanikidze is also slated to play in the summerleagues and he's been in SA at some point recently. It's not surprising that the Spurs would start dipping into their int'l farm team at some point.
Hi im djohn this is my first post ever and i just wanted to say hi to everyone.Although this is my first spurs post ive been a lifelong spurs fan and have looked here for news for the past season.I just wanted to tell you i found a sight that said Robertus WAS EXPECTED TO SIGN WITH US THIS SUMMER.Also it said Ian Mahimni is excpected to have a lot of workouts with us ove the next month or so in hopes of getting a contract.
PEACE OUT.
Let me bring my side of the complot theory:
What we know:
->Ian was not scheduled to come
->Spurs wants to check Ian improvements
->French national team coaching staff has a good relationship with spurs and common interest in Ian
My theory: The french coach plans on adding Ian to the roster of the french NT for the world tournament this summer. He told spurs about it in the interest of the player> Spurs knowing about it decided to bring him over cause he will not be in summer league...
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