Big Baby to San Antonio? Grant Hill to Boston?

[Marcus Bryant]

Big Baby strengths:
- Hustle. He works amazingly hard in the court.
- Inside defence. Very good low post defender - Duncan certainly agrees; he's nimble on his feet to the point he's actually decent hedging on ball-screens.
- Mid-range jump-shot, especially from the elbows. He worked very hard to develop one; he sucked for months, he became incrementally better and in the 2nd half of last season, he was a very good jump-shooter.
- Screener. Albeit frequently over-aggressive, gets called for moving screens too often.
- Passer. Good feeling for the game and good passing technique for a big. Also a good ball-handler. He's a very skilled player.
- Spacing. He moves well, knows where to be.

The rebounding might be lacking but those aspects of his game would fit very well in SA. Not to mention that you have Jefferson at the 3 and we have the best rebounder in some time joining the team from the NCAA. And, again, there's no reason to believe that this would conclude the Spurs' frontcourt work this offseason.

[Shastafarian]

Generic idiot forum. You could say this about everyone that post and idea or opinion (which is everyone).

Shhh.

You said, "If the moves were RJ and Baby that would be a fail more than likely". This is more than an opinion.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

whoa, homie I was just posting the info for your viewing, I', not a media person so keep that type of at ude for someone else.

You posted it in reply to my post about confirmation, and I am simply pointing out that your post was not confirmation... it was "are said to be" which equals meaningless conjecture.

Apologies for the vitriol, but it pisses me off that people just take in media like it's gospel rather than actually LOOKING AT THE WORDS.

[poeticism707]

The rebounding might be lacking but those aspects of his game would fit very well in SA. Not to mention that you have Jefferson at the 3 and we have the best rebounder in some time joining the team from the NCAA. And, again, there's no reason to believe that this would conclude the Spurs' frontcourt work this offseason.

Great points: I agree with all.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Man this is all just too weird. Reports seem to indicate that we didn't go after Rasheed hard. Now we're hearing about Haislip, and being mentioned for Big Baby, both of whom really are backup bigs if that.

Makes me think something is up. Either Splitter's coming, we've been quietly working on a 'Dice/Zaza type pickup, or a trade is in the works for our starting big...

[MarHill]

Well the good news is they got Marcus Haislip for the minimum

Kori,

Thanks for reminding us of the positive!!

[Shastafarian]

See.

Yeah problem is I was basing what I was saying on observations. Like Davis being a bench player in Boston. Him only getting so much playing time because of injuries. The cap number was a guess based on the projected number this year. You're basing everything on...well nothing since neither RJ or Davis have played in the Spurs system.

[Ace9]

Please no...please..oh please...

[Big P]

You have got to be ing kidding me.

[TheProfessor]

Overweight player + Big Contract = Bad News

Humorous that we drafted Marcus Williams in 2007 and may be set to offer the MLE to a guy who fell two spots behind him. Oh well.

[jcrod]

SOB if this is true. wtf are they thinking.

[Spursmania]

Well this certainly was not what I expected. The FO should be able to do better than Big Baby. The guy is too short, overweight and slow.

I refuse to believe this until we see it officially happen. I'm just going to hold on to some more hope right now.

[DPG21920]

Bonner minus the 3 point shooting/rebounding/shot blocking! V-Bookie on the over/under moving screens called on Baby if he becomes a Spur?

[DPG21920]

You said, "If the moves were RJ and Baby that would be a fail more than likely". This is more than an opinion.

More than likely is far from saying it would be and I also followed that by I could be wrong.

You were saying?

[timvp]

Well at least he's not scared to take big shots. Bonner would have hit the side of the backboard as he wet himself in that situation.

[Kori Ellis]

You posted it in reply to my post about confirmation, and I am simply pointing out that your post was not confirmation... it was "are said to be" which equals meaningless conjecture.

"are said to be" is about as good as it gets right now. No one is at Pop/RC's house knowing what they are doing (Oh Pop is probably on his way to France anyway).

I have no reason to believe the Boston reporters, but they have no reason to be making stuff up at this point either. The Spurs will probably look at Big Baby, just like they are looking at Bass. Hopefully they won't throw the whole MLE at either of them.

But hey, Spurs fans have been begging for the team to get young... so you all can't cry if they get Big Baby over Sheed/Dice.

[Shastafarian]

Generic idiot forum. You could say this about everyone that post and idea or opinion (which is everyone).

Shhh.

Thanks for calling me an idiot though. Usually name calling is resorted to when arguments are weak.

[DesignatedT]

YOU MOTHER ERS!!!!!!~!!!!

[Shastafarian]

More than likely is far from saying it would be and I also followed that by I could be wrong.

You were saying?

Ever take statistics?

[galvatron3000]

You posted it in reply to my post about confirmation, and I am simply pointing out that your post was not confirmation... it was "are said to be" which equals meaningless conjecture.

I didn't say it was confirmation but I did think it was another source. The last part about going back to media 101 was a bit out of left field, perhaps I shouldn't have read it the way I did. Either way those are the rumblings and Big Baby could be on his way to SPurs town

[MB20]

How can we go from Sheed, Dice, Zaza......to Big Baby??? Unbelievable...

[DPG21920]

Yeah problem is I was basing what I was saying on observations. Like Davis being a bench player in Boston. Him only getting so much playing time because of injuries. The cap number was a guess based on the projected number this year. You're basing everything on...well nothing since neither RJ or Davis have played in the Spurs system.

Bull . You just look dumb because you made a stupid, generic and un funny comment when you could not back up anything with logic or common basketball knowledge.

[Marcus Bryant]

Davis was not close to the top of my list for a starting big, but if they are interested, I can see the logic in their interest, especially as a reserve big.

The Spurs are in need of role players now. Again and again we look for the all-star lineup in this forum when what's needed is not stats but someone whose game fits the team. After seeing the impact of Bowen on this team and the championships it led to, you'd think we'd learned by now.

[DPG21920]

Well at least he's not scared to take big shots. Bonner would have hit the side of the backboard as he wet himself in that situation.

Yes, but like I mentioned, that shot has everyone over rating him as a "good" shooter. He is ok. But he did hit a few big shots in the playoffs, so that sticks in people's minds.

Also, he gets too much credit for being a good low post defender. Not true at all.

[Gant]

I have to disagree with anyone saying Baby is slow or has poor lateral movement. The reason he can play with short arms and not much leap is because he is incredibly nimble for such a big man. He is exceptionally quick footed and even has successfully cut off opposing point guards on switches.

He has his shortcomings but his feet are gold.