Tonight
Przybilla ....0-1 FG 0-0 FT 3 Reb 0 Ast 1 Stl 2 TO 1 BS 0 Pts
Oberto......2-2 FG 0-0 FT 4 Reb 1 Ast 0 Stl 0 TO 0 BS 4 Pts
Season
Przybilla...18.1 mpg .500 FG% 4.3 rpg 0.4 apg 1.8 bpg 2.2 ppg
Oberto.....18.8 mpg .572 FG% 4.9 rpg 0.9 apg 0.4 bpg 5.7 ppg
Some were sad JP decided to sign in Portland for 4 years plus a player option year Avg. $6M/yr. Totalling $31M
Przybilla's numbers are horribly down this year. He might be the worst center in the league right now.
However, there is good reason. He got kneed in the jewels by Troy Murphy early in the season so hardcore that he had to be put in the hospital and missed a month of action.
Any man can forgive him for his less than amazing play so far.
Yeah, he gets excused from bad play for about 4 years.
There but for the grace of...
Too bad we couldn't get Mourning.
I would've prefered Mutombo honestly.
But Mourning would've been perfect.
In hindsight,
an offseason of Alonzo Mourning and Trevor Ariza would've had the Spurs at 30 and 6 right now.
ariza is impressive in the limited minutes he gets in orlando. perfect bruce understudy without the 3 pt range...but that's why we pay chip the big bucks
Long, skinny, and freakishly athletic Bowen understudy...yeah I think his name is James White, and he's got a guaranteed minimum contract.ariza is impressive in the limited minutes he gets in orlando. perfect bruce understudy without the 3 pt range...but that's why we pay chip the big bucks
Yeah, only thing with Ariza, is he plays as good although slightly Better defense.
Better reBounder as well. All things White can turn into im assuming though.
white is too skinny to be a good rebounder, isnt he?
How skinny was Rodman?
Not even close to as skinny as James White. 'Sides, it's not an issue of being skinny, it's an issue of strength. White is not a strong guy at all.
Actually, its an issue of positioning. If you're smart and can get inside of players, then you should be able to get a bunch of rebounds barring you can outjump people. Strength is an issue in getting good position, but not as much as you'd think.
In the end you need a balance of things. I don't think Oberto is very strong, but if dude just had some vertical leap he'd own the boards because he's great at getting position. Too bad he's a worse jumper than Rasho was.
Oberto is very strong. Not fantastically strong, but pretty strong. He's just not very athletic.
I get your point that, for wings rebounding can be a simple matter of athleticism - spring in and snatch a board from the pile - but by all accounts White shies from contact and is too weak to scrum for the usual rebounds. I do think he can be a better rebounder than some of his Toros games have shown, but there's a reason he doesn't use his athleticism much in the half-court set and in traffic - his body can't take it. The guy is extremely weak.
Przybilla's numbers are horribly down this year. He might be the worst center in the league right now.
However, there is good reason. He got kneed in the jewels by Troy Murphy early in the season so hardcore that he had to be put in the hospital and missed a month of action.
Any man can forgive him for his less than amazing play so far.
He actually had to have surgery for the injury. He was messed up.
Pryzbilla's non-signing was a blessing, thankfully he turned the Spurs down.
BTW, if the Spurs had wanted Ariza they could have drafted him, he was picked right after the Spurs traded up to get Viktor Sanikidze.
we could have drafted josh howard too. there are times that i wonder about our FO.
But Isiah Thomas is infinitely better at drafting domestic talent than the Spurs. Pop and Buford never would have seen that one (and didn't).
Again, I call for the SAS FO to steal Isiah's draft notes this year.
A reasonable cir stancial case can be made for the Spurs being sub-par at domestic scouting.
They haven't drafted a US-produced player other than Tim Duncan who has made any impact in Pop's entire tenure.
Now every team in the league has passed over better players and made mistakes, so everybody does it, but I don't know if anyone else has so long a tenure and has reliably missed out on US product.
Just doing position for position, Beno over Duhon, Sanikidze over Ariza, Karaulov instead of Butler, Bracey over Mo Evans, Carrawell over Michael Redd, Corey Alexander over Eric Snow. Heck even though it's blasphemous they took one foreign scoring point guard over a domestic scoring point guard just about the same age, Parker over Arenas. But that's just nit-picking, Parker has been great and an all-star.
That's probably why they finally hired someone to be their director of college player personnel. Better late than never.
Didn't now they finally got a director of college player personnel. Another one you missed: Mahinmi over David Lee.
It's pretty obvious by now the Spurs have been very good at foreign scouting (depending on how some of the young'uns turn out), but they've been abyssmal at domestic scouting. Absolutely atrocious.
Sure did, here's the details, from September:Didn't now they finally got a director of college player personnel.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b...s.2d7ddea.htmlThe Spurs have hired ex-Indiana Pacers scout and University of South Carolina head coach George Felton as director of college player personnel.
even if we sign him for the MLE, or watever he was asking, his stats will not inflate but decrease, sumwhere what nazr or rasho was avg for us....
we suck
If memory serves, the Spurs offered him 4/24 . . .
Which would have destroyed the 2008 plan.
All for . . . Joel Pryzbilla?
Uhh,
Guys isn't Sanikidze like 20, and Mahinmi 19 or 20.
Why are we all of a sudden giving them the stiff name, instead of waiting till they get over and play.
I don't see anything wrong in comparing a 20 year old small forward taken 42 and a 21 year old small forward taken 43, and comparing them two and a half years after their draft selection.
I didn't include Mahinmi in my list because A. his draft was slightly more recent than Sanikidze's, and I'm willing to wait at least 2 full seasons post draft before evaluating, and B. because Mahinmi had signed to be a starter for a Euroleague team, though it didn't work out that way. Sanikidze didn't.
The Spurs have a rep for being a smart drafting team because of Manu and Parker and that's about it....those were good picks, but those were about the only good ones other than obvious picks Robinson and Duncan.
I remember the night we did the trade with Phoenix...I raised about it. And I knew Kidd wasn't coming(and was happy about it).
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