"He's got high character," Rivers said. "He's another shooter. We don't know where we're going to fit him in, but adding a veteran can never hurt. Adding a guy who can make open shots can never hurt. Adding a guy who's been through the wars can never hurt. That's how we looked at it."
Doc is a class act. Finley probably won't help at all, but Doc gets it.
Meanwhile, Spurs will play Bogans and Bonner and their most athletic center since DROB will watch from the sideline while the top teams of the NBA run layup drills on their small ball lineup.
cool.
Are you talking about Mahimni? I doubt he can prevent layup drills. The guards aren't quick enough to contain the perimeter shooters which lead to easy scores in the paint. Mahimni will just stand in the paint and foul everybody. He won't last too long.
really, so the better option is to have RJ guard Amare Stoudamire?
who won that game?
It takes more than being "athletic" to make in the NBA. Ask James White about that.
Hopefully Mcfluff. But that's wishful thinking on my behalf.
"He's got old knees," Rivers said. "He's another JR Reid. We don't know where we're going to fit him in, but I hear he throws a mean barbeque so I don't care that he dribbles the ball off his foot and can't hit the broad side of a barn when his teams needs him most."
just an example...watch a game.
why? i just look at the box score afterwards.
What does Doc get? Finely is done.
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I wouldn't be so quick to diminish Sequ's point. After all, it's not as if the Spurs have someone else on the roster with enough size, length, skills and footspeed to defend perimeter 4's. Or did anyone not see how West abused the Spurs on Fridday night? Or Stoudamire this past Sunday?
Frankly, the Spurs have been getting killed all year by the athletic 4's of the league for a while now - not just this season. Sorry dudes, McDyess, Bonner and Blair can't do it.
Without the luxury of some extended playing time, none of us know what Ian can really do. However with the way opposing 4's are abusing the Spurs, I see no harm in throwing him out there to see what he could do. It's certainly worth the risk.
I'm watching the bobcat/laker game from last night, and I gotta say that Tyrus Thomas would have filled this need for the spurs with flying colors. It's only halftime and he's already harrassed Odom into a miserable shooting % (including two missed point blank layups) and done some scoring of his own on a variety of jumpers, putbacks, and fast break dunks.
Just a shame the spurs didn't make an effort on this kid.
Jsut as most of us expected.
It's extremely frustrating because it's not like this isn't a old story with the Spurs. There's been a gaping hole at that position for a while now. A hole that even the beastly feats of Blair cannot resolve. He simply doesn't have the length.
Now picture a tandem of Blair/Thomas in relief of Duncan and Dice.
Yup I think Thomas would have made a very nice duo with Blair and helped w/ the defense and esp by erasing a ton of Blair's mistakes in that 2nd unit. Bonner really can't, the most he'll do is stand with arms extended offering little resistance, and then gets called for a foul 90% of the time to boot.Jsut as most of us expected.
It's extremely frustrating because it's not like this isn't a old story with the Spurs. There's been a gaping hole at that position for a while now. A hole that even the beastly feats of Blair cannot resolve. He simply doesn't have the length.
Now picture a tandem of Blair/Thomas in relief of Duncan and Dice.
Bulls were able to land him with a protected 1st round pick, Acie Law & Flip Murray. I think the spurs could have easily beaten that offer with a
1st round pick (unprotected however), and Roger Mason.
Would have hated to lose Mason, but its clear Pop has gone in a different direction and the writing is on the wall for his tenure as a spur.
sequ talking about small ball?
God, looking over the bobcats roster they have a so loaded with athleticism and shot blocking in the frontcourt its not even funny. Thomas, Diaw, Chandler, Nazr, and now Ratliff while the spurs are so short handed in that category its just ludicrous.
The obvious deficiencies the Spurs have in that area is the "elephant in the room" with this team and have been ever since they shipped Rasho out of town. Again, this isn't and has not been a one-year problem. Compound that with Pop's annual fascination with "small ball" and I'm almost starting to wonder whether the coaching staff either doesn't know or doesn't care.
The league has changed significantly since Rasho was a Spur. Having a big tree in the middle no longer gets the job done. Rasho was never more than an adequate shot blocker and defender anyway.
What has happened league wide is the influx of the long, athletic SF-PF swing men. Most successful teams have one. These guys aren't superstars, but have become the most dominant role players on their respective teams because they have the shooting to draw their man off the block and the athletic ability to drive around them. It's getting to the point where a guy like Richard Jefferson at 6'7" is undersized at SF and ridiculously so at PF.
Lamar Odom is an good example. Odom is never the best player on the floor, but his physical gifts are vital to the Lakers' success.
The Spurs do not have one of these guys and THAT is the problem. The superstars of the league haven't changed, the role players have.
Last edited by ohmwrecker; 03-06-2010 at 11:10 AM.
exactly...
Therein lies the issue. As the NBA landscape changed, the Spurs did not. Pop started experimenting with smaller lineups, that's true. However, he failed to import the type of players that could effectively counter this trend.
Still waiting on the link to the story that the Spurs turned down a trade for Tyrus Thomas.
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