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Neal:::he raped and then was made a millionaire by Pop after he picked him up off a police blotter.
In one of the best seasons of his career, Jack Haley averaged 2.4 ppg, 0.9 rbs in 31 games for the Spurs in 1994-1995. The following year, he earned a championship ring with the Bulls by playing one regular season game and sitting out the entire playoff run. He was also known as Rodman's babysitter, a le he abhored, contending that his spot on the team was due to legit talent.
It's gotta be Jack!
Neal:::he raped and then was made a millionaire by Pop after he picked him up off a police blotter.
Someone who sticks out for me is probably Nick Van Exel. He had way too prominent of a role for the type of player he was at that stage in his career.
LOL Steve Blake.
Dennis Rodman.
Why? He wasted 2 years of Robinson's prime. Turned the team into a circus show. Refused to guard Horry in the playoffs, costing us the Houston series and ultimately the 94-95 le as we would have wiped the floor with Orlando.
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Gary Neal currently makes less than a million per year. Taking into account NBA lifestyle costs, that puts him at about the net income equivalent of the gross income of a manager at a fast food restaurant.
Robinson didn't have a prime. Robinson had Duncan.
Neither did Elgin Baylor, I guess -- and he even had Jerry West with him for most of his career.
Van Exel was Terry Porter redux.
Robinson had to put up with a host of turds. Not one sticks out, as there was so many.
On second thought, the memory of Rod Strickland does kinda get the blood boiling again...
Hedo Turkoglu.
Regular Season: .406fg%, .419 3ptfg%
Post Season: .321fg%, .333 3ptfg%
I think you have to make a distinction between the players who had less talent and those who wasted their talent here. If a guy was a marginal player but tried to play to his ability and didn't mess up as a SA citizen I wouldn't denigrate him by putting him on a worst Spur list.
On the other hand, Rodman and Strickland hated it here and acted like it both on the court and off the court.
Ginger boy, with the t-rex arms.
Porter was better than Van Exel.
in terms of playoff success the ultimate floor spreader-
Hedo actually had a really good second half of the season tbh. shot like over 50%+ from three-point range during that stretch if Im not mistaken. His stroke looked so sweet, he could shoot it feet from behind the 3-line, and it seemed like it went in just about every time. Of course all that fell apart in the playoffs.
I would say this guy though, he seemed like he could barely even get down the court when he played. I could never figure out why he ever made an NBA roster:
This guy has better NBA stats than College stats... I'm sure there's worse.
Terry Porter was great in his original role off the bench, but was way too old to be starting. Van Exel's knees were done by the time he got to SA, so there's no comparison. If I had to pick a top 5, containing only players who actually played, it would be
1. Vinny Del Negro - Red McCombs, you suck for letting Strickland walk and replacing him with a worthless soft Euro. Not paying Strickland was probably the thing that wrecked Robinson's prime years more than anything. Man, the Spurs could run like back when Rocket Rod was playing the point. Instead we got a guy who had no point guard skills and could drop 20 on Atlanta in February but nothing in a game that meant much. Watching Del Negro on Drexler was like pulling the hairs out your nut sack with duct tape.
2. Steve Smith - LOL @ him threatening to hold out when Pop wouldn't give him an extension to his massively bloated $10 million a year salary. Just no hustle whatsoever from this guy. I understand not being able to move laterally when you have bad knees, but dive for a loose ball every once in a while in the playoffs when you're making 8 figures.
3. Samaki Walker - Straight up worthless. Dumbest player in franchise history and one of the softest on top of that. Then that loser went and called Robinson soft on LA radio? Nothing defines soft like taking the cortisone shot and guarding Shaq two days after you couldn't walk, I guess. Walker and the ring he got piggybacking Shaq.
4. Paul Pressey - Can you believe the Spurs gave up Frank Brickowski for this guy? Pressey played well with mings in Milwaukee, but man he sucked in SA. About the only good thing you can say about Pressey is that it was funny watching him hold Pop back from the refs after every bad call.
5. Matt Bonner - Power forwards who can't rebound nor defend should never be getting 20 minutes a night. Bonner has to be Popovich's biggest mistake. The Spurs become defensive turnstiles any time he is on the floor.
Magua (Troll from the "who is a better leader" thread) would argue that D-Rob made his PGs worse by bashing them over the head with his bible, thereby reducing their floor awareness and turning them into scrubs.
Boner does have short arms - I didn't realize that.in terms of playoff success the ultimate floor spreader-
Maybe you never saw him play. He makes the Red Rocket look like Carmelo Anthony in comparison. Think Mark Madsen but worse and even more awkward looking on the court.
Is that Bateer?Hedo actually had a really good second half of the season tbh. shot like over 50%+ from three-point range during that stretch if Im not mistaken. His stroke looked so sweet, he could shoot it feet from behind the 3-line, and it seemed like it went in just about every time. Of course all that fell apart in the playoffs.
I would say this guy though, he seemed like he could barely even get down the court when he played. I could never figure out why he ever made an NBA roster:
Great post. Agree wholeheartedly with your anaysis and thanks for reminding me of Samaki. What a scrub. I could barely watch him on the Court it was so bad.
Dwayne Schintzus, if for nothing else, his mullet.
CO SIGN! Not to mention Scola was basically not signed for this bum! Thats a double whammyin terms of playoff success the ultimate floor spreader-
Oh I see how this works
Del Negro sucked so he was a soft Euro, but if he was a Superstar, he would have been a great American player
Bah
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