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2 words to your question: Steve Nash
Gortat is a legit bigman and inside defensive presence but without knowing exactly why it happened, I am concerned about his pretty significant drop off in production last year as compared to the year before, where he was at career highs.
2 words to your question: Steve Nash
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Hearing Spurs and Tiago Splitter have ramped up talks and are making progress toward deal terms
So without Nash he is not as good. What do you think about pairing him with TP + Spurs system? Better, worse than his numbers last year? I think he'll have Splitter type numbers tbh but will likely be better defensively and potentially not go fetal in the playoffs.
I don't like this love because I think gortat is so much better than splitter. While I do thin he's more physical/imposing, splitter has upsides too. I love this deal because it gets us out of having to make a multi year commitment to a questionable big like splitter. Being able to maintain having a solid center but only on a 1 year deal would be sweet
Darn, but it could be worse I suppose. Oden as the primary backup would be a disaster.
Gortat is a very good p&r big. Where he is much better than splitter is his rebounding, that is why his scoring average would be higher than tiago's in my opinion. I think with TP his numbers could be pretty close to his 15/10 days with nash.
I take it if we resign Splitter, we get no Gortat?
Between his solid pick and roll skills and his ability to hit the midranger, 15 points would completely plausible. Really, the only question is how the usage gets divided up.
But this is obviously pretty hypothetical.
While I think this is a positive move I don't think the Spurs would ever do such a thing.
Two $7-8M/year centers + Tim? Not gonna happen.
Can we make this thread inactive now??
It would take a lot for Parker to trust him, he shied away from Tiago after coming up empty on a few attempts.
keep posting in it will keep bumping it up
Last edited by ducks; 07-02-2013 at 02:47 PM.
My guess is that Tony would need to. With two bigs both capable of tolling to the basket, hitting the midrange shot, and posting up, I would think Pop would be designing plays around that to confuse the crap out of defenses. And when Tim was on the bench, Tony and Gortat could run some of the Tim/Tony sets.
Well, if Wojo is correct which he usually is we won't have to worry. Tiago will be back to the bed when he isn't 3 feet from the basket.
17 pages, 23,000 views in one day.... all for a bull rumor by an amateur journalist
I would say he succeeded!17 pages, 23,000 views in one day.... all for a bull rumor by an amateur journalist
Well, that went away fast
Or he could be another Jefferson - guy that puts up nice stats on a bad team. In any case, Gortat's defense has never impressed me. Splitter's soft but at least he defends well in the Spurs system.
By the way I would like to apologize for starting this thread, really should have waited those few extra seconds to see if Stein, Woj, etc RT his tweet.
i know the momentum is dead but we can still get this to 20 pages
At least we learned to never trust Jordan Schultz......
Didn't this clown also say last night D12 was leaning towards Dallas when they had not met with him yet?
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