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so is this trade going to happen? if so i'm gonna pop open one and fire one up.
Jaric was playing with Manu, mostly being loved for his FT consistency and atlethicism. With Manu the whole team ran as . In the season of Kinder-miracles only Olimpija with best guards, Brezec could seriously stop Kinder. Here Jaric plays for (rejuvenated since his presence) LA Clippers... LeBron could not do more if he came from Europe.
so is this trade going to happen? if so i'm gonna pop open one and fire one up.
I do believe Nocioni could be that long 3 the spurs are looking for, he is a great rebounder avg around 8 boards off then bench in the playoffs, yes I know people say he cant shoot and that cost the bulls the series against the wizards; but I didnt watch the series so I dont know about that all I know he avg 12 pts and 8 boards in his first playoff series;
G GS MPG FGM-A FG% 3PM-A 3P% FTM-A FT% OFF DEF RPG APG SPG BPG TO PF PPG
First Round
6 6 33.7 27-67 .403 6-17 .353 17-23 .739 1.30 6.80 8.20 2.3 .17 1.00 1.83 3.30 12.8
question did Deng not play in that series against the Wizards, because on his NBA.com profile he doenst have any stats for the playoffs, did he get injured?
wallce is a G/F and SAR is a SF
end of story...
I believe Deng injured his wrist. If the Bulls had Deng and Curry available, no way the Wizards get past them.
SAR is a PF. Portland offered him the ability to start at the SF position but SAR didn't want that, proudly claiming that he was a PF. Your best bet is to start SAR at the 5 (Tim doesn't want to be considered a 5) and immediately move him to the 4 and Tim into a 5-ish position once the game starts. He could take some spot minutes at the 3, primarily dictated by matchups, but he would get killed out on the perimeter by some of the quicker 3s in the league.
rahim would be the main backup big in san antonio long term. nazr would be kind of a placeholder. rahim would have all of the playing time he could want in this scenario and be able to get plenty of notoriety.
Tim plays the five already. You're just arguing semantics, weakly at that.our best bet is to start SAR at the 5 (Tim doesn't want to be considered a 5) and immediately move him to the 4 and Tim into a 5-ish position once the game starts.
I understand that he and his agent have already ruled out the Magic because he doesn't have an opportunity to start there.Shareef Abdur-Rahim, PF
Suitors: Blazers, Nets, Kings, Magic, Heat, Cavs, Bulls
I hadn't heard that the Bulls were in the mix. But I understand that the Wizards are.
So the Spurs would have to offer him an "opportunity" to start. Hmmm...
Is he really only considering teams that he can start for? How can that be if he is saying that the Spurs are on his short list?
he's a fa, so if he wanted to come here, he'd have to know we have a pretty good power forward already. you'd think he'd know the situation here with the 5/4 or have at least watched the playoffs. (he probably knows he's not going to start)
and if he wanted to come here for more than the mle... the portland front office would really need/want rasho and his contract... otherwise, its a favor that they dont need to offer sar... they could just let him walk without having to commit to another contract they dont need/want.
His agent said yesterday that they weren't considering Orlando because Dwight Howard plays the same postion and he wouldn't have an opportunity to start there.Is he really only considering teams that he can start for?
That being said, the Magic are losers and the Spurs are winners, so I'm not sure if he'll feel the same about S.A.
longer this drags out the less likley it will go down
He's not an idiot - he has to know that he wouldn't start here, but I'm sure he'd get some decent minutes, he'd get to play with TD, he'd be a contender for a le... all those things must be more important than starting.
Well for all we know, Timmy might have told the Spurs brass that he's willing to start at C if they can get a 20ppg scorer next to him.He's not an idiot - he has to know that he wouldn't start here, but I'm sure he'd get some decent minutes, he'd get to play with TD, he'd be a contender for a le... all those things must be more important than starting.
Well for all we know, Timmy might have told the Spurs brass that he's willing to start at C if they can get a 20ppg scorer next to him.
that would be an awesome idea. nazr could come in for tim. duncan/horry for sar. that would kill.Well for all we know, Timmy might have told the Spurs brass that he's willing to start at C if they can get a 20ppg scorer next to him.
signing nazr to an extension just got harder if nazr wants to start
Exactly!... and Scola comes much cheaper than SAR.
how can you say scola and sar are the same
it is proven what sar can do
nothing is certain with scola
are you saying scola is >sar?
this whole abdur-rahim has never played in an NBA playoff game is bull e to me. he's been on really ty teams, really ty. i don't think that they were playoff contenders until he got there and he ruined them.
it is an intriguing scenario, he is a talented player and the spurs interior offense would be killer, combine that with slashers like parker and manu, with outside shooters like horry, barry, manu et al., this is potentially one of an offensive team. we already have good team D.
it's not done yet, so who knows, but if it does through, i will find a way to get excited about the potential, bet on it.
i was saying something along these lines. it would make good sense, what other center in the west could tim not handle? yao, maybe? dampier, but i think that would be a push or go in duncan's favor. from the east, duncan matches up favorably against ben wallace, jermain oneal and at times shaq. and from what i've heard of SAR, he'd be great against the other power forwards out there, so you'd be losing little at power forward and gaining a lot in the center position. i'm thinking scola isn't coming this year, or at the least he isn't the priority. why would he be? you could spend money now and bring in a guy who will take time getting used to the city, languange and game or you could wait a year and have the same guy for free.Well for all we know, Timmy might have told the Spurs brass that he's willing to start at C if they can get a 20ppg scorer next to him.
and the more i think about it maybe that's a good thing. he's going to take time to settle in as opposed to a guy you could bring in already ready to go. i think the signing of a shooting coach points to a more "here and now" mentality: pop may have been opposed to the idea thinking that his team was still getting formed and needed to learn stuff on its own, but now the team is pretty set and the time for learning is over. i don't think it's any sort of trick or anything that they are going after donyell marshall or SAR (maybe thinking of putting duncan at center). it'd be a good way to go.
I reviewed his box scores from the last couple years in Portland. Rahim does well - sometimes very well - when he starts. Not so well when he doesn't. He also tends to need big minutes to produce, which normally isn't that big a deal. It is a big deal, however, when you try to jam a starter into a bench role. Some players can do it, some players, like SAR, struggle.
This doesn't look like a safe bet by any means.
I don't think we can start SAR over Nazr. Duncan is a natural 4 and moving him might hinder his game a bit. I don't think the Spurs need to go to those lengths to bring in SAR. If he wants to be a Spur he should be willing to accept a role off the bench. He will make a good scoring backup to Duncan but there is no need to mess with the starting 5 that much.
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