Spurs not being able to find suitors for Marco/Demarre?
I guess the Washington Mystics aren't returning their calls
Nothing happens without Poop's approval.
Spurs not being able to find suitors for Marco/Demarre?
I guess the Washington Mystics aren't returning their calls
R. C. Buford was the GM who signed Carroll.
Carroll was signed to the contract on July 6, 2019. Buford's transition to CEO of Spurs Sports and Entertainment was effective on September 3.
No chance of blaming the new guy for that one.
or Gay & Carroll for Turner & filer
The Carroll situation is a bit bizarre. He's a proven role player in this league who's started the past couple of years and we gave him money to at least play some minutes and it's like he's never really gotten a chance. Is he that lost in practice where he just doesn't fit? Maybe, but it's kinda hard to believe considering he was one of the better players on Coach Bud's ATL team.
Tbf Carroll has been washed up for about 4 years now and was only supposed to be a warm body if Morris et al got injured or something. Obviously Morris did what he did, but that doesn't automatically mean Carroll was ever the next man up. What didn't make sense was LW not getting any burn on top of Carroll not absorbing Morris' minutes. We've been playing a man down most the year for seemingly no reason other than Pop being to afraid to experiment or deviate at all on his lineups at all in fear of being a non-playoff team. Fittingly that fear lead him to this point we're at currently, on the outside looking in, battling with young teams for an 8th seed.
In context, Carroll is net neg player in this part of career, so if Pop wasn't playing Lonnie, who's obviously a net positive, then it's not that surprising he hasn't gotten any burn. Then factor in he doesn't know the system, a SA vet like Beli and Forbes beats him out of PT in practice 10/10.
Sucks for Carroll, who knows how things would have played out without the Morris situation, but this isn't a good look, not getting minutes on a sub 500 team. Hopefully we can still get something for him despite this weird situation.
No sign of Beli tonight yet... He’s not in the rotation right now, and hopefully that means a move coming.
Carroll and Beli combine for $12.8mm in salary. If they’re serious about the eight seed, they may even throw in a pick with those two to bring in a rotation piece. Those two alone can bring back $17.8mm.
Gay could bring back slightly more salary.
Spurs aren’t going into tax though.
Zero reason to go into tax (and you can’t go into tax when you start the season under). Beli has been out of the rotation mostly before the deadline too (other than some spurts) so I would not read into that as anything imminent.
there is no GM in the league dumb enough to sign or trade for Bellineli at this point. NO ONE!!!!!
No, the logic here doesn't work. Carroll was supposed to be the off-season acquisition. Spurs re-worked the contract offer he'd agreed to already (that was blocking the Morris acquisition), after Morris became unexpectedly unavailable (it was this re-working that forced the Davis trade...).
He's a worse defensive C than Forbes is a defensive guard. He's a frickin' turnstile that provides zero rim protection. I'd rather trade Rudy and filler for a bag of chips than try to shoe horn him into a position where he's yet another one way player in our rotation.
Dedmon's not coming back here. Tends to happen when you cuss Pop when he pulls you out of the game. No way, no day.
Young also credits Wright with leading the negotiations in re-signing Rudy Gay to a two-year, $32 million deal and assisting in the orchestration of the sign-and-trade that brought DeMarre Carrol to San Antonio and sent Davis Bertans to Washington while opening up the necessary cap space to sign Marcus Morris.
https://airalamo.com/2019/07/22/san-...-brian-wright/
We screwed
that's not true. Spurs wanted to sign Dedmon this offseason, but didn't cause his price was too high
i still believe the spurs thought they were signing Taurean Prince. LOL
That's a media puff piece. Some of you guys sure are gullible.
R. C. Buford signed Carroll. Fact.
Impossible.
Can you share the details of that story? Is that why he ultimately ended up in the doghouse? Somehow I missed it.
Last edited by BatManu20; 02-04-2020 at 04:47 PM.
Really? I don't remember that at all.
damn dedmon is pretty alpha if he's cussing out poop
If jazz want Marco and DeMarree contract for Ed Davis one year I’m down.
Someone may take a flyer on Marco considering he's a short term commitment. He's hit a lot of big shots over his career. Contending teams in need of shooters may roll the dice.
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