Old Bump: Finley Re-signs with Spurs

[baseline bum]

It looks like the worst scenario is playing out. Finley has somehow won an extended role on this year's team to the point that Pop has elevated him into the Big Four. This has disaster written all over it.

Yeah, Finley helped out when the team was short-handed and he probably is responsible for two or three extra wins. But going forward, Finley's role as big as it currently is makes winning a championship an impossibility. There's just no way a team that is relying on Finley as much as Pop is relying on Finley right now is going to win a championship. Especially a 36-year-old Finley.

If Pop doesn't wake up and reduce Finley's role (and that doesn't mean more Udoka ), this season is over. Either play Bowen more, play Hill more or shorten up the rotation and give more minutes to Mason and Ginobili.

I'm just waiting for that day when Pop retires, turning the head coaching job over to... Michael Finley.

[Creation88]

hated the decision then and hate it even more now.

[MaNu4Tres]

I really don't see the difference between Finley or Mason except for the fact that Mason can handle the ball a little better, which somewhat works against us when Mason tries to use his handles to create and penetrate. Both Finley and Mason are more just spot up shooters with the 1 or 2 dribble pull up than anything else. And they both are horrible defensively.

If your going to hate on Finley hate on Mason too. They are the same damn player.

[Borosai]

I like Finley as long as he's scoring. If he's cold, it's up to Pop to sit him and play someone else. Pop does not. Pop can't get enough of Finley.

I like Mason as long as he's scoring. If he's cold, it's up to Pop to sit him and play someone else. Pop does not. Pop likes Mason as a PG.

Neither one does much else other than make jumpshots: they don't get to the rim often and Mason can't finish, they don't get to the line, they don't defend very well. They are basically the same type of player, so hopefully one or both can be effective on any given night. If they both suck (like yesterday), then depth is pointless since it's a deep hole of suck.

[MaNu4Tres]

Neither one does much else other than make jumpshots: they don't get to the rim often and Mason can't finish, they don't get to the line, they don't defend very well. They are basically the same type of player, so hopefully one or both can be effective on any given night. If they both suck (like yesterday), then depth is pointless since it's a deep hole of suck.

I notice this too.

[objective]

I agree totally about not trusting Pop with Finley (I don't trust him with the non-Duncan bigs either).

And the key is Steve Smith by the end of 03. Unfortunately, at the beginning of 02/03 Smith was still the starter until he got hurt very very early. By that time his long history of knee and leg issues finally caught up with him and forced Pop in a different directions.

Too bad the Michael Finley has pretty much been an iron man, he doesn't have the same history as Smith.

If Finley doesn't get hurt this year somehow, I think it more than likely that he has the same exact role in 09 as he did in 08.

as long as we're reminiscing . . .

[Whisky Dog]

The problem isn't Finley, the problem is the way he's being used by Pop. He's great in a spot role, but not as a big rotation player.

[loveforthegame]

The problem isn't Finley, the problem is the way he's being used by Pop. He's great in a spot role, but not as a big rotation player.

Exactly. I don't even mind him starting but once you see he's cold bring in someone else. It's not like you can't bring Finley back in if no one else is playing well either.

I don't blame Finley but I do Pop for the way he's managing his minutes.

[G-Nob]

Maybe one day Pop will write a book and tell us why he loves Fin so much.....until then well just assume they are lovers

I thought you wanted to see more Finley?
At least that's what you expected when you made your "bold prediction" to finish the season 9-0.

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121230

[MaNu4Tres]

Maybe one day Pop will write a book and tell us why he loves Fin so much.....until then well just assume they are lovers

The same reason why Pop loves Finley is the same reason why some Spurs fans love Roger Mason.

[Lebowski Brickowski]

This has been a shadow over the whole season.

might as well admit the facts instead of living in some imaginary wonderland where Pop knows that finley belongs off the court.

edit: it's been so damn frustrating all year

[xtremesteven33]

I thought you wanted to see more Finley?
At least that's what you expected when you made your "bold prediction" to finish the season 9-0.

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121230

i said what would happen...not what i want to see happen.

[benefactor]

Exactly. I agree with those who say he will be starting at the beginning of the season. I don't doubt that he has something left...thats not the reason I wanted him gone. The biggest reason I didn't want him back is because Pop will be giving him too many minutes...minutes that Mason should be playing. He will be in during the playoffs at a key moment, his man will blow by him for a layup and 1 and down we go again.

The whole thing just gives me a sick feeling.

God...please...no.

[TDMVPDPOY]

i dunno man, this signed with us to get a ring

we got him a ring, we even fkn paid him for being loyalty..

now we are d....

oh well as long pop doesnt favor him over the others, then im down for it...

[BOHOLANO#21]

i dunno man, this signed with us to get a ring

we got him a ring, we even fkn paid him for being loyalty..

now we are d....

oh well as long pop doesnt favor him over the others, then im down for it...

some grave digger got you!

[Gervin44Silas13]

In the words of Deni Lemueux from the Movie "Slap Shot" (W/ Paul Newman)

"TRADE ME RIGHT F******N NOW!"

[DBMethos]

This has nothing to do with his latest decision, correct?

[TDMVPDPOY]

2.5m

he makes that on his current term deposits....

why finley why

[Why?]

2.5m

he makes that on his current term deposits....

why finley why

+1

[DynastyBuilder]

This summer, the Spurs have made some bad moves and they've had some bad luck ... but signing Finley to a two-year, $5M contract with the second year as a player option might take the cake.

Finley is D-O-N-E. I'm not even sure he's better than 2003 Smitty. At least Smitty could pass a little bit and handle the ball a little bit. Finley is a one-trick jump shooting pony who has lost the ability to jump.

Unless he finds the fountain of youth over the summer, this will be one of the dumbest signings of the Pop era.

I hate you timvp.

[Supergirl]

THIS ARTICLE IS FROM 1 YEAR AGO.

Kori, can we please delete old threads, or lock them, to keep them from recirculating?

[mystargtr34]

Lol good one.

[mystargtr34]

What got me was the part where it said Finley is drawing serious interest from other teams like Boston and Cleveland.

[Bruno]

These kind of threads are regularly bumped because some posters here damn enjoy sucking their own .

[polandprzem]

These kind of threads are regularly bumped because some posters here damn enjoy sucking their own .

All in all it's a great feeling



































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