i think he worked real hard on his conditioning this summer, and seems in good shape, so i’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he’ll be the same as last year. his trainer in chicago said they worked a lot on his lateral movement, so i’m guessing we’ll see more pump fakes on the open jumpers with a lateral dribble or two for a more contested jumpshot. i don’t know if his shooting stroke will stay the same, so maybe i’m hoping for too much. i really would hate to see him as useless as horry was, but i didn’t see a lot from him last year to indicate that he will perpetuate horry’s suckdom. to me, horry set a bar last year that will be very hard to reach, even for old man findog. maybe i’m too much of the “glass half full” approach on this one, we’ll see.

sign of the apacolypse – if he’s still starting in the second half of the season. i’m assuming that he will at the start the season, but it can’t be good for us if he continues to after MANU comes back. if we still need MANU to come off the bench, i’m hoping mason will be the starter instead. but i’m also hoping that mason will provide more scoring than most people had originally anticipated, and that will free Pop to start MANU. as i said earlier, we’ll see.

What I’d like to see from Fen-Phen:
At least a team average shooting percentage and no more than 65% of the minutes per game he played last year — and no starts past the season’s halfway mark.

What I think he has in store for us:
More playing time, less threes, more bad shot selection and less defence than I’d like to see, unless Pop benches him like a rookie point guard who just made back-to-back turnovers.

ATS has started the season (err, pre-season) with a vengence. he firing bullets like he’s that big red fake kids toy from SNL – spitting out that red syrup all over the walls and carpet…..

on the findog, i am OK with him being back. before, i said that i didnt want him. in a perfect world, he would be gone but there wasnt anyone preferrable to him out there in his salary range. i want to see fewer minutes, fewer attempts – basically fewer across the board. if he can play the RoHo role from, say the 05 season, I would be thrilled.

i am also hoping that mason will start the season in the starting 5. finley would play behind manu, bruce, ime and mason at least. basically he would get about the same minutes as matt bonner.

is a rotten, smelly corpse…

I bet the game will be shown on my35 or some other crappy channel.

But I think he should be somewhere b/t the Finley of the past two seasons and the 07-08 Horry.

If he shoots 42-43 from 3pt % the Spurs can use their next 1st rounder on a 4th string pg from Greenland, thats how happy Id be.

Unfortunately, I think he’ll be needed way too much early in the season, thus he will likely tire out.

I voted Clang, but I’m not ruling out him annoying the hell out of us all season, only to hit a game winning 3 against someone in the playoffs because that’s what our washed up stars do in odd years for some fucking reason or other. Not saying it will happen, just saying.

Plus, watching him play this year will probably assist me in my usual game ritual… I could make it a drinking game! Every shot he misses, i take one of my own!

….for the collection of “talent” that has been assembled. As far as Findog is concerned, I just hope he is able to make open J’s this year because he didn’t shoot the rock that well last.

My expectation of Finley is a repeat of last season …. which means he won’t be good enough to fill the role asked of him.

Finley could still be useful as an end of bench guy, but the team needs more from him than that. They need that fourth scorer, and starting wing to allow Manu to come off the bench. The team is asking too much of Finley at this stage of his career.