aren’t pipe dreams the best kind?

How can Orlando pay more? Aren’t they letting Turkoglu go because they can’t pay him? Also, they need to sign Gortat, who’s basically Rasheed 0.5.

Boston, Clevelan, and Orlando are all WAY over the cap. They can’t offer any more than us. MLE is it.

Well there is always blair. Then we could get a free agent big man like pachuli or rasho to back him up

I hear San Antonio’s quite the vacation destination spot… especially during the hot months of June/July/August.

i like mike and think he will be back. the roster is getting crowded – too crowded for bruce?

And the shotclock doesn’t apply to Fin :-)

His DLeague numbers were great, he has nothing left to prove there. Lets him, Tony and Nando and get our French Connection up and running

IM sorry but i think Ian could easly take ober bonners postions. Take a look at his stat in games he played. He hade 6 blocks in 4 games. Although reboudning and not fouling could be a work in progres

Here is what i think the spurs should have there roster like (assuming we get pachulie in free agency).

Starters:
C-Duncan
PF- Blair
SF- Jefferson
SG- McClinton
PG- Parker

Bench:
C-Bonner/Ian
SG-Ginobili
PG/SG-Hill
PF- Pachulie
SF-Mason

I could only come up with 11 players on our roster. I guess the rest might come from the d league. Maybe some from free agency.
I would take Ian over bonner if Ian can show he has deffensive.

Here’s our current roster, with presumed rookies in italics.

Parker/Hill
Manu/Mason/Hairston
RJ/M. Williams
Mahinmi/Blair/Gist
Duncan/Bonner

Now let’s add Wallace to the mix at PF(even though TD,Wallace and Mahinmi could all play C if needed), and assume Finley comes back to fill out our SF lineup.

Parker/Hill
Manu/Mason/Hairston
RJ/M. Williams/Finley
Wallace/Blair/Gist
Duncan/Mahinmi/Bonner

That’s 14 – now all that’s missing is a 3rd(veteran) PG, which I’m sure Pop will be pursuing just in case George isn’t ready by the playoffs.

on par with the Lakers, just because of RJ and Sheed? C’mon. I like the Spurs, best class act in almost all of professional sports, but you have to be a realist.

Since we’re dealing with hypotheticals, let’s assume all of the Lakers key players they want back come back: Trevor Ariza, Lamar Odom, and Shannon Brown.

As has already been established here, RJ is great at nothing and good at everything. So Ariza can’t guard him? And then when the Lakers toss in Walton, the PF in a SF’s body, who guards him in the post?

And then there’s Sheed. If you remember when he played in Portland, the Lakers countered him with a mobile, active SF turned PF named…. Robert Horry. (Spurs did the same when Sheed played in Detroit.) The Lakers have two players to handle that; Odom and of course Gasol (who made an even more athletic and better shooter in Lewis look like the overpaid chump that he is).

Then of course you’ve got the regulars… Parker vs. Fish, Kobe vs. Mason/Ginobli (note it takes two players to even match Kobe), and Duncan vs. Bynum (or Gasol, if Odom comes in). The Lakers depth is still a problem for most teams to match, and you yourself say your bench is not good enough, and will depend on 3 rookies.

Spurs are still the 2nd best in the West, IMO, because of Popp, Duncan, Manu, and Parker, but RJ and Sheed does not put you on par, especially if you’re not even confident of your bench. Remember this last tidbit… most playoff roster rotations are set to 8 men, maybe 9 on occassion. The Lakers this offseason routinely used a solid 10 man rotation. Not because they HAD to, but because they COULD.

and stop yelling “ball don’t lie” and stupid stuff like that. leave that to the coaches and fans.

100% agreed. it’s always tough to like a former piston. It was awkward rooting for Billups and co. in the LA series.

I always thought he was a knucklehead, but I never hated him. The only guys in the league I hate are Kobe and Phil Jackson.

but i’ll swallow hard and be happy

That disappoints me, bones. A veteran ought to have more class. I’m gonna go ahead and speak for Hipuks here and say,

BAAAAAANNNNNDDDED.

To get camby we would have to give up somone like george and mason. Problay both of them. I think blair and a big man free agent would just suit us fine for next season.

This is the truth, you extremely rare hybrid.

Rasheed would be coming to a team that could conted for a tilte not a team that could contend for a lottery pick.

I wish I’d watched enough Piston games to know whether this is really something he does often. As Spurs fans, that play is so huge for us, that I think it taints, perhaps unfairly, our perception of him.

Does anyone know a source on a Piston site who could bring some perspective to bear on this question?

Really? I think Mason can’t create worth a crap. He does much better as a catch and shoot player in my opinion.

Slowpoke, welcome to PtR! Thanks for joining. Your thoughts on Sheed are much appreciated. We’ve been fighting/politely bantering/arguing over whether R. Wallace would be a good addition to the Spurs for a while now. It’s good to get feedback from new places.

As for Mason, I’d agree that he likes that moving-right-to-left-behind-a-screen-pull-up-jumper-from-three-point-land, but I don’t know if I’d say that he needs the ball in his hands to be effective.

The Phoenix game winner, and the Laker game winner both come to mind as being catch and shoot. I think is good at both

Just found the site on draft night. I was stoked about the players we got and wanted to see if there was any local sites dedicated to the Spurs…and there y’all were. The fact that the Spurs FO is making an effort to go out in a blaze of glory is exciting by itself. Given our small market situation, they deserve major props.

Never been much of a fan, but that’s likely b/c I’ve never really seen him play unless it’s been against the Spurs.

I think we’ll get comfortable cheering his talents easily enough. It didn’t take us long with Roger Mason, and he didn’t play in any Olympics that I’ve heard of.

Did you really just say New Orleans is better than the Spurs? And imply that Drew Gooden is a good defender?

You’re funny.