Official Early Offseason Thread(we only need 1 right now peeps)

[whottt]

Post that crap here...

[GoSpurs90899]

throw in van exel, barry, nazr, horry, and the rest of our bench minus finley

[picnroll]

ducks do you have compromisng pictures of Walsh, Bird and a monkey in a threesome to help work that deal?

[RON ARTEST]

not saying they do this trade though

i hope not.

[jamezyjamez]

Drop the geysers and get a backup PG. Also drop the spare bigs and get one athletic 4/5.

[v2freak]

We'll definitely lose Van Ex. I believe he says he's retiring. I still think we should run Barry at point. He flourished in Seattle like this.

3 years ago, Pop didn't know who to run at PG. I read an article that said Ginobili was the man for the job, Pop just didn't know it. I think that's the case here too, except with Barry

[Slinkyman]

Damn! You are 100% right! Thats why I was saying let Horry and Nazr try that dude! Pop never even tried.

horry is too old and slow to guard dirk and nazr? i won't even go there.

[Doc Jerome]

Speedy Claxton may be the answer for a reliable backup PG. He left SA for an opportunity to start; however, things did not work out for him. He is still high on the Spurs and I'm sure, the Spurs will reciprocate.

[whottt]

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42241

[T Park]

please no, of the 3 championship team that team was the worst and Sjax is an idiot. He's gone time to move on

If Kept Stephen Jackson would've propelled us to 3 straight les and wed be in the western Finals right now.

That simple.


02 03 was a great team, give me a break.

[T Park]

We'll definitely lose Van Ex. I believe he says he's retiring. I still think we should run Barry at point. He flourished in Seattle like this.

3 years ago, Pop didn't know who to run at PG. I read an article that said Ginobili was the man for the job, Pop just didn't know it. I think that's the case here too, except with Barry

Barry sucks, deal with it.

[Doc Jerome]

If the Spurs are going to compete with the "twin towers" defensive concept, the parts, i.e. the C spot must be tweeked. An athletic Center is the only answer; not another lumbering slugg.

[Vashner]

You need a slugg and an athletic... you rotate them.. Nazr with a brain basically...

(sorry nazr no offense i mean that in basketball terms)

[clubalien]

Normally I would say WTF why woud pacers trade their franchsie player
but oddly it makes so much sense now
1 HE reupped because he thoguth he woudl have a certian coach and then they changed coaches. Just so happens we are in the market for a new coach insted of pop too
2liek i said I thougth they made him their franchise player but i heard there is a conflict with him and ron artest. if he is gone they can build aroudn ron artest
some people wanted him over kidd. and we definelty wanted him if we couldn;t get kidd. some called him the player we need to keep playing twin towers.
He was close to signing but i think it was the coach thing that stoped him from signing here and now that isn;t a problem. With the ron artest situation he might want to get out of the pacers. I was posting this in reply to a thread about getting oneal, but when i went to post the thread disappeared so I am posting it here.

[T Park]

Just so happens we are in the market for a new coach insted of pop too

so you fire your coach a year after winning a championship?

Who do you hire, PJ carlisimo?

Lol thats great.

[Leetonidas]

These are the aquisitions I see this summer:

J.R. Smith
Speedy Claxton
Robertas Javtokas

What do you guys think? What center are we going after?

[Slinkyman]

If Kept Stephen Jackson would've propelled us to 3 straight les and wed be in the western Finals right now.

That simple.


02 03 was a great team, give me a break.

03 was a great team, but not as good as 05 or 99. and Sjax has done great with the pacers that dude make some of the dumbest passes i've ever seen in my life.

[NZHayden]

yall ready for this?
the only thing the spurs need to change is the intro music at at&t

[Leetonidas]

Let's trade Stan Kelly for Mason.

[Zarko]

The fact is, this team needs to get more athletic.

Duncan is no longer great enough to win soley on his own. You guys can love Tony Parker all you want, and I'm a fan of his too, but if you can increase their chances to win now, then you take that chance when you can. Remember when so many of you were so bent on keeping Brown over Finley? What happened there?

If you can aquire an all-star, you take it. Parker is a great player, but if you can find a player that while might be older, you get someone who can help you win now, and have them be your main core with athletic young guys off the bench or at other positions in the rotation, like JR Smith, and whoever else they can pick up.

Besides, I said Randolph was all-star LEVEL, meaning he has talent to bring it and put up numbers to get there. Pair him with Duncan and you have a monster low post set that can hit outside shots.

Finally someone who gets it!

[clubalien]

on the att intro music?

maybe we need a renamed arena

maybe sbc center or alamodome
possibyle call it the building that ian built

[2centsworth]

Spurs need a reliable backup point guard: Marucs Banks has been mentioned but speedy would be nice too.

Then they need an athletic defensive bigman. Javtokas? Mahimmi?

Then they need another 4th quarter finisher like a Stephan Jackson.

Other than that I look for Tim to have an MVP season next year.

[Slinkyman]

FREE AGENT TARGET: JARED JEFFRIES

height: 6-11
weight: 240
age: 24

restricted free agent so chance of signing is unlikely but worth a shot.

06' stats: 6.4 ppg, 2.1 orebs 4.9 rebs, 32% 3pt%

[velik_m]

I would say the biggest thing spurs need to do is get rid of small ball, this team is not built for it. But since that is probably not going to happen...

NVE, Marks are probably retiring
Nazr is gone.

1. Get rid of Rasho - he's completly useless in this system and you don't pay a player that amount of money for handing out drinks. There are a lot of team that could use a servicable C. Trade him to a team under cap, or for some expiring contracts or picks or any combination of those(maybe Chicago?)

2. Get rid of Beno - if you lost confidence in him, you'll never get it back. He can play perfect for entire season and make one mistake and you'll again lose all your confidence in him. Let him go elsewhere. (maybe package Beno&Barry for Speedy&Smith?)

3. Sign draft picks Javtokas, Scola, Sanikidze.

Parker/Speedy/3rd PG for minimum
Gino/JR Smith
Finley/Sanikidze
Bowen/Scola/Horry/Oberto
Duncan/Javtokas

[Zarko]

Express News today reported two trade offers for A.I., Minnesota's lottery pick and players for AI or Al Harrington and a Hawks pick for AI.

How can we pass on a trade that moves Parker and filler for AI? The guy would be able to get to the hole just as well, take off pressure of TD and Manu during the regular season, go to the FT line 12-15 times a game. Not to mention, I hear AI can hit a wide open 15 foot jump shot without Chip Enguland's assistance.

Philly does it because after all, how many 24 year old all stars are available for trade? (answer only one = tony parker)

The fact of the matter is, in 6 years, who is Tony going to lead in the playoffs to victory? Our farm team in Europe? Our future number one pick? In that time, Duncan Ginobilli, Bruce and the crew will be retired and we will be a 40 win a season struggling franchise. We need to strike while the championship window is open. I am tired of waiting for Tony to become clutch...

The time to win is now... make the deal happen.