It’s not time to blow it up yet. After the 2010 season the Spurs will have a ton of cap space, so it’s not time to blow it up yet. Getting a big that can rebound and block shots will help and seeing what Marcus Williams has will be key to next season.

You can’t bring in a bunch of young talent that will take a couple of years to develop. Tim’s one of the all-time greats so you have to maximize the time he has left.

Best hope for the Spurs is to get everyone back as healthy as possible and try to add at the margins. There’s not really much trade bait the Spurs have that they would be willing to part with.

I think Manu being back fills the need of scoring from the wing position.

I don’t place much faith in listening to the opinions of experts who thought we’d win <50 games this year; not make it out of the 1st round last year; not win the title in 2007; or 2005; or 2003. These folks make pessimistic predictions every season because the Spurs are “boring” and San Antonio isn’t New York, L.A. or some other preferred Spring travel destination or major media market for the networks. That their dire thoughts came true in one post-season does not give them legitimacy in my eyes.

Pop and crew know what they’re doing. Hell, the mavs hadn’t been past the 1st round in three years and all of a sudden they’re a concern? No. You’re judged by your last game and series until you play another. We still have the best coach and PF in the game, plus a top 3 PG, best 6th man and one young talent on the bench. We’ll add some pieces, have better health and be in next season’s WCF looking to advance. It’s not like we’re New Orleans or Detroit.

I think PG as primary weapon, with the current rules against hand checking but allowing the bigs to be beaten up in the post (as TD and Yao often are), is a good thing. But the PG needs weapons around them. Weapons have to include shooters and slashers; more of one than the other is fine but we never had slashers (other than Manu and Hill) and the shooters all went cold. That the shooters were also poor defenders was too much to overcome.

The bench should be strengthened but I don’t worry about the health of TD and not much about Manu. TD may not be the best player in the game as he was 2003-2006, but TP is way better than he was at that time. Duncan can get support from others areas which is what we need to supply him with to get through the 82 reg season games and provide Pop with some matchup options in the playoffs. Playoff Timmy, as he showed, is fine. That he had no support outside of TP, Bruce and Hill is a shame.

Ridiculous.

This is a 50 + win team that had to deal with a series of terrible injuries and went into the playoffs without an irreplaceable cog.

Boston has no KG and are fighting a pitched battle against a chicago team they would normally cane, should they blow the whole thing up? Such a stupid premise.

Sure Roger had a bad series, but George has been great. I don’t know what Vesci (I assume thats who it is) could have been watching the last two games of the season or the first 1/2.

Playing 30 minutes in a must win playoff game after being a late draft pick and doing it well is not falling flat. The kids a fantastic defender, how many Rookies come out of the gate able to play man D that well? George is a find not a bust.

The Pistons are a terrible comparison. They never had anyone like Tim to build around, Manu is more talented in my opinion than anyone on their squad, and TP right now is up in the stratosphere of talent. Detroit had a very even roster 1 through 7. The spurs have always been 3 outstanding Talents + guys that get particular jobs done.

Give us those 3 outstanding talents with good health, an improved George, a healthy Ian M, Roger at a solid level and a couple of talented off season additions and the spurs are contenders.

Manu would have made an incredible difference to this series. No way do the spurs fall apart like this if they had Manu to handle the point and let Tony rest, take up the scoring slack and run the second unit.

I feel very very upbeat about next season i think we can get another 50+ win year under our belt and really make some noise.

Blowing this team up right now would be the most ridiculous insane stupid move the spurs have ever made, and this Franchise is not renowned for being stupid.

So long as we don’t rely on Finley for big minutes or have Bonner starting or playing big minutes we are going to have a heck of a year next year.

the spurs were treated to the same garbage talk after playoff losses in 04 and 06. if you think about it, the team very well could have beaten the pistons in the 04 finals – and you know that we would have housed miami in 06 – heck dallas HAD that series…anyway, it could have been 5 straight chips – but i digress.

i dont think that blow up is the right word at all. blow up means get rid of one of the big three and that would be a terrible mistake.

i would call for a re-tool that basically cuts a bunch of the older bench guys that we have been hanging onto the last couple of seasons. i guess what i am doing here is agreeing with the staves27 roster shown above. i’d go for taking gooden back over KT – but prolly not room for either of them if rasheed tacos up and comes to south texas.

in any case, my point is that we shouldnt pay much mind to any of the national nitwits. if anything is old and tired, its their refrain.

Get Sheed, a decent forward, and draft some athletic bigs.