Spurs sign Marcus Haislip

[Mr. Body]

I wonder ---

How many other teams were wooing Haislip?

Article says the Spurs started on him long before this Sheed business... So what kind of negotiations did they have? He must know he has to improve his defense and toughen up his rebounding (R.C. probably already emailed him about that one).

[DPG21920]

I wonder ---

How many other teams were wooing Haislip?

Article says the Spurs started on him long before this Sheed business... So what kind of negotiations did they have? He must know he has to improve his defense and toughen up his rebounding (R.C. probably already emailed him about that one).

lol

[mingus]

meh, acquiring someone who's compared to Stromile Swift isn't that cool . Swift is a moron .... an athletic freak but a moron . anybody know if he's got a good basketball IQ?

[Interrohater]

meh, acquiring someone who's compared to Stromile Swift isn't that cool . Swift is a moron .... an athletic freak but a moron . anybody know if he's got a good basketball IQ?

yea, his myspace page says that his IQ is equal to Madonna and Spider-Man, so... yea

[Interrohater]

I ignore people who want to draft people who aren't in the draft.

+1

[rayray2k8]

Nice video.
I've yet to hear what timvp say about this signing.
Good insurance policy?

[poeticism707]

You are a ing dumb ass. I listed all the Euroleague PFs better than him. Now you explain to me how he can be better than ANY of those guys I named. WTF are you talking about?

All your incessant whining and complaining about being "pinked," about how you were being treated "unfairly," and that you were being "victimized," and lo and behold, YOU STILL HAVEN'T LEARNED ANY MANNERS OR KINDERGARTEN DECENCY?

You are proving right now that you deserved to be pinked, and probably banned.

[poeticism707]

Printezis who has an excellent one on one post game cannot create his own shot? Teletovic who is by far a better offensive players and shooter? You never fail to prove you make up all of your European basketball "knowledge".

And fool I did not say Printezis was better than him. You even lack reading ability. I ranked Haislip above him dumb ass.

Case in point again.

[Spurtacus]

Suddenly, with him and RJ we've turned into a dunking team.

Nice move at 1:10.

[poeticism707]

I've seen Haislip play dozens of times in the last few years, some of them in the arena. He's a good 4th big if you surround him with good rebounders and defenders, play some full-court offence to keep him going (he's amazingly quick changing ends, although notoriously slower running back) and know how to use him for spacing purposes in half-court sets. When he's playing with confidence, he's a very versatile and dynamic offensive player: he'll get shots in transition, he'll create off the bounce from the high post, he'll play the pick'n'pop perfectly, he'll cut through the lane from the weakside. Good signing for the minimum. As I said, think a poor man's David West or an athletic Glen Davis without the hustle or the focus.

Haislip was easily a top-10 PF in Europe if you analyze them from a NBA perspective. Very, very easily.

Great post!

[Texas_Ranger]

Our team now's got a lot of tattoos.

[Penya]

I listed 15 players better than him and you can only name 1 Garbajosa that is not. And this is a proven NBA player. Oh I see Haislip is 15th best PF in Europe according to you. Yep, nothing at all wrong with calling him "one of the best players in Europe".

I just laughed at that ranking. There are other players in that list which are in the same level than Haislip -even worse than him-

[ChumpDumper]

I just laughed at that ranking. There are other players in that list which are in the same level than Haislip -even worse than him-

Spanish lies!

[Extra Stout]

Spanish lies!

mentiras

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Spanish lies!

The only worse homers than NBA fans are Spanish fans. According to them Rudy is better than Jordan. You can't be ing serious to take anything a Spanish fans says for truth.

[peacemaker885]

From the clips, this guy reminds me of Rodman. If he plays like him without the at ude, maybe we have something here..

[Bukefal]

I dont know what to think about the signing of marcus. Im not so excited, but its not so bad either. We'll see how it works out with him...

[cherylsteele]

Nice video.
I've yet to hear what timvp say about this signing.
Good insurance policy?

I mentioned that it could be an insurance signing a couple of pages back.

[loveforthegame]

He won't get as many open looks to the baskets for those vicious dunks he has but he shows plenty of ablity to get by his man and drive to the basket anyway.

He also has a way of hanging around the basket where his man forgets about him. Then he gets the pass for a nice dunk. Reminds me a bit of Oberto in that way but he was only able to lay it up. But the point is he lurks around the basket like Oberto did.

[TimDunkem]

Just heard on the news that the deal was 2 years, 1.9 million guaranteed for the first season.

[timvp]

Just heard on the news that the deal was 2 years, 1.9 million guaranteed for the first season.

Seriously?

Damn, then Haislip got the LLE.

[timvp]

The Spurs must be really high on Haislip to give him the LLE over two seasons. They must think he can produce right away. This changes the expectations dramatically. It's not a make-good or even a minimum contract. Counting the luxury tax, the Spurs will be paying about $4 million this year for Haislip

Let's just hope that Finley re-upping didn't force the Spurs to use only the LLE on a big rather than the MLE.

[rayray2k8]

Seriously?

Damn, then Haislip got the LLE.

Heard it too on KSAT.

[Marcus Bryant]

Seriously?

Damn, then Haislip got the LLE.

A small gamble, assuming the Spurs could have gotten a proven backup big using that. Then again, as much as Nesterovic looks good on paper, one can easy see Pop letting him ride the pine again in the postseason. Haislip can easy bust again during his second stint in the NBA. But if he has really improved, then this will have been a shrewd move.

[urunobili]

then Haislip got the LLE.

timvp what this means?

That the next big they'll bring and roster fillers will have to split the MLE in between them?