Bbb but patty mills can shoot
Gasol is an expiring next year. They should wait out till december when a Barton becomes available. They have a couple plausible trades but i think the biggest thing is they get two kinds of players. 3&D and a guy that can drive to the basket off the bench. Iirc Barton is making 10 a year, and if hes healthy should be able to be the guy attacking now they just need a 3&D
Only way to improve next year is to tank and I mean tank hard
Barring a trade including dd/lma itll take an injury for that to happen
only changes will be pops routing and account #'s with payroll as he diversifies his holdings...$$$
I saw reports of a stress fracture..They already had Gasol doing basketball activities until a second opinion found he had a nerve issue on his foot
Imagine Fultz here... poor guy might end it all
what u do now is tank get that high draft picks
throw the rookies out there and get them to earn those m inutes and experience...
get rid of the vets and that mills
Fultz can still go down, like out of the league down.Lol I mean that might be true, but we only have 2 more years of Pop. Plus it's not like Fultz has anywhere to go but up
Spurs medical staff saw nothing more than a foot bruise tbh imho
Didn't this autistic mother er have pink eye for like 2 months a couple years back? These idiots can't even prescribe the correct eye drops ffs
making kawhi look even more right by the dayThey already had Gasol doing basketball activities until a second opinion found he had a nerve issue on his foot
Imagine Fultz here... poor guy might end it all
even if the spurs made a move to get better there’s still no way they’re winning a ring this year. would rather tank than lose in the 1st round...
Nothing is more memorable than that time Kawhi hurt his hand and the idiots said they had never seen anything like it
SGA would be the best PG on this roster by far. Tobias Harris would be the 2nd best player.
PATFO took a giant wet all over the franchise by turning down the Kiwi to the cripples deal
i guess move la for something... give white, lonnie, poeltl, metu heavy minutes.
might as well move rudy, he seems like he could actually have some value... bring in melo to keep casual fans somewhat interested in buying tickets/help with the tank.
then after the season ends use what pick the spurs get + gasol's expiring to move up in the draft.
This thread is golden. I have definitely had some laughs. Indulge me. Trolling not directed at anyone, it's just too funny.:
it's only November
"we staying compe ive this year"
I love that this is the same man who coached the "greatest power forward" in TD yet destroyed how that position is played, and that very same man showed the blue print to the entire NBA of how the three point shot can be used to crush teams with talents such as Durant and Westbrook, in OKC, and LeBron, Wade, and Bosh in Miami. Games 3, 4, and 5 of the 2014 finals changed the NBA forever! Golden State is just running what the Spurs used to run in 2013 and 2014 with better shooting personnel! 4 perimeter players, all live, with abilities to shot, drive and kick, and play defense, and 1 big for passing and defense. And the PF is no longer TD but Diaw or Draymond! Driving to the basket and kicking for threes is more profitable than midrange. Popovich made it work, where guys like D'Antoni still haven't cracked the code.I mean you read this and it makes you wonder why this roster was built this way when he ing knows
"Now you look at a stat sheet after a game and the first thing you look at is the threes. If you made threes and the other team didn't, you win. You don't even look at the rebounds or the turnovers or how much transition D was involved. You don't even care. That's how much an impact the three-point shot has and it's evidenced by how everybody plays." Gregg Popovich
"The inside game is kaputski," Popovich explained without helping with the spelling.
"You've got to have downhill players, you've got to have people that can penetrate and kick, you've got to have people who can switch, you've got to have big guys who can play little guys," he said.
"These days there's such an emphasis on the three because it's proven to be analytically correct," Popovich Monday offered with what appeared to be a sneer. "Now you look at a stat sheet after a game and the first thing you look at is the threes. If you made threes and the other team didn't, you win. You don't even look at the rebounds or the turnovers or how much transition D was involved. You don't even care. That's how much an impact the three-point shot has and it's evidenced by how everybody plays."
"I hate it, but I always have," Popovich said even as he's adjusted over the years. "I've hated the three for 20 years. That's why I make a joke all the time (and say) if we're going to make it a different game, let's have a four-point play. Because if everybody likes the three, they'll really like the four. People will jump out of their seats if you have a five-point play. It will be great. There's no basketball anymore, there's no beauty in it. It's pretty boring. But it is what it is and you need to work with it."
But Pop is not adjusting to what this franchise created that the modern NBA is embracing. Your scouting has to change, your play calling has to change, your focus of what is the most important things in a game to win has to change! He's already wrecked how bigs are used and looked at in the NBA yet he still stubbornly believes LMA is a centerpiece! Your transition defense, rebounding, and turnovers can be overcome if you have the personnel to hit the three because you should be in the business of winning and not what you think beautiful basketball should be as taught to you by Larry Brown!! Every one of those quotes just lends more credence to why Patricia Holt needs to have a face to face talk with Pop and transition him from coaching and making personnel decisions for the Spurs after this year regardless of record. He is not a good fit for how the modern NBA game needs to be played. I would also say he is not a good handler of the modern player either. Danny Green is a great example. Danny isn't looking over his shoulder anymore, he's not scared and he's playing like it. I know a lot of you think Bertans is crap, but Pop is misusing him terribly. Sean Elliott on numerous broadcasts last year would say Davis needed to be on the floor more and getting more touches, but Pop wouldn't do it on a consistent basis. And I think Sean knows just as much basketball as TD, TP, DROB, or Manu.
Since the end of the 2007 Championship, the Spurs have one additional, and some would say their most memorable, championship. At the end of this year that will be 12 years. Some could say we should have gotten more than just one with the collection of talent the Spurs had from 2012 through 2017. But, since that can't be changed, it's the future that needs to be planned for now. For me, especially after how the season ended last year, I would have asked Pop to transition away from coaching the franchise and just concentrate with RC on front office, and installed Messina as coach. But it definitely needs to happen after this year, and Pop needs to relinquish control over everything now. He was the greatest coach for his time, but that time is now done.
Last edited by LCM; 11-29-2018 at 01:28 AM.
I'm guessing Pop's going to try to hang on till he can pass Don Nelson.
He should have retired with TD, leaving the door open for Bud to make a return(as head coach this time). Bud has the Bucks playing basketball the right way while Pop is still stuck in the early 2000s.
The pay is pretty good.
Just remember. At the end of the year the team that finishes second will be no better off than where we end up.
but wait, they said in spurstalk that Mills and Gasol have positive value, I doubt any team will see any positive value on any spurs player except Derozan, Walker and Murray.
why is that term "patfo" still being thrown around? There is no such thing as a front office. There is Popovich. He's the ceo, president, gm, and coach. Bufford is a figure head. Do you really believe a collective organization of minds actually sat around and came up with the conclusion to have $100 million tied up in Gasol and Mills? There are no checks and balances in this organization. What popovich wants, no one tells him "no" because he has brought 5 rings here.
Tanking would involve popovichs' playoff streak to end. So he'd rather continue 1st round exits and leave us in shambles as long as he's remembered as the guy with the longest playoff streak that never ended
Yep they need to re-up and sign Little General longer term b4 Magic talks PATFO into accepting Robert Sacre and 2 future second rounders for him.
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