Athletic bigs.
Signing Scola and Javtokas are the best moves to do that.
Get a back up point, like someone said Claxton or Bobby Jackson, who would even be better.
Long 3, Sanikidze? maybe, but would love a Deng or someone else, in a sign and trade.
A reasonable outlook for next season could be...
Starting Five:
PF - Tim Duncan
SF - Bruce Bowen
C - Joel Pryzbilla
SG - Manu Ginobili
PG - Tony Parker
Bench:
Michael Finley
Speedy Claxton
Robertas Javotokas
JR Smith
Robert Horry
Beno Udrih
Sean Marks
Rasho Nesterovic
That one dude who's name I always forget, Viktor something.
Well I guess I'd try to trade Rasho...but what team is gonna want him?
Ditch Barry...
NVE is retiring...that's taken care of already...
Give Beno another year...but definately get another backup PG
Get someone who can REBOUND
As I see it a CENTER should be our priority....
Someone bad ass.. I remember when .50 would get a block you could hear like BAM.. stop that .. now it's like enemy SCORES 2.. then we try to score..
I kinda miss Stephen Jackson...
Come to think of it, I miss the 02-03 team
I think you wait and see what Mohammed can bring you back in a sign and trade. There should be enough teams dangling the full MLE for him that someone will offer him more.
Ive been giving him a break for 2 years.Give you a break? First, try giving Barry a break. Making him a scapegoat is just ridiculous
Hes not THE Scapegoat, but he was part of the problem tonight.
Open your eyes.
We could never get Nocioni but that would be bad ass if we could.
Trade Parker? Seriously???
If anything, we need a solid center and a good backup for TP. And our bench needs to step it up again.
Did you watch Devin Brown at all this year. He is nowhere near the player he was pre-back problems.
Randolph? You couldn't give me that lazy POS with a at ude.
Spurs had the right target end of season in Tim Thomas. They lost him to the Suns when Kurt Thomas got hurt. Tim Thomas would have gotten the Spurs past Dallas with room to breathe.
If hes available, yeah you bring him back no question.You also have the opportunity to bring back Devin Brown who fits your system well
I doubt if he will be.
Nothing big needs to be changed.
NVE is retiring. (I feel bad for him)
Horry is retiring.
Finley we keep(I feel mondo bad)
Barry, I say we keep, for reasons I'll say later.
Nazr is probably out.
So that just leaves to get a good-sized small forward, another backup PG and another C.
Spurs really do have a lot to look at in the offseason. They got beat because they got outran, which is due to their age.
Sure 30 is middle age in real life, but in sports, that's classified as "old".
Spurs need to get just the right amount of veterans and just the right amount of young guys to the team to produce a championship level team. You can't just say Parker is untouchable because he's "young and improving". He is both young and improving, but right now is a good time to bank off of what they have. Bowen is not getting younger, neither is Ginobili and Duncan. They can't overhaul their entire roster, so what I think should be done is to sign about 2-3 younger players, or trade for them, and if Parker disappears next year in the post season (don't give me a statline, because stats aren't everything, right? Look at Garnett in Minnesota) then you could actually put him up for a trade for a more proven talent ready to win now.
Duncan and Ginobili are the heart and soul of this team (with Bowen at a crucial part of it) and they are already pretty old, so you build around them with young athletics and a proven all-star level player.
Tim Thomas, would have been, BEYOND fantastic.Tim Thomas would have gotten the Spurs past Dallas with room to breathe.
him or deng could be available... chicaog needs some bigs and i could see maybe a scola or rasho trade with maybe a barry involved or sumthing like that...chicao is desperate for a big
We need a long SF....we need it real bad. We all knew it, we been saying it for 2 years now, it was the one hole on the the team...and AJ found a way to exploit it to maximum benefit.
You have to guard Dirk with a long SF. You have to guard Bonzi with a long SF, you have to guard Garnett with one, you have to guard Melo with one, you have to guard Amare with one, you have to guard Lebron with one
...it's just the way the NBA is now. And every other team in the NBA has 2 or 3 of these guys...we don't have one of them.
I am still pissed that Horry didn't get more opportunity to guard Dirk...what....Dirk would have gone off for 40 instead of 39?
please no, of the 3 championship team that team was the worst and Sjax is an idiot. He's gone time to move on.Come to think of it, I miss the 02-03 team
No hes untouchable because hes a top 5 all star point guard.You can't just say Parker is untouchable because he's "young and improving
Yout hink they grow on ing trees?
Who do you want to take over, Udrih!??!?!
Well I consider the team as on the decline. This was a prime year to take the le and they blew it against a team where their 2nd/3rd and 4th best players aren't even as good as Parker or Ginobili, nor will they ever be.Yeah being one of the elite teams is terrible, what?
Manu probably won't be able to play 20minutes next year. I still don't know if Parker can dominate in the playoffs. Duncan will produce if healthy for sure. He is still an elite player when healthy. But other teams are hungry and growing. The Spurs are aging fast.
i mean people wouldnt have thougtht but ben gordon came up during the trade deadline for a big...hes i think there best player so i think chicago would do almost anything for a big besides chandler or hinrich
The NBA is a more guard-oriented game now, and while they do not grow on trees, it's not as impossible to find a good replacement to compliment the HOFer on our team. Guys, Duncan is a potential top 5 player of ALL TIME at this rate, it wouldn't be impossible for such a feat, top 10 is almost a given.
I am just saying that this isn't Parker's team, it's Duncan's, now if the Spurs had a more pass oriented and consistant guard, wouldn't you feel more secure in the Spurs chances?
These playoffs proved one thing, this is still Duncan's team, and you win now with what you have, and you need young guys AND veterans to win... so you need an overhaul of talent because this team is only going to get older as other teams get better because of their youth and abilities to play all out.
I can't believe we missed out on that he's exactly what we needed and the spurs knew it, too bad he'll probably be a sun for a while now unless they try to low ball him.
Stop dreaming.
Bulls need bigs but they have a top-3 pick and tons of capspace to sign FA (like Nazr, Gooden, Harrington, Pryz...)
Nocion and Deng aren't realistic options.
We need Nocioni or Deng! Do what you have to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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