I guess Kawhi has to be the best offensive and defensive player in the NBA before people will be satisfied and even then I'm sure they'll about what he does for this team. Anyways Kawhi has improved every year going back to his HS days and I expect that to continue.
Bottom line is RC and Pop need to build up the depth on this team and not rely on a bunch of old washed up dudes trying to get a ring before they retire. Even our young guy (Anderson) played like an old dude.
Sounds good. As is evident from tonight's sampling of your over 9,000 posts, you clearly don't believe in the idea that one learns more by listening than by speaking. But tip of the cap to you for doubling down on quan y over quality. I'll let you have the last word because I know you want it and need to pad those stats.I didn't call you a No-Life though. I said "When you are starting out" because you have an extremely low post count. I was not wrong.
No one was even talking about Quan y over quality though. You just added that right now.
What are you talking about now...
If they trade Tony they could afford to give both 17 mil a season, the problem is the Grizzles and Hawks will probably give them max money or close to it and I'm not sure they'll pass that up.
This is the biggest question mark. Genuine question, not rhetorical: Who would be willing to pickup Parker's contract? Lakers? Kings? That is the threshold question, IMO.
They would probably need to include a draft pick if they really wanted to dump that contract. Although with the cap increase maybe Parker's contract doesn't look as bad.
Parker's contract is bad regardless of the new salary cap. It's one of the worst contracts we've ever had along with Jefferson and Splitter's. And the most hilarious part of it all is that he was rewarded with it after a ty playoff showing. Not even Jim Buss is dumb enough to take that contract from us
It is doubtful, especially with Tim and Manu's imminent departure that the Spurs would trade/ get rid of Tony. My question would be, would he be willing to come off the bench with Bob, Kyle, Boban, and Patty if Conley and Horford were available?
Parker was pissed when George Hill was starting over him before, what makes anyone think he will be willing to come off the bench now?
Once Timmy and Manu officially say they are retiring the spurs need to figure out a way they can trade Parker and Diaw together. They can get something good out of that combo. Parker is not the future. Spurs need an elite point guard who can go up against GS, OK, Clippers, Blazers etc. They aren't going away and that is the strongest position in the NBA right now. Parker is just not going to cut it anymore.
So, which elite point guard is available exactly?
Right on. Kawhi and LMA and Duncan put a 6 point lead on the board and the bench delivers a 0-12 run. Every single bench player sucked for most of the last five games.
OKC got more production from more players after game one. It also helps that every rotation player was under 28 years old.
Too many Spurs are over the hill right now outside of LMA and Kawhi against a very talented, but flawed team like OKC. Look at all the crap that had to go OKCs way to win this series. It took two abortions by the officials and dozens of missed, open shots to get OKC past them.
The WCF will be a five game series - most of the games will be double digit wins for GSW unless the Mongoloid Brothers are able to injure Curry. Then it will be a six game series for GSW.
Dabom bullying s like Kawhi.
this, Kawhi would benefit from this change
Because he couldnīt find ways to take advantage of a team with no elite defenders.
The bench, the whatever.
In both games we lost before yesterday Kawhi disappeared in the clutch.
He should get the hate, and he should improve, learn to pass the ball, improve his handles and come back next year stronger.
Lol. Lay off the crack. This isn't the East, 1 player can't carry a team full of .
Bunch of suckers he's improving every year and will be even better next season. Not to mention playing DPOY D everynight.
I didnītt expect him to Carry a team. I am just asking him to take advantage of a team with no elite defenders, he failed at it. Plain and simple.
If you want to believe every other not max player on the team has the guilt for this elimination. Great for you, but leonard was guarded by Durant, Waiters and Robertson the whole series, and he didnīt take properly advantage of t.
Look at what Westbrook and Durant did playing against much better defenders.
Kawhi has to learn on this, and on top of this, learn to pass, because the difference in the series was OKCīs star ability to either score or create for others, instead SAS stars couldnīt create for other when they werenīt scoring.
It's fine to criticize Kawhi -- he deserves his share.
That being said, LMA is one of the most non-physical bigs I've ever seen. I mean, I'm glad he finally got double-digit rebounds in a game this series, I just wish he would attack the rim more. You'd expect a 6'11'' PF to get to the line at least once. But, it's hard to draw fouls when all you shoot is Dirk fadeaways off one leg.
We don't need an "elite" pg, we just needs one that can defend better than parker(which aint saying much) and someone that doesn't try to be the ing hero. I wouldn't even want Lillard, cuz even though he's a very good player and one of the best in the league, he takes some really bad shots when he gets tired.
I tell you all along it will end the same as last season and Kawhi will fail under the pressure, this time he got barnsed by Robertson!
he averaged 23 a game shooting 50% while having to guard 2 of the best scorers in the leauge. wtf haha. I mean, Curry is his on defense, Kd is hid on defense. Lebron is hid on defense. Leonard doesn't get hid on defense. He has to guard his man, Parker's assignment , and also score..
He has to play both ways. It is exhausting. Also his shot stopped dropping from mid range after he banged his knee in game 1 or 2. Can't recall which game.
It's not Danny's fault he cannot dribble and run. We aren't talking about fault. It's just a fact that Kawhi doesn't have the handles or the savvy to take guys off the dribble. Only a few guys in history could do what Kawhi can do, and only one could do it better (on both ends), which was MJ.
I don't hate Kawhi but I do hate his bandwagon fans. They tend to be the stupidest fans on the internet up there with the Kobe s. They have delusional views of the type of player Kawhi is simply based off of him winning the Finals MVP in 2014. They make excuses for his failure such as Parker,Pop, is holding him back but when in reality he's not assertive vocally, has average ball handling skills that limit his ability to be a great offensive player.
The league in my eyes currently only has 3 legit superstars which is Lebron,Durant,Curry. That will change in the next few years with younger players developing and new players coming into the league. Outside of those 3 superstars the other good players are just stars. Kawhi is probably the best star player in the league. I would take him over Harden and Westbrook simply because those guys are serial chuckers with terribly low FG percentages. With that being said the Kawhi fans have argued all year that he was in the same class as Lebron,Durant,Curry when clearly he wasn't. I don't think Kawhi will ever be as good as those guys or reach that level but that's not a knock against Kawhi since very few players can reach that echelon. It doesn't mean the Spurs can't win a championship in the future but what it does mean is the Spurs are going to have to be a deeper team and get other guys who can be scorers to win against the Lebrons,Durants,Curries.
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