I respect your posts, I really do, but you gotta remember that seeds 3, 4, 5, and 6 were separated by what...1 game or so? We were pretty much one win away from the 3rd seed as well. Their decent fight against the Mavericks started and ended after game 1. Father time caught up to them right after that. Buford's genius is in getting a player like Jefferson for basically nothing. He realizes that Jefferson would be the perfect insurance plan if Manu is not going to be playing at the level he was playing at before the ankle injury. I agree that just because a player is injured doesn't mean he's not good anymore but Manu's game is predicated on working angles and varying footspeed, both of which will no doubt be hampered by the bum ankle he's been nursing since BEFORE the olympics IIRC. Hey, I agree 120% Parker was playing out of his mind last year. But, just like the series against Dallas showed, Parker by himself is not going to get it done. I'm not forgetting Duncan by any means but Duncan is in that stage of his career where he's still a very solid contributor but he's not the guy teams NEED to be watching anymore. That title belongs to Parker not. Championship contenders? Always. They have the highest regular season winning % this decade. But an addition of Jefferson isn't going to get them over the proverbial hump. I hate to bring this up because it sounds like I'm taking credit away from Jefferson but RJ's best years were when he was playing alongside a point guard that can get him the ball. When he didn't have that, he was more of a better-than-average role player.
Manu did not recover from that injury heading into the Olympics. Pops did not want Manu to play because of it. He was putting his career on the line for his country.
They won 1 game in a best of 7 series. That's not decent. It's one notch above doing nothing and losing every game.
Are you asking about the thread subject? Read any article talking about the Jefferson trade. I'm sure you'll see it if you look...
Yeah,I looked it up in one of the the threads that mentioned ESPN as the source for the Johnson/Oberto trade. Thanks.
sign orberto as backup center. But it need to be done after Ron's contract and MLE. I don't know if Rockets can do it.
Hey, many here are overreacting, the Spurs put themselves in the position to be able to sacrifice cap in a bad economy situation that´s a rosky move that may or may not pay off. About the players coming back, i would say that Oberto will most likely come back for the vet min, unless any team offers more, same for bowen if he is cutted, i am not so sure about KT, many teams could use thomas so i don´t think he is signing for the vet min, plus he was only 2 years with them. So if they ever get the players they sent, is because no one wants them, so i don´t see the point on complaining about that. I think that if any of them are really coming back, it will be bowen, making Mason expendable and trying to trade him for a big body, i think Oberto is only coming back as a last option both for him and the team, and that KT will not come back.
http://ken-berger.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/11838893/15710940?source=rss_blogs_NBA How do the Pistons benefit from cutting even more salary? Could they be prepping themselves to take on a $20M+ contract? T-Mac for Rip, salaries won't have to match Shaq for draft pick
Yeahh.. like they were really the third seed. Remember that Finley 3 in the last game vs the Kings that shouldn't have counted? The ref robbed Kings of that loss. So in actuality they were really the 5th seed and we should've been the 3rd.
He just averaged almost 20 points a game for the Bucks, with the best 3-pt % of his career (40%), along with the most 3P attempts of his career. The year before he was close to 23 ppg on 47% with an over-the-hill Kidd and Devin Harris. He can finish and I believe he plays good defense as well (just going from my recollection, nothing more). That's pretty far from average.
