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rofl.
When are we just going to admit that he is a bust?
I'm so sick of seeing people post depth charts where he's the starter or even a solid backup.
Blair is already 10x the player Mahinmi is.
Don't get me wrong, I really wish he would pan out, but at some point, I think we just have to realize that he's probably never going to be better than a guy that commits 34 fouls in 22 minutes of summer league or the NBDL and just puts up some nice looking stats because he is more athletic and bigger than everyone else.
Does anybody else feel this way? I know he's been injury ridden but I'm just starting to feel pessimistic that's he's never going to put it all together health-wise and mentally.
rofl.
Jessica Biel>Elisha Curthbert>Lindsay Logan
I want two Spurs as well if this is the going market ratej/k
He can't be sent to D League this year. So, I guess after this season with the Spurs, you can write him off as a bust if he is busting. As of now, you can't say much. Up until summer league, he hadn't played a real game in about a year. And don't think too much about him getting 10 fouls in a summer league game. Most of the summer league refs are pretty horrible (some don't even know all the rules).
Spurs fans are ready to write off a 22 year old athletic bigman as a "bust" despite being the best big in the NBDL a year ago and the only reason he didn't make the rotation being his injury. Go ahead. We'll let you pretend you didn't post this come January.
No we won't.
Wow friend.
Did you happen to see him in the last two SL games, the last one especially?!?
Ian is going to be a solid contributor for the Spurs, AT THE LEAST.
But he has the potential to be so much more.
Can't say much? He was a ing first round pick four years ago.
And in those four years he has scored 21 points and ripped 5 boards from the clutch of the other team's scrubs.
Alfredrick Hughes had a better career than Ian Mahinmi has.
Good thing we didn't waste that pick on some stiff honkey American like David Lee.
Ian > Bynum
I want to see him in the real NBA, with real NBA refs, and some serious mentoring from Dice, TD, and Pop. After a season of that, we should have a better idea what we have in "Yan." Right now I just don't know, but the number of fouls he is getting called for is nothing short of ridiculous, I would agree with that. They can't all be the refs fault!
I really hope you are right. I will gladly eat my crow if he becomes a force this season.
It would be great if I were wrong.
Megan Fox>>>Jessica Biel>Elisha Curthbert>Lindsay Logan
This is my point - it seems like every year was "going to be the year that Ian breaks out".
Why would we want a contributer like David Lee when we can have a 5 year project that has great potential?
Good thing we didn't waste that pick on some stiff honkey American like David Lee.
I guess this really is the year that makes or breaks him since he isn't NBDL eligible.
I don't think the point is about right or wrong, it is about principle. Odds are in your favor that he won't work out (look at his draft position and the statistics of who makes rosters, even though he is already on the Spurs roster).
It is such a small investment and low risk that why would you cut ties now? Give him time on an NBA court then make your judgments. It just makes no basketball sense to do anything with regards to Ian right now unless it concerns giving him time to see if he sinks or swims.
this just prove that some of u r not really basketball fans. if u r, u will give all the players a chance to prove them selfs in a real game. i rather see a player give all they got at a real game than injuring them selfs trying to play hard in sl game. so wait until the regular season to post thread like this please.
You expected him to be NBA-ready when he was drafted. The Spurs didn't. They drafted him knowing that he wouldn't likely be on an NBA court until he was about 21-22. So, yeah by your expectations he's a bust.. because you expected production when the Spurs expected development.
Where's Biggie?
Year 1 - Played in France
Year 2 - All-NBDL first team center, leading the team to the Finals. Best big in the league at age 20
Year 3 - Injured
What exactly has happened to create this emo take among Spurs fans?
Was he the best pick in hindsight? No. Is he a bust? Possibly. Do we know one way or another? No.
Ian is only 22. The fact that he was drafted very young and did not go to college is not his fault. Judge him like you would a college senior. Would you be this impatient then? Probably not.
No one is saying Ian was the steal of the draft. In hindsight, the Spurs would have picked a Lee or someone else. But they did not. Cutting ties now would compound the mistake imo.
I think we learned from being stupid and taking Mahinmi over David Lee, which is why we took Blair this year instead of some stupid project that will stay in Europe for half a decade, and either 1. sucking 2. nearly killing themselves or 3 being traded to our rival to save a few bucks then blossoming into a solid contributer.
Well people were hoping that would have been this past season (I don't think anyone thought he was ready the years prior). But injuries happen. And since no one saw the floating matter in his ankle until many months after his injury, then that obviously delayed his surgery/progress/healing/ability to be on the court.
Then I guess drafting Mahinmi was a success even if he doesn't pan out.
Good thinking.
It's amusing that a 28th pick could even be considered a "bust." Spurs fans are quite spoiled.
Anyways, the Spurs drafted Mahinmi when he was 12 years old, so lighten up. As far as the Spurs are concerned, he progressed in France for 2 years after he was drafted, joined them two years ago when there was still a logjam in the bigman rotation, and proceeded to tear up the D league. The Spurs had him slated to join the rotation last season but his injury derailed that.
I guess since the Spurs drafted him 4 years ago there's some angst, but there's not really much reason to label him a "bust," unless you're drunk.
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