Big Baby to San Antonio? Grant Hill to Boston?

[tp2021]

If you people think the Spurs sign or go after anyone without Duncan knowing and agreeing, you're on drugs.

Pop probably calls Tim when he goes out to let him know if he will be having wine with his dinner.

[Ditty]

though: dice said he will sign for the LLE, just he will take a long time deciding. we are getting insurance incase he doesn't sign with us and have a trade for bonner + finely for something better?

wouldnt that be nice thats what i thought he would sign for anyways

pretty much finley is on the way out

(my friends mom does eva's hair and eva said that)

if camby comes then were good

[SouthTexasRancher]

This is from Gary Tanguay who first broke the story days ago that Rasheed was heading to Boston:

"I expect Grant Hill to be a Celtic soon. He has met with Doc Rivers in person. Looks like Big Baby is gone to San Antonio"

http://twitter.com/Gary_Tanguay

If true you guys are getting a very likable player in Big Baby.

If that turns out to be true then Pop & R.C. are using Michael Jackson's left-over drugs and it would make the statement that Peter Holt wanted them to go all out to bring back the championship a lie. , we just drafted a better Glen Davis, in Dujan Blair, than the original Big Baby. This has to be hogwash.

OK, give me a moment to wake up from this nightmare..........ok, I'm awake. It was just a bad dream. RC will announce tomorrow that McDyess will be here on the 8th to sign the MLE, which is better than Sheed doing it.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

WTF kind of statement is that?! Is there ANYONE would would chose Davis over Odom???

Actually, it's called a "motherhood statement", which is a statement that no-one can argue against or they look like an idiot. Politicians speak in motherhood statement 98% of the time, and the other 2% is mistakes.

[scottspurs]

I'd rather take Gooden or McDyess, McDyess first.

Gooden looks like a chicken with his head cut-off out there. NO THANKS.

[DPG21920]

Positive Big Baby Traits:

1. He cares about winning

2. Good energy defensively

3. Has decent range on his shot

4. Has shown clutch ability

5. He's only 23


If you are going to spend the MLE, I'd actually start him. He's more of a complementary piece who can score when others have the attention. I don't like him as much off the bench because his main strengths need a lot of steady minutes. It's not an accident that he played best as a starter.

If you want to look at this as glass half full, the best thing to note is that Big Baby has more potential than any other attainable free agent bigman. Players like Bass or Pachulia aren't going to get much better. Big Baby is young enough and has shown enough promise that he could potentially turn into a pretty damn good player.

That said, I don't like the short-term fit. The MLE wouldn't be THAT horrible to spend on him because he definitely has talent. My problem is the fit. For example, if a team like the Grizzlies signed him to a maxed out MLE instead of trading for Zach Randolph, I'd say that's a solid move.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[clubalien]

??? Link?

someone reported that (posted on spurstalk)ESPN radio said ny times that two teams that don't have the MLE were wanting him and another thread said he would take his time deciding the rest is my speculation.

[TDMVPDPOY]

cant even attract sheed to come here, fail

[mingus]

Spurs need a damn rebounder , not a 2nd Bonner . Why not Verajao, McDyess, Pachullia, or Birdman?

i can't believe these reports. maybe it's wishful thinking, but I believe the Spurs have to be considering those four guys ^ instead of Big Baby , unless they feel there's no chance in landing them. Big baby shoul fifth on the list of FA big men .

that said, still a productive, damn good off-seasomn compared to any recents. if you told me Spurs would acquire RJ, Blair and Glenn Davis i wouldn't have believed it.

[tp2021]

someone reported that (posted on spurstalk)ESPN radio said ny times that two teams that don't have the MLE were wanting him and another thread said he would take his time deciding the rest is my speculation.

Maybe the Spurs are splitting the MLE between Big Baby and Dice...???

A Spurs fan can dream

[GooberNuts]

How much is the LLE? If we split the MLE with Big Baby and another big, this could work out. However, BB will probably want most if not all of the MLE.

If we do split the MLE with Baby and another big, who could that big be? Rasho? Any info on what Pachulia wants?

[tp2021]

cant even attract sheed to come here, fail

They got Tim to stay here. That's all the Spurs needed for a decade.

[completely deck]

(my friends mom does eva's hair and eva said that)

if camby comes then were good

lol

[kbrury]

Maybe the Spurs are splitting the MLE between Big Baby and Dice...???

A Spurs fan can dream

well if we split the MLE it would probably be low enough to where Boston can match the offer, from what I have read Boston really wants Davis back.

[ManuTP9]

did u just make this lol?

yeah

[ElNono]

This has to be a bull rumor... pretty please?????

[HarlemHeat37]

I already said I'm against this..if it's for the full MLE, there's no positive at all..

if we can sign him for part of it, and sign McDyess, or even Rasho, I'd feel better..not happy, but I'd feel better(Anything involving Dice is enough for me to be happy though)..

[scottspurs]

Spurs need a damn rebounder , not a 2nd Bonner . Why not Verajao, McDyess, Pachullia, or Birdman?

i can't believe these reports. maybe it's wishful thinking, but I believe the Spurs have to be considering those four guys ^ instead of Big Baby , unless they feel there's no chance in landing them. Big baby shoul fifth on the list of FA big men .

that said, still a productive, damn good off-seasomn compared to any recents. if you told me Spurs would acquire RJ, Blair and Glenn Davis i wouldn't have believed it.

The spurs have Duncan and Blair to get rebounds. They needed a post who could score off of the big 4.

[bishopospurs]

Maybe the Spurs are splitting the MLE between Big Baby and Dice...???

A Spurs fan can dream

that's what i was thinking/hoping

[montgod]

that's what i was thinking/hoping

Wishful thinking... McDyess wouldn't sign for less than the MLE when he knows he get can less and stay at home (Detroit).

[poeticism707]

I can't find the splits exclusively for jump-shots, but I have this data:

Until Jan 19th: 28% on jump-shots
End of the season: 37% on jump-shots

Can you figure out the kind of improvement necessary to cause this 9% increase in 37 games? And those 28% were already an improvement. He hit his jumpers at a very high rate since December.


Well, pushing guys out of their comfort zone is a big part of a good low post defence, especially for a team like the C's who rarely front the post. Check his defence on Tim Duncan, for example. I mean, height is an issue, but don't you consider Chuck Hayes a good post defender? And Davis contests the shots, it's not that easy to score on him. You can complain about his lack of shot-blocking, but his individual low post defence is as good as it you're going to get from a player of his length.

Very true! Excellent break down.

[Ditty]

lol

i meant that my friends mom does eva's hair and eva said that the spurs are trying to trade finley not if "we get camby were good"

btw camby for finley,bonner,mason(who i dont want to trade) would work to get camby he gets something liek 7 million this year so maybe and hopefully spurs can get him like we almost did at the trade deadline

[Marcus Bryant]

One thing you are missing is that Horry and Oberto were much better defenders.

Oberto? Come on. Though, yes, Oberto demonstrated what a show footed bigman with no hops who nonetheless could rotate could do playing alongside TD.

[Marcus Bryant]

Spurs finally go young and everyone freaks out.

No kidding.

Duncan is going to play center and have some banger PFs. Spurs are going to wreck shop next year.

Essentially.

[ducks]

booner for him in a sign and trade