I've been aware that our team has lacked athleticism since stromile swift. Swift was a failure and now all we have is snyder who barely sees the court. Yes, mcgrady used to be super athletic, but he's lost a step on that and is now more a perimeter/jump shooting player. Bottom line is, do we need a legit athletic starter or backup player? One at the PF would definitly be nice in my opinion.
Athleticism is overrated. Snyder and Head can both fly out of the gym. Swift was athletic. T-Mac is athletic, though not like he used to be. Why do we need it? Does having a player who can jump very high improve our chances of winning? We need to be more specific with our needs. If by athletic you mean someone who has quickness (don't care about speed), good body control and knows how to get to the basket with positive results.... then yes, we need that. If you're saying we need to have someone who will, once in a while, soar for an alley oop and wow the crowd then, no, I don't think we really need that.
We have Tracy Snyder and Yao (joke) Last season we had Swift and we would have Gay but we have Battier (good trade). Maybe we should have PF like swift or better who is a good rebounder, shoot blocker and he can finishes plays at the offensive ends.
Ask the Spurs about athleticism. We have Synder but it doesn’t mean a thing if he doesn’t know how to use his talent.
I hope you're not implying that the Spurs aren't athletic, cause they does have a number of very athletic players.
Yes we do!! In fact not only athletic players but taller than the ones we have now - Sm forward and shooting guards with a min ht. of 6'9" Power Forward 7' and a playmaker Point Guard min 6'5" Great Athletes who can play the game!!
