Spanoulis made buzzer-beater game-winner against Croatia

Yakapo · Sep 10, 2007

DonkeyMagic said:

my niece grabbed 15 rebounds in the ymca league too
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beat me to it...

you know what they say... if at first you don't succeed, lower your standards.

NIKEstrad · Sep 10, 2007

Yakapo said:

beat me to it...

you know what they say... if at first you don't succeed, lower your standards.
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I was pretty sure it was if at first you don't succeed, find someone else to blame for your failure.

Clutch · Sep 10, 2007

V-Span did not play well ... pretty much a fact. He may have gotten a raw deal somewhere, but even if he hadn't and his future was still bright here in Houston, we flipped him for Luis Scola ... I get the feeling that may go down as one of the greatest trades in franchise history. V-Span's desire to get out of his contract seemed to have upped his trade value ... in a twisted way, he did us a favor.

Also I enjoy getting an excuse to re-post this:

George Gervin · Sep 10, 2007

Spurs: The Scola/Spanoulis Trade Mystery
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By Bill Ingram
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Sep 9, 2007, 13:44

In the wake of last week's FIBA Americas Tournament there has been a great deal of speculation that the San Antonio Spurs will find themselves in the spotlight as the 2007-08 season gets underway. It won't be for the usual reason, though. The defending champs will hang another banner, but many of their fans will be keeping an eye on the team playing just a few miles to the East.

Luis Scola has been the property of the San Antonio Spurs since the 2002 NBA Draft, when he was taken with the 56th overall pick. The Spurs, though, were never able to make the necessary arrangements to bring him over to the NBA. It's widely believed that Scola wanted to start, and obviously he wouldn't do that during Tim Duncan's tenure. The fact that a trade to a team that needed a starting power forward cleared things up immediately supports that idea.

So the San Antonio Spurs traded one of the best international power forwards - a teammate of Manu Ginobili and Fabricio Oberto - for a point guard who was never going to suit up for the team? Sure, it gave San Antonio some cap relief, but that's hardly going to be reassuring if Scola leads the Houston Rockets to a division title and perhaps more.

A little cap relief seemed to be the primary motivation in a deal that also sent Jackie Butler to Houston. Butler didn't play for the Spurs and Rockets GM Daryl Morey told HOOPSWORLD last week that he doesn't expect Butler to play for the Rockets, either. But now a source close to Panathinaikos has revealed that the Greek team paid the Spurs more than $1 million to release Spanoulis, who was as much a star in Greece before joining the Rockets as Scola is in Argentina.

All in all, it seems the Spurs saved as much as $13 million through this series of events. Five million from Spanoulis (two million in salary times two for luxury cap is four million plus one million from Panathinaikos equals five million). Then they saved 2.2 million times two years = 4.4 million from Jackie Butler or 8.5 say 8 million including the luxury tax. Total savings 8+5 = 13 million. Not bad.

It still won't be much of a consolation if the Rockets somehow use Scola as a means to overcome San Antonio's dominance of the Western Conference, but at least the deal makes a little more sense in light of this new information.

http://www.***************/article_23249.shtml
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It's hoopsworld..

blathersby · Sep 10, 2007

VSpan is not a Rocket. Period. This thread is in the wrong forum.

Yakapo · Sep 10, 2007

Clutch said:

V-Span did not play well ... pretty much a fact. He may have gotten a raw deal somewhere, but even if he hadn't and his future was still bright here in Houston, we flipped him for Luis Scola ... I get the feeling that may go down as one of the greatest trades in franchise history. V-Span's desire to get out of his contract seemed to have upped his trade value ... in a twisted way, he did us a favor.

good point... vspan was worth something after all.
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windfern · Sep 10, 2007

blathersby said:

VSpan is not a Rocket. Period. This thread is in the wrong forum.
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we talk about ex-rockets here like Horry, The Dream who last played with another team, Casell, Mobley... Clutch is smart enough to figure that out if it's no ok.

Shroopy2 · Sep 10, 2007

This sure is a nice NBA DISH story.

Or, you can consider this Game Action & Roster MOVED

osna · Sep 10, 2007

It's cool, but he won't do it again in NBA!

blathersby · Sep 10, 2007

windfern said:

we talk about ex-rockets here like Horry, The Dream who last played with another team, Casell, Mobley... Clutch is smart enough to figure that out if it's no ok.
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People instrumental in the direction this franchise has taken over the past 15 years who have played for other teams: Dream, Drexler, Horry, Cassell, Cat, Franchise, Maxwell, Elie, Malone, Sampson...

Vspan is not on this list. Vassillis Spanoulis was a minor benchwarmer. He is not an ex-Rocket; he's a footnote.

windfern · Sep 10, 2007

blathersby said:

People instrumental in the direction this franchise has taken over the past 15 years who have played for other teams: Dream, Drexler, Horry, Cassell, Cat, Franchise, Maxwell, Elie, Malone, Sampson...

Vspan is not on this list. Vassillis Spanoulis was a minor benchwarmer. He is not an ex-Rocket; he's a footnote.
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Houston Rockets 2008: Game Action & Roster Moves Anything and everything about the Houston Rockets. Your comments from last night's game, potential roster moves, player quotes and pictures. Hell, the slower people in the group can even talk about ex-Rocket Tracy Murray.

blathersby · Sep 10, 2007

windfern said:

Houston Rockets 2008: Game Action & Roster Moves Anything and everything about the Houston Rockets. Your comments from last night's game, potential roster moves, player quotes and pictures. Hell, the slower people in the group can even talk about ex-Rocket Tracy Murray.
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Then will just have to agree to disagree, sir. I don't consider him a Rocket must like I don't consider Curt Schilling an Astro.

doboyz · Sep 10, 2007

Let it go people, let it go.

Angkor Wat · Sep 10, 2007

windfern said:

Houston Rockets 2008: Game Action & Roster Moves Anything and everything about the Houston Rockets. Your comments from last night's game, potential roster moves, player quotes and pictures. Hell, the slower people in the group can even talk about ex-Rocket Tracy Murray.
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Please, Tracy Murray is more of a Rocket than V-Spam will ever be. In fact, he's not even worthy to be mentioned in the same breathe as the great Tracy Murray. T-MUR!

intergalactic · Sep 10, 2007

That post by killbillpana had me roflmao. If it's fake, it's a great parody. If it's real, it's just sad to think VSpan would look to Bonzi as a role model.

vlaurelio · Sep 10, 2007

blathersby said:

Then will just have to agree to disagree, sir. I don't consider him a Rocket must like I don't consider Curt Schilling an Astro.
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but he did help us land scola

windfern · Sep 10, 2007

Angkor Wat said:

Please, Tracy Murray is more of a Rocket than V-Spam will ever be. In fact, he's not even worthy to be mentioned in the same breathe as the great Tracy Murray. T-MUR!
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We even talk about Lior Eliyahu here and he hasn't even see the locker room here. Jeez people, blame your parents if you're not as good looking as Bill.

slpntz · Sep 10, 2007

Who cares? He still sucks.

VesceySux · Sep 10, 2007

BEXCELANT said:

who knows perhaps he is licking his self-inflicted wounds from the last go around.
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There. Fixed it for you.

Darrinlane · Sep 10, 2007

ClutchCityReturns said:

You could?

You, like many (many) other people, have never quite grasped the concept of the phrase you just (mis)used. This should explain...

As for Spanoulis, it was a nice move and a nice shot, but c'mon. It was against Croatia and from the looks of it he was being guarded full court by a power forward. Not like he took it coast to coast on Bruce Bowen or Kirk Hinrich.
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This always bothers me as well. Why do so many people say that?

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