I don’t think he is worth that much.

I don’t really know anything about him. A look at his stats for the year are promising.

He shot 40% from 3’s attempting 4 per game. And he shot 87% from the line. They list him as a point guard, so he’s a big one at 6’5” 200 pounds.

And hey, he’s only 27.

Very good signing at this point. He was on my “best roster possible” that I posted earlier today.

He’s a big combo guard who is athletic and can score in bunches. He is also a fiery competitor. I think he is worth the money but it is too bad they couldn’t have gotten him for less. He is better than J.R. Smith and most people wouldn’t be surprised if Smith got the MLE.

It would be great if there were enough left over for Azubuike, but that is probably a pipe dream now.

So-So signing in my estimation. He can shoot no doubt, the Spurs need some guys that can run and jump. Good-bye Findog? Hello Azuibuke?

I haven’t given up on Azuibuike yet. The Warriors might not be able to afford him if they sign Turiaf and I’m surprised he’s on nobody’s radar. C’mon Pop, make an offer. The worst that can happen is they’ll say no.

So let me understand this…..

We signed a guy who I’ve barely heard of and who was the THIRD string guard on the Washington Wizards for more than he’s worth and effectively took ourselves out of the Childress/JR sweepstakes, and now we’re hanging on the slim dream/hope that even Azubuike will come to San Antonio and play for $75 and a Taco Cabana gift card?? This offseason just keeps getting better folks.

Sweet.

espn has Kurt Thomas at the top of their “Best Available Free Agents” in the unrestricted section. So think about how depressing that is. Kurt Thomas is the BEST we can do.

You gotta be kidding me, why not just use marcus williams

as far as alleged athletic additions this seems to be in the same class with the Cisco Elson Experiment

zing

In no particular order

-If you’re big on the off-court stuff, Mason is about a good a guy as you’ll find in the NBA. Never gets into trouble, unassuming, great teammate, etc. etc. In that way, he fits in perfectly with the Spurs.

-One thing nobody’s mentioning here is that Mason played as much point as he did on the wing last year. He’s not much of a passer, but he also won’t turn the ball over as much. Besides being a two-guard, he could also back up Parker at the point. Judging from how much Jacque Vaughn draws your collective ire, that has to be a positive.

-There’s something to be said about whether last season is a fluke, but if it isn’t, dude’s a lights-out spot-up shooter, which should bode well playing with Duncan. As long as he’s given good shots, he’s a downtown assassin. We’ve dubbed him the “Potomac Rainmaker” on Bullets Forever

-A part of me wonders whether he’ll be as successful outside the Princeton offense, which simplified his role to being a spot-up shooter that could dribble the ball to half court. If he was asked to do more ball-handling, it might hurt him, but at the same time, how much does Vaughn handle the ball?

-He has a somewhat annoying tendency of shooting contested pull-up 20-footers off pick and rolls.

Overall, his price is more expensive than I expected, but he’s going to help you guys out. He didn’t fit in D.C. because Gilbert Arenas is coming back, plus we needed the room to give minutes to Nick Young. In San Antonio, though, he can play both guard positions, which is big because, without Barry, who’s there behind Parker and Ginobili (I say Ginobili’s name figuratively, as I realize Mason might technically start). He doesn’t solve the athleticism problem, but he can still be a decent asset.

I don’t hate it. He has the potential to be a nice surprise. I’m interested in seeing how many minutes he’ll get.

...incredibly indifferent about it.

meh.

Everyone is so disappointed that the Spurs didn’t sign an “athletic swingman.” The way I see it, this year’s Spurs were vulnerable to two things: being outrebounded, and going cold from the perimeter. The “athletic swingman” doesn’t help with either.

An athletic, active 3/4 combo guy, like Malik Rose back in the day, or Carl Landry/Paul Millsap et al today, could address the rebounding issue. Who knows, maybe this guy they drafted will come in and help immediately, like Millsap and Landry did. Those guys were also lightly regarded late second round picks.

I don’t think they desperately need someone who can create his own shot; Timmy, Manu, and Tony are plenty good at that, and at least two of them will be on the court together. Besides, if one of those guys go down, the Spurs aren’t winning a championship anyways.

What they need are guys who can shoot from the outside without being total liabilities on the other end. As presently constructed, the Spurs had too many players who could only contribute on one end of the court (Bonner, Bones on O, JV, Bruce on D) or neither end (Fin, Horry).

Getting a guy who by all accounts plays good defense, can handle the rock, and is a good shooter is a great move. Who knows, he may be more useful for the team than Maggette, who might have spaced out on D and fought with Tony and Manu for the ball on offense, would have been.

Did they pay too much? Maybe, but it’s not like they gave him $5 million for many years. They overpaid by at most 500K-1 million (though we don’t know what other suitors he had), and if it’s a total mistake, the contract only lasts two years.

i’m working my way toward trying to like the move. like C$$$$, i dont hate it. mason is a role player which is what the spurs can really afford, or expect to get the way this off-season has played out so far. he also seems to do the things our teams desires. chilldress, smith, azbook or whomever else are also role players of similar ilk. we can/will debate on which was the better move until halloween, but im gonna try to do my best and reserve judgement until about christmas-time.

the bad part about this deal is that we might not have had to reserve judgement with a splashier name like maggette.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/basketball/nba/spurs/stories/MYSA.071008.1C.BKN.Spurs.Mason.en.3d67a29f.html

a little more info on the deal.

Delfino is intriguing. I’d bet playing with Manu would help his game tremendously.

The problem with this signing is the timing of it all. We go and court Maggette for a week, lose out, and then the first signing is some no name for the Wizards. It doesn’t look good at all.

I’m understand not going after Childress or Smith. Those players would demand the whole MLE and even then theres a chance their teams would match. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.

My biggest beef is what the hell did this guy do to earn 3 to 4 million a year?? Seriously with Barry gone to Houston, the rest of the MLE better go another worthwhile guard. And not Carlos freakin’ Delfino.

According to the HoopsHype scouting write-up, this is what they say about Mason:

Position: SG
Born: 9/10/80
Height: 6-5 / 1,96
Weight: 200 lbs. / 90,7 kg.
College: Virginia ‘03

A combo guard… Can create off the dribble… Nice jump shot… Good vision of the court… Makes no mistake from the charity stripe… Not a great athlete.

Wow! Sounds like we signed Brent Barry without the humor…