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White is good, but still Finley is better.
Younger, more athletic and probably more confidence in his shot right now.
Finley has lost it....................
Im afraid Horry has also..........
White is good, but still Finley is better.
Finley sucks balls.
I'd give him a shot, at least.
I'd give the Coyote a shot over Finley
Finley has lost his shot ?
Since December 1st (17 games), his 3P% is 41%.
both finley and horry seem to be getting their mojo back. white needs to remain the understudy.
They need to give him a few minutes but nothing serious. Very similar to what they did with SJax his first year here. Unless the guy flat out balls in the limited minutes.
i prefer to give white and butler time....
the dinosaurs on our team...
Stephen Jackson would have never played without injuries to Steve Smith and Manu Ginobili.
It doesn't matter how 'ready' James White or Jackie Butler are, they aren't jumping ahead of veterans without multiple vets being hurt.
I'd love to see White get a few minutes here and there late in the season, and Butler some spot minutes now. But these guys are here for next year and we shouldn't have any expectations.
White will get playtme for the last games of the regular season if Spurs aren't fighting with another team to get a particular playoff spot or if players are injured.
Pop's allegiance to aged veterans (remember Nicky) and his fascination with "small ball" will eventually be the undoing of the Spurs playoff chances.
Unfortunately Nick Van Exel lives on with this year's Spurs. It seems that Udrih has decided to give the Spurs what they obviously wanted, a point guard who forces a lot of shots when he's not set and misses a great number of them.
Yeah, James White is the key to the championship this year.Pop's allegiance to aged veterans (remember Nicky) and his fascination with "small ball" will eventually be the undoing of the Spurs playoff chances.
You people are insufferable.
This is probably the dumbest thread I've seen all year here, and there have been some very dumb threads.
Well start the smartest of smart threads then.
Part of me wishes Finley never joined the Spurs. Yeah he's shooting better and everything, but he's one of the main reasons why Pop has used small ball and why small ball doesn't work. Finley is a horrible rebounder and average defender at best and seems to crumble defensively in big moments.
If Finley is in when the Spurs need a stop, it seems like it's always his man doing the damage. And all indications point to Pop still going to Finley in small ball during big moments
Finley is a longer-term Nick Van Exel. Pop keeps going to him and he doesn't do a whole of a lot. At least he produced versus Dallas in the postseason, and here's hoping he does it again this year, but as excited as we all were two summers ago on signing him, we might have been better served to go for a younger player.Part of me wishes Finley never joined the Spurs. Yeah he's shooting better and everything, but he's one of the main reasons why Pop has used small ball and why small ball doesn't work. Finley is a horrible rebounder and average defender at best and seems to crumble defensively in big moments.
If Finley is in when the Spurs need a stop, it seems like it's always his man doing the damage. And all indications point to Pop still going to Finley in small ball during big moments
There's a big difference between learning the QB spot and playing any position in the NBA except maybe point guard, so that's a poor comparison imo.
Even so, Romo himself has said how important playing the entire pre-season game that he did was to his development. Had he never played that game, how would his season have turned out?
I also view the O'Neal comparison as not as compelling as you think.
O'Neal wasn't playing, so the Blazers traded him away and he became a max-franchise player. Seems like he at a certain point was 'ready', they just didn't want to/couldn't bring themselves to play him. But they were happy to trade him for an old big in Dale Davis.
Seems to me if Portland knew what a stud he was going to be they wouldn't have made that deal. But they didn't know because they wouldn't play him.
Indiana played him immediately and he responded with a double double and nearly 3 blocks a game.
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Now I am NOT saying that Butler or White will be any good, I am not saying to trade Finley and Barry and everyone else for second round picks, I am not making ridiculous predictions that the Spurs winning rests on Butler and White.
I am only saying that the 'Stephen Jackson Plan' is senseless, because the 'Stephen Jackson Plan' is a romanticized myth that people have convinced themselves is true.
A player can be 'ready' as they will ever be, but a variety of factors can keep them on the bench regardless, whether it was Jermaine O'Neal sitting behind Wallace, Sabonis and Grant, or Stephen Jackson sitting behind Steve Smith etc.
finley blows chunks i said i saiddd
Just try the man. What's the risk ? A good surprise or just figuring that he still needs to work. No big deal.
He might not be totally ready but his youth, his freshness could bring some energy to others. His will also. Maybe that could shake a bit the team.
Sometimes a slight change in your habbits, your environment can make a difference.
It's not like everything was going just fine with the team lately.
Finley blows goats.
Finley has had TONS of opportunities to put together a few good games in a row.....what does he do???
One good game, 4 bad ones, one decent game, 6 horrible ones, one good game, 3 terrible games...............(repeat as necessary)
Exactly. Mike Dumbleavy did not use him properly and you saw the Fakers thus get the ridiculous series win and Oneals Indiana results.
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