I'm indifferent to the signing. He could turn out to be pretty good for the Spurs. Especially in transition in small ball. But I'm wondering if Neal was getting offers the Spurs couldn't match?
Advantages:
He's obviously a better defender than Neal, it's hard to be worse than him anyway.
He's not undersized like Neal and can defend SGs much better.
He's a better ball handler which can help us in some cases.
Cons:
He's basically a Neal replacement, not what we exactly need.
He's not very athletic.
A question: Did we use MLE to sign him or not? If we used, that's terrible.
marc stein twitted such things
"Belinelli with it" doesn't have the same ring.
Hope I'm wrong but I hate this signing.
-First, he's undersized for a wing, we needed someone that could play SF.
-Second, he shot 39% form the field and 35% from 3 last season and shooting is supossed to be his strength.
-He brings pretty much nothing in terms of rebounds, blks, stls and assists.
-He's not a good defender.
-He had a PER of 10.43 that's way below average.
Horrible, horrible signing.
I really hope he has a career year next season.
You're thinking too big. He's simply taking Neals role on the team. Free Agency isn't over yet. The Spurs will add a forward to the roster.
Neal and splitter for gortat
We could have done better for a Neal replacement, both in terms of players and money.
The room exception for Belinelli is hardly a ripoff? 2 years 5.4M? That's a great contract.
lolololol yes. And people are excited but I'm kinda meh on it.
He played on a team, Chicago, that had huge problems scoring.
Solid move, we need a ball handler. Especially seeing that Miami wore Parker out.
People are more excited about the thought of not having to watch Neal in a Spurs uniform anymore.
Neal is gone.
Belinell with it.
beware the small sample size
Just realized that is 6 mil over 2 years, not 6 each. That's better but I think we could have got someone like Delfino for that kind of money, maybe even less.
Probably, but how is Delfino so much better than Belinelli?
Ehhh wake me up when more news come.
Belinelli is not worse than Delfino for our team. He's a better ball-handler and a better three pointer.
^I'm all for the Belinelli signing, but all this talk about his ball-handling ability needs to stop.
His ball handling is sketchy at best.
An OK move that does not dissipate the stench of failure emanating from the Manu "Thank You!" contract.
Last season:
Delfino 37% from 3 - Belinelli 35%
Delfino is bigger, can play the 3 (defend guys like Durant), he's a pretty good ball handler and an underrated pick and roll player, he's a very good rebounder for his position too.
So compared to Green and Neal how would you describe his ball handling?
I hope that we're going to get a Durant defender with our MLE. We're trying to replace Neal right now.
While Belinelli is %38.7 career three pointer, Delfino is %36.5. Marco's average was little dipped last year since he was playing in short-handed and defensive minded Bulls.
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