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Pops gonna use small ball all next year cant wait!!
Cant wait to see eric williams at the 4
. Maybe we can land Kandi and turn him into a star for the vets minimum
ALL FOR SPURS WINNING in 06-07 , 07-08...please stand up......all for spurs SAVING MONEY for when tim and manu are not in their prime anymore please stop wanting to settle for cheap scrag big men...spurs need to go after the best player available period with their midlevel
i dont like this small ball bs, or attuning to small ball cose of other teams, that is the reason why we loss against teh mavs!. we should stick to startin 5 n normal rotations that got us 60+ wins!!!
if we land kandi for vet, im up for it if he can do half what rasho does. if he wins a ring as a journeymen with us, then good for him, good for us, bad for KG as another photoshop waitin to happened.
Don't try to misinterpret my posts as support for saving money - that is not at all what I am saying. ABSOLUTELY NOT.
What I am saying is that I'm glad the front office aren't WASTING our money.
I'm glad Nazr's gone - he couldn't catch, had no athleticism and got lost on D all the time. I'm glad we didn't splash out on Joel Joel because he has a terrible injury/fragility record and looked like yet another Rasho-signing to me. Speedy was never going to come here because he wants to start. Bonzi wants too much money and is a lockeroom cancer anyway.
If we can get Jared Jeferries for the MLE, do it. Show me some other plausible FAs/trades that will markedly improve the team and of course I say do them, regardless of the money. We have to win now, that is obvious.
I'm just not for panicking before the fact like a goddamn crybaby.
Seriously we need another long 3 player to back up bowen/e.williams, thats if bruce does get selected to the team usa squad, we dont want him to log alot minutes in the regular season if he be playin alot all year due to international commitment and nba season.
harrington and wells might want at least 7-8 million....spurs can offer 6 million...to wells or harrington maybe some added bling may be a convincing attribute spurs have to offer.along with the 6 mill a year...spurs can at least try...im not sayin its a done deal im jus sayin they should try......jared jeffries is a possibility....after that if non of thats possible....id look to gettin jumaine jones or rasual butler with some of our midlevel
MLE is only around 5.4mill, how are we goin to offer 6mill to harry
6 million avg. over 5 years, 5.4 million for the first year and 5 percent raise each year for the remaining 5 years. Which would equate to 29-30 mil over 5 years.
No way Wells or Harrington take less than 7.5mil per.
Why do we immediately need another backup 3? Williams is 6-8, 220, so he's not small, and he is an energy guy. He can easily play 12-18 mins a game.
Sure, we need to be on the lookout for our young 3, but that doesn't have to happen right now. We have a year to find him.
All im saying is spurs need to improve. With Dallas gaining confidence and Phoenix getting back Amare, we need to improve. So far we have gotten worse with Duncan, Manu, Finley, Horry, Bowen gettin one year older. We have gotten worse with the departures of Nestorovic and Nazr. I don't agree that the spurs should use the midlevel and sign a piss-poor, washed up, or unproven big to fill in the starting center position. My opinion is spurs need to at least try to get the best player available with the midlevel.( Wells, Harrington, Jeffries). Then trade Barry, Scola, second round picks for a center(Gadzuric, Foster, maybe but not likely magloire). I doubt Williams will even wear a Spurs uniform.
We're not getting Gadzuric. Magloire is available from the Bucks and that is it. Harrington and Wells will not come to San Antonio because they want more than the MLE and they want to be the #1 or #2 option and on the Spurs they'd be #4 or #5.
I do think the Spurs should throw the MLE at Jeffries, trade for a center or sign one for cheap, use the LLE on Javtokas, and let Beno back Tony up and call it on offseason.
I hope spurs offer jeffries 5 years 30 million and wizards don't match. That would be golden!!
Wells reportedly has been offered more than the MLE by Sac.
I don't know who all is seriously interested in Jeffries. I know he was talking to Philly. I wonder how much Washington wants to keep him.
Caron Butler is their man up there, so Jared can't be that highly coveted. Needless to say, I don't think they'd match the MLE.
Hopefully Wizards don't match with Caron Butler, Antwain Jamison, Jarvis Hayes, Etan Thomas, and their rookie Pechorev at the 3 and 4 if spurs offer all of the midlevel.
If I were R.C., i'd be offering Jeffries 5 years 30 million first thing in the morning. Sign Javtokas with the LLE. Sign jacque vaughn or janerro pargo for the min. and either try to find a center via trade or settle for a scrag for the minimum.
Actually, Pargo is a pretty good option for backup or third point guard.
If you look at the current situation the rumored Oberto- Bonner trade would have been better for the Spurs. They would still have a starting C and a shooting PF. The player who are left won't really be an upgrade over Rasho so the only adavantage of the trade was saving money. I am not saying that everything is over but with the lack of good big men it might be hard for the Spurs to get somebody who really helps them. I doubt Javtokas will be a force in his 1st year... if the Spurs want somebody who really helps them, he would come through a trade, free- agency has no good options left.
A player I would absolutly love to see in a Spurs uni is Josh Smith. He rebounds, blocks and can score a bit. I know there is no chance to get him but he would be a good fit imo.
They still haven't announced the signing of Eric Williams. I am sure he is likely to be traded.
I think they have, at least he is listed on the Spurs roster and got No. 17...
Been saying that for now three off-seasons.
The only positive that I can find in all of this is that maybe if the Spurs options on the team are more limited, then players will get regular minutes and there will be a normal rotation of some type. By the end of the play-offs the Spurs team had 4 bewildered big men who had no clue when or what was going to happen to them from game to game-- Nazr, Rasho, Horry, and Oberto. A good game would be followed by almost no minutes...None of them ever got the "luxury" of playing through anything or working through anything because they could always be pulled and replaced with another. Even in the play-offs Horry look confused at times. Rasho and Nazr will be on teams where they are wanted and should probably get the chance to play more regular minutes. Neither of them would have ever caused any problems, but they were both very frustrated. Oberto and Horry- plus the additon of Javtokas- are here to filll in the extra space. I really think that all the Spurs will do is sign some cheap big lug for when we play Yao and Shaq.
That actually makes sense. You do want and/or need depth to for sure get through a good regular season to keep the stars fresh -- to a point.
Because the rotations shorten up anyway deeper in the playoffs. You have all this money in depth and then apparently aren't going to use it. So might as well spend more on better players.
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